Quotes About Things You Say

#1. Changing the destructive things you say to yourself when you experience the setbacks that life deals all of us is the central skill of optimism.

Martin Seligman

#2. The things you say, the things you don't say, the things you do, or the things you don't do are always sending a loud message to those around you. What kind of a message are you sending? Is it a true reflection of who you are?

Lindsey Rietzsch

#3. I found out that when someone loves you, like really loves you, no matter what you do, no matter how many stupid mistakes you make or shitty things you say, it sets you free. I feel like I can fly now. Like nothing is holding me back anymore,

Elle Casey

#4. Watch the things you say you can't believe, and then recall the things you accept without thinking, like your own existence.

Oswald Chambers

#5. When people are watching you, it makes you think twice about what you do, and the things you say, and the people you hang around with.

Peyton Manning

#6. Rosie crosses her arm. "That's one of those things you say to sound smart, right?" she says. "But, really, you're trying to make someone else feel stupid.

Gabrielle Zevin

#7. If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others.

Haim G. Ginott

#8. The stupid things you say in the rain, that can't ever be washed away.

Janet Fitch

#9. Be aware of things you say because words have power. When you speak truth. It's Beautiful. And, that beauty illuminates!

Amaka Imani Nkosazana

#10. The funniest thing is I never understood why actors were so shady about who they're dating. Then I realized the things you say get printed and the people you're involved with read them. That's what's tricky. Nothing goes unnoticed. I don't want to get myself in trouble!

Emily Meade

#11. Be positive, keep smiling and believe in the positive things You say To Yourself.

Jan Jansen

#12. You're brilliant and funny. You're protective and caring. You shine so bright, Drew. Everything you do - how you think, the things you say, the way you move - it's ... blinding. I feel ... lucky, just being close to you.

Emma Chase

#13. There's a domino effect with certain things you say.

Johnny Vegas

#14. Well you know when people around you treat you like a child and pay no attention to the things you say you have to do something.

Lynette Fromme

#15. The only way people will know what you believe is by the things you say and do, and if you're not consistent in the things you say and do, no one will know what you believe.

Simon Sinek

#16. And all the good you've done will soon be swept away, You've begun to matter more than the things you say.

Tim Rice

#17. I am feeling fine. I remember these words and recite them. These are the things you say when asked how you are. After all, it would be odd to say: I'm not feeling. Or, more to the point: I'm not, I have ceased to be. Where am I?

Marya Hornbacher

#18. I was thinking that I might fly today. Just to disprove all the things you say ... please be careful with me, I'm sensitive, and I'd like to stay that way.

Jewel

#19. Happiness is feeling confident that the god of this universe is pleased with the things you say and do.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#20. If you're not prioritizing the things you say you care about, consider the possibility that you don't actually care about those things.

Elle Luna

#21. Sometimes I think you don't really believe the things you say; you just like the sound of yourself having opinions.

Amy Reed

#22. And you said we wouldn't make it
But look how far we've come
For so long my heart was breaking
But now we're standing strong
The things you say
They me fall harder each day
You're a trainwreck
But I wouldn't love you if you changed

Demi Lovato

#23. You made me proud, America. Sometimes I'm surprised at the things you say, but I don't know why. You were always stronger than you knew.

Kiera Cass

#24. What intelligent things you say sometimes ! One would think you had studied.

Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

#25. When you say three things, you say nothing.

Chip Heath

#26. You see things; you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?

George Bernard Shaw

#27. Old texts say many things. You say these things as though they are special
as if it is unusual for one person to see another in pain, and wish to help. As if, he says quietly, to do the extraordinary
or what you think is extraordinary
a person must be told to do so, by the Divine.

Robert Jackson Bennett

#28. You say 10 things, you say nothing.

Chip Heath

#29. It's important to be thoughtful and mindful about the things you say to other people.

Evan Spiegel

#30. Education is implication. It is not the things you say which children
respect; when you say things, they very commonly laugh and do the opposite.
It is the things you assume which really sink into them. It is the things
you forget even to teach that they learn.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#31. Usually you regret the things you say no to.

Jim Carrey

#32. What I can't understand is why the silly things you say makes so much sense."
"I'll tell you why," said Papa Dima. "It's because the best idea is the idea you least expect. And the unexpected always seems silly at first.

Eduard Uspensky

#33. Oh, you'll not be any poorer if you smile along your way. And your lot will not be harder for the kindly things you say. Don't imagine you are wasting time for others that you spend. You can rise to wealth and glory and still pause to be a friend.

Edgar Guest

#34. The thing is, what I'm tryin' to say is -
they do get on a lot better without me, I can't help them any. They ain't mean. They buy me everything I want, but it's now - you've-got-it-go-play-with-it. You've got a roomful of things. I-got-you-that-book-so-go-read-it.

Harper Lee

#35. You know how they say revenge is best served up cold? I'd say it's best not served up at all. Revenge is a great motivator, but it doesn't help achieve the desired results. I've seen guys lose buddies, then go off half-cocked, piss fuel running through their veins. Things never turned out well.

Ellen Hopkins

#36. The thing I hate most in acting is asking permission to do things. What you really want to do is say, 'This is my need; this is what's going to get me further; this is what's going to be alive. I don't ever say, 'Do you mind if ... ?' I just come in and do it.

Lance Henriksen

#37. It's easier to lie to yourself when you say things out loud.

Neil Gaiman

#38. People talk differently. You can say some things some places you can't say in other places. But me as a film maker, no words are ever going to be off limits in something I write. As long as people use the words, I'm going to report that.

Dax Shepard

#39. You can't keep friends if you always say no to things.

Carol Rifka Brunt

#40. You know, one of the things my husband says when people say 'Well, what did you bring to Washington,' he said, 'Well, I brought arithmetic.'

Hillary Clinton

#41. I know that's the sort of thing people say and I really hate it when people say the sort of things people say. I always think, 'You don't mean that, you just think it sounds good.

Russell Brand

#42. The real truths of life are never entirely new to you or to anybody because there is a level deep down within you where you already know all the things, all those spiritual truths that you read or hear, and then recognize them. I say 'recognize' because you're not ... it's not new.

Eckhart Tolle

#43. Have four things going. I have stand-up comedy, two television shows and I'm working on a play. I like to work, and I fear that something could fall through. You know what they say: 'The show must go off.'

Joy Behar

#44. I hope you wander into a hornet's nest and die of an acetylcholineoverdose," I spat.
"You say the prettiest things.

Penny Reid

#45. I want the people I love to get up and speak about me, and even if you cry it'll be OK. I want you to say honest things.

Jenny Downham

#46. It makes you feel good when a movie works. Usually when I see an old movie I've made, I say to myself, 'Oh God, why did I do this?' and 'Why didn't I change that?' and things like that.

Warren Beatty

#47. I do feel almost violent when I'm watching things that I don't think are good enough. I get furious for the audience. I want to say to them, 'This play is not supposed to be like this. They've got it completely wrong. You should be electrified by this.'

Lindsay Duncan

#48. You know when you're by yourself you can say the most outrageous things. No one is listening.

Art Hochberg

#49. But grief makes a monster out of us sometimes ... and sometimes you say and do things to the people you love that you can't forgive yourself for.

Melina Marchetta

#50. It's the business I'm in, I can't say that signing things is the favourite part of my career but you know that it has to be done and that there is no pain involved.

Cliff Richard

#51. If it comes to that," retorted Frederica, with spirit, " I am continually shocked by the
things you don't scruple to say to me,cousin! You are quite abominable!"
He sighed. "Alas, I know it! The reflection gives me sleepless nights.

Georgette Heyer

#52. It's been nice to see you again. Another of those things you just say, a bit of grease to keep the wheels turning,

Stephen King

#53. Empty hands held high
such a small sacrifice
if not joined with my life, i sing in vain tonight
may the words i say, and the things i do
make my lifesong sing to you
Let my lifesong sing to you ...

Casting Crowns

#54. We've all had those phone conversations. Things are heated, you're in a position where you're gonna say something nasty. Instead, you say, "Oh, I've got that thing in the oven." Lie. Get off the phone. Don't perpetuate a bad situation.

Joe Manganiello

#55. I remember saying to myself, those things are very, very important to hear, but there must be another way to say them so that they will truly be heard. I mean, that's what art is. Art is about being provocative; art is also about beauty and if you leave the latter out, the former doesn't matter.

Nikky Finney

#56. Why do you say vague things if you don't want to be asked about them?

Veronica Roth

#57. Let's still be friends (things that are never true in a break up, but you have to say).

Lauren Leto

#58. Live your life, experience something, and then you're going to have a lot of things to say. But if you hang around in Hollywood, then you're going to say the same thing as everyone else - nothing.

Luc Besson

#59. I think everybody has tragedy in their life. Everybody has hurdles in their life. Everybody has tough things to overcome. My kids say to me, 'This isn't fair.' I said, 'Life isn't fair.' Everybody has their issues. It's how you handle your issues that distinguishes you.

Maria Shriver

#60. I'm running out of things to say.
I've stopped stealing pages out of poetry books, but last week I pocketed a thesaurus and looked for synonyms for you and could only find rain
and more rain
and a thunderstorm that sounded like glass, like crystal, an orchestra.

Shinji Moon

#61. You always say you're fine, because in reality you remain quite distant from each other, and you can't just say, Things are terrible. If you only knew how bad I feel today.

Barbara Honigmann

#62. For some people they say, it's about wish fulfillment, it's about the things you are never able to do in your day you are actually fulfilling at night. There are other people who will say that it's actually telling you something.

Shelby Harris

#63. Isn't language amazing? I can't get over it. Sometimes you can just say things and its like a bomb that blows all your clothes off and suddenly there you are naked. I don't know if its disgusting or beautiful.

Victor Lodato

#64. Simply having the courage to say senseless things made me euphoric. I was free, with no need to seek or to give explanations for what I was doing. This freedom lifted me to the heavens - where greater love, one that forgives everything and never allows you to feel abandoned, once again enveloped me.

Paulo Coelho

#65. On the way home Mary Lou said, "Some things are so sad you can't say them." But I pretended not to hear.

Joyce Carol Oates

#66. What do you know about women?
They smell nice, they don't like to be told they can't do something, and, when they're naked, they hold some sort of mystical power that overrides our brains and makes us do and say things that would normally be inconceivable.

Katie MacAlister

#67. You look worse today than you did when you had two black
eyes."
"Why, thank you, Tyler. You always say the sweetest things.

Gwen Hayes

#68. As you get older and as you experience and go through different things you realize you have to set boundaries. You have to for your life. You have to say this is OK and this is not OK. This is what I do for a living and this is my life. It's the only one I get and so I have to set boundaries.

Jennifer Lopez

#69. Sometimes, no matter how screwed up things seem, I feel like we're all at a wedding. But you can't just come out and say, We're at a wedding! Have some cake! You need to create a world into which we can enter, a world where we can see this.

Anne Lamott

#70. You may say that things happen just by chance, but I don't feel that way.

Shunryu Suzuki

#71. If someone is facing a difficult time, one of the kindest things you can do for him or her is to say, I'm just going to love you through this.

Molly Friedenfeld

#72. We might mean different things. How can you tell? Only by reading each of us carefully and seeing what each of us has to say - not by pretending that we are both saying the same thing. We're often saying very different things.

Bart D. Ehrman

#73. You'll read things and say, this is a really good project and it's probably going to be a hit, but I can see 20 other people playing that part. You have to have some sense of ownership to do a good job and be married to it for ever.

Eric Bana

#74. Sometimes things come out of your mouth that you regret later on. Or no, not regret. You say something so razor-sharp that the person you say it to carries it around with them for the rest of their life.

Herman Koch

#75. You don't see the world the way other people do. And when you let your guard down, the way you think, the way you say things ... you make people look at things differently. You make people feel things.

Priscilla Glenn

#76. I envy children who know that they're going to become doctors, know they're going to go into the forces or whatever. I think choice is one of the hardest things, but that's what I try to give my children, to say you can do anything.

Jeremy Irons

#77. Anything that is within you is a gift. To be able to take possession of that and say, "Whatever it is, I am bigger than it," is to learn to cherish even the hard and painful things.

John Darnielle

#78. I know it sounds strange to say, but the very technologies that have made traveling easier for most people - GPS, automated ticket machines, online schedules and ticketing, boarding passes you can print out at home - have actually made things harder for me.

Philip Schultz

#79. Sometimes you can gradually improve things. But sometimes, they don't work, and you've just got to just say: Let's grind this baby to a halt.

Abigail Johnson

#80. Love and desire...they aren't the same but they go hand in hand. To say you love someone is to say you have the desire for good things for them, that you desire to DO good things for them. One of the worst things the enemy does is change the definition of love in the minds of a people.

J. Evan Johnson

#81. I should say, one of the things about being a widow or a widower, you really, really need a sense of humor, because everything's going to fall apart.

Joyce Carol Oates

#82. If you work hard, good things will happen. I will never be in a situation where if I fail I can look back and say, 'If I'd only worked harder.'

Travis Hafner

#83. I love revising things, because you see how you can get the language to get closer to intention. You know there are three ways to say X thing, but one will say it better than the other two. And in saying it better, it gets you closer to something.

Claudia Rankine

#84. When you see which choices, which decisions, a being makes, you see what is truly meaningful to them. They may say many things, but the choices they make let you see their souls.

Colleen Vanderlinden

#85. Can't believe you're making me say this am willing to fill any role required by you i.e. buddy best buddy laborer unpaid driver unpaid gardener unpaid father of your children coat etc just tell me which and how we'll manage come home will square things with your Pa - Charlie

Helen Oyeyemi

#86. You can analyse a joke and say it's funny because this guy thought this was going to happen, and that happened, and it's surprising. But not all surprising things are funny.

John Lloyd

#87. You always say that," said Evan, "but then you go on your trips and vacations and then you settle back into things and then you're quiet for a while and then you say you're fine, you're busy, and then after a while you say you're going crazy again, and you start all over.

Lorrie Moore

#88. If you like strange, specific stuff - that's a nerd. Kanye West is a black nerd. He likes strange, specific stuff. If you go up to Kanye West and say, 'Hey, what are your favorite things?' He'll be like, 'Robots and teddy bears.' That's a nerd.

Donald Glover

#89. Don't do or say things you would not like to see on the front page of The Washington Post.

Donald Rumsfeld

#90. Finally, sweet finally, he was inside her to the hilt.
"I need a second," he ground out, his body pulsing.
"You're really freaking big, Quinn," she panted. "Move. Please, for the love of the goddess, move."
He grinned before kissing her. "You say such sweet things.

Carrie Ann Ryan

#91. Especially as a title-holder, you can do great things with charities, because people suddenly care about what you have to say. I wanted to make a difference, which is why I created the Queen of the Universe pageant. I want to change all of those stigmas in the beauty pageant world.

Joyce Giraud

#92. They say when you look in dark places you find dark things.
And trust me; I have been in some very dark places.

Sean Catt

#93. If beautiful movies can influence you to go out and hug your children, then we have to be honest and say that other movies can inspire you to do bad things.

Nick Cave

#94. I think ... if things were different. If we were closer ... You'd be it for me, Star Girl. Is that stupid to say? That I think I could love you?

Nyrae Dawn

#95. If you are surprised by the things I say and do, then you really haven't paid attention to who I am.

Tanya Masse

#96. When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.

Fred Rogers

#97. Never give up. Things will get hard. No relationship is easy. You have to work through your problems as if tomorrow isn't guaranteed, because it's not. Never go to bed angry and always make sure you say I love you every chance you get.

Teresa Mummert

#98. people say i'm crazy but i believe that you just have to
live with the things
the juxtaposition
in what you don't see
the great hot emptiness ahead
what you keep calling memory

Erica Lewis

#99. Perhaps you didn't say much about him, mother, but Gerald said lots - dreadful things!'
'Yes,' said the Duchess, 'he said what he thought. The present generation does, you know. To the uninitiated, I admit, dear, it does sound a little rude.

Dorothy L. Sayers

#100. I think [aging] has nothing to recommend it. You don't gain any wisdom as the years go by. You fall apart, is what happens. People try and put a nice varnish on it, and say, well, you mellow. You come to understand life and accept things. But you'd trade all of that for being 35 again.

Woody Allen