Best We Tell Quotations
253 We Tell quotes by 215 unique authors
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Not only does art imitate life but life imitates art. Perhaps we not only learn about life from stories, perhaps we make our lives through…
— Ramona Koval
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When we tell our own story, we teach the values that our choices reveal, not as abstract principals, but as our lived experience. We reveal…
— Marshall Ganz
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We are defined by the stories we tell ourselves.
— Tony Robbins
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We need to look at the repetitions in the stories we tell ourselves [and] at the process of the stories rather than merely their surface…
— Philippa Perry
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What does it matter, if we tell the same old stories? ...Stories tell us who we are. What we’re capable of. When we go out…
— Kameron Hurley
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On July 4th, we renew our commitment to the American Idea-the belief that all men are created equal. We read the Declaration. We tell our…
— Paul Ryan
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A person's tragedy does not make up their entire life. A story carves deep grooves into our brains each time we tell it. But we…
— Amy Poehler
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Whenever we cover our brother's sin, God will cover ours; whenever we tell people about our brother's guilt, God will do the same about ours.
— Poemen
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Now let us begin. Now let us rededicate ourselves to the long and bitter, but beautiful, struggle for a new world. This is the calling…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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When we tell people to do their jobs, we get workers. When we trust people to get the job done, we get leaders.
— Simon Sinek
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When we set our hearts on knowing the truth, we assist one another in the long tender work of awakening. When the story is right,…
— Mark Matousek
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At the end of the day, acting is all about telling lies. We are professional imposters and the audience accept that. We've made this deal…
— Pete Postlethwaite
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Reincarnation is a story we tell; then in the end it's the story itself that is the reincarnation.
— Kim Stanley
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More fundamentally, this kind of gaping inequality gives lie to the promise at the very heart of America: that this is the place where you…
— Barack Obama
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This technology will obviously become more prevalent. Who knows what will result? One thing is certain, computer technology will revolutionize the way we tell stories…
— Chris Wedge
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I did a show in New Jersey in the auditorium of a technical high school ... Technical high school, that's where dreams are narrowed down.…
— Louis C. K.
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I am the same artist with the same nagging questions I had in my early 20's. What's real and what isn't? How do we tell…
— John Guare
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It is part of my creed that the only poetry is history, could we tell it right.
— Thomas Carlyle
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The lies we live will always be confessed in the stories that we tell.
— Orson Scott Card
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The lies we tell about our duty and our purposes, the meaningless words of science and philosophy, are walls that topple before a bewildered little…
— John Steinbeck
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We have to trust that our stories deserve to be told. We may discover that the better we tell our stories the better we will…
— Henri Nouwen
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THE STORIES WE TELL fearlessly explores the textures of the human heart, finding a path toward hope through a Savannah that is jagged with class…
— Joshilyn Jackson
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When we try to describe one person to another …, what do we say? Not usually how or what that person ate, rarely what he…
— Cleanth Brooks
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The stories we tell about each other matter very much. The stories we tell ourselves about our own lives matter. And most of all, I…
— Jessica Jackley
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Anything we tell our kids about life is a placemarker until they figure it out for themselves.
— Robert Breault
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