All Quotes

It is true that liberty is precious; so precious that it must be carefully rationed.
‐‐ Vladimir Lenin

It is true that many of the Sea Shepherd crewmembers are inexperienced, but the fact is that these volunteers bring a passion to the project that cannot be found in a hired crew.
‐‐ Paul Watson

It is true that men themselves made this world of nations... but this world without doubt has issued from a mind often diverse, at times quite contrary, and always superior to the particular ends that men had proposed to themselves.
‐‐ Giambattista Vico

It is true that power corrupts. The hope at the polling stations and the actions of the elected representatives, unfortunately, often turn to be opposite. The power of ballot turns into the power of wallet. Some law-makers become law-breakers.
‐‐ Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj

It is true that raids and battles killed a tiny percentage of the numbers that die in modern warfare. But in tribal violence, the clashes are more frequent, the percentage of men in the population who fight is greater, and the rates of death per battle are higher.
‐‐ Steven Pinker

It is true that rich people can spend more money than middle class people, but there's this upper limit on what we can spend. I drive a very nice car, but it's only one car. I don't own a thousand, even though I earn a thousand times the median wage. I have a few jackets, not a few thousand.
‐‐ Nick Hanauer

It is true that short forms of poetry have been cultivated in the Far East more than in modern Europe; but in all European literature short forms of poetry are to be found - indeed quite as short as anything in Japanese.
‐‐ Lafcadio Hearn

It is true that some liberals and humanists, along with the laid-back Danes, deny the existence of evil. This is largely because they regard the word 'evil' as a device for demonising those who are really nothing more than socially unfortunate.
‐‐ Terry Eagleton

It is true that some people are interested in the buying part of things... They want to buy everything from the movie reviews to the media net to the opinions and so on.
‐‐ Kangana Ranaut

It is true that the aristocracies seem to have abused their monopoly of legal knowledge; and at all events their exclusive possession of the law was a formidable impediment to the success of those popular movements which began to be universal in the western world.
‐‐ Henry James Sumner Maine

It is true that the Chinese are not so religious as the Hindus, or even as the Japanese; and they are certainly not so religious as the Christian missionaries desire them to be.
‐‐ Hu Shih

It is true that the eyes dominate the ears in our time.
‐‐ Karlheinz Stockhausen

It is true that the gameplay for 'Orcs&Elves' was designed around the limitations of mobile phones, and that if we were starting completely from scratch for the DS, we would probably do things a bit differently, but the bottom line is that when we sit a random DS player down with the game, they have a lot of fun.
‐‐ John Carmack

It is true that the Internet can be used to disseminate falsehoods quickly, but it just as quickly roots them out and exposes them in a way that the traditional model of journalism and its closed, insular, one-way form of communication could never do.
‐‐ Glenn Greenwald

It is true that the king has made a truce with the duke of Burgundy for fifteen days and that the duke is to turn over the city of Paris at the end of fifteen days. Yet you should not marvel if I do not enter that city so quickly.
‐‐ Joan of Arc

It is true that the movie is perhaps my most politically-charged. The story is thrust into motion by the idea of what do you do when your 13 year old daughter comes home pregnant. And not only is she pregnant, but she wants to keep the baby.
‐‐ Todd Solondz

It is true that the poet does not directly address his neighbors; but he does address a great congress of persons who dwell at the back of his mind, a congress of all those who have taught him and whom he has admired; they constitute his ideal audience and his better self.
‐‐ Richard Wilbur

It is true that the politician, in his professional character, does not always, or even very often, conform to the most approved pattern of private conduct.
‐‐ Frederick Scott Oliver

It is true that the Puritans banned all recreation on Sundays and all games of chance, gambling, bear baiting, horse racing, and bowling in or around taverns at all times. They did so, not because they were opposed to fun, but because they judged these activities to be inherently harmful or immoral.
‐‐ Leland Ryken

It is true that the record company are always thinking of new ways to flog New Order to people.
‐‐ Stephen Morris

It is true that there are few plays of Shakespeare that I haven't done.
‐‐ Judi Dench

It is true that there comes a time when I do literally dream about McDonald's. I dream of supermarkets and drug stores, potato chips and the Sunday morning paper.
‐‐ Dian Fossey

It is true that they paid much more attention to the trade unions because the trade unions were after all speaking for the rights and conditions of working men and women in their employment.
‐‐ Barbara Castle

It is true that too much belief can be bad for your health.
‐‐ Terry Eagleton

It is true that traditional Christianity is losing some of its appeal among Americans, but that is a religious, not political, matter. It is worth remembering that the Jeffersonian 'wall of separation' between church and state has always been intended to protect the church from the state as much as the state from the church.
‐‐ Jon Meacham

It is true that we are made of dust. And the world is also made of dust. But the dust has motes rising.
‐‐ Muhammad Iqbal

It is true that we are weak and sick and ugly and quarrelsome but if that is all we ever were, we would millenniums ago have disappeared from the face of the earth.
‐‐ John Steinbeck

It is true that we aspire to our ancient land. But what we want in that ancient land is a new blossoming of the Jewish spirit.
‐‐ Theodor Herzl

It is true that, when an entitlement begins to be enjoyed by people, they like to keep it.
‐‐ Jon Kyl

It is true that when there's a drone attack, those - that the - the terrorists are killed, it's true. But 500 and 5,000 more people rises against it, and more terrorism occurs, and more - more bomb blasts occurs.
‐‐ Malala Yousafzai

It is true that when you're in the White House alone, it is a lonely place. Big and lonely.
‐‐ Nancy Reagan

It is true that women in Paris never put on make-up. It shocked me when I first got there - then I realised how much I liked it.
‐‐ Olga Kurylenko

It is true that women tend to be more identified with their bodies because in this crazy world, both men and women measure women's value as human beings in relationship to their physical appearance.
‐‐ Andrew Cohen

It is true that you can say that death is natural, but it is also natural to fight death. But if you stand up and say this is a big problem, we should do something about this, that makes people very uncomfortable, because they've made their peace with death.
‐‐ Peter Thiel

It is true that you can't prove a negative. However, the existence of God is provable in the same way a building is positive proof that there was a builder.
‐‐ Ray Comfort

It is true the orator may make a myriad replica of his own passion out of those who listen to him. But that does not prove he is right or they are not fools.
‐‐ George William Russell

It is true, there are many bad people; there are more of them than in the past, but that is because there are more people, meaning the population has tripled; there must be three times more bad people.
‐‐ Bhumibol Adulyadej

It is true, there was no public-school system, and the reason for it was very plain. The wealth of the upper classes enabled them to have private tutors.
‐‐ John Sergeant Wise

It is true we have won all our wars, but we have paid for them. We don't want victories anymore.
‐‐ Golda Meir

It is true what is said in Washington - 'No matter how cynical you get, it's never enough to catch up.'
‐‐ Louie Gohmert

It is true what Rimbaud said; If you think a book is strong enough, try it at the ocean, in the wind, at the waves. If the book can resist the ocean, then it exists. Otherwise, throw it away.
‐‐ Klaus Kinski

It is true you cannot eat freedom and you cannot power machinery with democracy. But then neither can political prisoners turn on the light in the cells of a dictatorship.
‐‐ Corazon Aquino

It is truer to say that martyrs create faith more than faith creates martyrs.
‐‐ Miguel de Unamuno

It is truly a privilege to be able to support all women's causes on a global level. It is remarkable that something as simple as television can empower us to create change and awareness in the world.
‐‐ Teri Hatcher

It is truly bracing and instructive to contemplate the End Times - at least at safe remove, in the pages of fiction - especially as the world beyond our hearths churns and convulses unknowably, yet perhaps just short of ultimate disaster.
‐‐ Paul Di Filippo

It is truly not fun to be the family that sticks out in an all-white community. On the other side, I have five brothers and sisters; we all look exactly the same, and we're very, very tight. The lessons about race were not pleasant, but there are things that I loved about my childhood.
‐‐ Soledad O'Brien

It is truly vital for the United States to assure that it is not attacked with weapons of mass destruction; to prevent wars in other countries from spreading onto American soil; and to maintain access to global sea lanes on which our economy depends. Beyond that, there is little or nothing in the world that should draw the United States to war.
‐‐ Stephen Kinzer

It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
‐‐ Jean de La Fontaine

It is typical of women to fester and ferment over disappointments, slights, annoyances, angers, etc.
‐‐ Laura Schlessinger