Quotes of: Fable Keyword

Dreams are composed of many things, my son. Of images and hopes, of fears and memories. Memories of the past, and memories of the future...

The Sandman, Vol. 6: Fables and Reflections

- The myths are dead. The gods are dead. The ghosts and ghouls and phantoms are dead. There is only the State, and the People. - No, Monsieur Robespierre. There is much more than that.

The Sandman, Vol. 6: Fables and Reflections

Trees there were, old as trees can be, huge and grasping with hearts black as sin. Strange trees that some said walked in the night.

The Sandman, Vol. 6: Fables and Reflections

A man should not glory in what he already knows but in what he has yet to learn.

Virgin And The Crab: Sketches, Fables And Mysteries From The Early Life Of John Dee And Elizabeth Tudor

Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fantasies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most terrible thing. The child mind accepts and believes them, and only through great pain and perhaps tragedy can he be in aft...

Hypatia

Sometimes success isn't about making the right decision, it's more about making some decision.

The Leader Who Had No Title: A Modern Fable on Real Success in Business and in Life

I must confess, I have always wondered what lay beyond life, my dear. Yeah, everybody wonders. And sooner or later everybody gets to find out.

The Sandman, Vol. 6: Fables and Reflections

Worry drains the mind of its power and, sooner or later, it injures the soul

The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari: A Fable About Fulfilling Your Dreams & Reaching Your Destiny

Worry drains the mindof its power and, sooner or later, it injures the soul

The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari: A Fable About Fulfilling Your Dreams & Reaching Your Destiny

I've heard that the best way to help poor people is to make sure you don't become one of them

The Leader Who Had No Title: A Modern Fable on Real Success in Business and in Life

There is nothing noble about being superior to some other person. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self.

The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari: A Fable About Fulfilling Your Dreams & Reaching Your Destiny

Perhaps I lost sight of my dreams when I became an adult and resigned myself to acting the way adults were supposed to act.

The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari: A Fable About Fulfilling Your Dreams & Reaching Your Destiny

What the society thinks is of no interest to me. All that's important is how I see myself. I know who who I am. I know the value of my work.

The Leader Who Had No Title: A Modern Fable on Real Success in Business and in

Of course you don't believe in fairies. You're fifteen. You think I believed in fairies at fifteen? Took me until I was at least a hundred and forty. Hundred and fifty, maybe. Anyway, he wasn't a fairy. He was a librarian. All right?

The Sandman, Vol. 6: Fables and Reflections

You attend the funeral, you bid the dead farewell. You grieve. Then you continue with your life. And at times the fact of her absence will hit you like a blow to the chest, and you will weep. But this will happen less and less as time goes on. She is...

The Sandman, Vol. 6: Fables and Reflections

In the tortoise and the hair fable, I believe the tortoise represents big business, while the hair represents small business. Not featured in the fable is the six-ton snail, which represents the government. Not only is it massive and unbelievably slo...

This is the best book I've ever written, and it still sucks

What is history but a fable agreed upon?

Napoleon Bonaparte

Later, Aldapuerta spent two years at medical school where he learned the geography of the human body and something of its almost infinite capacity for suffering anddegradation. He took especial delight in tending to the physically incapacitated and w...

The Eyes: Emetic Fables from the Andalusian de Sade

Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fancies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most terrible thing. The child mind accepts and believes them, and only through great pain and perhaps tragedy can he be in after...

Hypatia

Once a wolf, always a wolf.

Aesop's Fables

Natural history is not about producing fables.

David Attenborough