Their True Quotes
170 quotes by 144 authors
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In many ways I wish I wasn't an actor dragging around the baggage from being one so that I could just devote my energies to…
— Dirk Benedict
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The system of domination is founded on depriving nations of their true identity. It seeks to deprive nations of their culture, identity, self-confidence and in…
— Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
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It happens, I do not know how, that most of the proud never really discover their true selves. They think they have conquered their passions…
— John Climacus
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The greatest of all gifts is the power to estimate things at their true worth
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Our legislators are not sufficiently apprized of the rightful limits of their power; that their true office is to declare and enforce only our natural…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Laws are a dead letter without courts to expound and define their true meaning and operation.
— Alexander Hamilton
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Creationists who want religious ideas taught as scientific fact in public schools continue to adapt to courtroom defeats by hiding their true aims under ever…
— Eugenie Scott
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Few people are modest enough to be estimated at their true worth.
— Luc de Clapiers
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Between the age limits of nine and fourteen there occur maidens who, to certain bewitched travelers, twice or many times older than they, reveal their…
— Vladimir Nabokov
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I was focused before - obsessed, really - with the appearance of perfection. But what did that ever bring me but pain? Pain and not…
— Cheryl Rainfield
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Canada is the linchpin of the English-speaking world. Canada, with those relations of friendly, affectionate intimacy with the United States on the one hand and…
— Winston Churchill
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Wong Kar Wai is a very intense character, very personable, and I believe in general he does not like and he would not want his…
— Andy Lau
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The churchyard is the market place where all things are rated at their true value, and those who are approaching it talk of the world…
— Richard Baxter
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The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not, the ones that make your mind start vibrating…
— Ingrid Bengis
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Whom do I call educated? First, those who manage well the circumstances they encounter day by day. Next, those who are decent and honorable in…
— Socrates
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Everyone—whether straight, gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender—should be allowed to show their true colors, and be accepted and loved for who they are.
— Cyndi Lauper
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Without the book business it would be difficult or impossible for true books to find their true readers and without that solitary (and potentially subversive)…
— John McGahern
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Families make possible the super-exploitation of women by training them to look upon their work outside the home as peripheral to their 'true' role.
— Andrea Dworkin
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Listening is much more than allowing another to talk while waiting for a chance to respond. Listening is paying full attention to others and welcoming…
— Henri Nouwen
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The priestly vocation is essentially a call to sanctity, in the form that derives from the Sacrament of Holy Orders. Sanctity is intimacy with God;…
— Pope John Paul I
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