Quotes about other
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Source: Think and Grow Rich: The Landmark Bestseller - Now Revised and Updated for the 21st Century
Source: A Great and Terrible Beauty
“A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.”
“She talked to me like I was just like any other student, not a kid in a wheelchair.”
Source: Out of My Mind
“How much energy they put into harming each other. How little into saving.”
“Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.”
Variant: Resentment is like drinking a poison and waiting for the other person to die.
Source: Wishful Drinking
“Criminals do not die by the hands of the law. They die by the hands of other men.”
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1900s, Maxims for Revolutionists (1903)
Source: Man and Superman
“A NICE THOUGHT
One was a book thief.
The other stole the sky.”
Variant: One was a book thief. The other stole the sky.
Source: The Book Thief
Source: Enchanted Love: The Mystical Power Of Intimate Relationships
Source: Jonathan Livingston Seagull
The Garden of Forking Paths (1942), The Garden of Forking Paths
Source: The Letters of Dorothy L. Sayers. Vol. 1, 1899-1936: The Making of a Detective Novelist
Source: Will Grayson, Will Grayson
Source: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Source: Quintana of Charyn
Source: The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
Source: An Idiot Abroad: The Travel Diaries of Karl Pilkington
Source: Night World, No. 3
Source: Either/Or: A Fragment of Life
“If they give you ruled paper, write the other way.”
As quoted in the epigraph in Fahrenheit 451 (1953) by Ray Bradbury; Susie Salmon also uses this quote in The Lovely Bones, and Daniel Quinn published a book in 2007 with the title If They Give You Lined Paper, Write Sideways (2007)
Spanish: "Si os dan papel pautado, escribid por el otro lado" (If they give you lined paper, write on the other side)
"If they give you ruled paper, write the other way" is often attributed to William Carlos Williams who was contemporary with JRJ.
Misattributed
“We're all islands shouting lies to each other across seas of misunderstanding.”
Source: The Light That Failed
Source: 25 Ways to Win with People: How to Make Others Feel Like a Million Bucks
Source: The Handmaid's Tale
Attributed in How to Win Friends and Influence People (1937) by Dale Carnegie
“Madness is always a wonderful excuse, don’t you think? For doing terrible things to other people.”
Source: The Winter People
Source: Kill the Dead
Source: Clockwork Princess
“Great poetry needs no interpreter other than a responsive heart.”
Source: The Story of My Life: With Her Letters (1887 1901) and a Supplementary Account of Her Education Including Passages from the Reports and Letters of Her Teacher Anne Mansfield Sullivan by John Albert Macy
Source: The Bowl of Saki: Thoughts for Daily Contemplation from the Sayings and Teachings of Hazrat Inayat Khan
Variant: All I ever really want to know is how other people are making it through life—where do they put their body, hour by hour, and how do they cope inside of it.
Source: It Chooses You
“Great minds have purposes, others have wishes.”
Source: The Secret Life of Bees
Source: Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way
Source: Desiderata: A Poem for a Way of Life
Source: The Truth About Forever
Source: Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays
“Some were brilliant bordering on genius. Others, genius bordering on madness”
Source: The Battle of the Labyrinth
Source: Lullaby (2002), Chapter 3
Context: You turn up your music to hide the noise. Other people turn up their music to hide yours. You turn up yours again. Everyone buys a bigger stereo system. This is the arms race of sound You don't win with a lot of treble. This isn't about quality. It's about volume. This isn't about music. This is about winning. You stomp the competition with the bass line. You rattle windows. You drop the melody line, and shout the lyrics. You put in foul language and come down hard on each cussword. You dominate. This is really about power.
“If there is a heaven, we will find each other again, for there is no heaven without you.”
PLEASE DONT BELIEVE IN PAGE NUMBER THEY ARE WRONG I TRIED TO FIND QUOTES BUT THEY ARE NOT TTHERE FUCK THIS SHIT, 2009, The Longest Ride (2013)
Source: 2009, The Longest Ride (2013), Ira Levinson, Chapter 28 Ira, p. 341
From the Preface to the 1855 edition of <i>Leaves of Grass</i>
Context: This is what you shall do: Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men, go freely with powerful uneducated persons and with the young and with the mothers of families, read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life, re examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem and have the richest fluency not only in its words but in the silent lines of its lips and face and between the lashes of your eyes and in every motion and joint of your body. . . .
Context: This is what you shall do: Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men, go freely with powerful uneducated persons and with the young and with the mothers of families, read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life, re examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem and have the richest fluency not only in its words but in the silent lines of its lips and face and between the lashes of your eyes and in every motion and joint of your body.... The poet shall not spend his time in unneeded work. He shall know that the ground is always ready ploughed and manured.... others may not know it but he shall. He shall go directly to the creation. His trust shall master the trust of everything he touches.... and shall master all attachment.
Variant: Such a simple concept, yet so true: that which we manifest is before us; we are the creators of our own destiny. Be it through intention or ignorance, our successes and our failures have been brought on by none other than ourselves.
Source: The Art of Racing in the Rain