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Quotes About TRUE

Sometimes I'd see a movie in a private screening room. No fun. People took phone calls and messages while watching. Made jokes, talked. When I go to a movie I'm a true believer. Or I just walk out.
~ Mario Puzo
although it is true that after three weeks of heavy fighting the enemy was driven off, it was the impact of the initial blow that resonated most loudly.
~ Mark Bowden
Wine is a dangerous thing, and should not be made the exponent of truth, let the truth be good as it may; but it has the merit of forcing a man to show his true colors.
~ Anthony Trollope
In former times great objects were attained by great work. When evils were to be reformed, reformers set about their heavy task with grave decorum and laborious argument. An age was occupied in proving a grievance, and philosophical researches were printed in folio pages, which it took a life to write, and an eternity to read. We get on now with a lighter step, and quicker: ridicule is found to be more convincing than argument, imaginary agonies touch more than true sorrows
~ Anthony Trollope
It was true, however, that he sometimes startled his hearers by things which might have been considered to border on coarseness if they had not been said by a clergyman.
~ Anthony Trollope
But the old symbols remained, and may such symbols long remain among us; they are still lovely and fit to be loved. They tell us of the true and manly feelings of other times; and to him who can read aright, they explain more fully, more truly than any written history can do, how Englishmen have become what they are.
~ Anthony Trollope
We know the dear old rhyme: — "It is good to be merry and wise, It is good to be honest and true, It is good to be off with the old love Before you are on with the new.
~ Anthony Trollope
I know that I believe in ETERNAL LIFE, and that I believe here in its entire meaning. I regret to live in a world where witches and wizards hide, and moreover, where there are so few true wizards.
~ Antonin Artaud
There is nothing more useless than a organ. When you have given him a body without organs, then you will have delivered him from all his automatisms and restored him to his true liberty.
~ Antonin Artaud
The trouble with cliché's, some philosopher remarked, probably with a yawn, is that they are so boringly true. But love at first sight is never boring.
~ Arthur C. Clarke
Critics who suggested that these ideas were too fantastic to be taken seriously were reminded of Niels Bohr's 'Your theory is crazy - but not crazy enough to be true.' If
~ Arthur C. Clarke
Didn't somebody once say 'Politics is the art of the possible'?" "Quite true—which is why only second-rate minds go into it. Genius likes to challenge the impossible.
~ Arthur C. Clarke
Fall in love with heart, not head, to trouble you're led. Fall in love with heart and mind, then true love you'll find.
~ Sherwood Smith
Calmness of mind does not mean you should stop your activity. Real calmness should be found in activity itself. We say, It is easy to have calmness in inactivity, it is hard to have calmness in activity, but calmness in activity is true calmness.
~ Shunryu Suzuki
But he meant beauty in the sense of its organic connection to the material. And this is the connection that, for me, separates true stylists from decorators. The decorators are easy to recognize. That's why critics love them so.
~ Sidney Lumet
There is something in our soul that loathes true attention much more violently than flesh loathes fatigue. That something is much closer to evil than flesh is. That is why, every time we truly give our attention, we destroy some evil in ourselves. If one pays attention with this intention, fifteen minutes of attention is worth a lot of good works.
~ Simone Weil
Evil deeds are the fruit of an evil heart. They are not an aberration from our true self but a revelation of it.
~ Sinclair B. Ferguson
I'll show Luke I can fit into the city. I'll show him I can be a true New Yorker. I'll go the gym, and then I'll eat a bagel, and I'll ... shoot someone, maybe? Or maybe just the gym will be enough.
~ Sophie Kinsella
Sister - if all this is true, what could I do or undo?
~ Sophocles
The more one suffers, the more, I believe, has one a sense for the comic. It is only by the deepest suffering that one acquires true authority in the use of the comic, an authority which by one word transforms as by magic the reasonable creature one calls man into a caricature.
~ Soren Kieregaaard
Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
Jesus is the true manifestation of God, and He is manifested to be the regenerating power of a divine life.
~ Horace Bushnell
We are all Spirit experiencing a process set up to facilitate its (each Spirit's) understanding of its true identity and, through that understanding, to revert to its pristine state.
~ Ian Gardner
You are perfectly entitled to invent your life and to claim that it's true.
~ James Salter