Quotes of: Telling Keyword

Well why don't you lean over this counter a little more and give me your best kiss, and then I'll tell you if I want you to take me out to dinner.

The Doorman

Tell her that you love her hair, that you love her skin, her lips, because, in truth, you love them more than you love your own.

Drown

Is it possible to tell the truth in a society of lies? Or must you always, of necessity, become a liar? And if you lie to a liar, is the sun somehow negated or reversed?

Delirium Stories: Hana, Annabel, and Raven

Life is a story. Why do we die? Because we live. Why do we live? Because our Maker opened His mouth and began to tell a story.

Death by Living: Life Is Meant to Be Spent

How I adore you, Marya. How well I chose. Scold me; deny me. Tell me you want what you want and damn me forever. But don’t leave me.

Deathless

Every man engaged in war tells himself he can alter what has been written, that it is he, not God, who is the maker of destiny, free to change what is meant to be.

The Dovekeepers

After a while, when she has forgotten him a little, when she realizes that her life and her are more to her than any man, she will tell me about it.

Diana Victrix

I tell you, you will not see the new beauty and the truth, until you make up your minds to spit.

Essays On Art, 1915 1933

Tell your good news as an evangelist would. Do so with a passion driven by a need to help and solve problems that some people didn’t even know they had.

The Extremely Successful Salesman's Club

If I'm not telling you something, it's for a reason. Just because you trust me, it doesn't mean I have to automatically trust you. Trust doesn't work like that.

Every Day

Miles smiled. "Can you keep a secret?" Bea snorted. "Did I tell you what you were in for if you married my daughter?" "No," Miles conceded. "Well, then," she said, as if that settled the matter.

Empire Falls

The world always seems like it's going to hell when you're depressed. And, of course, it always is going to hell in some way. That's what makes it so hard to tell the difference between Armageddon and the blues.

Empire of Lies

Please go to this pizzeria. Order the margherita pizza with double mozzarella. If you do not eat this pizza when you are in Naples, please lie to me and tell me that you did.

Eat, Pray, Love

there is no game in her smile. There is warmth and kindness and something that looks like steel. You can tell me anything, her eyes say, because I will see the beauty in everything you say.

The Enchanted

Eleanor should never have told them about Park's house, but she'd been dying to tell somebody. (This was how people ended up in jail after committing the perfect crime.)

Eleanor & Park

Try to turn as many soft, aspirational goals as possible into success criteria, and make them specific enough that you can actually tell whether or not you've met them.

The Elements of Content Strategy

Where is it?" I asked, willing him to tell me. He laughed suddenly, and I could hear the full-throated, grating sound of the white bear's laughter in it. "East of the sun and west of the moon," he said.

East

Tell me what good touch is and what is bad for I am young and I have no dad. -Jenifer

Equating the Equations of Insanity: A Journey from Grief to Victory

I always thought eating was a ridiculous activity anyway. I'd get out of it myself if I could, though you've got to do it to stay alive, they tell me.

The Edible Woman

Resistance, in the form of opposition or lack of support from others is often a sign telling you to move forward and on to bigger and better things.

Embrace Your Sexual Self: A Practical Guide for Women

I tell my students not to be frightened; in the history of Buddhism-for 2,500 years-no one has broken or fractured a leg because of sitting in meditation.

Essential Chan Buddhism: The Character and Spirit of Chinese Zen