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Being True Quotes (page 14)

...memory is fragile and the space of a single life is brief, passing so quickly that we never get a chance to see the relationship between events; we cannot gauge the consequences of our acts, and we believe in the fiction of past, present, and future, but it may also be true that everything happens simultaneously. Isabel Allende
Ah, love, let us be true. To one another! for the world, which seems. To lie before us like a land of dreams, So various, so beautiful, so new, Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light, Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain; And we are here as on a darkling plain. Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight, Where ignorant armies clash by night. Matthew Arnold
And in that moment, everything I knew to be true about myself up until then was gone. I was acting like another woman, yet I was more myself than ever before. Robert James Waller
But I could never have done it," he objected, "without everyone else's help."That may be true," said Reason gravely, "but you had the courage to try; and what you can do is often simply a matter of what you will do. Norton Juster
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
Theodore Roosevelt quote: "It may be true that he travels farthest who travels alone, but..."
It may be true that he travels farthest who travels alone, but the goal thus reached is not worth reaching. Theodore Roosevelt
George R. R. Martin quote: "It was astonishing to see how angry Cersei could wax over..."
It was astonishing to see how angry Cersei could wax over accusations she knew perfectly well to be true. George R. R. Martin
Granny turned slowly in her seat to look at the audience. They were staring at the performance, their faces rapt. The words washed over them in the breathless air. This was real. This was more real even than reality. This was history. It might not be true, but that had nothing to do with it. Granny had never had much time for words. They were so insubstantial. Now she wished that she had found the time. Words were indeed insubstantial. They were as soft as water, but they were also as... Terry Prachett
Michael Faraday quote: "Within the laws of Nature, nothing is too wonderful to be true."
Within the laws of Nature, nothing is too wonderful to be true. Michael Faraday
I know this simple fact to be true, for I myself have abandoned people who did not want me to go, and I myself have been abandoned by those whom I begged to stay. Elizabeth Gilbert
But are there philosophical problems? The present position of English philosophy - my point of departure - originates, I believe, in the late Professor Ludwig Wittgenstein's doctrine that there are none; that all genuine problems are scientific problems; that the alleged propositions or theories of philosophy are pseudo-propositions or pseudo-theories; that they are not false (if they were false, their negations would be true propositions or theories) but strictly meaningless combinations of... Karl Popper
Edward Abbey quote: "I am not an atheist but an earthiest. Be true to the earth."
I am not an atheist but an earthiest. Be true to the earth. Edward Abbey
Richard Bach quote: "Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself."
Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Richard Bach
He[Tom] read from the Almenak."'The song that the Vigil Snake sings is in fact one immensely long word; the longest in the ancient language of the species. It is so long that an individual can sing it for a lifetime and never come to the end of it.'"That sounds like a Kleppism to me," Geneva said. "How would they ever learn it?"Good question," said Tom. "Maybe they're born with it, like a migration instinct?"'"Born with a song,"said Geneva. Tom smiled. "Yes. Don't you like that idea?"Liking... Clive Barker
Arthur Machen quote: "Old stories often turn out to be true."
Old stories often turn out to be true. Arthur Machen

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