Tales Quotes - Page 14

When I see throughout this book, called the Bible, a history of the grossest vices and a collection of the most paltry and contemptible tales and stories, I could not so dishonor my Creator by calling it by His name.

Thomas Paine

Book, Names, Religion

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There is, however, a strong empirical reason why we should cultivate thoughts that can never be proved. It is that they are known to be useful. Man positively needs general ideas & convictions that will give a meaning to his life & enable him to find a place for himself in the universe. He can stand the most incredible hardships when he is convinced that they make sense; he is crushed when on top of all his misfortunes, he has to admit that he is taking part in a ‘tale told by an idiot.’

Carl Jung

Strong, Mean, Son

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The naive was only a part of my fairy tales; humour was the real salt in them.

Hans Christian Andersen

Real, Salt, Fairy Tale

"Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales: A Selection".

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Every civilization that has ever existed has ultimately collapsed. History is a tale of efforts that failed, or aspirations that weren’t realized. So, as a historian, one has to live with a sense of the inevitability of tragedy.

Henry A. Kissinger

Civilization, Effort, Tragedy

"Henry Kissinger and the American Approach to Foreign Policy". Book by Gregory D. Cleva, 1989.

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It's only in fairy tales that princesses can afford to wait for the handsome prince to save them. In real life, they have to bust out of their own coffins and do the saving themselves.

Meg Cabot

Real, Princess, Waiting

Meg Cabot (2013). “The Abandon Trilogy: Abandon, Underworld and Awaken”, p.58, Pan Macmillan

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The hero of my tale, whom I love with all the power of my soul, whom I have tried to portray in all his beauty, who has been, is, and will be beautiful, is Truth.

Leo Tolstoy

Love, Beautiful, Hero

Leo Tolstoy (2012). “Collected Shorter Fiction, vol. 1”, p.210, Everyman's Library

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It [the Earth] was breathtakingly beautiful, like something out of a fairy tale. There is no way to describe the joy of seeing the Earth. It is blue, and more beautiful than any other planet.

Valentina Tereshkova

Beautiful, Blue, Joy

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The dead have need of fairy tales too.

Zbigniew Herbert

Needs, Fairy Tale, Fairy

Zbigniew Herbert (2014). “The Collected Poems 1956 - 1998”, p.47, Atlantic Books Ltd

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Imagination has given us the steam engine, the telephone, the talking-machine, and the automobile, for these things had to be dreamed of before they became realities. So I believe that dreams - day dreams, you know, with your eyes wide open and your brain machinery whizzing - are likely to lead to the betterment of the world. The imaginative child will become the imaginative man or woman most apt to create, to invent, and therefore to foster civilization. A prominent educator tells me that fairy tales are of untold value in developing imagination in the young. I believe it.

L. Frank Baum

Dream, Children, Believe

"The Lost Princess of Oz". Book by L. Frank Baum, 1917.

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THE NAME OF THE WIND marks the debut of a writer we would all do well to watch. Patrick Rothfuss has real talent, and his tale of Kvothe is deep and intricate and wondrous.

Terry Brooks

Real, Wind, Names

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Ever since ROME, OPEN CITY, I have maintained a conscious, determined endeavor to try to understand the world in which I live, in a spirit of humility and respect for the facts and for history. What as the meaning of ROME, OPEN CITY? We were emerging from the tragedy of the war. We had all taken part in it, for we were all its victims. I sought only to picture the essence of things. I had absolutely no interest in telling a romanticized tale along the usual lives of film drama. The actual facts were each more dramatic than any screen cliche.

Roberto Rossellini

War, Drama, Taken

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Life is a fairy tale. Live it with wonder and amazement.

Welwyn Wilton Katz

Inspirational, Meaning Of Life, Fairy Tale

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Who would have listened to his tales of woe when his love was the flickering lamp over his own decaying tomb?

Faraaz Kazi

Love, Lamps, Woe

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The 'medical examination' to which abductees are said to be subjected, often accompanied by sadistic sexual manipulation, is reminiscient of the medieval tales of encounters with demons. It makes no sense in a sophisticated or technical framework: any intelligent being equipped with the scientific marvels that UFOs possess would be in a position to achieve any of these alleged scientific objectives in a shorter time and with fewer risks.

Jacques Vallee

Intelligent, Risk, Encounters

"Confrontations: A Scientist's Search for Alien Contact". Book by Jacques Vallee, 1990.

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I was born to catch dragons in their dens
And pick flowers
To tell tales and laugh away the morning
To drift and dream like a lazy stream
And walk barefoot across sunshine days.

James Kavanaugh

Dream, Morning, Flower

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A vivid tale of exploration set in a howling, deadly wilderness.

T. J. Stiles

Vivid, Wilderness, Exploration

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The fact that fairy tales remain a literary underdog - undervalued and undermined - even as they shape so many popular stories, redoubles my certainty that it is time for contemporary fairy tales to be celebrated in a popular, literary collection. Fairy tales hold the secret to reading.

Kate Bernheimer

Reading, Secret, Underdog

"My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me". Anthology, September 28, 2010.

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In grammar school they taught me that a frog turning into a prince was a fairy tale. In the university they taught me that a frog turning into a prince was a fact!

Ron Carlson

School, Frogs, Taught

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Chicago is partly a fairy tale because it's inside one person's head, so that part of it's made up and the rest of it is reality.

Colleen Atwood

Reality, Chicago, Fairy Tale

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The Long and the Short and the Tall made a great impression on me because it was a very ugly tale about the reality of soldiering at a time when we were being gung-ho about the whole thing of war.

Timothy West

War, Reality, Long

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One tell-tale sign of a Wingnut: they always confuse partisanship with patriotism.

John Avlon

Patriotism, Partisanship

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There are no footprints on the sea and no road-signs, not a single guard-stone or post, and no bends, only paths of light and dark from which to choose, the choice is always a difficult navigation and the storm's wingspan immeasurable as the depths and the horizon, but the sea holds you in its mighty hand your life is a sea-blue tale of love and death.

Ase-Marie Nesse

Life, Dark, Light

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Things can happen in some cities and the tale of them will be interesting: the same story laid in another city would be ridiculous.

Frank Norris

Cities, Interesting, Would Be

Frank Norris, Donald Pizer (1986). “Novels and Essays”, p.1112, Library of America

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In Land of Milk and Money, Anthony Barcellos mines rich family history to create a full-blooded tale that readers will find insightful, rewarding, and entertaining.

John Lescroart

Land, Insightful, Rich Family

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Stories come from violence, they come from sex. They come from death. They come from the dark places that everyone has to go to, kind of wants to, or doesn't, but needs to deal with. If you raise a kid to think everything is sunshine and flowers, they're going to get into the real world and die. That's the reason fairy tales are so creepy, because we need to encapsulate these things, to inoculate ourselves against them, so that when we're confronted by the genuine horror that is day-to-day life we don't go insane.

Joss Whedon

Sex, Real, Flower

"Joss Whedon: Conversations". Book by Cynthia Burkhead, March 29, 2011.

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