rumors

Link	Quote	Tags	Author
429b2fa	A lie can run round the world before the truth has got its boots on.	rumors truth	Terry Pratchett
c123f00	I don't have to listen to rumors about a man when I can judge him for myself.	rumors truth	Stephen King
722c3b6	Know that diamonds and roses are as uncomfortable when they tumble from one's lips as toads and frogs: colder, too, and sharper, and they cut.	metaphor rumors truth	Neil Gaiman
e644c25	Rumors said that if he got drunk enough, he sometimes got his jollies by stripping naked and scaring hikers out in the Broken into thinking he was Bigfoot.	on-the-edge rose rumors	Ilona Andrews
060d6f6	"So, regarding that tidbit about your having a fertile imagination when it comes to private activities," she said, fighting off anxiety. "Was it another lie?" "Depends on how you look at it. It's not exactly a lie, and if you come with me to the Weird, you'll find that rumors of my 'creativity' when it comes to bed games with the opposite sex do exist. I started them myself and managed them very carefully. The trick with rumors is to feed them once in a while, so they don't die."	ilona-andrews on-the-edge rose rumors	Ilona Andrews
b3b7dc1	The cold hard truth will fall on stony ground, whereas your all-around trashy rumor will flourish like a weed.	rumors truth	Sue Grafton
b4dbfa8	"Kipster is a perfectly valid word," Wendy argued, about to write down her score on the little notepad that had come with the game. "Okay, so what does it mean?" Mandy wanted to know. Wendy struggled to come up with an answer, and finally just changed the subject with school gossip. Mandy found herself just ignoring it... it always sounded the same, the same events, same rumors, same secrets, same affairs, but never anything of interest to her. "Well Sarah's on drugs again and that's why she did it in Mario's backseat, but now she might be pregnant, oh, and that messed-up Seth kid's been cutting himself again so he was sent away to Halifax last week, and there's a festival in Wolfville but Kathy won't go because Audrey-Rose is going to be there and they hate each other, and...." Mandy had learned two years ago to detach herself from gossip; she'd learned it from Jud's death. Wendy may have been eighteen years old but she could be immature on the best of days."	80-s argue baby boring bullying canada cape-breton coming-of-age drama drama-queen eating eighties fighting funny game gossip growing-up kipster maturity nostalgia nova-scotia pollution rumors scary scrabble self-harm suicide teenage words	Rebecca McNutt
626e05c	They made burning statements with questions, and killing tools out of laughs. It was mass cruelty. A mood come alive. Words walking without master...	rumors	Zora Neale Hurston
2d656d1	"You and your husband have, I think, been very fortunate to know so little, by experience, in your own case or in that of your friends, of the wicked recklessness with which people repeat things to the disadvantage of others, without a thought as to whether they have grounds for asserting what they say. I have met with a good deal of utter misrepresentation of that kind. And another result of my experience is the conviction that the opinion of "people" in general is absolutely worthless as a test of right and wrong. The only two tests I now apply to such a question as the having some particular girl-friend as a guest are, first, my own conscience, to settle whether I feel it to be entirely innocent and right, in the sight of God; secondly, the parents of my friend, to settle whether I have their full approval for what I do. You need not be shocked at my being spoken against. Anybody, who is spoken about at all, is sure to be spoken against by somebody: and any action, however innocent in itself, is liable, and not at all unlikely, to be blamed by somebody. If you limit your actions in life to things that nobody can possibly find fault with, you will not do much"	gossip gossips hearsay heresay mary-collingwood reputation rumor rumors	Lewis Carroll
ef83c99	Hearsay, even from the people I love, doesn't equate to gospel truth.	gospel-truth hearsay katie-mcgarry pushing-the-limits romance rumor rumors truth young-adult	Katie McGarry
0dcd21a	The fact that none of these civic worriers had ever heard of such a case was unimportant, because they all had heard of somebody who had heard of it!	rumors society	Sinclair Lewis
58246c5	Put the fire out? Hell no. What we need to do is stoke it.	publicity rumors scandal	Jess Walter
0054bff	What the hell does this say about India? Appearances are more important than truths. Gossip is more potent than facts. Loyalty is all one way, from the woman to the man. And when society stacks up all the odds against a woman, she'd better not count on the man's support. She has no way out other than to end her own life. And I'm in love with an Indian. I must be crazy.	gossip india love rumors	Shashi Tharoor
3de4ee4	"...Father dislikes weaponry of any sort. " "Yes, he's even suspicious of Mother's knitting scissors," Barnaby B pointed out. "He feels all warfare should be conducted with taunts and gibes and vicious rumors."	rumors taunts war warfare weapons	Lois Lowry

A lie can run round the world before the truth has got its boots on.

Terry Pratchett

c123f00

I don't have to listen to rumors about a man when I can judge him for myself.

rumors truth

Stephen King

722c3b6

Know that diamonds and roses are as uncomfortable when they tumble from one's lips as toads and frogs: colder, too, and sharper, and they cut.

metaphor rumors truth

Neil Gaiman

e644c25

Rumors said that if he got drunk enough, he sometimes got his jollies by stripping naked and scaring hikers out in the Broken into thinking he was Bigfoot.

on-the-edge rose rumors

Ilona Andrews

060d6f6

"So, regarding that tidbit about your having a fertile imagination when it comes to private activities," she said, fighting off anxiety. "Was it another lie?" "Depends on how you look at it. It's not exactly a lie, and if you come with me to the Weird, you'll find that rumors of my 'creativity' when it comes to bed games with the opposite sex do exist. I started them myself and managed them very carefully. The trick with rumors is to feed them once in a while, so they don't die."

ilona-andrews on-the-edge rose rumors

Ilona Andrews

b3b7dc1

The cold hard truth will fall on stony ground, whereas your all-around trashy rumor will flourish like a weed.

rumors truth

Sue Grafton

b4dbfa8

"Kipster is a perfectly valid word," Wendy argued, about to write down her score on the little notepad that had come with the game. "Okay, so what does it mean?" Mandy wanted to know. Wendy struggled to come up with an answer, and finally just changed the subject with school gossip. Mandy found herself just ignoring it... it always sounded the same, the same events, same rumors, same secrets, same affairs, but never anything of interest to her. "Well Sarah's on drugs again and that's why she did it in Mario's backseat, but now she might be pregnant, oh, and that messed-up Seth kid's been cutting himself again so he was sent away to Halifax last week, and there's a festival in Wolfville but Kathy won't go because Audrey-Rose is going to be there and they hate each other, and...." Mandy had learned two years ago to detach herself from gossip; she'd learned it from Jud's death. Wendy may have been eighteen years old but she could be immature on the best of days."

80-s argue baby boring bullying canada cape-breton coming-of-age drama drama-queen eating eighties fighting funny game gossip growing-up kipster maturity nostalgia nova-scotia pollution rumors scary scrabble self-harm suicide teenage words

Rebecca McNutt

626e05c

They made burning statements with questions, and killing tools out of laughs. It was mass cruelty. A mood come alive. Words walking without master...

rumors

Zora Neale Hurston

2d656d1

"You and your husband have, I think, been very fortunate to know so little, by experience, in your own case or in that of your friends, of the wicked recklessness with which people repeat things to the disadvantage of others, without a thought as to whether they have grounds for asserting what they say. I have met with a good deal of utter misrepresentation of that kind. And another result of my experience is the conviction that the opinion of "people" in general is absolutely worthless as a test of right and wrong. The only two tests I now apply to such a question as the having some particular girl-friend as a guest are, first, my own conscience, to settle whether I feel it to be entirely innocent and right, in the sight of God; secondly, the parents of my friend, to settle whether I have their full approval for what I do. You need not be shocked at my being spoken against. Anybody, who is spoken about at all, is sure to be spoken against by somebody: and any action, however innocent in itself, is liable, and not at all unlikely, to be blamed by somebody. If you limit your actions in life to things that nobody can possibly find fault with, you will not do much"

gossip gossips hearsay heresay mary-collingwood reputation rumor rumors

Lewis Carroll

ef83c99

Hearsay, even from the people I love, doesn't equate to gospel truth.

gospel-truth hearsay katie-mcgarry pushing-the-limits romance rumor rumors truth young-adult

Katie McGarry

0dcd21a

The fact that none of these civic worriers had ever heard of such a case was unimportant, because they all had heard of somebody who had heard of it!

rumors society

Sinclair Lewis

58246c5

Put the fire out? Hell no. What we need to do is stoke it.

publicity rumors scandal

Jess Walter

0054bff

What the hell does this say about India? Appearances are more important than truths. Gossip is more potent than facts. Loyalty is all one way, from the woman to the man. And when society stacks up all the odds against a woman, she'd better not count on the man's support. She has no way out other than to end her own life. And I'm in love with an Indian. I must be crazy.

gossip india love rumors

Shashi Tharoor

3de4ee4

"...Father dislikes weaponry of any sort. " "Yes, he's even suspicious of Mother's knitting scissors," Barnaby B pointed out. "He feels all warfare should be conducted with taunts and gibes and vicious rumors."

rumors taunts war warfare weapons

Lois Lowry