True Quotes

The more books we read, the clearer it becomes that the true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and that no other task is of any consequence.

Man's true nature being lost, everything becomes his nature; as, his true good being lost, everything becomes his good.

That's one of the peculiar things about bad moods - we often fool ourselves and create misery by telling ourselves things that simply are not true.

It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.

Love consists in giving without getting in return; in giving what is not owed, what is not due the other. That's why true love is never based, as associations for utility or pleasure are, on a fair exchange.

A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.

I don't think you'll understand the true repercussions of what the 500 does for you until years down the road.

One reason I'm such a wayward prognosticator of rightwing trends is that I'm incapable of blacking out enough neural sectors to see the world through reptilian-brained eyes, a prerequisite for any true channeling of the mean resentments and implanted fears that drive hardcore conservatives.

There is an ancient legend which warns that, should we ever learn our true origin, our universe will instantly be destroyed.

This is a dream come true. To wake up in a place that I own and go to work in New York City as an actor - I feel like Mary Tyler Moore throwing her friggin' hat in the air.

You might sooner get lightning out of incense smoke than true action or passion out of your modern English religion.

We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know what is true. And if we offend gravely enough against what we know to be true, as by failing badly enough to deal affectionately and responsibly with our land and our neighbors, truth will retaliate with ugliness, poverty, and disease.

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.

As corny as it may sound, my true goal was to crack the Americana market.

Let every man be true and every god a liar.

Magnanimous people have no vanity, they have no jealousy, and they feed on the true and the solid wherever they find it. And, what is more, they find it everywhere.

People are like stained - glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.

For we can affirm with a good conscience that we have, after reading the Holy Scripture, applied ourselves and yet daily apply ourselves to the extent that the grace of the Lord permits to inquiry into and investigation of the consensus of the true and purer antiquity.

Be noble minded! Our own heart, and not other men's opinions of us, forms our true honor.

I think books with weak or translucent plots can survive if the character being drawn along the path is rich, interesting and multi-faceted. The opposite is not true.

I can understand there are things like shadows they need to fix after a shoot, but it's unfair to represent an image of yourself if it's not true. They're gonna see what you look like on film anyway, so why try to cover all your wobbly bits in a photo?

American society will never completely understand the true meaning of equality.

But the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women.

It would be better for the true physics if there were no mathematicians on earth.

If you have an anecdote from one source, you file it away. If you hear it again, it may be true. Then the more times you hear it the less likely it is to be true.

It is more true to say that our opinions depend upon our lives and habits, than to say that our lives and habits depend on our opinions.

Nowhere probably is there more true feeling, and nowhere worse taste, than in a churchyard.