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George Carlin270
American stand-up comedian 1937–2008Related quotes
Paulo Coelho book Eleven Minutes
Source: Eleven Minutes (2003), p. 97.
Context: In love, no one can harm anyone else; we are each of us responsible for our own feelings and cannot blame someone else for what we feel. It hurt when I lost each of the various men I fell in love with. Now, though, I am convinced that no one loses anyone, because no one owns anyone. That is the true experience of freedom: having the most important thing in the world without owning it.
Annette Curtis Klause Blood and Chocolate
Variant: I'd like to give you my heart, but since that might be inconvenient, I've brought you someone else's.
Source: Blood and Chocolate
“Control Your Own Destiny or Someone Else Will”
Jack Welch (1935) American executive: General Electric CEO
“A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves.”
Edward R. Murrow (1908–1965) Television journalist
“One must be ruthless with one’s own writing or someone else will be.”
John Berryman (1914–1972) American poet
“Reading is thinking with someone else's head instead of ones own.”
Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860) German philosopher
Source: The Art of Literature
“All action leads to suffering, someone else's, or one's own.”
Malcolm Bradbury book The History Man
Page 117.
The History Man (1975)
Colin Powell (1937) Former U.S. Secretary of State and retired four-star general
1990s, Letter to Patrick Leahy (1999)