Idries Shah Quotes
A man who believes the word of a donkey in preference to my word does not deserve to be lent anything.
Idries Shah
Quotes to Explore
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We always knew how to honor fallen soldiers. They were killed for our sake, they went out on our mission. But how are we to mourn a random man killed in a terrorist attack while sitting in a cafe? How do you mourn a housewife who got on a bus and never returned?
A. B. Yehoshua
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A woman's experience is different from a man's in virtually every respect, including how she is treated by the media.
Carly Fiorina
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Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.
H. L. Mencken
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I have yet to see a piece of writing, political or non-political, that doesn't have a slant. All writing slants the way a writer leans, and no man is born perpendicular, although many men are born upright.
E. B. White
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I am a common man. Why do I need security?
Kariya Munda
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Like many other women, I could not understand why every man who changed a diaper has felt impelled, in recent years, to write a book about it.
Barbara Ehrenreich
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The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.
Confucius
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Just because I never went to university doesn't mean you can't read, although I do feel a bit uneducated from time to time.
Naveen Andrews
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I had met a lady there by the name of Laura Ziffren.She heard that I got signed to Virgin and reached out to my management company. They needed a kid to sing that part in the movie, and she remembered me, and her people reached out to my people, and I went and auditioned, and I got the part [in Romeo + Juliet].
Quindon Tarver
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I see a curator as a catalyst, generator and motivator - a sparring partner, accompanying the artist while they build a show, and a bridge builder, creating a bridge to the public.
Hans-Ulrich Obrist
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For after the subject is removed or the eye shut, we still retain an image of the things seen, though more obscure than when we see it...Imagination, therefore, is nothing more than decaying sense.
Thomas Hobbes
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A man who believes the word of a donkey in preference to my word does not deserve to be lent anything.
Idries Shah
