Told - Quotes
I try to believe like I believed when I was five... when my heart told me everything I needed to know.
Your heart`s desire is to be told some mystery. The mystery is that there is no mystery.
People are told that they are inherently bad or sinful and that the only way to become good is by giving over control of their lives to faith. As there is no evidence that any of that is true, religion, in effect, is creating an imaginary problem simply so that it can sell an imaginary solution.
I told the doctor I broke my leg in two places. He told me to quit going to those places.
It was one of God`s mysterious imbalances, that men are stronger than women. My grandmother told me it was his way of balancing the scales, since women are tougher and more resilient.
History is the tale told by the victors. Who are the victors? barbaric warriors, mad kings and greedy traitors. Mainly most of our history is made of fables fabricated by those glorious victors.
My young son asked me what happens after we die. I told him we get buried under a bunch of dirt and worms eat our bodies. I guess I should have told him the truth - that most of us go to Hell and burn eternally - but I didn't want to upset him.
Is it more probable that nature should go out of her course or that a man should tell a lie? We have never seen, in our time, nature go out of her course. But we have good reason to believe that millions of lies have been told in the same time. It is therefore at least millions to one that the reporter of a miracle tells a lie.
People never learn anything by being told; they have to find out for themselves.
The world is full of stories, and from time to time they permit themselves to be told.
Love is such a little word, but oh the power it holds,
The hearts that it has broken, the lies that it has told...
I always wanted to be a rock star. That was my childhood dream. That`s what i told everybody i was going to be when i grew up.
I met an old lady once, almost a hundred years old, and she told me, "There are only two questions that human beings have ever fought over, all through history. How much do you love me? And Who`s in charge?"