Paraphrasing Quotes

Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.

Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all.

Do you hate people?” “I don't hate them...I just feel better when they're not around.

Creativity is knowing how to hide your sources

If you don't know where you're going, any road'll take you there

Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.

Everything must be made as simple as possible. But not simpler.

Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.

Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.

Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family.

To lose one parent, Mr. Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.

God doesn't require us to succeed, he only requires that you try.

To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.

The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.

A little nonsense now and then, is cherished by the wisest men.

I may not agree with you, but I will defend to the death your right to make an ass of yourself.

I'm going to paraphrase Thoreau here... rather than love, than money, than faith, than fame, than fairness... give me truth.

If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed.

The shortest distance between two points is often unbearable.

I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.

... that when you're buying books, you're optimistically thinking you're buying the time to read them. (Paraphrase of Schopenhauer)

I'm a little pencil in the hand of a writing God, who is sending a love letter to the world.

Blessed are the cracked, for they shall let in the light.

You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.

Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.

The only good human being is a dead one.

There is no God and we are his prophets.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

It is a truth universally acknowledged that when one part of your life starts going okay, another falls spectacularly to pieces.

I can do things you cannot, you can do things I cannot; together we can do great things.

Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

You can fool some people some times but you cant fool all the people all the time

I believe I am in Hell, therefore I am.

If you can't feed a hundred people, feed just one.

Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.

He who hesitates is a damned fool.

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them. Your fate awaits you. Accept it in body and spirit. To get used to the life you'll most likely be leading soon, get rid of your low-class trappings.

Those unable to catalog the past are doomed to repeat it.

Sometimes it's better to light a flamethrower than curse the darkness.

Genius has its limitations. Insanity...not so much" -Bumper Sticker

Love is not patronizing and charity isn't about pity, it is about love. Charity and love are the same -- with charity you give love, so don't just give money but reach out your hand instead.

Time wounds all heels.

Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn about anyone else

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a zombie in possession of brains must be in want of more brains.

The curve is more powerful than the sword.

If the bee disappeared off the face of the earth, man would only have four years left to live.

Nothing is forever except change.

Do something that scares you everyday.

To paraphrase Oedipus, Hamlet, Lear, and all those guys, "I wish I had known this some time ago.

The search for truth is more precious than its possession.

Speak softly and employ a huge man with a crowbar.

All these people talk so eloquently about getting back to good old-fashioned values. Well, as an old poop I can remember back to when we had those old-fashioned values, and I say let's get back to the good old-fashioned First Amendment of the good old-fashioned Constitution of the United States -- and to hell with the censors! Give me knowledge or give me death!

A man convinced against his will Is of the same opinion still

Goodnight sweet prince, may flights of devils wing you to your rest.

Unfortunately, Susan didn't remember what Jane Fulton once said, 'Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.

I told NASA what I did. Our (paraphrased) conversation was: Me: “I took it apart, found the problem, and fixed it.” NASA: “Dick.

Some are born weird, some achieve it, others have weirdness thrust upon them.

So many things to see, people to do.

When the going gets tough, the tough get a librarian.

To paraphrase a prophet: Letters are structures, not events. Yours give me a place to live inside

Women should be obscene and not heard.

Charity . . . is the opium of the privileged.

All persons, living and dead, are purely coincidental.

To be or not to be. That's not really a question.

Speak softly, but carry a big can of paint.

What doesn't kill us makes us funnier.

Are you kidding? That guy was a mystery wrapped in an enigma and crudely stapled to a ticking fucking time bomb. He was either going to hit somebody or start a blog.

Democracy is not freedom. Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to eat for lunch. Freedom comes from the recognition of certain rights which may not be taken, not even by a 99% vote.

Accentuaute the positives - medicate the negatives.

Never mind, said Hachiko each day. Here I wait, for my friend who’s late. I will stay, just to walk beside you for one more day.

Life is too important to be taken seriously.

How do you know if a demon is lying? His lips are moving.

What's in a name, anyway? That which we call a nose by any other name would still smell.

Science advances one funeral at a time.

Certainly the most destructive vice if you like, that a person can have. More than pride, which is supposedly the number one of the cardinal sins - is self pity. Self pity is the worst possible emotion anyone can have. And the most destructive. It is, to slightly paraphrase what Wilde said about hatred, and I think actually hatred's a subset of self pity and not the other way around - ' It destroys everything around it, except itself '. Self pity will destroy relationships, it'll destroy anything that's good, it will fulfill all the prophecies it makes and leave only itself. And it's so simple to imagine that one is hard done by, and that things are unfair, and that one is underappreciated, and that if only one had had a chance at this, only one had had a chance at that, things would have gone better, you would be happier if only this, that one is unlucky. All those things. And some of them may well even be true. But, to pity oneself as a result of them is to do oneself an enormous disservice. I think it's one of things we find unattractive about the american culture, a culture which I find mostly, extremely attractive, and I like americans and I love being in america. But, just occasionally there will be some example of the absolutely ravening self pity that they are capable of, and you see it in their talk shows. It's an appalling spectacle, and it's so self destructive. I almost once wanted to publish a self help book saying 'How To Be Happy by Stephen Fry : Guaranteed success'. And people buy this huge book and it's all blank pages, and the first page would just say - ' Stop Feeling Sorry For Yourself - And you will be happy '. Use the rest of the book to write down your interesting thoughts and drawings, and that's what the book would be, and it would be true. And it sounds like 'Oh that's so simple', because it's not simple to stop feeling sorry for yourself, it's bloody hard. Because we do feel sorry for ourselves, it's what Genesis is all about.

You could know a man not by what his friends said about him, but by how he treated his servants.

It sounded like a piece of blackboard being dragged over the nails of a wall of severed fingers.

Ambition is the last refuge of the failure

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.

Log Entry: SOL 118 My conversation with NASA about the Water Reclaimer was boring and riddled with technical details. So I'll paraphrase for you: Me: "This is obviously a clog. How about I take it apart and check the internal tubing?" NASA: (After about 5 hours of deliberation) "No. You'll fuck it up and die." So I took it apart.

I'm trying to undermine the basis of Christian belief... I'm not in the business of offending people. I find the books upholding certain values that I think are important, such as life is immensely valuable and this world is an extraordinarily beautiful place. We should do what we can to increase the amount of wisdom in the world. [Washington Post interview, 19 February 2001]

The words were a paraphrase of the suggestion of Jesus: "Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's." Bokonon's paraphrase was this: "Pay no attention to Caesar. Caesar doesn't have the slightest idea what's really going on.

And then what?" "I'll burn that bridge when I cross it.

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a thirty-something woman in possession of a satisfying career and fabulous hairdo must be in want of very little

Evil will win if good people do nothing.

I have something that I call my Golden Rule. It goes something like this: 'Do unto others twenty-five percent better than you expect them to do unto you.' … The twenty-five percent is for error.

I will try not to overlook the cruelties that victims inflict on one another as they are jammed together in the boxcars of the system. I don’t want to romanticize them. But I do remember (in rough paraphrase) a statement I once read: “The cry of the poor is not always just, but if you don’t listen to it, you will never know what justice is.

Be yourself, as no one else can.

When a man plans, a woman laughs.

It's a truth universally acknowledged that an FBI special agent in possession of great skill and talent is likely to engage in trash talk every now and then.

You can have everything in the world, but if you don't have love, none of it means crap," he said promptly. "Love is patient. Love is kind. Love always forgives, trusts, supports, and endures. Love never fails. When every star in the heavens grows cold, and when silence lies once more on the face of the deep, three things will endure: faith, hope, and love." And the greatest of these is love," I finished. "That's from the Bible." First Corinthians, chapter thirteen," Thomas confirmed. "I paraphrased. Father makes all of us memorize that passage. Like when parents put those green yucky-face stickers on the poisonous cleaning products under the kitchen sink.

My dad used to say the definition of stupidity was doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result. Or maybe that was the definition of crazy.

We have two ears and only one tongue in order that we may hear more and speak less.

Macon Ethan I lay my head down on his chest and cried because had lived because he had died a dry ocean, a desert of emotion happysad darklight sorrowjoy swept over me, under me i could hear the sound but i could not understand the words and then i realized the sound was me, breaking in one moment i was feeling everything and i was feeling nothing i was shattered, i was saved, i lost everthing, i was given everything else something in me died, something in me was born, i only knew the girl was gone whoever i was now, i would never be her again this is the way the world ends not with a bang but a whimper claim yourself claim yourself claim yourself claim gratitude fury love despair hope hate first green is gold but nothing green can stay dont try nothing green can stay -Lena Duchannes

I was helpless in trying to return people's kindness, but also helpless to resist it. Kindness is a scarier force than cruelty, that's for sure. Cruelty isn't that hard to understand. I had no trouble comprehending why the phone company wanted to screw me over; they just wanted to steal some money, it was nothing personal. That's the way of the world. It made me mad, but it didn't make me feel stupid. If anything, it flattered my intelligence. Accepting all that kindness, though, made me feel stupid. Human benevolence is totally unfair. We don't live in a kind or generous world, yet we are kind and generous. We know the universe is out to burn us, and it gets us all the way it got Renee, but we don't burn each other, not always. We are kind people in an unkind world, to paraphrase Wallace Stevens. How do you pretend you don't know about it, after you see it? How do you go back to acting like you don't need it? How do you even the score and walk off a free man? You can't. I found myself forced to let go of all sorts of independence I thought I had, independence I had spent years trying to cultivate. That world was all gone, and now I was a supplicant, dependent on the mercy of other people's psychic hearts.