The nice thing about the Bible is it doesn’t give you too many facts. Two an a half lines and it tells you the whole story and that leaves you a great deal of freedom to elaborate on how it might have happened.
I do whatever my heart tells me to do.
I just would like to keep singing. As soon as I’m not singing well, I hope that I know it, so that I can get off the stage and leave what I have done. I hope I’ll know, and if I don’t, I hope somebody tells me.
The way we have been thinking about brain science is that people show you pretty pictures, pretty images, and you think that that tells you something about how they behave. It doesn’t.
I knew from the time I was a young girl that I was destined to be a writer. I’m incredibly stubborn. The more someone tells me I can’t do something, the harder I work to prove them wrong. My father’s nickname for me when I was growing up was ‘Hardhead.’
For two years living in a neutral country I have been able to see through the haze of propaganda to reach something which my conscience tells me is the truth.
One of the things I find exciting about Joan of Arc is how clearly the story of her life reveals the creation of myth, a process in which every one of us is involved – every one of us who tells stories and all those who listen, each informing the other.
I’m not like other writers. I’m not hung up on using my own songs. In fact, my sister Bunny always tells me I sing other people’s songs better than my own. She says I loosen up and give the songs a different feel.
Studying consciousness tells us more about how the world is fundamentally strange. I think we have a few revolutions to go yet before we get to the bottom of it.
We get so swept up in sort of what the media tells us to care about and all these other influences that we really have to dig down deep and figure out what is it that we as human beings really care about and want for ourselves. When you figure that out, you see who you really are.
I always tell my family – and they laugh about it – but someday, I will write a vegetarian book. My cousin, who’s a big vegetarian, tells me flat out, ‘You’re my favorite vegetarian chef.’
Life is pain, highness. Anyone who tells you differently is selling something.
A man’s conscience, like a warning line on the highway, tells him what he shouldn’t do – but it does not keep him from doing it.
Theory not only formulates what we know but also tells us what we want to know, that is, the questions to which an answer is needed.
I ended up in TV because I have no ability to do anything else. I have an agent who tells me where I have to be when.
A man’s vanity tells him what is honor, a man’s conscience what is justice.
To me, country music tells a story about, and deals with, the way people live their lives and what they do.
I’m as much a victim of the romantic myth of ‘getting away’ as anyone else. My head tells me it’s myth, but I don’t want to believe it is.
I don’t know what to do or where to turn in this taxation matter. Somewhere there must be a book that tells all about it, where I could go to straighten it out in my mind. But I don’t know where the book is, and maybe I couldn’t read it if I found it.
When you become a parent, that’s a whole new level of life intruding. Nobody tells you how boring and time-sucking it’s going to be! Or how the responsibility feels like an airbag going off in your life.
Conventional wisdom tells us we’ll only be happier after a divorce if the marriage itself was a war zone.
Every usage, no matter how bizarre or nonstandard, fascinates me, as it tells me something about the way language is evolving.
Sustainability is a seemingly laudable goal – it tells us we need to live within our means, whether economic, ecological, or political – but it’s insufficient for uncertain times. How can we live within our means when those very means can change, swiftly and unexpectedly, beneath us?
The standard growth theory tells us that economic growth in per capita basis comes from mainly two sources: capital deepening and total factor productivity growth, or TFP growth.
Anything that is related to my work will affect me. If someone tells me they didn’t like my performance, it will affect me.
Immigration is the issue that tells us who is with us and who is against us; there’s no question about it. And it’s very simple to understand why – half of all Latinos over 18 years of age were born outside the United States. It really makes no sense to attack them and criticize them if you want their vote.
If ‘extreme’ means that I am unwilling to go to Washington, D.C., and do what President Obama tells me, then so be it. But I am certainly not going to Washington, D.C. to represent the interests of D.C. I’m going there to represent Colorado values.
No one tells you how hard being a parent is! We could have had a warning! It is literally the hardest thing I’ve ever done but I’m loving it.
As someone who’s run for office five times, if the Devil called me and said he wanted to set up a meeting to give me opposition research on my opponent, I’d be on the first trolley to Hell to get it. And any politician who tells you otherwise is a bald-faced liar.
If Paul McCartney tells me that so-and-so song is his favorite song, what do I care? What do I care what anybody else says?
Anyone who tells you to deny yourself is from Satan.
I don’t feel Swedish. In fact, my father tells me to get out of here as soon as I can.
I love when someone is honest with me and tells me right in my face what they are thinking about my game or my attitude or whatever.
‘Adventure Time’ tells stories where anything can happen, but what happens is. It stars Finn, a boy who fights evil, and Jake, a dog with stretchy powers. Both of them can talk.
Every once in a while, I run into somebody who tells me that she met her husband in my campaign or a husband who says, I met my wife. I have to tell you, I caused a few divorces too.
My mother thinks I am the best. And I was raised to always believe what my mother tells me.
I wrote ‘My Name is Red’ just to remember painting, where the hand does it before the intellect. When I’m captive to it, I’m a happier person. Kierkegaard tells us that a happy person is someone who lives in the present; the unhappy person, someone who lives either in the past or the future.
It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.
‘The Irish Duke’ is a sequel to ‘The Decadent Duke’ about Lady Georgina Gordon who married the Duke of Bedford. ‘The Irish Duke’ tells the story of their daughter, Lady Louisa, who married James Hamilton, the powerful and wealthy Duke of Abercorn.
I’m always looking for something that tells me a little bit about what it means to be human. That’s how I measure the success of any artistic endeavor.
I’m just sick of the way things are. We’re in an age in which we can’t live without accepting the logic of the market. Contemporary politics is all about short-term pragmatism. We have abandoned religion and philosophy… What we have left is the automatisation of doing what the market tells us.
To be human is to have a collection of memories that tells you who you are and how you got there.
I’m not a social media person; I don’t know what’s going on unless somebody tells me.
I think when judges are in the position of authority, they really get bent out of shape when someone tells them they acted inappropriately.
And I will never, ever respond to anybody – man, woman, vegetable, or mineral – who tells me to keep my mouth shut.
A book comes and says, ‘Write me.’ My job is to try to serve it to the best of my ability, which is never good enough, but all I can do is listen to it, do what it tells me and collaborate.
I will do whatever the UFC tells me to do, but there’s not a doubt in my mind that I can be champion.
Doing something because God has said to do it does not make a person moral: it merely tells us that person is a prudential believer, akin to the person who obeys the command of an all-powerful secular king.
A rich man told me recently that a liberal is a man who tells other people what to do with their money.
Going through puberty as a young girl is so confusing. This monster invades your body, changes things and makes things grow, and no one tells you what’s going on.
Twenty years of votes can tell you much more about a man than twenty weeks of campaign rhetoric. Campaign talk tells people who you want them to think you are. How you vote tells people who you really are deep inside.
Obama’s entire foreign policy was predicated on the notion that by existing, he would bridge all gaps and bury all hatchets. Instead, the Muslim world burns his picture even as he tells them he respects their radicalism. It turns out that diversity is a one-way street for the devotees of global Islam.
If somebody tells me I’m famous I say, ‘I’m not.’ I can’t see myself as famous and I don’t think I’ll ever call myself famous. I definitely don’t feel famous.
History is not everything, but it is a starting point. History is a clock that people use to tell their political and cultural time of day. It is a compass they use to find themselves on the map of human geography. It tells them where they are but, more importantly, what they must be.
What I actually do put much more weight on, in all honesty, is not being critically acclaimed – it’s being respected by my OGs. When I talk to E-40 on the phone, every time I talk to him, I’m like, you know, if he tells me I’m doing good, I’m doing good.
