Top 100 Tell Him Quotes
#1. Peace be with you," he says softly, kissing me on the cheek, and I tell him the same. Then, we shake hands with everyone around us. My eyes fill with tears of joy as I look around at the smiling people, all sharing
Kristina Ludwig
#2. Dave [Holland] plays the way he wants to play. And it's usually what's needed. You know, Dave is such a deep thinker. You can't tell him too much, else it might spoil his spirit, you know.
Miles Davis
#3. To make a man perfectly happy tell him he works too hard, that he spends too much money, that he is misunderstood or that he is different; none of this is necessarily complimentary, but it will flatter him infinitely more that merely telling him that he is brilliant, or noble, or wise, or good.
Helen Rowland
#4. I have always believed that once you identify the best person for a particular project and tell him or her exactly what you expect, you must put your complete trust in that person, allowing him or her to work independently without interference. If you do, the project is bound to succeed.
Verghese Kurien
#5. I'd tell him to go to hell, but it just so happens I'm stuck there and don't want to have to see him every day.
Jill Shalvis
#6. We look to the left and to the right And we need help but nobody's in sight Where is the man that we all need Tell him he's to come and rescue me.
Ken Livingstone
#7. Worst case I'll bring Rain Man here. I'll tell him it's a date.
Aha, so he's cute, then?
Tasty. And smart. Can't beat that witha stick.
Alex Adams
#8. And if my Sea od Tranquility were real, it would be this place, here, with him.
I don't say anything right away, because I just want one minute to look at him before I give him my last secret.
And then I tell him.
Your garage.
Katja Millay
#9. To anger a conservative, lie to him. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.
Theodore Roosevelt
#10. I went to college because my father thought that I should learn engineering, because he wanted to go into the heating business with me. There, I realized I wanted to be a physicist. I had to tell him, which was a somewhat traumatic experience.
Leonard Susskind
#11. O man should be without those moments of reality, those experiences that tell him that he is only a mortal and not a god
Belinda McBride
#12. I've told several writers this, and, again, I get back to it, but if you want to make God smile, tell him your plans.
Vin Scully
#13. Why is it that you don't love me?"
"Sometimes I wish I knew ... "
"Don't anybody tell him!!
Charles M. Schulz
#14. If somebody asks you where you are going, tell him you are going to everywhere, because future is a path going to everywhere!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#16. Donald reached for the straw and steered it toward her lips. Such dangerous lips. They would tell him anything, keep him confused, use him so that she might feel less hollow, less alone.
Hugh Howey
#17. For some reason I hesitate to tell him where I live. I don't want to come across as the spoiled little rich girl that's fallen low. Even if I am.
Sophie Jordan
#18. Love can die. It can be killed, no matter how alive it was, it's not invulnerable. Mine's dead. It's dead and it's buried. I just want one thing more, and that's the chance to look him in the face and tell him he's nothing. If I can do that one thing, it'll be enough.
J.D. Robb
#19. I was watching the Superbowl with my 92 year old grandfather. The team scored a touchdown. They showed the instant replay. He thought they scored another one. I was gonna tell him, but I figured the game HE was watching was better.
Steven Wright
#20. I know how you love this place, he says to me, apologetically yet with satisfaction. And I don't tell him that I am not sure now whether I love any place, and that it seems to me it was myself I loved here - some self that I have finished with, and none too soon.
Alice Munro
#21. Tell him I went to the lavatory," Evie said with a roll of her eyes. "Men are pos-i-tute-ly paralyzed by the mention of females in lavatories.
Libba Bray
#22. You and I are not allowed to tell Him how much He can hate it (sin).
Francis Chan
#23. I almost regret having to tell him this. No one should be confronted with the depths of darkness they're capable of all at once.
Cristin Terrill
#24. If I was mentoring a young fighter, I'd tell him to spend more time on boxing. That doesn't mean I would ignore kickboxing - you still need to learn the defenses - but in stand-up, it's hard to beat good, solid boxing.
Chael Sonnen
#25. I was dying. I knew it. At least the pain was gone. I wanted to tell him that I loved him. Then darkness overtook me ...
Colleen Houck
#26. History or custom or social utility or some compelling sense of justice or sometimes perhaps a semi-intuitive apprehension of the pervading spirit of our law must come to the rescue of the anxious judge and tell him where to go.
Benjamin N. Cardozo
#27. We tried to tell him,' Toronto says.
'You made fun of him,' Mazzarella points out.
'That was how we tried to tell him.
Doug Dorst
#28. I thought we had lost you. I thought we'd done something worse than let you die.' His old arms were tight and strong about me.
I was kind to the old man. I did not tell him they had.
Robin Hobb
#29. Then I'd tell him how fond I am of basketball, which isn't a total lie because I have a real appreciation for boys in shorts.
E. Van Lowe
#30. How can I come this far and not tell him-he, who would understand it best-that by giving me that flyer, by inviting me to skip Hamlet, he helped me realize that it's not to be that matters, but how to be?
How can I come this far and not be brave?
Gayle Forman
#31. You have to make doubt and devils obey you. Don't ever treat the devil nice. Treat him mean and tell him what to do.
Roberts Liardon
#32. I want to tell him that what he did was nice, but nice is such a silly word for kindness. Anyone could pretend to be nice. What Silas did was innate. Boldfaced kindness.
Colleen Hoover
#33. I worry
about you
and i tell him
don't
and he says
that's exactly
why
David Levithan
#34. When will you tell him?' 'When I muster the courage or when I'm left with no choice - whichever comes first.
Renee Ahdieh
#35. He got a tan over break. I used to tell him he was so pale he looked like a marshmallow. He hated that I compared him to food. I told him that's what he got for calling me caramel. It shut him up.
Angie Thomas
#36. Should I tell him that I think dreams never die even when they're dead?
Nicola Yoon
#37. Your friend will pay deeply for what he's done here tonight," Chance snarled once he wiped off most of the blood. "You can tell him to run as far and as fast as he can, I'll get him. Just let him know that once this is all over, it's just gonna be you and me and a world full of corpses.
Kayla Krantz
#38. I know Vladimir Putin. He respects strength. He lied to our president's [Barack Obama] face; didn't both to tell him about warplanes and troops going into Syria. We need to speak to him from a position of strength.
Carly Fiorina
#39. How was your day, Rosie?" Dad would ask when he came home from work and I'd tell him it was ebullient. Or limpid. Or dodecahedron. "That's good to hear," he'd say.
Karen Joy Fowler
#40. I really wish that I would have gone to college. Even my son, who's into rap himself, I tell him and tell his children, 'Go to college. Get that education - it is so important. Don't do like I did.' I had all this singing on my mind, and I just didn't have time for it.
Barbara Lynn
#41. Tell him the smitten high school runaway snuck out to jump off a cliff with the hot college guy? ... I'm sure he'll love that. - Blake
H.R. Willaston
#42. I wanted to tell him more. I had the fleeting desire to tell him a lot more, but old habits and the fear of revealing too much made the words congeal in my throat.
Scot Gardner
#43. This was where she belonged. Right here with him. Forever. "I love you," she whispered. She'd burst if she didn't tell him, die painfully if he let her go. Emotion clogged her throat.
Kelly Moran
#44. If a female employee is offended, a boss would like her to tell him, not sue him.
Warren Farrell
#45. My cousin is gay, I always tell him that in our family tree, he's in the fruit section.
Rodney Dangerfield
#46. Let every man judge according to his own standards, by what he has himself read, not by what others tell him.
Albert Einstein
#47. I'm not of the American ilk that, you know, your lover needs to be your best friend and know you inside out. I think he should know you well enough to please you. Otherwise, what secret will there be to tell him when you're ninety?
Padma Lakshmi
#48. I felt my voice had fallen through and through me, and I couldn't summon it back to tell him or myself anything at all.
Tea Obreht
#49. Then since the autopilot will have it trimmed out to fly in a straight line, the glider will begin what the pilot calls a controlled descent. That kind of a descent, I tell him, would be nice for a change.
Chuck Palahniuk
#50. I am Prince Jalmari ta Korento." I scoffed. "Sure you are. Do me a favor and ring the butler. Tell him to arrange a carriage. I think I'd like a ride to the courthouse to get a restraining order against Your Majesty.
J.D. Brown
#51. Amy: I had something I wanted to tell him. Stuff always gets in the way.
Canton: Stuff does that.
Steven Moffat
#52. He already knew he could coach. All you had to do was look at each of your players and ask yourself: What story does this guy wish someone would tell him about himself? And then you told the guy that story.
Chad Harbach
#53. I opened my mouth to tell him he was full of shit, to tell him I knew he'd thrown me under the bus, but all that came out was, Braaiinns.
Diana Rowland
#54. I don't tell him about how I have to leave my family organism, break out firmly and finally. I don't tell him that I'm a parasite, and I'm ruining them. That my functionality is tearing them to pieces.
Hannah Moskowitz
#55. I need to cool off, I tell him, trying to moderate my voice. I'll be back to shave your head while you're sleeping.
Tahereh Mafi
#57. Yeah, that's all," said Dill. "He'll probably come out after you when he sees you in the yard, then Scout'n' me'll jump on him and hold him down till we can tell him we ain't gonna hurt him.
Harper Lee
#58. If you see the President, tell him from me that whatever happens there will be no turning back.
Ulysses S. Grant
#59. One day I have a revelation. 'I think we're actually quite compatible,' I tell him. 'You're irritable, and I'm irritating.
Pamela Druckerman
#60. You can never truly enjoy Christmas until you can look up into the Father's face
and tell him you have received his Christmas gift.
John R. Rice
#61. No, I want you to rethink it and come up with the right opinion, I tell him. But this just makes him laugh. I have to let it go. There's no point in trying to dictate what Gale thinks. Which, if I'm honest, is one reason I trust him.
Suzanne Collins
#62. I want to tell him that it's just a stupid car, but bits of me are scattered all over town; the graveyard, school, Cassie's room, the motel, and standing in from of the sink in my mother's kitchen. It takes too much energy to gather all the bits together, so I just sit there and watch him implode.
Laurie Halse Anderson
#63. I keep my back turned while he maneuvers his shorts into place. "Are you decent?" I call after a few seconds. No matter how many times I tell him I can't see into the water yet, he insists I'm just trying to look at his "eel." For crying out loud.
Anna Banks
#64. The scene is dull. Tell him to put more life into his dying.
Samuel Goldwyn
#65. Intimacy with God is that I can come in with the honesty of my heart, tell Him how much I'm hurting.
Beth Moore
#66. The tone of his voice is like he expects a fight, like he's challenging me to disagree, and I want to tell him that I don't care one way or the other. That her blood-relative status makes no difference as long as she loves him. And she does. She wears it, beaming it around like a neon sign.
Brenna Yovanoff
#67. You speak Arabic? Tell him my name is Infidel Redeemed by Christ.
Lili Tufel
#68. A good leader encourages followers to tell him what he needs to know, not what he wants to hear.
John C. Maxwell
#69. I tell him goodbye instead - a kind of goodbye that's never, ever final.
David Levithan
#70. I know how you feel, Willem," Andy had said in one of their secret conversations, "but he doesn't want you to admire him; he wants you to see him as he is. He wants you to tell him that his life, as inconceivable as it is, is still a life.
Hanya Yanagihara
#71. After years of self deprecating behavior, I've never learned how to properly take a compliment. A part of me wants to argue with him, to tell him there's nothing special about me.
Brynna Gabrielson
#72. Tell him what? a voice inside her asked. Tell him you've fallen for a penniless reporter whom you barely know? That's a brilliant idea, Jo. As soon as you've told Bram, you can tell your mother. I'm sure she'll be delighted.
Jennifer Donnelly
#73. Books are the building blocks of civilization, for without the written word, a man knows nothing beyond what occurs during his own brief years and, perhaps, in a few tales his parents tell him.
Louis L'Amour
#74. She can never tell him what she started to say: that we come to love those who save us. For although Anna does believe this is true, the word that stuck in her throat was not save but shame.
Jenna Blum
#75. Gazzy called over to me "I can't see anything!"
"I can't see anything either," Iggy complained.
"I'm rolling my eyes, Ig." I had to tell him that because he couldn't see me do it, what with his blindness and all.
James Patterson
#76. Women, when they have made a sheep of a man, always tell him that he is a lion with a will of iron.
Honore De Balzac
#77. What do you want me to tell Romney? I can't tell him to do that. I can't tell him to do that to himself. You're crazy. You're absolutely crazy. You're getting as bad as Biden.
Clint Eastwood
#78. Matt was the antidote to fear and trepidation. It was as if he'd become so acquainted with death that he could sit in its lap and ask it to tell him bedtime stories.
Gary Ponzo
#79. I tell him I take anti-depressants, which leads him on a thirty-minute detour. He tells me sadness is a part of finding out who you are. I tell him getting out of bed is also a part of finding out who you are. We agree to disagree.
Hilary Winston
#80. Want to make God laugh? Tell him you have a plan.
Mimi Strong
#81. Poor Fred - he's actually working on a typo, and somebody ought to tell him. Twice in the New Testament Jesus withered fig trees, Isaiah withered a fig tree, and there's another place in the Old Testament - I think it-s in Psalms - where a fig tree was withered. God hates figs, not fags!
Thom Hartmann
#82. Don't be a chickenshit. Tell him how you feel." "What if he doesn't love me?" "He does." "What if he doesn't?" "Ugh, then who cares? You won't lose anything you haven't already lost.
Stephanie Perkins
#83. Plutarch rushes to reassure me. "Oh, no, Katniss. Not your wedding. Finnick and Annie's. All you need to do is show up and pretend to be happy for them."
"That's one of the few things I won't have to pretend, Plutarch," I tell him.
Suzanne Collins
#86. What do you want from me? he asks. What I want from every person in my life, I want to tell him. More.
Melina Marchetta
#87. I would love to interview Roberto Benigni just so I could tell him how much his movie, life is beautiful, meant to me.
Giuliana Rancic
#88. I wish my kid would act like my dog sometimes. My dog listens to me and does what I tell him to do.
Cesar Millan
#89. Intent is what can make a man succeed when his thoughts tell him that he is defeated.
Carlos Castaneda
#90. We are not trying to manipulate God and tell Him what to do. Rather, we are asking Him to tell us what to do.
Richard J. Foster
#91. If you want to make God laugh, tell him about your plans.
Woody Allen
#92. I often laugh at Satan, and there is nothing that makes him so angry as when I attack him to his face, and tell him that through God I am more than a match for him
Martin Luther
#93. Theon swept his cloak off its peg and over his shoulders. "Fathers are like that," he admitted as he pinned the folds with a silver clasp. "Tell him he should be pleased. As many times as I've fucked you, you're likely with child. It's not every man who has the honor of raising a king's bastard.
George R R Martin
#94. A naive, excitable teenaged reader is a beautiful thing. Someone who's never heard of Elizabeth Bennet or Jay Gatsby, until you tell him. And they all still believe in truth. That's the fun of it.
Holly LeCraw
#95. Will holds his hand out for me. "Are you all in?" he asks. This man, this man, this man. What a stupid question. "I'm all in," I tell him,
Karina Halle
#96. This is ridiculous, Maggie. I'm going to tell him to put his shirt back on." She gives me an evil eye. "Don't you dare. You'll cause a riot.
Jillian Dodd
#97. Do not lie to a lover. But on the other hand, do not always tell him the whole truth.
Afric McGlinchey
#98. He's the first person I want to tell when somebody upsets me; my foot pressing on the accelerator, desperate to get home from work just to tell him, the moment I tell him, the moment his face lights up with fury on my behalf, it's better, it's fixed.
Liane Moriarty
#99. Tell him to shut up! Tell him there's no crying in baseball!
Stephen King
#100. Parents should watch what their children watch and not use TV as a babysitter. If a show is objectionable they should turn it OFF. They should write the president of the network and tell him they are never going to watch that program again and why.
Bill Bixby
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