“I have lost my smile,
but don't worry.
The dandelion has it.”
Thich Nhat Hanh (1926) Religious leader and peace activist
Source: Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life
“I have lost my smile,
but don't worry.
The dandelion has it.”
Thich Nhat Hanh (1926) Religious leader and peace activist
Source: Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life
“You come here to tell us lies, but we don't want to hear them.”
Sitting Bull (1831–1890) Hunkpapa Lakota medicine man and holy man
As recorded by reporters covering a speech made by Sitting Bull to U.S. military officers at a conference between the military and the Sioux who had retreated to Canada. Published in Utley, Robert M. The Lance and the Shield. New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1993. p. 196.
Context: You come here to tell us lies, but we don't want to hear them. If we told you more, you would have paid no attention. That is all I have to say.
Coraline Ada Ehmke technologist, activist, and transgender feminist
Antisocial Coding: My Year at GitHub https://where.coraline.codes/blog/my-year-at-github/ (July 5, 2017)
“Already the dandelions
Are changed into vanishing ghosts.”
Celia Thaxter (1835–1894) American writer
"Already" in Drift-Weed (1878), p. 103.
“The lies we tell other people are nothing to the lies we tell ourselves.”
Derek Landy (1974) Irish children's writer
Source: Death Bringer
“The American press is all about lies! All they tell is lies, lies and more lies!”
Muhammad Saeed al-Sahhaf (1940) Diplomatic politician and he was the Iraqi Information Minister under Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, acting as…
As quoted in A Gigantic Mistake (2004) by Mickey Z, p. 171
“Most of the dandelions had changed from suns into moons.”
Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977) Russian-American novelist, lepidopterist, professor
Halldór Laxness book Kristnihald undir Jökli (bók)
Pastor Jón Prímus
Kristnihald undir Jökli (Under the Glacier/Christianity at Glacier) (1968)
“Some live lies who won’t tell them; some tell lies who won’t live them.”
Henry S. Haskins (1875–1957)
Source: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), p. 119