Quotes with tells

Quotes 61 till 80 of 108.

  • Shashi Tharoor It's not the side of the bigger army that wins. It's the country that tells a better story.
    Shashi Tharoor
    Indian politician and writer (1956 - )
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  • Bill Flores My gut tells me that the Supreme Court will rule the subsidies to be illegal, and therefore, Obamacare will fail.
    Bill Flores
    American businessman and politician (1954 - )
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  • Bob Seger My management tells me, Don't be optimistic, because it's the young people's world now. They want to hear what they want to hear, and you're a classic rocker. I don't know if you're gonna get the play.
    Bob Seger
    American singer, songwriter and musician (1945 - )
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  • Oscar Wilde No man dies for what he knows to be true. Men die for what they want to be true, for what some terror in their hearts tells them is not true.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Anna Held No one ever tells us the truth, even those we love.
    Anna Held
    Polish-born stage performer and singer (1872 - 1918)
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  • Barbara Corcoran No one tells salesmen what they can and can't do.
    Barbara Corcoran
    American businesswoman, investor, speaker and consultant (1949 - )
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  • Thomas B. Macaulay Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from the birth as a paternal, or in other words a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read and say and eat and drink and wear.
    Thomas B. Macaulay
    American essayist and historian (1800 - 1859)
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  • Ben Shapiro Obama's entire foreign policy was predicated on the notion that by existing, he would bridge all gaps and bury all hatchets. Instead, the Muslim world burns his picture even as he tells them he respects their radicalism. It turns out that diversity is a one-way street for the devotees of global Islam.
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Dorothy Canfield Fisher One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.
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  • Barry Ritholtz People forget that although we can pinpoint the price, we can only guess at future earnings. The past isn't much help: It simply tells whether a market was pricey or cheap.
    Barry Ritholtz
    American author and newspaper columnist
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  • Toni Morrison Race is the least reliable information you can have about someone. It's real information, but it tells you next to nothing.
    Toni Morrison
    American novelist, essayist, editor (1931 - 2019)
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  • George Eliot That's what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to make sure one fool tells him he's wise.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Richard Buckminster Fuller The courage to cooperate or initiate are based entirely on the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth as the divine mind within you tells you the truth is. It really does require a courage and a self-disciplining to go along with that truth.
    Only Integrity is Going to Count (1983)
    Richard Buckminster Fuller
    American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, and inventor (1895 - 1983)
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  • Vladimir Nabokov The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness.
    Vladimir Nabokov
    American writer and poet (1899 - 1977)
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  • William James The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • William Arthur Ward The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
    William Arthur Ward
    American writer and poet (1921 - 1994)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken The objection of the scandalmonger is not that she tells of racy doings, but that she pretends to be indignant about them.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • George Orwell The people will believe what the media tells them they believe.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Sextus Propertius The seaman tells stories of winds, the ploughman of bulls; the soldier details his wounds, the shepherd his sheep.
    Sextus Propertius
    Roman poet (47 - 15)
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