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Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig. I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen. (Epictetus)
I can't tell you if the use of force in Iraq today will last five days, five weeks or five months, but it won't last any longer than that. View quote
Donald Rumsfeld
If you have a story that seems worth telling, and you think you can tell it worthily, then the thing for you to do is to tell it, regardless of whether it has to do with sex, sailors or mounted policemen. View quote
Dashiell Hammett
Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: "I'm with you kid. Let's go." View quote
Maya Angelou
I do not trust people who don't love themselves and yet tell me, 'I love you.' There is an African saying which is Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt. View quote
Maya Angelou
Intuition will tell the thinking mind where to look next. View quote
Jonas Salk
Above all, I would teach him to tell the truth. Truth-telling, I have found, is the key to responsible citizenship. The thousands of criminals I have seen in 40 years of law enforcement have had one thing in common: Every single one was a liar. View quote
J. Edgar Hoover
There are two great rules of life: never tell everything at once. View quote
Ken Venturi
Just let me go, we have to be able to criticize what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if you're not trying to make something better, then as far as I can tell, you are just in the way. View quote
Ani DiFranco
I can't even really tell a joke. I find being funny very hard work. I am always asked about it and I feel guilty saying that, but it's the truth. I love my work but it ain't easy. (Madeline Kahn)
I have always found women difficult. I don't really understand them. To begin with, few women tell the truth. View quote
Barbara Cartland
I just knew there were stories I wanted to tell. View quote
Octavia Butler
My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people. View quote
Orson Welles
Is it really so difficult to tell a good action from a bad one? I think one usually knows right away or a moment afterward, in a horrid flash of regret. View quote
Mary McCarthy
I am bound to tell what I am told, but not in every case to believe it. View quote
Herodotus
Always tell the truth. It's the easiest thing to remember. View quote
David Mamet
People say I'm extravagant because I want to be surrounded by beauty. But tell me, who wants to be surrounded by garbage? View quote
Imelda Marcos
Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to. View quote
Oscar Wilde
It's a real blessing for me to tell you, sir, that calvary has arrived - Fox is here! View quote
Glenn Beck
You can tell the size of a man by the size of the thing that makes him mad. (Adlai Stevenson II)
Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well. View quote
Samuel Butler (novelist)
You think that a wall as solid as the earth separates civilization from barbarism. I tell you the division is a thread, a sheet of glass. A touch here, a push there, and you bring back the reign of Saturn. View quote
John Buchan
When you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it. View quote
Theodore Roosevelt
In Iran we don't have homosexuals like in your country. [...] In Iran we do not have this phenomenon. I don't know who's told you that we have this. View quote
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad