Quotes about tell

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“I'll tell you about it because I am here and you are distant.”

“You'll find another.'
God! Banish the thought. Why don't you tell me that 'if the girl had been worth having she'd have waited for you'? No, sir, the girl really worth having won't wait for anybody.”

“Power is the ability not just to tell the story of another person, but to make it the definitive story of that person.”

“They say that nobody is perfect. Then they tell you practice makes perfect. I wish they'd make up their minds.”

“We always see the worst in our selves. Our most volnerable selves. We need someone to get close enough to tell us that we're wrong. Someone we trust.”

“Anyone who tells you size doesn't matter has been seeing too many small knives.”

“I shall tell you where we are. We're in the most extreme and utter region of the human mind. A dim, subconscious underworld. A radiant abyss where men meet themselves. Hell, Netley. We're in Hell.”

“All we have is the story we tell. Everything we do, every decision we make, our strength, weakness, motivation, history, and character-what we believe-none of it is; it's all part of the story we tell. But here's the thing:”

“I wish I could tell him I understand: the higher you raise your hopes, the farther you have to fall.”

“There's more magic in a baby's first giggle than in any firestorm a wizard can conjure up, and don't let anyone tell you any different.”

“Tell my daughter Elizabeth -- no! Tell all my daughters, everywhere, in all the ages yet to come. Tell them how I died, and why. And tell them to remember this: the future is unwritten. Know your rights.”

“The thing about talking swords…it’s hard to tell when they’re kidding. They have no facial expressions. Or faces.”

“Tell me, warrior, how soon can we do this again?”

“I've forgotten the words with which to tell you. I knew them once, but I've forgotten them, and now I'm talking to you without them.”

“But some people can't tell where it hurts. They can't calm down. They can't ever stop howling.”

“Draw your chair up close to the edge of the precipice and I’ll tell you a story.”

“Your nervous system cannot tell the difference between an imagined experience and a ‘real’ experience.”

“I was in the middle of a dream about garbage cans and frogs - don't ask, and I won't tell.”

“you can tell the deepest truths with the lies of fiction”

“No one can tell you what your life is goin to be, can they?

No.

It's never like what you expected.

Quijada nodded. If people knew the story of their lives how many would then elect to live them?”

“Tell them, Gabrielle,” Adam urged impatiently.
Blinking, Gabby nodded. “I have one of the, er… fairies here with me –”
“Tuatha Dé,” Adam corrected irritably. “You’re bloody well making me sound like Tinkerbell.”

“The goodbyes we speak and the goodbyes we hear are the good byes that tell us we're still alive.”

“When you kill a man, you steal a life," Baba said. "You steal his wife's right to a husband, rob his children of a father. When you tell a lie, you steal someone's right to the truth. When you cheat, you steal the right to fairness. Do you see?”

“You have to be a bit of a liar to tell a story the right way.”

“I will tell you the story of how we found ourselves in a realm where dreams are formed, destiny is chosen, and magic is as real as a handprint in the snow.”

“Two girls called me closed minded. I tell them that they are so open-minded their brains leaked out.”

“Since when do you have to tell the enemy when he has won”

“I can't tell if she's actually real, or if she's stopped caring if she's real or not. Or is not caring what makes a person real?”

“Everytime you see a flood like that on the news you tell yourself: That's it. That's my heart.”

“Never seek to tell thy love
Love that never told can be;
For the gentle wind does move
Silently, invisibly.

I told my love, I told my love,
I told her all my heart;
Trembling, cold, in ghastly fears—
Ah, she doth depart.

Soon as she was gone from me
A traveler came by
Silently, invisibly—
Oh, was no deny.”

“My mother used to tell me that when push comes to shove, you always know who to turn to. That being a family isn't a social construct but an instinct.”

“Men lie the most,

women tell the biggest lies.”

“How can you possibly believe he really loves you?” Miss Sneezy looks from the Mother to the Saint to Mr. Whittier’s hand.“You have no choice,” Mr. Whittier tells her. “If you need to be loved.”

“I tell people to monitor their self-pity. Self-pity is very unattractive.”

“What can I tell you, except the stupid little I know?”

“It is easy to tell the toiler
How best he can carry his pack
But no one can rate a burden's weight
Until it has been on his back”

“A story can be new and yet tell about olden times. The past comes into existence with the story.”

“We are often unable to tell people what they need to know because they want to know something else.”

“Father says it will come in time. “Time heals,” he says.
I don’t tell him that I don’t know what time is.”

“Dat's what they say of this cauntry back home, Kath: 'America, the land of milk and honey.' Bot they never tell you the milk's gone sour and the honey's stolen.”

“A story is a letter that the author writes to himself, to tell himself things that he would be unable to discover otherwise.”

“But his soul was mad. Being alone in the wilderness, it had looked within itself and, by heavens I tell you, it had gone mad.”

“You can always tell employees of the government by the total vacancy which occupies the space where most other people have faces.”

“I am convinced that grandkids are inherently evil people who tell their grandparents to "just go to the library and open up an e-mail account - it's free and so simple.”

“There were no route maps posted on the walls, but a Wonderland-style sign commanding, 'If you know where you are, then please tell others.”

“He buried his face in my throat. “Love you.” Tears stung my eyes. He said the words so rarely. “Tell me again,” I begged, holding on to him. His mouth found mine. “I love you . . .”

“Life is a million different dots making one gigantic picture. And maybe the big picture is nice, maybe it's amazing, but if you're standing with your face pressed up against a bunch of black dots, it's really hard to tell.”

“What I do know is that when I was sitting with you that night, I felt like God was telling me that I was doing the right thing.”

“Ah, yes" Langdon said with a knowing smile. "Who better than a bunch of celibate octogeneraians to tell the world how to have sex?"

Sinskey was liking the professor more and more every second.”

“All children mythologise their birth. It is a universal trait. You want to know someone? Heart, mind and soul? Ask him to tell you about when he was born. What you get won’t be the truth: it will be a story. And nothing is more telling than a story.”

“While we're waiting for a cab I'll give you your lesson for today. Don't listen to what your teachers tell ya, you know. Don't pay attention. Just, just see what they look like and that's how you'll know what life is really gonna be like.”

“Adam wants to know what took you so long?
"Tell him I had wild, passionate sex with a complete stranger.”

“Don't allow your mind to tell your heart what to do. The mind gives up easily”

“I will tell you what war is. War is a psychosis caused by an inability to see relationships. Our relationship with our fellowmen. Our relationship with our economic and historical situation. And above all our relationship to nothingness, to death.”

“As far as I know, he never asked where she had been or why she had left and she never told. I guess some stories do not need telling.”

“I don't trust easily, so when I tell you I trust you, don't make me regret it.”

“You can tell which girls lack mothers by the look of their hair…”

“If you take two steps towards God,' he used to tell me, 'God runs to you!”

“Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth — look at the dying man’s struggle at his last extremity, and then tell me whether something that begins and ends thus could be intended for enjoyment.”

“Terrorist', noun: 1. Someone my government tells me is a terrorist; 2. Someone my President decides to kill.”

“If you could only tell them that living and spending isn't the same thing! But it's no good. If only they were educated toinstead of earn and spend, they could manage very happily…”

“… the sun would leave my sky if I couldn't assume you'd simply come and tell me you were sad.”

“Never take your eyes off them,” Horace said to Gilan, in an admonishing tone. “Didn’t MacNeil ever tell you that?”

“You're never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you're never as bad as they say when you lose.”

“Now she and I sit together in her room and eat chocolate, and I tell her that in a very long time when we both to go heaven, we should try to get chairs next to each other, close to the dessert table.”

“The good guys and bad guys aren’t as easy to tell apart as I used to think they were. You can’t look at someone with your eyes and take their measure.
You have to look with the heart.”

“I don't know how to thank you.'
Then I will tell you. There is only one way I care for. Do better, and grow better, and be better.”

“I was the Sumerian god of fertility. You know what that means, don’t you? (Sin)
You have a lot of penis envy over the other fertility gods? Don’t worry. I won’t tell the other gods about your small penis problem. (Kat)”

“Don't think you can frighten me by telling me that I am alone. France is alone. God is alone. And the loneliness of God is His strength.”

“It may not seem obvious at first glance, but the way we make decisions in life tells a lot about the kind of faith we have in Jesus Christ.”

“I'll tell you one thing, though. It's a terrible thing to be a disappointment to a good woman.”

“You can tell it's a poem because it's swimming in a little gel pack of white space. That shows it's a poem.”

“I might as well enquire,” replied she, “why with so evident a design of offending and insulting me, you chose to tell me that you liked me against your will, against your reason, and even against your character?”

“A lot of parents tell their children that if they want to be an actor, that's fine, but they should do something else first, so they've got something to fall back on. It doesn't work like that, as far as I'm concerned.”

“You can tell a lot from a person's nails. When a life starts to unravel, they're among the first to go.”

“I didn't want to leave things the way we had, unresolved,… and tried to tell myself he cared about me enough not to look elsewhere for what I wasn't giving him.”

“If you tell people you talk to God, they'll think you're religious, but if you say God talks to you, it's ten to one they'll think you're crazy.”

“Burnout is nature's way of telling you, you've been going through the motions your soul has departed; you're a zombie, a member of the walking dead, a sleepwalker. False optimism is like administrating stimulants to an exhausted nervous system.”

“The greatest patriotism is to tell your country when it is behaving dishonorably, foolishly, viciously.”

“I don't say anything and he casually leans against my desk, picking up the novel that's sitting there.

"It's bullshit," he tells me, flicking through it. "There's no such thing as Atticus Finch."

I shrug. "It'd be nice if there was, though.”

“If I could tell you what it meant, there would be no point in dancing it”

“Goodbye, Room." I wave up at Skylight. "Say goodbye," I tell Ma. "Goodbye, Room."
Ma says it but on mute.
I look back one more time. It's like a crater, a hole where something happened. Then we go out the door.”

“Tell me how all this, and love too, will ruin us.
These, our bodies, possessed by light.
Tell me we'll never get used to it.”

“Tell my brother to remember his heart in all things. That is where his honor and his destiny will be found. Tell him.”

“If you're going to tell people the truth, you better make them laugh; otherwise they'll kill you.”

“If she spoke, she would tell him the truth: she was not okay at all, but horribly empty, now that she knew what it was like to be filled.”

“Never tell me the odds!”

“I am sure people tell you this constantly but if you looked up 'incredibly beautiful' in the dictionary there would be a picture of you.”

“Because when something happens, she's the person I want to tell. The most basic indicator of love.”

“Might not hurt you to pick up a book, just as an experiment."

Whatever. I looked up the definition for 'nerd' in the dictionary. Know what it said?"

"I bet you'll tell me."

" 'If you're reading this, you are one.' "

You're a riot.”

“Mrs. May looked back at her. "Kate," she said after a moment, "stories never really end. They can go on and on and on. It's just that sometimes, at a certain point, one stops telling them.”

“I usually know almost exactly how I feel. The problem is, I just can't tell anyone.”

“I mean, to me, freaking out is different. More of a running away, not telling anyone what's wrong, slowly simmering until you burst kind of thing.”

“I've watched through his eyes, I've listened through his ears, and I tell you he's the one.”

“You may do this, I tell you, it is permitted. Begin again the story of your life.”

“It’s because of you when I’m in bed in the morning that I can wind my spring and tell myself I have to live another good day.”

“Fiction doesn’t tell us something we don’t know, it tells us something we know but don’t know that we know.”

“Sutton's dead. Tell no one. Keep playing along… or you're next.”

“Look, don't just stare at the pages," I used to tell my students. "Become the characters. Live inside the book.”