Quotes about rumors

Carley Sutherlin -

your gonna meet new people, but be careful most of them are 2 faced. But remember the most important people is God and family aren't 2 faced so look up to the ones that are important in your life.

Shannon A. Thompson - July Thunder

Some rumors said she was a demon from another world. Other rumors said she was death incarnate, someone to remind us of our misdeeds. But no one had said how beautiful she was. No one had mentioned her eyes. The ones that showed color only for a second. A hint of beauty in absolute blackness.

Max Frei - The Stranger

Where do rumors come from, Sir Kofa?" i was truly curious to know the answer."Where don't they come from? I suppose the majority of rumors are a combination of leaked information and the astouding imaginations of numerous storytellers. And, of course, the hope that things aren't really as boring as they seem on the surface.

Aeschylus - Agamemnon

Rumours voiced by women come to nothing.

Bill Maher - The New New Rules: A Funny Look At How Everybody But Me Has Their Head Up Their Ass

New Rule: Never underestimate the ability of a tiny fringe group of losers to ruin everything. We've all been laughing heartily at the wacky antics of the "birthers"--the far-right goofballs who claim Obama wasn't really born in Hawaii, and therefore the job of the president goes to the runner-up, Miss California Carrie Prejean. And there's nothing you can do to convince these people--you could hand them, in person, the original birth certificate, with the placenta, and have a video of Obama eme

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah -

anytime you speak to anybody, remember somebody

Orrin Woodward -

Be discerning with rumors on leaders, for most are birthed by the envy of the idle or the desperation of the defeated.

Terry Pratchett - The Truth

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

Kathleen O'Dell - The Aviary

And though there’s a grain of truth in every rumor, I’ve found that the worst gossip usually starts with something harmless.

RYCJ -

Never settle for half the story, and make-up and imagine the rest. Get the full Story!

John Irving - In One Person

Don't forget this, too: Rumors aren't interested in the unsensational story; rumors don't care what's true.

Neil Gaiman - Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders

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.

Amanda Quick - Ravished

When you are rich and powerful, no one will challenge you to your face or give you a chance to explain yourself. All the whispers are behind your back. You are left with no means of clearing your own name. And after a while you realize there is no point in even attempting to do so. No one wants the truth. All anyone wants is the chance to add more fuel to the fires of gossip. The whispers become so loud that sometimes you think you will drown in them.

Toba Beta - My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

News told, rumors heard, truth implied, facts buried.

Adlai E. Stevenson II -

I offer my opponents a bargain: if they will stop telling lies about us, I will stop telling the truth about them

Patrick Rothfuss - The Wise Man's Fear

I’d heard you were dead.”"I heard you wear a red lace corset,” I said matter-of-factly. “But I don’t believe every bit of nonsense that gets rumored about.

Amit Kalantri -

My past conduct was so transparent and so honest that when my enemies spread rumours about me nobody believed them.

Justin David Nevins -

A mistake does not make a shadow. The people who you hurt through the mistake and what they decide to say about it is what leaves a shadow. The only way to erase that shadow is to shed light on it. If that is not possible, moving on to somewhere brighter is always an option.

Jesikah Sundin - Transitions: Novella Collection

Not a single rumor whispered on the wind here. He was too high up for such lowly experiences, too removed from the mundane and the pain. For these few blessed moments the rushing sensations blew away his controversial existence. And he smiled.

Sarah Winman - A Year of Marvellous Ways

The principles of catching rumours were, in fact, similar to the principals of catching dreams, but because rumour was weightier, the catcher had to be positioned closer to the ground. Rumour flew low, dreams flew high, and somewhere in between were prayers.

Shannon L. Alder -

Often people that criticise your life are usually the same people that don't know the price you paid to get where you are today. True friends see the full picture of your soul.

Shashi Tharoor - Riot

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.

Sinclair Lewis - Kingsblood Royal

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!

Amaka Imani Nkosazana -

Beware some people are just talking to you to gain information to use against you. Be careful with what you say around others because it may not be understood the way you expected. There are those who are waiting for the opportunity to spread rumors. And, with only a few words your life has been turned into a soap opera.

T.F. Hodge - From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence"

Rumors run wild when one sacrifices for self and temporarily forsakes those who assume entitlement to one's persona.

Paul McCartney -

The rumors of my death have been greatly exaggerated.

Venus Williams -

I guess rumors are more exciting than the truth.

Ben Affleck -

Rumors about me? Calista Flockhart, Pam Anderson, and Matt Damon. That's who I'm dating.

Deyth Banger - 2 Hours

2 Hours for this conclusion is too much and it's ne big fucking lost......What we know about the world... people and so on and so on as it follows it's merely fromConspiracies, rumors and stories.

Colleen Hoover - Hopeless

Some of the things he’s said over the past few days are starting to make sense, and I begin to feel more and more like the people I despise. He told me outright that he would answer anything if I just asked, yet I chose to believe the rumours about him instead. No wonder he was so irritated with me. I was treating him just like everyone else treats me.

Himanshu Chhabra -

Expectations are the rumors we spread inside us.

Richelle E. Goodrich - Making Wishes

If one is content to freely speak trash about another, it is probably more correct to judge them as the one of ill repute and refuse the load of garbage they offer you.

Richelle E. Goodrich - Smile Anyway

Be warned: A person content to sit with you and criticize others will speak critically of you out of earshot.

Cass R. Sunstein - What Can Be Done

Emotions can get in the way of truth-seeking. People do not process information in a neutral way.

Shannon L. Alder -

Insecure people only eclipse your sun because they’re jealous of your daylight and tired of their dark, starless nights.

Anne Rice - Interview with the Vampire

I wish I could," laughed the vampire. "How positively delightful. I should like to pass through all manner of different keyholes and feel the tickle of their peculiar shapes. No." He shook his head. "That is, how would you say today . . . bullshit?

Steve Maraboli - Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

Stay away from people who gossip and spread rumors. They are choosing the path of emotional bullying and negativity.

Paul Simon -

...and all the people said 'What a shame that he's dead, but wasn't he a most peculiar man?

John Clare -

Yet simple souls, their faith it knows no stint:Things least to be believed are most preferred.All counterfeits, as from truth's sacred mint,Are readily believed if once put down in print

Ellen J. Barrier -

People should get their information from the source with facts before sharing it. Rumors can be lots of different opinions, based on what other people think. This is where lies begin to build and develop into things that are harmful to others.

Jennifer Mathieu - The Truth About Alice

Brandon was like a God in Healy, and I guess I was like God's best friend.

Kathryn Holmes -

He’s looking at her with so much compassion. Like he knows what she’s going through. Like he cares about her. This is what she wanted to see after everything happened with Luke. Instead, she saw Jonah’s back, every time he turned and walked away from her.She blurts, “Why are you being nice to me?"She regrets it immediately. It’s the vulnerability talking. The fear. The adrenaline. For a second, she forgot the aloof, thick-skinned Hallelujah she needs to be.Jonah relaxes his grip. He looks away,

Katie McGarry - Chasing Impossible

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

Carley Sutherlin -

Just because you don't like someone doesn't mean you have to talk about them some people may have problems in life and you making rumors can lead to stress and cause the person to kill themselves. This world is filled with crazy people and drunks and anything you can imagine. Instead of making people's lives worse try to help and make it better. God made each and every human with his love, but no one is perfect.

Zora Neale Hurston - Their Eyes Were Watching God

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

Michael Anthony Arnold -

...but if that's all that they are, that's all that they should be, —rumors. Rumor & gossip will always be an unfortunate consequence of living life in accordance to the decisions we make. People talk, —everyone talks, but if it isn't the truth, or merely only a fraction of it, why let it bother you if has no direct effect on how we choose to carry out the rest of our day?

Jess Walter - Beautiful Ruins

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

Lewis Carroll - The Letters of Lewis Carroll: 2 Vols.

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

Madonna - Mr. Peabody's Apples

There is one more thing," said Mr. Peabody. "Now you must go and pick up all the feathers." ... "I don't think it's possible to pick up all the feathers," Tommy replied. "It would be just as impossible to undo the damage that you have done by spreading the rumor that I am a thief," said Mr. Peabody. "Each feather represents a person in Happyville." ... "Next time, don't be so quick to judge a person. And remember the power of your words.

Anthony Liccione -

Worse than talking with a mouthful, is gossiping with a mouthful!

Anthony Liccione -

A good word will spread in the grapevine, bringing forth clusters of grapes and the benevolent of wine; a bad word will spread withering the vines, and choke the potential grapes.

Auliq Ice -

Life has taught me to release my ears from hearing negativity, destructive remarks, false rumors and stupid ways. I learn to open my eyes and my mind to think ahead of my life, to learn more of who I am.

Jamie McGuire - Beautiful Disaster

It was a running joke; everyone was aware of how ridiculous the rumor mill was, and yet they all shamelessly participated in it.

Douglas Malloch -

The biggest liar in the world is They Say.

Christopher Hitchens - Mortality

In which case, why not cancer of the brain? As a terrified, half-aware imbecile, I might even scream for a priest at the close of business, though I hereby state while I am still lucid that the entity thus humiliating itself would not in fact be “me.” (Bear this in mind, in case of any later rumors or fabrications.)

Sukant Ratnakar - Open The Windows: To the World around You

Rumors travel faster then the speed of light

Bianca Scardoni - Inception

Not that it mattered though. The truth seldom ever did in the face of a juicy lie.

Lois McMaster Bujold - Shards of Honour

They stared at her curiously, and she caught snatches of conversation in two or three languages. It wasn't hard to guess their content, and she smiled a bit primly. Youth, it appeared, was full of illusions as to how much sexual energy two people might have to spare while hiking forty or so kilometers a day, concussed, stunned, diseased, on poor food and little sleep, alternating caring for a wounded man with avoiding becoming dinner for every carnivore within range - and with a coup to plan for

Annie Hughes - The Sound of You

Once you're in the rumor mill, you never come out. You're stuck, constantly hearing the same half-truth stories about yourself.

Nina LaCour - Hold Still

...I think that people who make judgements about other people they don't even know are shallow, and people who start rumors are shallow, and I really don't care what shallow people say about me.

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