All Quotes

The true face of smoking is disease, death and horror - not the glamour and sophistication the pushers in the tobacco industry try to portray.
‐‐ David Byrne

The true fans were capable of not only painting their cars and homes their team colors, but also naming family pets and offspring after famous NFL all-stars.
‐‐ Burgess Owens

The true feeling of sex is that of a deep intimacy, but above all of a deep complicity.
‐‐ James Dickey

The true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and no other task is of any consequence.
‐‐ Cyril Connolly

The true function of philosophy is to educate us in the principles of reasoning and not to put an end to further reasoning by the introduction of fixed conclusions.
‐‐ George Henry Lewes

The true genius of a great manager is his or her ability to individualize. A great manager is one who understands how to trip each person's trigger.
‐‐ Marcus Buckingham

The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.
‐‐ Edgar Allan Poe

The true God He has extension, and form, and dimensions. He occupies space; has a body, parts, and passions; can go from place to place. He can eat, drink, and talk.
‐‐ Orson Pratt

The true gourmet, like the true artist, is one of the unhappiest creatures existent. His trouble comes from so seldom finding what he constantly seeks: perfection.
‐‐ Ludwig Bemelmans

The true grandeur of humanity is in moral elevation, sustained, enlightened and decorated by the intellect of man.
‐‐ Charles Sumner

The true greatness of a person, in my view, is evident in the way he or she treats those with whom courtesy and kindness are not required.
‐‐ Joseph B. Wirthlin

The true harbinger of spring is not crocuses or swallows returning to Capistrano, but the sound of the bat on the ball.
‐‐ Bill Veeck

The true history of my administration will be written 50 years from now, and you and I will not be around to see it.
‐‐ George W. Bush

The true humanist maintains a just balance between sympathy and selection.
‐‐ Irving Babbitt

The true idea of a church has not yet been shown the world, a visible Church, I mean, unless it was in the very earliest times; yes, the twelve disciples bound to their Lord in love, to do his work forever, that was a church, a Christian family.
‐‐ Lucy Larcom

The true identity theft is not financial. It's not in cyberspace. It's spiritual. It's been taken.
‐‐ Stephen Covey

The true index of a man's character is the health of his wife.
‐‐ Cyril Connolly

The true Islam has shown me that a blanket indictment of all white people is as wrong as when whites make blanket indictments against blacks.
‐‐ Malcolm X

The true knowledge or science which exists nowhere but in the mind itself, has no other entity at all besides intelligibility; and therefore whatsoever is clearly intelligible, is absolutely true.
‐‐ Ralph Cudworth

The true legacy of 9-11 cannot be found among political leaders of the day, but in the citizen soldiers and public safety personnel who answered that day with courage and selflessness.
‐‐ Mike Pence

The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.
‐‐ Friedrich Nietzsche

The true meaning of feminism is this: to use your strong womanly image to gain strong results in society.
‐‐ Pamela Anderson

The true meaning of religion is thus, not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
‐‐ Matthew Arnold

The true measure of a career is to be able to be content, even proud, that you succeeded through your own endeavors without leaving a trail of casualties in your wake.
‐‐ Alan Greenspan

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
‐‐ Samuel Johnson

The true measure of a man is what he would do if he knew he would never be caught.
‐‐ Lord Kelvin

The true measure of life is not length, but honesty.
‐‐ John Lyly

The true measure of success for the U.N. is not how much we promise, but how much we deliver for those who need us most.
‐‐ Ban Ki-moon

The true measure of the value of any business leader and manager is performance.
‐‐ Brian Tracy

The true measure of your worth includes all the benefits others have gained from your success.
‐‐ Cullen Hightower

The true minister is in his pulpit not because he has chosen that profession as an easy means of livelihood, but because he could not help it, because he has obeyed an imperious summons that will not be denied.
‐‐ Peter Marshall

The true musician is to bring light into people's hearts.
‐‐ Bobby McFerrin

The true mystery of the JFK assassination isn't 'How could the bullet go through two people with only slight damage?' but 'Why did the third bullet explode?'
‐‐ Stephen Hunter

The true mystic is always both humble and compassionate, for she knows that she does not know.
‐‐ Richard Rohr

The true nature of all wealth is temporary; those who have wealth must here and now do good deeds that will live for a long time.
‐‐ Thiruvalluvar

The true nature of evil is that it is so very casual.
‐‐ James St. James

The true nature of soul is right knowledge, right faith and right conduct. The soul, so long as it is subject to transmigration, is undergoing evolution and involution.
‐‐ Virchand Gandhi

The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.
‐‐ Gilbert K. Chesterton

The true picture of life as it is, if it could be adequately painted, would show men what they are, and how they might rise, not, indeed to perfection, but one step first, and then another on the ladder.
‐‐ Anthony Trollope

The true poet for me is a priest. As soon as he dons the cassock, he must leave his family.
‐‐ Gustave Flaubert

The true principle of taxation is the benefit principle - those who benefit from a government service should pay for it. It's also known as the 'user pay' principle. Every effort should be made to link the payment of taxes or fees to the cost associated with the government service.
‐‐ Mark Skousen

The true privilege of being Mayor is that I have the opportunity to be everyone's neighbor.
‐‐ Thomas Menino

The true purpose of education is to teach a man to carry himself triumphant to the sunset.
‐‐ Liberty Hyde Bailey

The true reason of Ms. Rice's attack against Russia is very simple. Condoleezza Rice is a very cruel, offended woman who lacks men's attention.
‐‐ Vladimir Zhirinovsky

The true republic: men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less.
‐‐ Franklin Pierce Adams

The true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality.
‐‐ Che Guevara

The true science and study of man is man.
‐‐ Pierre Charron

The true scientist no longer attempts to disprove the pull of gravity, or the rotation of the earth, or the motion of heavenly bodies, or the sequence of the seasons, or man's need of food and water, or the function of the heart.
‐‐ Ezra Taft Benson

The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right.
‐‐ Henry Ward Beecher