Genuine famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Lack of wealth cannot take away genuine contentment.
-- Adrian Rogers -
Amnesty, that noble word, the genuine dictate of wisdom.
-- Aeschines -
Some people advise you what to do and some people forbid what not to do, but the genuine people just ask you if they can do anything for you.
-- Anuj -
I have always felt like you really don't have a genuine confidence unless you demonstrate the ability to do something. You can talk about it, but you have to demonstrate it.
-- Bill Parcells -
My confidence wavers between being genuine and being insecure.
-- Bob Saget -
And so it turned out that only a life similar to the life of those around us, merging with it without a ripple, is genuine life, and that an unshared happiness is not happiness.
-- Boris Pasternak -
Our friendship is made up of these brief frenzied exchanges, but the quality of our conversation, for all its feverish outpouring, is genuine.
-- Carol Shields -
I know Raft did have some genuine affairs with actresses.
-- Cesar Romero -
All good and genuine draftsmen draw according to the picture inscribed in their minds, and not according to nature.
-- Charles Baudelaire -
A genuine passion is like a mountain stream; it admits of no impediment; it cannot go backward; it must go forward.
-- Christian Nestell Bovee -
The dynamic, creative present, however conditioned and restricted by the effects of prior presents, possesses genuine initiative.
-- Corliss Lamont -
True freedom is not the liberty to do anything we please, but the liberty to do what we ought; and it is genuine liberty because doing what we ought now pleases us
-- D. A. Carson -
Friends, genuine friends, have much more to do with whether we have a warm heart, not money or power.
-- Dalai Lama -
Mutual respect is the foundation of genuine harmony.
-- Dalai Lama -
Genuine happiness comes from focusing on the happiness of others.
-- Dalai Lama -
Genuine peace is based on inner peace, because you cannot build peace on the basis of anger
-- Dalai Lama -
It would be strange if we came to shun the genuine simply because it resembled the counterfeit.
-- Dallas Willard -
Vince Vaughn is a genuine person, awesome guy. He'll come to a lot of my shows. It's not that often that you can meet someone as cool as Vince.
-- Dane Cook -
I love my relationship with Coach Vermeil because it is one of the few genuine relationships that I have.
-- Dante Hall -
Any genuine work of art generates new work.
-- Donald Barthelme -
Beauty is rarely soft or consolatory. Quite the contrary. Genuine beauty is always quite alarming.
-- Donna Tartt -
Being ill makes you feel what well people call sentimental, but what you feel is nonetheless genuine whatever they call it.
-- Elizabeth Goudge -
To be spiritual is to be genuine in everything you say and do, come what may.
-- Elizabeth Lesser -
The genuine artist is as much a dissatisfied person as the revolutionary, yet how diametrically opposed are the products each distills from his dissatisfaction.
-- Eric Hoffer -
Sexiness is all about your personality, being genuine and confident, and being a good person.
-- Erin Heatherton -
There can be no genuine happiness separate and apart from the home.
-- Ezra Taft Benson -
These seem to me so ambiguous, so vague, so easily misunderstood in comparison to genuine music, which fills the soul with a thousand things better than words.
-- Felix Mendelssohn -
Friendship is genuine when two friends can enjoy each others company without speaking a word to one another.
-- Georg Ebers -
Every person you look at, you can see the universe in their eyes, if you're really looking
-- George Carlin -
When someone is impatient and says, 'I haven't got all day,' I always wonder, How can that be? How can you not have all day?
-- George Carlin -
If we could just find out who's in charge, we could kill him.
-- George Carlin -
I would much prefer that they take me as I am, that way the experience is genuine between the both of us.
-- George Duke -
The public can only be really moved by what is genuine.
-- George Henry Lewes -
It requires a genuine fight to produce one well designed object of relatively permanent value
-- George Nakashima -
I cannot say where I will be in 5 yearsscratch that, tomorrowBut I know that wherever you find me, I will remain true to myself with a genuine smile on my face and happiness in my heart.
-- Gina Carano -
It's something that I've always loved to do and it's been such a genuine expression for me.
-- Gina Carano -
I do not conceive of any reality at all as without genuine unity.
-- Gottfried Leibniz -
What is false creates taste, and reinforces itself by knowingly eliminating any possible reference to the authentic. And what is genuine is reconstructed as quickly as possible, to resemble the false.
-- Guy Debord -
Wisdom is never dear, provided the article be genuine.
-- Horace Greeley -
A genuine desire to be ONE enhances our lives with peace and power.
-- Hugh W. Pinnock -
Love, genuine passionate love, was his for the first time.
-- Jack London -
What you take to be hyprocrisy is sometimes a certain caution, sometimes genuine, though ponderous, childish, sometimes a mixture of both.
-- Jean Rhys -
I am deeply romantic and a genuine yet complex person.
-- Jiah Khan -
I see more genuine sociability between the races in Mississippi than I see in Michigan. No question.
-- Jim Harrison -
Our true and genuine wisdom can be summed up as the knowledge of God and the knowledge of ourselves.
-- John Calvin -
A person you excuse from any genuine challenge is a person you do not truly respect.
-- John H. McWhorter -
Genuine brokenness pleases God more than pretend spirituality.
-- John Ortberg -
According to the Bible, a genuine answer to prayer is getting what you ask for.
-- John R. Rice -
Some comics are in it for what they can get out of it. Others are in it for a love of comedy. I think those that are in it for a genuine love of comedy find each other within the circuit and become friends.
-- Johnny Vegas -
Reading is, at its best, not an escape; it is genuine experience. A novel is not a monologue, but a conversation, a collaboration between writer and reader, an invaluable exchange of human conditions.
-- Jonathan Evison -
A genuine man goes to the roots. To be a radical is no more than that: to go to the roots.
-- Jose Marti -
If our zeal were true and genuine we should be much more angry with a sinner than a heretic.
-- Joseph Addison -
If the inspiration is genuine and it's coming from the right place, that's what I like and want to be a part of.
-- Joseph Gordon-Levitt -
The genuine priest always feels something higher than compassion.
-- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel -
Swami Vivekananda: The genuine orator exercises a sort of hypnotism over his audience. I have listened to many orators, Indian, English and American; but Keshub Chunder Sen is easily the greatest of all.
-- Keshub Chandra Sen -
People in the countryside carry a sense of dignity. They wear it, don't they? Like a badge? I'm being genuine.
-- Khaled Hosseini -
Genuine [economic] value lies in the power to sustain or enrich life
-- Lewis Mumford -
My concern is how we learn to be genuine human beings.
-- Lloyd Alexander -
We just did a few takes of a song and just picked the best one. It was real organic and genuine.
-- Lucinda Williams -
We all know that a good person can be a bad artist.But no one will ever be a genuine artist unless he is a great human being and thus also a good one.
-- Marc Chagall -
A good disposition is invincible, if it be genuine.
-- Marcus Aurelius -
I, too, dislike it. Reading it, however, with a perfect contempt for it, one discovers in it, after all, a place for the genuine.
-- Marianne Moore -
Genuine dialogue, not rhetorical bomb-throwing, leads to progress.
-- Mark Udall -
Simperium seems like a genuine utility for our own apps, and for other people as a service. And Simplenote, as a product, I love, and it's just darn handy.
-- Matt Mullenweg -
The greater your cares, the more genuine your prayers
-- Max Lucado -
I've read that Steven Wright's style was born out of genuine nervousness,
-- Mike Birbiglia -
A book with the genuine power to stir and comfort its readers.
-- Mitch Albom -
All genuine learning is active, not passive.
-- Mortimer Adler -
Genuine wit implies no small amount of wisdom and culture.
-- Moses Harvey -
Those who hope to nurture genuine religiosity should first establish liberty.
-- Mustafa Akyol -
Genuine wisdom is usually conspicuous through modesty and silence.
-- Napoleon Hill -
Photons are accurately and legitimately described as waves and particles at the same time. They are genuine wavicles.
-- Neil deGrasse Tyson -
I am not interested in anything that doesn't have a genuine heart to it. You've got to have soul in the hole. If that isn't there, I don't see the point.
-- Nick Cave -
Defining yourself by your taste is easier than defining yourself by any genuine stance on something.
-- Noah Baumbach -
My function at Verve was that of a genuine producer in artists and repertoire.
-- Norman Granz -
Will we rise to the challenge and prove our capacity for genuine altruism by ending our ruthless exploitation of the species in our power, not because we are forced to do so by rebels or terrorists, but because we recognize that our position is morally indefensible?
-- Peter Singer -
But can I tell the genuine-article Italian from the poseur Italian? No. To me they all seem like poseurs.
-- Quentin Tarantino -
Genuine love for Jesus manifests itself in obedience to His commandments.
-- R. C. Sproul -
The State is not the nation, and the State can be modified and even abolished in its present form, without harming the nation. On the contrary, with the passing of the dominance of the State, the genuine life-enhancing forces of the nation will be liberated.
-- Randolph Bourne -
Illusory joy is often worth more than genuine sorrow.
-- Rene Descartes -
Creativity is, quite simply, a genuine interest combined with initiative.
-- Scott Belsky -
Living consciously involves being genuine; it involves listening and responding to others honestly and openly; it involves being in the moment.
-- Sidney Poitier -
It's important for that to exist in a society that doesn't present you with any genuine problems.
-- Squarepusher -
I hope they see the genuine side of me, of my music, of my voice. I hope that they feel me. I hope that what I sing and what I say really gets across to the viewer because everything that comes out is true.
-- Stefano Langone -
Genuine faith can find encouragement, even in that which is discouraging and get nearer to God.
-- T. B. Joshua -
It is a test (a positive test, I do not assert that it is always valid negatively), that genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
-- T. S. Eliot -
There is no higher qualification than genuine inspiration.
-- Tama J. Kieves -
Humility is the mark of a genuine disciple.
-- Thomas Aquinas -
You've always lived a life of pretense, not a real life-- a simulated existence, not a genuine existence. Everything about you, everything you are, has always been pretense, never genuine, never real.
-- Thomas Bernhard -
A morsel of genuine history is a thing so rare as to be always valuable.
-- Thomas Jefferson -
The language is spare and under control and has a genuine immediacy...The poems never preach but are lined out with a cool and therefore devastating effect
-- Vern Rutsala -
Do you think that love has to be requited to be genuine? On the contrary, it thrives on indifference.
-- Violet Trefusis -
I WILL FOLLOW ANYONE... AND DEMONSTRATE TO EVERYONE... THAT THEIR FEAR IS GENUINE
-- Widad Akrawi -
No patriotism is genuine that is merely partisan or provincial.
-- William Rainey Harper
