Paraphrased By Me Quotes

#1. Arjuna, fair or unfair, the results of any action depend on five things: the body, the mind, the instruments, the method and divine grace (luck? fate?). Only the ignorant think they alone are responsible for any outcome. - Bhagavad Gita: Chapter 18, verses 13 to 16 (paraphrased).

Devdutt Pattanaik

#2. It sounded like a piece of blackboard being dragged over the nails of a wall of severed fingers.

Neil Gaiman

#3. Are you kidding? That guy was a mystery wrapped in an enigma and crudely stapled to a ticking fucking time bomb. He was either going to hit somebody or start a blog.

Lev Grossman

#4. Mothers are the necessity of invention.

Bill Watterson

#5. What doesn't kill us makes us funnier.

Marian Keyes

#6. Because in one sense the drinker learns wisdom, in the words of Goethe or Blake or whichever it was The pathway to wisdom lies through excess

Jack Kerouac

#7. When I listen to you, God
when I do what you ask me to,
I am like a tree
planted by a river,
a tree full of fruit
with leaves that are always green. Ps 1(paraphrased)

Marie-Helene Delval

#8. When scriptures are used as the Lord has caused them to be recorded, they have intrinsic power that is not communicated when paraphrased.

Richard G. Scott

#9. A metaphor cannot be paraphrased

Percival Everett

#10. There's no clear water from a muddy well. All you can do is let the silt settle until the water clears otherwise it will taste sour. (paraphrased)

Patrick Rothfuss

#11. Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver.

Barbara De Angelis

#12. If the bee disappeared off the face of the earth, man would only have four years left to live.

Maurice Maeterlinck

#13. Love yourself before you love someone else.

Leslie Becker-Phelps

#14. Sometimes it's better to light a flamethrower than curse the darkness.

Terry Pratchett

#15. To paraphrase Montaigne - even when you're sitting on the highest throne in the world, you're still sitting on your arse.

M.J. Carter

#16. Beware the abuse of Power. Both by those we disagree with, as well as those we may agree with

Ben Carson

#17. The proper study of Mankind is Everything.

Margaret Atwood

#18. You woke up on the wrong side of the oak tree, didn't you? (Acheron)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#19. People with disabilities not only need to be given lives, they need to be given lives worth living. (paraphrased, not a direct quote))

Helen Keller

#20. The Battle of Normandy was won on the beaches of Dieppe

Louis Mountbatten

#21. I'm a little pencil in the hand of a writing God, who is sending a love letter to the world.

Mother Teresa

#22. Genius has its limitations.
Insanity ... not so much -Bumper Sticker

Darynda Jones

#23. Her life was the significant pause between two glances in a mirror." ( paraphrased from The Beautiful and Damned")

F Scott Fitzgerald

#24. Paraphrased: Among the degrees of the universal Manifestation, each sentient creature typically experiences an illusory sense of autonomy. At the same time, with or without the creature's awareness, the creature subsists eternally as an "immutable prototype" in the divine Knowledge.

Abdelkader El Djezairi

#25. Today is the last day of some of your life. Don't waste it. quote from Tara Daniels

Jill Shalvis

#26. There is no God and we are his prophets.

Cormac McCarthy

#27. He who hesitates is a damned fool.

Mae West

#28. We have seen the best minds of our generation destroyed by boredom at poetry readings.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

#29. Nothing is forever except change.

Gautama Buddha

#30. Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.

Mother Teresa

#31. I have something that I call my Golden Rule. It goes something like this: 'Do unto others twenty-five percent better than you expect them to do unto you.' ... The twenty-five percent is for error.

Linus Pauling

#32. Accentuaute the positives - medicate the negatives.

Amy Sedaris

#33. If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed.

Adolf Hitler

#34. The point isn't to win the game. The point is to play a beautiful game. (paraphrased)

Patrick Rothfuss