Tells Quotes
A rich man told me recently that a liberal is a man who tells other people what to do with their money.
Amiri Baraka
The welfare culture tells the man he is not a necessary part of the family; he feels dispensable, his wife knows he is dispensable, his children sense it.
George Gilder
I submit that an individual who breaks the law that conscience tells him is unjust and willingly accepts the penalty by staying in jail to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the very highest respect for law.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
The universe is governed by science. But science tells us that we can't solve the equations, directly in the abstract.
Stephen Hawking
Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.
Dorothy Canfield Fisher
There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.
R. Buckminster Fuller
When I was a baby, my mother tells me I never slept because I never wanted to miss anything.
Scott Baio
Your face tells a story and it shouldn't be a story about your drive to the doctor's office.
Julia Roberts
The honest-to-goodness answer is that Twitter tells me everything, and I have calluses on my fingers from all the mouse-clicking.
Josh Groban
Who will wear a shoe that hurts him, because the shoe-maker tells him 'tis well made?
Algernon Sidney
In Buddhism there are words you can say... as you say the words with rhythm the conscious tells the subconscious.
Tina Turner
The Church does not pretend to be scientists. It teaches based upon what science tells it.
Wellington Mara
My experience politically has always been that one-word definition of politics: money. Keep your eye on the buck. And that tells you where the American people are going to be.
Douglas Wilder
We know what a person thinks not when he tells us what he thinks, but by his actions.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
I love Charlie, Billy Burke's character. Writing for him is so spectacular, he's so funny and wry and every scene he's in he just takes. There's a scene in 'Eclipse' where Bella tells him she's a virgin, and it's the funniest, most awkward scene I've ever seen on film.
Melissa Rosenberg
The Bible tells us to be like God, and then on page after page it describes God as a mass murderer. This may be the single most important key to the political behavior of Western Civilization.
Robert Anton Wilson
Where we come from in America no longer signifies. It's where we go, and what we do when we get there, that tells us who we are.
Joyce Carol Oates
Even though the Bush campaign ad tells you that Afghanistan is a new democracy at the Olympics because of Bush's efforts, Afghanistan hasn't actually had an election.
Peter Schuyler
Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from the birth as a paternal, or in other words a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read and say and eat and drink and wear.
Thomas W. Higginson
To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.
Robert Louis Stevenson