Being True Quotes - Page 27

• Our culture says that feelings of love are the basis for actions of love. And of course that can be true. But it is truer to say that actions of love can lead consistently to feelings of love.

  Timothy Keller

  Love, Marriage, Feelings

  Timothy Keller (2011). “The Meaning of Marriage: Facing the Complexities of Commitment with the Wisdom of God”, p.66, Penguin

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• Do you see the Field of Mars, where I walked next to my bride in her white wedding dress, with red sandals in her hands, when we were kids?” “I see it well.” “We spent all our days afraid it was too good to be true, Tatiana,” said Alexander. “We were always afraid all we had was a borrowed five minutes from now.” Her hands went on his face. “That’s all any of us ever has, my love,” she said. “And it all flies by.” “Yes,” he said, looking at her, at the desert, covered coral and yellow with golden eye and globe mallow. “But what a five minutes it’s been.

  Paullina Simons

  Kids, Eye, Hands

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• Much as I have no wish to hurt anyone's feelings, my first obligation has not been to be nice but to be true to my perhaps peculiar memories, experiences and feelings.

  Edward Said

  Hurt, Memories, Nice

  Edward W. Said (2013). “Out Of Place: A Memoir”, p.1929, Granta Books

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• When I first saw Ellie, I knew it was her-- she was my fantasy. I didn't want it to be true, but every time I met her it was obvious, and the funny thing was that she was better than the fantasy, like I got more stuff than I'd imagined.

  Jenny Downham

  Funny Things, Want, Stuff

  Jenny Downham (2010). “You Against Me”, p.337, Random House

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• Just because you want something to be true doesn’t make it that way.” -The Host

  Stephenie Meyer

  Want Something, Way, Host

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• Noise ain't Truth, Noise is what men want to be true, and there's a difference twixt those two things so big that it could ruddy well kill you if you don't watch out.

  Patrick Ness

  Men, Two, Differences

  Patrick Ness (2008). “The Knife of Never Letting Go”, Candlewick Press (MA)

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• No," Wednesday agreed. "You have tortured with silence. You let her grieve for a soul she did not lose, mourn a heart that should not have broken, and berate herself for betraying the man she loves...with the man she loves. It can't be 'true' love without the truth, Rumbold.

  Alethea Kontis

  Broken Heart, Men, Grieving

  Alethea Kontis (2012). “Enchanted”, p.244, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• With knot of one, the spell's begun. With knot of two, the spell be true. With knot of three, the spell is free. With knot of four, the power is stored. With knot of five, the spell with thrive. With knot of six, this spell I fix.

  Deborah Harkness

  Two, Three, Four

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• It can't be 'true' love without the truth

  Alethea Kontis

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• Drive away and try to keep smiling. Get a little rock and roll on the radio and go toward life with all the courage you can find and all the belief you can muster. Be true, be brave, stand.

  Stephen King

  Rocks, Rock And Roll, Brave

  Stephen King (2016). “It”, p.1175, Simon and Schuster

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• Nothing has to be true, but everything has to sound true.

  Isaac Asimov

  Sound

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• Whether this tale be true or false, none can tell, for none were there to witness it themselves.

  Marjane Satrapi

  True Or False, Tales, Witness

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• I — I mean," Kate stumbled on, "that with us there is a time past and time present, and time future, and with your gods perhaps there is time forever; but God in Himself has the whole of it, all times at once. It would be true to say that He came into our world and died here, in a time and a place; but it would also be true to say that in His eternity it is always That Place and That Time — here — and at this moment — and the power He had then, He can give to us now, as much as He did to those who saw and touched Him when He was alive on the earth.

  Elizabeth Marie Pope

  Mean, Past, Our World

  Elizabeth Marie Pope, Richard Cuffari (2001). “The Perilous Gard”, p.209, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Foolish. Stupid. I knew it. I knew my reaction was unreasonable, bu the heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing. Blaise Pascal said that, and I've always found it to be true.

  Megan Hart

  Stupid, Heart, Pascal

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• When we try to describe the truth with words, we distort it and it's no longer truth--it's our story. The story may be true for us, but that doesn't mean it's true for anyone else.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Mean, Trying, Stories

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• The sun hides not the ocean, which is the dark side of this earth, and which is two thirds of this earth. So, therefore, that mortal man who hath more of joy than sorrow in him, that mortal man cannot be true-- not true, or undeveloped. With books the same. The truest of all men was the Man of Sorrows, and the truest of all books is Solomon’s, and Ecclesiastes is the fine hammered steel of woe.

  Herman Melville

  Ocean, Book, Dark

  Herman Melville (2016). “Moby Dick (World Classics, Unabridged)”, p.293, Vij Books India Pvt Ltd

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• Even though I'm seventeen, I guess I still thought this would always be true - that there would always be that lost-and-found, and not the lost-and-still-lost that I am now trapped inside.

  David Levithan

  Lost, Found, Stills

  David Levithan (2009). “Love Is the Higher Law”, p.12, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• We are not being true to the artist as a man if we consider his art work junk simply because we differ with his outlook on life. Christian schools, Christian parents, and Christian pastors often have turned off young people at just this point. Because the schools, the pastors, and the parents did not make a distinction between technical excellence and content, the whole of much great art has been rejected with scorn and ridicule. Instead, if the artist's technical excellence is high, he is to be praised for this, even if we differ with his world view. Man must be treated fairly as man.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Christian, Art, School

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• Just be true to yourself, and listen as much as one is able to to other people whose opinions you respect and look up to but in the end it has to come from you. You can’t really worry too much by looking to the left and the right about what the competition is doing or what other people in your field are doing. It has to be a true vision.

  Anna Wintour

  Inspirational, Fashion, People

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• Don't lament so much about how your career is going to turn out. You don't have a career. You have a life. Do the work. Keep the faith. Be true blue. You are a writer because you write. Keep writing and quit your bitching. Your book has a birthday. You don't know what it is yet.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Book, Writing, Blue

  Cheryl Strayed (2015). “Brave Enough: A Mini Instruction Manual for the Soul”, p.71, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• The most important thing for any con artist is never to think like a mark. Marks think they can get something for nothing. Marks think they can get what they don’t deserve and could never deserve. Marks are stupid and pathetic and sad. Marks think they’re going to go home one night and have the girl they’ve loved since they were a kid suddenly love them back. Marks forget that whenever something’s too good to be true, that’s because it’s a con.

  Holly Black

  Girl, Stupid, Home

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• One begins by plaguing oneself to no purpose in order to be true to nature, and one concludes by working quietly from one's own palette alone, and then nature is the result.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Order, Purpose, Results

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• There are a few rules I know to be true about love and marriage... Your values must be alike. And the biggest one of those values, Mitch?" Yes? "Your belief in the importance of your marriage.

  Mitch Albom

  Love And Marriage, Belief, Importance

  Mitch Albom (2007). “Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson”, p.149, Broadway Books

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• Well, you know how it feels if you begin hoping for something that you want desperately badly; you almost fight against the hope because it is too good to be true; you've been disappointed so often before.

  C. S. Lewis

  Fighting, Hoping For Something, Want

  C. S. Lewis (2013). “The Chronicles of Narnia Complete 7-Book Collection with Bonus Book: Boxen”, p.55, Harper Collins

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• And now you'll be telling stories of my coming back and they won't be false, and they won't be true but they'll be real

  Mary Oliver

  Real, Stories, Coming Back

  Mary Oliver (2012). “A Thousand Mornings: Poems”, p.21, Penguin

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