My mother used to say, you don’t let people tell you who you are. You tell them who you are. – Kamala Harris
In Lies The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves. – V. S. Naipaul In a Free State. Chapter 5.
The function of a guideline isn’t to tell you what kids have actually experienced; it’s to provide goals. – Heidi Hayes Jacobs
There is no need to tell you that the ‘Prince of Salina’ is the Prince Lampedusa, my great-grandfather Giulio Fabrizio. – Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
I can’t very well tell my batters don’t hit it to him. Wherever they hit it, he’s there anyway. – Gil Hodges
I decided I was going to tell these stories. I went around and met Crumb. He was the cartoonist. I started realizing comics weren’t just kid stuff. – Harvey Pekar
Few people at the beginning of the nineteenth century needed an adman to tell them what they wanted. – John Kenneth Galbraith
I’m not strong-willed enough or unkind enough… or maybe simply not wise enough to tell a journalist that a subject is out of bounds. – James Nesbitt
I used to tell my writing students that they must write the books they wished they could come upon – because then the books they hungered and thirsted for would exist. – Anne Lamott
There were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails. – Jonathan Swift
