I Quotes
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“I tell you in truth: all men are Prophets or else God does not exist.”
“I tell you it's no joke to paint a portrait. I wonder that I am not more timid when I begin. I feel almost certain that I can do it. It seems very simple. I don't think of the time that is sure to come when I almost despair, when the whole thing seems hopeless.”
“I tell you, kid,” Deet said, “one day you’ll grow up and then you won’t be worth anything.”
Source: The Hunted
“I tell you, life is extraordinary. A few years ago I couldn’t write anything or sell anything, I’d passed the age where you know all the returns are in, I’d had my chance and done my best and failed. And how was I to know the miracle waiting to happen round the corner in late middle age? 84, Charing Cross Road was no best seller, you understand; it didn’t make me rich or famous. It just got me hundreds of letters and phone calls from people I never knew existed; it got me wonderful reviews; it restored a self-confidence and self-esteem I’d lost somewhere along the way, God knows how many years ago. It brought me to England. It changed my life.”
Source: The Duchess of Bloomsbury Street
“I tell you loneliness is the thing to master. Courage and fear, love, death are only parts of it and can easily be ruled afterwards. If I make myself master my own loneliness there will be peace or safety: and perhaps these are the same.”
“I tell you, Madame, if one gave birth to a heart on a plate, it would say 'Love' and twitch like the lopped leg of a frog.”
Source: Nightwood
“I tell you, mate, I've learned a whole new bunch of swear words today.”
Source: Still Me
“I tell you, money can't build your spire for you. Build it of gold and it would simply sink deeper.”
Source: The Spire
“I tell you naught for your comfort, Yea, naught for your desire, Save that the sky grows darker yet And the sea rises higher.”
“I tell you not to be timid. I tell you to make the choices, make the mistakes, big, terrible, reckless mistakes, really screw it all up. I tell you it is the only way.”
Source: I'll Give You the Sun
“I tell you of all history the most beautiful product is the family tie.”
Source: Miss Lulu Bett: A Play in Three Acts
“I tell you old and young are better than tired middle-aged, nothing is so dead dead-tired, dead every way as middle-aged.”
Source: Brewsie and Willie
“I tell you, old friend, I'd rather be stuck here in a Strander burrow than blowing smoke rings in Glipwood, where the Fangs spit and howl and kill our spirits. At least we're here because we choose to be. We're here out of bravery and not cowardice.”
Source: North! or Be Eaten
“I tell you once and for all—
in front of the angel pictures
on the wall, that I am not a host
to load-bearing ghosts or heady
entities, and if I was ever holy, I have fallen far
into the dense atmosphere of the living.”
Source: Drum Machine
“I tell you: one must still have chaos in one, to give birth to a dancing star. I tell you: you have still chaos in you.”
Source: Thus Spoke Zarathustra
“I tell you: one must still have chaos in oneself to give birth to a dancing star. I tell you: you still have chaos in yourselves.”
Source: Thus Spoke Zarathustra
“I tell you one of the great things about this movie is, with all that's going on around the world right now, it's just good to go to a movie where you don't have to think too hard, just have a good time, and relax and be crazy.”
“I tell you one thing - if you want peace of mind, don not fault with others.”
“I tell you one thing that's great about children. They don't need a show to have fun. What do they need? A book of matches, some oily rags, a little brother... that's all they need.”
“I tell you one thing. If you want peace of mind, do not find fault with others. Rather learn to see your own faults. Learn to make the whole world your own. No one is a stranger, my child; this whole world is your own.”
“I tell you, Professor, growing up is a full contact sport. Somewhere in our brains, foolishness and naïveté join forces with a false sense of invincibility. Together, they score own-goals against their host’s interests. All this happens while that referee known as ‘reason’ is collapsed in a drunken stupor, unable to stop the madness. When he finally wakes up, all he can do is grant the useless penalty known as ‘hindsight’. But the outcome remains unchanged. The game is lost …”
Source: Sprout of Disruption
“I tell you, say the rich,
the poor are naught
but dirty wind
welling in air-shafts
over the cinders
and droppings of
the past, their
voices thick
with grease
and ordure,
sewer-greed
to corrode the ear
with the horrors
of the past
and the voids
of new stupidity.
One could drown
waiting for the poor
to make
one fine distinction.
Yes, destroy us
say the rich
and you lose
the roots
of God.”
Source: Deaths For The Ladies
“I tell you Schoonmaker she doesn't know what she has. That's the heart of it. She's like some wild creature who hasn't a clue the worth of its coat.”
Source: Envy
“I tell you solemnly, that I have many times tried to become an insect. But I was not equal even to that. I swear, gentleman, that to be too conscious is an illness--a real thorough-going illness. For an's everyday needs, it would have been quite enough to have the ordinary human consciousness, that is, half or a quarter of the amount which falls to the lot of a cultivated man of our unhappy nineteenth century, especially one who has the fatal ill-luck to inhabit Petersburg”
Source: Notes from Underground
“I tell you solemnly, that I have many times tried to become an insect. But I was not equal even to that. I swear, gentlemen, that to be too conscious is an illness — a real thorough-going illness.”
“I tell you such fine music waits in the shadows of hell.”
“I tell you that as long as I can conceive something better than myself I cannot be easy unless I am striving to bring it into existence or clearing the way for it.”
Source: The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more
“I tell you that I'm not dictatorial, I'm not intolerant, I'm not overpowering! You're all wrong, wrong, wrong, I tell you! I'm the most relaxed and understanding of people! None of you, I insist, must ever say I'm dictatorial again!”
“I tell you: that man has balls, bigger balls than he knows.”
Source: Honour killing in Argyll and Bute
“I tell you that Michael Jackson is unbelievable, isn't he? He's just unbelievable!”
“I tell you that studying humanities in high school is more important than mathematics - mathematics is too sharp an instrument, no good for kids.”
“I tell you that the curse of God Almighty is on the saloon.”
Source: Billy Sunday, the Man and His Message: With His Own Words which Have Won Thousands for Christ
“I tell you that there are eighty-plus-year-old nudists cavorting on your property, Ashley O'Ballivan, and all you can do is laugh?”
Source: Linda Lael Miller Montana Creeds Series Volume 2: A Creed in Stone Creek\Creed's Honor\The Creed Legacy
“I tell you that victory consists in conquering self. That is the greatest enemy.”
“I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes, so live not in your yesterdays, no just for tomorrow, but in the here and now. Keep moving and forget the post mortems; and remember, no one can get the jump on the future.”
“I tell you the sign of a believer; When Death comes, there is a smile on his lips”
“I tell you the story that even now that I am an unexpected sort of success
I am always and forever this close to walking away to the woods
with everything I own in a ripped-up plastic bag
and I know I could thrive there:
I still don't know how to adult or tame,
and I hold that tight
side by side with the warm kitchen, the steady love.”
“I tell you the truth, a man may not make himself king; only the blessing of him who holds the kingship can elevate a man to that high place. For sovereignty is a sacred trust that may not be bartered or sold; still less may it be stolen or taken by force.”
“I tell you the truth, any object you have in your mind, however good, will be a barrier between you and the inmost Truth.”
Source: Celebrated 14th Century Mystic and Scholastic Meister Eckhart
“I tell you the truth: if I lived in a country where there was no day appointed for elections, I would become a revolutionary, if not a terrorist. And that is because I love liberty too much; without liberty a man is not a man. He has no dignity.”
“I tell you there is one thing that draws above everything else in this world, and that is love.”
“I tell you there is such a thing as creative hate.”
“I tell you there isn't a thing under the sun that needs to be done at all, but what a man can do better than a woman, unless it's bearing children, and they do that in a poor make-shift way; it had better ha been left to the men.”
Source: Four Novels of George Eliot
“I tell you these stories because these things happen to everyone. It's not about being starched or polished or cute or polite. It's about having ears that stick out, about breaking yet another glass. It's about seeing something for the first time and making a million mistakes and not ever getting completely discouraged.”
“I tell you this as a cautionary tale: beware of getting what you want. It's bound to disappoint you.”
Source: Sing You Home: A Novel
“I tell you this much, there’s no one over there in enough pieces to point a weapon at you.”
Source: Salvage Trouble
“I tell you this to break your heart, by which I mean only that it break open and never close again to the rest of the world.”
Source: New and Selected Poems, Volume Two
“I tell you this true story just to prove that I can. That my frailty has not yet reached a point at which I can no longer tell a true story.”
Source: Blue Nights
“I tell you this, and I tell you plain: What you have done, you will do again; You will bite your tongue, careful or not, Upon the already-bitten spot.”
Source: Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin
“I tell you this: The purpose of life is not to please God. The purpose of life is to know, and to recreate, Who You Are.”
Source: The Complete Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue