quotes about Ive Learned

last updated: November 28, 2023

“How do you know if you are living to far above (or below) those among whom you are ministering? Ask yourself this question: Is this (car, house, lifestyle) helping me or hindering me in winning and discipling people for Jesus?”
“Early in life I had noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper.”
“Dreams were the worst. Of course I dreamed of food and love, but they were pleasant rather than otherwise. But then I'd dream of things like slitting a baby's throat, mistaking it for a baby goat. I'd have nightmares of other islands stretching away from mine, infinities of islands, islands spawning islands, like frogs' eggs turning into polliwogs of islands, knowing that I had to live on each and every one, eventually, for ages, registering their flora, their fauna, their geography.”
“People think I don't like interviews but I don't mind speaking about proper and interesting stuff. When it's stupid stuff to build your image and you are told to mention this and mention that, I hate it.”
“If there are going to be people out there making war on other people, don't you think it's a good idea for some of those people to at least follow a code of ethics? Not 'honor' but something you can pin down and be sure of, something with the same rules for everybody.”
“A work of art may be understood as a conductor from the artist's mind to the viewer's. But it may never reach the viewer, or it may never leave the artist's mind.”
“The thing that hurts, that became anger, was when I realized that if you tell the truth, in a country that says youâ€™re entitled to tell the truth, you get your face slapped and you get put out of work.”

Source : "Singer, Actress, Dancer Eartha Kitt Dies of Colon Cancer at Age 81", www.foxnews.com. December 25, 2008.
“Our body is not made of iron. Our strength is not that of stone. Live and hope in the Lord, and let your service be according to reason.”
“high school guys only appear hot to high school girls. its something to do with the fluorescent lighting in the classrooms, i think. They're actually really skinny and spotty, and they have giant feet”
“Work with the raw material you have, namely you, and never let up.”

Source : Helen Gurley Brown (2012). “Sex and the Single Girl: The Unmarried Woman's Guide to Men”, p.22, Open Road Media