Being True Quotes - Page 26

• As long as there's one person to believe it, there's no story that can't be true.

  Paul Auster

  Believe, Long, Stories

  Paul Auster (2003). “Three Films: Smoke, Blue in the Face, and Lulu on the Bridge”, p.165, Macmillan

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• Always be true to your friends, just as you are to yourself.

  Meg Cabot

  Meg Cabot (2010). “Allie Finkle's Rules for Girls Book 5: Glitter Girls and the Great Fake Out”, p.100, Scholastic Inc.

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• The great thing about working out at a gym is that if you put in effort, you get very obvious results. The same should be true of college. A professor’s job is to teach students how to see their minds growing in the same way they can see their muscles grow when they look in a mirror.

  Randy Pausch

  Jobs, College, Mirrors

  Randy Pausch, Jeffrey Zaslow (2008). “The last lecture”, Hyperion Books

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• Because on some level, even though it never turns out to be true, and even though I should know better, I still expect life to be like the movies.

  E. Lockhart

  Levels, Should, Turns

  E. Lockhart (2016). “Ruby Oliver 2: The Boy Book”, p.163, Bonnier Publishing Fiction Ltd.

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• In face of this modern nihilism, Christians are often lacking in courage. We tend to give the impression that we will hold on to the outward forms whatever happens, even if God really is not there. But the opposite ought to be true of us, so that people can see that we demand the truth of what is there and that we are not dealing merely with platitudes. In other words, it should be understood that we take this question of truth and personality so seriously that if God were not there we would be among the first of those who had the courage to step out of the queue.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Christian, Opposites, People

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• [P]eople need to use their intelligence to evaluate what they find to be true and untrue in the Bible. This is how we need to live life generally. Everything we hear and see we need to evaluate—whether the inspiring writings of the Bible or the inspiring writings of Shakespeare, Dostoevsky, or George Eliot, of Ghandi, Desmond Tutu, or the Dalai Lama.

  Bart D. Ehrman

  Live Life, Writing, Needs

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• People often seem to think that when you're following the Lord and trying to do His will, your path will always be clear, the decisions smooth and easy, and life will be lived happily ever after and all that. Sometimes that may be true, but I've found that more often, it's not. The muddled decisions still seem muddled, bad things still happen to believers, and great things can happen to nonbelievers. When it comes to making our decisions, the key that God is concerned with is that we are trusting and seeking Him. God's desire is for us to align our lives with His Word and His will.

  Tim Tebow

  Thinking, Keys, People

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• But I could never have done it," he objected, "without everyone else's help." "That may be true," said Reason gravely,"but you had the courage to try; and what you can do is often simply a matter of what you will do.

  Norton Juster

  Trying, Done, May

  Norton Juster (2011). “The Phantom Tollbooth”, p.200, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• In writing, as in life, always be true to your character.

  Laurie Faria Stolarz

  Writing, Character

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• Service is the measure of greatness; it always has been true; it is true today, and it always will be true, that he is greatest who does the most of good. Nearly all of our controversies and combats grow out of the fact that we are trying to get something from each other--there will be peace when our aim is to do something for each other. The human measure of a human life is its income; the divine measure of a life is its outgo, its overflow--its contribution to the welfare of all.

  William Jennings Bryan

  Greatness, Trying, Facts

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• I believe in life and in people. I feel obliged to advocate their highest ideals as long as I believe them to be true. I also see myself compelled to revolt against ideals I believe to be false, since recoiling from rebellion would be a form of treason

  Naguib Mahfouz

  Believe, Long, People

  Naguib Mahfouz (2016). “Sugar Street: The Cairo Trilogy”, p.329, Anchor

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• There needs not a great soul to make a hero; there needs a god-created soul which will be true to its origin; that will be a great soul!

  Thomas Carlyle

  Hero, Soul, Needs

  Thomas Carlyle (1840). “On Heroes, Hero-worship and the Heroic in History”, p.171, CUP Archive

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• This is a work of fiction. Still, given an infinite number of possible worlds, it must be true on one of them. And if a story set in an infinite number of possible worlds is true in one of them, then it must be true in all of them. So maybe, it's not as fictional as we think.

  Neil Gaiman

  Thinking, Numbers, Fiction

  Neil Gaiman, Michael Reaves (2013). “Interworld (Interworld, Book 1)”, p.4, HarperCollins UK

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• If this book has made any point clear, I hope it's that things don't have to be real to be true. Or vice versa.

  Grant Morrison

  Real, Book, Vices

  Grant Morrison (2011). “Supergods: Our World in the Age of the Superhero”, p.301, Random House

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• Above all else, be true to your heart. When you marry, whether it be a marquis or an estate manager (or both!), it will be for life. You must go where your heart leads and never forget that love is the most precious gift of all. Money and social status are poor substitutes for a warm, tender embrace, and there is little in life more fulfilling than the joy of loving and knowledge that you are loved in return.

  Julia Quinn

  Heart, Love Is, Joy

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• Unfortunately, however much we may deplore something, it does not stop being true.

  Richard Dawkins

  Doe, May

  Richard Dawkins (2006). “The Selfish Gene: 30th Anniversary edition”, p.32, OUP Oxford

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• Act out being alive, like a play. And after a while, a long while, it will be true.

  John Steinbeck

  Play, Long, Alive

  John Steinbeck (2002). “East of Eden”, p.189, Penguin

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• The idea began to sink in, more than it ever had, that I might be crazy, in the traditional sense of the word. That I might be, forever and ever amen, a Crazy Person. That's what we'd suspected all along, what I'd been working so hard to disprove, what might be true. I preferred, by far, being dead.

  Marya Hornbacher

  Crazy, Ideas, Forever

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• Fey...a Scotch word...It means the kind of exalted happiness that comes before disaster. You know--it's too good to be true.

  Agatha Christie

  Mean, Scotch, Fey

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• But you are beautiful And you better go show it So go look again You gotta be true to your own If you really wanna go to the top Do you really wanna win Don’t believe in leaving normal Just to satisfy demand ((Beauty in Ugly))

  Jason Mraz

  Beautiful, Believe, Winning

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• Do you know that if you take the books in an average school library and stretched out all those words into a single line, the line would go all the way around the world? Actually, I made that up, but doesn't it sound like it should be true?

  Neal Shusterman

  Book, School, Average

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• Marethyu stretched out his right hand and Aten took it in his. "Let me tell you this," the hook-handed man said. "We will meet again,you and I,in a different place and a different time." "You know this to be true?" "I do." "Because you have seen the future?" "Because I have been there.

  Michael Scott

  Men, Hands, Different

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• Maybe you don't have to remember something for it to be true. For it to exist.

  Lisa McMann

  Remember Something, Remember

  Lisa McMann (2012). “Dead to You”, p.71, Simon and Schuster

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• And in that moment, everything I knew to be true about myself up until then was gone. I was acting like another woman, yet I was more myself than ever before.

  Robert James Waller

  Bridges, Acting, Gone

  "Fictional character: Francesca". "The Bridges of Madison County", www.imdb.com. 1995.

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• The world is bigger than you know, and scarier than you might imagine. The only currency worth anything is being true to yourself, and the only goal worth seeking is finding out who you truly are.

  Derek Landy

  Goal, World, Might

  Derek Landy (2013). “Skulduggery Pleasant:”, p.19, HarperCollins UK

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