Telling Us Quotes

128 quotes by 124 authors

It's no use telling us that something was 'mysterious' or 'loathsome' or 'awe-inspiring' or 'voluptuous.' By direct description, by metaphor and simile, by secretly evoking… — C.S. Lewis
Our difficulty is that we have become autistic. We no longer listen to what the Earth, its landscape, its atmospheric phenomena and all its living… — Thomas Berry
There is a still small voice telling us what is right, and if we listen to that still small voice we shall grow and increase… — Heber J. Grant
Conservatives are fond of telling us what a wonderful, happy, prosperous nation this is. The only thing that matches their love of country is the… — Michael Parenti
Our memories tell us who we are and they cannot be achieved through committee work, by consulting other people about what happened. That doesn't mean… — Tobias Wolff
We had convinced ourselves that conditions wouldn't be right for seeing spokes on the lit side of the rings until about 2007, ... But this… — Carolyn Porco
In the annals of science fiction, where dystopias rule the imaginative roost, Star Trek stood nearly alone in telling us that our future would be… — Charles Shaar Murray
If you take the hard numbers, then science is clearly telling us that we're running out of time. — Achim Steiner
And there is something profoundly humbling about knowing God. Iâ€™m not talking about the trinket God or the genie-in-a-lamp God. I mean the God who… — Donald Miller
We Americans are the ultimate innocents. We are forever desperate to believe that this time the government is telling us the truth. — Sydney Schanberg
It may be that everything the life science companies are telling us will turn out to be right, and there's no problem here whatsoever. That… — Jeremy Rifkin
I'm always suspicious of really beautiful women telling us we shouldn't be worried about beauty. — Susan Estrich
One always imagines that the days that change oneâ€™s life must be marked with something extraordinary in natureâ€”storms and lightning, darkness at noon, and so… — Margaret George
I acknowledge Mike Leigh and Ken Loach. They are prostlytizers of English socialism preaching to the converted and telling us what we already know. Cinema… — Peter Greenaway
We know they have nothing to do with Islam because our politicians keep telling us that, and they are all Islamic scholars. (They are, aren't… — Pat Condell
Stop listening to people telling us we need to hate each other — Hank Green
Voices surround us, always telling us to move faster. It may be our boss, our pastor, our parents, our wives, our husbands, our politicians, or,… — Mike Yaconelli
Contrary to what our brains are telling us, there's no mystical force that imbues a winner with a streak of luck, nor is there a… — Charles Seife
We find it easy to believe that praise is sincere: why should anyone lie in telling us the truth? — Jean Rostand
We call it keeping up with the Joneses. They buy a boat and we buy a bigger one. They get a new TV and we… — Melody Beattie

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