Quotes of: True-sense Keyword

It is quite true, as some poets said, that the God who created man must have had a sinister sense of humor, creating him a reasonable being, yet forcing him to take this ridiculous posture, and driving him with blind craving for this ridiculous perfo...

D. H. Lawrence

Telling ourselves that fiction is in a sense true and at the same time not true is essential to the art of fiction. It's been at the heart of fiction from the start. Fiction offers both truth, and we know it's a flat-out lie. Sometimes it drives a no...

Joanna Scott

If it is true that we cannot possess knowledge of what is good in any absolute sense, it is equally true that we have an ethical duty to decide between what is better and what is worse.

Poetics of Imagining: Modern and Post-Modern

Intuition is a sense of knowing how to act spontaneously, without needing to know why.

Trusting Your Intuition: Rediscover Your True Self to Achieve a Richer, More Rewarding Life

For a believer, Christian faith is true to the human heart, not in the sense that any old thing we fancy believing in will become conveniently true - but because the complicated truth about our hearts, as we struggle to perceive it, tells us what we ...

Francis Spufford

He is the true enchanter, whose spell operates, not upon the senses, but upon the imagination and the heart.

Washington Irving

This sense of power is the highest and best of pleasures when the belief on which it is founded is a true belief, and has been fairly earned by investigation.

William Kingdon Clifford

In the true sense one's native land, with its background of tradition, early impressions, reminiscences and other things dear to one, is not enough to make sensitive human beings feel at home.

Emma Goldman

The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as poetry.

Bertrand Russell

I really do feel now that the way I dress onstage and for work is a true reflection of my own sense of style as well.

Rachel Stevens

Relatively speaking, science can provide reliable standards to verify truth in a physical, material sense, but values are not its strength. What one generation takes to be true is debunked and made obsolete by new discoveries.

Change: Realizing Your Greatest Potential

A recovery of the old sense of sin is essential to Christianity. Christ takes for granted that men are bad. Until we really feel this assumption of His to be true, though we are part of the world He came to save, we are not part of the audience to wh...

The Problem of Pain

When we’re not true to our thoughts and not true to the feelings we have deep inside, we find ourselves unhappy. Be courageous enough to align your life with your feelings, desires, and sense of purpose.

Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

Singing provides a true sense of lightheartedness. If I sing when I am alone, I feel wonderful. It's freedom.

Andrea Bocelli

There's nothing like meeting someone's family to get a true sense of them and a reflection of their ethics and personality. It just makes them a more rounded person.

Lenora Crichlow

What has stayed true all the way through my work is my composition, I hope, and my sense of color.

Annie Leibovitz

True artists are prophets. I don't want to be that prophetic in that sense because it's so lonely.

Yoko Ono

True, nervous, very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am, but why will say that I am mad?! The disease had sharpened my senses, not destroyed, not dulled them. Above all was the sense of hearing acute.

The Tell-Tale Heart and Other Writings

There is a fine line between friendship and parenting, and when that line is crossed, the result is often disastrous. A parent who strives to make a true friend of his or her child may well sacrifice authority, and though the parent may be comfortabl...

The Silent Blade

Above all, we pray that they will make the journey from selfishness to true love. Whether together or single, this is a journey we all have to make. In a sense it is the real journey of life.

Alternative Weddings: An Essential Guide for Creating Your Own Ceremony

Jasmine believes in a prophecy that says she is destined to love a man named Josh Toby. Okay, fine. He could believe that. Hell, he had friends who believed carbohydrates were the work of the devil. True love made sense at least.

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