Told Quotes

We had four years of world war which the peoples endured only because they were told that their sufferings would free humanity forever from the scourge of war.

To be told you've won a MacArthur fellowship is very flattering and gratifying personally.

I had been told that the training procedure with cats was difficult. It's not. Mine had me trained in two days.

When I was younger, my coach, Liang Chow, made all the decisions. I would go to the gym for practice, do exactly what Chow told me to do, go home, come back and start all over again. If Chow told me to do 50 squat jumps, I did 50 squat jumps.

If there is an authoritarian structure at St. Hill it has been brought into being by the government itself. St. Hill is trying to correct itself. It doesn't know what it's trying to correct because nobody has told it what to correct.

I never saw my dad cry. My son saw me cry. My dad never told me he loved me, and consequently I told Scott I loved him every other minute. The point is, I'll make less mistakes than my dad, my sons hopefully will make less mistakes than me, and their sons will make less mistakes than their dads.

Sad old blokes, I'm told, now dream of me with a whip in hand.

I've been told by doctors and surgeons that I have the energy of ten men who have normal jobs.

I pressed my father's hand and told him I would protect his grave with my life. My father smiled and passed away to the spirit land.

We were watching the first series recently, and it has a charm, a kind of amateur charm. At that point we didn't involve ourselves technically at all - we just messed about and told our jokes - and it looks a bit like that.

Our parents came home one day and heard us, and they thought it was the radio, but our grandfather told them it was us.

He helps me every day to do my exercises. Siegfried told me once, 'The one who is a hero is the one who can hang on just one minute longer.'

Some members of both Houses have, it is true, been removed from their employments under the Crown; but were they ever told, either by me or by any other of his majesty's servants, that it was for opposing the measures of the administration in Parliament?

I decided to pursue music, so I dropped out of school and I told my parents I didn't want any money from them. I got three jobs and I just hit the ground running.

You remember had this gigantic clock in the arena showing the size of the national debt. And Paul told America, if you elect Republicans, we can fix that. But, if Paul Ryan was being honest, he would've pointed to the debt clock and said, we built that.

In my sophomore year, a kid told me that the secret to getting women is to play really, really hard to get. I followed his advice, and I didn't have so much as a date that year.

Believe me, when an actress is told that her very name is synonymous with bad acting, she's had it.

No one had ever told me that whites were supposed to sing one kind of music and blacks another - I sang what I liked in the only voice I had.

When Queer Eye hit, the church told my mom they were praying for me. She said, God loves him too. And I support him 100 percent.

We lost because we told ourselves we lost.

In 2001-2002, I told the president that the election was supposed to take place when the war was over, at a time when we could return to peaceful life. We agreed upon that. However, I can see now that the election cannot be delayed any longer.

I am only 8 years old, I told myself. No little boy of 8 has ever murdered anyone. It's not possible.

Who has sent you against me? Who has told you to do this thing?

I'm a preacher's kid, and we were always told, Act right all the time, because someone's always watching.

Calling it off comes easy enough if you haven't told the girl you are smitten with her.

I was told my son was killed in the war on terror. He was killed by George Bush's war of terror on the world.

If you tell people your ambitions, they usually laugh at you. When I told my girlfriends when I was 12 that I was going to Hollywood, they all laughed. And here I am!

When my father would yell at me, I told myself someday I'd use it in a book.

Father told me that if I ever met a lady in a dress like yours, I must look her straight in the eyes.

I was never restricted. I was never told what to do.