Really True Quotes - Page 2

• If Christianity is really true, then it involves the whole man, including his intellect and creativeness. Christianity is not just 'dogmatically' true or 'doctrinally' true. Rather, it is true to what is there, true in the whole area of the whole man in all of life.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Men, Christianity, Intellect

  Francis A. Schaeffer (2009). “Art and the Bible”, p.16, InterVarsity Press

  78 Copy quote

  Show source

• I think people who make movies and have invested a lot of money in them, get frightened that if they challenge an audience they are going to repel them. And I think the opposite it's really true. It takes confidence and courage to know that and then commit to it.

  Claire Danes

  Thinking, Opposites, People

  "Steve Martin and Claire Danes". Interview with Jeff Otto, www.ign.com. October 19, 2005.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I don't know how much time passes with us just lying there, just feeling that the other is really there, really true, really alive, feeling the safety of him, his weight against mine, the roughness of his fingers touching my face, his warmth and his smell and the dustiness of his clothes, and we barely speak.

  Patrick Ness

  Lying, Smell, Clothes

  4 Copy quote

• There is supercomputer somewhere in the Nevada desert whose sole function is to count the number of times that I have said the following, because it is unquantifiable by human minds at this point, but this time it’s really true: I should have stayed home.

  David Rakoff

  Regret, Home, Numbers

  5 Copy quote

• But if that was really true, why in the name of all that is holy would anyone have ever liked Nikki in the first place? I was becoming more and more convinced she was a cross between Heidi Montag and Hitler.

  Meg Cabot

  Names, Firsts, Becoming

  Meg Cabot (2010). “Airhead Book 3: Runaway”, p.73, Scholastic Inc.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I was saying the right things, but not the really true things.

  Katherine Hannigan

  True Things, Right Thing

  4 Copy quote

• If the account given in Genesis is really true, ought we not, after all, to thank this serpent? He was the first schoolmaster, the first advocate of learning, the first enemy of ignorance, the first to whisper in human ears the sacred word liberty, the creator of ambition, the author of modesty, of inquiry, of doubt, of investigation, of progress and of civilization.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Ambition, Ignorance, Civilization

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.18, Library of Alexandria

  33 Copy quote

  Show source

• It's really going to happen. I really won't ever go back to school. Not ever. I'll never be famous or leave anything worthwhile behind. I'll never go to college or have a job. I won't see my brother grow up. I won't travel, never earn money, never drive, never fall in love or leave home or get my own house. It's really, really true. A thought stabs up, growing from my toes and ripping through me, until it stifles everything else and becomes the only thing I'm thinking. It fills me up like a silent scream.

  Jenny Downham

  Falling In Love, Brother, Jobs

  Jenny Downham (2012). “Now is Good (Also published as Before I Die)”, p.54, Random House

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• People intrinsically know there are secrets being held from us. Look at WikiLeaks: There are secrets that are really true to the world.

  Bob Weinstein

  People, Secret, Wikileaks

  "Apollo 18 Is Real Says Bob Weinstein" by Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. February 25, 2011.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• When they say the sky's the limit to me that's really true

  Michael Jackson

  Love Yourself, Cheer Up, Sky

  15 Copy quote

• The first thing I can remember I ever wanted was to go to the United States. And for reasons that are as conventional as you can imagine: I wanted to know if it was really true that it was the land of opportunity, of democracy, and individual liberty.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Opportunity, Land, Democracy

  Christopher Hitchens (2017). “Christopher Hitchens: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations”, p.46, Melville House

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• When I think back on it, I have a sense of relaxation, as if in the seventies no one had to try to be anyone other than who they were. I'm sure that's not really true, but that's how I remember it, and I suppose it might be relatively true.

  Quentin S. Crisp

  Thinking, Relaxation, Trying

  Source: www.teemingbrain.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• That's what I love about writing. Once you get the words down on paper, in print, they start to make sense. It's like you don't know what you think until it dribbles from your brain down your arm and into your hand and out through your fingers and shows up on the computer screen, and you read it and realize: That's really true; I believe that.

  Ellen Wittlinger

  Believe, Writing, Thinking

  Ellen Wittlinger (2012). “Hard Love”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Do I love you because you're beautiful, or are you beautiful because I love you? Am I making believe I see in you, a woman too perfect to be really true? Do I want you because you're wonderful, or are you wonderful because I want you? Are you the sweet invention of a lover's dream, or are you really as beautiful as you seem?

  Oscar Hammerstein II

  Beautiful, Dream, Sweet

  15 Copy quote

• That’s a funny thing: you think, when awful things happen, everything else just stops, like you would forget to pee and eat and get thirsty, but it’s not really true. It’s like you and your body are two separate things, like your body is betraying you, chugging on, idiotic and animal, craving water and sandwiches and bathroom breaks while your world falls apart.

  Lauren Oliver

  Fall, Animal, Thinking

  4 Copy quote

• I have a woman who teaches me what love is every day. Maybe that sentiment is possible to fake, but for me it's really true.

  Tom Hanks

  Love Is, Fake, Teach

  4 Copy quote

• You always hear the phrase, money doesn't buy you happiness. But I always in the back of my mind figured a lot of money will buy you a little bit of happiness. But it's not really true. I got a new car because the old one's lease expired.

  Sergey Brin

  Inspirational, Car, Mind

  19 Copy quote

• I have a great family, great kids. I have practically everything, you know? Sometimes I have to pinch myself. It's really true: Life starts at 50.

  Bjorn Borg

  Kids, True Life, Sometimes

  15 Copy quote

• If it was really true that predation is God's will, it would have to follow for Christians that the life of Jesus -- what after all is the self-disclosure of God -- manifested and vindicated this predator/prey relationship. Such a gospel would be substantially different from the one we currently have.... Instead of raising Lazarus from the dead, the Predator Jesus could only comment that death is God's blessing. Instead of preaching the good news of the coming kingdom of God, the proclamation would run: "Eat and be eaten.

  Andrew Linzey

  Christian, Running, Jesus

  5 Copy quote

• If zoos are like arks, then rare animals are like passengers on a voyage of the damned, never to find a port that will let them dock or a land in which they can live in peace. The real solution, of course, is to preserve the wild nature that created these animals and has the power to sustain them. But if it is really true that we are inevitably moving towards a world in which mountain gorillas can survive only in zoos, then we must ask whether it is really better for them to live in artificial environments of our design than not to be born at all.

  Peter Singer

  Zoos, Real, Moving

  70 Copy quote

• Would you consider a man or a woman to be complicated? Is it that difficult to understand both the sexes? We say that we know what the other sex is all about, but is that really true? Perhaps the following witty, funny quotes and sayings can help simplify things down about men.

  Indira Gandhi

  Witty, Sex, Men

  16 Copy quote

• If you are really true to yourself and really follow your intuition in the most rigorous way, there is a moment that becomes universal, that reaches everybody. That’s the real magic of Björk-she teaches us the courage to be ourselves.

  Marina Abramovic

  Real, Intuition, Magic

  19 Copy quote

• Of course we do not live in order to eat, but it is not really true to say that we eat in order to live; we eat because we are hungry. Desire has no further intentions behind it... it is a good will.

  Emmanuel Levinas

  Food, Order, Desire

  74 Copy quote

• Many people seem to think that success in one area can compensate for failure in other areas. But can it really?... True effectiveness requires balance.

  Stephen Covey

  Mistake, Failure, Thinking

  Stephen R. Covey (2004). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change”, p.161, Simon and Schuster

  13 Copy quote

  Show source

• He didn’t know if that was really true or not, but he discovered something which was tremendously liberating: he didn’t care. He was very tired of thinking and thinking and still not knowing. He was also tired of being frightened, like a man who has entered a cave on a lark and now begins to suspect he is lost. Stop thinking about it, then. That’s the solution.

  Stephen King

  Tired, Men, Thinking

  Stephen King (2016). “The Dark Half: A Novel”, p.173, Simon and Schuster

  4 Copy quote

  Show source