A Quotes
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“A true thing, poorly expressed, is a lie.”
“A true understanding of who God is, who we are, and the missionary task should drive us to our knees and keep us there.”
“A true university can never rest upon the will of one man. A true university always rests upon the wills of many divergent-minded old men, who refuse to be disturbed, but who growl in their kennels.”
Source: The selected writings of John Jay Chapman
“A true Vor, Miles told himself severely, does not bury his face in his liegewoman's breasts and cry--even if he is at a convenient height for it.”
Source: Young Miles
“A true war story is never moral. It does not instruct, nor encourage virtue, nor suggest models of proper human behavior, nor restrain men from doing the things men have always done. If a story seems moral, do not believe it. If at the end of a war story you feel uplifted, or if you feel that some small bit of rectitude has been salvaged from the larger waste, then you have been made the victim of a very old and terrible lie. There is no rectitude whatsoever. There is no virtue. As a first rule of thumb, therefore, you can tell a true war story by its absolute and uncompromising allegiance to obscenity and evil.”
Source: The Things They Carried
“A true war story is never moral.”
Source: The Things They Carried
“A true warrior can only serve others, not himself...When you become a mercenary, you're just a bully with a gun.”
“A true warrior does not fight because he wishes to but because he has to. A man who yearns for war, a man who enjoys his killing, he is a brute and a monster. No matter how much glory he wins on the battlefield, that cannot erase the fact that he is no better than a rabid wolf who will turn on his friends and family as soon as his foes.”
Source: The Inheritance Cycle Complete Collection: Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance
“A true well-wisher follows you like a shadow.”
Source: Shades Of Life
“A true winner is not someone who has won an award, but someone who has left an indelible mark on the world.”
“A true winner isn’t the one who wins an award, but the one who leaves an indelible mark on the world.”
“A true woman always loves a real soldier.”
Source: Belle Boyd in Camp and Prison
“A true woman is one who has inner peace, is comfortable with herself, knows what she wants, and maintains integrity.”
“A true woman loves a strong man because she knows his weaknesses. She protects as much as she is protected.”
“A true woman of virtue is one who will socialize with every man on earth, and doesn't share her body with any of them.”
“A true woman wants her whims to be an international suffering.”
Source: Plotless
“A true work of art can stand many seeings, revealing anew at each seeing.”
Source: John Marin
“A true world outlook is incompatible with a foreign imperialism, no matter how high-minded the governing country.”
Source: Prefaces TO PEACE
“A true worshipper is one whose mind has not been defiled with any false belief.”
“A true writer recognizes the insanity in themselves.”
“A true Zen saying: "Nothing is what I want.”
“A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside, than from a view which regards time as the devouring tyrant of all that is.”
Source: Mysticism and Logic
“A truley heroic way of life lies in squarely confronting and courageously overcoming the pounding vicissitudes that life always throws in our paths”
“A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil.”
Source: Addresses, State Papers and Letters
“A truly appreciative child will break, lose, spoil, or fondle to death any really successful gift within a matter of minutes.”
Source: Life in the slow lane: observations on art, architecture, manners and other such spectator sports
“A truly attractive woman, in the real sense of light in the eyes attractive, and smart and funny. No wonder she doesn't have a man.”
“A truly beautiful person is one who is good at discovering beauty.”
“A truly beautiful woman is always good and the other women, and to people in general. She rejects rivalry, intrigue and dirty tricks.”
“A truly big man is always try to be a small man.”
Source: Wealth of Words
“A truly brave man is ever serene; he is never taken by surprise; nothing ruffles the equanimity of his spirit. In the heat of battle he remains cool; in the midst of catastrophes he keeps level his mind. Earthquakes do not shake him, he laughs at storms. We admire him as truly great, who, in the menacing presence of danger or death, retains his self-possession; who, for instance, can compose a poem under impending peril or hum a strain in the face of death. Such indulgence betraying no tremor in the writing or in the voice, is taken as an infallible index of a large nature—of what we call a capacious mind (Yoyū), which, far from being pressed or crowded, has always room for something more.”
Source: Bushido, The Soul Of Japan
“A truly Christian love, either to God or men, is a humble broken-hearted love. The desires of the saints, however earnest, are humble desires. Their hope is a humble hope; and their joy, even when it is unspeakable and full of glory, is a humble broken-hearted joy, and leaves the Christian more poor in spirit, and more like a little child, and more disposed to a universal lowliness of behaviour.”
Source: A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections: In Three Parts ...
“A truly civilized society has no use of law and government, it's only an uncivilized society that needs them.”
Source: Time to End Democracy: The Meritocratic Manifesto
“A truly comic, invented world must live at the same time as the world we live in.”
Source: On the Air with Dylan Thomas: The Broadcasts
“A truly common culture is not one in which we all think alike, or in which we all believe that fairness is next to godliness, but one in which everyone is allowed to be in on the project of cooperatively shaping a common way of life.”
“A truly compassionate attitude toward others does not change even if they behave negatively or hurt you.”
Source: In My Own Words: An Introduction to My Teachings and Philosophy
“A truly compassionate man gives a poor woman a portion of his meal before he eats, not after he has eaten.”
“A truly courageous person is the one who must
first conquer fear within himself.”
Source: The Castle in the Attic
“A truly creative, genius, principle driver human is not an individual but rather contribution of every single person he/she has met in the environment where the mind got its knowledge and wisdom from.”
“A truly creative person rids him or herself of all self-imposed limitations.”
“A truly educated man never ceases to learn.”
“A truly effective corporate wellness program is not just a benefit; it's an investment in the heart of the organization—its people. When employees feel cared for, they thrive, and so does the entire workplace.”
“A truly English protest march would see us all chanting: 'What do we want? GRADUAL CHANGE! When do we want it? IN DUE COURSE!”
“A truly equal world would be one where women ran half our countries and companies and men ran half our homes. I believe that this would be a better world.”
“A truly equal world would be one where women ran half our countries and companies and men ran half our homes.”
Source: Lean In for Graduates
“A truly extraordinary work: vivid, passionate and utterly compelling. The Sound of One Hand Clapping is raw as a wound. It opens a world that is strange, brutal and poetic at once and ultimately achieves the kind of spirit-healing few novels do”
“A truly feminine woman should always retain a little air of mystery.”
“A truly free society is based on a vision of respect for people and what they value.”
“A truly free society must not include a peace which oppresses us. We must learn on our own terms what peace and freedom mean together. There can be no peace if there is social injustice and suppression of human rights, because external and internal peace are inseparable. Peace is not just the absence of mass destruction, but a positive internal and external condition in which people are free so that they can grow to their full potential.”
“A truly free society protects all faiths, and true faith protects a free society.”
“A truly global economy, as opposed to the multinational economy of the recent past, will require concessions of national power ... that seemed impossible a few years ago and which even now we can but partly imagine.”
Source: The Twilight of Sovereignty: How the Information Revolution Is Transforming Our World