Famous Quotes & Sayings

Theodore Roosevelt

The true friend of property, the true conservative, is he who insists that property shall be the servant and not the master of the commonwealth; who insists that the creature of man’s making shall be the servant and not the master of the man who made it. The citizens of the United States must effectively control the mighty commercial forces which they have called into being. There can be no effective control of corporations while their political activity remains. To put an end to it will be neither a short nor an easy task, but it can be done.

Theodor Adorno

There is no true life within a false life.

Letty Cottin Pogrebin

We need old friends to help us grow old and new friends to help us stay young.

Larry Wall

Reserve your abuse for your true friends.

Oscar Wilde

All sins, except a sin against itself, Love should forgive. All lives, save loveless lives, true Love should pardon.

Jodi Picoult

Three months ago, if you asked me, I would have told you that if you really loved someone, you’d let them go. But now I look at you, and I dreamed about Maggie, and I see that I’ve been wrong. If you really love someone, Allie, I think you have to take them back.

Jodi Picoult

Love is not an equation, it is not a contract, and it is not a happy ending. Love is the slate under the chalk, the ground that buildings rise, and the oxygen in the air. It is the place you come back to, no matter where your headed

Jodi Picoult

true love is felonious… You take someone’s breath away… You rob them of the ability to utter a single word… You steal a heart.

John Greenleaf Whittier

A true life is at once interpreter and proof of the gospel.

John Green

I've never known before what it feels like to want someone - not to want to hook up with them or whatever, but to want them, to want them. And now I do. So maybe I do believe in epiphanies.

David O. McKay

True happiness comes only by making others happy.

Dada Vaswani

True love bears all, endures all and triumphs!

Dakota Fanning

You have to stay true to your true friends and your family.

Connie Francis

There wasn't much around. After the shows, we would go to an Italian restaurant that a friend of ours owned and so I didn't get a chance to see much. Actually, that holds true of most places I've been.

Isabel Allende

True friendship resists time, distance and silence.

George Bernard Shaw

The statesman cannot govern without stability of belief, true or false.

Franz Kafka

The true word leads; the untrue misleads.

Israel Zangwill

The only true love is love at first sight; second sight dispels it.

Gwendoline Christie

Genuine and true love is so rare that when you encounter it in any form, it's a wonderful thing, to be utterly cherished in whatever form it takes.

Miley Cyrus

I need more friends. It's kind of like my quest right now just to have more true friends.

Gene Luen Yang

To find your true identity within the will of Tze Yo Tzuh...that is the highest of all freedoms.

Jerry Bridges

Only those who walk in holiness experience true joy.

Jerry Bridges

True joy comes only from God and He shares this joy with those who walk in fellowship with Him.

George Washington

A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.

Elton Gallegly

Consular cards are easily obtained with no proof of true identity and are easily forged.

Hillary Clinton

I'm thrilled the president [Barack Obama] has endorsed me. We started off as fierce competitors, and we've ended up as true friends and partners and worked together on so many important issues.

Guy Finley

Anyone or anything that asks you to be untrue to yourself has already acted against you.

Helen Keller

I have made my limitations tools of learning and true joy.

Josh Cooke

How wise are they that are but fools in love!

Homer

True friends appear less moved than counterfeit.

Robert Browning

I was made and meant to look for you and wait for you and become yours forever.

Reem Acra

My friends are my inspiration, and all of them are true friends that support me. On a daily basis, I know that I have my friends to rely on.

Garrison Keillor

A romp in the hay lingers like the first line of a song, but your true love is the one you make a life with and write more than a line about, you write a whole book.