It still holds true that man is most uniquely human when he turns obstacles into opportunities.
Eric Hoffer

We do not really feel grateful toward those who make our dreams come true; they ruin our dreams.
Eric Hoffer

The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.
H. G. Wells

After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.
H. G. Wells

Our true nationality is mankind.
H. G. Wells

It is not down in any map; true places never are.
Herman Melville

Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.
John Updike

But I do not have the reader in mind when I write. No true writer does that.
Guillermo Cabrera Infante

I was never a true journalist, I was a movie critic.
Guillermo Cabrera Infante

Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservative.
John Stuart Mill

But money, wife, is the true Fuller's Earth for reputations, there is not a spot or a stain but what it can take out.
John Gay

Popular opinions, on subjects not palpable to sense, are often true, but seldom or never the whole truth.
John Stuart Mill

The mark of a true politician is that he is never at a loss for words because he is always half-expecting to be asked to make a speech.
Richard M. Nixon

The tears of the world are a constant quality. For each one who begins to weep, somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh.
Samuel Beckett

People react to fear, not love; they don't teach that in Sunday School, but it's true.
Richard M. Nixon

There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method.
Herman Melville

A woman should never be seen eating or drinking, unless it be lobster salad and Champagne, the only true feminine and becoming viands.
Lord Byron

I should be very willing to redress men wrongs, and rather check than punish crimes, had not Cervantes, in that all too true tale of Quixote, shown how all such efforts fail.
Lord Byron

There's naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum and true religion.
Lord Byron

The Cardinal is at his wit's end - it is true that he had not far to go.
Lord Byron