Quotes of: True-life Keyword

She was wearing a beautiful dress with straps designed to be eaten off her shoulders.

The Book of Happy Endings: True Stories about Finding Love

The beauty of a metaphor is it doesn't have to be real to ring true. The instant a metaphor becomes true it ceases to be a metaphor, which suggests a disconnect between truth and what's commonly referred to as reality.

Beginner's Luke

I tell you this true story just to prove that I can. That my frailty has not yet reached a point at which I can no longer tell a true story.

Blue Nights

The Lord works through deeply flawed people, since He made so few of the other kind.

Blood Done Sign My Name: A True Story

In the years since his murder, we have transformed King into a kind of innocuous black Santa Claus.

Blood Done Sign My Name: A True Story

In this age of vampires, what I love about 'True Blood' the most is that it's a post-modern take on it. 'Sookie Stackhouse' series author Charlaine Harris and 'True Blood' creator Alan Ball turned that whole mythology upside-down... It's not just abo...

Michelle Forbes

Democracy is liberty - a liberty which does not infringe on the liberty nor encroach on the rights of others; a liberty which maintains strict discipline, and makes law its guarantee and the basis of its exercise. This alone is true liberty; this alo...

Chiang Kai-shek

People think it's suspect and self-indulgent to make art, and I don't think that's true. Some people think you should be busy making something that you can sell in the marketplace, and if nobody wants to buy it, it must be crap. And that's not true.

Dana Spiotta

Until the ego dissolves or evolves to become one with our true self, we remain slaves of our own egos.

The 9 Cardinal Building Blocks: For Continued Success in Leadership

Weddings, I began to understand, were vile, filthy things when they ran amuck.

Autobiography of a Fat Bride: True Tales of a Pretend Adulthood

Define yourself radically as one beloved by God. This is the true self. Every other identity is illusion.

Abba's Child: The Cry of the Heart for Intimate Belonging

...which, of course, is how I developed my love for both Kabuki theater and marshmallow Peeps.

Amelia Rules! Volume 6: True Things Adults Don't Want Kids to Know

You must understand that love never keeps a man from pursuing his destiny. If he abandons that pursuit, it's because it wasn't true love… the love that speaks the Language of the World.

The Alchemist

Much of what we called "depression" was really dissatisfaction, a result of setting a bar impossibly high or expecting treasures we weren't willing to work for.

Have a Little Faith: a True Story

I am not capable of true friendship. One of the two friends is always the slave of the other, although, often, neither of the two admits this to himself.

A Hero of Our Time

It showed a kind of obscenity you see only in nature, an obscenity so extreme that it dissolves imperceptibly into beauty.

The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus

He liked the loneliness of inner space, the sense of being forgotten by the world.

The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus

The people around you are mirrors, I think. You see yourself reflected in their eyes. If the mirror is true, and smooth, you see your true self. That’s how you learn who you are.

How to Be a Woman

The world can do nothing to a Christian who has no fear of man.

The Heavenly Man: The Remarkable True Story of Chinese Christian Brother Yun

True love heals and affects spiritual growth. If we do not grow because of someone else’s love, it’s generally because it is a counterfeit form of love.

Healing the Shame that Binds You

Some people say that beauty is a curse. It may be true, but I'm sure I should not have at all minded being cursed a little.

I Await the Devil's Coming