It's partly true, too, but it isn't all true. People always think something's all true.
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GARY F EVANS... People always think something's all true.
J.D. SALINGER People have always accused kids of getting away with murder. Now that is all too literally true.
EDWIN WARNER That's double-edged: it's amazing that they're bringing me in and showing people new ide...
RACHEL TRUE As far as developing a career as an actress, I think it's a fine balance between trying to just ...
RACHEL TRUE Which is why I felt I was truly blessed this year, with leads in two nice films, and also the luxury...
RACHEL TRUE So now I feel I'm lucky in the respect that I can sort of pick a little more carefully, which is...
RACHEL TRUE If you're fortunate enough, you get to a position where you can be a little pickier about your r...
RACHEL TRUE When you work on a movie, you just have no idea how it's going to come out; you hope it's go...
RACHEL TRUE Even befor doing this film, I've always been interested in mythology.
RACHEL TRUE For six months I'd do movies and make it all about me. Then the other six months, it's not a...
RACHEL TRUE I'm actually developing a project so that I can have a lead.
RACHEL TRUE Which is not to discount everything I've done in my past; everything I have learned tremendously...
RACHEL TRUE And I can relate to that, because I went to an all white school, so I knew what that was like. And i...
RACHEL TRUE In the end, I play a lot of friends and I really think it's about time that some ethnic girls ge...
RACHEL TRUE I don't think I'm a follower, frankly.
RACHEL TRUE Sometimes I wonder why I'm not working at McDonald's and how come I have the life I have. I ...
RACHEL TRUE We filmed one scene on the beach and there was definitely weird energy around, and we were followed ...
RACHEL TRUE Editing is a natural extension of the collage making. It's actually one of the few areas that wo...
RACHEL TRUE I like to make collages - paper collages.
RACHEL TRUE One half who graduate from college never read another book.
HERBERT TRUE I have come to terms, and I have forgiven the murderers. I don't think it's good to have so much ang...
MARTHA TRUE I think the precedent the Court of Appeals has set here is a dangerous precedent.
GUTHRIE TRUE Right, I consider myself a Realist, but in philosophical terms, I am what's called a Pessimist.
TRUE DETECTIVE The lawsuit was filed a year too late, plain and simple. And they don't have a right to go forward n...
GUTHRIE TRUE South was the No. 1 football school in the state and we had a 50--game winning streak. It took North...
JAY TRUE Even if North and South were playing tiddlywinks it would be competitive.
JAY TRUE Money doesn't bring happiness, though it has been known to cause an occasional smile.
HERB TRUE Since I started, I had this vision of creating a safe, comfortable place to seriously explore the th...
LAUREL TRUE This is the only store in California with all you need to make any type of mosaic art.
LAUREL TRUE Here is where our workshops are held.
LAUREL TRUE We want people to know that we are here, accessible to everyone, loving and celebrating Oakland.
LAUREL TRUE We try to celebrate his life and what he did and not focus on the price he paid.
MARTHA TRUE It's ironic that he was killed by people he admired a lot, people he wanted to know about.
MARTHA TRUE Do not overexert your true strength on people. Do not give too much of yourself to country. Exert yo...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH The orb shone bright, but darkness had come to Eden and Carys didn’t know is there was any light t...
JOELLE CHARBONNEAU Then they have the audacity to go shopping and pick out their own gifts. I want to know who the firs...
CHELSEA HANDLER We could have been happy. I know that, and it is perhaps the hardest thing to know.
ALLY CONDIE Sometimes I wonder how many others you're texting while you're texting me.
ABDUL'RAUF HASHMI When boys get mad its not so bad
When girls get mad world WW3 is about to start!
P.C. CAST NOTHING TO DO BUT ALWAYS BUSY
RIGAS There’s nothing worse than not being wanted
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MITCH ALBOM Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people...
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MATTHEW S. WILLIAMS I think J.D. Salinger is correct in granting no interviews, and in making no speeches.
PATRICIA HIGHSMITH I think it will be found that experience, the true source and foundation of all knowledge, invariabl...
THOMAS MALTHUS If it is true that there is always more than one way of construing a text, it is not true that all i...
PAUL RICOEUR Accept everything, even if it's pain, even if it's sadness, because there's nothing absolute in this...
JUN MOCHIZUKI There weren't any villains though. The world was just complicated in various ways, and there weren't...
TATSUHIKO TAKIMOTO The internal combustion engine, one of the greatest technological advancements in history, has an un...
CUTHBERT SOUP Somewhere in the crowd was at least one potential friend who'd understand the fundamental value of g...
ALYSON NOEL ...as he discovered in the course of his uncountable years that a lie is more comfortable than doubt...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ Every choice has a consequence, every consequence another choice. Little agonies waiting to be embra...
MCM Truth is a troublesome motherfucker unless it's handled properly
PATRICK ROTHFUSS Ay me! sad hours seem long.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE It was probably easier in the old days when the bad guys rode into town wearing black capes or whate...
JOAN BAUER There's no one thing that is true. They're all true.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Вече не бях сигурен дали харещите езици на огъня не бях...
Людмила Филипова Нима външността е мерило за ума и душата?! - Баян
Людмила Филипова These people abstain, it is true: but the bitch Sensuality glares enviously out of all they do.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE It is not true at all.
OREGAN HOSKINS I know now that there is no one thing that is true - it is all true.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY I know now that there is no one thing that is true -- it is all true.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY All that is true, by whomsoever it has been said has its origin in the Spirit.
THOMAS AQUINAS It is good news, worthy of all acceptation, and yet not too good
to be true.
MATTHEW (MATHEW) HENRY It is good news, worthy of all acceptation; and yet not too good to be true.
MATTHEW HENRY The love I have for my ex-girlfriends will always be there, so I think that's true love.
SIMON COWELL All religions are true but none are literal.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL Rocket science has been mythologized all out of proportion to its true difficulty.
JOHN CARMACK Rocket science has been mythologized all out of proportion to its true difficulty,
JOHN CARMACK Always stay true to yourselves.
NAIMA ADEDAPO True nature being lost, everything becomes its own nature; as the true good being lost, everything b...
BLAISE PASCAL What most clearly characterizes true freedom and its true employment is its misemployment.
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG What most clearly characterizes true freedom and its true employment is its misemployment.
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG Stanley didn't shy away from true humanity or from the ugliness that all people are capable of.
MATTHEW MODINE Do you think it takes true pain to experience true pleasure?
GENA SHOWALTER If it seems too good to be true, why not make it so and make it true?
VALERIE ROSE STERRETT All Stories are True.
JOHN EDGAR WIDEMAN True Peace can only ever be achieved when all are absent of its presence
CHARLIE JAMES A good name sells always for less than its true value.
MUHAMMED HAIDER God bless you today and always and may all your goals come true.
OSCAR AULIQ-ICE God bless you today and always and may all your goals come true.
AULIQ ICE In all forms of government the people is the true legislator.
EDMUND BURKE There's no one thing that is true. They're all true.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Mr. Campbell paints a very rosy picture. It sounds too good to be true because it is too good to be ...
LARRY WALL You can not help being ugly, but you could stay home.
PAUL MELVIN DETMER ...if you aren't, at any given time, scandalized by code you wrote five or even three years ago, you...
NICK BLACK If no one knows when a person is going to die, how can we say he died prematurely?
GEORGE CARLIN I hate watching people blow all operational security, and spew their guts like a teenage burglar, dr...
BRUCE STERLING Bridget cried for the leavers and the left. For the people, like herself, grimly forsaking what prec...
ANN BRASHARES ...but her eyes had had too much in them and his heart way too little for things to keep going.
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ROGER EBERT She wanted to cause him pain for taking a place in her heart she wouldn't have given him if she'd kn...
KRISTIN CASHORE I cranked the volume on the stereo and sang at the top of my lungs to an old Britney Spears song, my...
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ANNE ENRIGHT I've lived a life of unfinished things.
DOROTHY KUNHARDT People think when you get older, you have to slow down. Yeah, maybe that's true. But a lot people my...
DICK ARNER All stories are true. But some of them never happened.
JAMES A. OWEN It's a true blessing. It's just a true love of the best game of all.
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J.D. SALINGER It's really too bad that so much crumby stuff is a lot of fun sometimes.
J.D. SALINGER Anyway, I'm sort of glad they've got the atomic bomb invented. If there's ever another war, I'm goin...
J.D. SALINGER I live in New York, and I was thinking about the lagoon in Central Park, down near Central Park Sout...
J.D. SALINGER I don't even know what I was running for—I guess I just felt like it.
J.D. SALINGER It's not too bad when the sun's out, but the sun only comes out when it feels like coming out.
J.D. SALINGER Sleep tight, ya morons!
J.D. SALINGER Goddam money. It always ends up making you blue as hell.
J.D. SALINGER If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was bor...
J.D. SALINGER Everybody in this family gets his goddamn religion in a different package.
J.D. SALINGER Girls. Jesus Christ. They can drive you crazy. - Holden Caulfield
J.D. SALINGER She was around ten minutes late, as a matter of fact. I didn't give a damn, though. All that crap th...
J.D. SALINGER One day a long time from now you'll cease to care anymore whom you please or what anybody has to say...
J.D. SALINGER You can hit my father over the head with a chair and he won't wake up, but my mother, all you have t...
J.D. SALINGER But what I mean is, lots of time you don’t know what interests you most till you start talking abo...
J.D. SALINGER Then the carousel started, and I watched her go round and round...All the kids tried to grap for the...
J.D. SALINGER Some people you shouldn't kid, even if they deserve it.
J.D. SALINGER We got passes, till midnight after the parade. I met Muriel at the Biltmore at seven. Two drinks, tw...
J.D. SALINGER -Hey, listen," I said. "You know those ducks in that lagoon right near Central Park South? That litt...
J.D. SALINGER If you're not in
the mood, you can't do that stuff right.
J.D. SALINGER I can be quite sarcastic when I'm in the mood.
J.D. SALINGER There is a marvelous peace in not publishing ... I like to write. I love to write. But I write just ...
J.D. SALINGER I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of trying to make me happy
J.D. SALINGER Probably for every man there is at least one city that sooner or later turns into a girl. How well o...
J.D. SALINGER O tipo da marinha e eu dissemos um ao outro que tinha sido um prazer. Que é uma coisa que me deixa ...
J.D. SALINGER People always think something's all true.
J.D. SALINGER It's such a stupid question, in my opinion. I mean, how do you know what you're going to do till you...
J.D. SALINGER Know your true measurements and dress your mind accordingly
J.D. SALINGER Keep me up till five because all your stars are out, and for no other reason…Oh dare to do it Budd...
J.D. SALINGER I don't like it when it stings,' he said. 'Nobody does.
J.D. SALINGER American people simply will not countenance being lied to by their own President.
PIERRE SALINGER