Genuine Quotes

...a genuine work of art, can never be false, nor can it be discredited through the lapse of time, for it does not present an opinion but the thing itself.

Genuine contempt, on the other hand, is the unsullied conviction of the worthlessness of another.

India's a very interesting place... there's no formal opposition, but there's genuine on-the-ground opposition.

I think it's time for the Army to understand that power should be enshrined in the people if we are to be a genuine democracy and not in any particular institution or organisation.

We had a very good relationship. Very good. I liked [Sonny Ramphal]. I thought he was a genuine man.

My confidence wavers between being genuine and being insecure.

What attracted me to Zen was my first teacher, Tim McCarthy. He was extremely genuine. It wasn't even really a Zen thing, that sort of came along later.

I do make a concscious effort to be genuine among other comedians. If I write something or try something that doesn't feel like me, I stop doing it.

There's a disposition great defenders have - a genuine pride that scores are a problem, people that score on me is a problem

Although the theater is not life, it is composed of fragments or imitations of life, and people on both sides of the footlight have to unite to make the fragments whole and the imitations genuine.

I enjoy making solo albums because over the years it's evolved into more of a genuine personal expression of story-telling and day dreams, and I work in a way that has more control.

Our friendship is made up of these brief frenzied exchanges, but the quality of our conversation, for all its feverish outpouring, is genuine.

A genuine revival without joy in the Lord is as impossible as spring without flowers, or day-dawn without light.

Tact, if it be genuine, never sleeps.

I don't think my lyrics go so well when I try to sound poetic. Some people do that really well. If I did that I'd feel like it wouldn't be genuine.

Genuine leadership is inherently moral.

When it comes to writing songs, I've always got to be commissioned to do it. I won't write unless someone has got a real genuine purpose for it.

A major shortcoming of the Resistance is the outnumbering, before long, of the genuine warriors by camera-carrying midgets intent on leaving a record of their purported heroism.

It is not a camera, or a reporter that makes something real and genuine; more often a camera or a reporter does the opposite.

A genuine transformation that results from sustained concerted effort is long lasting because it has a firm foundation.

Genuine harmony must come from the heart. It cannot come from the barrel of a gun.

Genuine happiness and compassion go hand in hand.

I must have dialogue with the Chinese government, and dialogue requires compromise. Therefore, I'm speaking for genuine self-rule, not for independence.

Being so deeply rooted in one place and culture allows a genuine writer to experiment wildly with the material without ever losing touch with its essence.

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.

If you try to keep your most sacred ambitions off of your weekly calendar and your most genuine traits off of your resume, then you're missing out on the power of real integrity.

These days, people spent too much time striving to understand their feelings - and then ended up with none that were genuine.

I truly believe you can't buy your way into genuine love. You can surely buy companionship, but I don't think [love] has a price tag on it.

Tom Walls and his cohort are wolves in sheep's clothing who will besmirch the memory of some genuine historic figures by the next full moon.

She was thirty-nine. No, she did not envy her eighteen-year- old self at all. But she did envy, envied every day more bitterly, that young girl's genuine independence, largeness, scope, and courage.

There are genuine questions to be asked about why we now have the highest level of employment in many decades, contrary to the position during the boom-bust years of the Conservatives.

I just have a thing in my brain that when I'm about to do something that's genuine or authentic, I think of it in song form. I'll be like, 'Yo, this is a human emotion that no one talks about.'

If you can make something genuine, then the ground is fertile for introducing something new. And that happened a few times in my life where I could sow the seeds and see something grow out of it.

It calls Devotion! genuine growth of night! Devotion! Daughter of Astronomy! An undevout astronomer is mad!

No writing has any real value which is not the expression of genuine thought and feeling.

Being ill makes you feel what well people call sentimental, but what you feel is nonetheless genuine whatever they call it.

To be spiritual is to be genuine in everything you say and do, come what may.

I'm interested in helping women become courageous in being exactly who they are. Because the only way to change anything is to do it from your genuine self.

The part of me that is both a spiritual seeker and a social activist meet in this understanding of enlightened power coming from a deep, genuine well within each person.

Donald Trump is a genuine threat to America.

People may go on talking for ever of the jealousies of pretty women; but for real genuine, hard-working envy, there is nothing like an ugly woman with a taste for admiration.

I am genuine, fun and passionate.

Yes, I'm known as America's most genuine comedian.

Thank God for the joys of family life. I have often said there can be no genuine happiness separate and apart from a good home. The sweetest influences and associations of life are there

The only hope [of science] ... is in genuine induction.

The description of the world that most people have is very limited. They are in the fog. Once in a while a genuine insight comes through.

There is a great deal of self-will in the world, but very little genuine independence of character.

The key thing about life is to be true to a set of beliefs. And to be genuine.

Too many women are forced to abort by poverty, by their menfolk, by their parents. A choice is only possible if there are genuine alternatives.

There is a certain poetic value, and that a genuine one, in this sense of having missed the full meaning of things. There is beauty, not only in wisdom, but in this dazed and dramatic ignorance.