True Quotes

Let me start by emphasizing that I am open to efforts to expedite environmental procedures for true emergencies or in other clear cases where current laws are needlessly burdensome.

Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man.

Baseball, it is said, is only a game. True. And the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona. Not all holes, or games, are created equal.

To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very principle and incentive of virtue.

It's innate in me to be a Democrat - a true Southern populist kind of Democrat. There's not a lot of those anymore. I'm not saying I'm right or wrong. That's just the way I feel.

Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.

True, some land was bought by a few Cabinet Ministers. They bought the land. No minister, to my knowledge acquired land which was meant for resettlement.

Thomas was my true name but everyone knew me as Mick, except my mother, who knew me as definitely Michael.

And, you know, the fact is, if you believe in evolution, we all have a common ancestor, and we all have a common ancestry with the plant in the lobby. This is what evolution tells us. And, it's true. It's kind of unbelievable.

Nothing is too wonderful to be true if it be consistent with the laws of nature.

True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.

What we see is what they're trying to sell us. It's not true nostalgic as much as it is repeating old material because it's less expensive than new material.

My mother gave lots of good advice and had a lot to say. As you get older, you realize everything she said was true.

It is good to be tired and wearied by the futile search after the true good, that we may stretch out our arms to the Redeemer.

You have to be true to yourself.

For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?

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

Torture is illegal, both in the U.S. and abroad. So - and that is true for the Bush administration and for any other administration.

I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.

The proper words in the proper places are the true definition of style.

It is quite true, as some poets said, that the God who created man must have had a sinister sense of humor, creating him a reasonable being, yet forcing him to take this ridiculous posture, and driving him with blind craving for this ridiculous performance.

To exercise at or near capacity is the best way I know of reaching a true introspective state. If you do it right, it can open all kinds of inner doors.

To find a man's true character, play golf with him.

Having loved sport my whole life, competing in a Paralympics would be a dream come true.

Dreams can come true.

My dream has come true, now that I have passed it on.

Don't be 'consistent,' but be simply true.

Pricing is actually a pretty simple and straight forward thing. Customers will not pay literally a penny more than the true value of the product.

It's true that at the time I was fond of Kurt Vonnegut and Richard Brautigan, and it was from them that I learned about this kind of simple, swift-paced style, but the main reason for the style of my first novel is that I simply did not have the time to write sustained prose.

I came into music just because I wanted the bread. It's true. I looked around and this seemed like the only way I was going to get the kind of bread I wanted.