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253 We Tell quotes by 215 unique authors
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I feel the greatest destroyer of peace today is 'Abortion', because it is a war against the child... A direct killing of the innocent child,…
— Mother Teresa
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When this is all over I'm going to found an association called 'The Knights of the Idiotic Table' and its purpose will be to arrange…
— Steig Larsson
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There is no love, there is only the lie we tell ourselves that things are more important than they actually are, that our lives will…
— Chad Kultgen
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The assumption of time is one of humanity's greatest follies. We tell ourselves that there's always tomorrow, when we can no more predict tomorrow than…
— Richard Paul Evans
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If we are not given the option to live without violence, we are given the choice to center our meals around harvest or slaughter, husbandry…
— Jonathan Safran Foer
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So we reach into the raging chaos, and we cling to it, and we tell ourselves it has meaning, and that the world is good,…
— Anne Rice
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And you take care, too, Shahara. Remember the lies we tell ourselves to survive seldom bring peace to our souls. (Nero)
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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Believe me, lady, my strength is the one thing I never doubt. (Vane) It’s amazing the lies we tell other people, isn’t it? (Sunshine's grandmother)
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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…we all lie to ourselves; we tell our own selves more lies than we ever do other people.
— Philip K. Dick
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The only thing a cat worries about is what's happening right now. As we tell the kittens, you can only wash one paw at a…
— Lloyd Alexander
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As we trudge back through the woods, we reach a boulder, and both Gale and I turn our heads in the same direction, like a…
— Suzanne Collins
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The tales we tell ourselves about ourselves makes us who we are.
— Megan McCafferty
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Mostly, we authors must repeat ourselves - that's the truth. We have two or three great and moving experiences in our lives - experiences so…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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The worst lies in life are the ones we tell ourselves.
— Brad Meltzer
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We tell ourselves stories in order to live. We live entirely by the impression of a narrative line upon disparate images, the shifting phantasmagoria, which…
— Joan Didion
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We'll tell him his mother waits for him in heaven, I suppose." "Is that a lie?" "It's what we tell fools and children." She sighed.…
— Sheri S. Tepper
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Women know things that men will never know. We keep the best secrets. We tell the best stories.
— Alice Hoffman
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We who make stories know that we tell lies for a living. But they are good lies that say true things, and we owe it…
— Neil Gaiman
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we become the stories we tell ourselves
— Michael Cunningham
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Mindfulness helps us get better at seeing the difference between what’s happening and the stories we tell ourselves about what’s happening, stories that get in…
— Sharon Salzberg
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How often do we tell our own life story? How often do we adjust, embellish, make sly cuts? And the longer life goes on, the…
— Julian Barnes
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The worst lies are the lies we tell ourselves. We live in denial of what we do, even what we think. We do this because…
— Richard Bach
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That’s not the only reason I’m stayin’, chica. I can’t leave you any more than I could walk out that door right now while my…
— Simone Elkeles
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We’re constantly changing facts, rewriting history to make things easier, to make them fit in with our preferred version of events. We do it automatically.…
— S.J. Watson
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educators best serve students by helping them be more self-reflective. The only way any of us can improve—as Coach Graham taught me—is if we develop…
— Randy Pausch
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