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Holy Terror: Lies the Christian Right Tells Us to Deny Gay Equality. -- Mel White
Only do what your heart tells you. -- Princess Diana
There's a voice inside you that tells you what you should do. -- Alan Rickman
My dream is to continue filming until my body tells me to stop. -- Jackie Chan
Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself. -- Andre Breton
A budget tells us what we can't afford, but it doesn't keep us from buying it. -- William Feather
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires. -- William Arthur Ward
My favourite poem is the one that starts 'Thirty days hath September' because it actually tells you something. -- Groucho Marx
My mother thinks I am the best. And I was raised to always believe what my mother tells me. -- Diego Maradona
A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside. -- Denis Waitley
Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen. -- Pablo Picasso
A graduation ceremony is an event where the commencement speaker tells thousands of students dressed in identical caps and gowns that 'individuality' is the key to success. -- Robert Orben
I suppose everyone tells little white lies. Quite often they're necessary to make someone feel better or prevent feelings from being hurt. Whoppers? No, that's dangerous and they'll boomerang. -- Richard Chamberlain
Nearly every coach I've talked with tells me that the attention you get from media and other people is the thing you miss most. I don't know if that's right. -- Bear Bryant
I like having my hair and face done, but I'm not going to lose weight because someone tells me to. I make music to be a musician not to be on the cover of Playboy. -- Adele
Within the human being there exists both the needful and the needed. You know that the needful exists in you. Your own dissatisfaction tells you so. But you believe the needed is somewhere outside of you. -- Guy Finley
Popular culture tells you that schools and parents don't know what's going on, the police are dogs, politicians are all liars and scum, and any crime that's not committed by the Mafia is done by the CIA. -- Stanley Crouch
The Lord your God will raise up a Prophet like me from among your own people. Listen carefully to everything He tells you. Anyone who will not listen to that Prophet will be cut off from God's people and utterly destroyed. -- Moses
I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Don't ever, ever, believe anyone who tells you that you can just get by, by doing the easiest thing possible. Because there's always somebody behind you who really wants to do what you're doing. And they're going to work harder than you if you're not working hard. -- Maria Bartiromo
The story of Noah, like other stories in the first 11 chapters of Genesis, are archetypal. Noah's story tells us that human beings have an inherent tendency towards violence both towards their fellow human beings and towards the creation itself. The story tells us that this violence grieves God. -- Adam Hamilton
History is not everything, but it is a starting point. History is a clock that people use to tell their political and cultural time of day. It is a compass they use to find themselves on the map of human geography. It tells them where they are but, more importantly, what they must be. -- John Henrik Clarke
I have a great respect for incremental improvement, and I've done that sort of thing in my life, but I've always been attracted to the more revolutionary changes. I don't know why. Because they're harder. They're much more stressful emotionally. And you usually go through a period where everybody tells you that you've completely failed. -- Steve Jobs
The Bible tells us to love our neighbors as ourselves. Surely part of loving in this way is trying to understand what another person wants us to understand. I may not understand perfectly and I may not agree, but if I love you I should try to know what it is you wish I could know. -- Kevin DeYoung
For a believer, Christian faith is true to the human heart, not in the sense that any old thing we fancy believing in will become conveniently true - but because the complicated truth about our hearts, as we struggle to perceive it, tells us what we are and where we are, and consequently what we need. -- Francis Spufford
I guess if you have an original take on life, or something about you is original, you don't have to study people who came before you. You don't have to mimic anybody. You just have a gut feeling inside, an instinct that tells you what's right for you, and you can't do it in any other way. -- Barbra Streisand
I never stop making sure that what I say is the best of what could be said about a particular thing. It's a constant evolution. If I planted a tree one way yesterday, and somebody tells me of a better way to plant a tree, I think, 'You know, they're right, that's better.' Then I change my way to accommodate the new way of planting trees. -- Martha Stewart
Music tells no truths. -- Philip James Bailey
Nobody tells me f-k all! -- Ozzy Osbourne
Nature tells every secret once. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
GDP tells you nothing about sustainability -- Joseph Stiglitz
Whoever tells the best story wins. -- John Quincy Adams
What man is, only history tells. -- George Mosse
The law never tells you to pray. -- Joseph Prince
Every picture tells a story, don't it? -- Rod Stewart
An angry lover tells himself many lies. -- Publilius Syrus
Art tells gorgeous lies that come true. -- Hakim Bey
The song tells me what to play. -- Joe Walsh
Everyone has secrets and everyone tells lies. -- Bex Taylor-Klaus
Humor tells you where the trouble is. -- Louise Bernikow
What man is, only his history tells. -- Wilhelm Dilthey
Truth is told when it tells itself. -- Jill Alexander Essbaum
Whoever tells the best story shapes the culture. -- Erwin McManus
Life tells you nothing, it shows you everything. -- Richard Bach
Distrust that man who tells you to distrust. -- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
He who tells the truth says almost nothing. -- Antonio Porchia
If someone tells you something cannot be done; -- Shayan Italia
LIAR, n. One who tells an unpleasant truth. -- Ambrose Bierce
No sound is dissonant which tells of life. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Governor LePage tells Obama to go to hell! -- Paul LePage
Everything we own tells too much about us. -- Judith Moore
Don't believe what anyone tells you about yourself. -- Sherry Argov
Everybody tells jokes, but we still need comedians. -- Jimmy Wales
I'm for truth, no matter who tells it.. -- Malcolm X
Home is the place where true politeness tells. -- Julia McNair Wright
Do what your heart tells you is right. -- Snoop Dogg
When employees underperform, a leader tells them so. -- Jack Welch
Yes, I slouch. My mother tells me that. -- George Clooney
A sewer is a cynic. It tells All. -- Victor Hugo
People don't vote. Instinct tells them it's useless. -- Frank Herbert
The eye tells what the tongue would hide. -- Chief Joseph
Truth is what the voice within tells you. -- Mahatma Gandhi
A mask tells us more than a face. -- Oscar Wilde
The average person tells a few white lies. -- Zooey Deschanel
A proof tells us where to concentrate our doubts. -- Morris Kline
Tangible language, which often tells more falsehoods than truths. -- Abraham Lincoln
I don't look at ratings until somebody tells me. -- Padma Lakshmi
Literature tells very little to those who understand it. -- Walter Benjamin
Alcohol tells truth, but its truth is not normal. -- Jack London
Nobody tells you what you can and can't do. -- Dan Brown
Grief is what tells you who you are alone. -- Gail Caldwell
fiction is the great lie that tells the truth -- Dorothy Allison
It is the tale, not he who tells it. -- Stephen King
Blood will tell, but often it tells too much. -- Don Marquis
He tells old wives' tales much to the point. -- Horace
Anywhere my manager tells me to go, I go. -- Dascha Polanco
I do whatever my heart tells me to do. -- Tila Tequila
My gut tells me everything I need to know. -- Olivia
Disease often tells its secrets in a casual parenthesis. -- Wilfred Trotter
Your soul tells you when it's time to move on. -- Oprah Winfrey
What does one tell a husband? One tells him nothing. -- Dewitt Bodeen
Anyone who tells you to deny yourself is from Satan. -- Paula White
A pessimist is a man who tells the truth prematurely. -- Edmond Rostand
Every band always tells you to raise your middle finger... -- Patrick Stump
A woman's perfume tells more about her than her handwriting. -- Christian Dior
A pessimist is a man who tells the truth prematurely. -- Edmond Rostand
The gospel tells that our Judge has become our Savior. -- J. I. Packer
If a picture is good, it tells many different stories. -- Josef Koudelka
I'm a survivor, at least that's what everyone tells me. -- Courtney Love
My satyagrahi spirit tells me that I may not retaliate. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Any man that tells me what to do is sexy! -- Rihanna
A man never tells you anything until you contradict him. -- George Bernard Shaw
Fiction is the lie that tells the truth, after all. -- Neil Gaiman
The whole system of society tells you what to do. -- Barry White
An enemy is anyone who tells the truth about you. -- Elbert Hubbard
Hee that tells his wife newes is but newly married. -- George Herbert
Everyone tells tiny lies, what's important really is the size. -- Stephen Sondheim
No one tells salesmen what they can and can't do. -- Barbara Corcoran
Common sense is what tells us the earth is flat. -- Stuart Chase
Nobody tells us how to be men. We just are. -- Robert Jordan
She tells enough white lies to ice a wedding cake. -- Margot Asquith
They deem him their worst enemy who tells them the truth. -- Plato
First of all, Vince McMahon doesn't argue - he tells you! -- Ric Flair
Islam never tells people to go out and kill other people. -- Abderrahmane Sissako
God is the story nature tells to those who are listening. -- Steve Maraboli
Life is pain...anyone who tells you otherwise is selling something -- Christopher Paolini
When someone tells you the truth about something, they become loveable. -- Brad Brown
Gossip lies nine times and tells a half truth the tenth. -- Lucy Maud Montgomery
The knock at the door tells the character of the visitor! -- T. K. V. Desikachar
Lightning is the shorthand of a storm, and tells of chaos. -- Eric Mackay
To a woman, the first kiss tells all about a relationship. -- Aman Jassal
The Bible tells us to forgive our enemies, not our friends -- Margot Asquith
Believe nothing a man tells you and everything he shows you -- Randy Pausch
My first rule: I don't believe anything the government tells me. -- George Carlin
Nobody tells you Rwanda looks like Tuscany with its tiled roofs. -- Joanna Lumley
The people will believe what the media tells them they believe. -- George Orwell
I like a President who tells jokes instead of appointing them. -- Bob Hope
Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself. -- Simone de Beauvoir
If someone tells you, "You can't" they really mean, "I can't." -- Sean Stephenson
Anyone who tells you money can't buy happiness never had any. -- Samuel L. Jackson

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