Famous Quotes & Sayings

Laura Bush

but we'll see if it's true once we get to New Orleans.

Bruce Paltrow

They said I wasn't pretty enough, ... That's a true story.

Mark Strand

And Robert Lowell, of course - in his poems, we're not located in his actual life. We're located more in the externals, in the journalistic facts of his life.

Mariella Frostrup

Sustaining true friendship is a lot more challenging than we give it credit for.

Seth Godin

Good advice is priceless. Not what you want to hear, but what you need to hear. Not imaginary, but practical. Not based on fear, but on possibility. Not designed to make you feel better, designed to make you better. Seek it out and embrace the true friends that care enough to risk sharing it. I'm not sure what takes more guts-giving it or getting it.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Power, true power, comes from within. Not without. (Nick)

Theodore Roosevelt

The true friend of property, the true conservative, is he who insists that property shall be the servant and not the master of the commonwealth; who insists that the creature of man’s making shall be the servant and not the master of the man who made it. The citizens of the United States must effectively control the mighty commercial forces which they have called into being. There can be no effective control of corporations while their political activity remains. To put an end to it will be neither a short nor an easy task, but it can be done.

Theodor Adorno

There is no true life within a false life.

Randa Abdel-Fattah

True friends are those who love you not in spite of your faults and imperfections, but because of them.

Plato

True friendship can exist only between equals.

Leonardo da Vinci

Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.

James Richardson

The god of many cannot remain the true god.

Laurence J. Peter

A true friend will see you through when others see that you are through.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

What good was owning the world when he’d have no choice except to defend himself against every person in it? Personally, he’d rather be a beggar with one true friend than a prince surrounded by two-faced assassins.’ (Aiden)

Nick Vujicic

If we all could be a true friend to someone, praying and encouraging one person somehow, that's a first step in being part of making the world a better place,

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Love without sacrifice is like theft

John Wooden

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

The Truest of the True is pervading everywhere; He instructs those with whom He is pleased.

Mortimer Adler

Love consists in giving without getting in return; in giving what is not owed, what is not due the other. That's why true love is never based, as associations for utility or pleasure are, on a fair exchange.

Philip Sidney

Yet sighes, deare sighes, indeeds true friends you are That do not leave your left friend at the wurst, But, as you with my breast, I oft have nurst So, gratefull now, you waite upon my care.

Peter De Vries

We must love one another, yes, yes, that's all true enough, but nothing says we have to like each other.

Paulo Coelho

Simply having the courage to say senseless things made me euphoric. I was free, with no need to seek or to give explanations for what I was doing. This freedom lifted me to the heavens - where greater love, one that forgives everything and never allows you to feel abandoned, once again enveloped me.

Marjane Satrapi

Whether this tale be true or false, none can tell, for none were there to witness it themselves.

Meat Loaf

I never fit in. I am a true alternative. And I love being the outcast. That's my role in life, to be an outcast.

Max Lucado

You long for one true friend? You have one. And because you do, you have a choice. You can... ponder the malice of your monster or the kindness of your Christ.

May Sarton

True power is given to the vulnerable.

Max Frisch

It's precisely the disappointing stories, which have no proper ending and therefore no proper meaning, that sound true to life.

John Gibbons

They say things always even out in this game, I don?t know if it?s true or not. Sometimes it is.

I told them one thing before the game: That I wanted them to play better than they did Thursday, and true to form, they did.

It is true that the co-operation with Belgrade has started,

This is going to be the truest 'Silly Season' we've ever had.

Mike Johanns

The president has been a true friend of the ag industry, because he continues to invest large amounts of money at a time when savings is really the goal of the federal government to deal with the deficit.

Philip Pullman

True education flowers at the point when delight falls in love with responsibility.