Being True Quotes - Page 17

• We must show our Christian colors, if we are to be true to Jesus Christ. We cannot remain silent or concede everything away.

  C. S. Lewis

  Christian, Jesus, Color

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• It must not be true when the left tell us what they really want is to help and assist and elevate the little guy, 'cause they don't elevate anybody. The people I'm talking about try to make things fair by punishing and penalizing people at the top. They seek equality and fairness by reaching for the lowest common denominator they can find. Equally shared misery seems to be what their utopia is.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Talking, People, Guy

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I want people to see that Christianity claims to be true in the deep sense, and if it isn't, then it solves nothing at all.

  Greg Koukl

  People, Want, Christianity

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• To recognize that you are radically free, in Sartre's sense, but then to live as if you weren't, is to live in bad faith, in denial of what you know to be true. And that's not something anyone can sensibly want to do.

  David E. Cooper

  Denial, Want, Ifs

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Most feminists in France came to feminism after '68 as a result of the hypocrisy they experienced in leftist movements. In these movements, where everyone believed there was going to be true equality, fraternity between men and women, and that together they were going to struggle against this rotten society, even there they noticed that the leftists, the militants, kept them "in their place." Women made the coffee while the others did the talking; they were the ones who typed the letters.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Coffee, Struggle, Men

  Source: www.iaphitalia.org

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• I have abandoned so many projects but in the '80s when I left public life to be married and have real children - I love my children and I would never sacrifice them for anything - I had to find a way to simultaneously be a mother and wife and fulfill my duties and still be true to myself as a writer.

  Patti Smith

  Mother, Children, Real

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• "Margaret" was just my truth. It was what I knew to be true about sixth grade.

  Judy Blume

  Sixth Grade, Grades, My Truth

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• The first lesson about trusting your senses is: don't. Just because you believe something to be true, just because you know it's true, that doesn't mean it is true.

  David Eagleman

  Believe, Mean, Lessons

  David Eagleman (2011). “Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain”, p.64, Vintage

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• [John Larroquette] is one of the smartest men I've ever met. He's very cerebral and book-smart. He would say things and I'd have to go look them up, thinking, "That can't be true!" And they'd be true.

  Julie Benz

  Smart, Book, Men

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The rise of what's called Islamic fundamentalism is to a significant extent a result of the collapse of secular nationalist alternatives which were either discredited internally or destroyed, leaving few other options. Something like that may be true of American society.

  Noam Chomsky

  Islamic, Leaving, Alternatives

  Source: chomsky.info

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• We're supposed to believe that oil had nothing to do with it, that if Iraq were exporting pickles or jelly and the center of world oil production were in the South Pacific that the United States would've liberated them anyway. It has nothing to do with the oil, what a crass idea. Anyone with their head screwed on knows that that can't be true.

  Noam Chomsky

  Believe, Ideas, Oil

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Life as we know it is fundamentally unsatisfying. I think most folks feel this to be true. They know that a life of aimless consumption isn't much of a life. And work offers us very little satisfaction. Plus our work and consumption is destroying the environment. And this is in the rich countries. Add starvation, etc. to the mix, and you have a lot of people in the world pretty unhappy with things as they are. Modern communications make all of this known to people far and wide, and we see the fundamental unfairness of it all.

  Michael Yates

  Country, Communication, Thinking

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Many activists don't want to hear about some grand narrative, one that could unify all of our struggles. So the major issue that needs to be addressed is how to get people to see that there is indeed a grand narrative which just happens to be true.

  Michael Yates

  Struggle, Issues, People

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• I am always a little skeptical on the water thing because I have been hearing that for 30 years, but one year it's going to be true. With the rising populations, Yemen could be the first country in the world, or Sana'a the first major city in the world, to run out of water, that's from Yemeni hydrological engineers and the United Nations. Sooner or later, all of these people, from 7 to 9 billion, all of them want to live like America, will be consuming so much more water that some of the societies will hit a wall without more sustainable environmental practices.

  Thomas Friedman

  Country, Running, Wall

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• I asked [Guadalupe] for the world, for peace, so many things. I asked forgiveness, I asked that the Church grows healthy, I asked for the Mexican people. And another thing I asked a lot for: that priests be true priests, and sisters true sisters, and bishops true bishops. As the Lord wants.

  Pope Francis

  People, Mexican, Healthy

  Source: www.catholicnewsagency.com

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• When our founders created America, it was in the age of the printing press, when individuals could freely join the conversation. And that robust, democratic dialogue more often than not lifted up the best available evidence and asserted what was more likely to be true than not.

  Al Gore

  America, Age, Individual

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• You know how we say things like "I just have to be true to myself"? What does that mean? Great people always say, "There's something I was meant to do." That knowingness is what the soul understands. You have fundamental agreements that you simply feel. You can't put your finger on them because they reveal themselves to you within the context of your life through coincidence, synchronicity, and obligations you can't get out of. Together, these things form the whole of your sacred contract.

  Caroline Myss

  Mean, Agreement, People

  "Caroline Myss' Advice for Getting to the Heart of Who You Really Are". Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. January 2013.

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• Jesus said that I am the only way. So it is illogical to say all religions are true, but it is not illogical to say all religions are false. All religion could be false but they can't all be true because there are direct logical contradictions.

  Josh McDowell

  Jesus, Way, Contradiction

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• Once, a French journalist told me that all my films are the same. I said, 'Excuse me? I work hard to make them different.' What she meant was that in my films there is a character that faces insurmountable odds, and they overcome them. But I thought that might be true, but you need certain factors for drama, and you need to overcome them.

  Danny Boyle

  Drama, Hard Work, Character

  "Interview: Director Danny Boyle Goes Back to 'T2 Trainspotting'". HollywoodChicago.com Interview, www.hollywoodchicago.com. March 22, 2017.

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• I guess what I know now that I definitely didn't know as a child, is that being truest to yourself is the greatest weapon in the war to achieve. That sounds really negative, but in conquering or achieving something. I think, as a child, I thought I had to be somebody else.

  Audra McDonald

  Children, War, Thinking

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• For younger athletes - women, especially, if it's a male-dominated sport - I'd say be very careful to just be true to yourself. I spent a lot of time trying to emulate how a male wrestler was. They're tough, they're very confident, they don't show a lot of emotion, and they push through everything. That's not me at all. I'm a wrestler but I have emotions, I'm sensitive. When I stopped trying to be something that I wasn't, I felt like I was freeing myself up to find ways to make it work for myself.

  Helen Maroulis

  Sports, Athlete, Trying

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Just be true to you. What works for me might not work for someone else and what works for someone else might not work for me.

  Helen Maroulis

  Might

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think the best piece of advice that I would give is beauty is really just - I know it sounds cheesy - being true to who you are. Beauty is not something that is acquired necessarily through like makeup or clothing.

  Amandla Stenberg

  Makeup, Thinking, Giving

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• The Brazilian national identity is not one of João Gilberto Noll primary concerns. This does not mean social critique is absent: race, gender, and class relations are considered in Quiet Creature. And these are universal relational matters, not necessarily particular to any country. Some critics have commented that understanding the specific Brazilian political context of the novel is helpful for reading Quiet Creature. This may be true, but it's not prerequisite for understanding it.

  Adam Morris

  Country, Reading, Mean

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I always thought that I could write a novel. In my case, it was misguided. I do believe that the best nonfiction is not "literary journalism," a misleading term, but rather journalism that asks the questions that serious literature asks. It's storytelling that happens to be true. So I don't think it was a missed opportunity. After awhile you learn what you're really good at. Life is short, so spend time doing that.

  Ron Rosenbaum

  Believe, Writing, Life Is Short

  Source: classic.esquire.com

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