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Jack London photo

“Show me a man with a tattoo and I'll show you a man with an interesting past.”

Jack London (1876–1916) American author, journalist, and social activist

Variant: Show me a man with a tattoo and I'll show you a man with an interesting past.

Brené Brown photo

“Authenticity is a collection of choices that we have to make every day. It's about the choice to show up and be real. The choice to be honest. The choice to let our true selves be seen.”

Brené Brown (1965) US writer and professor

Source: The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are

Joseph Conrad photo

“People do not love those whose eyes show that they are somewhere else”

Peter Carey (1943) Australian novelist

Source: Collected Stories

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Jean Cocteau photo
Nathaniel Hawthorne photo

“Be true! Be true! Be true! Show freely to the world, if not your worst, yet some trait whereby the worst may be inferred!”

Source: The Scarlet Letter (1850), Chapter XXIV: Conclusion
Context: Among many morals which press upon us from the poor minister's miserable experience, we put only this into a sentence: — "Be true! Be true! Be true! Show freely to the world, if not your worst, yet some trait whereby the worst may be inferred!"

David Levithan photo
Elizabeth Gilbert photo
F. Scott Fitzgerald photo
Robert Greene photo
Steven Erikson photo
Rick Riordan photo
Richelle Mead photo
Sherrilyn Kenyon photo
Ellen DeGeneres photo
Sherrilyn Kenyon photo
Cassandra Clare photo
Sherrilyn Kenyon photo
Laurell K. Hamilton photo
Patrick Rothfuss photo
Jay Leno photo

“Politics is just show business for ugly people.”

Jay Leno (1950) American comedian, actor, writer, producer, voice actor and television host
Nicholson Baker photo
Rachel Caine photo
Susan Elizabeth Phillips photo

“Let's replace "Do unto others as you would have others do unto you" with "Do unto others, after they show you they are worthy.”

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

Sarah Dessen photo

“The ragamuffin gospel reveals that Jesus forgives sins, including the sins of the flesh; that He is comfortable with sinners who remember how to show compassion; but that He cannot and will not have a relationship with pretenders in the Spirit.”

Brennan Manning (1934–2013) writer, American Roman Catholic priest and United States Marine

Source: The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out

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Richard Bach photo
George Carlin photo

“When you're born into this world, you're given a ticket to the freak show. If you're born in America you get a front row seat.”

George Carlin (1937–2008) American stand-up comedian

Archive of American Television http://www.emmytvlegends.org/interviews/people/george-carlin, from one of Carlin's final interviews (2008)
Interviews, Television Appearances
Context: You know what, I said it this way: when you're born in this world, you're given a ticket to the freak show. And when you're born in America, you're given a front row seat. And some of us get to sit there with notebooks. And I'm a notebook kind of guy: [pretends to be taking notes] "Oh, my God, did you see that? Did you see what he just did?..." And I watch the freak show, and I kept my notes, and I make up stuff about it, and I talk about the freaks. And the freaks are all humans, and they are all like me, and we are all the same. I'm not better, I'm not different, I'm just apart now. I'm separate, I'm over here, because I put myself out of the mix. I don't have a stake at the outcome. I'm not a cheerleader for a given outcome now.

David Foster Wallace photo

“She was terrified of everything, and terrified to show it.”

Source: Brief Interviews with Hideous Men

Robin McKinley photo

“Just so you know: if a rakshasa shows up, I left my sword in the car.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Bleeds

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Frank Herbert photo
Cassandra Clare photo
Pablo Neruda photo

“Then love knew it was called love.
And when I lifted my eyes to your name,
suddenly your heart showed me my way”

Pablo Neruda (1904–1973) Chilean poet

Source: Veinte poemas de amor y una canción desesperada; Cien sonetos de amor

Suzanne Collins photo
Suzanne Collins photo
Robert M. Pirsig photo
Steven Wright photo
Jacqueline Wilson photo
Jean-Dominique Bauby photo

“Does it take the harsh light of disaster to show a person’s true nature?”

Jean-Dominique Bauby (1952–1997) French journalist, author and editor of the French fashion magazine ELLE
Brené Brown photo

“The willingness to show up changes us, It makes us a little braver each time.”

Brené Brown (1965) US writer and professor

Source: Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead

Cassandra Clare photo
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“But what Freud showed us… was that nothing can be grasped, destroyed, or burnt, except in a symbolic way, as one says, in effigie, in absentia.”

Jacques Lacan (1901–1981) French psychoanalyst and psychiatrist

Source: The Seminar of Jacques Lacan: The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis

Paulo Coelho photo
Nathaniel Hawthorne photo
Ann Brashares photo
Sophie Kinsella photo
Tim Burton photo
Thomas Carlyle photo

“Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are”

Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) Scottish philosopher, satirical writer, essayist, historian and teacher
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Arthur Schopenhauer photo

“Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point.”

...in der ganzen Natur, mit dem Grad der Intelligenz die Fähigkeit zum Schmerze sich steigert, also ebenfalls erst hier ihre höchste Stufe erreicht.
The Wisdom of Life. Chapter II. Personality, or What a Man Is: Footnote 19
Parerga and Paralipomena (1851), Not yet placed by volume, chapter or section

Janet Evanovich photo
Ann Brashares photo
Janet Fitch photo
Jodi Picoult photo
Holly Black photo
Thich Nhat Hanh photo

“No blame, no
reasoning, no argument, just understanding. If you
understand, and you show that you understand, you can
love, and the situation will change.”

Thich Nhat Hanh (1926) Religious leader and peace activist

Source: Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life

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Northrop Frye photo
Rick Riordan photo
George Harrison photo

“Show me that I m everywhere and get me home for tea.”

George Harrison (1943–2001) British musician, former member of the Beatles
Louisa May Alcott photo
Richelle Mead photo
Ernest Hemingway photo
Dan Brown photo
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Joyce Meyer photo

“The Holy Spirit showed me that when I put up walls to keep others out I also wall myself into solitary place of confinement.”

Joyce Meyer (1943) American author and speaker

Source: Beauty for Ashes: Receiving Emotional Healing

Sherrilyn Kenyon photo

“Shall I show you the door… or would you rather go out through the wall?" - Maris”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Cloak & Silence

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John Flanagan photo

“Anyone can make a mistake…. It's how they learn from it and recover from it that shows their true worth.”

John Flanagan (1873–1938) Irish-American hammer thrower

Source: The Invaders

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Gretchen Rubin photo

“Studies show that aggressively expressing anger doesn't relieve anger but amplifies it. On the other hand, not expressing anger often allows it to disappear without leaving ugly traces.”

Gretchen Rubin (1966) American writer

Source: The Happiness Project: Or Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun