The true ship is the ship builder.
For nothing is so hard to hear as that which is half known, and evaded. One never denies so hotly as in denying to one's self what one fears is true, and one never resents so bitterly as in resenting that which one cannot say one has the right to resent.
. . . photographs are facts, but not necessarily true. . . The present always surpasses the past, and the future will not care about today.
The truth is rarely true and never simple.
The devil told my mind that my thoughts held no power; and this seemed true until my thoughts I began to speak.
True love hates and will not bear delay.
My kitchen's pink, like skin-tone pink, and I lowered my spice rack so it's eye level - it's true! - and my phone, so I can reach it when I fall, it's right there.
True badassery has no gender.
A painter must not only be of necessity an imitator of the works of nature. . . but he must be as necessarily an imitator of the works of other painters. This appears more humiliating, but is equally true; and no man can be an artist, whatever he may suppose, upon any other terms.
It's so hard to express yourself. ' I understand this. ' I want to express myself. ' The same is true for me. ' I'm looking for my voice. ' It's in your mouth. ' I want to do something I'm not ashamed of. ' Something you are proud of, yes?' Not even. I just don't want to be ashamed.
Sad but true: individual intelligence probably peaked in the Upper Paleolithic, and we have been self-domesticated creatures ever since
That's how the scientists discover new science. They start out with a hypothesis--an idea--and then others believe enough in the idea that they make it true. You see?
Creativity is our true nature; blocks are an unnatural thwarting of a process at once as normal and as miraculous as the blossoming of a flower at the end of a slender green stem.
While your life is the true expression of your faith, whom can you fear?
Let us sit and mock the good housewife Fortune from her wheel, that her gifts may henceforth be bestowed equally, I would we could do so for her benefits are mightily misplaced and the bountiful blind girl doth most mistake in her gifts to women. 'Tis true for those that she makes fair she scarce makes honest and those that she makes honest she makes very ill-favouredly. Nay, now thou goest from Fortunes office to Natures. Fortune reigns in gifts of the world, not in the lineaments of Nature.
This whole notion that all African-Americans are not going to vote for Obama is not necessarily true. I believe a third would vote for me, based on my own anecdotal feedback. Not vote for me because I'm black but because of my policies.
Someone asked me years ago if it were true that I disliked Jews, and I replied that it was certainly true, not at all because they are Jews, but because they are folks, and I don’t like folks.
Imagine what else is true if you understood there is nothing fundamentally wrong with you.
I want to lead the Progressive Conservative Party, a party that will promote true conservative values and principles. I can tell you right now, I am not the merger candidate. I am not interested in institutional marriages with other parties.
True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring.