Quotes with tells

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  • Junot Diaz The whole culture is telling you to hurry, while the art tells you to take your time. Always listen to the art.
    Junot Diaz
    Dominican-American writer (1968 - )
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  • Caitlin Moran The word 'spinster' tells you everything you need to know about our attitude of women who choose not to marry.
    Caitlin Moran
    English journalist, author, and broadcaster (1975 - )
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  • Bayard Taylor There is a degree of confidence exhibited towards strangers in Sweden, especially in hotels, at post-stations, and on board the inland steamers, which tells well for the general honesty of the people.
    Bayard Taylor
    American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
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  • Barry Cornwall There's not a wind but whispers of thy name; And not a flow'r that grows beneath the moon, But in its hues and fragrance tells a tale Of thee, my love.
    A Sicilian story and Mirandola
    Barry Cornwall
    English poet (pen name of Bryan Procter) (1787 - 1874)
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  • Albert Szent-Gyorgyi This celebration here tells me that this work is not hopeless. I thank you for this teaching with all my heart and lift my glass to human solidarity, to the ultimate victory of knowledge, peace, good-will and understanding.
    Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
    Hungarian physician and Nobel Prize winner in Medicine (1893 - 1986)
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  • Carey Williams Times change. The farmer's daughter now tells jokes about the traveling salesman.
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  • Robert Louis Stevenson To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer is to have kept your soul alive.
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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  • David Gemmell Trust your instincts, and make judgements on what your heart tells you. The heart will not betray you.
    David Gemmell
    British author of heroic fantasy (1948 - 2006)
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  • Benjamin Watson What I've found, and what Scripture tells us, is that your faith is not something on the side, something you carry with you - it is inherently who you are.
    Benjamin Watson
    American football player (1980 - )
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  • Bjorn Lomborg When a business group tells us there is nothing wrong with the environment, naturally they may have good arguments, but we are also sceptical, because we know that they have an interest in these things.
    Bjorn Lomborg
    Danish author (1965 - )
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  • Harry S. Truman When a fellow tells me he's bipartisan, I know he's going to vote against me.
    Harry S. Truman
    American president (1884 - 1972)
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  • Don Marquis When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him whose?
    Don Marquis
    American writer (1878 - 1937)
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  • Adrienne Rich When a woman tells the truth she is creating the possibility for more truth around her.
    Adrienne Rich
    American Poet (1929 - 2012)
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  • Florence Griffith-Joyner When anyone tells me I can't do anything... I'm just not listening any more.
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  • Candice Millard When I began work on my first book, 'The River of Doubt,' which tells the story of Theodore Roosevelt's 1914 descent of an unmapped river in the Amazon rainforest, I thought of it as a tale of adventure, exploration and extraordinary courage.
    Candice Millard
    American writer and journalist (1968 - )
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  • Harry S. Truman Whenever a fellow tells me he is bipartisan, I know he's going to vote against me.
    Harry S. Truman
    American president (1884 - 1972)
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  • Barack Obama While the evidence tells me that the death penalty does little to deter crime, I believe there are some crimes- mass murder, the rape and murder of a child- so heinous, so beyond the pale, that the community is justified in expressing the full measure of its outrage by meting out the ultimate punishment.
    The Audacity of Hope (2006)
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Algernon Sydney Who will wear a shoe that hurts him, because the shoe-maker tells him 'tis well made?
    Algernon Sydney
    English politician (1623 - 1683)
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  • Coco Chanel Why am I so determined to put the shoulder where it belongs? Women have very round shoulders that push forward slightly; this touches me and I say: ''One must not hide that!'' Then someone tells you: ''The shoulder is on the back.'' I've never seen women with shoulders on their backs.
    Coco Chanel
    French couturier (1883 - 1971)
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  • Francoise Sagan Writing is a question of finding a certain rhythm. I compare it to the rhythms of jazz. Much of the time life is a sort of rhythmic progression of three characters. If one tells oneself that life is like that, one feels it less arbitrary.
    Francoise Sagan
    French writer (1935 - 2004)
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