#tell

I have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, but to be resigned and tell myself that flies are born to be eaten by spiders and man to be devoured by sorrow. ↗

— Voltaire

#born to be #devoured #eaten #eighty #flies

Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power. ↗

— John Adams

#agent #choice #implies #intellectual #liberty

I like having my hair and face done, but I'm not going to lose weight because someone tells me to. I make music to be a musician not to be on the cover of Playboy. ↗

— Adele

#cover #done #face #going #hair

I get so nervous on stage I can't help but talk. I try. I try telling my brain: stop sending words to the mouth. But I get nervous and turn into my grandma. Behind the eyes it's pure fear. I find it difficult to believe I'm going to be able to deliver. ↗

— Adele

#behind #believe #brain #deliver #difficult

Everyone's entitled to express their political beliefs. I don't presume to tell anybody who to vote for. I am comfortable telling people what my opinions are. ↗

— Ben Affleck

#anybody #beliefs #comfortable #entitled #everyone

I had a very high-grade publisher tell me I was incapable of writing a memoir. ↗

— Mitch Albom

#i #incapable #me #memoir #publisher

I really think that there was a great advantage in many ways to being a woman. I think we are a lot better at personal relationships, and then have the capability obviously of telling it like it is when it's necessary. ↗

— Madeleine Albright

#being #better #capability #great #great advantage

And so I have studied, I have to tell you, revolutions and uprisings for a long time. They are all slightly different, but what they all look for is some kind of a mechanism to go from an authoritarian system to an open, democratic system. ↗

— Madeleine Albright

#democratic #democratic system #different #go #i

Telling a teenager the facts of life is like giving a fish a bath. ↗

— Arnold H. Glasow

#bath #facts #fish #giving #life

But I'll tell you what, there was a lot of farmland between Falls Church and Washington. ↗

— Jim Fowler

#church #falls #farmland #i #lot