Tellers Quotes

35 quotes by 31 authors

The insincerity of man-all men are liars, partial or hiders of facts, half tellers of truths, shirks, moral sneaks. When a merely honest man appears… — Mark Twain
Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars. — Gwendolyn Brooks
The souls of people, on their way to Earth-life, pass through a room full of lights; each takes a taper - often only a spark… — Plato
However, optimism is highly valued, socially and in the market; people and firms reward the providers of dangerously misleading information more than they reward truth… — Daniel Kahneman
We have long felt that the only value of stock forecasters is to make fortune-tellers look good. — Warren Buffett
Our stories are the tellers of us. — Chris Cleave
And the people listened, and their faces were quiet with listening. The story tellers, gathering attention into their tales, spoke in great rhythms, spoke in… — John Steinbeck
Zig Ziglar may be the master motivator, Mark Victor Hansen and Jack Canfield of Chicken Soup for the Soul, the master story tellers; Anthony Robbins… — Doug Wead
All poets and story tellers alive today make a single brotherhood; they are engaged in a single work, picturing our human life. Whoever pictures life… — Haniel Long
We all have defining moments. It is in these moments that we find our true characters. We become heroes or cowards; truth tellers or liars;… — Robert Kiyosaki
Just as bank tellers need a thorough knowledge of legitimate currency in order to spot counterfeit bills, so Christians need a thorough knowledge of the… — Charles R. Swindoll
There is such a place as fairyland - but only children can find the way to it...until they have grown so old that they forget… — Lucy Maud Montgomery
He who asks fortune-tellers the future unwittingly forfeits an inner intimation of coming events that is a thousand times more exact than anything they may… — Walter Benjamin
We've long felt that the only value of stock forecasters is to make fortune tellers look good. Even now, Charlie and I continue to believe… — Warren Buffett
My father was the king of the joke-tellers. I was so impressed as a child watching him, holding people in rapt attention. — Carol Leifer
Newspapers have roughly the same relationship to life as fortune-tellers to metaphysics. — Karl Kraus
They usually have two tellers in my local bank, except when it's very busy, when they have one. — Rita Rudner
A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it. Writers know words are their way towards truth… — Ursula K. Le Guin
If the story-tellers could ha' got decency and good morals from true stories, who'd have troubled to invent parables? — Thomas Hardy
I could not stop talking because now I had started my story, it wanted to be finished. We cannot choose where to start and stop.… — Chris Cleave

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