Telling Quotes

3439 Telling quotes by 2398 unique authors

Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people. — Spencer Johnson
Folks, I'm telling you, birthing is hard and dying is mean- so get yourself a little loving in between. — Langston Hughes
The solemn pledge to abstain from telling the truth was called socialist realism. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
I remember her telling me once that rabbits were the gnomes in attendance to the Fairy Queen and that the stars were God's daisy chain.… — P.G. Wodehouse
History was a series of decisions about what to tell and a series of accidents about what survived after telling. Not truth, but a historian… — David Drake
Do you remember me telling you we are practicing non-verbal spells, Potter?" "Yes," said Harry stiffly. "Yes, sir." "There's no need to call me "sir"… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
As a bio major, I figured "free will" meant chemicals in your brain telling you what to do, the molecules bouncing around in a way… — Scott Westerfeld
There is a long time in me between knowing and telling. — Grace Paley
Trust me, I'm telling you stories. ... I can change the story. I am the story. — Jeanette Winterson
Sometimes what I wouldn't give to have us sitting in a bar again at 9:00 a.m. telling lies to one another, far from God. — Denis Johnson
There is no virtue in compulsory government charity, and there is no virtue in advocating it. A politician who portrays himself as "caring" and "sensitive"… — P.J. O'Rourke
A blank piece of paper is God's way of telling us how hard it is to be God. — Sidney Sheldon
It thought about the magic that happens when you tell a story right, and everybody who hears it not only loves the story, but they… — Katherine Hannigan
Trust me, I'm telling you stories. — Jeanette Winterson
Governments constantly choose between telling lies and fighting wars, with the end result always being the same. One will always lead to the other. — Thomas Jefferson
Every life is inexplicable, I kept telling myself. No matter how many facts are told, no matter how many details are given, the essential thing… — Paul Auster
It was a lie but he believed in telling lies to people. Truth telling and medicine just didn't go together except in dire emergencies, if… — Mario Puzo
Not afraid of poverty and drabness and who is untouched by it, untouched by the drunkenness of her friends; (she) who judges, selects, discards people… — Anais Nin
When you understand, that what you're telling is just a story. It isn't happening anymore. When you realize the story you're telling is just words,… — Chuck Palahniuk
Humans are pattern-seeking story-telling animals, and we are quite adept at telling stories about patterns, whether they exist or not. — Michael Shermer
Some people have difficulty telling the difference between something great and something they've simply heard of. — Arthur Golden
People are all over the world telling their one dramatic story and how their life has turned into getting over this one event. Now their… — Chuck Palahniuk
What we, or at any rate what I, refer to confidently as memory--meaning a moment, a scene, a fact that has been subjected to a… — William Maxwell
It is no use telling me there are bad aunts and good aunts. At the core, they are all alike. Sooner or later, out pops… — P.G. Wodehouse
Mrs. Cadbury: Tell me what you know about yourself. Anne Shirley: Well, it really isn't worth telling, Mrs. Cadbury... but if you let me tell… — Lucy Maud Montgomery

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