Top 1200 True Lies Quotes & Sayings - Page 13

Two things have been bothering me for a long time. The first is the tendency of people in general - and that includes Christians - to "relativize" religion. Any religious belief is only "true for," so to speak - true for you or true for me or true for those people on the other side of the world. Second, I've been bothered by how poorly believers understand their own Story. They have bits and pieces, of course, but they're missing enough that they can easily become prey to ideas that sound spiritual, but end up being foolishness in the end.

Do you think it takes true pain to experience true pleasure?

Just staying healthy, that is true wealth and true happiness.

True to your own ancestors, therefore true to yourself.

I did not know if the story was factually true or not, but it was emotionally true [...].

I was adopting an Ethiopian child, that's not true. My house was haunted, that wasn't true. God, there's been so many rumours.

We now live in an era of the permanent campaign - all marketing and messaging all the time. We clearly live in an era where the "truth" doesn't matter much - people tell lies about things ranging from the likelihood of "death panels" to the effects of the stimulus on saving this economy from a true calamity. In such a context, Obama himself needs to be "selling" all the time, as does his team, and also be more forceful in advocating their views. He needs to project that he and his ideas will win. And I don't think he has yet done that.

What kind of guilt comes from being true to yourself but not to others?. As we have seen, being true to yourself may at times intrinsically and necessarily be in conflict with being true to others.

To relinquish the futile effort to control change is one of the strengthening forces of true detachment & thus true love.

When a heretic wishes to avoid martyrdom he speaks of "Orthodoxy, True and False" and demonstrates that the True is his heresy.

If evolution is true, you could not know that it’s true because your brain is nothing but chemicals. Think about that.

It's not true that I never left South Bend to recruit a player. It is true that I didn't leave very often.

It is no good saying we [journalists] must report only what is true because what is true cannot always be proven.

Angels are totally real. Tinkerbell has a hot ass. Wendigos exist. It's all true. Satan is blonde. True fact.

It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means.

Well, if you're true to yourself you're going to be true to everyone else.

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

True revolution comes from true revulsion; when things get bad enough the kitten will kill the lion.

The true slogan of a true democracy is not `Let the Government do it' but rather, 'let's do it ourselves'.... This is the spirit of a people dedicated to helping themselves and one another.

True joy is a profound remembering; and true grief the same.

To find money to make a film, you have to write maybe 50 pages to explain what you'd like to do, what the film will be, but everybody lies. Because he doesn't know what the film will be. Everybody writes 50 pages and sends it to a TV channel, a producer, to get money, but everybody lies. Or else your film is not interesting.

Some of the craziest aspects about 'Weeper' were the things I found out to be true. I mean, true of people.

It's true that I refused foreign aid. It's true. It wasn't my personal decision, however - it was the whole country that said no.

If what they are saying about you is true, mend your ways. If it isn't true, forget it, and go on and serve the Lord.

What does it mean to be true to the faith? That word true implies commitment, integrity, endurance, and courage.

I don't want people to say, 'Something is true because Tyson says it is true.' That's not critical thinking.

As Latter-day Saints we must ever be vigilant. The way for each person and each family to guard against the slings and arrows of the Adversary and to prepare for the great day of the Lord is to hold fast to the iron rod, to exercise greater faith, to repent of our sins and shortcomings, and to be anxiously engaged in the work of His kingdom on earth, which is The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Herein lies the only true happiness for all our Father's children.

To be a true artist, I have to be true to who I am now and write that way.

Your true friends will tell you what they believe is true.

The fact remains that most of us are anesthetized to the true cost and true value of long term care insurance.

The whole point to American journalism is what ought to be true is true.

Envy is destroyed by true friendship, as coquetry by true love.

We all live in the moment, and we often mistakenly believe that what is true today was true always. Not so in politics, and especially in Congressional elections.

Error increases with distance. It's true with bowling, and it's true with families.

Courage is being true to yourself, true to a sense of integrity.

Playing around is one thing; following an established regimen is quite another. It's true with exercise equipment and it is true with prayer.

Many are asking what my credentials are and what I can do for the Philippines. They are telling me that they heard I am a womanizer. That is true. That is very true.

Journalists say a thing that they know isn't true, in the hope that if they keep on saying it long enough it will be true.

A statue lies hid in a block of marble, and the art of the statuary only clears away the superfluous matter and removes the rubbish. The figure is in the stone; the sculptor only finds it. What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul. The philosopher, the saint, or the hero,--the wise, the good, or the great man,--very often lies hid and concealed in a plebeian, which a proper education might have disinterred, and have brought to light.

There's so much written about my family, some true, mostly not true, and I felt that it's not something I want to add to.

People want more power over their own lives. That's not just true in Britain, it's true around the world.

I take my spoken-word stuff extremely seriously because I feel like that's true writing, true lyricism.

True rebels after all, are as rare as true lovers,and in both cases, to mistake a fever for passion can destroy one's life

Everything is true; only the opposite is true too; you must believe both equally or be damned.

Jesus didn't come to merely speak words that were true, He is the Word that makes us true.

One can't help but bring one's own personality into what one is doing, and it's certainly true of us actors and it's true of writers.

Many Things That Are True Are True Because You Believe Them.

What is thinking? It is the activity of searching out what must be true, or cannot be true, in the light of the given facts or assumptions.

True names,” said September wonderingly. “These are all true names. Like, when your parents call you to dinner and you don’t come and they call again but you still don’t come, and they call you by all your names together, and then, of course, you have to come, and right quick. Because true names have power, like Lye said. But I never told anyone my true name. The Green Wind told me not to. I didn’t understand what he meant, but I do now.

Bewilderment is the true comprehension. Not to know where you are going is the true knowledge.

But although in theory physicists realize that their conclusions are ... not certainly true, this ... does not really sink into their consciousness. Nearly all the time ... they ... act as if Science were indisputably True, and what's more, as if only science were true.... Any information obtained otherwise than by the scientific method, although it may be true, the scientists will call "unscientific," using this word as a smear word, by bringing in the connotation from its original [Greek] meaning, to imply that the information is false, or at any rate slightly phony.

In order to be true to one's conscience and true to God, a righteous man has no alternative but to refuse to cooperate with an evil system.

Propositions on which all men are in agreement are true: if they are not true we have no truth at all.

True perfection has to be imperfect. I know that sounds foolish, but it's true.

What does true even mean when it comes to a face? Only souls are true, and when you spill them to the air they melt away.

What’s true of all the evils in the world is true of plague as well. It helps men to rise above themselves.

It doesn't matter what is true, it only matters what people believe is true.

It is true that Boney M was a group put together by a German producer, Frank Farian. But it is not true that all of us were mimics.

Just stay true to yourself and true to wut you believe.

Lyra learns to her great cost that fantasy isn’t enough. She has been lying all her life, telling stories to people, making up fantasies, and suddenly she comes to a point where that’s not enough. All she can do is tell the truth. She tells the truth about her childhood, about the experiences she had in Oxford, and that is what saves her. True experience, not fantasy - reality, not lies - is what saves us in the end.