Quotes with tell-tales

Quotes 461 till 480 of 652.

  • Dale Carnegie Tell me what gives a man or woman their greatest pleasure and I'll tell you their philosophy of life.
    Dale Carnegie
    American writer and lecturer (1888 - 1955)
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  • John Ruskin Tell me what you like and I'll tell you what you are.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Charles Augustin Sainte-Beauve Tell me who admires you and loves you, and I will tell you who you are.
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  • Bill Bryson Tell me, did they specify asshole on the job description or did you go on a course?
    Source: A Walk in the Woods
    Bill Bryson
    American-British author (1951 - )
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  • Abdul Kalam Tell me, why is the media here so negative? Why are we in India so embarrassed to recognise our own strengths, our achievements? We are such a great nation. We have so many amazing success stories but we refuse to acknowledge them. Why?
    Abdul Kalam
    11th President of India (1931 - 2015)
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  • Dale Carnegie Tell the audience what you're going to say, say it; then tell them what you've said.
    Dale Carnegie
    American writer and lecturer (1888 - 1955)
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  • François Rabelais Tell the truth and shame the devil.
    François Rabelais
    French writer (1483 - 1553)
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  • Henry Wotton Tell the truth, and so puzzle and confound your adversaries.
    Henry Wotton
    English diplomat, politician and writer (1568 - 1639)
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  • Beth Ditto Thanks to capitalism, the importance placed on beauty has never been so manipulated. We are the guinea pigs force-fed ads that tell us how pathetic we are: that we will never be loved, happy or valuable unless we have the body, the face, the hair, even the personality that will apparently be ours, if only we buy their products.
    Beth Ditto
    American singer-songwriter and actress (1981 - )
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  • Arthur Miller That is a very good question. I don't know the answer. But can you tell me the name of a classical Greek shoemaker?
    Arthur Miller
    American Dramatist (1915 - 2005)
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  • Bill Medley That was the toughest thing I ever had to do: tell my son that his mum was gone. I was a bachelor living on the beach, but I had to pull it together very quick for my boy.
    Bill Medley
    American singer and songwriter (1940 - )
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  • Carol Shields That’s how people live, by telling stories. What’s the first thing a kid says when he learns how to talk? 'Tell me a story.' That’s how we understand who we are, where we come from. Stories are everything.
    Source: Middlesex (2003) 197
    Carol Shields
    American-born Canadian novelist (1935 - 2003)
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  • Barry Sternlicht The best advice is often the compliments received, and they are often about an associate who did something exceptional. I tell my teams that it's the random acts of kindness, the unexpected, that people remember most.
    Barry Sternlicht
    billionaire and the (1960 - )
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  • Phillips Brooks The best advisers, helpers and friends, always are not those who tell us how to act in special cases, but who give us, out of themselves, the ardent spirit and desire to act right, and leave us then, even through many blunders, to find out what our own form of right action is.
    Phillips Brooks
    American Minister, Poet (1835 - 1893)
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  • George Orwell The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Bobby Bowden The Bible is big in my teaching. It's a wonder the ACLU didn't get after me pretty good. I really kept thinking they would. I took my boys to church. I took my football team to church. I only did it two times a year. Before I signed a kid, I'd write the parents and I'd tell that parent we were gong to take your son to church twice.
    Bobby Bowden
    American football coach (1929 - )
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  • Buddha The Buddhas do but tell the way; it is for you to swelter at the task.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Bruce Jackson The daily press, the immediate media, is superb at synecdoche, at giving us a small thing that stands for a much larger thing. Reporters on the ground, embedded or otherwise, can tell us about or send us pictures of what happened in that place at that time among those people.
    Bruce Jackson
    American folklorist, documentary filmmaker and writer (1936 - )
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  • Alice James The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?
    Alice James
    American diarist (1848 - 1892)
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  • Richard M. DeVos The easiest thing to find on God's green earth is someone to tell you all the things you cannot do.
    Richard M. DeVos
    American businessman, co-founder of Amway Corp. (1926 - 2018)
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