#true

I'm living in the present. I have no ambition. It's true. But I want to live. ↗

— Gerard Depardieu

#i #live #living #present #true

Auden said poetry makes nothing happen. But I wonder if the opposite could be true. It could make something happen. ↗

— Carol Ann Duffy

#could #happen #i #i wonder #make

We do not know the true value of our moments until they have undergone the test of memory. ↗

— Georges Duhamel

#memory #moments #our #test #true

The difference between stupid and intelligent people - and this is true whether or not they are well-educated - is that intelligent people can handle subtlety. ↗

— Neal Stephenson

#difference #handle #intelligent #intelligent people #people

Not until, years later, I found my true interest in life did I discover that I could master a subject, no matter how difficult, if it helped me in what I wanted to do. ↗

— Lincoln Ellsworth

#did #difficult #discover #found #helped

I believe that if we really want human brotherhood to spread and increase until it makes life safe and sane, we must also be certain that there is no one true faith or path by which it may spread. ↗

— Adlai E. Stevenson

#believe #brotherhood #certain #faith #human

If they don't depend on true evidence, scientists are no better than gossips. ↗

— Penelope Fitzgerald

#depend #evidence #gossips #scientists #than

Sometimes you have to lie. One often has to distort a thing to catch its true spirit. ↗

— Robert J. Flaherty

#distort #lie #often #sometimes #spirit

All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#common #good #had #happened #one thing

We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things. ↗