Tell - Quotes
Will you please tell Santa that instead of presents this year, I just want my family back?
Let`s tell the truth to people. When people ask, `How are you?` have the nerve sometimes to answer truthfully. You must know, however, that people will start avaoiding you because, they, too, have knees that pain them and heads that hurt and they don`t want to know about yours. But think of it this way: If people avoid you, you will have more time to meditate and do fine research on a cure for whatever truly afflicts you.
If you can`t tell the truth to the people you care about the most, eventually you stop being able to tell the truth to yourself.
In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
If you don`t know anything about computers, just remember that they are machines that do exactly what you tell them but often surprise you in the result.
Tell a devout Christian that his wife is cheating on him, or that frozen yogurt can make a man invisible, and he is likely to require as much evidence as anyone else, and to be persuaded only to the extent that you give it. Tell him that the book he keeps by his bed was written by an invisible deity who will punish him with fire for eternity if he fails to accept its every incredible claim about the universe, and he seems to require no evidence what so ever.
Is it more probable that nature should go out of her course or that a man should tell a lie? We have never seen, in our time, nature go out of her course. But we have good reason to believe that millions of lies have been told in the same time. It is therefore at least millions to one that the reporter of a miracle tells a lie.
Stories are as unique as the people who tell them, and the best stories are those in which the ending is a surprise.
I would rather not like you for telling me not to do things, than not have you around to tell me not to do things.
We don`t need anyone to tell us what to do. We are free to follow our own path. There is no book, or teacher to give you the answers, show you the pass. Choose your own way!
The world isn`t run by the laws written on paper. It`s run by people. Some according to laws, others not. It depends on each individual how his world will be, how he makes it. And you also need a whole lot of luck, so that somebody else doesn`t make your life hell. And it ain`t as simple as they tell you in grade school. But it is good to have strong values and to maintain them. In marriage, in crime, in war, always and everywhere.
What is a man but the sum of his memories? We are the stories we live! The tales we tell ourselves!