“Yes, it's a well-known fact about you: you're like death, you take everything.”
Milan Kundera book Laughable Loves
Source: Laughable Loves
“Yes, it's a well-known fact about you: you're like death, you take everything.”
Milan Kundera book Laughable Loves
Source: Laughable Loves
“What do you despise? By this you are truly known.”
Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475–1564) Italian sculptor, painter, architect and poet
A few sites, perhaps most of them deriving their information from its previous placement among the "Attributed" quotes here, credit this to Michelangelo, but so far as definite citations go, it almost certainly originated with Frank Herbert when he used the phrase in the novel Dune (1965).
Misattributed
Barry Long (1926–2003) Australian spiritual teacher and writer
Knowing Yourself: The True in the False (1996)
Abu Hamid al-Ghazali (1058–1111) Persian Muslim theologian, jurist, philosopher, and mystic
al-Ghazali https://awakenthegreatnesswithin.com/35-inspirational-imam-al-ghazali-quotes-on-success/
Arthur Leonard Schawlow (1921–1999) American physicist
as quoted by [Steven Chu and Charles H. Townes, Biographical Memoirs V.83, National Academies Press, 2003, http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=10830, 0-309-08699-X, 201]
Tupac Shakur (1971–1996) rapper and actor
And all these other people, and now they're like sweet hearts. We all should get that chance, I just want my chance.
1990s, MTV interview with Tabitha Soren (1995)
“Agree with everything, explain nothing, then do what is best for you.”
Sherry Argov (1977) American writer
Source: Why Men Love Bitches: From Doormat to Dreamgirl—A Woman's Guide to Holding Her Own in a Relationship