Tell Quotes - page 4

Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig. I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen. (Epictetus)
I guess I'm pretty much of a lone wolf. I don't say I don't like people at all, but, to tell you the truth, I only like it then if I have a chance to look deep into their hearts and their minds. View quote
Bela Lugosi
Be realistic and truthful - and tell Hong Kong businessmen honestly that they should go for long-term investments since it is unlikely money can be made in the short haul. View quote
Zhu Rongji
I tell people to monitor their self-pity. Self-pity is very unattractive. View quote
Patty Duke
Never ask what sort of computer a guy drives. If he's a Mac user, he'll tell you. If not, why embarrass him? View quote
Tom Clancy
There are two kinds of people: the ones who need to be told and the ones who figure it out all by themselves. View quote
Tom Clancy
Lawyers enjoy a little mystery, you know. Why, if everybody came forward and told the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth straight out, we should all retire to the workhouse. View quote
Dorothy L. Sayers
No, the real American has not yet arrived. He is only in the Crucible, I tell you - he will be the fusion of all races, perhaps the coming superman. View quote
Israel Zangwill
When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy'. They told me I didn't understand the assignment, and I told them they didn't understand life. View quote
John Lennon
I am not a cat man, but a dog man, and all felines can tell this at a glance - a sharp, vindictive glance. View quote
James Thurber
He knows little who will tell his wife all he knows. (Thomas Fuller)
Tell him to live by yes and no - yes to everything good, no to everything bad. View quote
William James
Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be expansive, even reckless, while lie detectors are only a challenge to tell lies successfully. View quote
Graham Greene
Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dream. View quote
Paulo Coelho
Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams. View quote
W. Somerset Maugham
You know what the critics are. If you tell the truth they only say you're cynical and it does an author no good to get a reputation for cynicism. View quote
W. Somerset Maugham
You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what you have said, and you never forget what you have said. View quote
Sam Rayburn
Tell the FBI that the kidnappers should pick out a judge that Nixon wants back. View quote
William O. Douglas
Instead of warning pregnant women not to drink, I think female alcoholics should be told not to fuck. View quote
George Carlin
I don't want you fellows sitting around asking me what to do. I want you to tell me what to do. View quote
George C. Marshall
You always have to remember - no matter what you're told - that God loves all the flowers, even the wild ones that grow on the side of the highway. (Cyndi Lauper)
Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday. View quote
Thornton Wilder
If I tell you I'm good, probably you will say I'm boasting. But if I tell you I'm not good, you'll know I'm lying. View quote
Bruce Lee
It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do. View quote
Edmund Burke
There be those who say that things and places have souls, and there be those who say they have not; I dare not say, myself, but I will tell of The Street. View quote
H. P. Lovecraft
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