#rue

Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator. ↗

— Confucius

#believe #comfortable #front #gently #given

I think books with weak or translucent plots can survive if the character being drawn along the path is rich, interesting and multi-faceted. The opposite is not true. ↗

— Michael Connelly

#being #books #character #drawn #i

Just as it is true that a stream cannot rise above its source, so it is true that a national literature cannot rise above the moral level of the social conditions of the people from whom it derives its inspiration. ↗

— James Connolly

#cannot #conditions #derives #inspiration #just

Who knows what true loneliness is - not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

#hugs #illusion #knows #loneliness #lonely

Nobody believed the 'Food Network' could last. Even I was short sighted and thought to myself, 24 hours of food on TV? They'll run out of things to talk about in four days! But that wasn't true. 'Food Network' continues to get better and evolve. ↗

— Bobby Flay

#believed #better #continues #could #days

Use it or lose it is a cliche because it's true. ↗

— Julian Cope

#cliche #lose #true #use

To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge. ↗

— Nicolaus Copernicus

#knowledge #true #true knowledge

Clemency is the noblest trait which can reveal a true monarch to the world. ↗

— Pierre Corneille

#monarch #noblest #reveal #trait #true

My reason, it's true, controls my feelings, but whatever its authority, it doesn't rule them so much as tyrannize them. ↗

— Pierre Corneille

#controls #feelings #much #reason #rule

The Violence Against Women Act has been a true bipartisan success story since it was first enacted in 1994. In my home state of Texas alone, its programs have helped hundreds of thousands of victims to break free from the terrible cycle of domestic violence. ↗

— John Cornyn

#against #alone #been #bipartisan #break