All my life, I've had a fear of being told what to say, so…

“I was glad he didn’t try to come up with something encouraging to say. Sometimes an understanding silence was better than a bunch of…

— Mia Sheridan

I have to go with what I do, and what I do has more to do with what people say to each other than…

— Tom Stoppard

“Who we’re told to be carries the weight of history behind it. We may not like it but we better know it. Who we’re…

— Mel Ash

Past experience told me he could smell my fear; it also told me that the anger accompanying it would pretty much cover the scent.…

— Anonymous

Fear was the biggest bullshitter, he’d said. But sometimes, too, fear told the truth.

— Deb Caletti

“Fear would have told the Wright brothers not to fly. Fear would have told Rosa Parks to change seats. Fear would have told Steve…

— Jon Acuff

“It was the kind of fear that made people jump off cliffs and climb mountains—the kind of fear that told you something miraculous was…

— Cora Carmack Faking It

“She felt sweat bead on her forehead, and dug a fingernail into her thumb to stop herself from weeping. She thought about her husband,…

— Gary Haynes

The FA have to be careful in telling you what you can and cannot say. If they are telling you that you cannot tell…

— Tony Pulis

Don't ever say telling someone the truth is always the best idea. sometimes the confidence you carry is better than the small mistake you…

— Anonymous

Sometimes you look at the critics and say, 'Nobody else was telling me that, but you were.'

— Richard Cordray

Telling us what to think has evolved into telling us what to say, so telling us what to do can't be far behind.

— Charlton Heston

What a teacher doesn't say...is a telling part of what a student hears.

— Maurice Natanson

“I’ve never once thought about the interpretative, the storytelling aspect of life, of my life. I always felt like I was in a story,…

— Jandy Nelson

I certainly wouldn't feel safe telling people I was writer.

— Sophie Dahl