Best Tells Proverbs
2171 Tells quotes by 1578 unique authors
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It is revolutionary for any trans person to choose to be seen and visible in a world that tells us we should not exist.
— Laverne Cox
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History tells us what people do; historical fiction helps us imagine how they felt.
— Guy Vanderhaeghe
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You will find scientists who will tell you — and they deeply believe it — that we’re quantifiable. We are knowable. That if I can…
— Jad Abumrad
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The Red Kimono tells it all—the bitterness and pain as well as the joy, pride and patriotism of a people too resilient to be beaten by…
— Sandra Dallas
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Raven-haired writer Emer Martin is giving a lunchtime reading from her fabulous new novel, Baby Zero. Emer Martin is a brilliant writer, very much the…
— Unknown Author
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Running gives freedom. When you run you can determine your own tempo. You can choose your own course and think whatever you want. Nobody tells…
— Nina Kuscsik
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As soon as someone I don’t respect tells me I can’t do something, it just makes me want to do it even more.
— Kenneth Branagh
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I vow that if I was just an Israeli civilian and I met a Palestinian I would burn him and I would make him suffer…
— Ariel Sharon
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There must be some other possibility than death or lifelong penance ... some meeting, some intersection of lines; and some cowardly, hopeful geometer in my…
— Wallace Stegner
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You know about a person who deeply interests you more than you can be told. A look, a gesture, an act, which to everybody else…
— Henry David Thoreau
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There are many farm handouts; but let's call them what they really are: a form of legalized theft. Essentially, a congressman tells his farm constituency,…
— Walter E. Williams
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King gives you this 'bro' stuff and tells you that the white man did this and we should stick together. Then he starts cutting your…
— Randall "Tex" Cobb
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When someone tells you, "You've changed," it might simply be because you've stopped living your life their way.
— John Spence
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Every fighter that ever lived had fear. A boy comes to me and tells me that he's not afraid, if I believed him I'd say…
— Cus D'Amato
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We know only that we are living in these bodies and have a vague idea, because we have heard it, and because our faith tells…
— Teresa of Avila
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The only thing of weight that can be said against modern honor is that it is directly opposite to religion. The one bids you bear…
— Bernard de Mandeville
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When I write songs I write for myself...I'm writing it as a form of expression, and hoping to find an audience, an audience that responds…
— Unknown Author
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We too often let the material things serve as indicators that we're doing well, even though something inside us tells us that were not doing…
— Barack Obama
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What man is, only his history tells.
— Wilhelm Dilthey
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First of all, Buddhism is neither pessimistic nor optimistic. If anything at all, it is realistic, for it takes a realistic view of life and…
— Walpola Rahula
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How [stories] are told, who tells them, when they’re told, how many stories are told — are really dependent on power.
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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Wanderer, there is no road, the road is made by walking. The poem tells me it’s no big deal that I’m not like Snow. I…
— Helen Oyeyemi
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My computer tells me that in twenty-five years there will be no more computers.
— Edward Abbey
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If it's freedom you want, come to Texas. No one there tells you what to do and how you have to do it.
— Edna Ferber
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A friend of mine tells that I talk in shorthand and then smudge it.
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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