True Quotes

Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.

The true triumph of reason is that it enables us to get along with those who do not possess it.

After all those days in the cotton fields, the dreams came true on a gold record on a piece of wood. It's in my den where I can look at it every day. I wear it out lookin' at it.

Love is the true means by which the world is enjoyed: our love to others, and others love to us.

The ideas dictate everything, you have to be true to that or you're dead.

We are coming out of a century that was taught that one way of looking at the world, that one form of behavior, is as valid as another. The idea of true evil has been blown away.

Music has always been my constant, my salvation. It's cliche to write that, but it's true.

One of my movies was called "True Lies." It's what the Democrats should have called their convention.

People don't like the true and simple; they like fairy tales and humbug.

The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning it.

But it is true that some magazines have a policy to show only a certain amount of black girls on their covers. Naomi is right. It's not fair, and I wish it would change.

All who call on God in true faith, earnestly from the heart, will certainly be heard, and will receive what they have asked and desired.

The prehistorical and primitive period represents the true infancy of the mind.

I just think that the people who say: 'That's not true' when someone tells a story at dinner are the people who didn't get any laughs when they told their story.

There is something in every one of you that waits and listens for the sound of the genuine in yourself. It is the only true guide you will ever have. And if you cannot hear it, you will all of your life spend your days on the ends of strings that somebody else pulls.

Yes, it's true, I've been called the Laurence Olivier of spoofs. I guess that would make Laurence Olivier the Leslie Nielsen of Shakespeare.

Women have to harness their power - its absolutely true. It's just learning not to take the first no. And if you can't go straight ahead, you go around the corner.

It's very disappointing... Anything that harms the integrity of the game is terrible. We always thought we were immune to drugs in baseball, but we know that's not true anymore.

Eclecticism - every truth is so true that any truth must be false.

The priest is Christ's slave, and Christ himself took the form of a slave and became obedient to death. So the priest in serving human needs lives a Godward life, possessed by God and witnessing that only when lives are utterly possessed by God do they find their true freedom.

Laurence Olivier said in an interview once that when he plays a tragedy he always aims for the funny parts, and the other way around. Because in a comedy you look for what's serious. I think that's true. Sometimes things are really funny if you're absolutely earnest. If you're really serious, it's hilarious.

Well, it is true that they did - the Pentagon did impose rules for governing the handling of the Koran in January of 2003, after there had been complaints about the handling of the Koran from detainees, from the International Red Cross.

Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.

I've watched my duty, straight an' true, an' tried to do it well; Part of the time kept heaven in view, An' part steered clear of hell.

People think, because we're young, we aren't complex, but that's not true. We deal with life and love and broken hearts in the same way a woman a few years older might.

We're not all equal, it's simply not true. That isn't science.

I hesitate to predict whether this theory is true. But if the general opinion of Mankind is optimistic then we're in for a period of extreme popularity for science fiction.

There are two freedoms - the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought.

And if you stop and think about it you won't believe it's true: That all the love you've been giving has all been meant for you.

I don't know the true meaning of happiness.