When I was growing up, I kept hoping that I wasn't really gay because I wanted to have children. I went through a long, tortured period, so the fact that I have been able to be true to myself and have a family has been the nicest surprise of my adulthood.

Andrew Solomon

At some point, a flash of sustained clarity reveals the difference between what someone would have you believe is true, and what you know from the depths of your own heart to the peaks of your soul to be true. What happens after that is up to you.

Aberjhani

Art Your You

I am trying to be true to the work that I want to do and be allowed to make the choices that I want to make.

Abhay Deol

Work Yin Wed

If it be true that our people represent a high percentage of mental vigor, the distinction is probably due, in some measure, to the extremely important part which Talmud studies have played in the spiritual life of the race.

Abraham Cahan

Men Life Art

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.

Abraham Lincoln

Art Wrong Wit

Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say, for one, that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow-men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem. How far I shall succeed in gratifying this ambition is yet to be developed.

Abraham Lincoln

Men Great Yin

Yeah you just have to be true to yourself, know where you come from, make sure that your relationships with family members back in country, back home, are really strong so that connection is always there.

Adam Goodes

Relationship Home Family

I think that what happens for many Christians is, they accept their particular faith, they accept it to be true, and they stop examining it. Consequently, because it's already accepted to be true, they don't examine other people's faiths... That, I think, is not healthy for a person of any faith.

Adam Hamilton

Health Faith Art

Stevie Wonder is just one of those guys that completely delivers everything that you want to be true about Stevie Wonder. He's an amazing human being, and the fairytale exists with that man.

Adam Levine

Amazing You Wonder

I think the saying that diamonds are a girl's best friend can't be truer. Which girl doesn't love diamonds?

Aditi Rao Hydari

Love Yin Which

'Let God be true but every man a liar' is the language of true faith.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

God Faith Age

People are taking a second look at Compton or rethinking what they believed to be true. Even the rap stars who helped established Compton's reputation worldwide are older now, and even their images have evolved.

Aja Brown

Age Worldwide World

That is why I came to conclusion that the election must take place, so that the republic can have a government. If I were to say that everything will change for the better immediately, that would not be true. The struggle will continue for a long time.

Akhmad Kadyrov

Time Men Government

I take no pleasure in the fact that the scientific predictions I've relayed to popular audiences turn out to be true.

Al Gore

Turn True Take

Evil is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the Good that compels me.

Alain Badiou

Strength Mom Men

It may be true that the only reason the comic book industry now exists is for this purpose, to create characters for movies, board games and other types of merchandise.

Alan Moore

Movies Us Types

Be true to yourself and your values.

Alan Mulally

Yourself Yours Your

You'll be someone's favourite, and someone else is going to hate you, aren't they? I know that I can't please everyone, but what I can do is be myself and be true to my values.

Alex Scott

You Very Values

'Tis not enough your counsel still be true; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do.

Alexander Pope

Truth Your You

For a memoir to really succeed, the author has to do such hard work before they come to the page. They have to do a brutal self-examination of everything they believe to be true.

Alexandra Fuller

Work Age Very

Oh, I love to lie. That's one of my favorite things in the world, coming up to somebody, especially press people, and telling them some enormous lie that couldn't possibly be true.

Alice Cooper

Love World Us

I am led by what I find to be true, not what I find to be popular.

Alice Dreger

I think, at the end of the day, you have to live a truthful life and be true to yourself. You have one life, and everything has to fall into place around that.

Andreja Pejic

When Keats says: 'Axioms in philosophy are not axioms until they are proved upon our pulses', what he means is that we don't necessarily believe what a poem is saying if it comes out and tells us in an absolutely head-on, in-your-face way; we only believe it to be true if we feel it to be true.

Andrew Motion

'The Story Of A Marriage' was initially a short story I wrote, and before that, it was a family story. It was a story that a relative of mine told me about herself in the '50s, and it was a story that no one else in my family believes, and it might not be true.

Andrew Sean Greer

When I was growing up, I kept hoping that I wasn't really gay because I wanted to have children. I went through a long, tortured period, so the fact that I have been able to be true to myself and have a family has been the nicest surprise of my adulthood.

Andrew Solomon

You know, American citizens, I don't think, ever thought that the right to the pursuit of happiness did not include the right to marry the person you love. But for a whole number of Americans, gay Americans, that happens to be true.

Andrew Sullivan

I do my best to be true to who I am.

Angela Rayner

I grew up watching Oprah on television. So, to say I didn't learn a lot from her just wouldn't be true.

Angie Martinez

But I think it would be irresponsible for me not to say what I really believe in my heart to be true - that there are some serious inequities that we face as women and that we can work to address these inequities.

Anita Hill

It is better to be true to what you believe, though that be wrong, than to be false to what you believe, even if that belief is correct.

Anna Howard Shaw

I shall be true to what I believe.

Anna Soubry

You have to be true to what you believe in.

Anna Soubry

Someone like my father will improvise as much as 90% of the music in concert, but with me it's maybe 10 to 20%. It's sort of the test of how great someone is, the more they can improvise correctly and still be true to the raga they're playing, and still keep it new and fresh the whole time.

Anoushka Shankar

If you have an anecdote from one source, you file it away. If you hear it again, it may be true. Then the more times you hear it the less likely it is to be true.

Anthony Holden

So it's hard to be an artist and be true to the reality of the world you want to create and also make it entertaining and successful financially.

Antoine Fuqua

As we were developing 'Umbral', and I was delving into the mythology and legends, I had a sudden realisation. 'Wasteland' is about people who fervently believe new myths and legends, but they turn out to be false; whereas 'Umbral' is about people who reject ancient myths and legends, but they turn out to be true!

Antony Johnston

Journalists say a thing that they know isn't true, in the hope that if they keep on saying it long enough it will be true.

Arnold Bennett

I prize the conditions under which I have lived because they have permitted me to choose my opportunities, to inquire into such matters as interested me, and to publish what I believed to be true, uncontrolled by any central authority.

Arthur Keith

The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Admiration from my readers inspire me, and the only 'formula' I believe in towards making a good writer is: 'to thine own self be true!'

Ashwin Sanghi

Before I'm a writer, I'm definitely a reader and when I read memoir, I really want it to be true.

Augusten Burroughs

Irish poetry has lost the ready ear and the comforts of recognition. But we must go on. We must be true to our own minds.

Austin Clarke

I would say I don't like people who are really into themselves or are very materialistic. Just always talking themselves up. Not being real is the pet peeve. Be true to yourself.

Austin Stowell

To be honest with you, I just want to be true to the game of basketball, and that's what I've always tried to do.

B. J. Armstrong

To have a songwriter that wrote so specifically what I felt to be true... I've never been much of an actor either. If something is real for me, then I can do it.

Barry McGuire

While it may be true that the UAE has been an ally since the September 11, 2001, attacks, the American people know it has also harbored and aided some of the al Qaeda agents who were involved in that attack.

Bart Gordon

Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many.

Baruch Spinoza

It's so important just to be true to yourself and to own your own character and take responsibility for it, and speak up and say, This isn't right; this isn't me.' It's a great lesson, not just in wrestling but in life. If you're not feeling something that's true to your heart... everybody's gotta be true.

Becky Lynch

If you go and talk to most people, they mean well but they don't have much of a breadth on education, of knowledge of understanding what the real issues are and therefore they listen to pundits on television who tell them what they are supposed to think and they keep repeating that until pretty soon they say, 'Oh, well that must be true.'

Ben Carson

In an ideal world, you might imagine that scientific papers were only cited by academics on the basis of their content. This might be true. But lots of other stuff can have an influence.

Ben Goldacre