Telling Them Quotes
145 quotes by 133 authors
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The cat joined the Re-education Committee and was very active in it for some days. She was seen one dag sitting on a roof and…
— George Orwell
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And Father said, "Christopher, do you understand that I love you?" And I said "Yes," because loving someone is helping them when they get into…
— Mark Haddon
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Where do you go when you die? Ha ha. Go on, go on and tell her, Billy." Billy smiles. "You become a little voice in…
— Joe Meno
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. . . show the other side, the one that gets people out of bed the next morning, makes them scratch and scrape and fight…
— Max Brooks
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So truth created the ultimate lie. Was this what the world was like for wizards? This thorny, gray tangle where right and wrong were so…
— Hilari Bell
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There are a great many people who do not understand things so there is no use in telling them.
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
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...lies can sound awfully pretty when a girl is in love with the person telling them.
— Gabrielle Zevin
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Above all things, I delight in listening to stories, and sometimes in telling them.
— George MacDonald
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This is how deeply rooted stories are, folks. We crave them before we can walk, and we start telling them before we can talk.
— Patrick Rothfuss
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They do sometimes go crazy, these people, because the world is telling them not to want the things they want. It can seem saner to…
— E. Lockhart
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Her accent's funny, different from mine, different from anyone in Prentisstown's. Her lips make different kinds of outlines for the letters, like they're swooping down…
— Patrick Ness
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Try to be "good", you'll be judged. Try to be yourself, you'll be criticized. Therefore, choose the second option. Evil uses the "nice good people"…
— Paulo Coelho
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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…
— Cassandra Clare
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You have to be quite heavily invested in someone to do them the honour of telling them you're annoyed with them.
— Alain de Botton
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Try patting them on the back or shoulder and telling them everything is going to be fine. Lots of times when girls cry, they don't…
— Kiera Cass
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I never know what to tell them. I mean, there's nothing you can say to make a person stop hurting. Half the time, I just…
— Nicholas Sparks
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She liked books more than anything else, and was, in fact, always inventing stories of beautiful things and telling them to herself.
— Frances Hodgson Burnett
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He nodded toward the sub. "This is going to be a blow-off day." I dragged my mind away from magical intrigue. After being homeschooled for…
— Richelle Mead
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They said, we have education, but what about jobs? So I started telling them, you should be taking a pledge, and the pledge should be:…
— Muhammad Yunus
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I have found that nothing so deceives your adversaries as telling them the truth.
— Otto von Bismarck
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