#tells

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

#birth #broken #drink #eat #galling

The Arab League tells us to go in and take out Qaddafi. We've spent billions of dollars already with respect to the Arab League. Billions of dollars, because they told us to do it. Why aren't they paying for it? They don't like Qaddafi, Qaddafi's been a terrible thorn in their side. ↗

— Donald Trump

#arab #because #been #billions #dollars

When I was a baby, my mother tells me I never slept because I never wanted to miss anything. ↗

— Scott Baio

#baby #because #i #me #miss

A rich man told me recently that a liberal is a man who tells other people what to do with their money. ↗

— Amiri Baraka

#man #me #money #other #people

Common sense tells us that we should focus our resources to benefit children, teachers and taxpayers by keeping dollars in the classroom. ↗

— Bob Beauprez

#children #classroom #common #common sense #dollars

A pessimist is a man who tells the truth prematurely. ↗

— Cyrano de Bergerac

#pessimist #prematurely #tells #truth #who

But, my dear, I knew when I was a baby what I wanted to do, and I'll tell you, kiddo, if you don't do what your heart tells you, you'll never be real. ↗

— Shirley Booth

#be real #dear #heart #i #knew

I have made a film about jazz that tries to look through jazz to see what it tells us about who we are as a people. I think that jazz is a spectacularly accurate model of democracy and a kind of look into our redemptive future possibilities. ↗

— Ken Burns

#accurate #democracy #film #future #i

We decided that how we react to and treat those fellow mortals, wild and domestic, tells us more about ourselves than, perhaps, some of us want to know. ↗

— Nick Clooney

#decided #domestic #fellow #how #know

A woman tells her doctor, 'I've got a bad back.' The doctor says, 'It's old age.' The woman says, 'I want a second opinion.' The doctor says: 'Okay - you're ugly as well.' ↗

— Tommy Cooper

#back #bad #bad back #doctor #got