Top 100 It Has Been Said Quotes
#1. It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.
Samuel Butler
#2. Great men, great events, great epochs, it has been said, grow as we recede from them; and the rate at which they grow in the estimation of men is in some sort a measure of their greatness.
John Campbell Shairp
#3. It has been said of many modern Christian theologians that their primary aim is to find ways to express disbelief as belief.
Rodney Stark
#4. It has been said that no great work in literature or in science was ever wrought by a man who did not love solitude. We may lay it down as an elemental principle of religion, that no large growth in holiness was ever gained by one who did not take time to be often long alone with God.
Austin Phelps
#5. In the struggle for righteousness, there is nothing more helpful than being passionately in tune with Christ through His Spirit and being passionately committed to doing His will. It has been said that in order to tune in to God's voice, we must tune out this world's noise.
Billy Graham
#6. It has been said that figures rule the world. Maybe. But I am sure that figures show us whether it is being ruled well or badly.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#7. Much of the world's work, it has been said, is done by men who do not feel quite well. Marx is a case in point.
John Kenneth Galbraith
#8. One-third of the world, it has been said, may be free- -but one-third is the victim of cruel repression
and the other one- third is rocked by the pangs of poverty, hunger and envy. More energy is released by the awakening of these new nations than by the fission of the atom itself.
John F. Kennedy
#9. It has been said that man at ten is an animal, at twenty a lunatic, at thirty a failure, at forty a fraud, and at fifty a criminal.
Okakura Kakuzo
#10. All that is true, by whomsoever it has been said has its origin in the Spirit.
Thomas Aquinas
#11. It has been said that sometimes we need a story more than food in order to live.
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Rachel Naomi Remen
#12. Puberty," it has been said, "is everyone's first experience of a sentient madness.
Stacy Schiff
#13. In fact, it has been said that when you have sex with someone, you are actually having sex with everyone who ever slept with that individual.
James C. Dobson
#14. It has been said that Ernest Hemingway would rewrite scenes
until they pleased him, often thirty or forty times. Hemingway,
critics claimed, was a genius. Was it his genius that drove
him to work hard, or was it hard work that resulted in works
of genius?
James N. Frey
#15. The devil is in constant conspiracy against a preacher who really prays, for it has been said that what a minister is in his prayer closet is what he is, no more, no less.
Vance Havner
#16. History,' it has been said, 'does not repeat itself. The historians repeat one another.
Max Beerbohm
#17. It has been said, people drawn to law enforcement have a sixth sense, an ability to see what others do not. He prayed he was wrong. His sixth sense said there was much more than a broken heart in Claire's past.
Aleatha Romig
#18. It has been said that later in life Marx developed a less Utopian view of communism, but it is difficult to find much evidence of this.
Anonymous
#19. For it has been said, all that a man hath will he give for his life; and while all contribute of their substance the soldier puts his life at stake, and often yields it up in his country's cause. The highest merit, then is due to the soldier.
Abraham Lincoln
#20. It has been said that the only reason for leaving England is to give yourself the pleasure of coming back to it.
Patience Strong
#21. It has been said that alcohol is a good servant and a bad master. Nice try. The plain fact is that it makes other people, and indeed life itself, a good deal less boring.
Christopher Hitchens
#22. As a man passes into middle life, or beyond it, autumn, it has been said, whispers more to his soul than any other season of the natural year. It is not difficult to see why this should be.
Henry Parry Liddon
#23. It has been said that one bad general is better than two good ones, and the saying is true if taken to mean no more than that an army is better directed by a single mind, though inferior, than by two superior ones at variance and cross-purposes with each other.
Abraham Lincoln
#24. It has been said that with every great love we have, a little piece of our souls is left behind after the cleaving.
Emma Shane
#25. It has been said that there is no fool like an old fool, except a young fool. But the young fool has first to grow up to be an old fool to realize what a damn fool he was when he was a young fool.
Harold Macmillan
#26. It has been said that as goes the family, so goes the world. It can also be said that as goes the father, so goes the family.
Voddie T. Baucham Jr.
#27. It has been said that for evil men to accomplish their purpose it is only necessary that good men should do nothing.
Charles F. Aked
#28. It has been said of garlic that everyone knows its odor save he who has eaten it, and who wonders why everyone flies at his approach.
George Ellwanger
#29. It has been said, 'the truth will make men free.' The truth alone has never made anyone free. It is only doubt which will bring mental emancipation.
Anton Szandor LaVey
#30. If a statement is untrue, it is not the more respectable because it has been said in Latin.
A.A. Milne
#31. It has been said that to write is to live forever. The man who said that is dead.
Tina Fey
#32. Love truly makes the world turn, as it has been said. What people forget is that the turning of the world brings darkness as well as the light.
Lance Conrad
#33. Nothing could bother me more than the way a thing goes dead once it has been said.
Gertrude Stein
#34. For, just as it has been said that there is no half-way house between Rome and Reason, so it may be said that there is no half-way house between State Socialism and Anarchism.
Benjamin Tucker
#35. It has been said that good prose should resemble the conversation of a well-bred man.
W. Somerset Maugham
#36. One of the peculiar sins of the twentieth century which we've developed to a very high level is the sin of credulity. It has been said that when human beings stop believing in God they believe in nothing. The truth is much worse: they believe in anything.
Malcolm Muggeridge
#37. It has been said that arguing against globalization is like arguing against the laws of gravity.
Kofi Annan
#38. It has been said with some meaning that if men would but rest in silence, they might always hear the music of the spheres.
Arthur Helps
#39. It has been said that the great scientific disciplines are examples of giants standing on the shoulders of other giants. It has also been said that the software industry is an example of midgets standing on the toes of other midgets.
Alan Cooper
#40. It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this.
Bertrand Russell
#41. Everything that is popular, it has been said, deserves the attention of philosophers: and this is for the obvious reason, that although it may not be of any worth in itself, yet it characterizes the people.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#42. It has been said repeatedly that one can never, try as he will, get around to the front of the universe. Man is destined to see only its far side, to realize nature only in retreat.
Loren Eiseley
#43. It has been said that large staffs are the invariable sign of bad armies.
David Fraser
#44. It has been said that the immortality of the soul is a grand peut-tre -but still it is a grand one. Everybody clings to it -the stupidest, and dullest, and wickedest of human bipeds is still persuaded that he is immortal.
Lord Byron
#45. It has been said that he who was the first to abuse his fellow-man instead of knocking out his brains without a word, laid thereby the basis of civilisation.
John Hughlings Jackson
#46. It has been said that there must be a villain for every hero, a demon for every angel, a monster for every god.
Anonymous
#47. Money, it has been said, is the cause of good things to a good man, of evil things to a bad man.
Philo
#48. It has been said that 80% of what people learn is visual.
Allen Klein
#49. It has been said that a lot of women of our generation "grew up to be the men they always wanted to marry
Merle Shain
#50. A thing said walks in immortality if it has been said well.
Pindar
#51. It has been said that I make chick flicks. This is not a compliment.
Amy Pascal
#52. It has been said that life only gives us what we can handle. But this is not the case. Life often kills us, that's the truth. But that's how phoenixes are born.
C. JoyBell C.
#53. Adjusting to life's changes may be difficult and something you may not be looking forward to experiencing. Be gentle with yourself and you will find clarity on all levels of encouragement in places and by people you least expect. Remember as it has been said before: This too shall pass!
Steven Cuoco
#54. In Cornwall, it is quite possible to take a stride from the richest vegetation into the abomination of desolation. It has been said in mockery that Cornwall does not grow wood enough to make coffins for the people.
Sabine Baring-Gould
#55. It has been said that the primary function of schools is to impart enough facts to make children stop asking questions. Some, with whom the schools do not succeed, become scientists ... and I never stopped asking questions.
Knut Schmidt-Nielsen
#56. I believe it has been said that one copy of The Times contains more useful information than the whole of the historical works of Thucydides.
Richard Cobden
#57. It is the goodly outside that sin puts on which tempteth to destruction. It has been said that sin is like the bee, with honey in its mouth, but a sting in its tail.
Hosea Ballou
#58. The arts, it has been said, cannot change the world, but they may change human beings who might change the world.
Maxine Greene
#59. Although it has been said by men of more wit than wisdom, and perhaps more malice than either, that women are naturally incapable of acting prudently, or that they are necessarily determined to folly, I must by no means grant it.
Mary Astell
#60. It has been said that sometimes the greatest hope in our lives is just a second chance to do what we should have done right in the first place.
Richard Paul Evans
#61. It has been said that there is no such thing as coincidence in this world.
Paulo Coelho
#62. Greed harms you: generosity helps you. This is why it has been said: 'Greed is the mother of incapacity'.
Idries Shah
#63. The proceedings of this House in 1790, in reference to petitions on the matter of the slave trade, and of slavery in the States, have been cited. It has been said that those petitions were not received.
Caleb Cushing
#64. Be a dreamer. Have a sense of greatness. It has been said that if you can dream it, you can do it. And I believe that. Before your dream can become a reality, you have to see it in your own mind; see its fulfillment, whatever it may be.
Mary Kay Ash
#65. It has been said that crowds are stupid, but mostly they are simply confused, since as an eyewitness the average person is as reliable as a meringue lifejacket. It
Terry Pratchett
#66. [It] has been said that the difference between Greek and Israelite religion was that the Greeks worshiped the 'holiness of beauty' whereas the Jews worshiped 'the beauty of holiness.
Everett Ferguson
#67. Although it has been said that idle hands are the devil's workshop, when it comes to teenagers, both idle and active hands are the devil's workshop.
Amy Sedaris
#68. It has been said, and only half in jest, that a tough, professionally led union is a great force for improving management performance. It forces the manager to think about what he is doing and to be able to explain his actions and behavior.
Peter Drucker
#69. It has been said that the Fed's job is to take the punch bowl away just as the party gets going, raising interest rates when the economy is growing too fast and inflation threatens.
Alex Berenson
#70. It has been said that love robs those who have it of their wit, and gives it to those who have none.
Denis Diderot
#71. It has been said that absolute power corrupts absolutely, but many it not be truer to say that to be absolutely powerful a man must first corrupt himself?
Terence Rattigan
#72. It has been said that the position of woman is the test of civilization, and that of our women was secure. In them was vested our standard of morals and the purity of our blood.
Charles Eastman
#73. It has been said that the great events of the world take place in the brain. It is in the brain, and the brain only, that the great sins of the world take place also.
Oscar Wilde
#74. It has been said that a nation reveals its character by the values it upholds.
Kay Granger
#75. It has been said by many great Christians that prayer is our secret weapon. If we desire to be free from every enemy stronghold over our lives and fully fortified to live the superhuman existences God intended us to live, then we must learn how to pray.
Leslie Ludy
#76. It has been said that we can know God only in so far as we can become God.
Ernest Holmes
#77. Truth is infinite and is therefore vast enough to hold an infinite number of facets. It has been said that the measure of an idea's greatness is the degree to which its opposite is also true. For example, love is gentle; love is also strong.
Shepherd Hoodwin
#78. As it has been said: Love and a cough cannot be concealed. Even a small cough. Even a small love.
Anne Sexton
#79. It has been said that although God cannot alter the past, historians can
it is perhaps because they can be useful to Him in this respect that He tolerates their existence.
Samuel Butler
#80. It has been said that people never do evil with more enthusiasm than when they do it in the name of God.
Tony Campolo
#81. Hope is a good breakfast but a bad dinner, it has been said, but in Ghana, we have deteriorated to the point of having hope as dessert after dinner. We don't plan anything and the future just seems to happen to us, without our input. All we seem to do is to just show up.
Nana Awere Damoah
#82. Judge not,' it has been said, but being a juryman can be a pleasant occupation when one is not weighing up human actions and years in prison, but the books or the wines of the season.
Claudio Magris
#83. Saints, it has been said, are the sinners who go on trying. So free men and women are the oppressed who go on trying and who in the process make themselves fit to bear the responsibilities and uphold the disciplines which will maintain a free society.
Aung San Suu Kyi
#84. It has been said, error is human; I say, error is love.
Victor Hugo
#85. (It has been said that according to ancient designations, as well as its possession of the Indus River, Pakistan has a better claim to be called "India" than its neighbor.)
Stephen Tanner
#86. It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.
Ronald Reagan
#87. It has been said that if you don't see God in the profane and the profound, you're missing half the story. That is a great Truth.
Neale Donald Walsch
#88. It has been said that time heals all wounds. I don't agree. The wounds remain. Time - the mind, protecting its sanity - covers them with some scar tissue and the pain lessens, but it is never gone.
Rose Kennedy
#89. It is poetic and lyrical; words that spill forth like cool waters into the dusty dry rock bed of the Soul desiring love. It has been said that I've lived in the desert all my life and do not know what it means to be wet.
Sophia Rose
#90. A merchant, it has been said very properly, is not necessarily the citizen of any particular country.
Adam Smith
#91. It has been said that a specialist is a barbarian whose ignorance is not well-rounded
Stanislaw Lem
#92. It has been said that an engineer is a man who can do for ten shillings what any fool can do for a pound; if that be so, we were certainly engineers.
Nevil Shute
#93. It has been said that knowledge is power. We need to strengthen education systems so that young people can benefit from cultural diversity, and not be victimized by those who exploit differences.
Ban Ki-moon
#94. Love, it has been said, flows downward. The love of parents for their children has always been far more powerful than that of children for their parents; and who among the sons of men ever loved God with a thousandth part of the love which God has manifested to us?
Augustus Hare
#95. The pure and simple truth, it has been said, is rarely pure and never simple.
Ben Mercer
#96. It has been said that Poland is dead, exhausted, enslaved, but here is the proof of her life and triumph.
Henryk Sienkiewicz
#97. It has been said that each generation must win its own struggle to be free. -Robert F. Kennedy
Naomi Wolf
#98. Even a wild horse can be tamed; even metal that is difficult to work eventually goes into a mold. If you take it easy and do not stir yourself, you will never make any progress. It has been said, "It is no disgrace to have many afflictions: I would worry if there never were any afflictions."
Zicheng Hong
#100. It has been said that civilization is the process of freeing human beings from each other, and that is true. But it takes people to free each other, because people cannot be freed from each other except by each other. The irony of this cannot be overstated.
Robert Peate
