Tells Quotes

Life tells you many stories... but allows you to write your own.
Its your job to make it good"
Victor Ghoshe — Victor Ghoshe

No one is born a CEO, but no one tells you that. — Drew Houston

To me, Gospel music is really any music that's a testimony and tells a story of what God has done in your life. — Laura Allen

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

Those with traditional sense will follow what their heart tells them is right. — Fennel Hudson

When someone tells me "no," it doesn't mean I can't do it, it simply means I can't do it with them. — Karen E. Quinones Miller

Lesson NUMBER THREE is that ANYONE WHO TELLS YOU THEY ARE DOING IT ALL PERFECTLY IS A LIAR. — Shonda Rhimes

who is better off, the child with a mentor who knows and tells everything or the one whose teacher helps the child find her own answers? — Arthur C. Clarke

There's a quickening of her heart when she sees him. She tells herself it's anger. — Neal Shusterman

Anyone who tells you that a greater symphony exists than the breath in your body is lying. — Yasmina Khadra

Don't believe anything anyone tells you. You have to evaluate the world with your own eyes. — Marjorie Celona

If someone tells you something is off the record, I don't print it. If they don't tell me something is off the record, then it's fair game. — Michael Hastings

Go on with what your heart tells you, or you will lose all. — Rick Riordan

My favourite poem is the one that starts 'Thirty days hath September' because it actually tells you something. — Groucho Marx

As your mother tells you, and my mother certainly told me, it is important, she always used to say, always to try new things. — Hannibal

My hand tells me what I'm thinking. — Pablo Picasso

It seems stupid when people limit themselves to one kind of music. It tells me they're not using their ears. — Diamanda Galas

Let's just say that society tells you to be whoever you want to be, but they don't accept you. — Ronald Gan

I haven't always been a patient man ... but something tells me you'd be worth the wait. — Sam Langley

Nothing is truer in a sense than a funeral oration: It tells precisely what the dead man should have been. — Louis Gustave Vapereau

I don't want to be perfect, but I do want to be a role model. My mom always tells me that imperfections equal beauty. All of us are imperfect. — Miley Cyrus

If Fred tells you a chicken can pull a freight train, your job is to hook 'em up. — Roger Frock

Your work tells tales. — Todd Henry

The opera tells the story with all the built-in contradictions and from many different angles. — Harrison Birtwistle

If someone tells you, "You can't" they really mean, "I can't." — Sean Stephenson

Every flower about a house certifies to the refinement of somebody. Every vine climbing and blossoming tells of love and joy — Robert Green Ingersoll

Every painting tells a story. — A.D. Posey

If we listen human instinct actually tells us what we need, but advertising makes us want things we don't need and things we can't have. — Kit Williams

Time doesn't conceal anything, it tells the future what you did in the past, so prepare well in order to score extra marks. — Michael Bassey

My experience as a fiction writer tells me that the deeper I look into myself, the more universal is the experience I find there. — Marion Dane Bauer

War is when your government tells you who the enemy is. A revolution is when you figure it out yourself. — Anonymous

Someone tells me I've been touched by Jesus, I remember."
"Not Jesus," he said in all seriousness. "The hand of God. — Gretchen McNeil

Every picture tells a story. But sometimes it's hard to know what story is actually being told. — Anastasia Hollings

If someone tells you he is going to make a 'realistic decision', you immediately understand that he has resolved to do something bad. — Mary McCarthy

But, my dear, I knew when I was a baby what I wanted to do, and I'll tell you, kiddo, if you don't do what your heart tells you, you'll never be real. — Shirley Booth

My computer tells me that in twenty-five years there will be no more computers. — Edward Abbey

I'm always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I've been. — Billie Holiday

Evil comes from all source of gospel that tells people that you could be rich and wealthy without doing the hard work — Sunday Adelaja

I was not a very good Jew. I never practised what Judaism tells you to do, to teach your kids all about Judaism. — Kirk Douglas

O, what damned minutes tells he o'er
Who dotes, yet doubts, suspects, yet fondly loves! — William Shakespeare

The Substitution Principle tells us that wherever a value of one type is expected, one may provide a value of any subtype of that type: — Maurice Naftalin

The secret of contentment is never to allow yourself to want anything which reason tells you you haven't a chance of getting. — P.D. James

And I will never, ever respond to anybody - man, woman, vegetable, or mineral - who tells me to keep my mouth shut. — Janice Dickinson

It takes two people to make a lie work: the person who tells it, and the one who believes it. — Jodi Picoult

Believe him when he tells you you are beautiful
it will only hurt you both not to
(it is true besides) — Francesca Lia Block

Evidence tells that black and Latina woman are more accepting of curves, and that's a good thing. — Lori Lansens

Black women were created of
brown sugar and warm honey.
the sweetest thing to bless the earth.
be wary of anyone who tells you otherwise. — Alexandra Elle

The Church does not pretend to be scientists. It teaches based upon what science tells it. — Wellington Mara

1975 was a great year for rock and roll, and don't believe anyone who tells you different. — Frank Portman

Grief is what tells you who you are alone. — Gail Caldwell

A person who tells a secret, swearing the recipient to secrecy in turn, is asking of the other person a discretion which he is abrogating himself. — Dorothy L. Sayers

Andrew Calhoun tells the truth. To my knowledge, there is no better songwriter alive. — Dave Carter

Research tells us liars tend to gesture less, touch less, and move their arms and legs less than honest people (Vrij, 2003, 65). — Joe Navarro

You will find friends in unexpected places. Listen to what midnight tells you. — Erin Hunter

I'm not gonna change my way of dance because I lost and the judge tells me I should do it a certain way. — Roxrite

How many lies can I brain tells itself until becomes truth? — Kiersten White

We are the creature that tells itself stories to understand what sort of creature it is. — Salman Rushdie

Your soul is like a compass, tells you where to go, but not how to get there — Archie Bunker

Someone once told me to believe 5 percent of what everybody tells you. — Mia Wasikowska

When your head tells you one thing and your heart another, listen to your heart. It tells no lies. — Catherine Anderson

It's hard not to be into a girl who tells you she loves your cock repeatedly as she comes. — Helena Hunting

A voice speaks to each of us in the still silent places - a voice that tells us to stand, to have courage, to do what is right. — Holly Lisle

But there're the things we tell ourselves about the truth, and there're the things the truth tells about us. — Rick Yancey

I think a major element of jetlag is psychological. Nobody ever tells me what time it is at home. — David Attenborough

There's many a man who never tells his adventures, for he can't hope to be believed. — Arthur Conan Doyle

To me, a lot of what makes a good actor is not what a teacher tells you to do but how you respond when you're on your own. — Glenne Headly

Meditation tells you only one thing: God is. Meditation reveals to you only one truth: yours is the vision of God. — Sri Chinmoy

Sometimes God dillies and dallies,' Steve said, 'and sometimes he just points at you and tells you to hang up your jock. — Stephen King

Finally, pay attention to what you envy. Jealousy is an ugly emotion, but it tells the truth. You mostly envy those who have what you desire. I — Susan Cain

It is almost a joke, but a joke that nobody tells. — Hilary Mantel

A scar is like writing on your body. It tells about something that once happened to you, such as a cut on your skin where blood came out. What — Margaret Atwood

Which should be an excellent reminder that when God tells you to do something, you'd better do it; He always has a reason. — Charles R. Swindoll

Follow your heart and don't question it, no matter where it tells you to go It will open up a world of experiences you can't even imagine. — Nikki Reed

Life usually tells the best stories - but sometimes it takes an artist to show us what they mean. — Terry Teachout

If one tells the truth, one is sure, sooner or later, to be found out. — Oscar Wilde

Does a bird stop flying just because someone tells it not to? It cannot stop, if that's what it was meant to do. — Jessica Verday

She trusted him.
She had faith in him.
And he left her forever.
Something tells me she's not forgetting that anytime soon. — Lisa Schroeder

He who tells a lie is not sensible of how great a task he undertakes; for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one. — Alexander Pope

A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside. — Denis Waitley

Intuition tells me how to live my day, intuition tells me when to walk away. — Natalie Imbruglia

You know that thing that people have that tells them they're doing something wrong or pushing too far?
Yeah. I don't have one of those. — Belle Aurora

Apparently too much candour can become tedious, or so Lady Emma tells me. — Sharon Kay Penman

My experience tells me the hard road is almost always the right road. — Shahid Khan

The phrase "work-life balance" tells us that people think that work is the opposite of life. We should be talking about life-life balance. — Patrick Dixon

When a man asks your advice, he usually tells you just how he expects you to decide. — E.W. Howe

When I meet a person that tells me they stopped hooping for no reason, I thank them for opening my door and making it easier. — Behdad Sami

A man who loves you the most is the man who tells you the most truth about yourself. — Robert Murray M'Cheyne

You must think for yourself, what you must do. If someone tells you, then you are not trying.
-An-mei — Amy Tan

Sensation tell us a thing is.
Thinking tell us what it is this thing is.
Feeling tells us what this thing is to us. — C. G. Jung

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

Literature tells very little to those who understand it. — Walter Benjamin

The real reason your pro tells you to keep your head down is so you can't see him laughing at you. — Phyllis Diller

The word 'spinster' tells you everything you need to know about our attitude of women who choose not to marry. — Caitlin Moran

Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

The mediocre leader tells. The good leader explains. The superior leader demonstrates. The great leader inspires. — Gary Patton

Anyone who tells you size doesn't matter has been seeing too many small knives. — Laurell K. Hamilton

Never hold resentments for the person who tells you what you need to hear; count them among your truest, most caring, and valuable friends. — Mike Norton

Anthropology is the science which tells us that people are the same the whole world over - except when they are different. — Nancy Banks-Smith

No sooner have you feasted on beauty with your eyes than your mind tells you that beauty is vain and beauty passes — Virginia Woolf

Everyone tells you how they are going to be "special", but few do the work to get there. Do the work. — Mark Cuban