Best They Tell Proverbs
395 They Tell quotes by 330 unique authors
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You are a name, not a number. Never forget that name, whatever they tell you here. You will always be Chaya—life—to me.
— Jane Yolen
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Just because life is hard, and always ends in a bad way, doesn't mean that all stories have to, even if that's what they tell…
— James Patterson
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Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it's not because they enjoy solitude. It's because they…
— Jodi Picoult
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They tell us that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself,but I don't believe that." he said. Then, a moment later, he…
— Haruki Murakami
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Nature is, above all, profligate. Don't believe them when they tell you how economical and thrifty nature is, whose leaves return to the soil. Wouldn't…
— Annie Dillard
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After all, what is happiness? Love, they tell me. But love doesn't bring and never has brought happiness. On the contrary, it's a constant state…
— Paulo Coelho
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Mom and dad say I should make my life an example of the principles I believe in. But every time I do, they tell me…
— Bill Watterson
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He feared me as many men fear women: because their mistresses (or their wives) understand them. They are scarcely adult, some men: they wish women…
— Julian Barnes
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People fall so in love with their pain, they can’t leave it behind. The same as the stories they tell. We trap ourselves.
— Chuck Palahniuk
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I believe in God the way I believe in quarks. People whose business it is to know about quantum physics or religion tell me they…
— Mary Doria Russell
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When angels speak of love they tell us it is only by loving that we enter an earthly paradise. They tell us paradise is our…
— Bell Hooks
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Dreams like a podcast, Downloading truth in my ears. They tell me cool stuff." "Apollo?" I guess, because I figured nobody else could make a…
— Rick Riordan
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In time, in time they tell me, I'll not feel so bad. I don't want time to heal me. There's a reason I'm like this.…
— China Mieville
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It's like you said the other day," said Adam. "You grow up readin' about pirates and cowboys and spacemen and stuff, and jus' when you…
— Neil Gaiman
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The pictures do not lie, but neither do they tell the whole story. They are merely a record of time passing, the outward evidence.
— Paul Auster
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They say that nobody is perfect. Then they tell you practice makes perfect. I wish they'd make up their minds.
— Winston Churchill
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Lonely? I don't know. They tell me this is cold. I don't know what cold is, because I don't freeze. So I don't know what…
— Philip Pullman
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Doing good doesn't always make you feel good. I don't care what they tell you in church.
— Ann Rinaldi
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I've met talespinners before, Jake, and they're all cut more or less from the same cloth. They tell tales because they're afraid of life.
— Stephen King
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A people are as healthy and confident as the stories they tell themselves. Sick storytellers can make nations sick. Without stories we would go mad.…
— Ben Okri
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A wonderful realization will be the day you realize that you are unique in all the world. There is nothing that is an accident. You…
— Leo Buscaglia
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Some men you know are Southern before they ever say a word," Julia said as she and Emily watched Sawyer's progress, helpless, almost as if…
— Sarah Addison Allen
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When she cried, he would say, "there is nothing wrong with crying. Your feelings tell you who are. They tell what is important. Don't ever…
— Terry Brooks
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This is how moths speak to each other. They tell their love across the fields by scent. There is no mouth, the wrong words are…
— Barbara Kingsolver
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People are always trying to tell you how they feel. Some of them say it outright, and some of them, they tell you with their…
— Justin Halpern
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