Quotes of: Tell Keyword

I'm actually a very honest person, and sometimes I end up like, 'Man, I said too much.' It's hard for me not to tell the truth when you ask me.

Drake

I tell my micro students everything I teach them is important, but the truth is that some things are more useful than others, and opportunity cost is near the top.

Emily Oster

People learn to shop for churches; there is no loyalty to the church. They're consumers being attracted to one product or another. I think it's sacrilege, to tell you the truth, it really is.

Eugene H. Peterson

As Commander in Chief of the United States Military, I will never send our sons and daughters and our brothers and sisters to die in a foreign land without telling the truth about why they're going there.

Howard Dean

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.

H. L. Mencken

Justice is rather the activity of truth, than a virtue in itself. Truth tells us what is due to others, and justice renders that due. Injustice is acting a lie.

Horace Walpole

It was illegal for black people and white people to play checkers together in Birmingham. And there were even black and white Bibles to swear to tell the truth on in many parts of the South.

Isabel Wilkerson

For two years living in a neutral country I have been able to see through the haze of propaganda to reach something which my conscience tells me is the truth.

John Amery

Well, to be honest I think I tell less truth when I write journalism than when I write fiction.

Julian Barnes

You sang in church, you know, and you didn't act at all. You tried not to act, you tried to tell the truth. The idea of being a troubadour on the road singing for your supper was very disturbing to him.

James Earl Jones

In the process of telling the truth about what you feel or what you see, each of us has to get in touch with himself or herself in a really deep, serious way.

June Jordan

Frank Abagnale Jr.: Ah, people only know what you tell them, Carl.

Catch Me If You Can

Lt. Escobar: How'd you get past the guard? Jake Gittes: Well, to tell you the truth, I lied a little.

Chinatown

Inspector Grandpierre: This nose tells me when you are lying. It is never mistaken, not in 23 years. This nose will make me commissioner of police.

Charade

Nicky Santoro: Tell that fuckin' Pepe if he's switching stones on us, he'd better take a fucking camel back to Nigeria.

Casino

[Sal is pointing the gun at Sheldon] Sal: Tell the TV to stop saying there's 2 homosexuals in here. Sheldon: I will, Sal.

Dog Day Afternoon

Lefty: And listen to me, if Donnie calls... , tell him... if it was gonna be anyone, I'm glad it was him. All right?

Donnie Brasco

Michael: A deer has to be taken with one shot. I try to tell people that but they don't listen.

The Deer Hunter

John Keating: No matter what anybody tells you, words and ideas can change the world.

Dead Poets Society

Dana Tressler: The only bee you're attracting is B-R-Y-C-E. I'm telling you, that boy is lost in Loveland.

Flipped

Seth Brundle: [after teleporting for the first time] Now, you tell me. Am I different somehow? Is it live or is it Memorex?

The Fly