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Who tells a finer tale than any of us. Silence does.


Isak Dinesen

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Isak Dinesen said that she wrote a little every day, without hope and without despair. I like that.
RAYMOND CARVER What was it Isak Dinesen had said about salt as a cure? Tears, sweat, or the sea. She could use a cu...
NINA POST Difficult times have helped me to understand better than before, how infinitely rich and beautiful l...
ISAK DINESEN In good times and bad times, I'll be on your side for ever more...that's what friends are for.
ISAK DINESEN Love, with very young people, is a heartless business. We drink at that age from thirst, or to get ...
ISAK DINESEN The cure for anything is salt water - sweat, tears, or the sea.
ISAK DINESEN The cure for anything is salt water -- sweat, teats, or the sea.
ISAK DINESEN Do you know a cure for me?
Why yes, he said, I know a cure for everything. Salt water.
Salt w...
ISAK DINESEN Difficult times have helped me to understand better than before, how infinitely rich and beautiful l...
ISAK DINESEN Of all the idiots I have met in my life, and the Lord knows they have not been few or little, I thin...
ISAK DINESEN I don't believe in evil, I believe only in horror. In nature there is no evil, only an abundance of ...
ISAK DINESEN God made the world round so we would never be able to see too far down the road.
ISAK DINESEN To be a person is to have a story to tell.
ISAK DINESEN The cure for anything is salt water -- sweat, tears, or the sea.
ISAK DINESEN The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears or the sea.
ISAK DINESEN A great artist is never poor.
ISAK DINESEN I don't believe in evil, I believe only in horror. In nature there is no evil, only an abundance...
ISAK DINESEN I think it will be truly glorious when women become real people and have the whole world open to the...
ISAK DINESEN All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story or tell a story about them.
ISAK DINESEN Love, with very young people, is a heartless business. We drink at that age from thirst, or to get d...
ISAK DINESEN When you have a great and difficult task, something perhaps almost impossible, if you only work a li...
ISAK DINESEN Difficult times have helped me to understand better than before, how infinitely rich and beautiful l...
ISAK DINESEN I don't believe in evil, I believe only in horror. In nature there is no evil, only an abundance o...
ISAK DINESEN I do not know if you remember the tale of the girl who saves the ship under mutiny by sitting on the...
ISAK DINESEN The entire being of a woman is a secret which should be kept
ISAK DINESEN The cure for anything is salt water - sweat, tears, or the sea
ISAK DINESEN It is an alarming experience to be, in your person, representing Christianity to the natives.
ISAK DINESEN But the trouble is not as you think now, that we have put up obstacles too high for you to jump . . ...
ISAK DINESEN What is man, when you come to think upon him, but a minutely set, ingenious machine for turning, wit...
ISAK DINESEN There isn't any finer folks living than a Republican that votes the Democratic ticket.
WILL ROGERS No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut.
SAM RAYBURN There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.
WINSTON CHURCHILL Failure and success are a team. Failure tells us what doesn't work, and success tells us what does w...
JIM GENOVESE Wisdom tells us that the best time for silence is when we are mad or upset.
JOHN PATRICK HICKEY Passive righteousness tells us that God does not need our good works. Active righteousness tells us ...
TULLIAN TCHIVIDJIAN The silence of a wounded soul roars louder than any tempest...
VIRGINIA ALISON A mask tells us more than a face.
OSCAR WILDE Those evening bells! those evening bells! How many a tale their music tells!
THOMAS MOORE Does not everything depend on our interpretation of the silence around us?
LAWRENCE DURRELL Bullies are often people who are shy and can't make friends easily, so, as the theme of the movi...
PHILIP ZIMBARDO Research tells us fourteen out of any ten individuals likes chocolate.
SANDRA BOYNTON Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a m...
G. K. CHESTERTON Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a m...
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON Silence is more musical than any song.
CHRISTINA ROSSETTI Silence is more musical than any song.
CHRISTINA G. ROSSETTI I don't believe there is any finer mission on Earth than just to make people laugh.
FATTY ARBUCKLE A sage thing is timely silence, and better than any speech
PLUTARCH The utter unbroken silence was more appalling than any ominous noise, than the loudest yells of angu...
SIMONA PANOVA Silence is a true friend who never betrays.A meaningful silence is always better than meaningless wo...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA An independent woman does not need a man who will spoil her with the finest jewels. All that she nee...
NIGUEL CROWIE A very unwise man once said, “He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand...
SHANNON L. ALDER The flying rumours gather'd as the roll'd, Scarce any tale was sooner heard than told; And all...
ALEXANDER POPE We find ourselves under the government of a system of political institutions, conducing more essenti...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN I believe with all my heart that civilization has produced nothing finer than a man or woman who thi...
FRANK KNOX He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.
ELBERT HUBBARD One does so hate to admit that the average woman is kinder, finer, more quick of sympathy and on the...
SHERWOOD ANDERSON Sometimes life asks us to make more serious choices than whether or not to believe a fairy tale
CHRYSTAL VAUGHAN The Dreamer awakes
The shadow goes by
The tale I have told you,
That tale is a lie. TRADITIONAL FOLKTALE ENDING To kill him is a way of making politicians look tough. It does not make it right. It does not make a...
JESSE JACKSON There is no choice more intensely personal, after all, than whom you choose to marry; that choice te...
ELIZABETH GILBERT The man who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.
ELBERT HUBBARD Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.
PLUTARCH Anyone who might not like us or what we do would find this tale of our childhood nauseating.
WALLACE SHAWN Scarce any Tale was sooner heard than told;And all who told it, added something new,And all who hear...
ALEXANDER POPE The power of silence in an altercation is stronger than any harsh words created by frustration
MARCUS MITCHELL There are few finer excesses in the world than an excess of gratitude.
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer - into a selflessness which li...
NANCY ASTOR Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which lin...
NANCY ASTOR Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which lin...
NANCY WITCHER ASTOR, VISCOUNTESS Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which lin...
NANCY ASTOR THE VISCOUNTESS ASTOR Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which lin...
NANCY WITCHER ASTOR VISCOUNTESS The silence was more profound than that of midnight; and to me the silence of a summer morning is mo...
THOMAS DE QUINCEY Every baby born into the world is a finer one than the last
CHARLES DICKENS For you, and for any dear to you, I would do anything. I would embrace any sacrifice for you and for...
CHARLES DICKENS I like approbation. Any actor who tells you they don't is lying.
CHARLES DANCE Any entertainer who tells you that the adoration of fans is not a heady experience probably never ha...
CHARLEY PRIDE He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Doing something because God has said to do it does not make a person moral: it merely tells us that ...
ALAN DERSHOWITZ I have a friend who tells a tale With statements parenthetical; To start at the beginning must To he...
ERICA H. STUX This survey tells us that candidates who support pre-K have a better chance of winning at the polls.
CECILIA ZALKIND Nobody has any conscience about adding to the improbabilities of a marvelous tale.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD This is a tale of woe. This is a tale of sorrow. A love denied, a love restored, to live beyond tomo...
ABI MORGAN Your silence is a better reply than your words to those who don’t deserve you.
ZUBAIR AHMED (Z.A) Speech and silence. We feel safer with a madman who talks than with one who cannot open his mouth.
E. M. CIORAN Speech and silence. We feel safer with a madman who talks than with one who cannot open his mouth.
EMILE M. CIORAN History tells us that America does best when the private sector is energetic and entrepreneurial and...
JON MEACHAM Twenty years of votes can tell you much more about a man than twenty weeks of campaign rhetoric. Cam...
ZELL MILLER It was a pretty resounding message, It has a finer grain, finer texture.
DAVID GRANT Within us there is someone who knows everything, wills everything, does everything better than we ou...
HERMANN HESSE The human heart...tells us that we are more alike than we are unalike.
MAYA ANGELOU The noise hides the silence. It does not destroy the silence. (Le bruit cache le silence. - Il ne d�...
CHARLES DE LEUSSE Common sense tells us that this explosion of media sources should eliminate any concern over a lack ...
FRED UPTON There is no finer sonic-producing weapon for a guitar slayer than a hand crafter Gibson masterpiece.
TED NUGENT People don't change, it is ourselves who tells us to change our attitude in a comfortable way.
PETER ALMOJUELA CHRISTENSEN A house, having been willfully purchased and furnished, tells us more than a body, and its descripti...
JOHN UPDIKE All of us are smarter than any of us.
DOUGLAS MERRILL There is nothing harder, at moments, than talking to someone who has all the power of silence.
ELIZABETH KOSTOVA

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