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  • At the bottom of philosophy something very true and very desperate whispers: Everyone is hungry all the time. Everyone is starving. Everyone wants so much, much more than they can stomach, but the appetite doesn't converse much with the stomach. Everyone is hungry and not only for food - for comfort and love and excitement and the opposite of being alone. Almost everything awful anyone does is to get those things and keep them.

  • Every true work of art must express a distinct feeling.

    Quoted in William Vaughn Romantic Art (1978).
  • Every true artist must, in his own way, be a magician, a charlatan.

    Artist   Way   Very True  
  • In my experience, what every true artist wants, really wants, is to be paid.

    Artist   Want   Very True  
  • Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life.

    Life   Men   Knowing  
    Luigi Pirandello (2016). “Six Characters In Search of an Author”, p.51, Jester House Publishing
  • I do think imagination is enormously valuable, and that children should be encouraged in their imagination. That's very true.

  • I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I'd invented it, because it is very true.

  • The coolest thing about the series is that we stay very true to the books; it would be silly for us not to, because the books are exactly what the fans want to see. There’s an action side to it, which I love, and there are werewolves now. There aren’t just vampires. There’s a wolf pack.

    Silly   Book   Vampire  
    Interview with Michael Martin, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 6, 2009.
  • It is very true. But even a traitor may mend. I have known one that did.

    May   Traitor   Very True  
    "The Chronicles of Narnia Vol V: The Horse and his Boy".
  • I've done quite a lot of improv work before, and I wanted to do this film ["The Invisible Woman"] because it felt like a different technique. We were very true to the lines, and there was something quite formal and almost theatrical about it.

    Source: www.shockya.com
  • I met a lot of the senior Taliban, and I asked them precisely [about Mullah Omar]. The most common answer was he is humble. And that was very true. We never had reports of Mullah Omar living luxuriously or making money in large quantities or anything like that.

    Senior   Humble   Answers  
    Source: www.npr.org
  • Every true passion thinks only of itself.

    Le Rouge et le Noir bk. 2, ch. 1 (1830)
  • The old boy network is still very strong and very true. Just look at the stock exchange and how many men and women are there. It is still very much run by men.

    Sports   Running   Strong  
    TMF Interview, www.fool.com. July 3, 2002.
  • Methinks every true Christian should be exceedingly earnest in prayer concerning the souls of the ungodly; and when they are so, how abundantly God blesses them and how the church prospers!

    Christian   Prayer   Soul  
    Charles Haddon Spurgeon “The autobiography”, Рипол Классик
  • That name, SUN BEAR, just sounds like an ideogram to me. Super resonant. By the way, this all might be related to Tomaž Šalamun's famous line, "Every true poet is a monster." Or why Richard Hugo writes that the imagination is a cynic. T

    Source: therumpus.net
  • This is very true: For my words are my own, and my actions are my ministers.

    Reply to Lord Rochester's epitaph on him.
  • It's very true that non-actors feel more comfortable in front of a digital camera, without the lights and the large crowd around them, and we arrive at much more intimate moments with them.

    Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. April 28, 2005.
  • Every true man is a cause, a country, and an age; requires infinite spaces and numbers and time fully to accomplish his design;--and posterity seem to follow his steps as a train of clients.

    Success   Country   Men  
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.123, Penguin
  • It is very true that I have said that I considered Napoleon's presence in the field equal to forty thousand men in the balance. This is a very loose way of talking; but the idea is a very different one from that of his presence at a battle being equal to a reinforcement of forty thousand men.

    Men   Talking   Ideas  
    Notes for September 18, 1836. "Notes of Conversations with the Duke of Wellington, 1831-1851". Book by Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope, 1886.
  • Soul-winning is the chief business of the Christian minister; it should be the main pursuit of every true believer.

    Charles Spurgeon (1989). “The Soul Winner”, p.15, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
  • I've been very true to know that I have a base of fans and I'm extremely loyal and extremely supportive to that base of fans. To the rest of them, I enjoy the fact that they fill the arenas and tell me to go to hell.

    Supportive   Fans   Loyal  
    "CS Interview: WWE Superstar John Cena Slams Amy Schumer in Trainwreck". Interview with Edward Douglas, www.comingsoon.net. July 14, 2015.
  • The other reason why people don't take a stand, which is very true in this election, is looking at [Donald] Trump and fearing reprisal, fearing reprisal from someone who is seeking the highest, most powerful role in the land, who has had a history of doing everything from attacks, threats and lawsuits and who has a complete kind of vengeful, narcissistic behavior, which makes people legitimately worried, almost like a schoolyard bully, that if I step up, am I going to be targeted, too?

    Powerful   Land   People  
    Source: www.pbs.org
  • I am sure," cried Catherine, "I did not mean to say anything wrong; but it is a nice book, and why should not I call it so?" "Very true," said Henry, "and this is a very nice day, and we are taking a very nice walk, and you are two very nice young ladies. Oh! It is a very nice word indeed! It does for everything. Originally perhaps it was applied only to express neatness, propriety, delicacy, or refinement—people were nice in their dress, in their sentiments, or their choice. But now every commendation on every subject is comprised in that one word.

    Nice   Book   Mean  
  • Every true man's apparel fits your thief.

    Men   Thieves   Fit  
    'Measure for Measure' (1604) act 4, sc. 2, l. [46]
  • The object, which is back of every true work of art, is the attainment of a state of being, a state of high functioning, a more than ordinary moment of existence. In such moments activity is inevitable, and whether this activity is with brush, pen, chisel, or tongue, its result is but a by-product of the state, a trace, the footprint of the state.

    Art   Ordinary   Tongue  
    Robert Henri (1960). “The art spirit”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
  • Every true Freethinker accords to each individual the right to mental freedom. Where this freedom leads is no concern of others so long as it encroaches not upon their rights.

    Rights   Long   Atheism  
  • All poetry and music, and art of every true sort, bears witness to man's continual falling in love with beauty and his desperate attempt to induce beauty to live with him and enrich his common life.

    John Bertram Phillips (1984). “The newborn Christian: 114 readings from J.B. Phillips”, Macmillan Pub Co
  • I always have strong feelings when I'm writing a book. Sometimes when I'm writing a book, I even cry when I'm writing. Once I read a quotation that I thought was very true for me, which is: "No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader."

    Strong   Book   Reading  
    Source: www.scholastic.com
  • For if every true love affair can feel like a journey to a foreign country, where you can’t quite speak the language, and you don’t know where you’re going, and you’re pulled ever deeper into the inviting darkness, every trip to a foreign country can be a love affair, where you’re left puzzling over who you are and whom you’ve fallen in love with.

    "Oh to Wanderfly (and How It’ll Help You Travel)" by Jason Silva, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 20, 2010.
  • It is a very true and expressive phrase, "He looked daggers at me," for the first pattern and prototype of all daggers must have been a glance of the eye.... It is wonderful how we get about the streets without being wounded by these delicate and glancing weapons, a man can so nimbly whip out his rapier, or without being noticed carry it unsheathed. Yet it is rare that one gets seriously looked at.

    Eye   Men   Society  
    Henry David Thoreau (1906). “The Writings of Henry David Thoreau: A week on the Concord and Merrimack rivers”
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