“If you're going to say what you want to say, you're going to hear what you don't want to hear.”
Roberto Bolaño book The Insufferable Gaucho
Source: The Insufferable Gaucho
Petra Arkanian Delphiki.
Ender's Game series, Shadow of the Giant (2005)
“If you're going to say what you want to say, you're going to hear what you don't want to hear.”
Roberto Bolaño book The Insufferable Gaucho
Source: The Insufferable Gaucho
Joan Baez (1941) American singer
Daybreak http://books.google.com/books?id=Imte1JcsQ64C&q=%22You+don't+get+to+choose+how+you're+going+to+die+Or+when+You+can+only+decide+how+you're+going+to+live+Now%22&pg=PA135#v=onepage (1968) <br class="br">Variant or paraphrase: You can't decide how you're going to die. Or when. What you can decide is how you're going to live now.
“You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.”
Yogi Berra (1925–2015) American baseball player, manager, coach
Ysabella Brave (1979) American singer
"Forgiveness" (7 July 2007)
Context: When you forgive someone, you're not justifying what they've done — you're not saying it was ok, you're letting it go, to stay in the past, where it happened, and moving away from it, so it doesn't sink its teeth into you, and follow you wherever you go. And of course, we don't know what events are going on in that person's life that perhaps led them to do what they were doing, or inspired them, or what kind of person they are sometimes. We never will know everything about what is going on with the whole situation - we only know what has happened to us. And the truth is - there's no point in hanging on to it.
George Harrison (1943–2001) British musician, former member of the Beatles
Think for Yourself (1965)
Lyrics
“Always look like you know where you're going, even when you don't”
Candace Bushnell (1958) American author
Source: Summer and the City: A Carrie Diaries Novel TV Tie-in Edition
“If your joy is derived from what society thinks of you, you're always going to be disappointed.”
Madonna (1958) American singer, songwriter, and actress
Smokey Robinson (1940) American R&B singer-songwriter and record producer
Being with You (1981)
Song lyrics, Solo