True You Quotes - Page 5

• You have grudged the very fire in your house because the wood cost overmuch!" he cried. "You have grudged life. To live cost overmuch, and you have refused to pay the price. Your life has been like a cabin where the fire is out and there are no blankets on the floor." He signaled to a slave to fill his glass, which he held aloft. "But I have lived. And I have been warm with life as you have never been warm. It is true, you shall live long. But the longest nights are the cold nights when a man shivers and lies awake. My nights have been short, but I have slept warm

  Jack London

  Lying, Night, Men

  Jack London, black Horse Classics (2017). “Jack London: The Complete Novels [Classics Authors Vol: 6] (Black Horse Classics)”, p.2931, Jack

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• I think you are a liar because you think you know what is true. You think you feel what is true. But you do not yet know what you do feel and what you do know. Your desire and do not take; you love and are too afraid to feel your love; you conceal your vanity and pettiness from yourself; you are afraid to look into your soul and see what you are. That iis why i think you are a liar.

  Alison Croggon

  Liars, Love You, Thinking

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• In this sad world of ours sorrow comes to all and it often comes with bitter agony. Perfect relief is not possible except with time. You cannot now believe that you will ever feel better. But this is not true. You are sure to be happy again. Knowing this, truly believing it will make you less miserable now. I have had enough experience to make this statement.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Happiness, Depression, Believe

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• A scholar's business is to add to what is known. That is all. But it is capable of giving the very greatest satisfaction, because knowledge is good. It does not have to look good or even sound good or even do good. It is good just by being knowledge. And the only thing that makes it knowledge is that it is true. You can't have too much of it and there is no little too little to be worth having. There is truth and falsehood in a comma.

  Tom Stoppard

  Giving, Sound, Doe

  Tom Stoppard (2014). “The Invention of Love”, p.27, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• You wish for something, you've wanted it for years, and you're sure you want it, as long as you know you can't have it. But if all at once it looks as though your wish might come true, you suddenly find yourself wishing you had never wished for any such thing.

  Michael Ende

  Years, Long, Finding Yourself

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• Daughter of my heart,' was the message Brimstone sent just for Karou. She wanted to cry again right here in the court, thinking of it. 'Twice-daughter, my joy. Your dream is my dream, and your name is true. You are all of our hope.

  Laini Taylor

  Daughter, Dream, Heart

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• A lot of dreams don't come true in life. If you can make somebody's dream come true, you should.

  Jameer Nelson

  Positive, Dream, Should

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• In order for your dreams to come true, you've got to stay awake.

  Charles Durning

  Dream, Order, Vision

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• You ought to be true for the sake of the folks who think you are true. You never should stoop to a deed that your folks think you would not do. If you are false to yourself, be the blemish but small, you have injured your folks; you have been false to them all.

  Edgar Guest

  Being Yourself, Truth, Thinking

  Edgar Guest (1916). “A Heap o' Living'”

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• True, you don't have to be religious to be crazy, but it helps.

  Daniel Dennett

  Religious, Atheist, Crazy

  "Is religion a threat to rationality and science?" by Daniel Dennett and Robert Winston, www.theguardian.com. April 22, 2008.

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• What doesn't kill you makes you stronger is so not true. You know what makes you stronger? When people treat you & your art with dignity.

  Lana Del Rey

  Art, Trust No One, People

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• It's true, you can never eat a pet you name. And anyway, it would be like a ventriloquist eating his dummy.

  Alexander Theroux

  Names, Pet, Would Be

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• The French are a smallish, monkey-looking bunch and not dressed any better, on average, than the citizens of Baltimore. True, you can sit outside in Paris and drink little cups of coffee, but why this is more stylish than sitting inside and drinking large glasses of whiskey I don't know.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Drinking, Coffee, Glasses

  P. J. O'Rourke (2015). “Thrown Under the Omnibus: A Reader”, p.154, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• We look at science as something very elite, which only a few people can learn. That's just not true. You just have to start early and give kids a foundation. Kids live up, or down, to expectations.

  Mae Jemison

  Kids, People, Giving

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• The thing is, when everyone is trying to persuade you that a thing you know to be true isn't actually true, you start to believe them: not because it is true but because it's easier. It's just the easy way out.

  Graham Joyce

  Believe, Trying, Way

  Graham Joyce (2012). “Some Kind of Fairy Tale”, p.174, Hachette UK

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

  Kent Hovind

  Thinking, Brain, Evolution

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• What you believe matters, however. It’s all anyone has to act on. And since what you do is who you are, your actions define you. If you don’t believe anything is true simply because you can’t logically prove what’s true, you won’t do anything. You won’t be anything. You’ll end up spending your life in a rocking chair looking out at the horizon waiting for an answer that never comes. You might as well be dead. It’s an old philosophical problem.

  Russell Banks

  Philosophical, Believe, Waiting

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• Regardless of the difficulties we may face individually, in our families, in our communities and in our nation, the old adage is still true - you can make excuses or you can make progress, but you cannot make both! The America I know doesn't make excuses.

  Mia Love

  America, Community, Progress

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• Everyone says, 'It's just an honor to be nominated,' but that's so not true. You want to win.

  Chris Kirkpatrick

  Winning, Honor, Want

  "'NSYNC's Kirkpatrick Offers Peace Plan In Eminem/ Moby Beef" by Brian Wallace, www.mtv.com. August 30, 2002.

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• This much is true: you have been lied to.

  Ron Paul

  Historical, Lied, Has Beens

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• It doesn't matter what is true; it only matters what people believe is true... You are what the media define you to be. [Greenpeace] became a myth and a myth-generating machine.

  Paul Watson

  Believe, Media, People

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• Some people think I'm saying, 'Women of the world unite -- you have nothing to lose but your men. It's not true. You have nothing to lose but your vacuum cleaners.

  Betty Friedan

  Thinking, Men, People

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• And so, a prediction, and my heartfelt wish for you: as you get older, your self will diminish and you will grow in love. YOU will gradually be replaced by LOVE. If you have kids, that will be a huge moment in your process of self-diminishment. You really won't care what happens to YOU, as long as they benefit. That's one reason your parents are so proud and happy today. One of their fondest dreams has come true: you have accomplished something difficult and tangible that has enlarged you as a person and will make your life better, from here on in, forever.

  George Saunders

  Dream, Love You, Kids

  George Saunders (2014). “Congratulations, by the Way: Some Thoughts on Kindness”, p.42, A&C Black

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• You have to be true, you have to be honest.. Don't do anything, just figure out what it is that is true to you, what makes you happiest to do and be out there. And if it doesn't work, then you just have to call it a day and go find something else. But don't make it up. Don't go out there and pretend to be something you aren't.

  Pat Benatar

  Honest, Figures, Being True

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• I sometimes say that success just happens. That's not true. You have to make it happen. When I make up my mind to do something, I make sure it happens. You can't wait for the phone to ring. You have to ring them.

  Michael Grade

  Success, Phones, Waiting

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