Quotation Explorer - 'Tell'

Tell it not in Gath; publish it not in the streets of Ashkelon - Bible

It is not what they say, but the reaction that tells you everything you need to know. - Shannon L. Alder

Sometimes you see beautiful people with no brains. Sometimes you have ugly people who are intelligent, like scientists. - José Mourinho

To tell a ghost story means being willing to be haunted. - Judith "Jack" Halberstam

I want to tell them that almost dying is awfully easy. Its the living that's hard. - Jennifer Holm

Give me a life time by the fire, with a book in my hand, nothing more and I will tell you a great story. - Evelyn L. Colon

In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools. - Doris Lessing

I do press junkets and people will tell me what I've supposedly said in articles and I always disagree with myself. 'Why in the world would I say that?' - Meg Ryan

Fulfill me, make me happy, make me feel safe, tell me who I am. The world cannot give you those things, and when you no longer have such expectations, all self created suffering comes to an end. - Eckhart Tolle

The price for being intelligent enough to be the first species to be fully aware of the cosmos might just be a capacity to feel a whole universe’s worth of darkness. - Matt Haig

Well, art is art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water! And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now, uh... now you tell me what you know. - Groucho Marx

Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything its cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it...it really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everthing for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more. - Erica Jong

Never let the fear of failure be an excuse for not trying. Society tells us that to fail is the most terrible thing in the world, but I know it isn't. Failure is part of what makes us human. - Amber Deckers

The challenge is not finding and/or telling the truth , but finding a person who on telling the truth is willing to listen and/or accept it. - Anuj Somany

My tears were wiped away, my heart was strong, I saw the way of healing…I said, God help me now to preach the Word to all the dying around, and tell them how ‘tis Satan still defiles, and Jesus still delivers, for He is just the same today. - John Alexander Dowie

When someone tells you that you have done something that has hurt them, you don’t get to decide that you didn’t. - Karon Waddell

Child, listen to those people that will tell you it is not possible to listen to those that will tell you that you can’t do it and now listen to yourself and believe, anything you set your mind on is possible. - Ane Krstevska

People forget that there's two sides to every story. Of course somebody is going to tell the side of it that makes them look good and exaggerate the rest to make everyone else look bad. - David Reeves

The universe had no choice but to create intelligent life so that there would be someone else that could simply laugh at how unbelievably, ridiculously and senselessly huge the universe is and how utterly insignificant the rest of us are. - Ian Strang

What every girl dreams of when she's dumped is - that the guy will someday feel regrest and come back and tell her all about it. And the beauty of it is you have no regrets whatsoever. - Emily Giffin

One might almost define intelligence as the level at which an aware organism demands, 'What's in it for me? - Robert A. Heinlein

Some people are born with tornadoes in their lives, but constellations in their eyes. Other people are born with stars at their feet, but their souls are lost at sea. - Nikita Gill

If you want to foresee the behavior of someone, their personality is a better predictor than their intelligence. - Luigina Sgarro

There are all sorts of kisses... from the sticky confection to the kiss of death. Of them all, the kiss of an actress is the most unnerving. How can we tell is she means it or if she's just practicing? - Ruth Gordon

Why do people assume? If I hate you, I'll tell you. In this case, it's not hate. It's hurt. I'll lick my wounds, which only oozed because I gave a damn, and be over it before the sun rises. - Donna Lynn Hope

Danger is real. Heartache is real. Fear is not. It’s a story we tell ourselves. - Brianna Wiest

The human mind demands intellectual expansion and expression. - Brandon Notch

You're never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you're never as bad as they say when you lose. - Lou Holtz

You know you made it, when people you know, tell people they know, that you know them. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Storytelling is an essential part of our cultural and human identity...when we become afraid of stories outside the mainstream, I believe we have lost a valuable part of our cultural inheritance and growth. - Louise Sommer

I write in seconds. I don’t stop. I don’t think. I simply write and when it comes, it flows and it makes sense because it’s genuine. I don’t understand thought-out poetry. It doesn’t seem real to me. - Dominic Riccitello

A mere motivator sees potentials in people and tells them to take actions. A true leader sees the same potentials in the same people and influences them to optimize them under his God-lead inspirations. - Israelmore Ayivor

The world tells us that our pasts define us, trapping us, isolating us and giving us little hope for change or betterment. I say our pasts design us for what's to come and gives us a platform to be heroes in the lives of others. - Shawn M Mcnamara

And what cats have to tellon each return from hellis this: that dying is what the living do, that dying is what the loving do, and that dead dogs are those who do not knowthat dying is what, to live, each has to do. - Alastair Reid

Computers are not intelligent. They only think they are.

Life must be lived forward but only makes sense by looking backward. Only in retrospect do the pieces of the puzzle connect, revealing an intelligently orchestrated evolution. Our journey through life is in a way like walking blindfolded. - Dorit Brauer

Self-correction makes me check the ruler of my life against the yardstick of my inner voice. I acknowledge when I don’t measure up. Self-correction is an ongoing process. If done often enough, I can stop myself from straying off the path. - Stella Payton

Let me tell you the one thing I have against Moses. He took us forty years into the desert in order to bring us to the one place in the Middle East that has no oil! - Golda Meir

There is no such thing as senility when it comes to envy, greed laziness, wrath and pride. It's her destructive character from childhood." ~ , If I Could Tell You - Angelica Hopes

To know how to choose a path with heart is to learn how to followintuitive feeling. Logic can tell you superficially where a path mightlead to, but it cannot judge whether your heart will be in it. - Jean Shinoda Bolen

The best audience is intelligent, well-educated, and a little drunk.

Jargon allows us to camouflage intellectual poverty with verbal extravagance.

Anxiety is experiencing failure in advance. Tell yourself enough vivid stories about the worst possible outcome of your work and you’ll soon come to believe them. Worry is not preparation, and anxiety doesn’t make you better. - Seth Godin

My job takes up many daylight hours, it wakes me in the still of night and fills my head with ghosts and monsters but I love it, telling stories is what I was born to do. - Ken Scott

Writing nonfiction means I tell people's stories for them, not because they're special but because we all are. - Jo Deurbrouck

Possibly, there was something to be said for the intellectual discipline of second-guessing what you thought was true. - Kwame Anthony Appiah

All the activities that are happening in this world are indeed done through the intellect; there is no need for Knowledge there. Knowledge is indeed in Knowledge (Knowing). And whatever actions are done through the intellect, the Knowledge ‘Knows’ it too. - Dada Bhagwan

Some women choose to follow men, and some women choose to follow their dreams. If you're wondering which way to go, remember that your career will never wake up and tell you that it doesn't love you anyway. - Lady Gaga

Man does not know most of the rules on which he acts; and even what we call his intelligence is largely a system of rules which operate on him but which he does not know. - Friedrich Hayek

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

No one of real intelligence will accept anything just because some authority declares it be so. Don't accept the truth of anything you have not confirmed for yourself. - Paul Hoffmann

And sometimes being in love is not enough to make it work. - Dominic Riccitello

People will tell you that writing is too difficult, that it's impossible to get your work published, that you might as well hang yourself. Meanwhile, they'll keep writing and you'll have hanged yourself. - John Gardner

He's such a dragHe's not insaneIt's just that everybodyHas to feel his pain. - Elvis Costello

You cultivate the essential virtues: high purpose, intelligence, decency, humility, fear of the Lord, and the passion for freedom.

You cannot tell what a puzzle is by looking at a single piece; understand people are the same way; don't define them by singular action, but their pattern of behavior. - Steve C. Roberts

Whoever tells the best story shapes the culture. - Erwin Raphael McManus

The codfish lays ten thousand eggs.The homely hen lays one.Codfish never cackles to tell you what she has done.And so we scorn the codfish,while the humble hen we prize,which only goes to show you that it pays to advertise! - Nikhil Sharda

Life reality tells us that to grow physically, you first need to grow inwardly - Sunday Adelaja

Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and simple, however cruel; our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt. - Graham Greene

If you tell a lie -- tell a big one.

Every work of art tells a story. - A.D. Posey

I hate telling people this. I never know exactly how my voice is going to sound saying it, and I hate the stricken looks they get on their faces when they don't know what to say back. - Kendra Blake

If you end up with a boring miserable life because you listened to your mom, your dad, your teacher, your priest, or some guy on television telling you how to do your shit, then you deserve it. - Frank Zappa

Emotion lay at the very heart of the process of perception, intertwined with intellectual functions, yet adding to perception a quality that reason lacked. - John Corrigan

Even if we have ourselves so fully convinced that we are on the right track because we desperately want to believe that the specific direction we have chosen is the "correct one", if the universe disagrees with our choices, it will not be shy in telling us so. - Miya Yamanouchi

Parrots mimic their owners. Their owners consider that a sign of intelligence. - Marty Rubin

When Jesus tells us about his Father, we distrust him. When he shows us his Home, we turn away, but when he confides to us that he is 'acquainted with Grief', we listen, for that also is an Acquaintance of our own. - Emily Dickinson

Don't tell a lie to be loved, speak the truth to be hated. - Michael Bassey Johnson

They should tell you when you’re born: have a suitcase heart, be ready to travel. - Gabrielle Zevin

We grow apart because we grow in different stages and not all of our stages align. - Dominic Riccitello

Short lives,bouncing harmlessly as a cloth doll on grandma’s lap.Small helpless states,pretentiousness garbed in the unintelligible,makers of disposable art,the zeal to make a scoop unstoppable,pacified by fresh news,of scrabbling sexy movements. - Brian D'Ambrosio

The world is drowned in silence, who will tell your story ? Who tells doesn't know you and who knows, cannot say it. - Syed Azeem Bukhari

1. Never tell everything at once. - Ken Venturi

There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence. - Henry Adams

The essence of intelligence is skill in extracting meaning from everyday experience. - Unknown

I can't tell if a straw ever saved a drowning man, but I know that a mere glance is enough to make despair pause. For in truth we who are creatures of impulse are creatures of despair. - Joseph Conrad

I WILL FOLLOW ANYONEAND TELL EVERYONEABOUT...THE REAL WAR ON WOMENON YAZIDI GIRLS & WOMEN - Widad Akreyi

good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws - Plato

In my opinion, being a Christian is a noticeable behavior. If you have to tell somebody you’re a Christian, then you’re probably not doing it right. - Steve Maraboli

Man is so intelligent that he feels impelled to invent theories to account for what happens in the world. Unfortunately, he is not quite intelligent enough, in most cases, to find correct explanations. So that when he acts on his theories, he behaves very often like a lunatic. - Aldous Huxley

Stop telling God what to do with his dice. - Niels Bohr

There is no man on this earth that has the right to tell you how beautiful you are, for no words we use has enough power to tell that truth. Your beauty can only be describe by the heavens above in a language none of us know. - Vincent Edwards

If anyone tells you that a certain person speaks ill of you, do not make excuses about what is said of you but answer, "He was ignorant of my other faults, else he would not have mentioned these alone. - Epictetus

Don't tell me the sky's the limit when there are footprints on the moon. - Paul Brandt

They said my dreams were too insignificant to matter, and they might just be right. The thing however is, I owe it to myself to find out if they are. The only way I can do that is to keep dreaming and living my dream. If in the end they are right, at least I can tell myself I did my best. - Bidemi Mark-Mordi

We tell ourselves stories in order to live. We live entirely by the impression of a narrative line upon disparate images, the shifting phantasmagoria, which is our actual experience. - Joan Didion

A menor distância entre dois pontos pode ser a linha reta, mas é nos caminhos curvos que se encontram as melhores coisas. - Lygia Fagundes Telles

[The public school system is] usually a twelve year sentence of mind control.Crushing creativity, smashing individualism, encouraging collectivism andcompromise, destroying the exercise of intellectual inquiry, twisting itinstead into meek subservience to authority. - Walter Karp

Reese, your books might not tell you this, so I will. Every heart has two parts, the part that pumps and the part that loves. If you’re going to spend your life fixing broken hearts, then learn about both. You can’t just fix one with no concern for the other. - Charles Martin

Be wiser than other people if you can; but do not tell them so. - Dale Carnegie

How can we tell people "never give up" when some haven't even started yet. - Onyi Anyado

Science isn't just about blowing things up. Rather it's about blowing things up and knowing how you did it. - William Gurstelle

Never tell the truth to those unworthy of it.... - Mark Twain

Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you. - Ernest Hemingway

Intelligence is worthless without common sense. - LM Fields

Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart.. - Pablo Casals

Be true to who you are. Don't let the world tell you who to be. - Germany Kent

Some people think only intellect counts: knowing how to solve problems, knowing how to get by, knowing how to identify an advantage and seize it. But the functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion, and empathy. - Dean Koontz

We see and tell about the myriad truths of how the universe is and might be. That's what we writers DO. - Nicohle Christopherson

Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought. - Percy Bysshe Shelley

It is not the intellect but the wisdom of love that will reveal the beauty of life. - Debasish Mridha

I think of myself as an intelligent, sensitive human with the soul of a clown, which always forces me to blow it at the most important moments. - Jim Morrison

Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear. - George Orwell

it’s hard to tell whether ornot hell’s flames are gettingcloser - Cory Basil

I don’t want to tell you how much I love you. I just want to feel it deep in my heart. - Debasish Mridha

White supremacy is a black person telling the people of Baltimore to chill out and try peace, thinking they came up with that thought all on their own. - Darnell Lamont Walker

Art-making is not about telling the truth but making the truth felt - Christian Boltanski

If someone tells you what a story is about, they are probably right.If they tell you that that is all a story is about, they are very definitely wrong. - Neil Gaiman

A picture is a secret about a secret, the more it tells you the less you know. - Diane Arbus

Make this part of your brand DNA... Tell Your Story In a Way People Will Care. - Ted Rubin

Your brain doesn't know what it cannot do until you tell it. - Ed Strachar

Work, he tells them one night, is a kind of prayer. - Bernice Morgan

An attempt to study the evolution of living organisms without reference to cytology would be as futile as an account of stellar evolution which ignored spectroscopy. - J.B.S. Haldane

Such things as are good simply because they have been commanded or instituted, or as being symbols of something good, are mere shadows which cannot be reckoned among actions that are the offspring, as it were, or fruit of a sound mind and of intellect. - Baruch Spinoza

If somebody asks you where you are going, tell him you are going to everywhere, because future is a path going to everywhere! - Mehmet Murat ildan

From the age of six, I have known that I was sexy. And let me tell you it has been hell, sheer hell, waiting to do something about it. - Bette Davis

In essence, science is a perpetual search for an intelligent and integrated comprehension of the world we live in.

[Detractors] are just wrong, and that's okay. They just don't see it yet. That's what I would tell myself to keep those moments of doubt, only moments. - Lisa Kudrow

Tell Jack that after he finishs saving the universe again, he has to take out the trash in the kitchen."-Rosalind Kirby, one day in 1971 - Mark Evanier

History is the stories we tell about the past. - Thomas King

Mark Twain said the difference between the right word and the almost right word is like the difference between lightning and the lightning bug, and people think he was good, right ? Didn't write any decent characters, as far as I can tell, but otherwise fine. - Adam Rex

My boy will learn by what I am and what I do far more than what I tell him.

Un con qui marche va plus loin que dix intellectuels assis en train de réfléchir. - Michel Audiard

And so I discovered that it is not on our forgiveness any more than our goodness that the world's healing hinges, but on HIs. When He tells us to love our enemies, He gives, along with the command the love itself. - Corrie ten Boom

People believe unbelievable things because it's self-flattering to think that you are intellectually daring enough to accept what others find preposterous. - Christopher Buckley

When a person tells you that you hurt them, you don’t get to decide that you didn’t. - Louis C.K.

Courage, the original definition of courage, when it first came into the English language — it’s from the Latin word cor, meaning heart — and the original definition was to tell the story of who you are with your whole heart. - Brené Brown

Some fake happiness, some fake sadness and some fake an orgasm. - Dominic Riccitello

Autobiography is an unrivalled vehicle for telling the truth about other people. - Philip Guedalla

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

If heaven was hot and hell was chilly, tell me, why would you go to heaven? - Michael Bassey Johnson

I could tell he was just as scared to love as I, But we still both carelessly climbed into eachothers arms and before we knew it, love had found us. - Nikki Rowe

Sometimes others narcissism will take place of your happiness. Don’t let it happen. - Dominic Riccitello

Don't wait until it's too late to tell someone how much you love, how much you care. - Auliq Ice

Love is not a habit, a commitment, or a debt. It isn't what romantic songs tell us it is - love simply is. - Paulo Coelho

The secret of being tiresome is in telling everything. - Voltaire

So-called intellectuals conceptualize love; fools just love.Fools breathe air; intellectuals (so called) breathe ego. - Saurabh Sharma

When we forgive we are telling God that we have faith in him to fight our injustices. It might not seem possible when you are standing in a storm, but when you take the high road you can see farther than you can now. - Shannon L. Alder

There are so many people put there who will tell you that you can't. What you've got to do is turn around and say "Watch me. - Layne Beachley

Reading is the royal road to intellectual eminence...Truly good books are more than mines to those who can understand them. They are the breathings of the great souls of past times. Genius is not embalmed in them, but lives in them perpetually. - William Ellery Channing

Even the greatest fool can accomplish a task if it were after hisor her heart. But the intelligent ones are those who can convert every work into one that suits their taste - Derric Yuh Ndim

why should I die and loose you to tell god how much I love you... - Prathamesh Patil

My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her. - George Washington

Never argue with a fool. Someone watching may not be able to tell the difference. - Anonymous

To wisdom belongs the intellectual apprehension of things eternal; to knowledge, the rational apprehension of things temporal. - Saint Augustine

There are three classes of intellects: one which comprehends by itself; another which appreciates what others comprehend; and a third which neither comprehends by itself nor by the showing of others; the first is the most excellent, the second is good, and the third is useless. - Niccolo Machiavelli

The people can always be brought to the bidding of their leaders. All you have to do is tell them that they are in danger of being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. - Hermann Goering

The fact that Iam writing to youin Englishalready falsifies what Iwanted to tell you.My subject:how to explain to youthat I don't belong to Englishthough I belong nowhere else,if not herein English. - Gustavo Perez Firmat

If we’ve somehow become convinced that the script we followed ‘yesterday’ can’t be edited, it will be incredibly difficult to tell the difference between ‘yesterday’ and ‘tomorrow’. - Craig D. Lounsbrough

Don't tell me where the time goes; I don't want to know. - Marty Rubin

When she tells you her problems she is not moaning, she trusts you. - Sameh Elsayed

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

The fundamental qualities for good execution of a plan is first; intelligence; then discernment and judgment, which enable one to recognize the best method as to attain it; the singleness of purpose; and, lastly, what is most essential of all, will-stubborn will. - Ferdinand Foch

Didn't I ever tell you? Bumbles Bounce!

There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun. - Pablo Picasso

I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day. - Albert Camus

For every good reason there is to lie, there is a better reason to tell the truth - Bo Bennett

If you are alone, tell some stories to yourself. This is a different kind of pleasure and it has, indeed, its reward. I have tasted a little of everything, and I have truly never enjoyed anything more. - Charles Nodier

Tell the story as if it were only of interest to the small circle of your characters, of which you may be one. There is no other way to put life into the story. - Horacio Quiroga

Don’t ever let Them tell youyou aretoo broken to bloom - Nadia Hasan

Your deepest scars tell the world of your greatest triumphs. - Matshona Dhliwayo

There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into sun - Pablo Picasso

Let me tell you one thing about why writers write: had I known the answer to any of these questions I would never have needed to write a novel - Joan Didion

So I’m alone. I have no one. Is that what you’re telling me? - Junco, Range (to be published April 2013) - J.A. Huss

Reveal not every secret you have to a friend, for how can you tell but that friend may hereafter become an enemy. And bring not all mischief you are able to upon an enemy, for he may one day become your friend. - Saadi

Every day, tell at least one person something you like, admire, or appreciate about them. - Richard Carlson

I always tell my Western friends that it is best to keep your own tradition. Changing religion is not easy and sometimes causes confusion. You must value your tradition and honor your own religion. - Dalai Lama XIV

He hams his Brummie accent, I tell myself, the way so many ex-pats ham their lost identity. The moustache is a pose. Yet, he hams this unpredictable matey belligerence, this curiously Midlands attitude. Colin is home away from home, I reflect, even if not the home you ever really liked. - Tim Parks

Sometimes relationships aren’t meant to be forever. We stumble upon one another to learn, to love, to appreciate and become who we’re supposed to be. - Dominic Riccitello

If you see oppression, violence, injustice and evil deeds, unzip your silence and uncaring indifference, do something and act against all these unethical instances." ~ , an excerpt from my novel, If I Could Tell You - Angelica Hopes

If we can cease envisaging ourselves as metaphorical foetuses, and substitute the image of a newborn child, then that will be at least a small intellectual advance. In time, perhaps, we may even learn to toddle. - Salman Rushdie

What cruel creatures men are. Our bodies tell us to love so many, but there's room in our hearts for so few. - Brian K. Vaughan

One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake. - Anton Chekhov

When the political columnists say 'Every thinking man' they mean themselves, and when candidates appeal to 'Every intelligent voter' they mean everybody who is going to vote for them. - Franklin P. Adams

Sometimes just looking into a person's eyes can tell a graphic story and a brilliant novel if you have the ability to turn it into words. - L.L. Caulton

Always look up to the better. They tell you where to go but never look down upon inferior because you know, you were once there. - Prashant Balan

Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play. - Immanuel Kant

Her friends used to tell her it wasn't rape if the man was your husband. She didn't say anything, but inside she seethed; she wanted to take a knife to their faces. - F. H. Batacan

Tell me....And I Forget, Teach me.....And I Learn, Involve Me.....And I Remember. - Benjamin Franklin

The author who benefits you most is not the one who tells you something you did not know before, but the one who gives expression to the truth that has been dumbly struggling in you for utterance. - Oswald Chambers

Because zombies can’t go out into the sun, most of them tend to be afraid of anything that can go into the sun and live to tell the tale. - M.C. Steve

The known is finite, the unknown is infinite; intellectually we stand on an islet in the midst of an illimitable ocean of inexplicability. Our business in every generation is to claim a little more land. - T. H. Huxley

Those that think it permissible to tell white lies soon grow color blind. - Austin O'Malley

I will tell you one thing that will make you rich for life. There are two struggles: an Inner-world struggle and an Outer-world struggle...you must make an intentional contact between these two worlds; then you can crystallize data for the Third World, the World of the Soul. - G.I. Gurdjieff

If you want to make God laugh, tell him about your plans. - Woody Allen

Sometimes I lie awake at night and I ask, "Is life a multiple choice test or is it a true or false test?" ...Then a voice comes to me out of the dark and says, "We hate to tell you this but life is a thousand word essay. - Charles M. Schulz

He with whom neither slander that gradually soaks into the mind, nor statements that startle like a wound in the flesh, are successful may be called intelligent indeed. - Confucius

But I'll tell you more about that later... or maybe I won't, because some wounds just don't heal even if you talk them out. On the contrary, the more you dress them up in words, the more they bleed. - Subcomandante Marcos

Entrust your dreams and goals to people who will cheer you on and inspire you, who will tell you what you need to hear rather than what you want to hear so you can move forward and fast track. - Rachael Bermingham

I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligent to come here. - Arthur C. Clarke

Teenagers can spot hypocrisy a mile away and here I was telling them how to cope when they witnessed the shambles of my own life and how I was living. - David W. Earle

Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle. - Edward Bulwer-Lytton

My past is an echo of my perfect present being the shadow of my stellar future. - Lyna Jones

Childhood has its secrets and its mysteries; but who can tell or who can explain them! - Friedrich Max Müller

One day, you muster the courage and let go of the fear. In a brief moment of insanity, you give wings to the stories you had wanted to tell; some you didn't even know were in you. In that instant, something about you changes. You are born again. - K.J. Kilton

I’m floating. I’m flowing. I’m loving, but I’m going. - Dominic Riccitello

I write, as far as I can tell, because writing is a black sheep sibling of prayer, an urgent struggle against a bad connection, intent, hopeful, innocent, never quite good enough. - Kirk Wilson

Sometimes Old Nan would tell the same story she'd told before, but we never minded, if it was a good story. Old stories are like old friends, she used to say. You have to visit them from time to time. - George R.R. Martin

...anyone looking at you would write you off as a brainless nincompoop with about as much intelligence as a dead rabbit. - P.G. Wodehouse

Reason is intelligence taking exercise. Imagination is intelligence with an erection. - Victor Hugo

Lying in small doses makes a good storyteller great. - Bryan Way

I am a storyteller, for better and for worse. I suspect that a feeling for stories, for narrative, is a universal human disposition, going with our powers of language, consciousness of self, and autobiographical memory. - Oliver Sacks

Those who claim to be intelligent and you as fool, forget the basic anatomy, a fool does not figure out the result, whereas the so called intellect wrestles himself to get the result, now tell me who is at peace? - Ramana Pemmaraju

credo ut intelligam. (i believe so i can understand). - Augustine of Hippo

Man was born to be rich, or grow rich by use of his faculties, by the union of thought with nature. Property is an intellectual production. The game requires coolness, right reasoning, promptness, and patience in the players. Cultivated labor drives out brute labor. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

If people never did silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done. - Ludwig Wittgenstein

'Tell Suzie she's a lucky cat.' Have sexier words ever been spoken? - Ally Carter

No matter the situation don't let your emotions overpower your intelligence. - Turcois Ominek

I tell you the truth, if you will leave your life based on the whims and caprices of men, you shall be like the corn in popcorn machine - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

[On Jason Mashak's I Was Trained to See Shadows, in his poetry book SALTY AS A LIP:] A nice bit of smooth, full-bodied, surreal story telling. I like it. - John Bennett

Some families can trace their ancestors back three hundred years, but can't tell you where their children were last night.

An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way. - Charles Bukowski

Enlightenment is not about attaining a ultimate level of intelligence or intellect. It is regained by shedding all the ideas, illusion and binds thrust on you and that you then so readily accrue. - Rasheed Ogunlaru

I am telling himwhat he wants to hear: antsdying of love underthe constellation of the dandelion.I swear that a white rose,sprinkled with wine, sings.I am laughing, tiltingmy head carefullyas if checking an invention.I am dancing, dancingin astonished skin, inan embrace that creates me. - Wisława Szymborska

Never try to hide the real you. Be yourself and stand up for what you believe in. Question what other people tell you, think things though. Never regret your mistakes as there's a reason for everything.Grudges are toxic and heavy to bear. Let them go, learn from everything and continue to grow. - Karen Gibbs

I just knew there were stories I wanted to tell. - Octavia E. Butler

Don't assume, ask. Be kind. Tell the truth. Don't say anything you can't stand behind fully. Have integrity. Tell people how you feel. - Warsan Shire

... o líder espiritualizado - mais do que aquele que fica fazendo meditações e orações - é aquele capaz de olhar o outro como o outro, de inspirar, de elevar a obra, em vez de rebaixar as pessoas. - Mario Sergio Cortella

Capitalism brings wealth and inequality with intellectuality. - Sandeep Sethi

I’m seeing so much of America today, Luya kept telling Lowell in nervously accented English. It became a personal catchphrase for him — whenever things were not to his liking, he’d say that — I’m seeing so much of America today. - Karen Joy Fowler

People who tell you exactly what they think of you aren't necessarily enemies. - Mac Fletcher Gates of Dawn - in progress

Truly great madness can not be achieved without significant intelligence. - Henrik Tikkanen

If you ask me what I came into this world to do, I will tell you: I came to live out loud.

People are always trying to [mess] up other people's live's by telling lies about 'em. You wanna really [mess] somebody's life up? Tell the truth about 'em. They ain't never gonna be the same. - Brian Buckner

It can be a real struggle to accept that sometimes appearance can be more important than talent or intelligence.

We were one, even in the darkest corner. - Dominic Riccitello

...Tell him that I am quite specifically in desperate need of a redheaded bastard."Julius blinked. "And that will help, will it? - KJ Charles

The way we sink into each other. The way I can’t tell mu heartbeat from yours. We have this perfect rhythm, whenever we’re together, and that’s the essence of us. - Leisa Rayven

OUTCOME, n. A particular type of disappointment. By the kind of intelligence that sees in an exception a proof of the rule the wisdom of an act is judged by the outcome, the result. This is immortal nonsense; the wisdom of an act is to be juded by the light that the doer had when he performed it. - Ambrose Bierce

This is a celebration of individual freedom, not of homosexuality. No government has the right to tell its citizens when or whom to love. The only queer people are those who don't love anybody. - Rita Mae Brown

Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. - Hannah Arendt

Character is higher than intellect... A great soul will be strong to live, as well as to think. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

I don’t care about someone being intelligent; any situation between people, when they are really human with each other, produces ‘intelligence. - Susan Sontag

The silences weren’t awkward. For me at least. Because I was there in the moment with him. - Dominic Riccitello

Beautiful is the man who leaves a legacy that of shared love and life. It is he who transfers meaning, assigns significance and conveys in his loving touch the fine art and gentle shaping of a life. This man shall be called, Father. - Stella Payton

Don’t let them fool you and tell you goals has to be unified before any partnership agreement. Be carefully concerned about unifying your values and principles, after that all will run smoothly. - Sameh Elsayed

Impression — I was certain of it. I was just telling myself that, since I was impressed, there had to be some impression in it … and what freedom, what ease of workmanship! Wallpaper in its embryonic state is more finished than that seascape. - Claude Monet

There is nothing in our book, the Qur'an, that teaches us to suffer peacefully. Our religion teaches us to be intelligent. Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone lays a hand on you, send him to the cemetery. - Malcolm X

The art is not, to tell. The art is, not to tell. - Muhammad Zaki

To laugh often and much;to win the respect of intelligent peopleand the affection of children,to leave the world a better place,to know even one life has breathed easierbecause you have lived,this is to have succeeded. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

We believed in the existence in this country of a vast reading public for intelligent books at a low price and staked everything on it. - Allen Lane

Common sense tells us that the government's attempts to solve large problems more often create new ones. Common sense also tells us that a top-down, one-size-fits-all plan will not improve the workings of a nationwide health-care system that accounts for one-sixth of our economy. - Sarah Palin

To struggle against darkness is not to blunder ignorantly; intelligence is needed to generate right action. - Belsebuub

Millions of words are written annually purporting to tell how to beat the races, whereas the best possible advice on the subject is found in the three monosyllables: 'Do not try.' - Dan Parker

Never argue with a fool. Listeners can't tell which is which. - Unknown

I think we might’ve met in a past life. You know, one of those you pass and think, wow you’re kind of beautiful. Just one of those. - Dominic Riccitello

Travelling the road will tell you more about the road than the google will tell you about the road. - Amit Kalantri

Bill Bryson's is a synthesizing intellect, capable of translating myriad data into a digestible narrative – rare currency in an increasingly atomized society. - Allen Guy Wilcox

Do you believe in magic?Tell me if you doI believe in magicHow about you? - Victoria Zigler

Be careful what you tell me. You could end up in my next novel. - P.C. Zick

I believe that music is connected by human passions and curiosities rather than by marketing strategies. - Elvis Costello

Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity. - Louis Pasteur

It is always the best policy to tell the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.

Beauty? Let me tell you something - being thought of as 'a beautiful woman' has spared me nothing in life. No heartache, no trouble. Love has been difficult. Beauty is essentially meaningless and it is always transitory. - Halle Berry

You know it never ceases to amaze me how people twist your words.I used to et it bother me that I was so misunderstood, but now I realise, I can tell a lot about people by what they CHOOSE to see in me - Karen Gibbs

Stay close 2 those who sing, tell stories, and enjoy life, and those eyes sparkle wiz happiness is contagious and will always manage 2 find a solution, whereas logic can find only an explanation 4 the mistake made." me!! ;) - Paulo Coelho

Faith is to believe in something when common sense tells you not to and situation surrounding you says otherwise. - Sesan Kareem

Listening to your wife is intelligence; hearing every word she doesn't say is wisdom. - Matshona Dhliwayo

life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one - Stella Adler

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know. - Ernest Hemingway

Let us overthrow the totems, break the taboos. Or better, let us consider them cancelled. Coldly, let us be intelligent. - Pierre Trudeau

It was perfect, but perfection is terrifying. - Dominic Riccitello

The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence. - Jiddu Krishnamurti

HE LOOKS AT ME AND TELLS ME IM AGGRESSIVE, HE'S OBSERVING ME. "-CRUSH - LORINDA MONRREAL

[When asked why are numbers beautiful?]It’s like asking why is ’s Ninth Symphony beautiful. If you don't see why, someone can't tell you. I know numbers are beautiful. If they aren't beautiful, nothing is. Paul Erdős - Ludwig van Beethoven

Our actions are the results of our intentions and our intelligence. - E. Stanley Jones

Israel's first king, Saul, looked like he was born for the role. He was tall, handsome, intelligent, and sensitive to God's leading. But he eventually lost most of his attractive qualities, the most important being obedience. - Charles R. Swindoll

Ibn Mas'ud reported that the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said, "Shall I tell you who is unlawful for the Fire - or the one for whom the Fire is unlawful? It is unlawful for everyone who is easy, flexible, modest and uncomplicated. - At-Tirmidhī -أبو عيسى الترمذي

Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well. - Samuel Butler

I phoned my dad to tell him I had stopped smoking. He called me a quitter. - Steven Pearl

To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization. - Arnold Toynbee

What I have written is but a fleeting intimation of the outside of what one man sees and may tell about the path he walks. No one shares the secret of a life; no one enters into the heart of the mystery. - Howard Thurman

Plimpton was a presence. He looked for ways in which he could make himself ridiculous. That made him a great storyteller. - Stefan Fatsis

The problem is people want help, but when help arrives you want to tell the help how to help you. Learn to RECEIVE help. - Bobby F. Kimbrough Jr.

Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it. - Samuel Johnson

Life is a compromise of what your ego wants to do, what experience tells you to do, and what your nerves let you do. - Walter Bagehot

Sometimes,just do what your mind tells you to do.Just don't care about people.Because,neither you can afford loosing that time nor people will care after sometime.So just be who you are. - Sachin Panwar

All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work. - Calvin Coolidge

Many people will tell that it is not for a man to cry, but they may not know how is to feel your head empty and only tears will come out to stand up for you - John Zea

Intellect, at its best, can make you agnostic. Being theist or atheist is still a matter of choice. - Raheel Farooq

Story always tells us more than the mere words, and that is why we love to write it, and to read it. - Madeleine L'Engle

Every night I tell my children all of the things that I love about them. I tell them how proud I am of their accomplishments and how much better our lives have been since they were born. I hope they will always realize how much they are loved and valued. I feel so blessed that they are in my life. - Tom Giaquinto

Some fool aims to go to heaven; some clever knows that there isn’t any; and some intelligent tries to create one with his own effort! Be intelligent! - Mehmet Murat ildan

Sure, he might not have been perfect, but if I thought he was, isn’t that all that matters? - Dominic Riccitello

Tell me who loves, who admires you, and I will tell you who you are. - Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve

I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it is for or against. I'm a human being, first and foremost, and as such I'm for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole. - Malcolm X

Act with purpose, courage, confidence, competence and intelligence until these qualities 'lock in' to your subconscious mind. - Brian Tracy

We can tell a lot about a woman from her books. - Director Phil Coulson

In love, as in life, one misheard word can be tremendously important. If you tell someone you love them, for instance, you must be absolutely certain that they have replied "I love you back" and not "I love your back" before you continue the conversation. - Lemony Snicket

I guess I'm pretty much of a lone wolf. I don't say I don't like people at all but, to tell you the truth I only like it then if I have a chance to look deep into their hearts and their minds. - Bela Lugosi

This little boy playing next to me is an intellectual mass of cells - better yet, he's a clockwork of subatomic movements, a strange electrical conglomeration of millions of solar systems in minature. [58, Zenith trans.] - Fernando Pessoa

Like the bud of a flower, change forces you to surrender to growth. It makes you vulnerable. It requires you to enlarge, expand and become bigger. Like the oxygen provided with each breath, we are denied its benefits until we relax and breathe in. - Stella Payton

I think it is the duty of all human beings, as intelligent and communicative beings, to learn all the ideas thought up before ours and use them as a means to think up new ones. - Jonathan Culver

Work like hell, tell everyone everything you know, close a deal with a handshake, and have fun. - Harold Eugene Edgerton

Nearly all people stand in great horror of annihilation, and yet to give up your individuality is to annihilate yourself. Mental slavery is mental death, and every man who has given up his intellectual freedom is the living coffin of his dead soul. - Robert G. Ingersoll

Perhaps I occasionally sought to give, or inadvertently gave, to the student a sense of battle on the intellectual battlefield. If all you do is to give them a faultless and complete and uninhabited architectural masterpiece, then you do not help them to become builders of their own. - Carl-Gustaf Rossby

What's the feeling everyday somebody to say right in your face lie... ( like a woman which sucks your dick and your semen goes right in hermouth) and you can't do anything on this problem??And what to tell you move on, soon or later?? - Deyth Banger

I tell you before God, and as an honest man, your son (W A Mozart)is the greatest composer known to me by person and repute, he has taste and what is more the greatest skill in composition. - Joseph Haydn

School was the unhappiest time of my life and the worst trick it ever played on me was to pretend that it was the world in miniature. For it hindered me from discovering how lovely and delightful and kind the world can be, and how much of it is intelligible. - E.M. Forster

Imagination only fails us in the end, when the stories we tell ourselves have to stop. - Joy Williams

You can see the evil, the evil is everywhere. As Far as I can tell I can build a town full of horror. - Deyth Banger

The smartest people can write the worst emails and those of less intellect can write the best. - Paul Babickii

The poet or the story-teller who cannot give the reader a little ghostly pleasure at times never can be either a really great writer or a great thinker. - Lafcadio Hearn

They tell us that Suicide is the greatest piece of Cowardice... That Suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in this world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person. - Arthur Schopenhauer

Over intellect will make you a genius, over emotions will make you a lunatic. - Amit Kalantri

We'll all be better off the day we stop letting unhappy, unsuccessful people tell us how to be happy and successful. You already know the way... follow it. - Steve Maraboli

Anti-social behaviour is a trait of intelligence in a world full of conformists. - Anonymous

Dew settles without the fanfare of thunder or patter of falling rain, yet our wet feet in the morning still tell us there is something there. Sometimes miracles are like that. There is no overwhelming proof, but deep inside we know. - Chris Stewart, Ted Stewart

People like us are dead to society unless we’re pretentious, tell people what they want to hear, take off our clothes, or pretend to be like them. - Donna Lynn Hope

It was our first date and I asked what his favorite movie is. He asked if I’d judge him, but instead of judging him I just loved him. - Dominic Riccitello

War is a way of shattering to pieces, or pouring into the stratosphere, or sinking in the depths of the sea, materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable, and hence, in the long run, too intelligent. - George Orwell

Don't tell people to act their age. It's like telling a baby to move out, and if they're older you're telling them to "die in a hole." - Devin J. Monroe

A mundane lie hiding an exotic truth is deception; an exotic lie hiding a mundane truth is storytelling. Deception may be necessary to preserve life, but storytelling makes life worth living. - Christopher Buehlman

All of which makes up a story I do not choose to tell. I choose not to tell it because to no one, not even to you, do I own proof that I am a substantial being with a substantial history in the world. - J.M. Coetzee

The ledger of my life can lean heavy with a prolific array of stellar investments, yet in the tallying I would be wise to remember that an investment that is not of God will leave a zero balance on the ledger of my life no matter how many different ways I try to add it up. - Craig D. Lounsbrough

To cease to wonder is to fall plumb-down from the childlike to the commonplace—the most undivine of all moods intellectual. Our nature can never be at home among things that are not wonderful to us. - George MacDonald

O The irony of man, he thinks he's past generation did not repeat the same way of thinking, either intelligently or foolishly. - A Gentleman

Like a lost satellite, I hovered around your orbit, with the knowledge that at anytime I might fall into your gravitational pull and willingly burn into your atmosphere. - A.J. Garces

You're like candy. People lick your knowledge to become wise, lick your words from your powerful mouth and say it even better than you. Lick each step you make and stay on a good track, and once you're dead, the lickers scavenge for another intellectual candy. - Michael Bassey Johnson

Mad, adj: Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence. - Ambrose Bierce

Intellectual passion dries out sensuality. - Leonardo da Vinci

One must also have faith to grow flowers... - Stella Walthal Patterson

To be wise for one day is better than to be intelligent for a hundred. - Matshona Dhliwayo

I love you, but there will be a dozen more too. - Dominic Riccitello

Courage is not the absence of fear. Only fools have no fear. Rather, courage is the intellectual mastery of fear by understanding the true risks and opportunities of the situation and keeping those things in balance - Julian Assange

As long as you try to think intelligently, you have missed the point. - Ramana Pemmaraju

Don't tell me where the years went; I don't want to know. - Marty Rubin

Creativity represents a miraculous coming together of the uninhibited energy of the child with its apparent opposite and enemy, the sense of order imposed on the disciplined adult intelligence. - Norman Podhoretz

Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms. - Groucho Marx

I danced as he twirled in and out of consciousness, and there we were, one in love and the other astray. - Dominic Riccitello

He attacked everything in life with a mix of extraordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which. - Douglas Adams

Nerd girls are the world’s most underutilized romantic resource. And guys, do not tell me that nerd girls are not hot because that shows a Paris Hilton-esque failure to understand hotness. - John Green

but even the facts do not always tell the truth - Paul Auster

Men do not know what they do not know, and women should not tell them. - Amy Bloom

Success can be defined as how hard you continue to fight when they tell you that the battle is over. - Mark W. Boyer

True genius without heart is a thing of nought - for not great understanding alone, not intelligence alone, nor both together, make genius. Love! Love! Love! that is the soul of genius. - Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin

As humans, reality for us is largely based on other people's perceptions. If there's 20 bodies in your crawl space but you haven't been caught yet, you tell yourself you're still a birthday clown, and that's how you keep doing it. - Dan Harmon

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage - to move in the opposite direction. - Alert Einstein

Oh, the truth I must tellIs I'm lonely as hellStill looking for myself - The Summer Set

We have, as human beings, a storytelling problem. We're a bit too quick to come up with explanations for things we don't really have an explanation for. - Malcolm Gladwell

were the last words that I wrote for you enough to tell youthat in my death the light that shone through my painful darknesswas a blinding vision of your eternal smile?cold scalpel's steel whispers tear at my very coreas I cling to my memories of you... - Xavier

Start telling the stories that only you can tell. Because there will always be better writers than you, and there will always be smarter writers than you, and there will always be, you know, people who are much better at doing this or doing that, but you are the only you. - Neil Gaiman

Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done and why. Then do it. - Robert Heinlein

Throughout our lives, after all, we look for a story of our origins, to tell us why we were born and why we have lived. - Umberto Eco

I didn't want to tell Mother I worked as a journalist. She thought I was a prostitute. Locking yourself in a room and inventing characters and conversations which do not exit is no way for a grown man to behave. - Sebastian Horsley

Hallucinations aren’t always out of the ordinary. How do we know we’re not hallucinating if everything seems plausible? - Dominic Riccitello

It takes awhile, but eventually you realize they lost you. You didn’t lose them. - Dominic Riccitello

Adults need to teach the children they love about sexual abuse so they know what to do if they encounter it. We need to prepare them so they know who to tell, should a violation occur, so they don't have to live with a painful secret, long into adulthood. - Carolyn Byers Ruch

I couldn't tell fact from fiction,Or if the dream was trueMy only sure predictionIn this world was you.I'd touch your features inchly. Beard love and dared the cost, The sented spiel reeled me unreal And I found my senses lost. - Maya Angelou

Why doesn't anyone tell you we all wind up married to Henry the VIII?......My dear Anne Boleyn,...the only way a woman can avoid waking up next to Henry is to model herself after his daughter Elizabeth and sleep next to no one at all. - Judith Claire Mitchell

I, too, was fiercely independent and thought I could make two equal four. - Dominic Riccitello

We must make tough decisions to see if it’s worth it in the end. - Dominic Riccitello

Maybe the hardest thing in writing is simply to tell the truth about things as we see them. - John Steinbeck

Tell the truth through whichever veil comes to hand – but tell it. Resign yourself to the lifelong sadness that comes from never ­being satisfied. - Zadie Smith

For me, reading is so much more. Books teach you how other people think, and what they're feeling, and how they change from ordinary beings to extraordinary ones. Often they are so appealing and intelligent, you'd rather spend time reading about them than doing anything else. - Jennifer Kaufman

We can’t be afraid to dismiss the unappreciative. - Dominic Riccitello

It's simply impossible for me to filter my thoughts and feelings. I tell it from my point of view. I'm an open book. - Lori Lesko

Abbott: Now, on the St. Louis team we have Who's on first, What's on second, I Don't Know is on third. Costello: That's what I want to find out. - Bud Abbott

The heart is stubborn. It holds onto love despite what sense and emotion tells it. And it is often, in the battle of those three, the most brilliant of all. - Alessandra Torre

All of my bad ideas were always my best. - Dominic Riccitello

Australian Aborigines say that the big stories — the stories worth telling and retelling, the ones in which you may find the meaning of your life — are forever stalking the right teller, sniffing and tracking like predators hunting their prey in the bush. - Robert Moss

I don't fire up the prose. I just tell it straight and don't fool around with it. - Raymond Carver

RASCALITY, n. Stupidity militant. The activity of a clouded intellect. - Ambrose Bierce

When you tell the truth, people listen.

I cannot tell whether diamonds appeared in his eyes or mine as the shine of adoration became the icon one sees in history, a Byzantine sparkle, Medieval armor against all odds. - Alice Shapiro

I love my career. It is a career. A difficult one that takes many hours and total dedication to my craft. It is also what I was born to do--tell stories and entertain. - Michelle M. Pillow

Be curious. Read widely. Try new things. What people call intelligence just boils down to curiosity. - Aaron Swartz

I have an important message to deliver to all the cute people all over the world. If you're out there and you're cute, maybe you're beautiful. I just want to tell you somethin' — there's more of us UGLY MOTHERFUCKERS than you are, hey-y, so watch out. - Frank Zappa

The more you live, the more today you see, the more yesterday’s you left and the more tomorrow you say! Only those who have lived long can best tell the regrets of yesterday, the lessons in today and the real reasons to ponder before you say and think of tomorrow! - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

An ID number is only there to 'identify' human beings. Use it to assume people’s intellect or wisdom at your own risk. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana

There is no telling how many miles you will have to run while chasing a dream. -- Author unknown - Shelley K. Wall

Don’t give up on your daydream! That little voice inside is telling you how to live your life with intent & purpose. - Dawn Gluskin

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius. - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

To me there is something thrilling and exalting in the thought that we are drifting forward into a splendid mystery-into something that no mortal eye hath yet seen, and no intelligence has yet declared. - Edward Chapin

Material wealth do not last forever, but that which probably lasts forever is the wealth of intelligence and creativity. - Michael Bassey Johnson

Loving you was hard, wanting you was harder, but kissing your forehead was insanity. - Dominic Riccitello

People take ownership of sickness and disease by saying things like MY high blood pressure MY diabetes, MY heart disease, MY depression, MY! MY! MY! Don't own it because it doesn't belong to you! - Stella Payton

An intelligent woman is a goldmine! She has the ability to learn, reason and understand things better and faster than her contemporaries. She is competent, alert and can reason out stuffs easily. - Jaachynma N.E. Agu

To tell others thatIt is a rumor Will not do. When your own heart asks How will you respond? - Gosen Wakashū

I hate quotations. Tell me what you know. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

The sum of intelligence on the planet is a constant; the population is growing.

Why is being a nerd bad? Saying I notice you’re a nerd is like saying, ‘Hey, I notice that you’d rather be intelligent than be stupid, that you’d rather be thoughtful than be vapid, that you believe that there are things that matter more than the arrest record of Linsey Lohan. Why is that? - John Green

But tales like this must not be taken as truth. You must remind yourself that it is hard to tell where truth ends and a lie begins. So listen all you like, but disbelieve all you hear...You are in the city of lies. - Arlene J. Chai

The only things that all men want is a woman that respects him and challenge his intelligence plus ambitions. - Unarine Ramaru

The greatest thing about our times is that you don't need permission to express yourself the way you wish. Sometimes people tell themselves they can't do it, because they're missing this or that, but historically, specialization is a recent convention. Most of us are born natural polymaths. - Nuno Roque

Much is imagination, more is truth, but which is which I scarcely can tell myself. - L. Adams Beck

You are free to go, Father," she whispered. "We are all of us free." Olivia finally understood what Mr Tugwell had tried to tell her. This was how it was for every fallen crteature. Christ bore the penalty we each deserve, to purchase our freedom. - Julie Klassen

Good instincts usually tell you what to do long before your head has figured it out. - Michael Burke

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius — and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction. - Ernst F. Schumacher

If you have a story that seems worth telling, and you think you can tell it worthily, then the thing for you to do is to tell it, regardless of whether it has to do with sex, sailors or mounted policemen. - Dashiell Hammett

Like an alchemical wave sending ripples of love to every part of our being, once we become conscious of an intelligent life force existing within us, everything changes. - Atalina M Homan

The newly developed snarky side of my personality wanted to tell him 'There's no crying in vamp battles. - Robyn Jones

Tell me, and I'll forget. Show me, and I may not remember. Involve me, and I'll understand.

Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people. - Spencer Johnson

Tell them a lie big enough, they'll worship you as a sage. Tell them a truth big enough and they'll mock you. - Abhijit Naskar

If you’re in a relationship and find yourself constantly using we instead of I - stop. You are more than your relationship. - Dominic Riccitello

The world is changing rapidly, and everyone changes along with the world. Discoveries is now becoming rampant; intellectually, technologically,etc, each having its advantage and disadvantage. - Michael Bassey Johnson

Sometimes carrying the burden of an upsetting truth, and hiding it, is actually a gift you give to someone else. You bear that burden, so they don’t have to, in a situation where telling them will change nothing. - Cassandra Clare

Any person of average intelligence could write a better commentary than he does. He hasn't covered a story in years.

So long as faith with freedom reigns And loyal hope survives, And gracious charity remains To leaven lowly lives; While there is one untrodden tract For intellect or will, And men are free to think and act, Life is worth living still.

Curiosity is the intellectual need to answer questions and close open patterns. Story plays to this universal desire by doing the opposite, posing questions and opening situations. - Robert McKee

For impact, tell your true story -challenges, victory, all. Build hope by helping others find themselves by your story. - Bidemi Mark-Mordi

Intellectually, religious emotions are not creative but conservative. They attach themselves readily to the current view of the world and consecrate it. - John Dewey

Someday find my son...tell him about how things can be between men on this Earth."--A Letter to Jesse Owens - Luz Long

History tells us what people do; historical fiction helps us imagine how they felt. - Guy Vanderhaeghe

I want to go and write music that announces to you that you can feel something. I don’t want to tell you what to feel, but I just want you to have the possibility of feeling something. - Hans Zimmer

Intelligence is overrated. Two dogs who sniff each others’ butts learn more about each other in a moment than many humans understand about those they’ve known for a lifetime. - James Rozoff

Every intelligent individual wants to know what makes him tick, and yet is at once fascinated and frustrated by the fact that oneself is the most difficult of all things to know. - Alan W. Watts

You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements. - Norman Douglas

Thus let me live, unseen, unknown; thus unlamented let me die; steal from the world, and not a stone tell where I lie. - Alexander Pope

You have to grow. You have to be. You have to love yourself unconditionally. - Dominic Riccitello

Don’t let the world tell you who you are. You get up and you tell the world who you are. - A.D. Posey

La vida em va donar l'esquena i jo li vaig tocar el cul - Xevi Castellà Tubert

I always tell my kids to cut a sandwich in half right when you get it, and the first thought you should have is somebody else. You only ever need half a burger. - Louis C.K.

Don't patronize the chain bookstores. Every time I see some author scheduled to read and sign his books at a chain bookstore, I feel like telling him he's stabbing the independent bookstores in the back. - Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Nothing is respectfully amazing than a man who finds no shame to tell the world how grateful he is for all the love and sacrifices his woman made.. - Himmilicious

Distress at losing an object can be as much a frustration at the intellectual mystery of the disappearance as about the loss itself. - Alain de Botton

Intelligence does not always define wisdom, but adaptability to change does. - Debasish Mridha

The measure of intelligence is the ability to change. - Albert Einstein

When plan doesn't work do not change the goal, Change the plan ! #beingemployee - Stella Morey

The reason I believe that emotion is a higher state than intellect is that chess computers don't enjoy winning. - R.A.Delmonico

To obtain greatness and strength, a man must have a good character. He is honorable and respected by others. We define him as intelligent, and as one who God has blessed with wisdom - Ellen J. Barrier

The worst thing about Europe is that you can't go out in the middle of the night and get a Slurpee. - Tellis Frank

Intelligence is nothing without delight.

They tell me, shaking their heads:"You should be kinder. You are somehow furious".I used to be kind. It didn’t last long. - Yevgeny Yevtushenko

I did it,... I talked to Stephen King in a dream... not once but twice in two dreams. - As far from here I can tell you it's awesome... I did it... I jerkoff on a dream... dreaming that I'm jerking off.... I did it... I fucked a girl in a dream! - Deyth Banger

Creativity is not intelligence, it is the ability to do what you did not know through the use of what you know. - Michael Bassey Johnson

Intelligence is knowing what’s required of you - Julian Pencilliah

I wanted to tell her happy was hard for me. But I think she already knew that. - Benjamin Alire Sáenz

There are two rules for success: 1) Never tell everything you know.

A professional headshot in front of a bookshelf says you're an intellectual. A professional headshot peeking though a bookshelf says you're probably under a restraining order. - Ryan Lilly

But I do not know what to tell myself. Stuart needs "space" and "time," as if this were physics and not a human relationship. - Kathryn Stockett

Open your umbrella of creativity when glaring heat of adversity hits you unaware." ~ , If I Could Tell You - Angelica Hopes

When an intelligent person says a stupid thing, it is still a stupid thing. - Marty Rubin

Don't think about the writing process too much. Just do one thing: tell the motherfucking story. - Don Roff

People leave imprints on our lives, shaping who we become in much the same way that a symbol is pressed into the page of a book to tell you who it comes from. Dogs, however, leave paw prints on our lives and our souls, which are as unique as fingerprints in every way. - Ashly Lorenzana

At our core there is silence and stillness…that is truly who we are when you peel away the titles, the ego, the thoughts, the beliefs, the intellect….once you get REALLY naked –you will see that who you are has nothing to do with all that we have given meaning to. - davidji

Solitude is fine but you need someone to tell that solitude is fine. - Honoré de Balzac

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

Every wave in an ocean has a secret to tell you; life is a wave of love so let it flow over you endlessly. - Debasish Mridha

Democracy is a con game. It’s a word invented to placate people to make them accept a given institution. All institutions sing, ‘We are free.’ The minute you hear ‘freedom’ and ‘democracy’, watch out… because in a truly free nation, no one has to tell you you’re free. - Jacque Fresco

I worked with him in a way where there was no need to align. We felt and the feeling was simple but complex. It was the intensity in our grasp and when it was done, it was done. - Dominic Riccitello

The same tongue that tastes a cube of sugar when it is placed in a small cup of water and appreciates it is the same tongue that tells the same cube of sugar how tasteless it is when it is placed in a large volume of water. - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

I gave him my heart without thinking how it would feel if he returned it. - Dominic Riccitello

We call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do not suffer less because they have no words. - Anna Sewell

Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more. - Erica Jong

I'll tell you, too, that's starting to depress me about UFO's, about the fact that they cross galaxies, or wherever they come from to visit us, and always end up in places like Fife, Alabama. Maybe these are not super-intelligent beings, man. - Bill Hicks

Never speak ill against someone else. You can't know what life holds for you. The ill you speak against someone else may find you sooner than you think. Speak blessings not curses. It's what I told my son. It's what I'm telling you. - Bobby F. Kimbrough Jr.

They are simple people, most of them, but that doesn't make them subhuman.You are telling them Jesus loves them, but not much. - Harper Lee

His whisper was the softest sound I ever knew, which seemed to bring the loudest heartbeat. - Dominic Riccitello

The question that will decide our destiny is not whether we shall expand into space. It is: shall we be one species or a million? A million species will not exhaust the ecological niches that are awaiting the arrival of intelligence. - Freeman Dyson

I thought I can throw away all my memories but whenever I tell my mind to do it, memories stick it more...!! - Doha Asrir

Belief is the death of intelligence. - Robert Anton Wilson

I want to tell you a terrific story about oral contraception. I asked this girl to sleep with me and she said 'no'. - Woody Allen

You can't base your life on the past or the present. You have to tell me about your future. - Chuck Palahniuk

Someone once said that death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside of us while we live. I could tell you who said it, but who the hell really cares. - One tree hill haley james scott

Simple, don't tell about something exist in an extinction and don't tell about something extinct in an existence. - Haris Yanuar

To mock something is pure ignorance. Intelligent people even open themselves to things that they don't understand. […] When an ignorant praises something, it won't probably be something profound. Surely it can't be the Principle that guides us. - Alfonso Colodrón

Oh God, Oh God! that it were possibleTo undo things done; to call back yesterday!That time could turn up her swift and sandy glass,To untell days, and to redeem these hours. - Thomas D. Heywood

If our logic is to find the common world intelligible, it must not be hostile, but must be inspired by a genuine acceptance such as is not usually to be found among metaphysicians. - Bertrand Russell

Nature alone can speak to our intelligence an imperishable language, never changing, because it remains within the bounds of eternal truth and of what is absolutely noble and beautiful. - George Sand

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. - Galileo Galilei

… we don't need more command and control; we need better means to engage everyone's intelligence … - Margaret Wheatley

How in the world do you tellyour wife that her mother was born a unicon? - Bruce Coville

Every pilot needs a co-pilot, and let me tell you, it is awful nice to have someone sitting there beside you, especially when you hit some bumpy air. - Eric Wald

While you live tell truth and shame the devil. - William Shakespeare

It is a convenient truth: You go into the humanities to pursue your intellectual passion; and it just so happens, as a by-product, that you emerge as a desired commodity for industry. - Damon Horowitz

[On action filled leadership] Telling your team what to do is showmanship.Showing people how to do it is leadership. Leading for the purpose of visual effect will not accomplish the vision. - Janna Cachola

It is not possible to be intellectually honest and believe in gods. And it is not possible to believe in gods and be a true scientist. - Peter Atkins

We all want good friends - kind, respected, nice. The kind of people you want to introduce to your parents, other friends, pastor. But never underestimate the value of immoral friends - the ones that create the most precious memories you never will tell anyone else! - Jury Nel

Die Welt ist schrecklich langweilig, oder, was dasselbe ist, was an ihr interessant sein könnte, ist es nicht, solange es nicht von einem guten Schriftsteller erzählt wird. - Enrique Vila-Matas

More intelligent people don't know their mobile number. - Kaushal Patel

OBSTINATE, adj. Inaccessible to the truth as it is manifest in the splendor and stress of our advocacy. The popular type and exponent of obstinacy is the mule, a most intelligent animal. - Ambrose Bierce

Don't you get it? You can't tell me what to feel. - Lauren Oliver

It is impossible to imagine existence void of any intelligence. - Kedar Joshi

It's more cruel to give someone false hope than telling the bitter truth - Unknown

Fiction doesn’t tell us something we don’t know, it tells us something we know but don’t know that we know. - Walker Percy

Geschichte ist die geistige Form, in der sich eine Kultur ueber ihre Vergangenheit Rechenschaft gibt. [transl.:] History is the mentalintellectual form, in which a culture renders account of its past to itself.

How is the world ruled and how do wars start? Diplomats tell lies to journalists and then believe what they read. - Karl Kraus

Do you want to know what you think about most of the time? Take a look at the results you're getting. That will tell you exactly what's going on inside. - Bob Proctor

I never expected you to understand, but I did expect you to be there. - Dominic Riccitello

Many people in this world want you to follow them blindly, no questions asked , they wanna control your fate, your heart, soul & thoughts, I tell you...Follow your heart , listen to what it has to say . - sami abouzid

It's curling ribbon, but you don't have to curl it. You don't have to do everything the ribbon tells you to do. Don't live your life like that. - Dan Bergstein

How? How will it help to tell you that I see his face every time I close my eyes? That I wake up and cry when he's not there? That the memories are so strong I can't separate hers from mine anymore? - Stephenie Meyer

Self is found in knowledge, devotion and concentration, in integrity, purity, moderation, self-control and intelligence. - Gian Kumar

The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that carries any reward. - John Maynard Keynes

Courage is always greatest when blended with meekness; intellectual ability is most admired when it sparkles in the setting of modest self-distrust; and never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive any injury.

Mighty hard to tell the people you love you're a failure. - Laura Moncur

If you live today, you breath in nihilism ... it's the gas you breathe. If I hadn't had the Church to fight it with or to tell me the necessity of fighting it, I would be the stinkingest logical positivist you ever saw right now. - Flannery O'Connor

Can't you see? Before you knew the truth, we were happy. What's the god in ferreting out the truth all that time? It's always unpleasant.""Is it only lies that are Pleasant?""Usually. That's why people tell them. To make life bearable. - Penelope Mortimer

We draw people to Christ not by loudly discrediting what they believe, by telling them how wrong they are and how right we are, but by showing them a light that is so lovely that they want with all their hearts to know the source of it. - Madeleine L'Engle

If you are reading this... I'm dead so far probably or still alive who knows?It's bad day in bad time, I can tell this for sure! - Deyth Banger

She thinks, I'm telling him who I am. He's interested in who I am. That is true, but I am curious about who she is because I want to fuck her. - Philip Roth

The ending of sorrow is the beginning of wisdom. Knowledge is always within the shadow of ignorance. Meditation is freedom from thought and a movement in the ecstasy of truth. Meditation is explosion of intelligence. - Krishnamurti

There was so much about our past that I still didn't understand, and I wasn't one to tell the future. I could only tell the way the world worked. History was a tangled thing, people were resilient, and the one constant law of the world was that it would heal. - Yovanoff, Brenna

Love your enemies, for they tell you your faults. - Benjamin Franklin

We must go beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths and untrodden depths of the wilderness and travel and explore and tell the world the glories of our journey; - John Hope Franklin

She was dull, unattractive, couldn't tell the time, count money or tie her own shoe laces... But I loved her - Jean-Jacques Rousseau

We are like a flesh eating bacteria eating away everything until we kill ourselves in the process...that just tells you what humans are. - Efrat Cybulkiewicz

People need to be educated so that they can make intelligent moral choices - Gary L. Francione

How many pages will it take to tell your story? - Ashly Lorenzana

Beauty is an asset, just like physical prowess, charisma, brains or emotional intelligence. The key with any gift is in the way that you use it. It doesn't define you as a person. Rather, it's an asset to be used judiciously and with an understanding of how it is just a small part of who you are. - Dale Archer

Next time someone tells you to smile for the camera, & you don’t feel like it—say no, thanks. Don’t fake your way into a happy-seeming life. Open vulnerable honesty is true positivity. - Waylon H. Lewis

The only thing I want is to be with you, kissing you and telling you that I love you more than anyone. - Auliq Ice

The three most important words in a relationship are not, 'I love you,' but, 'Tell me more. - Stefan Molyneux

I can't think why fancy religions should have such a ghastly effect on one's grammar. It's a kind of intellectual rot that sets in, I'm afraid. - Dorothy L. Sayers

Tell the story you want to tell, and let it be as long as it needs to be. Worry about marketing it later. - Patricia C. Wrede

A large section of the intelligentsia seems wholly devoid of intelligence.

What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult. - Sigmund Freud

When the reviews are bad, I tell myself that they can join me as I cry all the way to the bank. - Liberace

In the U.S. you have to be a deviant or exist in extreme boredom... Make no mistake, all intellectuals are deviants in the U.S. - William S. Burroughs

I don’t want content. I want slight fear. Anxiety. I want a longing devotion for a twist of absence. The feeling of complete isn’t quite pleasing. - Dominic Riccitello

My demeanor isn't that of a woman enraged. To see me slumped, glassy-eyed, holding a sandwich someone has cut for me into four "manageable" pieces, a person might tell you I look much more like a woman subdued. - Koren Zailckas

Critics write out of intellectual exercise, not poets. Poets write straight from the heart. - Erica Jong

I never said I love you because I knew he would understand it differently. I loved him, and I still do, but it was as a chapter. It wasn’t as a fairytale ending. - Dominic Riccitello

She's Devine.She's Magic. And she didn't have to wait for anyone to tell her in order for her to believe that about herself. And that's what made her so magically beautiful. - C.R. Bittar

Change will force you to step off the path, to venture from the nest, to close your eyes and dive right in, knowing that the greatest opportunities in life are found in the sink or swim, do or die moments. - Stella Payton

Atheism Is Rare ?! so is intelligence - Sherif Gaber

I want you to tell all these people that I wanted more time to spend with them. Tell them I meant to, tell them I wanted to hear what they said and tell them what was on my mind. - Kage Baker

A people are as healthy and confident as the stories they tell themselves. Sick storytellers can make nations sick. Without stories we would go mad. Life would lose it’s moorings or orientation... Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart larger. - Ben Okri

The difference between hope and despair is a different way of telling stories from the same facts. - Alain de Botton

I will tell you something my father once told me. The difference between a brave man and a coward is very simple. It is a problem of love. A coward loves only himself … The brave man loves other men first and himself last. (From Meyer's The Son) - Phillipp Meyer

Tell a child, that he will soon be homeless; he will slowly detach from the world. Tell that same child that he is now homeless, he will abandon all foundations. Tell the child he has a home again, he may return to Earth from his travels, but he will never want to see this world again. - Justin K. McFarlane Beau

The most crucial problem with intellectual learning is that it receives the unknown on the grounds of the known. - Raheel Farooq

I'm going to write a book about an intelligent woman who does stupid things when it comes to men. I'll call it, "My Memoirs. - N.M. Silber

Her Brooklyn accent only comes out when she's angry. This is the best part....I pick at my pancakes while she tells me, simply, "It's ok to change your mind." About a feeling, a person, a promise of love. I can't stay just to avoid contradicting myself. I don't have to watch him cry. - Lena Dunham

The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control emotions by the application of reason. - Marya Mannes

If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

When man manages his intellect and steadies his mind, He discovers the all-pervading Self. - Gian Kumar

If you can still write in spite of the fact that you're not getting paid, that nobody cares about what you're writing, that nobody wants to publish it, that everybody is telling you to do something else, and you still want to and you still enjoy it and you can't stop doing it...then you're a writer. - Joanne Harris

You don't love me.. Believe me! You don't love anyone. How could you? And no one loves you. How could they? Except me, it's only because I love you that I'm telling you all this. I Love you.. R. D. Laing. - R.D. Laing

Most unintelligent or foolish people do not regard themselves as that; they regard themselves as not-that-intelligent or not-that-wise. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana

In the modern world the intelligence of public opinion is the one indispensable condition for social progress. - Charles W. Eliot

There's no need to tell me who you are; you're already showing me. - Steve Maraboli

I have no objection to the expression of political opinions in SF if they are an integral part of the story structure. I don't at all appreciate their intrusion for the purpose of converting a story into a political tract, because I consider that intellectually insulting. - Roger Zelazny

You want to change? Lose the bitch. Be nicer to people. Stop telling them to "bite you" and threatening to kick them until they're dead. - Jen Lancaster

There are two rules for sucess:1. Never tell everything you know. - Roger H. Lincoln

The African continent has so many stories to tell, it's about time they are told, by them - not us. - Akilnathan Logeswaran

He had let me know time after time that he was a thinking man, a man of intellect and wit. Yet one unintended hungry look into my eyes and he betrayed each of his words he had carefully spoken to me. I knew it in that instant. He was a viscerally driven man. And one day, he would possess me. - Coco J. Ginger

I can tell by the look on Hagin's face that he had eaten some of my food. It is amazing those boys aren't fat. - R.A. Smith

Take something you love, tell people about it, bring together people who share your love and help make it better. Ultimately, you'll have more of whatever you love for yourself and for the world.

It's the best way of telling the truth; it's a process of producing grand, beautiful, well-ordered lies that tell more truth than any assemblage of facts. Beyond that … [it's] delight in, and play with, language; also, a curiously intimate way of communicating with people whom you will never meet. - Julian Barnes

If I didn't work on the assumption that people were mostly telling me the truth, I think I'd go mad... And I'd rather be mistaken about others than mistrustful of them. - Una McCormack

You are the most important person in the world. Every single of you. Don’t let anybody tell you differently, okay?, - Alex Gaskarth

They are not my stories...they are merely mine to tell - Jeremy Aldana

The intelligent have plans; the wise have principles. - Raheel Farooq

As far as I can tell, a young-adult novel is a regular novel that people actually read. - Stephen Colbert

An understanding of Jesus is not a mere matter of intelligence. He has to be accepted by faith. - Lloyd C. Douglas

Instructions for living a life. Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it. - Mary Oliver

The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt. - Bertrand Russell

we were justlooking for what couldinstead of what waswhat should beinstead of how it was - Dominic Riccitello

Sleepless words tell sleepless stories. - Kim Pape

Mental ghettos are not mirages; they actually exist in palpable reality: being "open" inside one's mental or intellectual ghetto does not open its door but simply allows one to harbour the illusion that there is no ghetto and no door. The most dangerous prisons are those with invisible bars. - Tariq Ramadan

A thrilling story can be dull if told badly, but even the most mundane event can be elevated into a tale of epic scale by a good storyteller. - Johnny Rich

An intelligent man is one who acknowledges his intelligence as that of those who surround him. - Ilyas Kassam

You really love her don't you," she said.With all my heart."She looked as sad as I'd ever seen her.What's your heart telling you to do?"I don't know."Maybe", she said gently,"You're trying to hard to hear it. - Nicholas Sparks

I have been truthful all along the way. The truth is more interesting, and if you tell the truth you never have to cover your tracks. - Gordon Atkinson

While having one’s assertions challenged might be bad for an unintelligent man’s ego; it sure is good for his intellect. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana

If someone tells you that they’re called blueberries because they’re berries and they’re blue—believe them. - Clifford Cohen

Critics are our friends, they tell us our faults. - Benjamin Franklin

My tongue will tell the anger of mine heart, Or else my heart, concealing it, will break. - William Shakespeare

As you grow up, always tell the truth, do no harm to others, and don't think you are the most important being on earth. Rich or poor, you then can look anyone in the eye and say, 'I'm probably no better than you, but I'm certainly your equal. - Harper Lee

Never let the thoughts of self-unworthiness re-arrange your prepared passion for failure. You can do it even if others say you can't. But you cannot do it if you tell yourself you can't. - Israelmore Ayivor

But the whole thing, after all, may be put very simply. I believe that it is better to tell the truth than to lie. I believe that it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe that it is better to know than be ignorant. - H. L. Mencken

Be not proud of your intelligence. Be simple, wise, and humble. - Debasish Mridha

A good character is not only about the good person people know you to be. Your ability to tell the truth about how bad you had been is also a good character. - Israelmore Ayivor

How easily they spoke of love. And yet, when she'd needed the certainty of his feeling for her, he'd let her slip away, never able to bring himself to tell her about the ways in which he'd been changed. He'd been incapable he'd let Nenebah believe the problem lay with her. - Aminatta Forna

I will follow anyone... And tell everyone...How grateful I am...To the Western nations. - Widad Akreyi

If someone tells you something is impossible, make it possible. - A.D. Posey

So many problems, however infinitely varied they first appear, turn out to be matters of money. I can't tell you how much this offends me. The value of money is a scam perpetrated by those who have it over those who dont; it's the Emperor's New Clothes gone global. - Karen Joy Fowler

Even if you're in the thick of revising another work, write something new. Something small. It's important to keep telling yourself stories. - Don Roff

And I loved the whole idea behind the story, which is that you're beautiful, so don't let other people tell you that you're not just because you don't look like the people in magazines. Or because you're not that weird ideal body image that's out there right now. - Mike Myers

Get on stage. A lot. Try stuff. Make your best stab and keep stabbing. If it's there in your heart, it will eventually find its way out. Or you will give up and have a prudent, contented life doing something else. - Raymond Joseph Teller

They’re scared of death, but that’s like being afraid of life. - Dominic Riccitello

Tell me what’s the differencebetween hope and waitingbecause my heart doesn’t knowIt constantly cuts itself on the glass of waitingIt constantly gets lost in the fog of hope - Anna Kamieńska

Perhaps imagination is only intelligence having fun. - George Scialabba

SilenceIt has a sound, a fullness.It's heavy with sigh of tree,and space between breaths.It's ripe with pause between birdsongand crash of surf. It's golden they say.But no one tells us it's addictive. - Angela Long

I look at old photos and it gives me joy and and tells me about the best time I spent with people but they always left a feeling of loneliness & things I missed and I don't feel connected to them at all. - Neetesh Dixit

Of all the days dropped in time's pocketThis day will seek acknowledgement with a child's shy asking, because the love between us used no word uncommoner than coffee, and was never traced by graphs of huge emotion. Yet some fancy will recall this day hallowed past recognition. - Vassar Miller Bagatelle

A fool is someone who wants you to apologise for your intelligence - - rassool jibraeel snyman

We must also teach science not as the bare body of fact, but more as human endeavor in its historic context—in the context of the effects of scientific thought on every kind of thought. We must teach it as an intellectual pursuit rather than as a body of tricks. - Isidor Isaac Rabi

My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you I just signed legislation which outlaws Russia forever. The bombing begins in five minutes. - Ronald Reagan

The supreme end of education is expert discernment in all things--the power to tell the good from the bad, the genuine from the counterfeit, and to prefer the good and the genuine to the bad and the counterfeit.

Often and often afterwards, the beloved Aunt would ask me why I had never told anyone how I was being treated. Children tell little more than animals, for what comes to them they accept as eternally established. - Rudyard Kipling

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

It is at the edge of intelligence that wisdom awaits. - Matshona Dhliwayo

Eventually I’ll stop writing about you and it’ll be bittersweet. Not because I’m not in love with you, but because I’ll just love you. - Dominic Riccitello

Even an expert has room to improve, grow and learn a little more. All the great masters teach this. For this reason, never allow an expert’s ‘opinion’ to limit you in any way, whether it is with your intellect, accomplishments or illness and disease - Gary Hopkins

The funny thingaboutadvice is,we always tellothersthe thingswecannotreally doourselves. - Robert M. Drake

God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave. - Sir Francis Bacon

The long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead. Economists set themselves too easy, too useless a task if in tempestuous seasons they can only tell us that when the storm is past the ocean is flat again. - John Maynard Keynes