They Tell Us Quotes

51 They Tell Us quotes by 49 unique authors

There are things they tell us that sound good to hear, but when they have accomplished their purpose they will go home and will not… — Sitting Bull
This is the age othe common man, they tell us-a title which any man may claim to the extent osuch distinction as he has managed… — Ayn Rand
They tell us, sir, that we are weak; unable to cope with so formidable an adversary. But when shall we be stronger? Will it be… — Patrick Henry
They tell us that "Pity is akin to Love;" if so, Pity must be a poor relation. — Arthur Helps
They tell us that we live in a great free republic; that our institutions are democratic; that we are a free and self-governing people. That… — Eugene V. Debs
Everything we get, outside of the free gifts of nature, must in some way be paid for. The world is full of so- called economists… — Henry Hazlitt
They tell us sometimes that if we had only kept quiet, all these desirable things would have come about of themselves. I am reminded of… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton
A tale, like the universe, they tell us, expands ceaselessly each time you examine it, until there’s finally no telling exactly where it begins, or… — Chang-Rae Lee
Had the news of salvation by Jesus Christ been inscribed on the face of the sun and the moon, in characters that all nations would… — Thomas Paine
The senses do not enable us to cognize any entity in its Being; they merely serve to announce the ways in which 'external' Things within-the-world… — Martin Heidegger
I hate it when they tell us how far we've came to be; as if our people's history started with slavery. — Immortal Technique
Definitions, contrary to popular opinion, tell us nothing about things. They only describe people's linguistic habits; that is, they tell us what noises people make… — S I Hayakawa
Punctuation marks are the traffic signals of language: they tell us to slow down, notice this, take a detour, and stop. — Lynne Truss
The world is a different place in this new century, [...]. And we are a different people. My visions still come but no one listens… — Joseph Boyden
We know now that the soul is the body, and the body the soul. They tell us they are different because they want to persuade… — George Bernard Shaw
Capturing any member of any terrorist cell or any insurgent cell that we may happen to come across is always very, very valuable, and the… — John Abizaid
Just when summer gets perfect-fresh nights, soft sun, casual breezes, crushingly full and quietly cooling trees, empty beaches, and free weekends- it ends. Life is… — Joan D. Chittister
We read critics for the perceptions, for what they tell us that we didn't fully grasp when we saw the work. The judgments we can… — Pauline Kael
I cannot regret it. They tell us in the temple that true joy is found only in freedom from the Wheel that is death and… — Marion Zimmer Bradley
Learning as we go... Why didn't they tell us this before? We, the consumers, are supposed to be docile guinea pigs in a vast but… — Ralph W. Moss
The tools I handle are words. They may be unappreciated or misunderstood, but they tell us who we are. — Tina Howe
The current flows fast and furious. It issues in a spate of words from the loudspeakers and the politicians. Every day they tell us that… — Virginia Woolf
They tell us we are all citizens, that we were born in this country. Well, a cat can have kittens in the oven, but that… — Malcolm X
They tell us that plants are not like man immortal, but are perishable-soul -less. I think that is something that we know exactly nothing about. — John Muir
How people keep correcting us when we are young! There is always some bad habit or other they tell us we ought to get over.… — Jack Nicklaus

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