Tell Quotes

Let me tell you I am better acquainted with you for a long absence, as men are with themselves for a long affliction: absence does but hold off a friend, to make one see him the truer.

Twenty years of votes can tell you much more about a man than twenty weeks of campaign rhetoric. Campaign talk tells people who you want them to think you are. How you vote tells people who you really are deep inside.

Don't tell me peace has broken out.

Let the future tell the truth, and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I have really worked, is mine.

Some of these kids just don't plain know how good they are: how smart and how much they have to say. You can tell them. You can shine that light on them, one human interaction at a time.

Have you heard a single national figure tell you all of the crises of the recent past are not economic, they're cultural?

Tell me, I forget, show me, I remember, involve me, I understand.

Anybody who plays golf will tell you that you play against yourself.

My friends tell me I have an intimacy problem. But they don't really know me.

New Jersey shaped who and what I am. Growing up in Jersey gave you all the advantages of New York, but you were in its shadow. Anyone who's come from here will tell you that same story.

I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

These are the stories the Dogs tell, when the fires burn high and the wind is from the north.

You can't be too careful what you tell a child because you never know what he'll take hold of and spend the rest of his life remembering you by.

Many people tell me that they don 't know what to feel when they finish one of my books because the story was dark, or complicated, or strange. But while they were reading it, they were inside my world and they were happy. That's good.

Our job is only to hold up the mirror - to tell and show the public what has happened.

It is tragic that people who are incarcerated are unable to vote. They are probably the most important voices to listen to because they can tell us what we need to change.

I think a story should take as long to tell as it is appropriate to that particular story.

China is an old nation with a colourful history. Its booming economy has triggered an appetite and a curiosity around the world for its art and culture, one that continues to grow. I can, however, tell people that it is a show with no actor.

I'm happy to tell you that having been through surgery and chemotherapy and radiation, breast cancer is officially behind me. I feel absolutely great and I am raring to go.

I'm the worst person to tell anybody how to date.

The most challenging part of being a boss is that nobody will tell you if your work is suffering.

Real biologists who actually do the research will tell you that they almost never find a phenomenon, no matter how odd or irrelevant it looks when they first see it, that doesn't prove to serve a function. The outcome itself may be due to small accidents of evolution.

The question isn't, 'What do we want to know about people?', It's, 'What do people want to tell about themselves?'

Common sense and history tell you that rewarding illegal behavior will only encourage more of it.

Tell me, what do they do for us in Bulgaria? Do they fix the prices? Or is there some kind of a free market?

And because we are, somehow, better than they, we get to go to heaven and they don't. Christians will tell you outright that they believe that.

Newspapers do a good job telling me what happened yesterday, but they'd be a lot more impressive if they could tell me what's going to happen tomorrow.

One thing I can tell you is this, that I am not a methodical writer.

I'm one of the few people in this world who can do anything I choose. I can't tell you how good I'm feeling.

I would be a huge hypocrite if I didn't tell you that at one time in my life I thought the way that you made music was you got on a major label and you got famous.