Top 1200 Very True Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

Do you think that the things people make fools of themselves about are any less real and true than the things they behave sensibly about? They are more true: they are the only things that are true.

I think what Sheryl Sandberg said about the importance of 'leaning in' is very true, but it's not sufficient.

From the very beginning, art meant something very important to the people who made it. It was a correspondence of the emotions to what you saw; it wasn't knowledge. You were being at one with something eternal; something outside of yourself. And no matter how many fake things have been brought in to suit other conditions... That is still true.

Americans being upright and forthright and honest and true to themselves is a very hard concept.

We are always afraid to start something that we want to make very good, true, and serious.

I think that cultural influence is very deep, it is not on the surface and this is true in every culture.

For the past century or so that's [ Monroe Doctrine] actually been true, but it's declining very significantly.

He was simply and staunchly true to his duty alike in the large case and in the small. So all true souls ever are. So every true soul ever was, ever is, and ever will be. There is nothing little to the really great in spirit.

A willingness to share our possessions with one another is a very important aspect of true biblical community.

Our pop cultural likes and dislikes are still very segregated, and that is not true of 'Billy on the Street.'

True happiness Is not a mental hallucination. True happiness Is not a complacent feeling. True happiness Is the spontaneous feeling of joy That comes from knowing 132 You are doing the right thing 133 And leading a divine life.

I remember going over proofs of this book - my first book - back in 2001, in a bar in Toronto called the 'Victory Cafe', and thinking sadly to myself, 'This is a very good manuscript but not a very good book.' I don't know what I meant by that, but I was pretty heartbroken and sure it was true.

I don't really think about what's 'age appropriate' for my audience because I think they can handle quite a bit, but I do try to think about what's honest and true to my characters who have grown up in situations where they've been taught to handle these things very carefully and that they're very powerful.

Writers, not psychiatrists, are the true interpreters of the human mind and heart, and we have been at it for a very long time.

I grew up listening to this adage that hard work never fails. It is very true of 'Adhoori.'

True greatness,true leadership,is found in giving yourself in service to others, not in coaxing or inducing others to serve you. True service is never without cost. Often it comes with a painful baptism of suffering. But the true spiritual leader is focused on the service he and she can render to God and other people, not on the residuals and perks of high office or holy title. We must aim to put more into life than we take out.

It is little silly to be a caricature of something of which you know very little, and which means very little to you, but to be your own caricature — that is the true carnival!

I am very proud to join Manchester United. This move is a dream come true for me.

I’m very romantic. I really believe in true love, a love that you only find once in a lifetime, if you have the chance. Because, I think that many people never find it, which is very sad. But, I’m not a guy who flirts easily with girls. I believe that there’s somebody out there for me. I’m still searching.

Often they do go back and forth the whole way, and I don't know until the very end what the last line of the book is going to be. That was true here - the very last line of the book was the last thing that happened.

I don't actually think “true love” is such a good term because love can only be true. If it isn't true it can't be love.

When I talk to Ryan Murphy or Ali Adler about my past or things in my personal life, occasionally pieces of that will end up in the script, and I think that's true of everybody. It's true of that entire writer's room, certainly of Ryan and Ali. I think that he writes really well for actors, for his actors, and he writes to their strengths. I always feel very well taken care of with him.

I know that actors and actresses have a great reputation for being very, very selfish, and in some cases, that's very true. But in the theater I find it doesn't help you to be selfish. You sort of have to be selfless in the theater, and the more selfless you are - that doesn't mean don't take care of yourself - but the more you sort of surrender to the work, I find, the better the work is. That's just my experience.

I have a legion of friends and the best ones are my immediate family, which is very cliched but true.

No thought can encapsulate the vastness of the totality. Reality is a unified whole, but thought cuts it up into fragments. Every thought implies a perspective, and every perspective, by its very nature, implies limitation, which ultimately means that it is not true, at least not absolutely. Only the whole is true, but the whole cannot be spoken or thought.

It would be a dream come true if I could sing for A.R. Rahman. He is very unconventional.

There can be, therefore, no true education without moral culture, and no true moral culture without Christianity. The very power of the teacher in the school-room is either moral or it is a degrading force. But he can show the child no other moral basis for it than the Bible. Hence my argument is as perfect as clear. The teacher must be Christian. But the American Commonwealth has promised to have no religious character. Then it cannot be teacher.

Either Christianity is true or it's false. If you bet that it's true, and you believe in God and submit to Him, then if it IS true, you've gained God, heaven, and everything else. If it's false, you've lost nothing, but you've had a good life marked by peace and the illusion that ultimately, everything makes sense. If you bet that Christianity is not true, and it's false, you've lost nothing. But if you bet that it's false, and it turns out to be true, you've lost everything and you get to spend eternity in hell.

In the offseason, why can't it be a little lighter? It's not life or death. I try to have a little fun, but all of my comments are true. I don't lie. If they get mad at me for saying something that isn't true, then tap me on my shoulder and say, 'That isn't true.'

The American movie, in part because America's a melting pot, the cultural hodgepodge that America makes, generates movies that have appeal across all international boundaries. And that's really not true for most domestic film industries. It's no longer true of France and Italy, less true than it used to be of the U.K.

My name is very often associated with parties and entertaining, but it's not true. I am not such a party person.

Art matters because it is the one true great connector in a world that seems to be very unconnected.

Yes, Vajpayee and Advani are very clever speakers, but that does not mean everything they say is true.

It's very easy to say that something is a shadow of itself, and it may be true in some senses.

I'm very true to the old punk ethics of honesty and truthfulness and integrity... and still be authentic.

Barack Obama, you know has a lot of supporters here in America, but he's very popular internationally. It's quite interesting. This is a true story. It was in the paper. Barack Obama is so popular in the African town where his father was born, they've named a beer after him. That's true. Yeah. So next time you're in Africa, sit back, relax, and enjoy a tall, cold Barackelob Light. Good enough. Clearly not as popular a beer as it used to be.

Imagine a mosaic picture of a house in the country: lots of red and blue and yellow and black and brown and white and a dozen different shades of green tiles which make a beautiful picture if you stand back far enough. All the little red squares are true - true things, true places, true feelings. But the red squares aren't the picture. All the rest of it is lies and stories, often within the same sentence.

My father was a soldier. He was a frogman in the special forces in Denmark before I was born, and always the reality of that inspired me. My mom is very left-wing, classic socialist, and she always talked about the solders as almost crazy, violent, sick people, and I want to confront that because its very judgmental, and I'm not sure it's true.

The very basis of true peace of mind is a benevolent wish to see all the world as happy as one's self.

Ocean planets might be very common in the universe because water is very common in the low-temperature environments where planets form and evolve. This might be especially true for super-Earths, which can retain volatiles more easily thanks to their larger mass and surface gravity.

If you listen only to those around you, the chances of your dreams coming true are very small.

For blacks in our society, victimization may be a true issue. But it isn't a true issue for women. Neither men nor women are victimized. The true issue, that I try to point out, is that both sexes suffer restricted roles.

I might have been born into a very literal sense of chaos, but in fact that state is true of all of us.

The true value of somebody in this town is very hard to determine. It's all smoke and mirrors.

I just need to know that I did the very best I could and that I was true to myself.

It's very important to me to stay true to who I am as a musician and the songs that I love.

They say it can all change with one song, and in my case, that rings very true, I was shocked that it happened this quickly.

For me, true kitsch has nothing to do with irony. It's very honest. It represents what people like, their dreams.

It's very often true that some women look better without makeup, but that's only during the day.

Ronaldinho is total class - a very, very great player. He is quick, powerful, and has extraordinary technical qualities. He is a dribbler but is also a player who can make the play for his teammates. He's not really a No.10, a true organizer. He's more a second attacker who can score goals and has the vision to make them.

Christianity in its true sense puts an end to the State. It was so understood from its very beginning, and for that Christ was crucified.

Star Trek, I thought, was a very inconsistent show, which at times sparkled with true ingenuity and pure science fiction approaches, and other times was more carnival-like, and very much more the creature of television than the creature of a legitimate literary form.

The rules of drama are very much separate from the properties of life. I think that's especially true of Shakespeare.

It's very hard to deal with true subject matter, especially when you're writing about such weighty issues.

My momma told me a long time ago, 'not everybody has to like you.' And it's very true. I'm ok with that.

As a true scientist, I have been proved wrong so many times that I'm very humble.

I pitched the idea to FX that there's this larger 'Fargo' universe where there's true crime in the upper Midwest, and I can tell stories from any era of that. Maybe they connect to the first season or the movie, or maybe they don't. It's just a style of storytelling. We're under the auspices of being a true story that isn't true.

Poetry is the utterance of deep and heart-felt truth - the true poet is very near the oracle.

The true runner is a very fortunate person. He has found something in him that is just perfect.

It's true, of course, humor is very important in my life, as you know. That's the only reason for living, in fact.