Quotes with true-story

Quotes 1201 till 1220 of 1326.

  • Dan Quayle What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is.
    Dan Quayle
    American politician (1947 - )
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  • Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach What comprises good performance? The ability through singing or playing to make the ear conscious of the true content and affect of a composition.
    Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
    German musician and composer
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  • Benjamin Cardozo What has once been settled by a precedent will not be unsettled overnight, for certainty and uniformity are gains not lightly sacrificed. Above all is this true when honest men have shaped their conduct on the faith of the pronouncement.
    Benjamin Cardozo
    American lawyer and jurist (1870 - 1938)
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  • Arthur Golden What I had to do was keep the story within certain limits of what was, of course, plausible.
    Arthur Golden
    American writer (1956 - )
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  • Lewis Carroll What I tell you three times is true.
    Lewis Carroll
    British Writer, Mathematician (1832 - 1898)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Seneca What is true belongs to me!
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Joseph Joubert What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight.
    Joseph Joubert
    French writer (1754 - 1824)
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  • Emanuel Swedenborg What is true is true, and what is false is false...
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg What most clearly characterizes true freedom and its true employment is its misemployment.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Anthony Robbins What we can or cannot do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are.
    Anthony Robbins
    American author, entrepreneur, philanthropist and life coach (1960 - )
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  • John Milton What wisdom can there be to choose, what continence to forbear without the knowledge of evil? He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true wayfaring Christian.
    John Milton
    English poet, polemicist and man of letters (1608 - 1674)
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  • André Gide What would there be in a story of happiness? Only what prepares it, only what destroys it can be told.
    André Gide
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1947) (1869 - 1951)
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  • Salman Rushdie What's real and what's true aren't necessarily the same.
    Midnight's Children
    Salman Rushdie
    Engels writer (1947 - )
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  • Mark Twain What, then, is the true Gospel of consistency? Change. Who is the really consistent man? The man who changes. Since change is the law of his being, he cannot be consistent if he stick in a rut.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • John C. Lilly Whatever one believes to be true either is true or becomes true in one's mind.
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  • Benjamin Watson Whatever you do, do it wholeheartedly for the Lord and not for man, because our true identity is in Him.
    Benjamin Watson
    American football player (1980 - )
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  • Carl Friedrich Gauss When a philosopher says something that is true then it is trivial. When he says something that is not trivial then it is false.
    Carl Friedrich Gauss
    German mathematician and physicist (1777 - 1855)
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  • Johnathan Swift When a true genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in confederacy against him.
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