A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.
~ Jean Cocteau
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
~ Alfred De Musset
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self.
~ Ernest Hemingway
I don't usually lose my temper, but if I get angry, it's true - I'm scary.
~ Eva Mendes
Faith can make no appeal to reason or the fitness of things; its appeal is to the Word of God, and whatever is therein revealed, faith accepts as true.
~ Edward Mckendree Bounds
For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.
~ Tony Robbins
In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.
~ Nhat Hanh
True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost.
~ Arthur Ashe
Analogies, it is true, decide nothing, but they can make one feel more at home.
~ Sigmund Freud
If it's true that our species is alone in the universe, then I'd have to say the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little.
~ George Carlin
To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals - this alone is worth the struggle.
~ William Osler
True thoughts are those alone which do not understand themselves.
~ Theodor Adorno
How a society treats its disabled is the true measure of a civilization.
~ Chen Guangcheng
The true meaning of feminism is this: to use your strong womanly image to gain strong results in society.
~ Pamela Anderson
Society mends its wounds. And that's invariably true in all the tragedies, in the comedies as well. And certainly in the histories.
~ Charlton Heston
There's many women now who think, 'Surely we don't need feminism anymore, we're all liberated and society's accepting us as we are'. Which is just hogwash. It's not true at all.
~ Yoko Ono
I spent so many years in terror of 'making it legal' because the expression rang all too true - the wedding ritual struck me as nothing but a flowery front for the fulfilment of countless, tedious contracts and obligations.
~ Lynn Coady
There are two freedoms - the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought.
~ Charles Kingsley
To stay true to your art is such a complicated journey, and Dad clearly has done it.
~ Laura Dern
