It Is Said That Quotes

#1. It is said that the quality of recent immigration is undesirable. The time is quite within recent memory when the same thing was said of immigrants who, with their descendants, are now numbered among our best citizens.

Grover Cleveland

#2. It is said that resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for your enemy to die. There is no room for such a waste of energy in the service of God.

Reinhard Bonnke

#3. The United States, you know, people - one of the reasons that it is said that native people received citizenship in 1924 was so that they could be drafted. And they have been extensively drafted.

Winona LaDuke

#4. It is said that the senses are great; greater than the senses is the mind; greater than the mind is the intelligence; but what is greater than the intelligence, is the real Self.

Amit Kulshreshtha

#5. It is said that unsophistication makes a man empty and that emptiness makes him carefree.

Kahlil Gibran

#6. It is said that desire is a product of the will, but the converse is in fact true: will is a product of desire.

Denis Diderot

#7. On the one hand it is said that the aim and object of music is to excite emotions, i.e., pleasurable emotions; on the other hand, the emotions are said to be the subject matter which musical works are intended to illustrate. Both propositions are alike in this, that one is as false as the other.

Eduard Hanslick

#8. It is said that a rogue does not look you in the face, neither does an honest man look at you as if he had his reputation to establish.

Henry David Thoreau

#9. It is said that true tricstkers can make trouble between two pans in a kitchen.

George Webbe Dasent

#10. It is said that the greatest cruelty is drawn from those with the kindest hearts.

Terry Goodkind

#11. Abbi described to me what it was to travel, to see the fabric of life spread out before him. He said it was 'possibility.' It is said that there is time enough for every purpose, and so you must continue to believe that there is a time for you.

Alexandra Bracken

#12. It is said that in death, all things become clear.

Dan Brown

#13. It is said that our destiny is set, predetermined before conception. But I myself, have never been a believer ...

Deborah Ann

#14. It is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is 'soporific'.

Beatrix Potter

#15. [I]n Great-Britain it is said that their constitution relies on the house of commons for honesty, and the lords for wisdom; whichwould be a rational reliance if honesty were to be bought with money, and if wisdom were hereditary.

Thomas Jefferson

#16. I've heard that people stand in bad situations because a relationship like that gets turned up by degrees. It is said that a frog will jump out of a pot of boiling water. Place him in a pot and turn it up a little at a time, and he will stay until he is boiled to death. Us frogs understand this.

Deb Caletti

#17. Because specific defenses do not ordinarily react to our own normal cells, it is said that the immune system is able to distinguish "self" from "nonself.

Sylvia S. Mader

#18. It is said that ridicule is the test of truth: it is never applied, but when we wish to deceive ourselves ...

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

#19. It is said that no man is a hero to his valet. That is because a hero can be recognized only by a hero.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#20. It is said that he was the first of Men to reach the Great Sea, and that none, save the Eldar, have ever felt more deeply the longing that it brings.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#21. It is said that each time we embrace someone warmly, we gain an extra day of life. So please embrace me now.

Paulo Coelho

#22. He smiled. "It is said that when you sing, you pray twice.

Jennifer Burke

#23. Others called her "Truth," since it is said that "the truth is naked." But Miss Pao wasn't exactly without a stitch on, so they revised her name to "Partial Truth.

Qian Zhongshu

#24. It is said that men condemned to death are subject to sudden moments of elation; as if, like moths in the fire, their destruction were coincidental with attainment.

John Le Carre

#25. It is said that insincere apologies can be detected while heart-felt apologies melt away all grievances, anger and hatred. Felt with all my heart I'm sooo sorry Apologies Sorry Soz so so So Sorry

John Walter Bratton

#26. It is said that there is a part of us in our characters. But I also believe there is a part of our characters we'd like to see in ourselves.

Lisa Wakely

#27. It is said that a man is rejuvenated every seven years- that all his cells are replaced. I wonder, does that also apply to his spirit?
- Reinhold Messner

Bernadette McDonald

#28. It is said that marriage is a long war between ancient families trapped in close proximity by lust.

Mark Helprin

#29. It is said that man is wolf to man. I find this very unfair to wolves.

Frans De Waal

#30. It is said that there is no salvation outside the Church. Who denies this? And therefore whatever things of the Church are had outside the Church do not avail unto salvation.

Saint Augustine

#31. He feels all our sorrows, needs, and burdens as his own. That is why it is said that the sufferings of believers are called the sufferings of Christ.

John Flavel

#32. Eventually, if we are going to wake up and truly come home to our own heartmind, we have to turn the full scope of our life into a practice space. This doesn't have to start as an all-the-time endeavor, but little by little it is said that our awareness practice can become a constant companion. It

Ethan Nichtern

#33. It is said that man doesn't live by bread alone. Sometimes this is unfortunate, because people who cannot live by bread alone too often kill other people in consequence of the fights they get into.

John McCarthy

#34. It is said that Indians were sometimes named for the first thing they saw when they were born. Makes you wonder why there aren't more Indians named Hairy Pussy, doesn't it?

George Carlin

#35. When it is said that an object occupies a large space in the soul or even that it fills it entirely, we ought to understand by this simply that its image has altered the shade of a thousand perceptions or memories, and that in this sense it pervades them, although it does not itself come into view.

Henri Bergson

#36. It is said that God notes each sparrow that falls. And so He does. But the proper closest statement of it that can be made in English is that God cannot avoid noting the sparrow because the Sparrow is God. And when a cat stalks a sparrow both of them are God, carrying out God's thoughts.

Robert A. Heinlein

#37. No. It is said that the Nephilim are the children of men and angels. All that this angelic heritage has given to us is a longer distance to fall.

Cassandra Clare

#38. Nernst was a great admirer of Shakespeare, and it is said that in a conference concerned with naming units after appropriate persons, he proposed that the unit of rate of liquid flow should be called the falstaff.

J.R. Partington

#39. In the "Brihadaranyaka Upanishad" it is said that it is not the physical person who is attractive, but it is the Atman residing in that person which attracts us. It is that which provides all our delights. Love for someone, the delight experience in that love, both come from the source we call God.

Swami Ritajananda

#40. In the Talmud (a record of discussions of Jewish law and ethics by ancient rabbis) it is said that charity is equal in importance to all the other commandments combined, and that Jews should give at least 10 percent of their income as tzedakah.

Peter Singer

#41. It is said that it takes 10,000 hours to develop mastery and excellence. How many hours have you clocked today on your passion?

John Assaraf

#42. It is said that government is a necessary evil, but it is far more evil than it is necessary.

James Cook

#43. It is said that passion makes one think in a circle.

Oscar Wilde

#44. I once feared death. It is said that death begins with the absence of life. And life begins when death is no longer feared. I have stared death in the eye and survived.

Cheryl Kaye Tardif

#45. It is said that life begins when the fetus can exist apart from its mother. By this definition, many people in Hollywood are legally dead.

Jay Leno

#46. It is said that any virtue when taken to an extreme can become a vice. Overscheduling our days would certainly qualify for this. There comes a point where milestones can become millstones and ambitions, albatrosses around our necks.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

#47. It is said that God is always on the side of the big battalions.

Voltaire

#48. The unprecedented development of science and technology ... so rapid that it is said that 90 per cent of the scientists which this country has ever produced are still living today.

Robert Platt

#49. It is said that science demystifies nature, but scientists on the frontier are awed by the elegance and harmony of nature.

Daniel C. Matt

#50. It is said that a wise man rules over the stars, but this does not mean that he rules over the influences which come from the stars in the sky. It means that he rules over the powers which exist in his own constitution.

Paracelsus

#51. It is said that one should not hesitate to correct himself when he has made a mistake. If he corrects himself without the least bit of delay, his mistakes will disappear.

Yamamoto Tsunetomo

#52. It is said that the compensation for the effort courage, tenacity, and endurance displayed during the journey was not happiness. Nor glory. What God offered as a reward was only rest.

Ingrid Betancourt

#53. It is said that in every Persian carpet there is an error created by the weaver to avoid making a mockery of the belief that only Allah is perfect. Writing a novel is the quest for a perfection every writer knows can never be achieved, but is obliged to Set out to write a masterpiece.

Chloe Thurlow

#54. It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. That is true, it's called Life.

Terry Pratchett

#55. Tiny waterfalls trickle down over the rocks where they freeze and the ice glitters in the sunlight reflected off rock and snow. It is said that in the old times, when the early loggers came, the first tree cut down could not fall because the forest was so dense there was no place for it to land.

Kathleen Valentine

#56. Alekhine evidently possesses the most remarkable chess memory that has ever existed. It is said that he remembers by heart all the games played by the leading masters during the last 15-20 years.

Jose Raul Capablanca

#57. It is said that water is for cattle and farmers, that milk is for children and blood for men.

Walter M. Miller Jr.

#58. It is said that gifts persuade even the gods.

Euripides

#59. Is he not the celebrated author of The Dynamics of an Asteroid, a book which ascends to such rarefied heights of pure mathematics that it is said that there was no man in the scientific press capable of criticizing it?

Arthur Conan Doyle

#60. The revelatory or visionary is the province of the 'private' artist, who in order to render his personal world comprehensible or even tolerable, must force others to believe in it and therefore share it. It is said that 'the poet does not wish to be understood, but to be believed.

Kenneth Coutts-Smith

#61. It is said that those who fail to remember history are doomed to repeat it. That's not quite correct. We all forget history. The key is whether we have a way to go back to rediscover what we forget. More directly, the key is whether an objective past can keep us honest.

Lawrence Lessig

#62. It is said that those whom the gods wish to destroy they first make mad. It may well be that a war neurosis stirred up by propaganda of fear and hatred is the prelude to destruction.

John Boyd Orr

#63. When a man destroys his fellow, people say that such a one is a murderer. When one set in authority destroys, it is said that this one is a faithful judge.

Kahlil Gibran

#64. The name of God is so awe-full, so unpronounceable, that it has never been used by any of his creatures. Indeed, it is said that if, inadvertently, the great and terrible name of God should be spoken, the universe would explode.

Madeleine L'Engle

#65. It is said that love makes the world go 'round - the announcement lacks verification. It's wind from the dinner horn that does it.

O. Henry

#66. When Southern people tell us they are no more responsible for the origin of slavery than we are, I acknowledge the fact. When it is said that the institution exists, and that it is very difficult to get rid of it in any satisfactory way, I can understand and appreciate the saying.

Abraham Lincoln

#67. It is said that there are three sources of evil, "the world, the flesh, and the Devil"; but the world and the flesh would be innocent were it not for the Devil.

Peter Kreeft

#68. There is a story of a spiritual seeker who one day came to his master and asked, "In the olden days it is said that there were people who walked and talked with God. Why doesn't this happen anymore?" The master replied, "Because nowadays no one will stoop so low.

Robert A. Johnson

#69. It is said that the best horses lose when they compete with slower ones and win against better rivals. Undercompensation from the absence of a stressor,inverse hormesis, absence of challenge, degrades the best of the best.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#70. it is said that roosters think the sun rises because they crow. Politicians are much the same.

Charles Murray

#71. It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world owes the world more than the world can pay.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#72. It is said that in some countries trees will grow, but will bear no fruit because there is no winter there.

John Bunyan

#73. Henry Clay Frick (1849-1919), the industrialist and prodigious art collector. It is said that he liked to wander through his gallery at night in quiet contemplation.

Anonymous

#74. It is said that blood is thicker than water. It is what joins us, binds us, curses us ...

Barnabas

#75. It is said that men may not be the dreams of the god, but rather that the gods are the dreams of men.

Carl Sagan

#76. That is for me decide, not you. It is said that only fools stand in the way of a new idea; I trust, magisters, that there are no fools among you.

Sarah Prineas

#77. It is said that there are three stages of life for those of us who live our lives in circles. These are rejection, exploration, and acceptance.

Claire North

#78. It is said that all people who are happy have God within them.

Paulo Coelho

#79. It is said that the camera cannot lie, but rarely do we allow it to do anything else, since the camera sees what you point it at: the camera sees what you want it to see.

James A. Baldwin

#80. In Zen Buddhism it is said that "if you meet the Buddha on the road, kill him". Which means that if by walking on the spiritual path you encounter the rigid ideas and fixed laws of institutionalised Buddhism , you must free yourself from them too.

Yuval Noah Harari

#81. It is said that politics is the second-oldest profession in the world but that it bears a close resemblance to the oldest," said

James Patterson

#82. Let me have a faithful account of all that concerns you; I would know everything, be it ever so unfortunate. Perhaps by mingling my sighs with yours I may make your sufferings less, for it is said that all sorrows divided are made lighter.

Heloise D'Argenteuil

#83. It is said that God has created man in his own image. But it may be that humankind has created God in the image of humankind.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#84. It is said that we only get to know God in those stark moments when we are driven to depend on him.

Margaret Campbell Barnes

#85. It is said that we do not make the guilty party suffer for the sake of suffering; it is nonetheless true that we find it right that he should suffer.

Emile Durkheim

#86. It is said that in life we must play with the cards we are dealt, but too often I have kept those cards too close to my chest.

Lawrence Fagg

#87. It is said that the dead are infinitely patient, although it is usually said by the living, and how would they know?

Lee Battersby

#88. It is said that the history of peoples who have a history is the history of class struggle. It might be said with at least as much truthfulness, that the history of peoples without history is a history of their struggle against the state.

Pierre Clastres

#89. You know, it is said that we Greeks are a fervent and warm blooded breed. Well, let me tell you something - it is true.

Melina Mercouri

#90. It is said that the difference between God and us is that God never thinks he is us. Genesis suggests some nuancing of that insight. God doesn't mind sharing with us the divine life and the divine image and thus the divine responsibility for the world, and eventually God will become one of us.

John E. Goldingay

#91. It is said that the heart is in the microcosm just as the orb of the sun in the macrocosm. The mind in Sahasrara is like the disc of the moon.

Ramana Maharshi

#92. It is said that there's no such thing as a free lunch. But the universe is the ultimate free lunch.

Stephen Hawking

#93. It is said that the present is pregnant with the future.

Voltaire

#94. It is said that great leaders are born, not made. The saying is true to this degree, that no man can persuade people to do what he wants them to do, unless he genuinely likes people, and believes that what he wants them to do is to their own advantage.

Bruce Barton

#95. It is said that love is blind. Friendship, on the other hand, is clairvoyant ...

Philippe Soupault

#96. It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.

David Brin

#97. It is said that the inferior seek to emulate the superior. Thus, if a general slackens only a little, those beneath him will be greatly negligent.

Kato Kiyomasa

#98. It is said that nothing in our lives is ever lost, that nothing can prevent its having been. That is why, so very often the weight of the past lies ineluctably upon the present. But that is why it is so real in memory, so wholly itself, so far beyond replacement.

Marcel Proust

#99. It is said that there is a principle of conflict which originated with the single cell and has never deteriorated.

Frank Herbert

#100. 3. It is said that the I-activity is the root of all activities. From where the I-thought emerges, that in short is the heart.

Ramana Maharshi