#tells

I have often noticed that ancestors never boast of the descendants who boast of ancestors. I would rather start a family than finish one. Blood will tell, but often it tells too much. ↗

— Don Marquis

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Anything where we're the butt of the joke, no one tells us about it. ↗

— Chris Martin

#anything #joke #tells #us #where

If someone tells you he is going to make a "realistic decision," you immediately understand that he has resolved to do something bad. ↗

— Mary McCarthy

#decision #going #immediately #make #realistic

Every once in a while, I run into somebody who tells me that she met her husband in my campaign or a husband who says, I met my wife. I have to tell you, I caused a few divorces too. ↗

— George McGovern

#caused #divorces #every #few #her

History tells us that America does best when the private sector is energetic and entrepreneurial and the government is attentive and engaged. Who among us, really, would, looking back, wish to edit out either sphere at the entire expense of the other? ↗

— Jon Meacham

#among #attentive #back #best #does

Read Churchill, he tells you how crucial was the Greek role in your decisive desert victory over Rommel. ↗

— Melina Mercouri

#crucial #decisive #desert #greek #how

My landlady, who is only a tailor's widow, reads her Milton; and tells me, that her late husband first fell in love with her on this very account: because she read Milton with such proper emphasis. ↗

— Karl Philipp Moritz

#because #emphasis #fell #first #her

The message of the movie is to accept who you are and not to succumb to the pressure of what the media tells you is beautiful and what you should be looking like. ↗

— Mike Myers

#beautiful #like #looking #media #message

My doctor tells me I should start slowing it down - but there are more old drunks than there are old doctors so let's all have another round. ↗

— Willie Nelson

#doctor #doctors #down #drunks #i

One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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