Being True Quotes - Page 21

• Even if I accepted that Jesus - like almost every other prophet on record - was born of a virgin, I cannot think that this proves the divinity of his father or the truth of his teachings. The same would be true if I accepted that he had been resurrected.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Jesus, Father, Teaching

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• People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be 'consistent'.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Mean, People, Trying

  Oliver Wendell Holmes (2007). “Professor At The Breakfast Table”, p.33, Reprint Services Corporation

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• Propaganda, to be effective, must be believed. To be believed, it must be credible. To be credible, it must be true.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Political, Language, Propaganda

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• Faith is an act of rational choice, which determines us to act as if certain things were true, and in the confident expectation that they will prove to be true.

  William Ralph Inge

  Expectations, Choices, Certain

  William Ralph Inge (1929). “Labels & Libels”

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• I've always had a burning desire to help people and make a difference in the world. I didn't know how I could do that in modelling when it can be such a fake world. But my dad told me I could make a difference by being true to myself and teaching people what I've learnt about spirituality, health and nutrition.

  Miranda Kerr

  Dad, Teaching, Fake World

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• I do have a close circle of friends and I am very fortunate to have them as friends. I feel very close to them I think friends are everything in life after your family. You come across lots of people all the time but you only make very few friends and you have to be true to them otherwise what's the point in life?

  Shahrukh Khan

  Thinking, Circles, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means.

  Charles Kingsley

  Friendship, True Friend, Mean

  Charles Kingsley (2008). “Daily Thoughts (EasyRead Comfort Edition)”, p.47, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Well, teachers have been profoundly demoralized in recent years and are often treated with contempt by politicians. There's a great deal of reckless rhetoric in Washington about the mediocrity of the teaching profession - and I don't find that to be true at all.

  Jonathan Kozol

  Teacher, Teaching, Years

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• Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say for one that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Motivational, Honesty, Ambition

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “Speeches and Letters of Abraham Lincoln(1832-1865) (EasyRead Super Large 20pt Edition)”, p.3, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• You know people just assume, 'Well, all my life I'll be a worrier.' That doesn't have to be true. There's a way to drink from God's presence so much that worry begins to dissipate.

  Max Lucado

  People, Worry, Way

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• Although I loved Liza as a little girl, it would be true to say I really didn't know her.

  Lorna Luft

  Girl, Would Be, Littles

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I thought if I had a Twitter feed and say I had a following of a 100,000, that means 100,000 of them would be interested in my book. It was logical, but it didn't turn out to be true. It turned out if I had a Twitter feed of a 100,000, four of them were interested in my book.

  Steve Martin

  Book, Mean, Would Be

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• How many deaf people do you know in real life? Unless they live in a cave, or are 14, which seems to be true for most people in this business, what could I possibly tell them that they don't already know?

  Marlee Matlin

  Real, People, Caves

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• Anyone with sincere religious beliefs cannot say that all religions are true. That is so illogical it is pathetic. All religion cannot be true because some of them are so diametrically opposed to each other.

  Josh McDowell

  Religious, Belief, Sincere

  "Interview: Josh McDowell, Dave Sterrett on Oprah's Spirituality". Interview with Michelle A. Vu, www.christianpost.com. January 26, 2010.

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• Platitude: an idea (a) that is admitted to be true by everyone, and (b) that is not true.

  H. L. Mencken

  Ideas, Cynical, Literature

  A Book of Burlesques ch. 11 (1920)

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• God never made a promise that was too good to be true.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Inspiring, Promise, Too Good To Be True

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• It may be true that the only reason the comic book industry now exists is for this purpose, to create characters for movies, board games and other types of merchandise.

  Alan Moore

  Book, Character, Games

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• Some article called me the most feared man in Silicon Valley. Good Lord! Why? My teenage boys got a kick out of it: 'Dad, how could this be true? You're not even the most feared person in this house.'

  Nathan Myhrvold

  Dad, Teenage, Men

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• Judgments, value judgments concerning life, for or against, can in the last resort never be true: they possess value only as symptoms, they come into consideration only as symptoms - in themselves such judgments are stupidities.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Life, Stupidity, Lasts

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• The phenomenon of vampires has always appealed to me. Everyone kind of likes a vampire story because it almost could be true.

  Bill Nighy

  Vampire, Stories, Likes

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• Faith is what someone knows to be true, whether they believe it or not.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Faith, Believe, Literature

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• To be true to life, a novel must have an ending that is inevitable given the specific personalities of the characters involved. The novelist must not impose an ending upon them.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Character, Personality, True Life

  "A Reader’s Guide to the Recent Novels of Joyce Carol Oates". Interview, celestialtimepiece.com.

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• Every corny thing that's said about living with nature - being in harmony with the earth, feeling the cycle of the seasons - happens to be true.

  Susan Orlean

  Feelings, Earth, Corny

  "Seasonal" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. November 22, 2010.

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• I guess I have friends around me but when you're paying them can they ever really be true friends?

  Kelly Osbourne

  True Friend, Touring

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• I'm going to be true to what I want to do, because if I care what people think about me, I'm a puppet. Which I have been in my life. And you can't live life that way, man!

  Donny Osmond

  Life, Men, Thinking

  "Big brother" by Tim Cooper, www.theguardian.com. March 24, 2001.

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