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Quotes About TRUE

It has become progressively clearer that the plastic expression of true reality is attained through dynamic movement in equilibrium. Plastic art affirms that equilibrium can only be established through the balance of unequal but equivalent oppositions.
~ Piet Mondrian
I have to live, socially, in an almost unfinished society. Among the almost great, among the almost true, among the almost honest. That allows me to describe the anguish.
~ Derek Walcott
All their sport in the park is but a shadow to that pleasure that I find in Plato; alas good folk, they never felt what true pleasure meant.
~ Jane Grey
Fighting at Madison Square Garden, where so many great fighters have fought is a true honor, and something I have dreamt about my entire life.
~ Demetrius Andrade
I think a lot of people in America do not understand that the basis of true liberty can't happen without an objective moral standard by which we live our lives.
~ Mike Huckabee
Integrity, a firm adherence to the highest moral and ethical standards, is essential to the life of a true Latter-day Saint.
~ Joseph B. Wirthlin
The Olympic Gold medal in 1968 was definitely the highest moment of my career. It was a dream come true. I was a 19-year-old boy, and it was just amazing to be standing on top of the podium and hearing the National Anthem in the background.
~ George Foreman
Great men are true men, the men in whom nature has succeeded. They are not extraordinary - they are in the true order. It is the other species of men who are not what they ought to be.
~ Henri Frederic Amiel
We find that the more a cultivated reason devotes itself to the aim of enjoying life and happiness, the further does man get away from true contentment.
~ Immanuel Kant
Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck, that of the people.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Someone praising a man for his foolhardy bravery, Cato, the elder, said, ''There is a wide difference between true courage and a mere contempt of life.
~ Plutarch
What, then, is the true Gospel of consistency? Change. Who is the really consistent man? The man who changes. Since change is the law of his being, he cannot be consistent if he stick in a rut.
~ Mark Twain
Tear man out of his outward circumstances; and what he then is; that only is he.
~ Johann Gottfried Seume
Men of Virginia, countrymen of Washington, of Patrick Henry, of Jefferson, and of Madison, will ye be true to your constitutional faith?
~ Caleb Cushing
Chaos claims the unwary or the incomplete. A true man may flinch away its embrace, if he is stalwart, and he girds his soul with the armour of contempt.
~ Dan Abnett
There are some men's souls that are so thin, so almost destitute of what is the true idea of soul, that were not the guardian angels so keen-sighted, they would altogether overlook them.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
charity is oftentimes really sensuality, for man's own inclination, his own will, his hope of reward, and his self-interest, are motives seldom absent. On the contrary, he who has true and perfect charity seeks self in nothing, but searches all things for the glory of God.
~ Thomas a Kempis
Thrice toss these oaken ashes in the air,Thrice sit thou mute in this enchanted chair;Then thrice three times tie up this true love's knot,And murmur soft: "She will, or she will not."
~ Thomas Campion
I find a lot of feminist reading quite confusing and that often there's a set of rules, and people will be like, 'Oh, this person isn't a true feminist because they don't embody this one thing,' and I don't know, often it can be a gray area, and it can be a hard thing to navigate.
~ Lorde
When our band took off, we were all in this microcosm of a hurricane or whatever it was. It was a crazy, crazy dream come true with nightmares floating around it, and all sorts of stuff was happening, and my Crohn's was happening.
~ Mike McCready
An authentic life comes from an authentic self in which the layers on the outside are merely expressions of the core on the inside.
~ Nicole Johnson
I mean, you can pretend up to a certain point that the world has infinite resources and that it's an infinite wastebasket-but at some point you're going to run into the reality, which is that that isn't true.
~ Noam Chomsky
You're a warrior. A warrior isn't a killer because a warrior, a true one, has honor. The men who'll come aren't warriors." "No
~ Nora Roberts
Power to do good is the true and lawful end of aspiring. —Sir Francis Bacon
~ Nora Roberts