Too Good To Be True Quotes - Page 2

• Most of my photographs were taken on the spur of the moment, very quickly, just as they occurred. All attention focuses on the specific instant, almost too good to be true, which can only vanish in the following one.

  Willy Ronis

  Taken, Spur Of The Moment, Spurs

  "Willy Ronis obituary" by Amanda Hopkinson, www.theguardian.com. September 16, 2009.

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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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• Online gambling is very seductive and very illusory. It can seem like a really good idea. It can seem like what people told you to work hard and get ahead, but when someone shows you something and it's too good to be true, it probably is.

  Ben Affleck

  Hard Work, Gambling, Ideas

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• I always thought I had to earn God's love and approval. I kept trying, but it never seemed like I could do it, and I thought, "Man, what's wrong with me?" A friend of mine was like, "Man, you're full of it. You're trying to do what Christ has already done: You're trying to earn your salvation and you can't - it's a free gift." It sounded too good to be true. He said, "You need to start reading the Bible for yourself and stop taking everyone else's word for it." When I really started to do this, I realized God loved me no matter what.

  Jay Bakker

  Reading, Men, Trying

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• It seemed too good to be true. That's grace.

  Judah Smith

  Grace, Being True

  Judah Smith (2014). “Jesus Is Student Edition: Discovering Who He Is Changes Who You Are”, p.67, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• T.G.T.B.T: too good to be true.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Being True

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• When politicians offer you something for nothing, or something that sounds too good to be true, it's always worth taking a careful second look.

  Malcolm Turnbull

  Sound, Looks, Politician

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Contrary to what we conclude naturally, the gospel is not too good to be true. It is true! Its the truest truth in the entire universe. No strings attached! No fine print to read. No buts. No conditions. No qualifications. No footnotes. And especially, no need for balance.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Strings Attached, Balance, Needs

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• Nothing is ever too good to be true.

  Michael Faraday

  Being True

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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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• The prospect of being able to work on a Kaufman film with him directing was just too good to be true.

  Elijah Wood

  Able, Film, Being True

  Source: www.aboutfilm.com

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• Whenever I visit Korea she [Kang] buys me lunch and takes me to a gallery. As if all this wasn't enough, she has incredible respect for translation as a creative, artistic practice - she insists that each English version is 'our book', offered to share her fees with me when she found out I wasn't getting paid for translating her publicity stuff, always asks the editor to credit me, and does so herself whenever she's interviewed. Too good to be true.

  Deborah Smith

  Book, Korea, Practice

  Source: thequietus.com

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• It is important to go into work you would like to do. Then it doesn't seem like work. You sometimes feel it's almost too good to be true that someone will pay you for enjoying yourself. I've been very fortunate that my work led to useful drugs for a variety of serious illnesses. The thrill of seeing people get well who might otherwise have died of diseases like leukemia, kidney failure, and herpes virus encephalitis cannot be described in words.

  Gertrude B. Elion

  Get Well, Hard Work, Serious Illness

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• [D]on’t cling to your self-righteous suffering, let it go. . . . Nothing is too good to be true, let yourself be forgiven. To the degree you insist that you must suffer, you insist on the suffering of others as well. (90)

  Stephen Levine

  Self, Suffering Of Others, Let It Go

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• Adrian sighed. "I knew you staying out of trouble was too good to be true.

  Richelle Mead

  Trouble, Being True, Staying

  Richelle Mead (2010). “Last Sacrifice: A Vampire Academy Novel”, p.195, Penguin

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• All the controversialists who have become conscious of the real issue are already saying of our ideal exactly what used to be said of the Socialists' ideal. They are saying that private property is too ideal not to be impossible. They are saying that private enterprise is too good to be true. They are saying that the idea of ordinary men owning ordinary possessions is against the laws of political economy and requires an alteration in human nature.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Real, Men, Law

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• It's always been hard to call myself a writer. I think a part of me still thinks it's too good to be true.

  Sarah Dessen

  Thinking, Being True, Stills

  "Author Interview: Sarah Dessen on Just Listen". Interview with Cynthia Leitich Smith, cynthialeitichsmith.blogspot.com. December 12, 2006.

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• There was always a slug on the lettuce. This was too good to be true. He had never trusted Jester, and didn't trust David. He wasn't going to let his gaurd down just yet. Being carful had kept him alive this far. There was no reason to stop being careful now.

  Charlie Higson

  Slugs, Alive, Reason

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• Being able to go to work every day with such a good friend - especially in this business where your jobs are short, the turnover's fast, and you're working all the time with so many different people, and there's so many different projects going on that the odds are that you could actually book something that hopefully, knock on wood, is a long-term job with one of your best friends - is too good to be true.

  Judy Greer

  Book, Good Friend, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• It is good news, worthy of all acceptation; and yet not too good to be true.

  Matthew Henry

  News, Worthy, Being True

  Matthew Henry, Samuel Palmer (1838). “An Exposition of the Old and New Testament ...”, p.636

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• Back then I didn't think a woman like that, or a relationship like that, could exist with complete freedom and no jealousy or possessiveness. I thought it sounded too good to be true and I was certainly convinced it wasn't the life for me!

  Sylvia Kristel

  Jealousy, Thinking, Being True

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• Marks forget that whenever something's too good to be true, that's because it's a con.

  Holly Black

  Forget, Mark, Being True

  Holly Black (2010). “White Cat”, p.216, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm a Brit and I just put myself on tape, back in London, for a very distant American project that I thought I didn't stand a chance of getting. And then, I got a call about a week after I had submitted my tape, just saying, "They really like you and want to screen test you." So, I flew to L.A. and did the screen test. And then, I met Elijah [Wood] and did a screen test with him. And then, I had a very nerve-wracking few days back home, waiting and waiting and thinking, "This cannot possibly go my way because that would just be too good to be true." And then, it did.

  Samuel Barnett

  Home, Thinking, Waiting

  Source: collider.com

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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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