The reason some portraits don't look true to life is that some people make no effort to resemble their pictures. — Salvador Dali Copy Share Image
Life has always seemed to me like a plant that lives on its rhizome. Its true life is invisible, hidden in the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We are the dead. Our only true life is in the future. We shall take part in it as handfuls of dust… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Most of the jokes that I wrote were funny and there always seems to be an aspect of comedy in my long-form… — Victor Levin Copy Share Image
“You will have to get used to living without results and without hope. You will work for a while, you will be… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“True life and true change in our hearers does not come from our ingenuity, but from the Word of the Spirit (John… — David R. Helm Copy Share Image
More than ever now, I believe it's so important to look as real and true to life as possible, because nobody's perfect.… — Kate Winslet Copy Share Image
“To die would be an awfully big adventure. But it’s not true. Life is the real adventure. Having the hurricane inside you… — Steven Rowley Copy Share Image
“Certainly human culture may have achieved great progress in the course of history. Suffering and unhappiness in the human world, however, do… — Zenkei Shibayama Copy Share Image
“True life life at last discovered and illuminated the only life therefore really lived that life is literature.” — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
It's in literature that true life can be found. It's under the mask of fiction that you can tell the truth. — Gao Xingjian Copy Share Image
“Quite simply, I believed I had a responsibility to be a good person, and that meant fair, honest, hardworking, and honorable. If… — Lance Armstrong Copy Share Image
“without the power to concentrate that is to say, without the power to dictate to the brain its task and to ensure… — Arnold Bennett Copy Share Image
In life, in true life, there can be nothing better than what is. Wanting something different than what is, is blasphemy. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Mukesh calls me his true life partner... I just enjoy being Mukesh's wife. — Nita Ambani Copy Share Image
A true life is at once interpreter and proof of the gospel. — John Greenleaf Whittier Copy Share Image
“A firefly blinked into existence, drew half a word in the air. Then gone. A black bug secret in the night. Such… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
“My last chance had vanished into itself like a snail coiling up into his shell. Insidiously I had lost my grip, and… — Arthur Nersesian Copy Share Image
Philip Glass, like [Virginia] Woolf, is more interested in that which continues than he is in that which begins, climaxes, and ends...… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
Even if you achieve your outer purpose, it will never satisfy you if you haven't found your inner purpose, which is awakening,… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Love of country cannot be a supersized version of individual narcissism. True love of country-of this country-is love of our children, of… — Eric Liu Copy Share Image
“What was hard was discovering the true life of the poem inside its technical scaffolding.” — Linda Wagner-Martin Copy Share Image
No doubt solitude is wholesome, but so is abstinence after a surfeit. The true life of man is in society. — William Gilmore Simms Copy Share Image