I Quotes
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“It is true that I am carrying out various methods of treatment recommended by doctors and dentists in the hope of dying in the remote future in perfect health.”
Source: The letters of George Santayana
“It is true that I am endowed with an absurd sensitiveness, what scratches others tears me to pieces.”
Source: Collected Works of Gustave Flaubert
“It is true that I am of an older fashion; much that I love has been destroyed or sent into exile.”
“It is true that I am often startled and even angered and repulsed by the strange directions and provocative content of new forms that seem to pop up every few months.”
Source: Memoirs
“It is true that I can trip over anything and nothing – a speck of dust, a patch of sunlight, an idea. I move through life like a person with one eye, through a landscape that looks flat, but is really tricked out with hidden depths and shallows. It didn’t use to be so, but no matter. I navigate the world well enough in my own way.”
Source: The Folk Keeper
“It is true that I didn't write any poetry between 1995 and 2011. The reason for this was probably because I had stayed away from fiction for so long and couldn't tear myself away from it.”
“It is true that I do not speak as well as I can think. But that is true of most people, as nearly as I can tell.”
Source: The Poisonwood Bible
“It is true that I entered parliament at the age of 23, and have now been representing the people of my constituency for over twenty years.”
“It is true that I grew up in an affluent neighborhood and went to a prestigious school. But there were horrors that went on behind closed doors.”
“It is true that I had wanted to die , but that is peculiarly different from regretting having been born. Overwhelmingly, I was enormously glad to have been born, grateful for life, and I couldn’t imagine not wanting to pass on life to someone else.”
“It is true that I have had heartache and tragedy in my life. These are things none of us avoids. Suffering is the price of being alive.”
“It is true that I have known Straussians almost all my life. And the one thing I was taught about them from the earliest age is that they are wrong.”
“It is true that I have sent six bullets through the head of my best friend, and yet I hope to show by this statement that I am not his murderer.”
Source: Bloodcurdling Tales of Horror and the Macabre: The Best of H. P. Lovecraft
“It is true that I miss intelligent companionship, but there are so few with whom I can share the things that mean so much to me that I have learned to contain myself. It is enough that I am surrounded with beauty.”
Source: Into the Wild
“It is true that I must run a great risk; no gallant action was ever accomplished without danger.”
“It is true that I once refused to eat haggis in Scotland and this did not sit well with the local population.”
“It is true that I should have been surprised in the past to learn that Professor Hardy had joined the Oxford Group. But one could not say the adverse chance was 1:10. Mathematics is a dangerous profession; an appreciable proportion of us go mad, and then this particular event would be quite likely.”
“It is true that I visualize music and, as I visualize music, I have some sort of story running in my head, all the time.”
“It is true that I voted against the National Defense Authorization Act, because when I campaigned in Texas I told voters in Texas that I would oppose the federal government having the authority to detain U.S. citizens permanently with no due process. I have repeatedly supported an effort to take that out of that bill, and I honored that campaign commitment.”
“It is true that I was born in Iowa, but I can't speak for my twin sister.”
“It is true that I was denied access to a facility at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio, because I never got in. I can't tell you what was inside. We both know about the rumors concerning a captured UFO and crew members. I have never seen what I would call a UFO, but I have intelligent friends who have.”
“It is true that in America I've become a national hero, but really I was a hopeless case, that was all.”
“It is true that in France, women put on less things. If they have a necklace, they don't put on earrings; if they have nail polish, they don't put on all their rings and all their bracelets.”
“It is true that in life, precious moments my simply fly,
But deep in our hearts and souls, they will never die.”
“It is true that in some cases — perhaps the majority — we can interpret the disturbances as an unconscious attempt by the 'focus' to draw attention to his or her problems, as an unsuccessful suicide attempt does.”
Source: Poltergeist!
“It is true that in the absence of information, people tend to assume the worse. But I believe that even in the presence of information, people still refuse to read.”
Source: Order in the Courtroom: The Tale of a Texas Poker Player
“It is true that in the meantime we are suffering deeply in spirit, and incurring the horrors of a war and long oppressions of enormous public debt.”
Source: Jefferson: Political Writings
“It is true that in this culture, they throw you out when you get older. I see it all the time, especially in my business. At my age, you're playing somebody's mother - and there aren't even a lot of those roles!”
“It is true that infidelity cannot withstand the force of reason and argument; but true godly example can come nearer the lifespot of religion. It knocks at the door of the heart. If the truths of Christianity were seconded by the devoted and pious lives of all her professed disciples, the unbelief of the world would soon cease. Private example of godliness is what the world most needs.”
Source: A PASTOR'S SKETCHES
“It is true that integrity alone won't make you a leader, but without integrity you will never be one.”
Source: Staying Up, Up, Up in a Down, Down World: Daily Hope for the Daily Grind
“It is true that it feels very differently to enjoy a good meal, taking part in an interesting conversation, or to think of how successful your children are. Suppose we do all these things at a particular time. How happy are we at the time? We do not need to calculate the value of each such feelings on any singular scale to answer this question. We need not see our happiness at the time as a mathematical function of these items. It is rather that all these experiences, together with many other factors, causally puts us at the time at a certain level of happiness, i.e. in a certain mood.”
“It is true that legality is not morality, and sticking to the law is necessary for good citizenship, but it is not sufficient.”
“It is true that liberty is not free, nor is it easy. But tyranny - even varying degrees of it - is much more difficult, and much more expensive. The time has come to rein in the federal government, put it on a crash diet, and let the people keep their money and their liberty.”
“It is true that liberty is precious; so precious that it must be carefully rationed.”
“It is true that many Americans find the Commandments in accord with their personal beliefs. But we do not count heads before enforcing the First Amendment.”
“It is true that many creative people fail to make mature personal relationships, and some are extremely isolated. It is also true that, in some instances, trauma, in the shape of early separation or bereavement, has steered the potentially creative person toward developing aspects of his personality which can find fulfillment in comparative isolation. But this does not mean that solitary, creative pursuits are themselves pathological.”
Source: Solitude: A Return to the Self
“It is true that many of the Sea Shepherd crewmembers are inexperienced, but the fact is that these volunteers bring a passion to the project that cannot be found in a hired crew.”
“It is true that many scientists are not philosophically minded and have hitherto shown much skill and ingenuity but little wisdom.”
“It is true that many young people who wrongly, that is, simply with abandon and unsolitarily, feel the oppressiveness of a failure and want to make the situation in which they have landed viable and fruitful in their own personal way—; for their nature tells them that, less even than all else that is important, can questions of love be solved publicly and according to this or that agreement; that they are questions, intimate questions from one human being to another, which in any case demand a new, special, only personal answer—: but how should they, who have already flung themselves together and no longer mark off and distinguish themselves from each other, who therefore no longer possess anything of their own selves, be able to find a way out of themselves, out of the depth of their already shattered solitude?”
Source: Letters to a Young Poet
“It is true that men themselves made this world of nations... but this world without doubt has issued from a mind often diverse, at times quite contrary, and always superior to the particular ends that men had proposed to themselves.”
Source: The New Science of Giambattista Vico
“It is true that money attracts; but much money repels.”
Source: Trust: A Novel
“It is true that money cannot buy happiness but it does make it possible for you to enjoy the best that the world has to offer.”
“It is true that Mr. Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, after which there was a commitment to give 40 acres and a mule. That's where the argument, to this day, of reparations starts. We never got the 40 acres. We went all the way to Herbert Hoover, and we never got the 40 acres. We didn't get the mule. So we decided we'd ride this donkey as far as it would take us.”
“It is true that my characters have sex.”
“It is true that my discovery of LSD was a chance discovery, but it was the outcome of planned experiments and these experiments took place in the framework of systematic pharmaceutical, chemical research. It could better be described as serendipity. That means that you look for something, you have a certain plan, and then you find something else, different, that may nevertheless be useful.”
“It is true that my discovery of LSD was a chance discovery, but it was the outcome of planned experiments and these experiments took place in the framework of systematic pharmaceutical, chemical research. It could better be described as serendipity.”
“It is true that my parents were worried because I began to speak fairly late, so that they even consulted a doctor. I can't say how old I was - but surely not less than three.”
“It is true that my predecessor did not object, as I do, to pictures of one's golf skill in action. But neither, on the other hand, did he ever bean a Secret Serviceman.”
“It is true that my shunning was a message from our community to my mother. Her rejection of me was a measure of the humiliation she felt. She believed until her death that I caused her to lose her friends and her stature in the town.”
Source: Without a Map
“It is true that neither the ancient wisdoms nor the modern sciences are complete in themselves. They do not stand alone. They call for one another. Wisdom without science is unable to penetrate the full sapiential meaning of the created and the material cosmos. Science without wisdom leaves man enslaved to a world of unrelated objects in which there is no way of discovering (or creating) order and deep significance in man's own pointless existence. (p. 4)”