Top 100 Said For Quotes
#1. There is much to be said for exotic marriages. If your husband is a bore, it takes years longer to discover.
Saul Bellow
#3. You're worth three of these other retards that I have working for me," Mr. Fletcher said. For a moment, he'd been flattered; then he realized he'd just been given the value of three retards.
T. Ellery Hodges
#4. From one hour to the next a life may change.... But as I have thought and said for years, acceptance is a key to strength and practice makes it easier.
Faith Baldwin
#5. There is this to be said for walking: it is the one method of human locomotion by which a man or woman proceeds erect, upright, proud and independent, not squatting on the haunches like a frog.
Little boys love machines. Grown-up mean and women like to walk.
Edward Abbey
#6. There is something to be said for rain, the sharing of an intimate caress with the leaves, blades of grass and all the living and the dead creatures to remind us we are connected.~Lyn Crain
Lyn Crain
#7. As I have said for two years now, when Osama Bin Laden and al-Qaeda were cornered in the mountains of Tora Bora, it was wrong to outsource the job of capturing them to Afghan warlords who a week earlier were fighting against us.
John F. Kerry
#8. There's something to be said for writing in the morning. At other points in the day, you're a bit more defensive.
Alex Turner
#9. There is much to be said for an emissions trading scheme. It was, after all, the mechanism for emission reduction ultimately chosen by the Howard government.
Tony Abbott
#10. Quercus: oak tree. The oak takes an extraordinarily long time to produce seeds. While some plants and trees do so within days or weeks, the oak can take up to fifty years to mature enough before it's ready for offspring. The same can be said for certain people who shall remain nameless.
Deb Caletti
#11. There is definitely something that has to be said for me liking the action, Lara Croft type stuff. I really want to explore that side of me.
Katie Cassidy
#12. Perhaps you have seen me. I know well, my purpose was merely that of a symbol, 'equals', 'times' ... ; but what is said, for all that, was identity-less: a kind of live geometry.
Albert Goldbarth
#13. The clog of all pleasure, the luggage of life, is the best can be said for a very good wife.
John Wilmot
#14. In the years since, I've discovered there's a lot to be said for boredom.
Stephen King
#15. For all our penny-wisdom,'" he said, "'for all our soul-destroying slavery to habit, it is not to be doubted that all men have sublime thoughts.
Joshua Ferris
#16. WL's [White Liberals] think all the world's problems can be fixed without any cost to themselves. We don't believe that. There's a lot to be said for sacrifice, remorse, even pity. It's what separates us from roaches
Paul Farmer
#17. This may be said for the last quarter of the twentieth century: the truism that if we want a better world we will have to be better people came to be acknowledge, if not thoroughly understood, by a significantly large minority.
Tom Robbins
#18. He said that the principal function of music was to organize the details into harmonies that were intended to make us forget that there was randomness all around us. The same, he said, could be said for great books.
Selden Edwards
#19. But there is much to be said for giving up ... grand ambitions and living the most ordinary life imaginable.
Walker Percy
#20. Every woman has the instinct, the propensity to profit from her charms, and there's a lot to be said for giving oneself without love, without pleasure.
Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch
#21. There's a lot to be said for going to baseball games for a living.
Willie Geist
#22. I think there is something to be said for a well-publicized ass-kicking.
Jacquelyn Frank
#23. Clearly the American military has been a force for good for the United States. There's a reason we have a standing military. But there's something to be said for having a much smaller military because then we wouldn't be tempted to get involved in things we shouldn't be getting involved in.
Michael Hastings
#24. A cat can be trusted to purr when she is pleased, which is more than can be said for human beings.
Dean Inge
#25. Ultimately, the Indian public is not fool. They can spot the difference between what is said for effect and what is done in reality. Whether it is politicians or actors or social activists, they know for sure whom to trust or not.
Rahul Bose
#26. There is a lot to be said for collaboration, and it should be seen as just another way to do things as it is in other forms of writing, such as for television, where it is standard practice.
James Patterson
#27. It's a pun!' the King added in an offended tone, and everybody laughed, 'Let the jury consider their verdict,' the King said, for about the twentieth time that day.
Lewis Carroll
#28. It was full of wounding remarks rather brilliantly said, perhaps said for the sheer virtuosity of giving pain neatly. Each of its phrases found its way through the eyes of the Marquesa, then, carefully wrapped in understanding and forgiveness, it sank into her heart.
Thornton Wilder
#29. Women can't add, he once said, jokingly. When I asked him what he meant, he said, For them, one and one and one and one don't make four. What do they make? I said, expecting five or three. Just one and one and one and one, he said.
Margaret Atwood
#30. There's a lot to be said for having a small manageable dream.
Douglas Coupland
#31. Scepticism, ironically, draws its life's blood from claims to have a good deal of knowledge. For example, your friends claim to know, 'Since every possible option has not been explored, nothing can be said for certain.' That statement is itself a claim to knowledge!
William Lane Craig
#32. There's something to be said for giving and helping to change people's lives.
Steven A. Cohen
#33. There is never a deed so foul that something couldn't be said for the guy; that's why there are lawyers.
Melvin Belli
#34. If you're still doing what mommy and daddy said for you to do (go to school, get a job, and save money), you're losing.
Robert Kiyosaki
#35. There's a lot to be said for not displacing people.
Barney Frank
#36. This, perhaps, goes to show that conditional self-esteem, as I have said for many years, is an insidious, real sickness, so much so that even Buddhists carelessly sneak it in and sometimes encourage their clients to achieve it.
Albert Ellis
#37. In these days of conflict between ancient and modern studies, there must surely be something to be said for a study which did not begin with Pythagoras, and will not end with Einstein, but is the oldest and the youngest of all.
G.H. Hardy
#38. Not another word was said for more than an hour. They only walked home together with aching feet and tired hearts.
Markus Zusak
#39. He went to prison," she said. "For beating up on you?" "In Texas?" she said. She laughed, just a yelp, like a short cry of pain. "Now I know you're new here.
Lee Child
#40. Is maybe the best we can do?" Callahan asked. "Yeah," Eddie said. "For the time being, I guess it is.
Stephen King
#41. The best that can be said for anybody is probably that you misunderstood him favorably.
William, Saroyan
#42. The best that can be said for ritualistic legalism is that it improves conduct. It does little, however, to alter character and nothing of itself to modify consciousness.
Aldous Huxley
#43. God has said for us to know bad, as bad and good, as good. But while knowing the bad, there should not be the slightest abhorrence towards it and while knowing the good, there should not be slightest attachment towards it. Without knowing bad, as bad, the good cannot be known as good.
Dada Bhagwan
#44. It's been a long day." "It's only nine in the morning." Myron said, "For what breeds time but two hands on a clock?
Harlan Coben
#45. Thank you," she said. "For making me have dinner with you."
He laughed. "Next time maybe I'll really torture you and take you to a movie."
Next time.
Roxanne Snopek
#46. Just deleting vandalism on the Chuck Norris page," Radar said. "For instance, while I do think that Chuck Norris specializes in the roundhouse kick, I don't think it's accurate to say, 'Chuck Norris's tears can cure cancer, but unfortunately he has never cried.
John Green
#47. There is at least this to be said for mind, that it can dispel mind.
Samuel Beckett
#48. We don't all have to be in the limelight to be reaching our potential,' Jack said, keeping his voice even. 'There's something to be said for raising a family and being part of my community.
Colleen Coble
#49. There was a lot to be said for the job of assistant section leader - when you come right to it, it's a lot easier to die than it is to use your head.
Robert A. Heinlein
#50. Do I wish you would've left him a long time ago? Hell yeah. But there's something to be said for someone brave enough to take on that kind of darkness alone.
Steph Campbell
#51. Okay, Kate, first of all, you're touching me," Vincent said for the room to hear. "So I'm not a ghost."
"And we're not true zombies," Charles said with a grin, "or he would have already eaten your face off.
Amy Plum
#52. The is always much to be said for not attempting more than you can do and for making a certainty of what you try. But this principle, like others in life and war, has it exceptions.
Winston Churchill
#53. There is nothing to be said for being crippled. You don't see the world better or clearer, nor do you develop some special set of skills by way of compensation.
Tony Judt
#54. I've said for quite a long time I'd like him to have a different haircut. I quite like my hair being short. You know, we've been away two years, let's f*** around with his outfit, let's f*** around with his haircut, let's do something different.
Benedict Cumberbatch
#55. Hurry, hurry, hurry, she said, for it was dark then, and she knew that we are bound, one to another, in licentious benevolence for only a single day, and that day was nearly over.
John Cheever
#56. Crockett and James Bowie got what was coming to them," Mom said, "for stealing this land from the Mexicans
Jeannette Walls
#57. Something has been said for sobriety but very little.
John Berryman
#58. We're only gonna talk to him," I said for what had to be the hundredth time as I pulled my truck up to the curb. But Neely Kate seemed exceptionally bloodthirsty, and truth be told, I didn't trust her all that much to behave.
Denise Grover Swank
#59. None of us is ever ready," he said. "For knighthood?" "For death.
George R R Martin
#60. A man told me that for a woman, I was very opinionated. I said, 'for a man you're kind of ignorant'.
Anne Hathaway
#61. She quotes Robert Louis Stevenson about how young writers must read like predators. And she says that all of us, not just writers, must read like predators. For books are food, she said, for every single one of us.
Pete Hamill
#62. Nice is a pallid virtue. Not like honesty or courage or perseverance. On the other hand, in a nation notably lacking in civility, there is much to be said for nice.
Molly Ivins
#63. Ah, I know," Bridget said. "For sure, you have the sixth sense." Mrs. Glover, wrestling with the plum pudding, snorted her disapproval. She was of the opinion that five senses were too many, let alone adding on another.
Kate Atkinson
#64. I've said for years I could never figure out why Calgary ever drafted me. When I got there, I think they had eight or nine right wingers already. These guys were premiere players. It's not like they were extremely late in their careers, either.
Brett Hull
#66. I want to talk to you," she said, "for hours and days and forever, but we can't right now. Not here, and not while we're still in danger.
Dan Wells
#67. You better write me letters. I said yeah, I will, but they'll be boring. Nothing happens in my life. Nothing has to happen, she said, for it to be life. Well, I said, I'll try.
Miriam Toews
#68. There was an awful lot to be said for familiarity, if you thought about it. It was an extremely underrated virtue, ignorable until the very moment that you were in danger of losing whatever or whoever it was that was familiar.
Nick Hornby
#69. Earlier today, John McCain was in the news. John McCain gave his first press conference since the election. And he said, 'For a lot of people, Sarah Palin was an energizing factor during the campaign.' Unfortunately for McCain, those people are called Democrats.
Conan O'Brien
#70. Macke went to the door. He looked at the three women: the maid, the wife, and the daughter. "All this trouble," he said, "for the sake of an eight-year-old moron. I will never understand you people.
Ken Follett
#71. There's a lot to be said for being alone. But you and I know, don't we, Flavia, that being alone and being lonely are not at all the same thing?
Alan Bradley
#72. I am certainly not arguing for the de facto autonomy of the individual work, even though there is much to be said for making the attempt to see it in that light as one facet of the reception process.
Brian Ferneyhough
#73. I think in terms of emotions. And feelings. So sometimes what I say may not always be clear. But creatively, there's a lot to be said for that way of thinking.
Brian Wilson
#74. One's fetishes are fascinating, but not because of their beauty or significance. The same could be said for one's genitals, or one's children.
Mason Cooley
#75. The story of our inferiority is an old dodge, as I have said; for wherever men oppress their fellows, wherever they enslave them, they will endeavor to find the needed apology for such enslavement and oppression in the character of the people oppressed and enslaved. When
Frederick Douglass
#76. Maybe there was something to be said for creepy statues after all.
Jennifer Estep
#77. Put off this sloth,' the master said, 'for shame!
Sitting on feather-pillows, lying reclined
Beneath the blanket is no way to fame -
Fame, without which man's life wastes out of mind,
Leaving on earth no more memorial
Than foam in water or smoke upon the wind
Dante Alighieri
#78. Why demons, when man himself is a demon?' the Nobel Laureate Singer's 'last demon' asked from his attic in Tishevitz. To which Chamcha's sense of balance, his much-to-be-said-for-and-against reflex, wished to add: 'And why angels, when man is angelic too?
Salman Rushdie
#79. Remember that mentor leadership is all about serving. Jesus said, "For even the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve others and to give his life as a ransom for many" (Mark 10:45).
Tony Dungy
#80. But, as Einstein once said, "For we convinced physicists, the distinction between past, present, and future is only an illusion, however persistent."5
Brian Greene
#81. There is something to be said for jealousy, because it only designs the preservation of some good which we either have or think wehave a right to. But envy is a raging madness that cannot bear the wealth or fortune of others.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#82. You'll be back within the hour?" she said. "For the opening dance?"
"Really, Azalea," said the King, putting on his stiff hat. "Is everything about dancing to you?"
"It was, actually, but Azalea decided now wasn't the best time to point that out.
Heather Dixon
#83. Nothing happens in my life. Nothing has to happen, she said, for it to be life.
Miriam Toews
#84. A man who is not afraid of the sea will soon be drowned, he said, for he will be going out on a day he shouldn't. But we do be afraid of the sea, and we do only be drownded now and again.
John Millington Synge
#85. AS C.S. Lewis once said, for Joe life here on earth was only the title and cover page. And now he has begun the greatest story of all, one that no one on earth has ever read in which ever chapter is better than the last.
Karen Kingsbury
#86. I believe there is something be said for exploring beautiful places. It's good for the spirit.
Dave Scott
#87. Shit, I'm sorry," he finally said. "For what?" I asked, angrily, "the insults or the kissing?" "The insults. Not sorry for the kissing.
Mia Sheridan
#88. Possibly, there was something to be said for the intellectual discipline of second-guessing what you thought was true.
Kwame Anthony Appiah
#89. He grieved too, Klara said, for the loss of a certain idea of himself.
Julie Orringer
#90. For my country," she said. "For my people. For every child you put to the pyre. Reap what you've sown, Jarl Brum.
Leigh Bardugo
#91. That's right, I'm still captured,' said Damen.
'Your eyes say, "For now,"' Laurent said. 'Your eyes have always said, "For now.
C.S. Pacat
#92. It is certain that there is no other passion which does produce such contrary effects in so great a degree. But this may be said for love, that if you strike it out of the soul, life would be insipid, and our being but half animated.
Joseph Addison
#93. There is much to be said for post-menopausal celibacy. Sex is rough on loners because you have to have somebody else around, but now I don't. No more diets to stay slim and desirable: I've had sex and I've had food, and I'd rather eat.
Florence King
#95. Anna, he said for the fourth time, as if there was nothing more to say, now that she'd finally answered. Nothing but her name. As if he'd just called to make sure she existed.
Antonia Michaelis
#96. It didn't matter what you look like. You don't have to get up at 5:30 in the morning and there's a lot to be said for that. Corpse Bride can just play all my parts from now on and I'll just do the voice.
Helena Bonham Carter
#97. In our culture, snails are not considered valiant animals - we are constantly exhorting people to "come out of their shells" - but there's a lot to be said for taking your home with you wherever you go.
Susan Cain
#98. Whelks are strange and comforting.
They have no notion of community life and they breed very quietly.
But they have a strong sense of personal dignity.
Even lying face down in a tray of vinegar there is something noble about a whelk.
Which cannot be said for everybody.
Jeanette Winterson
#99. As the man said, for every complex problem there's a simple solution, and it's wrong.
Umberto Eco
#100. So many terrible things are done for love," Mab's voice said. "For love will men mutilate themselves and murder rivals. For love will even a peaceful man go to war. For love, man will destroy himself, and that right willingly.
Jim Butcher
