Tellers Quotes
35 quotes by 31 authors
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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
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Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.
— Gwendolyn Brooks
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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
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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
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We have long felt that the only value of stock forecasters is to make fortune-tellers look good.
— Warren Buffett
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Our stories are the tellers of us.
— Chris Cleave
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Newspapers have roughly the same relationship to life as fortune-tellers to metaphysics.
— Karl Kraus
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They usually have two tellers in my local bank, except when it's very busy, when they have one.
— Rita Rudner
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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
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If the story-tellers could ha' got decency and good morals from true stories, who'd have troubled to invent parables?
— Thomas Hardy
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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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