Teresa Medeiros Quotes

A true friend never asks you to feed their imaginary fish. Or fertilize their imaginary crops.

Teresa Medeiros

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• Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Truth
  • Society
  • Health

• Questions are like the knocks of beggarmen, and should not be minded.

  

  Flann O'Brien
  • Questions
  • Minded
  • Beggarmem

• I believe in instinct, not reason. When reason is right, nine times out of ten it is impotent, and when it prevails, nine times out of ten it is wrong.

  

  A. C. Benson
  • Believe

• Never settle for second when first is available

  

  Lou Holtz
  • Firsts
  • Available
  • Settling

• I play every game like it's my last game. All that matters is that you go out there and play every game as if it was your last.

  

  Allen Iverson
  • Game
  • Play
  • Matters

• I assure this committee that, if I am confirmed, I will be strictly independent of all political influences... essential to that institution's ability to function effectively and achieve its mandated objectives.

  

  Ben Bernanke
  • Political
  • Independent
  • Ability

• Art is rarely intelligible to the criminal classes.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Art
  • Criminal
  • Classes

• Texas is reportedly going to give college students the right to carry guns on campus. So I guess that next semester, every college student in Texas is getting straight A's.

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • College
  • Students
  • Texas

• My own perception is that there are two tiers of countries, one, the original ASEAN, and then the new members. The new members are in various stages of development.

  

  S. R. Nathan
  • Country
  • Perception
  • Two

• Personally, I believe very much in values of savagery; I mean: instinct, passion, mood, violence, madness.

  

  Jean Dubuffet
  • Passion
  • Values
  • Instinct

• The greatest problem for the human species, the solution of which nature compels him to seek, is that of attaining a civil society which can administer justice universally.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Problem
  • Justice
  • Human Species

• The first key to greatness is to be in reality what we appear to be.

  

  Socrates
  • Reality
  • Greatness
  • Key

• Neither birth nor sex forms a limit to genius.

  

  Charlotte Bronte
  • Sex
  • Birth
  • Genuis

• An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't. It's knowing where to go to find out what you need to know, and it's knowing how to use the information once you get it.

  

  William Feather
  • Education
  • Learning
  • Memories

• Try to understand what I am saying: everything is dependent on everything else, everything is connected, nothing is separate. Therefore everything is going in the only way it can go. If people were different everything would be different. They are what they are, so everything is as it is.

  

  G. I. Gurdjieff
  • People
  • Different

• I've slowly gone back, later on in life, to fish and then chicken and then, last year, red meat.

  

  Sarah Chalke
  • Meat
  • Fishes
  • Chickens

• I think that Ryu Chishu, or Tanaka Kinuyo, or to be more precise, the imaginary characters they portrayed, were more real to the film buffs than any existing human being. This is why cinephiles are spookier, on the whole, than music lovers or balletomanes. For they are creatures of the dark, getting off on the lives of others.

  

  Ian Buruma
  • Real
  • Characters
  • Imaginary

• when one went fishing in information networks, one also became fish food.

  

  Carol O'Connell
  • Internet
  • Information
  • Fishing

• A true friend never asks you to feed their imaginary fish. Or fertilize their imaginary crops.

  

  Teresa Medeiros
  • Asks
  • Imaginary
  • Fishes