Telling Us Quotes

128 quotes by 124 authors

In the '20s they were telling us wed all have our own private plane and take vacations to the moon. — Jay Chiat
A universe whose only claim to be believed in rests on the validity of inference must not start telling us the inference is invalid. — C.S. Lewis
... garden books are quite unconscious that besides telling us how to turn our patch of earth into a garden, they are also expressing the… — Nan Fairbrother
For two thousand years Christianity has been telling us: life is death, death is life; it is high time to consult the dictionary. — Remy de Gourmont
The monetary managers are fond of telling us that they have substituted 'responsible money management' for the gold standard. But there is no historic record… — Henry Hazlitt
I think that our whole country needs to have more love and compassion for all children. All life is valuable and a gift from God.… — Kim Alexis
If the Bible is mistaken in telling us where we came from, how can we trust it to tell us where we're going ? — Justin Brown
In order to turn natural history into a true science, one would have to devote oneself to investigations capable of telling us not the particular… — Pierre Louis Maupertuis
Such pretensions to nicety in experiments of this nature, are truly laughable! They will be telling us some day of the WEIGHT of the MOON,… — Robert Sutton Harrington
We felt like the Taliban saw us as little dolls to control, telling us what to do and how to dress. I thought if God… — Malala Yousafzai
Evolution is the creation-myth of our age. By telling us our origin it shapes our views of what we are. It influences not just our… — Mary Midgley
He laid it on George, me and our wives without telling us at a dinner party at his house. He was a friend of George's,… — John Lennon
He is pushing his face in all the time and telling us about his private life. Nobody's interested. He should just go away. — Steven Morrissey
Drama, instead of telling us the whole of a man's life, must place him in such a situation, tie such a knot, that when it… — Leo Tolstoy
For a long time, the scientists have been telling us global warming increases the temperature of the top layer in the ocean, and that causes… — Al Gore
Look, we're Americans: optimistic, addicted to the quick fix, constantly on the hunt for the new and exotic. It's much easier for us to accept… — Dennis Miller
But although Australia was also involved in the Vietnam conflict, I can remember my dad telling us that if we were in Australia, we wouldn't… — Mel Gibson
And that brings us to tonight's word: Truthiness. Now I'm sure some of the word-police, the 'wordanistas' over at Websters, are gonna say, 'Hey, that's… — Stephen Colbert
For too long we've been told about 'us' and 'them.' Each and every election we see a new slate of arguments and ads telling us… — William J. Clinton
Globally, emissions may have to be reduced, the scientists are telling us, by as much as 60% or 70%, with developed countries likely to have… — Michael Meacher

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