(1136 quotes found)
““Personal history must be constantly renewed by telling parents, relatives, and friends everything one does. On the other hand, for the warrior who has no personal history, no explanations are needed; nobody is angry or disillusioned with his acts. And above all, no one pins him down with their thoughts and their expectations.””
Carlos Castaneda
“He who knows little quickly tells it”
Italian Proverb
“In Russia we only had two TV channels. Channel One was propaganda. Channel Two consisted of a KGB officer telling you: Turn back at once to Channel One.”
Yakov Smirnoff
“Everybody keeps telling me how surprised they are with what I've done. But I'm telling you honestly that it doesn't surprise me. I knew I could do it.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your girdle when your hips stick.”
Ogden Nash
“I'm sick of everybody telling me what to do.”
Bill Watterson
“If someone tells you he is going to make "a realistic decision", you immediately understand that he is going to do something bad.”
Mary McCarthy
“One stops being a child when one realizes that telling one's trouble does not make it any better.”
Cesare Pavese
“To poison a nation, poison its stories. A demoralised nation tells demoralised stories to itself. Beware of the storytellers who are not fully conscious of the importance of their gifts, and who are irresponsible in the application of their art: they”
Ben Okri
“There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.”
Richard Buckminster Fuller
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