Affectation is an awkward and forced imitation of what should be genuine and easy, wanting the beauty that accompanies what is natural. — John Locke Copy Share Image
I think, a lot of times, people think they know what they want, but what they really want is something that's genuine. — Benji Madden Copy Share Image
State-sponsored gambling produces no product, no new wealth, and so it makes no genuine contribution to economic development — John Warren Kindt Copy Share Image
My father is one of the few men I've known who has genuine humility, and it lends him a natural dignity. He… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
I think just having a genuine curiosity and not really playing a character when you're with someone intimately is really important. — John Wilson Copy Share Image
People align with movements they can believe in, and it is the human, intellectual, and financial investment in genuine content that defines… — Brian Solis Copy Share Image
It's difficult to seek other people's love. It's deadly. In seeking it you lose what is genuine. This is the prison we… — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
I just need to find a guy who is nice to me and I want to be nice to. It's that simple.… — Andi Dorfman Copy Share Image
It was his [Gen. Douglas MacArthur's] relationship with the administration In Washington which became poisoned by his egomania. Link upon link the… — William Manchester Copy Share Image
I wear crop tops and stuff, but I genuinely like that style, so it's just has to be genuine. Once you start… — Kiesza Copy Share Image
For most of us, generosity is a quality that must be developed. We have to respect that it will grow gradually; otherwise… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
“To write a genuine familiar or truly English style, is to write as any one would speak in common conversation who had… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
It is important to me that everybody who has been hurt know that the sorrow I feel is genuine: First and most… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
People who’ve had any genuine spiritual experience always know that they don’t know. They are utterly humbled before mystery. They are in… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
I would like to explain the meaning of compassion, which is often misunderstood. Genuine compassion is based not on our own projections… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
A genuine invention in the realm of ideas must first emerge as an abstruse and even partial concept? At first blusha new… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
When somebody comes across as authentic and genuine and sweet, people just want to spend time with that person. — Pete Holmes Copy Share Image
I'm infamous, a joke. It doesn't make me feel good, because I'm a genuine person, but I don't let it get to… — William Hung Copy Share Image
Genuine feelings cannot be produced, nor can they be eradicated. We can only repress them, delude ourselves, and deceive our bodies. The… — Alice Miller Copy Share Image
I am very happy in Munich and my family is totally settled - and now I have a son who is a… — Franck Ribery Copy Share Image
[Wladimir] Klitschko is a different kettle of fish to Haye. He is a genuine man with an excellent team behind him and… — Tyson Fury Copy Share Image
I've come to learn that the determined and gifted and genuine sociopath has far more power to deceive than we realize. — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
The Chinese seemed to be mourning Mao in a heartfelt fashion. But I wondered how many of their tears were genuine. People… — Jung Chang Copy Share Image
“Let people doubt your sanity. Let them think you’re nuts. Be the mad scientist, the wise fool, the adventure addict who makes… — Amy McTear Copy Share Image
England has never enjoyed a genuine social revolution. Maybe that's what's wrong with that dear, tepid, vapid, insipid, stuffy, little country. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
I know sanctification comes not with any particular calling, but with genuine acts of service, often for which there is no specific… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
The dynamic, creative present, however conditioned and restricted by the effects of prior presents, possesses genuine initiative. — Corliss Lamont Copy Share Image
I'm not going to lead my show talking about my kids, but will I perhaps mention my five-year-old swimming? Yeah! I think… — Adam Schein Copy Share Image
The movies today are too rich to have any room for genuine artists. They produce a few passable craftsmen, but no artists.… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
God welcomes genuine service, and that is the service of a soul that offers the bare and simple sacrifice of truth; but… — Philo Copy Share Image
In no time whatever can small critics entirely eradicate out of living men's hearts a certain altogether peculiar collar reverence for Great… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Years ago, before this estate was generously and unwillingly turned over to the crown, the lord here was a genuine dimwit. He… — Shannon Hale Copy Share Image
It would be nice to think that a censor could allow a genuine work of artistic seriousness and ban a titillating piece… — Katharine Whitehorn Copy Share Image
... imaginary gardens with real toads in them ... ... if you demand on one hand, the raw material of poetry in… — Marianne Moore Copy Share Image
Let me break it down for you again, You know I only say it because I'm truly genuine: Don't be a hard… — Lauryn Hill Copy Share Image
Self-acceptance begets acceptance from others, which begets even deeper, more genuine self-acceptance. It can be done. But no one is going to… — Camryn Manheim Copy Share Image
I believe in the goodness of fellow human beings. We have a true desire for greatness and genuine good intention to be… — Ilchi Lee Copy Share Image
Some of the greatest and most lasting effects of genuine oratory have gone forth from secluded lecture desks into the hearts of… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
Mannerism is always longing to have done, and has no true enjoyment in work. A genuine, really great talent, on the other… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
One Saturday in 1984, I walked into my first AA meeting. I went regularly for six years and only stopped when I… — Jack Dee Copy Share Image
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