You Tell Me Quotes

#1. You tell me that magic is just desire made real. Maybe spells are nothing more than words that you believe with all your heart,

Deborah Harkness

#2. They say the average person can't make a living in art ... but if you tell me there's something I can't do, that's what I have to do.

George Sutherland

#3. why did you tell me to look on the 'other' table instead of 'that' table?

Jill Barnett

#4. You don't wish me well when you tell me the sky is my limit. You bind me within its realm. I prefer to hear that I am my limit, not the sky, because beyond our sky lays the moon, the sun, the milky way, other universes and the possibilities are limitless.

Sahndra Fon Dufe

#5. Suppose, before you beat the stuffing out of me, you tell me who you are and explain why. Then I may or may not take it like a man, depending on whether or not I agree with you.

Ashlyn Macnamara

#6. That which a man continually thinks about determines his actions in times of opportunity and stress. I will know what you are if you tell me what you think about when you don't have to think.

David O. McKay

#7. To have found you is a dear happiness; and to be Apollo's son is beyond all my hopes; but there is something I want to say to you alone. Come; this is a private matter between us two - anything you tell me shall be as secret as the grave.

Euripides

#8. If I show consideration for others," Lillian Lynburn said grumpily, "will you tell me again about how you shot my husband?"
Jon rolled his eyes. "Yes, Leigh, if you manage to approximate human behavior for half an hour, I will tell you your favorite story again.

Sarah Rees Brennan

#9. Why do you tell me ... so much?"
Luthe considered her. "I tell you ... some you need to know, and some you have earned the right to know, and some it won't hurt you to know
" He stopped ...
"Some things I tell you only because I wish to tell them to you.

Robin McKinley

#10. Si vis amari, ama," you tell me. If you wish to be loved, love.

Sierra Simone

#11. Lily, the next time you tell me you don't know what to do with family. Because you know exactly. It's about loyalty and kindness and unconditional love, and you are more than capable of all that.

Jill Shalvis

#12. I ask you for the time of day, you tell me how to build a clock!

Wally Lamb

#13. I have spied for you and lied for you, put myself in mortal danger for you. Everything was supposed to be to keep Lily Potter's son safe. Now you tell me you have been raising him like a pig for slaughter -

J.K. Rowling

#14. You tell me another gang that's got a dental plan.

Michael Keaton

#15. I'm so lost without you. Feeling lonely, scared & cold. I'm so lost without you. Tell me baby, when are you coming home?

Roch Voisine

#16. If I guess your secret, will you tell me if I'm right? His father laughed but didn't answer.

Robert Liparulo

#17. Will you tell me what you have on under your dress tonight?" She licked the tip of his thumb. "I could, but that would ruin the surprise.

Skye Jordan

#18. Hi, I'm visiting. Can you tell me what I ought to see in town?

Anonymous

#19. You tell me the truth, and I am hooked for life, because the one thing that you can't find nowadays is the person who is going to be absolutely honest with you.

Jessica White

#20. So we ate some smoke, so what?"
"You lost most of your eyebrows."
Stunned, she pressed her fingers above her eyes. "Shit! Why didn't you tell me?"
"It's a look.

Nora Roberts

#21. No, Paul, I couldn't care less if you tell me made-up stories. Our lies reveal as much about us as our truths.' (Said to Paul by Elizabeth Costello, the interloping novelist-angel-inner voice).

J.M. Coetzee

#22. Cooper?"
"Yeah?"
"Why didn't you tell me it would be like that?"
"What was it like?" I ask.
"Amazing.

Cheryl McIntyre

#23. if you tell me you want to spend every single day on the calendar this year falling in love with me, then I'm going to kiss you. And I promise it'll be an eleven.

Colleen Hoover

#24. You tell me: Can you live crushed under the weight of the present? Without a memory of the past and without the desire to look ahead to the future by building something, a future, a family? Can you go on like this? This, to me, is the most urgent problem that the Church is facing.

Pope Francis

#25. I don't need a big house to raise a family, I only need you."
Alex smiled, kissing her on the forehead. "Well, why didn't you tell me that to start with? We could have saved a lot of money," he teased.

Loni Flowers

#26. The most important questions - "What are you? Where did you come from?" - had a whole range of answers, starting with "I'm the Disreputable Dog" and "from elsewhere" and occasionally becoming as eloquent as "I'm your Dog" and "You tell me - it was your spell.

Garth Nix

#27. we go to the bedroom now? I don't mind if you tell me off there, either. In fact, if you play the bossy schoolmaster I think that would bode well for our relationship.

Susan Mac Nicol

#28. GIFT
You tell me that silence
is nearer to peace than poems
but if for my gift
I brought you silence
(for I know silence)
you would say
This is not silence
this is another poem
and you would hand it back to me

Leonard Cohen

#29. If you tell me I'm sensible in addition to normal and wise, I'm going to punch you in the stomach.

J.D. Robb

#30. If you send me on my way today," I whispered "If you tell me to get the hell out of your life and never come back ... I'll accept it. But it will be the one and only permanent regret of my life: that we never made love.That we lost our future together.

Charles Sheehan-Miles

#31. If you tell me the truth, the truth I'll proclaim.
If you tell me a lie, you'll be fair game.

Belva Rae Staples

#32. If you please, Admiral, don't be a cock. I'll know it when I see it, and if, for some reason, I don't, you tell me, alright? Admiral Lacker inclined his head almost imperceptibly to indicate that they had a deal. He would endeavor to be as little of a cock as possible.

Lev Grossman

#33. But you tell me when there has ever been a reign of terror that wasn't instigated by intellectuals and presided over by someone possessed of the madness of the artist.

Howard Jacobson

#34. You tell me over and over and over again, my friend, you don't believe we're on the eve of destruction.

Barry McGuire

#35. What was it? Why won't you tell me?"
"I don't want to break down your illusions."
"My dear man, I have no illusions about you."
"I mean illusions about yourself.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#36. Had an awesome time. You tell me to show up and all I have to do is drink beer, play guitar all day and I can lift weights and you're going to pay me for this!

Zakk Wylde

#37. Curran looked back at me. "Why is it you always attract creeps?"
"You tell me." Ha! Walked right into that one, yes, he did.

Ilona Andrews

#38. I'm in the basement of a club with a porn star and bazillion vampires, and we're waiting for their queen. You tell me if I'm crazy." ~ Jackie Brighton

Jill Myles

#39. I'll do it because I want to but not because you tell me to!

Betty MacDonald

#40. So how can you tell me you're lonely, and say for you that the sun don't shine? Let me take you by the hand, and lead you through the streets of London. I'll show you something to make you change your mind.

Ralph McTell

#41. Will you tell me that I'm just as good as Stan?"
Dudley hesitated. "Well, Stan's exceptional."
He looked again at G's sword. "But...yes. You are quite...good. Please don't kill me.

Cynthia Hand

#42. Would you ask me to leave her?" I whisper against her lips. "Would you tell me if you still needed me?"
She flinches as if I've struck her. "I can't do that to her.

Lexi Ryan

#43. I hate to point out the obvious, but here's this tiny bird that's been trying to get through a huge bulletproof glass wall. A totally impossible situation. You tell me it's been here every day pecking away persistently for ten minutes. Well, today the glass wall came down.

Kevin Kwan

#44. But you stand up for me. You tell me the truth. You make me laugh, and you make me want. You let me be and feel who I am. And you fell in love with me even when you didn't want to.

Nora Roberts

#45. So is that it? Will I have to live the rest of my life like this? Not doing the right thing? Not saying the right words?"
"That's your choice. You can't change the past. Ah, but the future ... you own the future." The Greenman smiled. "So, you tell me ... what choice do you want to make now?

Jonathan Maberry

#46. I love you so much, Natalie, and when I get home I'm going to keep loving you until you tell me to stop. But don't, please. Don't tell me to stop. I love you. With everything.

Andrea Randall

#47. Why didn't you tell me?" Vera looked cautious. "Tell you what? I said he was talented.""Talent? That's not talent. Talent is Liza Minnelli tap-dancing and singing at the same time. What I just saw was devastation. Dying man on the cross. Salvation in B minor. An ejaculation of truth.

Tiffanie DeBartolo

#48. There was once a child whose mother fell asleep. The end.
Is that it? I said
What else do you need to know? you said.
Can't you tell me a little more about them? I said. (I was beginning to despair of your storytelling technique.)

Ali Smith

#49. God says that, 'Either you tell me that you want only God, or you tell me that you want this worldly life; then I will give it to you.' Do these people really want God? They actually want a house, they want wife and children.

Dada Bhagwan

#50. Throughout my entire miserable childhood I woke at least once a night weeping from overwhelming delight. I did it hungry, I did it after beatings, I did it after the deaths of loved ones.
Now you tell me if I'm crazy or if I've always been blessed.

Bob Thurber

#51. I was following you.' - Jace
'Is this the part where you tell me you're secretly in love with me? Vampire mojo strikes again.' - Simon

Cassandra Clare

#52. You tell me these two were my parents, so now I know but it's a memory that you've given me. I'll remember the photo from now on, but not them.

Umberto Eco

#53. Every time we do something you tell me America will do this and will do that ... I want to tell you something very clear: Don't worry about American pressure on Israel. We, the Jewish people, control America, and theAmericans know it.

Ariel Sharon

#54. Other children communicate with actions, such as tantrums, yelling, name-calling, and running away. The trick is to disallow this form of expression and encourage verbal communication. "I want to know what you are feeling, but I want to hear you tell me instead of show me.

Henry Cloud

#55. Be careful what you tell me. You could end up in my next novel.

P.C. Zick

#56. I do write all the time about - you tell me what your dreams are. What are you chasing? It's not impossible. Name it.

Diana Nyad

#57. Something else is bothering you. Tell me what it is and I'll fix it." "You can't." "Try me.

Lisa Kleypas

#58. Think carefully before you issue me a command, Zenobia. For I will do what you tell me, even if I'm the worst possible man for the job.

Libbie Hawker

#59. I am much interested and honoured by what you tell me of C. S. Lewis.

Ruth Pitter

#60. Why don't you tell me a story?

Julie Eshbaugh

#61. What did you tell me, Jesse? Sure Jake, Stephanie will do exactly what you tell her. Sure Jake, protecting her will be a piece of cake. "
Snorting in disbelief, he added, "Being at war is safer compared to this shit, and it's a hell of a lot easier than looking after your girlfriend.

Nina D'Angelo

#62. I think ... I should go home soon. Mom and Luke are probably going nuts. What about you?"
He shrugged, a casual lift of one shoulder. "You tell me. When I left Nevernever, I didn't have any plans other than being with you. If you want me around, just say the word.

Julie Kagawa

#63. Now, you tell me, if I have a day off during the baseball season, where do you think I'll spend it? The ballpark. I still love it. Always have, always will.

Harry Caray

#64. Why didn't you tell me how dangerous my feelings were?"
"There's a difference between power and danger. Your feelings are more powerful than anything in the world. But you shouldn't be afraid of them. Love is bigger than fear.

Lauren Kate

#65. I feel very silly saying to you, Tell me all about yourself, but I wish you would. I want to get to know you.
That's not how you get to know people. Don't you know? You can't talk it out, you've got to live into their lives, bad and good. You'll know me soon enough. What I want you to know.

Katherine Paterson

#66. Can you tell me where to find Tobias'? I ask. When I imagine his face, affection for him bubbles up inside of me and all I want to do is kiss him. 'Four, I mean. He's so handsome, isn't he? I don't really understand why he likes me so much. I'm not very nice, am I?'
-Tris

Veronica Roth

#67. P.S. If it's not a secret, will you tell me how you got my dollhouse inside our living room last Christmas? I know its too big to fit down the chimney. I measured.

Joanne Fluke

#68. Will you tell me how long you have loved him?"
"It has been coming on so gradually, that I hardly know when it began.

Jane Austen

#69. But what is the love life of newts, if you boil it right down? Didn't you tell me once that they just waggled their tails at one another in the mating season?'
'Quite correct.'
I shrugged my shoulders. 'Well all right, if they like it. But it's not my idea of molten passion.

P.G. Wodehouse

#70. Are you waiting for an invitation?" I asked, eyeing him standing carefully outside my door. "Is this the part where you tell me you're a vampire?" He chuckled. "No, I promise the paleness is only because I'm British.

Cora Carmack

#71. Here's a guy [Marco Rubio] - here's a guy that buys a house for $179,000, he sells it to a lobbyist who's probably here for $380,000 and then legislation is passed. You tell me about this guy. This is what we're going to have as president.

Donald Trump

#72. Will you tell me how to prevent riches from producing luxury? Will you tell me how to prevent luxury from producing effeminacy, intoxication, extravagance, vice and folly?

John Adams

#73. You tell me, and I forget
You teach me, and I remember
You involve me, and I learn

Benjamin Franklin

#74. There was a naked jock on my bed and a thing with tentacles coming out of my toilet. One of these things did not belong, and if you tell me that it was the naked jock, you shouldn't be reading this story.

Johnny Murdoc

#75. If, with the nation watching, three black women at three different levels can't get justice ... for this community, you tell me where you're going to get it in our country.

Stephanie Rawlings-Blake

#76. You tell me which society is going to be the winner in this 21st Century: One that worries about how we feel or the one that worries about making sure that the next generation has the capacity to eat everybody's lunch.

Jeb Bush

#77. He's good in bed, too?" Marnie asked, clearly skeptical. "That just isn't fair. If I looked like him, I'd
never leave my house. I'd just stay home and fuck myself. If you tell me he has a big dick, I might become either a cutter or a lesbian.

R.K. Lilley

#78. I want you more than I've ever wanted anything on this earth." Sebastian took a shivering breath. "Tell me what I have to do to get you. Tell me what it will take for you to let me into your bed.

Lisa Kleypas

#79. Why is it you tell me the truth only when you've fallen asleep? It's then that you visit me.

Donna Lynn Hope

#80. What it comes down to is that unless you tell me you still love him, there is nothing we can't work out.

Kim Karr

#81. There's a cord sticking out of the back. Might you tell me where it goes?

Prince Philip

#82. I love dress shopping, and I love talking about the wedding food. That's what makes me happy. If you tell me to do a guest list, I cry. I hate it.

Chrissy Teigen

#83. If you tell me I can't do something, it just makes me want to do it more.

Josie Maran

#84. I do not mind when you tell me what you want and put that first instead of last.

John Scalzi

#85. Toohey: "Mr. Roark, we're alone here. Why don't you tell me what you think of me? In any words you wish. No one will hear us."
Roark: "But I don't think of you.

Ayn Rand

#86. No,' said Gould, with an unusual and convincing gravity; 'I do not believe that being perfectly good in all respects would make a man merry.'
'Well,' said Michael quietly, 'will you tell me one thing? Which of us has ever tried it?

G.K. Chesterton

#87. There are times by you saying nothing, you tell me everything I need to know.

Mark W. Boyer

#88. Ty slapped Owen on the arm. "Close your eyes, man."
"Why?"
"You got a tell."
"I have a tell at Rock, Paper, Scissors?" Ty and Nick both nodded. "And you tell me ten years later? You're both assholes!

Abigail Roux

#89. And now, I pray you, tell me who you are: do not be harder than I've been with you that in the world your name may still endure.

Dante Alighieri

#90. I mean, you tell me I got a magic button up my ass that'll make me come my brains out, of course I'm curious. But I'm never gonna go there, because gross.

Amy Jo Cousins

#91. Macey was just starting to argue when Abby asked, "What can you tell me about the gunmen?"
"They're amateurs," Hale said at the exact same time Macey told her teacher, "They're pros.

Ally Carter

#92. Efore I can ask you what's going on, you tell me there's something we need to talk about.
This is it, the moment before you tell me the precise thing I don't want to know.
Is this the zenith? This last moment of ignorance?
Or does it come much later?

David Levithan

#93. If you tell me, I will listen. If you show me, I will see. If you let me experience, I will learn!

Laozi

#94. You tell me the dead are coming through a crack in my barn, but I shouldn't worry?

Kathy Bryson

#95. Your blindness to my downfall,
Has gone too far to be a joke,
As I stand ablaze before you,
And you tell me you smell smoke.

Erin Hanson

#96. The girl looked down at her plate. "Why didn't you tell me?"
"Would it have made it easier to kill a murderer?"
The girl paused. "Yes."
"Then what kind of test would it have been?" Quoneel asked.

Derek Landy

#97. Before you speak to me about your religion, first show it to me in how you treat other people. Before you tell me how much you love your God, show me in how much you love all His children.

Cory Booker

#98. Women. You tell me they're not all witches, and I'll tell you you haven't been paying attention.

Charlie Huston

#99. Can you tell me... what type of face is that.

- Feeling disturbed... angry, mad... crazy???
- WHAT?

Deyth Banger

#100. Now, you tell me, if Trevor Mayson was inside you, asking you to live with him, what would you do? Exactly.

Aurora Rose Reynolds