Quotes with tells

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  • Blaise Pascal Faith certainly tells us what the senses do not, but not the contrary of what they see; it is above, not against them.
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Oliver Goldsmith For just experience tells, in every soil, I that those that think must govern those that toil.
    The Traveller
    Oliver Goldsmith
    Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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  • Lord Chesterfield For my own part, I would rather be in company with a dead man than with an absent one; for if the dead man gives me no pleasure, at least he shows me no contempt; whereas the absent one, silently indeed, but very plainly, tells me that he does not think me worth his attention.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Jeffrey Borenstein Freedom is that instant between when someone tells you to do something and when you decide how to respond.
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  • Jean de la Bruyère Grief that is dazed and speechless is out of fashion: the modern woman mourns her husband loudly and tells you the whole story of his death, which distresses her so much that she forgets not the slightest detail about it.
    Jean de la Bruyère
    French writer (1645 - 1696)
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  • Lyndon B. Johnson Heck by the time a man scratches his behind, clears his throat, and tells me how smart he is, we've already wasted fifteen minutes.
    Lyndon B. Johnson
    American president (1908 - 1973)
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  • Adele I like having my hair and face done, but I'm not going to lose weight because someone tells me to. I make music to be a musician not to be on the cover of Playboy.
    Adele
    English singer-songwriter (1988 - )
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  • Martin Luther King I submit that an individual who breaks the law that conscience tells him is unjust and willingly accepts the penalty by staying in jail to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the very highest respect for law.
    Martin Luther King
    American preacher (1929 - 1968)
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  • Billie Holiday I'm always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I've been.
    Billie Holiday
    American jazz musician and singer-songwriter (1915 - 1959)
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  • Malcolm X I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it is for or against. I'm a human being, first and foremost, and as such I'm for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.
    Malcolm X
    American activist (1925 - 1965)
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  • Burt Shavitz If I decide I want to go canoeing, I've got a canoe. If I want to take my dog with me, nobody tells me I can't do it. If I want to go skinny dipping and wash my body, I can take my clothes off.
    Burt Shavitz
    American beekeeper and businessman (1935 - 2015)
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  • Buster Keaton If one more person tells me this is just like old times, I swear I'll jump out the window.
    As Calveros Partner in Limelight (1952)
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  • Oscar Wilde If one tells the truth, one is sure, sooner or later, to be found out.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Alice Meynell If there is a look of human eyes that tells of perpetual loneliness, so there is also the familiar look that is the sign of perpetual crowds.
    Alice Meynell
    British poet, writer (1847 - 1922)
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  • Bill Clinton If we disagree and I think I'm right, I just go ahead and do what I think is right. And then she tells me, 'I told you so.
    Bill Clinton
    President of the US (1946 - )
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  • Marilyn vos Savant If your head tells you one thing, and your heart tells you another, before you do anything, you should first decide whether you have a better head or a better heart.
    Marilyn vos Savant
    American magazine columnist, author and lecturer (1946 - )
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  • Alfred Whitney Griswold It is a barren kind of criticism which tells you what a thing is not.
    Alfred Whitney Griswold
    American historian and educator (1906 - 1963)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton It is the briefest yet wisest maxim which tells us to ''meddle not''.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Blake Mycoskie It may sound too good to be true, but once you've seen the happiest people in your life who have nothing, you really start rethinking what the world, and society, tells us that we need to be happy.
    Blake Mycoskie
    American entrepreneur, author, and philanthropist (1976 - )
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  • Eknath Easwaran It takes a lot of experience of life to see why some relationships last and others do not. But we do not have to wait for a crisis to get an idea of the future of a particular relationship. Our behavior in little every incidents tells us a great deal.
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