A Quote by Roald Dahl
The matter with human beans," the BFG went on, "is that they is absolutely refusing to believe in anything unless they is actually seeing it right in front of their own schnozzles.
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Well, first of all," said the BFG, "human beans is not really believing in giants, is they? Human beans is not thinking we exist.
Listen to everyone, read everything; believe absolutely nothing unless you can prove it in your own right!
I certainly have the problem of focusing on doing everything now to get where I want to be, and not actually seeing and taking in and appreciating what's right in front of me or who's right in front of me.
A whizzpopper!" cried the BFG, beaming at her. "Us giants is making whizzpoppers all the time! Whizzpopping is a sign of happiness. It is music in our ears! You surely is not telling me that a little whizzpopping if forbidden among human beans?
I have my great grandmother's recipe for black beans, all the way from Cuba, and I know how to make those. I'm actually pretty good at it now. But my first time, the beans actually exploded in the pot, so I had black beans just dripping from the ceiling - which is actually a dream come true for most Cubans. It was a nightmare to clean.
No really - listen. I believe in signs, and that things are meant to be, I truly do. But try and be open to anything, okay? It doesn't always have to be so hard. Sometimes falling in love just means turning around and seeing what's right in front of you.
Literary success of any enduring kind is made by refusing to do what publishers want, by refusing to write what the public wants, by refusing to accept any popular standard, by refusing to write anything to order.
I like beans. Lentils are beans, right? I love beans and rice.
All of us have schnozzles... if not in our faces, then in our character, minds or habits. When we admit our schnozzles, instead of defending them, we begin to laugh, and the world laughs with us.
We say seeing is believing, but actually, we are much better at believing than at seeing. In fact, we are seeing what we believe all the time and occasionally seeing what we can't believe
There are two good rules which ought to be written on every heart - never to believe anything bad about anybody unless you positively know it to be true; never to tell even that unless you feel that it is absolutely necessary, and that God is listening.
I have no right to say I believe in God unless I order my life as under His all-seeing Eye.
I do believe in living out your own time, unless it's absolutely impossible, which it is for some people.
Is there anything in life more exhilarating than having 15,000 people absolutely ecstatic to be seeing your human form?
People believed what they wanted to believe, no matter what was right in front of their eyes.
Never say that you can't do something, or that something seems impossible, or that something can't be done, no matter how discouraging or harrowing it may be; human beings are limited only by what we allow ourselves to be limited by: our own minds. We are each the masters of our own reality; when we become self-aware to this: absolutely anything in the world is possible
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