Told Quotes
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Lord Illingworth told me this morning that there was an orchid there as beautiful as the seven deadly sins.
Oscar Wilde -
The best revenge is living well, my dad told me once.
Barry Lyga
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One night she told me to put out the garbage. I told her "you cooked it, you take it out".
Jack Roy -
A hooker once told me she had a headache.
Jack Roy -
To those supporters who were told that I abandoned them, that is untrue. I abandoned greed, corruption, and compromise, never you, and never the artistic gifts and abilities that sustained me.
Lauryn Hill Fugees -
I was told I wasn't black enough for certain jobs because of the way I speak and carry myself and because I was raised in Europe. It's why I left L.A.
Reg E. Cathey -
People who told you to "think fast" were always those who thought much more slowly than you did.
Charlie Jane Anders -
What a kid I got, I told him about the birds and the bee and he told me about the butcher and my wife.
Jack Roy
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Genghis had once told him he should never give an order they would not obey. He should never let them see the limits of his authority.
Conn Iggulden -
Babies, we are told, are the latest news from heaven.
Martin Luther King, Jr. -
Many a truth is told in jest.
Jonathan Swift -
I don't like to be told what to do at all. That's unfortunate because a lot of people come up with good ideas and can direct you.
Grace Slick Starship -
The story of the Amazon is a story that has been told by Europeans, you know, by Germans, by Canadians, by Americans.
Ciro Guerra -
The night I met him Mijail told me that, for some reason, life usually grants us what we are not looking for.
Carlo D'Este
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The value of a thought cannot be told.
Philip James Bailey -
What they do in heaven we are ignorant of; what they do not do we are told expressly.
Jonathan Swift -
A woman is more influenced by what she divines than by what she is told.
Ninon de L'Enclos -
I wouldn't bet on a horse unless he came up to my house and told me to himself.
James Hubert Blake -
We are to be brought through the fire, not left in it. and you know what? to anyone that ever told you that you're no good... they're no better.
Hayley Williams Paramore -
[My mother told me:] "You must decide whether you want to get married someday, or have a career."... I set my sights on the career. I thought, what does any man really have to offer me?
Annie Elizabeth Delany
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The Tao is told is not the Tao.
Lao Tzu -
I always told my team, "You have to believe that you are not in front of a computer, but that your canvas is a piece of paper. You have to believe this even if you have a computer in front of you."
Alex Abreu -
Over in the refrigerated section hang lies told so long ago and so often that they turned into the truth and get taught in history books.
Catherynne M. Valente -
I told him he'd have a heart attack a year ago, but unfortunately he lived a year longer.
Eugene Ormandy