It Says Quotes

#1. Well, I had a small degree, that little infection of skepticism about America which resides in the minds of even America's closest friends. That America can't be quite as good as it says it is. And why does it need so relentlessly to keep saying how good it is?

Robert MacNeil

#2. On Plato's door, it says let no one enter who does not know geometry. On Love's door, it says let no one enter who does not know cry!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#3. The river is of the earth and it is free. It is rigorously embanked and bound, and yet it is free. To hell with restraint, it says, I have got to be going. It will grind out its dams. It will go over or around them. They will become pieces.

Wendell Berry

#4. In the New Testament church it says they were all amazed - And now in our churches everybody wants to be amused.

Leonard Ravenhill

#5. But for the wise, it says in the Bible: when a wise man hears wisdom, he reacts. When a fool hears it, his acts are folly. If you wanna be a fool, help yourself, it's not my problem.

RZA

#6. I think William Trevor is as good as it gets. Whenever I want a book to do exactly what it says it will, I read him.

Padgett Powell

#7. She leans over our table and turns the sign in the window so that it says CLOSED on the outside. But on our side, perfectly positioned between Mabel's place and mine, it says OPEN. If this were a short story, it would mean something.

Nina LaCour

#8. As it says in the Bible, For now we through a glass, darkly; but then face to face.
If it is face to face, there must be two looking.

Margaret Atwood

#9. It says something about the curious nature of film, that someone can be so alive on screen, when we're all too aware that they've passed. it underscores how we're mortal, and films are immortal (commenting on the death of Heath Ledger)

Leonard Maltin

#10. I'll tell thee what it says; it calls me villain, a treacherous husband, a cruel father, a false brother; one lost to nature and her charities; or to say all in one short word, it calls me - Gamester.

George Edward Moore

#11. I don't really care so much what people say about me because it usually is a reflection of who they are. For example, if people wish I would sound like I used to sound, then it says more about them than it does me.

Prince

#12. What makes the Lincoln Memorial so powerful is that it doesn't try to do too much. In effect, it says that he saved the Union.

Susan Eisenhower

#13. In Genesis, it says that it is not good for a man to be alone; but sometimes it is a great relief.

John Barrymore

#14. There must be a way.
surely there must be a way that we have not yet
thought of.
who put this brain inside of me?
it cries
it demands
it says that there is a chance.
it will not say
no.

Charles Bukowski

#15. No, not in a creepy way. I am anti-incest. It says so on my bumper sticker.

Laurel Ulen Curtis

#16. Mind that is fast is sick, a mind that is slow is sound, and a mind that is still is divine. This is what the Bible means when it says, Be still and know that I am God.

Eknath Easwaran

#17. Wouldn't you like to weigh what it says on your driver's license?

Sam Ewing

#18. When you're choosing the track list and the sequencing, it's important to make sure that there's some strong concepts on there and that it matters and it says something ... that it sticks with people.

G-Eazy

#19. My writing is different. I think it's better. I think it's deeper. But, strangely enough, it covers a lot of the old ground. Maybe it says it in a more sophisticated way ... but I [have written] about basically the same subjects over the years.

Neil Diamond

#20. doing God's will, eating the meat of the Word, is not listening to a Bible teacher, but going and doing what it says, especially as it relates to working in the harvest fields.

Bill Johnson

#21. It says right here you've got to be saved to go to heaven. But the way I see it, you've only got to be yourself to go to hell.

Marilyn Manson

#22. My passions drive me to the typewriter every day of my life, and they have driven me there since I was twelve. So I never have to worry about schedules. Some new thing is always exploding in me, and it schedules me, I don't schedule it. It says: Get to the typewriter right now and finish this.

Ray Bradbury

#23. I sit with my toes in a brook, And if any one axes forwhy? I hits them a rap with my crook, For 'tis sentiment does it, says I.

Horace Walpole

#24. Things are going great in every part of my life except movies. That's okay. I've got a lot of other parts of my life. I've made 15 movies. You can see any one of my movies and it says the same thing.

John Waters

#25. Between sisters, often, the child's cry never dies down. "Never leave me," it says; "do not abandon me."

Louise Bernikow

#26. Sometimes you'll hear, 'People don't change.' This is true more often than it ought to be, but listen again: 'People don't change.' It says 'don't,' not 'can't.' (316)

Victoria Moran

#27. I'm just into making quality stuff if I can, with interesting people and good scripts. But it's very important that it's about something and that it says something. Otherwise, I don't know what the point is, really.

Ewan McGregor

#28. 2 Corinthians, 4:9, it says 'Persecuted, but not forsaken: cast down, but not destroyed:' You see God kept me standing for a reason.

Michele L. Waters

#29. In the Bible it says God has made everything good for man to eat and to wear their skins. Whenever we eat beef, we eat chicken, we have to kill to eat. But at the same time, hunting is a sport. I think it is a great sport ... I would say most hunters are Christian men.

Luke Scott

#30. Read The Golden Key several times. Do exactly what it says, and if you are persistent enough you will overcome any difficulty.

Emmet Fox

#31. Most Amazonians don't want to give others the power to threaten them with physical injury if they don't do as they are told. Maybe we should better be asking what it says about ourselves that we feel this attitude needs any sort of explanation.

David Graeber

#32. But it says here,' said Ridcully, 'that you are a finest swordsman,' 'I was outnumbered.' 'How many of them were there?' 'Three million.

Terry Pratchett

#33. There is an art, it says, or rather, a knack to flying. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss. ... Clearly, it is this second part, the missing, which presents the difficulties.

Douglas Adams

#34. I'm not a natural killer! See this? See what it says? I'm supposed to keep the peace, I am! If I kill people to do it, I'm reading the wrong manual!

Terry Pratchett

#35. The case against religion is the responsibility of God for the sufferings of mankind, which makes it impossible to believe the good things said about Him in the Bible, and consequently to believe anything it says about Him.

Rebecca West

#36. We should figure out how to do this so that some parents don't feel disenfranchised, angry and upset. It says a lot about the state of where we are in the city, the role of parents and the reality of small school and combining schools.

Lisa Randall

#37. The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy also mentions alcohol. It says that the best drink in existence is the Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster, the effect of which is like having your brains smashed out with a slice of lemon wrapped round a large gold brick.

Douglas Adams

#38. On the wall of his rehabilitation room was a picture of the space shuttle blasting off, autographed by every astronaut now at NASA. On top of the picture it says, "We found nothing is impossible." That should be our motto.

Christopher Reeve

#39. I love Sufism as I love beautiful poetry, but it is not the answer. Sufism is like a mirage in the desert. It says to you, come and sit, relax and enjoy yourself for a while.

Naguib Mahfouz

#40. What does the gay movement mean when it says tolerance? ... It means absolutely unconditionally accepting it as perfectly normal, healthy, natural and something that should be integrated into every part of society.

Scott Lively

#41. You know it's time for a New Year's resolution to lose weight when you step on a talking scale and it says, One at a time, please.

Jo Brand

#42. I had a list of rules I made up one time. It says: Tell the truth, sing with passion, work with laughter, and love with heart. Those are good to start with, anyway.

Kris Kristofferson

#43. Las Vegas is the only place I know where money really talks
it says, Goodbye.

Frank Sinatra

#44. I am so sorry to see the state of reading in such decline. I think it says something really scary and terrible about us as a culture. I think it does have to do with everyone's total global embrace of technology.

Lee Smith

#45. People think they touched me. It says.
Michael Andreas Helmuth Ende
Petra Cecilia Maria Hermans
Religion of Blue Circle
Worldpoet 546
September 28, 2016

Petra Hermans

#46. What does religion say? It says that if you care for others then you will meet others who will care for you and if you hit others, you will meet others who will hit you. This is what all relative religions say.

Dada Bhagwan

#47. We must remember that the most powerful medicine we can offer for suffering of any kind is simply kindness. It says, "You're not alone. I see you; I hear you; I'm with you.

Ponlop

#48. The things that got me through grade school are helping me out later in life. It's like, I show up on time. If you buy a ticket to one of my shows, I'll show up. I'll be there. And if it says 10:00, I'll be on stage at 10:00.

Chris Isaak

#49. A vision is not a vision unless it says yes to some ideas and no to others, inspires people and is a reason to get out of bed in the morning and come to work.

Gifford Pinchot

#50. Liberty, finally, is not a box into which people are to be forced. Liberty is a space in which people may live. It does not tell you how they will live. It says, eternally, only that we can.

Karl Hess

#51. The New York voice reflects its diversity, its foreignness, and, inevitably, the sense of superiority New Yorkers feel or come to feel. It says, without saying, We Know.

Marya Mannes

#52. You and I are players, God's our coach, and we're playing the biggest game of all. We have a loving God that made us. We need to get on His team. It says in His word, there's only one way to Him and that's through Jesus Christ.

Joe Gibbs

#53. As it says in the Bible, God fights on the side with the heaviest artillery.

Robert A. Heinlein

#54. If I look at the definition of Hinduism, the Supreme Court of India has given a beautiful definition; it says that Hinduism is not a religion, it is actually a way of life.

Narendra Modi

#55. The Bible does not say money is the root of all evil; it says the love of money is the root of all kinds of evil. A poor man who, in his heart, worships the idea of being rich is more vulnerable to its evils than a rich man who has a heart to use it all for the Lord.

Criss Jami

#56. We have the capacity to make sure that every mother has pre-natal care. Yet, we don't do it. What is it about America? It says we don't value children and families. We are hypocrites.

Marian Wright Edelman

#57. Following the road down to Maienfeld, she said to herself, "If only I can meet the Spring, how happy I shall be."
Today, she thought of the Spring as a gay messenger boy and smilingly she imagined him "in a beautiful apple green suit with daisies studding his shoes" as it says in the song.

Charles Tritten

#58. Take what you want and pay for it, says God. You can have anything you want, as long as you accept that there is a price and you will have to pay it.

Tana French

#59. I believe what it says in the scriptures and in the Bhagavad Gita: 'Never was there a time when you did not exist, and there never will be a time when you cease to exist.'

George Harrison

#60. Speech is the twin of my vision, it is unequal to measure itself, it provokes me forever, it says sarcastically, Walt you contain enough, why don't you let it out then?

Walt Whitman

#61. There is such a thing as caste, even in the West; but it is comparatively faint; it is conservatism here. It says, forsake not your calling, outrage no institution, use no violence, rend no bonds; the State is thy parent. Its virtue or manhood is wholly filial.

Henry David Thoreau

#62. The thing about the intuition is that there's always a calmness to it, if it says yes to us or even if it says no. It's always very calm and a feeling of wisdom comes with it.

Echo Bodine

#63. 22Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says.m

Anonymous

#64. Meet struggle and master it, says nature, and you shall have strength and wisdom sufficient for all your needs.

Napoleon Hill

#65. Keep any description of trouble or sickness or error minimal, for there is something inside which is listening, and it says, 'Oh! You like this! I will make you a lot more of it.'

Ervin Seale

#66. It is common, and encouraged by many journals, for research to be judged by the impact factor of the journal that publishes it. But as a journal's score is an average, it says little about the quality of any individual piece of research.

Randy Schekman

#67. I do get scared, but I think - like it says in another book I've read - feel the fear and do it anyway. I try to have courage, pray a little bit and work through it. I'd rather try, even if I fail.

Geri Halliwell

#68. I have done it," says my memory. "I cannot have done it," says my pride, refusing to budge. In the end - my memory yields. - Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, "Fourth Part: Maxims and Interludes

Jodi Picoult

#69. Honesty means exactly what it says. We are honest and trustworthy in all our dealings. People can trust our word, because we refuse to lie or shade the truth.

Billy Graham

#70. James 1:22 is the theme verse of the entire book of James. It says, But be doers of the word and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.

David Platt

#71. There's a famous quote I read somewhere. It says we are all given second chances every day of our lives. They are there for the taking, it's just that we don't usually take them.

Anonymous

#72. Girls when it says "I love you" - it's like a second baptism - It gives them a whole new heart - As at the end of the egg.

Georges Brassens

#73. What it doesn't say - but only points to - is more important than what it says.

Eckhart Tolle

#74. The international community can't trust such a government. If the government of Iran wants the international community to believe in what it says, it should try to bring true, pure democracy into the country. The political solution to the energy issue or the nuclear case is democracy in Iran.

Shirin Ebadi

#75. A watch is a fashion statement, and it says something about the person wearing it.

Luke Evans

#76. Calvin:"It says here that 'religion is the opiate of the masses.' ... what do you suppose that means?"
Television: " ... it means that Karl Marx hadn't seen anything yet

Bill Watterson

#77. Success comes as a result of preparing oneself for inspiration, and then being willing to pay attention to it and do what it says. I've learned that before I make big decisions, I must first have a clear picture in mind and on paper of the outcome I am seeking.

Leslie Householder

#78. The word "YouTuber," even though - listen, I love YouTube, and I would never, ever abandon it, but I think when somebody says "Youtuber" it says "Oh, they talk about what they ate that day." That's not me - I do way more than that.

Shane Dawson

#79. We're not getting involved in terms of sending ground forces into Libya. Let's be clear about that. And indeed the UN Resolution forbids that. It says no foreign occupation of any part of Libya.

William Hague

#80. you ask your heart why it is always hurting. it says 'this is the only thing you will allow me to say to you. the only feeling you are willing to feel.

Nayyirah Waheed

#81. But most hearts say, I want, I want, I want, I want. My heart is more duplicitous, though no twin as I once thought. It says, I want, I don't want, I want, and then a pause. It forces me to listen ...

Margaret Atwood

#82. Art can make a difference because it pulls people up short. It says, don't accept things for their face value; you don't have to go along with any of this; you can think for yourself.

Jeanette Winterson

#83. To say that the universe exists is silly, because it says that the universe is one of the things in the universe. So there's something wrong with questions like, "What caused the Universe to exist?"

Marvin Minsky

#84. town, it says. Depart immediately

Anthony Doerr

#85. What's the meaning of life?"
"I have been programmed by Hexus to reply 'meatballs,'" it says.

Lydia Kang

#86. Like a child, the earth's going to sleep,
or so the story goes.
But I'm not tired, it says.
And the mother says, You may not be tired but I'm tired

Louise Gluck

#87. A new generation of Sirius Cybernetics Corporation robots and computers, with the new GPP feature.'" "GPP feature?" said Arthur. "What's that?" "Oh, it says Genuine People Personalities.

Douglas Adams

#88. The ad does not say "Buy this!"; it says, "Be assured that if you buy and display this product, others are being well trained to feel ugly and inferior in your presence, just as you feel ugly and inferior compared with this goddess.

Geoffrey Miller

#89. I've been told that the color blue can actually cause the body to produce calming chemicals, helping one to relax.
I wonder if that's true. I wonder if it's false. I wonder what it says about me that I feel nothing.

Caroline Nolan

#90. It says somewhere - in the Book of Proverbs, I think - that lying lips are abomination to the Lord, but they that deal truly are his delight. I considered my words carefully before I spoke them.

Alan Bradley

#91. My brother and I have matching tattoos on our arms. It says, 'Humility is strength,' in Portuguese and Italian, because my genius brother taught English in both Italy and Brazil.

Nikki Reed

#92. it says: "In no case did he appeal to the rabbinic schools of teaching with their traditions and precepts of men. He faithfully referred his

M. James Penton

#93. I've always been incredibly crazy about the fact that I'd have any fans at all. It says to me that the characters that I choose are interesting to people and that's thrilling to me. It really is.

Elizabeth Mitchell

#94. The thing is, it's my own fault. I just can't put up with a person that won't go out of his way for me. And that's what a man is. Somebody that won't go out of his way for you. I bet it says that in the dictionary.

Barbara Kingsolver

#95. Hypocrisy is saying we believe something, then living as if we didn't. Hypocrisy is preaching and not practicing. It says do as I say not as I do. It's insincerity wearing a mask of sincerity.

Stephen Altrogge

#96. Advertising is judged not by what it says, but by what the consumer thinks it says.

Kenneth Roman

#97. There are no requirements when you're using a particular genre. It's not like the genre is your boss and you have to do what it says. You can make use of the genre any way you want to, as long as you can make it work.

Charlie Jane Anders

#98. It says: "Baltic Amber, fifty million years old and full of fire; warm, and enduring like love". Wonderfully romantic, don't you think? Only I don't know how to differntiate thestuff from plain old yellow stones.

Meg Rosoff

#99. The sharing of a book is a statement - a message of affection that is also an act of self-revelation. Join my club, it says. Come and sit beside me.

Alexander McCall Smith

#100. My people have a legend of the Dayslayer. It says that Artemis chose one of our own to be her personal guard. More beloved than any of her people, the Dayslayer has no known vulnerability. Once he's unleashed, his goal is destroy Dark-Hunters. (Spawn) So you're telling me he's the Bogeyman? (Zarek)

Sherrilyn Kenyon