Telling Quotes

In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
George Orwell

Time, Truth, Act

There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one - keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.
Mark Twain

Happiness, Keep, Unhappy

I always tell people that religious institutions and political institutions should be separate. So while I'm telling people this, I myself continue with them combined. Hypocrisy!
Dalai Lama

Political, Tell, While

Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey 'people.' People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war... Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest.
C. S. Lewis

War, Different, Rest

Suicide is man's way of telling God, 'You can't fire me - I quit.'
Bill Maher

God, Fire, Quit

Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
Aristotle

Art, Lies, Taught

It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
Aristotle

Art, Lies, Taught

Consider the fellow. He never spends his time telling you about his previous night's date. You get the idea he has eyes only for you and wouldn't think of looking at another woman.
Marilyn Monroe

Time, Woman, Night

Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding, find out what you already know, and you'll see the way to fly.
Richard Bach

Find, Eyes, Show

The writing process, the way I go about it is I do whatever the beat feels like, whatever the beat is telling me to do. Usually when the beat comes on, I think of a hook or the subject I want to rap about almost instantly. Within four, eight bars of it playing I'm just like, 'Oh, OK. This is what I wanna do'.
Eminem

Writing, Whatever, Playing

Even though your kids will consistently do the exact opposite of what you're telling them to do, you have to keep loving them just as much.
Bill Cosby

Keep, Kids, Though

I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.
Adlai E. Stevenson

Truth, Thinking, Friends

It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.
H. L. Mencken

Truth, Lie, Hard

Animation offers a medium of story telling and visual entertainment which can bring pleasure and information to people of all ages everywhere in the world.
Walt Disney

Story, Bring, Pleasure

Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth's surface relative to other matter; second, telling other people to do so.
Bertrand Russell

Work, Two, Matter

I decided to devote my life to telling the story because I felt that having survived I owe something to the dead. and anyone who does not remember betrays them again.
Elie Wiesel

Life, Remember, Again

We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up.
Phyllis Diller

Children, Down, Talk

We are a nation of immigrants. We are the children and grandchildren and great-grandchildren of the ones who wanted a better life, the driven ones, the ones who woke up at night hearing that voice telling them that life in that place called America could be better.
Mitt Romney

Life, Children, Night

A woman telling her true age is like a buyer confiding his final price to an Armenian rug dealer.
Mignon McLaughlin

Age, True, Woman

Telling a teenager the facts of life is like giving a fish a bath.
Arnold H. Glasow

Life, Giving, Fish

I don't mind telling a dark side.
Clint Eastwood

Mind, Dark, Side

I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.
Pietro Aretino

Love, Truth, Hate

If you have enough people sitting around telling you you're wonderful, then you start believing you're fabulous, then someone tells you you stink and you believe that too!
Angelina Jolie

Someone, Enough, Around

All I can tell you really is if you get to the point where someone is telling you that you are not great or not good enough, just follow your heart and don't let anybody crush your dream.
Patti LaBelle

Good, Great, Heart

Richard Nixon is a no good, lying bastard. He can lie out of both sides of his mouth at the same time, and if he ever caught himself telling the truth, he'd lie just to keep his hand in.
Harry S. Truman

Time, Good, Truth

We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Truth, Another, Often

Now, people when I say that look at me and say, 'What are you talking about, Joe? You're telling me we have to go spend money to keep from going bankrupt?'. The answer is yes, that's what I'm telling you.
Joe Biden

Money, Keep, Talking

Einstein, stop telling God what to do!
Niels Bohr

God, Stop, Einstein

God's plan for enlarging His kingdom is so simple - one person telling another about the Savior. Yet we're busy and full of excuses. Just remember, someone's eternal destiny is at stake. The joy you'll have when you meet that person in heaven will far exceed any discomfort you felt in sharing the gospel.
Charles Stanley

God, Simple, Someone

Being cool is being your own self, not doing something that someone else is telling you to do.
Vanessa Hudgens

Cool, Someone, Self

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