A lot of folks believe their best years are behind them. But I want Americans to recognize that's not true.
No man ever made himself to live. No preacher, however earnest, can make one hearer to live. No parent, however prayerful, no teacher, however tearful, can make a child live unto God. “You hath HE quickened,” is true of all who are quickened.
The romantic love we feel toward the opposite sex is probably one extra help from God to bring you together, but that's it. All the rest of it, the true love, is the test.
It is poor faith that needs fair weather for standing firm. That alone is true faith that stands the foulest weather.
Effective searching procedures become, when the search-space is sufficiently large, indistinguishable from true creativity.
True love comes when it will, not when it's called.
I just try to be honest and true to the character and play the part.
If enough things that are untrue are said about you, no one will know what really is true.
It is true that prosperity has many close friends; poverty, on the other hand, has only distant watchers!
The effect to be sought is the dislocation of the opponent's mind and dispositions - such an effect is the true gauge of an indirect approach.
Casals says music fills him with the wonder of life and the 'incredible marvel' of being a human. Ives says it expands his mind and challenges him to be a true individual. Bernstein says it is enriching and ennobling. To me, that sounds like a good cause for making music and the arts an integral part of every child's education. Studying music and the arts elevates children's education, expands students' horizons, and teaches them to appreciate the wonder of life.
True singing is a different breath, about nothing.
I will not be alone if I am my true self. Only by trading my true self for the companionship of another have I ever made myself alone. Because when I gave up my real self, I wound up resenting my "significant other" for "making me" do that-and it was this resentment that ate away at our relationship.
The only reason I am successful is because I have stayed true to myself.
One observer commenting on security analysts over forty stated: "They know too many things that are no longer true. " As long as I am "on stage", publishing a regular record and assuming responsibility for management of what amounts to virtually 100% of the net worth of many partners, I will never be able to put sustained effort into any non-BPL activity. If I am going to participate publicly. I can't help being competitive. I know I don't want to be totally occupied with out-pacing an investment rabbit all my life. The only way to slow down is to stop.
So while it is true that I find really dark stuff funny sometimes, it's also true that as a writer of books I want to have the whole range of human emotions.
All that we call ideal in Greek or any other art, because to us it is false and visionary, was, to the makers of it, true and existent.
I walk with God, and He protects me. That may very well be true. I don't mean to make that sound like a joke, in case He is in charge.
I started out wanting to write great poems, then wanting to discover true poems. Now, I want to be the poem.
True statesmanship is the art of changing a nation from what it is into what it ought to be.