Someone Wise Once Told Me Quotes

#1. Come on," I say. "Dance with me now." "I didn't realize you danced." "I don't," I say. "But someone wise once told me that for the right woman, you've gotta be willing to do anything.

J.M. Darhower

#2. For a wise man, I have been told, once said, 'Gratitude is best and most effective when it does not evaporate in empty phrases.' But alas, my lady, I am but a mass of empty phrases, it would seem.

Isaac Asimov

#3. Some people don't need parental commitment, they will still come out great, but for others, parents can be critical in providing moral and academic guidance.

Amy Chua

#4. Tripping is embarrassing, but I have learned that where we stumble is the place we dig for gold - where we trip is where the treasure lies.

Calvin Miller

#5. A very wise person once told me marriage is hard, that you have to keep fighting for it everyday.

Liz Fenton

#6. My pitching in 'Dazed and Confused' was so bad that they had to use cut-ins with a stunt double, and I spent most of that filming night being ruthlessly mocked by a team of Little League extras.

Wiley Wiggins

#7. He looked down at her. "Have you found that peace?"
Yes, she had. But it was so corny and cliched that she couldn't bring herself to admit it.
"A wise man once told me that peace has to come from within. We have to learn to like ourselves before we can find our place in the world.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#8. I remeber asking a wise man, once ... 'Why do Men fear the dark?' ... 'Because darkness' he told me, 'is ignorance made visable.' 'And do Men despise ignorance?' I asked. 'No,' he said, 'they prize it above all things
all things!
but only so long as it remains invisible.

R. Scott Bakker

#9. I was once told by someone wise that writing is perilous as you cannot always guarantee your words will be read in the spirit in which they were written.

Jojo Moyes

#10. A wise old owl once told me,
One time when he was out of his tree,
That nothing in this world is for free.
I agree!

P.D. Cain

#11. When I was a teenager, a psychic told me, 'Your biggest challenge will be life-work balance.' That's certainly turned out to be true!

Natalie Massenet

#12. Mat, a very wise woman once told me that time would heal my wounds, that time smoothed everything over. I didn't believe her. Only

Robert Jordan

#13. A wise youth counselor once told me, "Don't ask what God's will is for you." Simply ask, "What is God's will?

Lee Carver

#14. A painter is a choreographer of space.

Barnett Newman

#15. The primary subject of fiction is and has always been human emotion, values, and beliefs.

John Gardner

#16. She's different."
"Everyone is different."
"Then let's say I like the ways in which she's different. A wise man once told me no man can escape death, but it's how we run that defines us. And if I have to run, I think I'd like to go where she's going.

Michael J. Sullivan

#17. A wise man once told me that the place where they make law is the place where they're the least likely to obey it,

Larry Correia

#18. I freed a thousand slaves. I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves.

Harriet Tubman

#19. A wise man once told me that you can't change what's happened but you can damn sure change what's yet to come.

Vicki Green

#20. That was when I realised a sad but incontrovertible truth: I was a geek, and there was no getting around it. I could dress in Kate's clothes, but it didn't make me Kate.

Sharon Sant

#21. Phillip hardened his grip on Totka's. "For all our manipulations, God always manages to get His way."
"A beautiful woman once told me our Jesus Creator is a good and wise chief, worthy of obedience without question. His plan is perfect. Wait, and you will see.

April W. Gardner

#22. A wise man has told us that "men are once for all so made that they prefer a rational world to believe in and live in."

Jane Addams

#23. Jane Greyson had once told me that my voice was one of the Ancients - old and wise.

Millicent Ashby

#24. A wise man once told me that mystery is the most essential ingredient of life, for the following reason: mystery creates wonder, which leads to curiosity, which in turn provides the ground for our desire to understand who and what we truly are.

Mark Frost

#25. I've done interviews in one day that went on for fifteen, sixteen hours. And at a certain point, the control over what they're saying breaks down; it becomes different. It becomes really powerful, and for me, real. It becomes out of control.

Errol Morris

#26. One trophy is good, but two are better. That way, when a hero wears his medals on his chest, at least his steps are level as he walks by.

Johan Cruyff

#27. A wise friend once told me, 'Don't wear what fashion designers tell you to wear. Wear what _they_ wear.' His point being that most designers, no matter what they throw onto the runway, favor simple, flattering pieces for themselves.

Tina Fey

#28. I kick-kick game, can't injure Nicki. That's why they nick-nicknamed me Ninja Nicki.

Nicki Minaj

#29. A wise man once told me that only by leaving someone good can you meet someone better.

Pittacus Lore

#30. A wise man once told me family don't end in blood, but it doesn't start there either. Family cares about you, not what you can do for them. Family's there through the good, bad, all of it. They got your back even when it hurts. That's family

Eric Kripke

#31. A wise man once told me, Life's greatest fear is having knowledge of something, and dying before having the opportunity to share it." -Charles Blair

Charles Blair

#32. Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.

Anthony Trollope

#33. One excuse, could destroy a multitude of chances.

Anthony Liccione