True Quotes

The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader.

No one knows his true character until he has run out of gas, purchased something on the installment plan and raised an adolescent.

A true history of human events would show that a far larger proportion of our acts are the result of sudden impulse and accident than of that reason of which we so much boast.

He is not a true man of the world who knows only the present fashions of it.

You look at Michael McDonald and people like that; I think they just tried to write music that was true to themselves. That's our bottom line. Whatever people view us as, I think as long as we try to create good music that will win out in the end.

True education is limited to those people who would die without knowing, whereas the masses in the institutions are merely going through the motions, for education is a way of living.

I never fit in. I am a true alternative. And I love being the outcast. That's my role in life, to be an outcast.

A person, who no matter how desperate the situation, gives others hope, is a true leader.

There's nothing that irritates Americans more than the fact that some members of Congress think they are entitled to their own set of rules. And it's true - too many people in Washington live in an alternate reality.

If you want to see the true measure of a man, watch how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.

True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness.

A lot of folks believe their best years are behind them. But I want Americans to recognize that's not true.

Baloney is flattery laid on so thick it cannot be true, and blarney is flattery so thin we love it.

So I am getting a little bored with defining one type of film as American and the other European or from somewhere else because the division is no longer true.

In these times, the hardest task for social or political activists is to find a way to get people to wonder again about what we all believe is true. The challenge is to sow doubt.

Man's only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him, and love something to be cherished by him, forever.

The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love. Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that's true of everyone, don't you?

If you have what you want to say inside, and if you are crying for something that is true inside, it doesn't matter. The camera always sees it.

All great novels, all true novels, are bisexual.

It is true, there was no public-school system, and the reason for it was very plain. The wealth of the upper classes enabled them to have private tutors.

Well, if you're true to yourself you're going to be true to everyone else.

I feel true success comes from being able to work and the love for it.

Languages are true analytical methods.

It's very rare that things are true about yourself that are on the Internet. It's just sad sometimes. So you definitely try and stay away from it as much as possible.

True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander.

But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him. God is a spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.

A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy.

It is true not all has been accomplished that the earnest advocates would desire, but a start has been made.

Bosses are no more inevitable in state and local governments than dictators are in national governments. They will arise and prosper, nevertheless, if true believers of democracy - citizens devoted to the democratic ideals - do not constantly oppose them.

What we can or cannot do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are.