#be true

We demand that people should be true to the pictures we have of them, no matter how repulsive those pictures may be: we prefer the true portrait in all its homogeneity, to one with a detail added which refuses to fit in. ↗

— Pamela Hansford Johnson

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Don't you wish you had a job like mine? All you have to do is think up a certain number of words! Plus, you can repeat words! And they don't even have to be true! ↗

— Dave Barry

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The ideas dictate everything, you have to be true to that or you're dead. ↗

— David Lynch

#dead #dictate #everything #ideas #true

Anyone with sincere religious beliefs cannot say that all religions are true. That is so illogical it is pathetic. All religion cannot be true because some of them are so diametrically opposed to each other. ↗

— Josh McDowell

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When Keats says: 'Axioms in philosophy are not axioms until they are proved upon our pulses', what he means is that we don't necessarily believe what a poem is saying if it comes out and tells us in an absolutely head-on, in-your-face way; we only believe it to be true if we feel it to be true. ↗

— Andrew Motion

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You have to be true to yourself. ↗

— Hillary Clinton

#true #you #yourself

Judgments, value judgments concerning life, for or against, can in the last resort never be true: they possess value only as symptoms, they come into consideration only as symptoms - in themselves such judgments are stupidities. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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Faith is what someone knows to be true, whether they believe it or not. ↗

— Flannery O'Connor

#believe #faith #knows #someone #true

I guess I have friends around me but when you're paying them can they ever really be true friends? ↗

— Kelly Osbourne

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But to have a friend, and to be true under any and all trials, is the mark of a man! ↗

— Charles Eastman

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