People can smell when things aren't genuine.

There are different kinds of fire; there is false fire. No one knows this better than we do, but we are not such fools…

— William Booth

When somebody comes across as authentic and genuine and sweet, people just want to spend time with that person.

— Pete Holmes

She still felt shell-shocked by all of it, numb. Beneath the numbness, though, was a raw and terrible anger that was unlike anything she'd…

— Kristin Hannah

“Genuine listening means suspending memory, desire, and judgment — and, for a moment at least, existing for the other person. ”

— Michael P Nichols

Every genuine expression of love grows out of a consistent and total surrender to God.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

I think when you look around this league, so much is scripted. And not scripted in a sense that the league is scripted, but…

— Draymond Green

For me, it's very easy to write a horror movie that's just a succession of scary sequences, but it's hard to find horror movies…

— Ehren Kruger

Communism... is the genuine resolution of the antagonism between man and nature and between man and man; it is the true resolution of the…

— Karl Marx

I look upon all four Gospels as thoroughly genuine, for there shines forth from them the reflected splendor of a sublimity proceeding from Jesus…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Every philosophy is complete in itself and, like a genuine work of art, contains the totality. Just as the works of Apelles and Sophocles,…

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

There is no one force, no group, and no class that is the preserver of liberty. Liberty is preserved by those who are against…

— James Burnham

“I once knew a man who was heir to the throne of a great kingdom, he lived as a ranger and fought his destiny…

— C. JoyBell C

Curiosity is a raw and genuine sign from deep inside our tangled psyches, and we'd do well to follow the direction it points us…

— Po Bronson

The difference between genuine poetry and the poetry of Dryden, Pope, and all their school, is briefly this: their poetry is conceived and composed…

— Matthew Arnold

It isn't until you begin to fight in your own cause that you become really committed to winning and become a genuine ally of…

— Robin Morgan