Top 100 I Tell You Quotes
#1. He holds the sword!' shouted Merlin. 'And that has not changed. Whoever would be king must first take the sword from Arthur's hand. For I tell you truly, none among you will be king without it!
Stephen R. Lawhead
#2. And you have to believe me when I tell you that no one could ever be as beautiful as you are at this very moment, because I could never want anyone more than I want you right now.
Llarjme
#3. I tell you,Huda,with the with the service-free arnona they impose on us and the many fines and penalties we East Jerusalem Arabs pay them, we've become the casino where they always win...or even better, the cash cow that they continue to milk.
Suad Amiry
#4. How she moves. That's just like Jell-O on springs. She must have some sort of built-in motors. I tell you, it's a whole different sex! Joe: What are you afraid of? Nobody's asking you to have a baby.
Jack Lemmon
#5. I tell you there is one thing that draws above everything else in this world, and that is love.
Dwight L. Moody
#6. I tell you what: when you are getting married to Miranda Lambert, you're going to make time for whatever she wants.
Blake Shelton
#7. We're in an underground vault, and here's my first order: You're going to do everything I tell you to do.
Jettie Necole
#8. How do I tell you what my heart's been telling me?
Deana Carter
#9. I tell you the truth, any object you have in your mind, however good, will be a barrier between you and the inmost Truth.
Meister Eckhart
#10. I always feel that in politics, you have a bridle on. Well, I took the bridle off. And I tell you, it felt pretty good.
Ray Nagin
#11. 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.
Blair Underwood
#12. Do you think I came to bring peace on earth? No, I tell you. I have come to separate people. I didn't come to bring peace. I came to bring a sword. I have come to turn "'Sons against their fathers. Daughters
Roger Quy
#13. - If I tell you, will you let met go?
- You bet, partner. [ ... ]
- You promised!
- Nope. I said "you bet." You did ... and you lost.
Scott Snyder
#14. 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.
Djuna Barnes
#15. I have heard it said that a complicated childhood can lead to a life in the arts. I tell you this story of my father and me to let you know I am qualified to be a comedian.
Steve Martin
#16. There's no end to the inventiveness of critics, I tell you. Because they can't write fiction, they put their impulse into their analysis of work.
Dennis Potter
#17. But I tell you, Henri, that every moment you steal from the present is a moment you have lost for ever. There's only now.
Jeanette Winterson
#18. If you choose to wear this, you'll be marked as mine. Mine to do with as I wish. You will obey me and never question what I tell you to do.
Tara Sue Me
#19. I know a way to stay friends forever, There's really nothing to it, I tell you what to do, And you do it.
Shel Silverstein
#20. I tell you, truth is, at this moment, here
burning outward through our skins.
Eternity streams through my body:
touch it with your hand and see.
Till the walls of the tunnel cave in
and the black river walks on our faces.
Adrienne Rich
#21. I tell you, sir, it's very easy for Pyotr Stepanovich to live in the world, because he imagines a man and then lives with him the way he imagined him.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#22. What'd did I tell you?" muttered Adrian. He has no fuzzy affection for his father. "De-lightful.
Richelle Mead
#23. 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.
Mary Oliver
#24. Did I tell you Jeb threatened to turn Bret into a smashed pumpkin if I don't get home by midnight? Taking a sweet fairy tale like "Cinderella" and twisting it into a death threat. That's seriously warped.
A.G. Howard
#25. 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.
Jandy Nelson
#26. You're gonna laugh when I tell you this, man, but I'm starting to enjoy Eminem.
Alan Vega
#27. But his soul was mad. Being alone in the wilderness, it had looked within itself and, by heavens I tell you, it had gone mad.
Joseph Conrad
#28. I tell you this, my friend; all men are cowards. They dislike a fact except when it is so wrapped up in lies and sentiments that the sharp edge of it cannot hurt them. When a man tells the truth he his, depend upon it, a dangerous man.
Eric Ambler
#29. 18 i For I tell you that from now on I will not drink of the fruit of the vine g until the kingdom of God comes.
Anonymous
#31. I tell you in truth: all men are Prophets or else God does not exist.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#32. I tell you everything that is really nothing, and nothing of what is everything, do not be fooled by what I am saying. Please listen carefully and try to hear what I am not saying.
Charles C. Finn
#33. Did I tell you what veal practice is? Oh! Veal practice involved me lying very still on the sofa trying as hard as I could to mimic the life of a veal. While eating veal. I wish I were kidding. It. Was. Magic.
Shonda Rhimes
#34. I tell you I always tip. It's a matter of principle with me. I'm like Hemingway. I always do it second-nature.
John Fante
#35. What can I tell you? I continue to be creative, but have only been commercially successful outside of the U.S.
Holly Johnson
#36. Jesus said to her, "Didn't I tell you that if you believed you would see the glory of God?" John 11:40
Beth Moore
#37. I told graduates to not be afraid to fail, and I still believe that. But today I tell you that whether you fear it or not, disappointment will come. The beauty is that through disappointment you can gain clarity, and with clarity comes conviction and true originality.
Conan O'Brien
#38. Mrs. Silverstein is a dub, and a softy, and a knocker," he said good-humoredly. "What's she know about such things, anyway? I tell you it is good, and healthy, too," - this last as an afterthought.
Jack London
#39. Do not look so happy. I tell you ahead of time. All my students despise me.
Jandy Nelson
#40. Safe?" said Mr. Beaver
"Who said anything about safe?'
"Course he isn't safe'
"But he's good
'He's the king, I tell you.
C.S. Lewis
#41. I know pretty well what evidence is, and I tell you, such evidence as that for the resurrection has never broken down yet.
John Singleton Copley
#42. What Can I Tell You about Myself which You Have Not Already Found Out from Those Who Do Not Lie?
John Lennon
#43. Is it your thought that I despise some of these, while I love the others? I tell you, I despise nothing. None of it is repulsive to Me. It is life, and life is the gift; the unspeakable treasure; the holy of holies.
Neale Donald Walsch
#44. Believe me when I tell you that waking up by your side, is the best thing that could happen to me.
Auliq Ice
#45. For I have neither wit, nor words, nor worth,
Action, nor utterance, nor the power of speech,
To stir men's blood: I only speak right on;
I tell you that which you yourselves do know;
William Shakespeare
#46. You think those dogs will not be in heaven! I tell you they will be there long before any of us.
Robert Louis Stevenson
#48. I tell you, I'm never going to stop. I'm not interested in rusting away.
Dick Biondi
#49. I tell you, it was kind of two-fold. I fortunately had a lot of support. My coach was amazing - he told me to focus on being prepared and that is what I did. Every athlete is nervous - any athlete who tells you they're not nervous isn't telling you the truth. I was as prepared as I could be.
Carl Lewis
#50. Take a second look, you might find that I am stronger. Take a second look, you might find that you are stronger. Imagination, inspiration. It's only fair that I tell you, I plan on leaving here tonight with my pride. I'm proud to be I'm proud to be me.
Sara Quin
#52. Let us, then, be what we are, and speak what we think, and in all things Keep ourselves loyal to truth, and the sacred professions of friendship. It is no secret I tell you, nor am I ashamed to declare it: I have liked to be with you, to see you, to speak with you always.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#53. By the Angel, this place is barely better than a penny gaff," Gideon said. "Gabriel, don't look at anything unless I tell you it's all right.
Cassandra Clare
#54. We'll all be failures?"
"Yes. I don't mean only money failures, but just sort of - of ineffectual and sad, and - oh, how can I tell you?
F Scott Fitzgerald
#55. Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to.
Oscar Wilde
#56. The spirit of independence! Every man who bore arms in this revolution now considers himself on the same footing as his neighbor. I tell you, Jefferson, the spirit of independence has been converted to the abominable idea of equality.
Stephanie Dray
#57. Anything I tell you is an alibi for something else.
Then let's be quiet together.
Leonard Cohen
#58. So how long do you think it'll be?" he says. "Before the next hurricane comes along to take you home."
"Can I tell you my biggest fear?" I say.
"Yes. Tell me."
"That it will be a very windless four years.
Lauren DeStefano
#59. I tell you, if you're in the front row of the parade and you stop walking, pretty soon you're back in the tuba section. And if you want to lead the parade you've got to keep moving.
Phil McGraw
#60. You think I tell you stories to teach you lessons? the monster said. You think I have coming walking out of time and earth itself to teach you a lesson in niceness?
Patrick Ness
#61. There will always be people who say it does not exist because they cannot have it. But I tell you it is true and that you have it and that you are lucky even if you die tomorrow.
Ernest Hemingway,
#63. I know men, and I tell you, Jesus is more than a man. Comparison is impossible between Him and any other human being who ever lived, because He was the Son of God.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#64. If I tell you something Leah, can you keep a secret?" Conor pressed a callused finger across a petroglyph of a deer like a blind man etching memory into his brain.
Laura Treacy Bentley
#65. I was an addict. That's why, ... I tell you, addiction is a very cunning enemy.
John McCain
#66. Yeah, even if I see a human with a Shinigami, I tell you.-Ryuk
Tsugumi Ohba
#67. Nothing in the world can bother you as much as your own mind, I tell you. In fact, others seem to be bothering you, but it is not other, it is your own mind.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
#68. Next time when I tell you to do something, you do it. And be careful with your dirty mouth, it can get you in deep trouble.
Dora Sky
#69. I tell you what. 85 percent of the sportswriters think I'm stupid or a clown or something. They think I'm crazy.
Joaquin Andujar
#71. I tell you folks, all politics is applesauce.
Will Rogers
#72. We've gotta become the Martians. I'm a Martian - I tell you to become Martians. And we've gotta go to Mars and civilize Mars and build a whole civilization on Mars and then move out, 300 years from now into the universe. And when we do that, we have a chance of living forever.
Ray Bradbury
#73. Idea, " he said, "but before I tell you what it is, I think we have to agree on whether or not we have business to do here. Do we want to try again to do what we tried to do once before? Do we want to try to kill It again? Or do we just divide the check up six ways and go back to what we were doing?
Stephen King
#74. I tell you that the curse of God Almighty is on the saloon.
Billy Sunday
#75. I tell you this because books for young readers are so often written about that very moment: the moment of the fork. The moment the old man cannot return to.
Virginia Euwer Wolff
#76. Give your freedom to someone or to something and then look at yourself what have you got? I tell you, you've got nothing left!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#77. Marriage is not for me. I tell you that I am Blank Verse. I am talent, and I do not rhyme with Love. I am talent and I do not rhyme with man.
Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
#78. It's a lie that the body is a prison! It's the mind, I tell you! - always the cold, strong mind that's jailer.
Josephine W. Johnson
#79. I tell you if there's anything worse than dealing with a staunch woman... S-T-A-U-N-C-H. There's nothing worse, I'm telling you. They don't weaken, no matter what.
Edith Bouvier Beale
#80. You may observe in all my lessons, that I tell you how the legs go, and those who are unacquainted with that, are entirely ignorant and work in the dark.
William Cavendish
#81. I told you to wait," he snapped at Alec.
"Don't you ever do anything I tell you to?"
"Technically you didn't actually say anything,"
Clary said. "You just gestured."
"Gesturing counts," Jace said. "I gesture
very expressively.
Cassandra Clare
#82. I tell you I can't be bothered with things like that. I've got a
soul above buttons.
George Orwell
#83. Ideas are nothing. They're irrelevant. If you think your idea is so important, you're doomed. The reality is if you don't like one idea, I've got 299 more. If I tell you my idea, and you can execute better against that idea than I can - great; I get to play a terrific game.
Warren Spector
#84. I tell you, it scares me what I have done to her. It terrifies me, even. And yet I am not sorry. I am as deeply unsorry as a person could be. There is nothing that one human will not do to another.
Lidia Yuknavitch
#86. Rebecca let out a gusty sigh. "Pregnant, I tell you. I'm definitely getting pregnant." Her mother responded by passing over the tearful little guy. Not a bad idea, Jane decided. Birth control by baby brother
Christie Ridgway
#87. Can I tell you something that I've thought every time I've woken up next to you." - V
"Please"-Jane
"You are the reason I get out of bed ever night. And you're the reason I can't wait to come home every dawn. Not the war. Not the Brothers. Not even Butch. It's ... you." -V
J.R. Ward
#88. I tell you how I feel and how we're going to solve it. That's my unique personality and that's how I carry myself. It is different from most people, but when something comes out of your mouth, people tend to listen more.
Jon Runyan
#89. Perm in your hair or even a curly weave,
Wichya New Edition Bobby Brown button on your sleeve.
I tell you come here, you say, 'Meet me half way,'
Cause brothers been popping that game all day.
LL Cool J
#90. I tell you, dear Citizen Camille - it's not the deaths I can't stand. It's the judgements, the judgements in the courtroom.
Hilary Mantel
#91. Please assume that I am talking continuously in all the scenes that follow until I tell you that I'm not.
Karen Joy Fowler
#92. Why so much grief for me? No man will hurl me down to Death, against my fate. And fate? No one alive has ever escaped it, neither brave man nor coward, I tell you - it's born with us the day that we are born.
Homer
#93. Shall I tell you why young men love war? ... In peace, there are a hundred questions with a thousand answers! In war, there is only one question with one right answer ... Going to war makes you a man. It is emotionally exciting and morally restful.
Mary Doria Russell
#94. Can I tell you how strange it is to look in your rearview mirror and see guys in cars tailing you?
David Schwimmer
#95. A glorious place, a glorious age, I tell you! A very Neon renaissance - And the myths that actually touched you at that time - not Hercules, Orpheus, Ulysses and Aeneas - but Superman, Captain Marvel, and Batman.
Tom Wolfe
#96. When I tell you you'll fart and pee in your pants with terror.
Luo Guanzhong
#97. I get no respect ... I tell you, when I was born, the doctor smacked my mother
Rodney Dangerfield
#98. I tell you," he [Milosevic] continued, "Izetbegovic has earned Sarajevo by not abandoning it. He's one tough guy. It's his". These words were probably the most astonishing and unexpected of the conference.
Richard Holbrooke
#99. Are you okay now?" she asked. Hell, she wasn't sure if she was okay. She felt as if she could crawl right out of her skin and all they'd done was kiss.
"If I tell you no will keep kissing me?
Savannah Stuart
#100. I know they say that a stiff dick has no conscience, but I tell you now that some cunts have teeth ...
Stephen King
