Very True Quotes - Page 5

• It is very true that I have said that I considered Napoleon's presence in the field equal to forty thousand men in the balance. This is a very loose way of talking; but the idea is a very different one from that of his presence at a battle being equal to a reinforcement of forty thousand men.

  Duke of Wellington

  Men, Talking, Ideas

  Notes for September 18, 1836. "Notes of Conversations with the Duke of Wellington, 1831-1851". Book by Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope, 1886.

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• Not all men (and especially the wisest) share the opinion that it is bad for women to be educated. But it is very true that many foolish men have claimed this because it displeased them that women knew more than they did.

  Christine de Pizan

  Men, Foolish Man, Opinion

  Christine De Pizan (1982). “The Book of the City of Ladies”, New York : Persea Books

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• Make no mistake about it, magick is an art form, and every true magician is an artist.

  Lon Milo DuQuette

  Inspirational, Life, Art

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• If you give a meaning to certain things in my paintings it may be very true, but it is not my idea to give this meaning. What ideas and conclusions you have got I obtained too, but instinctively, unconsciously. I make the painting for the painting. I paint the objects for what they are.

  Pablo Picasso

  Ideas, Giving, Guernica

  "The Sociology of Architecture: Constructing Identities" by Paul Jones, (p. 47), 2011.

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• Every true artist has been inspired more by the beauty of lines and color and the relationships between them than by the concrete subject of the picture.

  Piet Mondrian

  Artist, Color, Lines

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• The Constitution is said to have beautiful features; but when I come to examine these features, Sir, they appear to me horribly frightful. Among other deformities, it has an awful squinting - it squints towards monarchy. And does not this raise indignation in the breast of every true American? Your president may easily become king. Where are your checks in this government? I would rather infinitely - and I am sure most of this convention are of the same opinion - have a king, lords, and commons than a government so replete with such insupportable evils.

  Patrick Henry

  Beautiful, Kings, Squinting

  Speech, www.let.rug.nl. June 07, 1788.

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• Mr. Chairman, when I contemplate the evils of apartheid, my heart bleeds and I am sure the heart of every true blooded African bleeds.

  Murtala Mohammed

  Heart, Evil, Apartheid

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• The coolest thing about the series is that we stay very true to the books; it would be silly for us not to, because the books are exactly what the fans want to see. There’s an action side to it, which I love, and there are werewolves now. There aren’t just vampires. There’s a wolf pack.

  Taylor Lautner

  Silly, Book, Vampire

  Interview with Michael Martin, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 6, 2009.

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• I deny the right of Congress to force a slaveholding State upon an unwilling people. I deny their right to force a free State upon an unwilling people. I deny their right to force a good thing upon a people who are unwilling to receive it. The great principle is the right of every community to judge and decide for itself, whether a thing is right or wrong, whether it would be good or evil for them to adopt it; and the right of free action, the right of free thought, the right of free judgment upon the question is dearer to every true American than any other under a free government.

  Stephen A. Douglas

  War, Government, People

  Bob Blaisdell, Stephen A. Douglas (2012). “The Lincoln-Douglas Debates”, p.16, Courier Corporation

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• I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I'd invented it, because it is very true.

  Audrey Hepburn

  Happiness, Inspiring, Memories

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• I know it sounds cliche but I believe in an essential way, it's very true that being a Christian is having a relationship with God through Christ.

  Greg Laurie

  Christian, Believe, Way

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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