Journalists couldn’t do their jobs overseas without taking risks, and the same is true for diplomats and intelligence officers. – David Ignatius
True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It is arduous and it is rare. – Gilbert K. Chesterton
To an intellectual who is adrift in politics, a theory is an aim; to a true politician his theory is a boundary. – Francis Parker Yockey
I’m constantly trying to mine the DNA of John Constantine and stay true to that character in the comic books. – Matt Ryan
I think writers write for their consciences, they write for their own true audiences, for their souls. – Mo Yan
Mexico urgently needs a series of structural reforms that will detonate its true economic potential and generate more public welfare. – Enrique Pena Nieto
It is said that desire is a product of the will, but the converse is in fact true: will is a product of desire. – Denis Diderot
Some of the craziest aspects about ‘Weeper’ were the things I found out to be true. I mean, true of people. – Marlon James
A nation’s poets are its true owners; and by the stroke of the pen they convey the title-deeds of its real possessions to strangers and aliens. – George Edward Woodberry
It is true we have won all our wars, but we have paid for them. We don’t want victories anymore. – Golda Meir
I hesitate to predict whether this theory is true. But if the general opinion of Mankind is optimistic then we’re in for a period of extreme popularity for science fiction. – David Eddings
If they’re going to write a story they’re going to write the story whether it’s true or not. – Mary-Kate Olsen
It’s true that I’m taking a break from writing a regular column to do other things but it’s got nothing to do with what dear Simon has or has not written. – Ferdinand Mount
When someone makes a claim against the state, that person must legally verify that the facts in the claim are true. – Eric Schneiderman
I was a pretty wild kid, and I probably lived 48 years in my first 20. But I always seemed to have a true line of faith for some reason. – Michael Harney
A truth that disheartens because it is true is of more value than the most stimulating of falsehoods. – Maurice Maeterlinck
Mexico urgently needs a series of structural reforms that will detonate its true economic potential for once and generate more public welfare. – Enrique Pena Nieto
My wife loves ‘Scandal,’ and I’m hooked on ‘Homeland.’ Sometimes I ask news makers, off the record, what rings true about those shows and what’s ridiculous. – David Gregory
But to have a friend, and to be true under any and all trials, is the mark of a man! – Charles Eastman
It’s true that Paris is made up of equal parts of social conservatism and anarchic experimentation, but foreigners never quite know where to place the moral accent mark. – Edmund White
It’s true that when Christianity is socially powerful, faith can look from the outside as if it is mainly a matter of membership, of participation in the vast synchronised swim of institutions. – Francis Spufford
