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 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
  • Texas
  • Students

• 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

• Sporadic thoughts will pop into my head and I'll have to go write something down, and the next thing you know, I've written a whole song in an hour.

  

  Marshall Bruce Mathers III Bad Meets Evil'
  • Writing
  • Song
  • Hours

• What women would do if they could not cry, nobody knows. What poor, defenceless creatures they would be!

  

  Douglas Jerrold
  • Women
  • Poor
  • Cry

• Where do you run for help? When you are in trouble, what is your first instinct? Do you run to others or to God? Is it usually the counsel of another rather than the counsel found in waiting upon God in prayer? Why is this the way it is? Why do we run to man before we run to God?

  

  Kay Arthur
  • Men
  • Running
  • Waiting

• There are a lot of really funny guys who are very natural in what they do: Jonah Hill, Michael Cera, Seth Rogen.

  

  Will Ferrell
  • Guy
  • Natural

• All a writer's characters are imaginary, no matter whether they are based on real people or not. They are people as one imagines them to be.

  

  Allan Massie
  • People
  • Real
  • Characters

• In the hands of an able cook, fish can become an inexhaustible source of perpetual delight.

  

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
  • Food
  • Able
  • Delight

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

  

  Teresa Medeiros
  • Asks
  • Imaginary
  • Fishes