Quotes of Telling - somelinesforyou

“ Everybody keeps telling me how surprised they are with what I've done. But I'm telling you honestly that it doesn't surprise me. I knew I could do it. ”

- Patrick Ewing

“ I will make a bargain with the Republicans. If they will stop telling lies about Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them. ”

- Adlai E. Stevenson

“ The English are polite by telling lies. The Americans are polite by telling the truth. ”

- Malcolm Bradbury

“ Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people. ”

- Spencer Johnson

“ Being an actor is an extension of telling a story and I loved story telling as a child. ”

- Amanda Burton

“ Memory is the way we keep telling ourselves our stories - and telling other people a somewhat different version of our stories. ”

- Alice Munro

“ 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 Jr.

“ And Hackman had really choked up when he was telling it. It was very moving. ”

- Wes Anderson

“ The first draft is just you telling yourself the story. ”

- Terry Pratchett

“ People who have what they want are fond of telling people who haven't what they want that they really don't want it. ”

- Ogden Nash

“ Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives. ”

- Marilyn Ferguson

“ I have a right to my anger, and I don't want anybody telling me I shouldn't be, that it's not nice to be, and that something's wrong with me because I get angry. ”

- Maxine Waters

“ A diplomat is a man who says you have an open mind, instead of telling you that you have a hole in the head. ”

- Unknown

“ Telling the future by looking at the past assumes that conditions remain constant. This is like driving a car by looking in the rearview mirror. ”

- Herb Brody

“ Cynicism is an unpleasant way of telling the truth. ”

- Lillian Hellman

“ 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

“ Autobiography is an unrivalled vehicle for telling the truth about other people. ”

- Philip Guedalla

“ Like one Who having into truth, by telling of it, Made such a sinner of his memory, To credit his own lie. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Getting fired is nature's way to telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place. ”

- Hal Lancaster

“ A good friend can tell you what is the matter with you in a minute. He may not seem such a good friend after telling. ”

- Arthur Brisbane

“ His house was perfect, whether you liked food, or sleep, or work, or story-telling, or singing, or just sitting and thinking, best, or a pleasant mixture of them all. ”

- J. R. R. Tolkien

“ Envy is what makes you, when an aquaintance is lustily telling you that she's dating a Greek god of a guy, ask, "Which one, Hades?". ”

- Regina Barreca

“ I'm telling you, things are getting out of hand. Or maybe I'm discovering that things were never in my hands. ”

- Real Live Preacher

“ In times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. ”

- George Orwell

“ Well, the telling of jokes is an art of its own, and it always rises from some emotional threat. The best jokes are dangerous, and dangerous because they are in some way truthful. ”

- Kurt Vonnegut

“ A pity beyond all telling is hid in the heart of love. ”

- William Butler Yeats

“ In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act. ”

- George Orwell

“ There was no telling what people might find out once they felt free to ask whatever questions they wanted to. ”

- Joseph Heller

“ Cocaine is God's way of telling you you are making too much money. ”

- Robin Williams

“ 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
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