Told That Quotes

#1. He had been told that in America, if you worked hard, anything was possible.

Fannie Flagg

#2. Given that a significant percentage of children suffer from attention deficit problems in today's world, especially in more materially affluent societies, I am told that substantial efforts are being made to understand the faculty of attention and its causal dynamics.

Dalai Lama XIV

#3. I was always told that music isn't a 'realistic' path to take, and like a normal human being, I doubted myself over and over because I was afraid of failure.

Alessia Cara

#4. How do you get motivated? By knowing your worth. Americans do not know how worthy they are. You deserve to be healthy, but a lot of times, people have, as childs been told - as a children been told that they're no good, that they're never going to be anything else.

Richard Simmons

#5. In the Old Testament, we are continually told that our good works are not enough, that God has made a provision. This provision is pointed to at every place in the Old Testament.

Tullian Tchividjian

#6. I'm happy to be told that I am beautiful, but I don't gain anything from that.

Natsuo Kirino

#7. You've been told that you're broken. That you're damaged goods ... there is also Post-Traumatic Growth. You come back from war stronger and more sure of who you are.

James Mattis

#8. I have been unexpectedly confronted with my own mortality as I was told that I had cancer.

Jodi Rell

#9. After being told that the Professor "found it possible to believe for a moment in the existence of God," Isak thought, "Has it been possible to God, at Mount Elgon, to believe for a moment in the existence of Professor Landgreen?

Isak Dinesen

#10. Mature? Yeah, I get told that a lot. I don't know if it's true. I guess I try to be bright.

Thomas Horn

#11. On what grounds would God be told that He can bring death to millions of people at the end of a normal life span, but that He may not do it in any other way?

Donald Grey Barnhouse

#12. I am told that I had a bad temper, and remember being banished to the back hall until civility returned.

Paul D. Boyer

#13. I'm often told that money and spirituality are different things from people that don't have time to read spiritual books because they have to work for money.

Robin Sacredfire

#14. I suspect people channel-surf, as they tend to everywhere. But I'm told that we're not much on at the State Department, so we'll have to look into that.

Brit Hume

#15. We had four years of world war which the peoples endured only because they were told that their sufferings would free humanity forever from the scourge of war.

Arthur Henderson

#16. I went to school at the San Francisco Art Institute, thinking I was going to become an art teacher. Within the first six months I was there, I was told that I couldn't be an art teacher unless I became an artist first.

Annie Leibovitz

#17. He'd been told that women were sensitive about such things, as if a scar could somehow ruin their beauty, but scars were just stories told in flesh ...

Larry Correia

#18. In Genesis, and indeed for much of the Old Testament, the controlling image for death is exile. Adam and Eve were told that they would die on the day they ate the fruit; what actually happened was that they were

N. T. Wright

#19. The English public takes no interest in a work of art until it is told that the work in question is immoral.

Oscar Wilde

#20. I was once told that I had become too confident and that it made me less likeable. Many successful people will get this at some point, because the people who haven't followed a similar path can be threatened by someone who has and is unabashed about it.

Aimee Mullins

#21. I had always been told that you shouldn't clean the litter box when you're pregnant, because of your cat. And I think that is overblown - unless you have, like, three kittens in your house that are living outside and eating raw meat, this shouldn't really be a significant source of concern.

Emily Oster

#22. People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim.

Ann Landers

#23. For decades, we've been told that it doesn't make economic sense to switch to renewable energy. Today, that's no longer true.

Barack Obama

#24. My mother told me not to listen to anyone. She had been told that she wouldn't be able to teach and she did.

Archie Panjabi

#25. the magazine compared him with John Lennon from the Beatles. I told that to Sam later, and she got really mad. She said he was like Jim Morrison if he was like anybody, but really, he isn't like anybody but himself.

Stephen Chbosky

#26. We were told that we had to win. Against whom? The atom? Physics? The universe? Victory is not an event for us, but a process.

Svetlana Alexievich

#27. I asked my daughter when she was 16, What's the buzz on the street with the kids? She's going, to be honest, Dad, most of my friends aren't into Kiss. But they've all been told that it's the greatest show on Earth.

Ace Frehley

#28. Of course, it's the things you're not told that arouse your interest. The gaps in the news are the interesting bits.

Joseph Roth

#29. Once I was told that living with me would mean being trapped and slowly asphyxiated.

Jerry Pinto

#30. Growing up, I was not told that there were women's areas of preoccupation or male ones.

Rachel Kushner

#31. Perhaps the crescent moon smiles in doubt
at being told that it is a fragment
awaiting perfection.

Rabindranath Tagore

#32. Some indeed there are who profess to despise all flattery, but even these are nevertheless to be flattered, by being told that they do despise it.

Charles Caleb Colton

#33. That's not an easy message to deliver whether it's in war and peace or in the economic arena, people don't want to be told that all their problems have been solved and everything good so it's a little bit tricky.

Vin Weber

#34. Those who generate fog are Wizards of Oz hoping desperately that nobody pulls the curtain to reveal a trembling little writer behind it. This seldom happens. Readers who dare to point out that incomprehensible writing can't be comprehended risk being told that the problem is theirs.

Ralph Keyes

#35. We all profess to believe when we're told that this world should be used merely as a preparation for the next; and yet there is something so cold and comfortless in the theory that we do not relish the prospect even for our children.

Anthony Trollope

#36. I was repeatedly told that there isn't an African American woman who can open a show on Broadway. I said, 'Well, how do we know? How do we know if we don't do it?' I said, 'I think you're wrong.'

Lynn Nottage

#37. I was told that when you hit forty men stop looking at you. It's true, until you slip on a mini-skirt.

Mariella Frostrup

#38. I did not know it was possible to be so miserable and live but I am told that this is a common experience.

Evelyn Waugh

#39. When I was a kid, the great debate was about how to defeat the Soviet Union. And we won. Now we are told that the great debate is about who gets to use which bathroom. This is a distraction from our real problems. Who cares?

Peter Thiel

#40. Somebody said, 'Roger doesn't know how to spend money.' And I thought, 'I don't spend money because I don't have it!' If I had it, I could spend money! That's about the only time I was told that!

Roger Corman

#41. In the end, Leck should have stuck to his lies. For it was the truth he almost told that killed him.

Kristin Cashore

#42. More than two hundred Aberowen men were killed on the first day of July, there on the banks of the Somme River. I have been told that the total of British casualties is over fifty thousand!

Ken Follett

#43. I was told that I had to give grades to the students, which I wasn't particularly interested in doing.

Merce Cunningham

#44. Time and time again I was told that I would never make the film on time and never make it on budget. That kind of criticism tends to turn me into a great big motor of efficiency.

Richard E. Grant

#45. If a martian were to land on earth now and be told that the best batsman in the world was playing in this match, he would think it was Rahul Dravid and not Sachin Tendulkar.

Christopher Martin-Jenkins

#46. To have one's own story told by a third party who doesn't know that the character in question is himself the hero of the story being told, that's a technical refinement.

Raymond Queneau

#47. Eli Ernest, you're exasperating me." He grinned. "I've been told that's one of my best qualities." "You mean worst." "That too.

Jody Hedlund

#48. When I started 70 odd years ago I was told that to be a success you've got to have talent, personality and luck. I've had 99.9 percent luck and the other miniscule percentage would be having had the luck to have a little bit of talent, being able to stand upright and that's it. It's all luc.

Roger Moore

#49. It seems amazing that the Navy SEALs managed to get inside the compound and shoot Osama so efficiently. I can only imagine they were told that the mission was to rescue a bearded British hostage and he must be brought out alive.

Frankie Boyle

#50. Luckily i went out and just did it, successfully, before i was told that it can't be done!
Den-J

Denis John George

#51. From a young boy's viewpoint this could not get any worse, especially when you were told that you belonged to the devil, and this bullying of me went on for a long time.

Stephen Richards

#52. We live in a time when Christians need to be told that they are supposed to live like Christ. That's Weird.

Francis Chan

#53. [When told that her grandchild had her nose:] I didn't get this nose until I was thirty-four.

Joan Rivers

#54. Nothing makes one so vain as being told that one is a sinner.

Oscar Wilde

#55. Overall, the shack was too miserable to serve as a storage space for old banana peels, let alone as a home for three young people, and I confess that if I had been told that it was my home I probably would have lain on the bales of hay and thrown a temper tantrum.

Lemony Snicket

#56. All of your life you have been told that God created you. I come now to tell you this: You are creating God.

Neale Donald Walsch

#57. He had been told that when looking for a good oracle, it was best to find the oracle that other oracles went to.

Douglas Adams

#58. I have been told that the dying words of one famous 20th-century writer were, I should have used fewer semicolons

Lynne Truss

#59. His optimism blinded her. He was full of plans. "I have an idea!" he said often. She imagined him as a child surrounded by too many brightly colored toys, always being encouraged to carry out "projects", always being told that his mundane ideas were wonderful.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#60. When Teresa was told that she had lost summers, she made a point to curse and weep, but she wondered silently if she hadn't just been handed the divorce equivalent of a Caribbean vacation.

Ann Patchett

#61. We were once told that the aeroplane had "abolished frontiers"; actually it is only since the aeroplane became a serious weapon that frontiers have become definitely impassable.

George Orwell

#62. It was all very well being told that she could do nothing to make things better. Neverfell did not have the kind of mind that could take that quietly. She did not have the kind of mind that could be quiet at all.

Frances Hardinge

#63. Men have never really been encouraged to listen to their intuition, or told that they have an intuition. It's been more of a female thing, at least according to our society, but that's not true at all.

Echo Bodine

#64. An employee is told that the customer is always right and, in fact, the customer is usually a moron and as asshole

Larry David

#65. We're constantly told that running will ruin our knees and outrage our hearts, but for nearly all of human existence, it was associated with freedom, vitality, and eternal youth.

Christopher McDougall

#66. The "do-it-yourself" rage is spreading everywhere, and people are being told that to be happy all they have to do is think "happy thoughts." Such thoughts might cheer us, but they will never change us.

Billy Graham

#67. Is it not an amazing thing, that men shall attempt to investigate the mystery of the redemption, when, at the same time that it is propounded to us as an article of faith solely, we are told that "the very angels have desired to pry into it in vain"?

Laurence Sterne

#68. I don't sing to people. I sing for them. I told that once to Elvis Presley. He bought it. After that Elvis sang not to but for the audience. A subtle difference.

Tony Martin

#69. If we pursue this matter further, we shall be told that the stable object is unchanging under the impact or stress of some particular external or internal variable or, perhaps, that it resists the passage of time.

Gregory Bateson

#70. The clitoris is the female sex organ, and the fact that we aren't told that when we were small children is devastating. We grow up with no information about the pleasure center of our body.

Betty Dodson

#71. We have Beast, our Hungarian sheep dog. And he is so talented. He's so smart. He knows his daily schedule. He has an extracurricular activity. He goes herding. He herds sheep. And we've been told that he's quite gifted.

Priscilla Chan

#72. It is one thing being able to contest an election and to give the people hope that I can be the next prime minister. It is a totally different situation where the people of Pakistan are told that the results are already taken and the leader of your choice is banned.

Benazir Bhutto

#73. Very gifted people, they win and they win, and they are told that they win because they are a winner. That seems like a positive thing to tell children, but ultimately, what that means is when they lose, it must make them a loser.

Joshua Waitzkin

#74. He's one of those attorneys who think of the law as a game, not a morality play. I'm told that'd the kind you want.

Lionel Shriver

#75. He looked like a kobold who had just been told that he was mythical.

Kerry Greenwood

#76. Peoples of Egypt , you will be told that I have come to destroy your religion. Do not believe it! Reply that I have come to restore your rights!

Napoleon Bonaparte

#77. Well, we studied a lot of books and things like that. Denzel has a personal experience with it, not himself, that's his business-I won't get into that, but he knows a lot about it as well. So, we took some real life experiences that we both-I've been told that I have OCD.

Antoine Fuqua

#78. and then you're (at times, it feels, aggressively) told that you're at fault and should take responsibility and action for This Here Problem? Holy . . . Like, I mean, holy shit, Bast.

Kaija Straumanis

#79. When I read 'The Water Diviner,' I was having the same kind of visceral reaction that I would normally have acting in something. I believed that I was the only person that could tell this story the way it needed to be told. That's the real arrogance of a director!

Russell Crowe

#80. That whenever I felt like helping someone who was short of money, or otherwise in need, I never had to be told that I had no resources to do it with. And that I was never put in that position myself - of having to take something from someone else.

Marcus Aurelius

#81. We are told that this is an odious and unpopular tax. I never knew a tax that was not odious and unpopular with the people who paid it.

John Sherman

#82. A popular management term used to describe efficiency is called "working smart." We are told that if we work smart instead of hard, we will be more productive. But if we do work "smart" then we are likely to have idle time, and if we are idle we will likely be thought of as being lazy or worthless.

Charles Hayes

#83. You don't know what the country is ready for unless you're pushing that envelope, and I was told that I couldn't develop 'Will and Grace'.

Warren Littlefield

#84. A physicist visits a colleague and notices a horseshoe hanging on the wall above the entrance. 'Do you really believe that a horseshoe brings luck?' he asks. 'No,' replies the colleague, 'but I've been told that it works even if you don't believe in it.'

Niels Bohr

#85. A story is told that Whistler once painted a tiny picture of a spray of roses. The artistry involved in the picture was magnificent. Never before, it seemed, had the art of man been able to execute quite so deftly a reproduction of the art of nature.

Sterling W. Sill

#86. I'd had nearly four years of experience looking at these clocks, but their sluggishness never ceased to surprise. If I am ever told that I have one day to live, I will head straight to the hallowed halls of Winter Park High School, where a day has been known to last a thousand years.

John Green

#87. Billions of women must be out there on this seven-billion-person planet being told that they are not reliable witnesses to their own lives, that the truth is not their property, now or ever.

Rebecca Solnit

#88. People versed in politics need not be told that the devil is in the detail, and tough solutions implying the use of force cannot produce a lasting long-term settlement.

Sergei Lavrov

#89. I remembered the way out suggested by a great princess when told that the peasants had no bread: "Well, let them eat cake".

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#90. People go for help, but their lives don't get better because of those psychiatric drugs. They get worse. They feel numb and they're told that's a good thing. It's how you degrade a society
by drugging the piss out of it.

Tom Cruise

#91. I think sometimes I intimidate people. I've been told that. But I feel I'm the least intimidating person possible.

Andie MacDowell

#92. I remember that he was always trying to expound to me in his broken Russian some special system of astronomy he had invented. I was told that he had once published it, but the learned world had only laughed at him. I think his wits were a little deranged.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#93. I know how it feels to be told that it's all in your mind. It drives you mad.

Sally Brampton

#94. Many believed what they were told: that the welfare of the entire kingdom depended on their selflessness.

Margaret Atwood

#95. A monk was told that his father had died. He said to the messenger, "Do not blaspheme. My Father cannot die.

Benedicta Ward

#96. I can't remember if it was in the third grade in school, I was being told that two amoeba happened to hit in a muddy puddle of water two billion years ago, and I was an accident. I was the result. I wasn't real smart, but I said, 'I don't like the sound of that.'

Joe Gibbs

#97. I have been told that some of my photographs maybe indicate that I am a painter.

Saul Leiter

#98. We're told that men are strong & brave, but I think women know how to endure, accept defeat & bear physical & mental agony much better than men.

Lisa See

#99. I was told that my going to college wouldn't be good for my career. I think that's nonsense. It's good to empower yourself by cutting yourself off from this business every once in a while.

Claire Danes

#100. Figure out where you're going before you go there: he was told that a long time ago.

John Updike