Told Quotes
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See also Core English Vocabulary (T) List :: Top 1,000 UK English Words (#2) List :: Top 3,000 American English Words (#06) List-
Dictatorship is a constant lecture instructing you that your feelings, your thoughts and desires are of no account, that you are a nobody and must live as you are told by other people who desire and think for you
Stephen Vizinczey
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The people to whom your fathers told of the living God, and taught to call `Father,` and whom the sons now seek to despoil and destroy, are crying aloud to Him in their time of trouble; and He will keep His promise, and will listen to the voices of His Ha...
Queen Liliuokalani of Hawaii
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History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren`t there.
George Santayana
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We lost because we told ourselves we lost
Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
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When you are unhappy, is there anything more maddening than to be told that you should be contented with your lot?
Kathleen Norris
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The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
Janet Watson
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What a curious picture it is to find man, homo sapiens, of divine origin, we are told, seriously considering going underground to escape the consequences of his own folly. With a little wisdom and foresight, surely it is not yet necessary to forsake life ...
J. William Fulbright
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When my daughter was about seven years old, she asked me one day what I did at work. I told her I worked at the college - that my job was to teach people how to draw. She stared at me, incredulous, and said, "You mean they forget?"
Howard Ikemoto
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Bobby Knight told me this: `There is nothing that a good defense cannot beat a better offense.` In other words a good offense wins.
Dan Quayle
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Gardening, I told myself, is the most sociable of hobbies. The very nature of one`s field of activities demands an audience. No one wants flowers to blush unseen or waste their sweetness.
Barbara Cheney
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I like not only to be loved, but to be told I am loved.
George Eliot
Subject: Love QuotesSource: brainyquote.com
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Seeing is different than being told.
African Proverb
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The victor will never be asked if he told the truth.
Adolf Hitler
Subject: War QuotesSource: brainyquote.com
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When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I`m beginning to believe it.
Clarence Darrow
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I am mortified to be told that, in the United States of America, the sale of a book can become a subject of inquiry, and of criminal inquiry too.
Thomas Jefferson
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The history of our race, and each individual`s experience, are sown thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill and that a lie told well is immortal.
Mark Twain
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When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, "Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don`t believe?"
Quentin Crisp
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Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale
William Shakespeare
Subject: Boredom QuotesSource: quotationspage.com
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Nothing makes one so vain as being told one is a sinner. Conscience makes egotists of us all.
Oscar Wilde
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In Washington, the first thing people tell you is what their job is. In Los Angeles you learn their star sign. In Houston you`re told how rich they are. And in New York they tell you what their rent is.
Simon Hoggart
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Well, I know they`ve always told you/
Neil Peart
Subject: Individualism Quotes :: Selfishness QuotesSource: thinkexist.com
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I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, "Where`s the self-help section?" She said if she told me, it would defeat the purpose
George Carlin
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Instead of warning pregnant women not to drink, I think female alcoholics should be told not to fuck
George Carlin
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Fiction was invented the day Jonas arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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My neighbour asked if he could use my lawnmower and I told him of course he could, so long as he didn`t take it out of my garden.
Eric Morecambe
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We were promised sufferings. They were part of the program. We were even told, ``Blessed are they that mourn.``
C.S. Lewis
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President Bush is taking the entire month of August off. Bush said today he thinks it is important for a president to spend time away from Washington. Or at least that`s what Dick Cheney told him.
Jay Leno
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Bush said today he is being stalked. He said wherever he goes, people are following him. Finally, someone told him, `Psst. That`s the Secret Service.`
Jay Leno
