Jon, could there be honor in a lie, if it were told for…

Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.

— Francis Beaumont

We love being told good stories, and we love telling good stories, and all of our energy and our effort and our thought and…

— Joe Russo

I hate to do what I'm told, that's why I'm not good at 9-to-5s.

— Beth Ditto

“For, as I told you, Good deeds bear their own fruit!”

— Andrew Lang

“Well, he gets told he's great a lot. He just doesn't often get told he's good enough.”

— Casey McQuiston

I don't like being told what you're good at. I'd rather hear what I didn't do.

— Donovan Mitchell

“Look," she told me. "A good kreda is very hard to find. I invested a lot of time and memory in you. I had…

— C.S. Friedman

“I say, "You a kind girl," and she nod, repeat it back to me. But before I can do another one, she get up…

— Kathyrn Stockett

“I have fought for what I believed in for a year now. If we win here we will win everywhere. The world is a…

— Ernest Hemingway

“I left. I told myself again I wasn’t disappointed, I wasn’t even terribly surprised. I learned a long time ago not to trust, that…

— Barry Eisler

Growing up, everybody told me I was good. I was playing ping-pong with my father, and he'd say, 'That's a good shot,' but I'd…

— Allison Janney

When you're being told that you're good at something, you start to believe them and then you forget about your hopes and dreams.

— Ken Spillman

“I thought of an expression my father had once told me: Be good to people on your way up. You may meet them again…

— Barry Eisler

“He told himself, too, that it was good to sleep in a bed you know well after a long day rife with emotions.”

— Michel Plessix

People are tired of being told that this is as good as it gets. They hear in Donald Trump someone who says, 'We can…

— Mike Pence