Top 100 Tally Quotes
#2. The truly effective managers we've observed are purposeful, trust in their own judgement, and adopt long-term, big-picture views to fulfill personal goals that tally with those of the organization as a whole. They break out of their perceived boxes, take control of their jobs, ...
Sumantra Ghoshal
#3. She knew why the Colonel had hated talking about the old days. Because the moment you looked back, and began to make your tally, you were done for.
Philipp Meyer
#4. They view repentance as the thing they have to do in order to earn forgiveness, therefore the more difficult they make it, the more credit they tally up.
Geoffrey Wood
#6. Tally, do you ever suffer from sudden flashes of anger or euphoria, countersocial impulses, or feelings of superiority?
Scott Westerfeld
#7. Now,young lady,I suppose you're here for a work assignment."
Work?" Tally said.
They both looked down at her puzzled expression, and Shay burst into laughter.
Scott Westerfeld
#8. See, whoever said I was an autocrat was clearly mistaken. I represented the height of representative democracy where everyone gets a vote. Mine just counted for more than all the other ones combined, when you read the final tally; that's all.
Luke Sky Wachter
#9. Without lesions making everyone agreeable, society was left roiling in a constant battle of words, images, and ideas. All around her Tally felt the city seething, all those unfettered minds bouncing their opinions off each other, like something ready to explode.
Scott Westerfeld
#10. C'mon, Tally. Don't you want your clothes, your keys? Oh wait, how about some dignity? (Kyrian)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#11. Maybe maturity is merely accepting the tally of all the disappearing options of life.
Miguel Syjuco
#12. The chronological list of rulers differs on different lists, some lists do not include known kings, and some include kings who probably were mythological - as if a tally of English rulers matter-of-factly included King Arthur and his father, Uther Pendragon. The
Charles C. Mann
#13. Astronomers still can't decide what the shape of our universe is. Is it closed and finite, which is to say, is there a countable tally of all the galaxies that exist, even beyond the ones we can see? Or is it infinite? The latter possibility is still on the table.
Seth Shostak
#14. In each of us lies a creditor and a debtor at once and the art is for the reckoning to tally inside us. We enter the world as a minute part of the life we are given, and from then on we are ever paying off debts. To ourselves. For ourselves. In order for the final reckoning to tally.' 'Is
Andrzej Sapkowski
#15. Did you see what happened?"
"Hard to miss," he said dryly. "Your boat went kaplooie."
Tally blinked at his easy dismissal of two lives and a million-dollar boat. "Is that the technical term for it?
Cherry Adair
#16. Cricketers like Jadeja come once in a lifetime, and I am sorry he didn't play in my time. Could have added a few more cheap wickets to my tally.
Muttiah Muralitharan
#17. Aborting my baby is the most serious of the many maternal crimes I tally in my head when I am at my lowest, when the Bad Mother label seems to fit best. Rocketship was my baby. And I killed him.
Ayelet Waldman
#18. Love gives without expectation, while hate carries an endless tally of debts.
Bryant McGill
#19. You're insane!" she shouted.
"Pretty cool, huh?"
"No!"Tally yelled. "Why didn't you tell me it was broken?"
Shay shrugged. "More fun that way?"
"More fun?" Her heart beating fast,her vision strangely clear. She was full of anger and relief and ... joy.
"Well, kind of. But you suck!
Scott Westerfeld
#20. We can, however, assess regularities by running precise and thorough experiments on how people react under certain conditions, and keep a tally of what we see.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#21. By that time, Damen had received the tally of the dead: twelve hundred of us, six and a half thousand of them. He
C.S. Pacat
#22. Dory mentally added another grand to the tally sheet for this job as a heat tax. And then another for the mosquitoes. And what the hell, a third for the freaking smell,
Karen Chance
#23. Maybe she still was a pretty-head, making up irrational stories about the empty forest. The longer she stayed alone out here, the more Tally understood why the Rusties and their predecessors had believed in invisible beings, praying to placate spirits as they trashed the natural world around them.
Scott Westerfeld
#24. I've got lots and lots and lots to tell you." He sounded excited. "I have friends. Ben's a wolf and Tally brought Noor to play, too. I'm going to marry Noor one day. And Ben's gonna mate with Marlee even if she is bigger than he is.
Nalini Singh
#25. Target your random acts of kindness, to keep a tally of who owes what
Josh Stern
#26. He should've let her drown.
Tally Cruise had the most God-awful voice Michael had ever heard, and he'd heard some doozies in Asian karaoke bars. Fortunately the violence of the storm, and the thunder of the waves, drowned out most of it.
Cherry Adair
#27. Followers, followers. Sometimes, with some things, it's best to keep your tally down.
Donna Lynn Hope
#28. The use of psychoactive drugs - including both antidepressants and antipsychotics - has exploded ... [yet] 'the tally of those who are disabled ... increased nearly two and a half times.
Marcia Angell
#29. If someone was to tally the number of human hours wasted in business by people trying to accomplish objectives without being given the authority to do so, we would all be appalled.
Laurie Beth Jones
#30. Everybody that breaks up has a little tally of their victories which they count after the relationship to see how they did; cheating gives you a million tallies and more or less makes the entire relationship a lie.
A.D. Aliwat
#31. We're not freaks, Tally. We're normal. We may not be gorgeous, but at least we're not hyped-up Barbie dolls.
Scott Westerfeld
#32. You're infamous, Tally. Everyone's terrified of you. The new system may have made the other cities nervous, but they seem to think my little gang of psychotic sixteen-year-olds is worse - Cable to Tally
Scott Westerfeld
#33. True friendship is counted in memories, experiences, and troubles shared; it's a bond built up over time in person, not a virtual tally on the Internet. It finds you; you don't find it.
Connor Franta
#34. (His heart clenched as she made a kissing noise to him then handed the phone back to Vane. Gods, how he loved that woman.)
Ahh, Tally, me lub you too. (Vane)
Shut up, crotch-sniffer. You're not allowed to make lovey noises at me, only my honey is. (Talon)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#35. She's got this dreamy look going - her everything's-right-with-the-world-why-isn't-it-right-with-you-Tally? face. It's such a carryover from high school that I almost laugh.
Katherine Owen
#37. Silence of the Lambs screenwriter Ted Tally put the art of writing dialogue succinctly: 'What's important is not the emotion they're playing but the emotion they're trying to conceal.
John Yorke
#38. Don't call her Tally in front of Clay", Dorian said, thinking of the small human female who loved Clay so desperately. "He's a little territorial."
Lucas's eyes flicked to Ashaya. "So are you."
Dorian wanted to bare his teeth, warn Lucas off against interfering. "Yeah, I am.
Nalini Singh
#39. People want to avoid the past. I suppose that's natural. When we tally up all we've said and done over the years, despite the wonderful memories, the regrets may be fewer but stand out more prominently, glowing coals that we can never quite extinguish, try though we might
Jeffery Deaver
#40. He studied me for a long moment. He had always watched me this way, as if I were an equation that didn't quite tally.
Leigh Bardugo
#41. Over the years, the cities began to crumble. But Sam and Dean didn't.
Final tally: 6.6 billion, minus two.
Gekizetsu
#42. I started out in pre-law. I was going to go to law school. And I saw a production of 'Tally's Folly' that spring term. I took a theater class that term and auditioned for 'Harvey' at the end of the summer, and I was in a play every semester after that.
Kevin Rahm
#43. He turned to face her again, his late-pretty composure crumbling. "But you're ... "
"Pretty? Think again." She smiled. "I'm Tally Youngbood. My mind is very ugly. And I'm taking your car.
Scott Westerfeld
#44. When Tally glanced out at the glowing horizon, her eyes opened wide. She'd never seen dawn from outside the city before. Like most uglies, she was rarely up early enough, and in any case the horizon was always hidden behind the skyline of New Pretty Town. The sight of a real sunrise amazed her. A
Scott Westerfeld
#45. She said yes three times, you treacle-brained idiot. Now can we get the hell out of this unsavory corner of London before we're all murdered? I have ledgers to tally.
Nicola Davidson
#46. Nora Lindell was gone. And, with Trey Stephens in jail, he was gone, too, in a way. By this time, we'd already lost Minka Dinnerman, as well (a car crash and cancer, respectively). It seemed, some days, that life was nothing more than a tally of the people who'd left us behind.
Hannah Pittard
#47. Even as he who glories while he gains will, when the time has come to tally loss, lament with every thought and turn despondent,
Dante Alighieri
#48. It was an age when I'd immediately scan and rank other girls, keeping up a constant tally of how I fell short.
Emma Cline
#49. We always plan too much and always think too little. We resent a call to thinking and hate unfamiliar argument that does not tally with what we already believe or would like to believe.
Joseph A. Schumpeter
#50. Sometimes Tally felt she could almost accept brain damage if it meant a life without reconstituted noodles.
Scott Westerfeld
#51. Tally smiled. At least she was causing trouble to the end. "I'm Tally Youngblood," she said. "make me pretty.
Scott Westerfeld
#52. I'll shoot," she murmured against his rock-solid pecs, burrowing the muzzle of her Glock into his abdomen.
"Go ahead, sweetheart. Add it to the tally for the night. It'll sting like a bitch, but I guarantee it won't kill me.
Zoe Forward
#53. Tally wondered if you could talk somebody out of their brain damage.
Scott Westerfeld
#54. She thought of the orchids spreading across the plains below, choking the life out of other plants, out of the soil itself, selfish and unstoppable. Tally Youngblood was a weed. And, unlike the orchids, she wasn't even a pretty one.
Scott Westerfeld
#55. The fact that I am still alive, when so many friends and others climbing the 8000ers have died is humbling ... It is only death that has stopped many mountaineers from achieving the full tally of 14.
Alan Hinkes
#56. An experimental science is supposed to perform experiments that find generalities. It's not just supposed to tally up a long list of individual cases and their unique life histories. That's butterfly collecting.
Richard Lewontin
#57. In the same vein, tally up the sum total of your earned income so far, subtract your savings, and compare the difference to your pile of stuff. Was it really a good deal?
Jacob Lund Fisker
#58. Tally turned away. Five minutes was suddenly too long to stand here, eyes burning, unable to cry.
Scott Westerfeld
#59. I don't want to hurt you but I will if I have too - Tally Youngblood
Scott Westerfeld
#61. All but a very few of us are in debt. We exist as entities who borrow money and spend the rest of our lives making interest payments on a debt tally that never seems to budge. Whatever wealth we have, in labor, property or cash, is suctioned to the top.
Roger Ebert
#62. I love you all. But it's time to say good-bye, for now.
be careful with the world, or the next time we meet, it might get ugly.
-Tally Youngblood
Scott Westerfeld
#63. The transformation of disease, as exemplified by the case of diabetes, is a valuable and elegant concept that serves to remind us that the tally sheet for medical science must carry a column for debit as well as credit.
Deborah Butterfield
#64. Religion and mythology, the only difference is a tally of conquests of one over the other...
Jason R Jones
#65. Tally snorted. "I don't think it's exactly boring, Shay." "Doing what you're supposed to do is always boring. I can't imagine anything worse than being required to have fun." "I can," Tally said quietly. "Never having any.
Scott Westerfeld
#66. Okay, let's do a tally. You think I'm infuriating, wimpy, and...adorable."
"I never said adorable."
He shifted closer, craving the heat of her body. "I know, but you're thinking it.
Cathryn Fox
#67. It is hard that a man's exterior should tally so little sometimes with his soul.
W. Somerset Maugham
#68. It's not the traveling that takes courage Tally. I've done much longer trips on my own. It's leaving home.
Scott Westerfeld
#69. You and David could both be right. Maybe human beings are programmed ... to help one another, even to fall in love. But just because it's human nature doesn't make it bad, Tally. Besides, we had a whole city of pretties to choose from, and we chose each other.-Zane
Scott Westerfeld
#70. People were not what they said. They were not what they thought. They were not what they promised. People were what they did. When the final tally was done, nothing else mattered.
James Lee Burke
#71. However stupid the choice seemed, Shay had made it with her eyes open, and had respected Tally's choice to stay.
Scott Westerfeld
#72. We know the point of the 2010 Census is to count us, one by one, to tally every last resident, but the massive project of course has more prying, if limited, interests.
Chang-rae Lee
#73. Maybe he really could see past her ugly face. Maybe what was inside her did matter to him more than anything else. Tally
Scott Westerfeld
#74. But we lost so much in the Prettytime - all the foundations were gone. So we're stuck making it up as we go along!"
Tally laughed. "So what else is new, Frizz? Life doesn't come with an instruction manual. So don't tell me that humanity being logic-missing is my fault.
Scott Westerfeld
#75. Why are you still wearing ... ?" Aya began. "Oh, that's not smart plastic? You're really an ugly?"
David rolled his eyes and Shay said quietly, "David's never had any surge at all. But I wouldn't use the word ugly ... Tally might eat you.
Scott Westerfeld
#76. I was hurting, too. How could she have done such a terrible thing? She was my friend. She treated me like a confidant, and she protected me like a big sister. I loved Tally, and now she had run off with a vicious killer.
John Grisham
#77. Data from orbiting telescopes like NASA's Kepler Mission hint that the tally of habitable planets in our galaxy is many billion. If E.T.'s not out there, then Earth is more than merely special - it's some sort of miracle.
Seth Shostak
#79. Frighteningly Beautiful, Dangerously Strong, Breathtakingly Fast.
Face it Tally-wa you're special ...
Scott Westerfeld
#80. So what are those balloons for? In case you fall off your hoverboard?'
Tally to Peris
Scott Westerfeld
#81. They walked with a pedatory grace ... one of them ripped off their hood and said, "my name is Tally Youngblood and is a special circumstance" ...
Scott Westerfeld
#82. Bathrooms are, on a square foot basis, the most expensive room in the house to renovate. If you want to test your heart's fitness, try shopping for simple bathroom faucets. Add in the cost of the required valves, mixers and trims, and you may need reviving when you see the tally!
Candice Olson
#83. It was their seventeenth kiss (her brain interface was keeping a tally, somewhat against her will), and she wondered if she would ever get used to this feeling.
Marissa Meyer
#84. Robin Hood is often seen as the hands-on-hips, archetypal, tally-ho hero. But, realistically, the one calling the shots wouldn't be at the front shouting about it. He'd be the one you don't expect.
Jonas Armstrong
#85. And over all those sleepy weeks, the dream always ended the same way, with the dragon coming for the princess saying the same words every time ...
Face it, Tally-wa, you're Special.
Scott Westerfeld
#86. Once again, I was reminded that Tally was the prettiest girl I'd ever met, and when she smiled at me my mind went blank. Once you've seen a pretty girl naked, you feel a certain attachment to her.
John Grisham
#87. When you're going for a big studio comedy, the joke tally better be pretty high, and you better have some big comedy set pieces. That was one of the issues when I was trying to get 'Swingers' made for the first time, which is that there weren't any broad comedy set pieces.
Jon Favreau
#88. Your demonstrations must tally with your declarations, if not, it's all cheap talk.
Manuela George-Izunwa
#89. You don't look very happy."
Tally tried to smile. David had shared his biggest secret with her; she should tell him hers. But she wasn't brave enough to say the words. "It's been a long night. That's all."
He smiled back. "Don't worry, it won't last forever.
Scott Westerfeld
#90. Image of an image of an image ... But to record all the dips and upswings, in a sense falsifies them, and I start deluding myself and thinking all this is, or might be, real. Enough to play the game, or try to play it. A mistake to tally up the score.
Susan Sontag
#91. A stable movement requries a healthy, reciprocal I.O.U. flow among its participants. Don't keep a careful tally.
Morton Blackwell
#92. The lie took form as she spoke, pulling on as many strands of truth as it could reach.
Scott Westerfeld
#94. Nature didn't need an operation to be beautiful. It just was.
Scott Westerfeld
#96. I sent Shay, Peris, and everyone else the same message ...
Scott Westerfeld
#97. It doesn't affect the way I feel about you, but is it wrong that I want you to experience the joy I've found in books?
Laura Trentham
#98. Shay sometimes talked in a mysterious way, like she was quoting the lyrics of some band no one else listened to.
Scott Westerfeld
#99. I'm hungry."
"So am I." His tone was a lazy invitation. "When are you going to feed me?
Nalini Singh
#100. Playing the game means treating your dogs like gentlemen, and your gentlemen like dogs.
Ted Tally
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