In this post, you will find great Say Quotes from famous people, such as Rachel Stevens, Pope Francis, Jim Elliot, Ferdinand Marcos, Justin Thomas. You can learn and implement many lessons from these quotes.
It’s not what you wear it’s how you wear it, is what I say.
Systematic theology – be careful how you tie down the Word to fit your set and final creeds, systems, dogmas, and organized theistic philosophies! The Word of God is not bound! It’s free to say what it will to the individual, and no one can outline it into dispensations which cannot be broken.
Whatever be the challenges, whatever be the obstacles before us, I say to you as I say to everybody else that we will overcome.
It doesn’t matter my political views, who I like or dislike: If a president ever asks me to do anything, I’m going to say yes.
Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
I’m a human being. I’ve got opinions, I’m not always right, I’m not always on time, I don’t always say things in the proper way, but my intentions are always extremely pure.
I can honestly say that I was never affected by the question of the success of an undertaking. If I felt it was the right thing to do, I was for it regardless of the possible outcome.
The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?
I come from a rare place. It’s a different culture, different atmosphere, police crooked. Different emojis, and when I say emojis, I mean personalities.
Of course, when I say that human nature is gentleness, it is not 100 percent so. Every human being has that nature, but there are many people acting against their nature, being false.
The right of nature… is the liberty each man hath to use his own power, as he will himself, for the preservation of his own nature; that is to say, of his own life.
The human voice: It’s the instrument we all play. It’s the most powerful sound in the world, probably. It’s the only one that can start a war or say ‘I love you.’ And yet many people have the experience that when they speak, people don’t listen to them.
I never say no to an ice cream.
When you are discontent, you always want more, more, more. Your desire can never be satisfied. But when you practice contentment, you can say to yourself, ‘Oh yes – I already have everything that I really need.’
The Christian life is not a constant high. I have my moments of deep discouragement. I have to go to God in prayer with tears in my eyes, and say, ‘O God, forgive me,’ or ‘Help me.’
People say that globalisation has negative aspects, but I don’t believe globalisation is bad. It’s criticised from a western perspective, but if you put yourself in the shoes of people in the developing world, it provides an unprecedented opportunity.
There is no one on earth who knew you from the day you were born; who knew why you cried, or when you’d had enough food; who knew exactly what to say when you were hurting; and who encouraged you to grow a good heart. When that layer goes, whatever is left of your childhood goes with her.
While drawing, I discover what I really want to say.
Mark Twain created a new type of literature and not a lot of people can say that. Not a lot of people can say they’re absolutely original and completely self-made.
Always say ‘yes’ to the present moment… Surrender to what is. Say ‘yes’ to life – and see how life starts suddenly to start working for you rather than against you.
People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.
Do not say, ‘It is morning,’ and dismiss it with a name of yesterday. See it for the first time as a newborn child that has no name.
To call in the statistician after the experiment is done may be no more than asking him to perform a post-mortem examination: he may be able to say what the experiment died of.
That’s it. I’ve said all I’ve got to say on the world of James Bond.
Many people say I believe aliens built the pyramids. I don’t. In fact I’m not a supporter of the ‘ancient alien‘ hypothesis at all. I think a lost human civilization is a much better explanation of the mysteries and paradoxes of ancient cultures.
No one can confidently say that he will still be living tomorrow.
If I were to say, ‘God, why me?’ about the bad things, then I should have said, ‘God, why me?’ about the good things that happened in my life.
I was the conductor of the Underground Railroad for eight years, and I can say what most conductors can’t say; I never ran my train off the track and I never lost a passenger.
It’s always great to engage with people. You never know who you can make an effect on. And I love interacting with the fans, hearing what they have to say and joking around with them. Anytime I can reach out online and give encouragement, motivate people, be a better citizen, that’s what it’s all about, man.
To a liar, the most dangerous individual is the person who catches lies but doesn’t say anything about it. Then the liar isn’t sure which lies are compromised.
Life is very difficult. One of the most ancient of religious ideas that emerges everywhere, I would say, is that life is essentially suffering.
We might not be back. I might be in jail. I might be anywhere. But when I leave, you’ll remember I said, with the last words on my lips, that I am a revolutionary. And you’re going to have to keep on saying that. You’re going to have to say that I am a proletariat; I am the people.
We all have our down days, but it’s not hard to smile and say, ‘Thank you.’
You don’t write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.
I was called a terrorist yesterday, but when I came out of jail, many people embraced me, including my enemies, and that is what I normally tell other people who say those who are struggling for liberation in their country are terrorists.
If we say it long enough eventually we’re going to reap a harvest. We’re going to get exactly what we’re saying.
Because you know what happens when you say ‘hello’ or ‘good morning?’ You make a connection. And isn’t that what being human is all about?
If the choice were made, one for us to lose our sovereignty and become a member of the Commonwealth or remain with our sovereignty and lose the membership of the Commonwealth, I would say let the Commonwealth go.
Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
I like to say now that the reason I’m conservative is because I used to be a liberal, and I learned a lot.
They say, ‘Nothing can be done here!’ I reply, ‘I know no such word in the vocabulary I adopt!’
Do what you say you’re going to do. And try to do it a little better than you said you would.
No matter what Aristotle and the Philosophers say, nothing is equal to tobacco; it’s the passion of the well-bred, and he who lives without tobacco lives a life not worth living.
The United States is unusual among the industrial democracies in the rigidity of the system of ideological control – ‘indoctrination’, we might say – exercised through the mass media.
Do just once what others say you can’t do, and you will never pay attention to their limitations again.
I can honestly say I am a Christian, but my spirituality has been developed on the road and is based on my experiences with God.
For me, my secularism is, India first. I say, the philosophy of my party is ‘Justice to all. Appeasement to none.’ This is our secularism.
People say I’m wearing heels because I’m short. I wear heels because the women like ’em.
I’m just going to say I’m not gay. I really, really like women. That’s all I can really say about that.
There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.
Dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I’ve a call.
I’ve never met an animal I didn’t like, and I can’t say the same thing about people.
I don’t care what people think or say about me, I know who I am.
A good compromise, a good piece of legislation, is like a good sentence; or a good piece of music. Everybody can recognize it. They say, ‘Huh. It works. It makes sense.’
They say that abandonment is a wound that never heals. I say only that an abandoned child never forgets.
I never understood why when you died, you didn’t just vanish, everything could just keep going on the way it was only you just wouldn’t be there. I always thought I’d like my own tombstone to be blank. No epitaph, and no name. Well, actually, I’d like it to say ‘figment.’
Think where man’s glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.
I don’t care about what nobody say or how nobody feel. I’m happy, I’m living my life, and that’s what it is.
Grief is never something you get over. You don’t wake up one morning and say, ‘I’ve conquered that; now I’m moving on.’ It’s something that walks beside you every day. And if you can learn how to manage it and honour the person that you miss, you can take something that is incredibly sad and have some form of positivity.
People say, ‘We remember the good times.’ Well I remember the bad times.
Part of the reason there’s an injunction to the truth, for example, is that if you’re in a circumstance of extreme uncertainty, your best weapon, let’s say, or your best tool or your best defense is the truth, because it keeps things simpler.
I’ve been thinking of humorous things since I was… I can’t remember when. All the way through elementary school, all the way through junior high, all the way through high school, through college and after college, I was thinking of the same kinds of things that I say in front of an audience now.
People say that life is short, but it isn’t short. It’s very long.
We name time when we say: every thing has its time. This means: everything which actually is, every being comes and goes at the right time and remains for a time during the time allotted to it. Every thing has its time.
Young women from a very young age are taught that life will be easier if you can just turn on the charming smile and say very little and be complacent and docile and sweet.
I can remember the frustration of not being able to talk. I knew what I wanted to say, but I could not get the words out, so I would just scream.
I have a problem when people say something’s real or not real, or normal or abnormal. The meaning of those words for me is very personal and subjective. I’ve always been confused and never had a clearcut understanding of the meaning of those kinds of words.
I never lie. I believe everything I say, so it’s not a lie.
If it were necessary to give the briefest possible definition of imperialism, we should have to say that imperialism is the monopoly stage of capitalism.
I always get carried away when I’m kissing. I just go nuts! Walking away after it is the strangest moment for me. It’s embarrassing – not knowing what to say to each other.
I cannot discover that anyone knows enough to say definitely what is and what is not possible.
I post pictures that I want to post and say what I want to say. If that’s three times a day or three times per month, then whatever.
Say what you know, do what you must, come what may.
They say stay in the lines, but there’s always something better on the other side.
In my case, I can sincerely say that nothing is impossible… When I was saying I want to be No. 1 of the world, and I was seven or eight years old, most of the people were laughing at me because it seems like I have one percent of chances to do that, and I’ve done it.
They say it is better to be poor and happy than rich and miserable, but how about a compromise like moderately rich and just moody?
I would say it simply: No one can give that which he doesn’t personally possess, which means we cannot transmit the Holy Spirit in an effective way, render the Spirit perceptible, if we ourselves aren’t close to the Spirit.
I like to say that I practice militant mysticism. I’m really absolutely sure of some things that I don’t quite know.
We should not say that one man’s hour is worth another man‘s hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time’s carcass.
Life’s philosophy, hm… I just say, ‘Do what you do and have fun doing it and try not to be too miserable.’
Let’s say intelligence is your ability to compose poetry, symphonies, do art, math and science. Chimps can’t do any of that, yet we share 99 percent DNA. Everything that we are, that distinguishes us from chimps, emerges from that one-percent difference.
People who say they don’t care what people think are usually desperate to have people think they don’t care what people think.
I perhaps ought to say that individually I never was much interested in the Texas question. I never could see much good to come of annexation, inasmuch as they were already a free republican people on our own model.
In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all; and to the young, it comes with bitterest agony because it takes them unawares. I have had experience enough to know what I say.
I can only say that there is not a man living who wishes more sincerely than I do, to see a plan adopted for the abolition of it – but there is only one proper and effectual mode by which it can be accomplished, and that is by Legislative authority: and this, as far as my suffrage will go, shall never be wanting.
I always say film is art, theater is life and television is furniture.
With optimism, you look upon the sunny side of things. People say, ‘Studs, you’re an optimist.’ I never said I was an optimist. I have hope because what’s the alternative to hope? Despair? If you have despair, you might as well put your head in the oven.
I believe forgiveness is the best form of love in any relationship. It takes a strong person to say they’re sorry and an even stronger person to forgive.
You have to treat every day as a new challenge, and you have to remain paranoid, as they say.
And say my glory was I had such friends.
Remember who you are. Remember to be strong and don’t care about what people say.
History isn’t something you look back at and say it was inevitable, it happens because people make decisions that are sometimes very impulsive and of the moment, but those moments are cumulative realities.
I never thought I would say this, but I’m desperate to do an action film.
You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say.
Don’t worry about what the people say; be yourself, say what you want to say with respect.
At the end of the day, if I can say I had fun, it was a good day.
Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.
I must say I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book.
The wicked leader is he who the people despise. The good leader is he who the people revere. The great leader is he who the people say, ‘We did it ourselves.’
Dreams are real as long as they last. Can we say more of life?
It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‘I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.’
I always say that I don’t believe I’m a chef. I try to be a storyteller.
For me, every photograph is a portrait; the clothes are just a vehicle for what I want to say. You’re photographing a relationship with the person you’re shooting; there’s an exchange, and that’s what that picture is.
People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing – that’s why we recommend it daily.
Twice and thrice over, as they say, good is it to repeat and review what is good.
There’s only so far you can go before you say enough is enough.
Even if I might say to myself, ‘I don’t need health insurance. I won’t get sick,’ the fact is, as human beings with mortality, we are going to get sick, and it’s unpredictable when.
I say something, and then it usually happens. Maybe not on schedule, but it usually happens.
The bad thing about being a famous comedian is that every now and then someone approaches me to tell an old joke. Don’t tell me jokes – I have that. People also say the weirdest things, sometimes sarcastic things, and even evil things. They like to provoke to get a reaction.
You’re never as good as they say you are, you’re never as bad as they say you are. That’s a quote I live by.
The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes.
When we don’t have a boyfriend or girlfriend, we always say, ‘Oh, I’m so lonely. I want a date,’ or something like that. But I think the biggest love we’re all searching for is the love for one’s self.
Doesn’t matter what people say, doesn’t matter what they are going to say about you. You gotta go out there and play your game.
If you accept the belief that baptism incorporates us in the mystical body of Christ, into the divine DNA, then you might say that the Holy Spirit is present in each of us, and thus we have the capacity for the fullness of redemption, of transformation.
Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.
What a blessing that God allows a life to come through your body, and then allows you to place that body in a body bag and take it out. I had to say that there’s a magnificent something that God has for me to do, to give me that level of completion. That level of experience. It’s unspeakable.
About all I can say for the United States Senate is that it opens with a prayer and closes with an investigation.
The football field, I’d definitely say that’s my safe place.
As a human, I’d say I’m pretty intermediate.
If you want to rip the heart out of a democracy, you go after the facts. That’s what modern authoritarians do. You lie. All the time. Then, you say it’s your opponents and the journalists who lie.
To say that gender is performative is a little different because for something to be performative means that it produces a series of effects. We act and walk and speak and talk in ways that consolidate an impression of being a man or being a woman.
I would say people remember me from ‘Life Goes On’ more than anything.
A word is dead when it is said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day.
It’s hard to say goodbye to the streets. It’s all how you do it. You can pass by and say, ‘What’s happening?’ and keep it moving, but it’s a certain element that’ll never be able to roll with you once you get to this level, because that’s the separation of it all.
What I’m always trying to say to the consumer is: buy less, choose well, make it last.
Attitude is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than what people do or say. It is more important than appearance, giftedness, or skill.
I want no epitaphs of profound history and all that type of thing. I contributed. I would hope they would say that, and I would hope somebody liked me.
I always had a philosophy which I got from my father. He used to say, ‘Listen. God gave to you the gift to play football. This is your gift from God. If you take care of your health, if you are in good shape all the time, with your gift from God no one will stop you, but you must be prepared.’
You see things; and you say ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I say ‘Why not?’
My father used to say that it’s never too late to do anything you wanted to do. And he said, ‘You never know what you can accomplish until you try.’
Oh, you hate your job? Why didn’t you say so? There’s a support group for that. It’s called everybody, and they meet at the bar.
To those of you who received honours, awards and distinctions, I say well done. And to the C students, I say you, too, can be president of the United States.
I still say, ‘Shoot for the moon; you might get there.’
I don’t care what you say about me, as long as you say something about me, and as long as you spell my name right.
My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care? A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking for others!
They say the world has become too complex for simple answers. They are wrong.
The greatest sign of success for a teacher… is to be able to say, ‘The children are now working as if I did not exist.’
I should like to know if, taking this old Declaration of Independence, which declares that all men are equal upon principle, you begin making exceptions to it, where will you stop? If one man says it does not mean a Negro, why not another say it does not mean some other man?
If I meet Putin, I’ll say to him: ‘So you’ve finally given us back our territory, how much more are you ready to give as compensation money for taking away our land and helping those who took part in the escalation in Crimea and Donbass?’
Some people say my humor focuses too much on stereotypes. It doesn’t. It focuses on facts.
People might think that my queen should be highly educated, beautiful and the best of the best. Jetsun Pema is a kind-hearted girl who is very supportive and whom I can trust. I cannot say how she might appear to the people, but to me, she is the one.
The hardest thing about being famous is that people are always nice to you. You’re in a conversation and everybody’s agreeing with what you’re saying – even if you say something totally crazy. You need people who can tell you what you don’t want to hear.
Find enough clever things to say, and you’re a Prime Minister; write them down and you’re a Shakespeare.
I always say, ‘To have a big dream requires the same effort as having a small dream. Dream big!’
I don’t necessarily agree with everything I say.
If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.
Some people say I have attitude – maybe I do… but I think you have to. You have to believe in yourself when no one else does – that makes you a winner right there.
It’s weird… people say they’re not like apes. Now how do you explain football then?
It’s funny because I’ve made a living off of words, but words get in the way of what you really want to say.
People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.
Food is a lot of people’s therapy – when we say comfort food, we really mean that. It’s releasing dopamine and serotonin in your brain that makes you feel good.
My father always used to say that when you die, if you’ve got five real friends, then you’ve had a great life.
My thing is this; if I’m sick enough to think it, then I’m sick enough to say it.
The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
Beware of anyone who says they know. Trust me, they don’t, or they wouldn’t have to say they did.
If you know you are on the right track, if you have this inner knowledge, then nobody can turn you off… no matter what they say.
I say luck is when an opportunity comes along and you’re prepared for it.
Everybody is a political person, whether you say something or you are silent. A political attitude is not whether you go to parliament; it’s how you deal with your life, with your surroundings.
My goal in life is to enjoy what I do, and never to look back and say I wish I would have done that, and to go to UCLA, and to become someone great in life!
Say not, ‘I have found the truth,’ but rather, ‘I have found a truth.’
Everyone should have health insurance? I say everyone should have health care. I’m not selling insurance.
It’s so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and say the opposite.
They say women and music should never be dated.
The newest computer can merely compound, at speed, the oldest problem in the relations between human beings, and in the end the communicator will be confronted with the old problem, of what to say and how to say it.
God has always given me the strength to say what is right.
I’m not particularly a feminist, but if you get women off the animal cycle of reproduction and give them some say in how many children they’ll have, immediately the floor will rise.
Don’t Take Anything Personally. Nothing others do is because of you. What others say and do is a projection of their own reality, their own dream. When you are immune to the opinions and actions of others, you won’t be the victim of needless suffering.
Some people create with words or with music or with a brush and paints. I like to make something beautiful when I run. I like to make people stop and say, ‘I’ve never seen anyone run like that before.’ It’s more than just a race, it’s a style. It’s doing something better than anyone else. It’s being creative.
Take time to be kind and to say ‘thank you.’
I would like to say to people, open your eyes and find beauty where you normally don’t expect it.
You never say never. There’s always a chance to do things in the future.
The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant.
Some people try to get very philosophical and cerebral about what they’re trying to say with jazz. You don’t need any prologues, you just play.
Money is just a consequence. I always say to my team, ‘Don’t worry too much about profitability. If you do your job well, the profitability will come.’
A poem is a naked person… Some people say that I am a poet.
People can say what they want about me. But I’ve got a big heart and will keep going.
I must confess that I lead a miserable life. For almost two years, I have ceased to attend any social functions, just because I find it impossible to say to people, ‘I am deaf.’ If I had any other profession, I might be able to cope with my infirmity; but in my profession, it is a terrible handicap.
People say I look so happy – and I say, ‘That’s the Botox.’
People say I make strange choices, but they’re not strange for me. My sickness is that I’m fascinated by human behavior, by what’s underneath the surface, by the worlds inside people.
Don’t worry what people say or what people think. Be yourself.
Propositions show what they say: tautologies and contradictions show that they say nothing.
Listen, real poetry doesn’t say anything; it just ticks off the possibilities. Opens all doors. You can walk through any one that suits you.
Some say the world will end in fire, some say in ice.
It’s time to say goodbye, but I think goodbyes are sad and I’d much rather say hello. Hello to a new adventure.
They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.
The more you know the less you need to say.
I’ve said it once and I’ll say it a a hundred times, I’m forty-four years old.
I’ve learned never to say never.
I’m confident to say that if you want to grow in a profession, consistency is the key… I’m strict about my work goals and training.
The first time you say something, it’s heard. The second time, it’s recognized, and the third time it’s learned.
Some people say I’ve got a five-octave range, which is ridiculous. That would mean I’d sing like Mariah Carey or that alien in ‘The Fifth Element.’ And I’m nothing like that blue alien. I’ve got a range of about 3 1/2 octaves.
It doesn’t pay to say too much when you are mad enough to choke. For the word that stings the deepest is the word that is never spoke, Let the other fellow wrangle till the storm has blown away, then he’ll do a heap of thinking about the things you didn’t say.
They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
I’m humble ’cause I think many years ago people say, ‘Well, Alibaba’s terrible company‘. And I know we were not that terrible. We’re pretty good; we’re better than people thought. But today, when people have a high expectation on you, and I start to worry and nervous because we are not good yet.
You can’t forgive without loving. And I don’t mean sentimentality. I don’t mean mush. I mean having enough courage to stand up and say, ‘I forgive. I’m finished with it.’
I’m not really into style. I’m more into confidence or having something to say.
I am who I am and I say what I think. I’m not putting a face on for the record.
When I’m tired, I rest. I say, ‘I can’t be a superwoman today.’
I ain’t giving up on myself, so if you give up on me, I ain’t got nothing else to say for you.
If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.
I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus.
I really don’t want to say goodbye to any of you people.
God spoke to me and called me to His Service. What form this service was to take the voice did not say.
‘Pathological liar’ is absolutely the toughest individual to deal with as a psychiatrist. Because you can’t take anything they say at face value. And you can’t, you know, fill in their personality. You don’t know what’s real and what’s not.
In my view of the present aspect of affairs, there is no need of bloodshed and war. There is no necessity for it. I am not in favor of such a course, and I may say in advance, there will be no blood shed unless it be forced upon the government. The government will not use force unless force is used against it.
To my young friends out there: Life can be great, but not when you can’t see it. So, open your eyes to life: to see it in the vivid colors that God gave us as a precious gift to His children, to enjoy life to the fullest, and to make it count. Say yes to your life.
You’re going to go through tough times – that’s life. But I say, ‘Nothing happens to you, it happens for you.’ See the positive in negative events.
You can’t always say what you’d like to say.
People in the street will either call me ‘Prime Minister‘ or ‘Justin.’ We’ll see how that goes. But when I’m working, when I’m with my staff in public, I’m ‘Prime Minister.’ I say that if we’re drinking beer out of a bottle, and you can see my tattoos, you should be comfortable calling me ‘Justin.’
My glasses say a lot about me because I think me in a pair of sunglasses is an image that a lot of people would recognise.
Live, so you do not have to look back and say: ‘God, how I have wasted my life.’
People say it’s not ambitious, but it is actually quite ambitious wanting to help people.
Don’t use words too big for the subject. Don’t say ‘infinitely‘ when you mean ‘very’; otherwise you’ll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.
I remind myself every morning: Nothing I say this day will teach me anything. So if I’m going to learn, I must do it by listening.
For what is a man, what has he got? If not himself, then he has naught. To say the things he truly feels, and not the words of one who kneels.
As long as you as an individual… can convince yourself that in order to move forward as best you can you have to be optimistic, you can be described as ‘one of the faithful,’ one of those people who can say, ‘Well, look, something’s going to happen! Let’s just keep trying. Let’s not give up.
You always do what you want to do. This is true with every act. You may say that you had to do something, or that you were forced to, but actually, whatever you do, you do by choice. Only you have the power to choose for yourself.
Without ethics, man has no future. This is to say, mankind without them cannot be itself. Ethics determine choices and actions and suggest difficult priorities.
I think it’s just as important what you say no to as what you say yes to.
I have nothing to say, I am saying it, and that is poetry.
Say what you will about the ten commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them.
My dad used to say, ‘You wouldn’t worry so much about what people thought about you if you knew how seldom they did.
I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him; it is what he thinks of himself. To undermine a man’s self-respect is a sin.
Talk low, talk slow and don’t say too much.
I would say to always follow your dream. And dream big because my whole career, including any of the things that I’ve accomplished, I never thought in a million years that I would be here. So it just proves that once you believe in yourself, and you put your mind to something, you can do it.
Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one. I hope someday you’ll join us, and the world will be as one.
I always laugh and say I met God on the way up, and I got to know him on the way down. And so, as I’m crashing and losing everything, a lot of people run to God when they are struggling. And I was no exception.
Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else – very rarely to those who say to themselves, ‘Go to, now, let us be a celebrated individual!’.
When you say ‘control freak‘ and ‘OCD’ and ‘organized,’ that suggests someone who’s cold in nature, and I’m just not. Like, I’m really open when it comes to letting people in. But I just like my house to be neat, and I don’t like to make big messes that would hurt people.
When you are trying to impress people with words, the more you say, the more common you appear, and the less in control. Even if you are saying something banal, it will seem original if you make it vague, open-ended, and sphinxlike.
I can honestly say that I am open to love in any way. I guess that makes me bisexual.
To say ‘I love you’ one must first be able to say the ‘I.’
Go not to the Elves for counsel, for they will say both no and yes.
If you wouldn’t write it and sign it, don’t say it.
My music will go on forever. Maybe it’s a fool say that, but when me know facts me can say facts. My music will go on forever.
What I always say is, ‘Do every job you’re in like you’re going to do it for the rest of your life, and demonstrate that ownership of it.’
Yes, I guess you could say I am a loner, but I feel more lonely in a crowed room with boring people than I feel on my own.
I always say, you never know how much your parents loved you until you have a child to love.
We can choose to wake up and grumble all day and be bitter and angry and judge others and find satisfaction in others doing bad instead of good. Or we can we wake up with optimism and love and say, ‘Just what is this beautiful day going to bring me?’
To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art – that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite, expressed by every means available to the arts.
When you see something that is not right, not fair, not just, you have to speak up. You have to say something; you have to do something.
The medium is the message. This is merely to say that the personal and social consequences of any medium – that is, of any extension of ourselves – result from the new scale that is introduced into our affairs by each extension of ourselves, or by any new technology.
Once you say you’re going to settle for second, that’s what happens to you in life.
They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad that I’m going to miss mine by just a few days.
There is nothing like a live performance. You can look at things on television, and you can look at things on YouTube, but when you get in a room full of people and you say one joke, and everyone’s laughing at the same thing, it’s a really great experience.
Even if the government spends itself into bankruptcy and the economy still does not recover, Keynesians can always say that it would have worked if only the government had spent more.
Every morning that I wake up and I’m breathing, I can feel it and take a moment to say, you know, ‘Thank God I’m alive for another day.’
I never regret or sit back and think that I shouldn’t have said something. There are a lot of people who tell me that you shouldn’t say this or that or should keep quiet, and I really think that I can either be true to my conscience or can live a fake life by staying quiet.
I’d rather try and fail than not try at all, as they say.
I cannot say for certain if there is such a thing as love at first sight, but I do know that the moment I first glimpsed Winnie Nomzamo, I knew that I wanted to have her as my wife.
Being a Punjabi, it is very hard to say this, but Punjabi food is very overrated.
If you want to be a real human being – a real woman, a real man – you cannot tolerate things which put you to indignation, to outrage. You must stand up. I always say to people, ‘Look around; look at what makes you unhappy, what makes you furious, and then engage yourself in some action.’
Solemnity is proper in church, but things that are proper in church are not necessarily proper outside, and vice versa. For example, I can say a prayer while washing my teeth, but that does not mean I should wash my teeth in church.
When you are in the public eye, in the name of public service, you have to understand that the more people know about you, and the more people say they want to support you, the more you have to work even harder to uphold that trust.
‘Perfection’ to me is, I walk away from a situation and say, ‘I did everything I could do right there. There was nothing more that I could do.’ I was a hundred percent, like the meter was at the top. There was nothing else I could have done. You know? Like, I worked as hard as I possibly could have. That’s perfection.
If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
Each day has a story to – deserves to be told, because we are made of stories. I mean, scientists say that human beings are made of atoms, but a little bird told me that we are also made of stories.
I just change with the times. I really don’t have a say in what’s going on. Music was here before me.
Perception often lags behind reality, and I can say from experience that the vast majority of public officials in Louisiana are much better than our reputation holds us to be.
People say money ain’t nothing; money is basically everything.
I believe alien life is quite common in the universe, although intelligent life is less so. Some say it has yet to appear on planet Earth.
There’s a reason poets often say, ‘Poetry saved my life,’ for often the blank page is the only one listening to the soul’s suffering, the only one registering the story completely, the only one receiving all softly and without condemnation.
I always say, decisions I make, I live with them. There’s always ways you can correct them or ways you can do them better. At the end of the day, I live with them.
It’s a lot easier to do good work when you have good words to say and work with good people.
Let me just say: Peace to you, if you’re willing to fight for it.
I didn’t know what Facebook was, and now that I do know what it is, I have to say, it sounds like a huge waste of time.
What I treasure the most is people coming up to me in the elevator and saying, ‘You really did a great job‘: neighbours who congratulate for a job well done or little fans who hug me and say they want to be like me.
If I’m sure of a person and his potential in politics, and if I know he will live up to his promises, I wouldn’t mind campaigning for him. I believe in the dictum, ‘never say never.’ You never know, I might end up joining politics.
They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it’s not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.
Some men see things as they are, and say why. I dream of things that never were, and say why not.
We are under a Constitution, but the Constitution is what the judges say it is, and the judiciary is the safeguard of our property and our liberty and our property under the Constitution.
When the best leader’s work is done the people say, ‘We did it ourselves.’
One can know a man from his laugh, and if you like a man’s laugh before you know anything of him, you may confidently say that he is a good man.
I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn’t say any other way – things I had no words for.
Do not say a little in many words but a great deal in a few.
The first step is you have to say that you can.
I like to say, ‘Once a dancer, always a dancer.’ In everything – the way you walk, the way you move, the way you talk, the way you sit – everything is just, you’ve been trained a certain way your whole life, so it’s a bit muscle memory.
What I couldn’t say verbally I was able to express physically through the guitar.
Don’t listen to what the Communists say, but look at what they do.
We are not to give credit to the many, who say that none ought to be educated but the free; but rather to the philosophers, who say that the well-educated alone are free.
Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.
No one knows what to say in the loser‘s locker room.
When I say something’s going to happen, it’s going to happen.
So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.
Never say no to anything, whatever the universe brings me. I’ve always lived by that.
When I go back to Texas, I travel the state, and I see people all the time who come up to me, men and women across Texas, and they grab me by the shoulder, and they’re afraid. They say, ‘Ted, you know, I just lost my health insurance. I got a child with diabetes. I’m scared. Please stop this from happening.’
In 50 years, I don’t think you’re gonna look back at 2006 and say, ‘The good old days.’
If you want to get each individual‘s honest opinion, you don’t want that opinion to be influenced by others who are present, much less allow a group to coordinate what they are going to say.
People don’t care about what someone says about you in a movie – or even what you say, right? They care about what you build. And if you can make something that makes people’s life better, then that’s something that’s really good.
We’re going to fight racism not with racism, but we’re going to fight with solidarity. We say we’re not going to fight capitalism with black capitalism, but we’re going to fight it with socialism.
So long as the system of competition in the production and exchange of the means of life goes on, the degradation of the arts will go on; and if that system is to last for ever, then art is doomed, and will surely die; that is to say, civilization will die.
Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union, they insist, there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which, in my book, is a good definition for friendship.
I do not agree with what you have to say, but I’ll defend to the death your right to say it.
Being a nice person is about courtesy: you’re friendly, polite, agreeable, and accommodating. When people believe they have to be nice in order to give, they fail to set boundaries, rarely say no, and become pushovers, letting others walk all over them.
But I can say that life is good to me. Has been and is good. So I think my task is to be good to it. So how do you be good to life? You live it.
A lasting marriage, they say, is one where the two reach for different sections of the Sunday paper. Me, I go right for the obituaries, just like those very elderly characters in Muriel Spark‘s spooky novel, ‘Memento Mori.’
My number one thing? Don’t overleverage yourself. Don’t say you can do something when you really can’t.
It sounds strange to say, but someone’s bad luck is sometimes the happiness of the other.
Technology gives us power, but it does not and cannot tell us how to use that power. Thanks to technology, we can instantly communicate across the world, but it still doesn’t help us know what to say.
If I could talk to my younger self, I would just say that the path to great things is filled with a lot of stumbles, suffering, and challenges along the way. But if you have the right attitude and know that hard times will pass – and you get up each time – you will reach your destination.
You always risk people misunderstanding you when you say anything.
You can’t judge a book by its cover until you open up and read it. There are going be a million stories out there, true or not true. I say get to know me first before you judge me.
That’s the beauty of coaching. You get to touch lives, you get to make a difference. You get to do things for people who will never pay you back and they say you never have had a perfect day until you’ve done something for someone who will never pay you back.
You can’t defend the indefensible – anything you say sounds self-serving and hypocritical.
Things present themselves to you, and it’s how you choose to deal with them that reveals who you are. We all say a lot of things, don’t we, about who we are and how we think. But in the end it’s your actions, how you respond to circumstance that reveals your character.
Our job as gay people was to come out, to be visible – to live in the truth, as I say – to get out of the lie.
A nice person is a ‘yes’ person, whereas a good person is a person who accepts their responsibility in things and moves forward and tries to constantly evolve and isn’t afraid to say no or challenge someone or be honest or truthful.
I always say: ‘Share your happiness with the world, give other people that happiness and let it come back,’ but some things make me question it. I don’t know if I want some people to know that I am happy. I think a lot of people want to take it away from you, and that’s really scary.
If my critics saw me walking over the Thames they would say it was because I couldn’t swim.
When people say they prefer organic food, what they often seem to mean is they don’t want their food tainted with pesticides and their meat shot full of hormones or antibiotics. Many object to the way a few companies – Monsanto is the most famous of them – control so many of the seeds we grow.
As we say in the hood, I’m a stoop kid.
We do not say: Being is, time is, but rather: there is Being and there is time.
The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure.
Say what you will, ‘tis better to be left than never to have been loved.
I want to be able to look back and say, ‘I’ve done everything I can, and I was successful.’ I don’t want to look back and say I should have done this or that. I’d like to change things for the younger generation of swimmers coming along.
People always say that I didn’t give up my seat because I was tired, but that isn’t true. I was not tired physically… No, the only tired I was, was tired of giving in.
Every day, I wake up and say, ‘Good Morning, Jesus.’
I can honestly say – and it’s a big surprise to me – that I have never had a dream about being on the moon.
I wouldn’t say I was the best kid but I always had a good heart.
If I say something, I mean it. If I promise something, best as I can, I’m going to follow through. If I say I have your back, I genuinely mean it.
It isn’t what they say about you, it’s what they whisper.
I tend to be so lost in the work that I don’t notice the weather. My partner will come home and say, ‘Beautiful day, wasn’t it?’ and I’ll say, ‘Was it?’ as I won’t have noticed the real world at all.
I wouldn’t say I was the best manager in the business. But I was in the top one.
When a woman isn’t beautiful, people always say, ‘You have lovely eyes, you have lovely hair.’
I will remember this day for the rest of my life. There is nothing you can say. It’s just like you won the match after the earthquake and it just feels great.
To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can’t eat it.
Vulnerability is the essence of romance. It’s the art of being uncalculated, the willingness to look foolish, the courage to say, ‘This is me, and I’m interested in you enough to show you my flaws with the hope that you may embrace me for all that I am but, more important, all that I am not.’
You may say, ‘Well, dragons don’t exist.’ It’s, like, yes they do – the category ‘predator‘ and the category ‘dragon‘ are the same category. It absolutely exists. It’s a superordinate category. It exists absolutely more than anything else. In fact, it really exists.
You can’t really say what is beautiful about a place, but the image of the place will remain vividly with you.
You’re never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you’re never as bad as they say when you lose.
There are things that people say that hurt my feelings or whatever, especially with social media right now. It can be the most amazing thing, and it can also be the most negative and detrimental thing.
We all have a social responsibility and have to be mindful of what we do and say.
Why lie? I’m not going to be a hypocrite and say the opposite of what I think, like some others do.
From my own experience, I want to say that you should follow your heart, and the mind will follow you. Believe in yourself, and you will create miracles.
First impressions matter. Experts say we size up new people in somewhere between 30 seconds and two minutes.
I hate organized religion. I think you have to love thy neighbor as thyself. I think you have to pick your own God and be true to him. I always say ‘him’ rather than ‘her.’ Maybe it’s because of my generation, but I don’t like the idea of a female God. I see God as a benevolent male.
There is nothing in the world, I venture to say, that would so effectively help one to survive even the worst conditions as the knowledge that there is a meaning in one’s life.
Democrats are dumb and Republicans are stupid, but the difference between dumb and stupid is dumb isn’t funny. Dumb is when you say something and the whole room goes, ‘What did he say?’
Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.
If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
If you don’t look at my skin color and we just go play basketball, you’re not going to say I’m a white kid that can just shoot.
If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music.
To all my little Hulkamaniacs, say your prayers, take your vitamins and you will never go wrong.
Now don’t say you can’t swear off drinking; it’s easy. I’ve done it a thousand times.
If you don’t know how to pronounce a word, say it loud!
The man with the best job in the country is the vice-president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, ‘How is the president?’
Secularism is categorically not saying that the religious may not speak out publicly or have a say in public life. It is about saying that religion alone should not confer a privileged say in public life, or greater influence on it. It really is as simple as that.
My philosophy is: It’s none of my business what people say of me and think of me.
It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of them, but words can never trace out all the fibers that knit us to the old.
There are people out there who hate me and who say I’m arrogant, vain, and whatever. That’s all part of my success. I am made to be the best.
All that stuff about heavy metal and hard rock, I don’t subscribe to any of that. It’s all just music. I mean, the heavy metal from the Seventies sounds nothing like the stuff from the Eighties, and that sounds nothing like the stuff from the Nineties. Who’s to say what is and isn’t a certain type of music?
Sometimes you don’t have to say anything. Silence speaks it all.
People always say that you can’t please everybody. I think that’s a cop-out. Why not attempt it? ‘Cause think of all the people you will please if you try.
People say that money is not the key to happiness, but I always figured if you have enough money, you can have a key made.
I have to say that I’ve always believed perfectionism is more of a disease than a quality. I do try to go with the flow but I can’t let go.
If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.
You’re betraying your whole life if you don’t say what you think – and you don’t say it honestly and bluntly.
Those whose suffering is due to love are, as we say of certain invalids, their own physicians.
Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.
It’s not a science when you are judging art, but we’d be remiss to say you can’t look at something and say, ‘This is more well done than that.’
If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
I do not think it is an exaggeration to say history is largely a history of inflation, usually inflations engineered by governments for the gain of governments.
It’s really a testament to my parents, because I was active, curious and creative as a child, and my parents nurtured that. But I wouldn’t say that I was a professional child actor at all. I was never the breadwinner of my family.
Experience should be a plus as long as it doesn’t become complacency. If you say, ‘We’re not going to change; we didn’t do it that way before,’ then you’ve become too old.
