Say They Quotes

#1. And indeed, human beings in general are fond, even inordinately fond, of being trampled on, have you noticed that? But of women it's especially true. One might even say they that can't get along without it.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#2. You just wait and see. The lily-livered b*stards in Washington will demobilize. They'll say they've made the world safe for democracy again. The Russians are not such d*mned fools. They'll rebuild; and with modern weapons.

George S. Patton

#3. I'd heard of writers who say they hate to write. Not me. I love to do it.

Donald Hall

#4. It gives me a huge buzz when people say they've enjoyed my books, because this grew out of a hobby, and it's an absolute passion, and it's lovely when I get feedback.

Alison Weir

#5. Not a lot of people can say they are in a job they love to do. I am very fortunate to be able to do that and I thank everyone around me every day for the fact that I am able to do it.

Joe Bowen

#6. I think that presidents don't give up power that has accrued to them by the precedent of previous presidents. Even when they say they would like to, I think once they get there they don't give it up.

Rachel Maddow

#7. High School made me realize that the people who say they will never change, are always the ones who change the most.

John Green

#8. Some people say they have a thirst for life. They're excited about every day and they're prepared to look the bad and the good straight in the face and greet it all with a smile. I like to think I'm one of those people.

Amy Jo Martin

#9. I feel an obligation to set the record straight. Actors that say they're affected by something, that it changes their life, that they take it home with them, they're just trying to get nominated for an Oscar!

Joaquin Phoenix

#10. I really believe that anybody on the Left or the Right that tries to invoke the teachings of Jesus to say they should vote for this candidate or that candidate, I think they're stretching Scripture.

Jerry Falwell Jr.

#11. Everyone wants to say they hate lawyers, and yet I've never met a parent who didn't want their kid to be a lawyer.

Jessi Klein

#12. To say that any people are not fit for freedom, is to make poverty their choice, and to say they had rather be loaded with taxes than not.

Thomas Paine

#13. Interviewer: Some people say they can't understand your writing, even after they read it two or three times. What approach would you suggest for them?
Faulkner: Read it four times.

William Faulkner

#14. In the United States, they always talk about subtitles, about chapters in a book without taking the main title of the book. They talk about a subtitle in a chapter and if you ask them about the headline, the main title, they say they do not know.

Bashar Al-Assad

#15. The eyes were of a color which he could never decide on, afterwards when he told the story he used to say they were the color of everything in Spring.

John Buchan

#16. We all have thoughts that we would never, ever vocalise. And people who say they don't are liars.

L. H. Cosway

#17. It is rare for people to say they want to be held accountable, but in reality, everyone wants everyone else to be held accountable.

David Cottrell

#18. It is often said that men are ruled by their imaginations; but it would be truer to say they are governed by the weakness of their imaginations.

Walter Bagehot

#19. I don't think there's anyone who would say they don't want or need more of God's power in their life.

Joyce Meyer

#20. After adding trillions to the debt on big-government policies most Americans didn't ask for and which we couldn't afford, Democratic leaders say they need more money, which they intend to take from small business, even though small businesses create the majority of new jobs.

Mitch McConnell

#21. Newspapers with declining circulations can complain all they want about their readers and even say they have no taste. But you will still go out of business over time. A newspaper is not a public trust - it has a business model that either works or it doesn't.

Marc Andreessen

#22. The torture that they are coming up with in China is so creative. They have this other method where they'll take a bamboo and they'll plant it in your anus and just let it grow. So patient. Man, watch out for China, I say. They have all the ambition as we do but none of the heart.

Kristen Schaal

#23. All these corporate reports say they want zero carbon. Well that is ridiculous, because you are not telling us what you are, you are telling us what you are not.

William McDonough

#24. I take them seriously but I try not to read them. I take them personally, that's why I don't read them. I think people are lying when they say they don't care, that's not true. I take them personally.

Antoine Fuqua

#25. Most people in the West who say they believe in God actually believe in belief in God.

Daniel Dennett

#26. I'd rather talk to people who do things than complain about other people who do things. I say they're idiots.

Tom Clancy

#27. People always say they want to hear the truth, but they really don't

Michael Thomas Ford

#28. One fan wrote asking for a very specific autographed photo. He wanted me to pose in tight jeans and boots and even enclosed a sketch of how I should dress! A lot of them just say they wish they had a girlfriend like me. They're very endearing letters.

Mary Frann

#29. They (mothers-in-law) never leave when they say they will. When my mother-in-law visits, the mice throw themselves at the cat, begging to be eaten.

Lisa Kleypas

#30. I've never had a problem with people paying attention to what you're doing and say they find that they liked it.

Viggo Mortensen

#31. Why do they need you on Molokai?"
"I'm not at liberty to say."
"'Not at liberty to say.' They should put that on your grave. 'Here lies Roberta Griswold. Whether or not she rests in peace, we're not at liberty to say.

Neal Shusterman

#32. It's important to stand up for your work, otherwise somebody else will step in and say they did it.

Jerry Bruckheimer

#33. Those who say they will forgive but can't forget, simply bury the hatchet but leave the handle out for immediate use.

Dwight L. Moody

#34. I don't know how anyone can keep a straight face and say they are for deficit reduction while they insist on a permanent tax cut for the wealthiest Americans, completely unpaid for.

Claire McCaskill

#35. Write with honesty and don't worry about the feelings of others, because no matter what you say, they'll hate you anyway.

Isabel Allende

#36. People have told me that Ive helped them feel confident, like they can say things they want to say. They can talk about feminism in class without people calling them a lesbian. Thats so amazing that I can make someone feel like that.

Lorde

#37. In most job interviews, people say they are looking for people skills and emotional intelligence. That's reasonable, but the question is, how do you define what that looks like?

Susan Cain

#38. Every scientific truth goes through three stages. First, people say it conflicts with the Bible. Second, they say it has been discovered before. Last, they say they always believed it.

Matthew Pearl

#39. I see friends who are in different genres of music, and they say they're so burnt playing the same stuff every night. That's why you see a country act wanting to go out and play an old classic rock song. But what cracks me up is that they all want to be Jimmy Buffett. I can't figure that out.

Kid Rock

#40. I've always had a problem with people who couldn't tell the truth or admit a mistake and say they're wrong.

Burt Bacharach

#41. Death is a great tragedy ... a profound loss ... I don't accept it ... I think people are kidding themselves when they say they are comfortable with death.

Ray Kurzweil

#42. People wait in line to see me, saying there's plenty of living to be done even if you have an HIV diagnosis. People say they are 10- or 15-year survivors and still moving forward.

Greg Louganis

#43. I feel like those people who say they can bungee jump, but when they're actually standing on the bridge, the reality of the situation hits them in the face." "Yeah, never bungee jump. Reality isn't the only thing that hits you in the face.

Darynda Jones

#44. People tend to think that numbers are quite objective, but numbers in economics are not like this. Some economists say they're like sausages: you don't know what they really are until you cut into them.

Ha-Joon Chang

#45. Well, I'm in my 60s now. I finally look it, I think. People until I was 60 would always say they thought I looked younger, which I think, without flattering myself, I did, but I think I certainly have, as George Orwell says people do after a certain age, the face they deserve.

Christopher Hitchens

#46. There is a place in the United States for the Negro. They are real American citizens, and at home. They have fought and bled and died, like men, to make this country what it is. And if they have got to suffer and die, and be lynched, and tortured, and burned at the stake, I say they are at home.

Amanda Smith

#47. The critic can affect my aesthetic theories only by affecting my aesthetic experience. All systems of aesthetics must be based on personal experience--that is to say, they must be subjective.

Clive Bell

#48. I think it's a little irresponsible for women who choose surgery to then say they can portray the average woman on the street, because if the average woman can't afford those treatments, then she's going to say, 'I'm 53 and I don't look like that,' and start thinking she's ugly or inadequate.

Debra Winger

#49. Men say they love independence in a woman, but they don't waste a second demolishing it brick by brick.

Candice Bergen

#50. Madame? What do I look like?"
"You have many thousands of freckles."
"Papa used to say they were like stars in heaven. Like apples in a tree.

Anthony Doerr

#51. We're agnostics, she used to tell her kids, back when they were little and needed a way to define themselves to their Catholic and Jewish and Unitarian friends. We don't know if there's a God, and nobody else does, either. They might say they do, but they really don't.

Tom Perrotta

#52. Not too many people can say they love what they do and they really like the people they work with.

Anthony Mackie

#53. Many people who say they're looking for love are merely looking for superficial comfort. They're not looking yet for the true romantic adventure. For that entails a readiness to die to who we were, in order to be born again prepared for love, truly worthy of the romantic heights.

Marianne Williamson

#54. Women say they have sexual thoughts too. They have no idea. It's the difference between shooting a bullet and throwing it. If they knew what we were really thinking, they'd never stop slapping us.

Larry Miller

#55. I hear a lot of 'Top Model' girls say they are dismissed by clients because they recognize them, but it never happened to me.

Fatima Siad

#56. I can't tell you how many people say they were turned off from science because of a science teacher that completely sucked out all the inspiration and enthusiasm they had for the course.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#57. Over and over, we hear politicians say they can't spend our tax dollars on environmental protection when the economy is so fragile.

David Suzuki

#58. Trump's - has great negatives, enormous negatives, a lot of people say they simply won't vote for him. So if he's gotten media, maybe it hasn't done him so much good.

David Folkenflik

#59. I don't blame homosexuals for being angry when people say they've made a choice to be gay, because they don't.

James Dobson

#60. At the movies, we are gradually being conditioned to accept violence as a sensual pleasure. The directors used to say they were showing us its real face and how ugly it was in order to sensitize us to its horrors. You don't have to be very keen to see that they are now in fact desensitizing us.

Pauline Kael

#61. Despite the administration's long public information campaign, for many months polls have consistently indicated only 37 percent of those eligible for Medicare say they only partially understand the program.

Mike Fitzpatrick

#62. The cells in your body are completely loyal to you; they work for you in harmony. We can even say they pray to you. You are their God. That is absolutely the truth. Now what are you going to do with this knowledge?

Miguel Ruiz

#63. Looks like Madison Estates isn't going to get built; my husband and I bought property there, but someone called this week to say they're refunding us our deposit because they didn't presell enough houses to finance the project. Another paper town for KS!- Marge in Cawker, KS

John Green

#64. Any lady who is first lady likes being first lady. I don't care what they say, they like it.

Richard M. Nixon

#65. If you read reviews of concerts, the word 'creative' comes up all the time. However, performers playing music usually aren't creative. Critics might say they are, but they're just playing another persons work. They didn't create it.

Ned Rorem

#66. Those who say they understand Chess, understand nothing

Robert Hubner

#67. Fish say, they have their Stream and Pond; But is there anything Beyond?

Rupert Brooke

#68. I think I've been very lucky. The readers who write to me say they like the characters and the sense of a real world, often one they don't otherwise know about. And usually there's a funny bit in there somewhere.

Sophie Weston

#69. When people go to the theater, people say they want something different, but what they really want is something the same with slight permutations. To really not know what is going to happen next is a hard thing.

James Gunn

#70. It's hard enough for me to write what I want to write without me trying to write what you say they want me to write which I don't want to write.

Tennessee Williams

#71. The universities deceive when they say they have no agenda other than to open minds.

Dennis Prager

#72. I always individuate myself from other writers who say they would die if they couldn't write. For me, I'd die if I couldn't read.

Junot Diaz

#73. There has never been a failure of a currency board anywhere in the world. These are tough systems, and when I say they are foolproof, that's exactly the case.

Steve Hanke

#74. When I went to Fashion Week, I was very disappointed by how few women of color were in those shows. I do speak to the younger girls, and I hear them when they say they're not getting the big contracts or into the big shows.

Beverly Johnson

#75. Our children are counting on us to provide two things: consistency and structure. Children need parents who say what they mean, mean what they say, and do what they say they are going to do.

Barbara Coloroso

#76. Actors who say they don't watch TV are stupid. I was raised by TV! And it's how I research for auditions.

Rebecca Mader

#77. People say they like my fashion-haul videos because it's like you've been shopping with your friends, and you look back over what you have bought.

Zoe Sugg

#78. She felt his eyes on her, and returned his stare, unblinking. "I should say they'd find her handsome, though; they do like a woman as is sweetly plump.

Diana Gabaldon

#79. IVY: Mom believes women don't grow more attractive with age. KAREN: Oh, I disagree, I - VIOLET: I didn't say they "don't grow more attractive," I said they get ugly. And it's not really a matter of opinion, Karen dear. You've only just started to prove it yourself.

Tracy Letts

#80. There are people who say they can , others they can not . In general, they are all right .

Henry Ford

#81. I'm also for gay marriage, because I say they have every right to be just as miserable as the rest of us. Love is bigger than government. And Texas, by the way, has a very progressive law about gay couples adopting kids. We just won't let them get married. So that's not common sense.

Kinky Friedman

#82. Sometimes the people who mean you harm, are the ones that say they love you.

Nancy Werlin

#83. I told you I have both male and female organs."
"You didn't say they were all fully functional!" Belle stared at the rapidly disappearing bulge.
"Damn girl, how'd you get so lucky? Shit!

Belinda McBride

#84. I wouldn't say they're neglected, but everybody is going to grow old and we should be looking after the older generation more than we do at the moment.

Alan Hansen

#85. I couldn't do that as attorney general. Why? Because they are my clients. You can't say they're not doing what they ought to be doing when you are the attorney general.

Christine Gregoire

#86. I've met many, many writers who say they would never write about their family, never write about people they did not totally make up. But that is not the composition of my character.

Pat Conroy

#87. Some say they love you, but some actually "do" the loving. These are the ones that truly love you, because love is seen in actions.

Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

#88. If I say [electrons] behave like particles I give the wrong impression; also if I say they behave like waves. They behave in their own inimitable way, which technically could be called a quantum mechanical way. They behave in a way that is like nothing that you have seen before.

Richard P. Feynman

#89. DRAGON-GAGGERS: Instead of swords, some heroes wield toothbrushes, say they are there to "brush the dragon's teeth," and then they poke the toothbrush into the back gaggy part of its hot tongue.

Amy Leach

#90. To BE or not to BE depends on what you BElieve. If you BElieve you BElong, then that is how you will BEhave! BE-cause that is what you BE and have. So help others BEhave by helping them to BElieve they BElong. And then, everyone can always say they BE-LIVED!

Jack A. Langedijk

#91. People say they want freedom, but what they really want is freedom from worry. If I take care of their problems, they don't mind being told what to do.

Patrick Ness

#92. What is consciousness? Our brain simulates reality. So, our everyday experiences are a form of dreaming, which is to say, they are mental models, simulations, not the things they appear to be.

Stephen LaBerge

#93. I could say I think coulds are pretty, and you'd say they're only pretty to demons.

Larissa Ione

#94. What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things.

Margaret Mead

#95. I am a democrat only on principle, not by instinct, nobody is that. Doubtless some people say they are, but this world is grievously given to lying.

Mark Twain

#96. I tend to feel if people say they're going to do something, they will, if given the chance.

Margaret Atwood

#97. Since I didn't spend a great amount of time on writing the lyrics, some people would argue that they're too vague or simplistic, but I think it's kind of good. I wouldn't say they're all stream of consciousness, but they're not necessarily overwrought.

Jack Tatum

#98. They all seemed to function in it, but to say they controlled it would be wrong...The chaos controlled them.

Ted Dekker

#99. Are you too busy for improvement? Frequently, I am rebuffed by people who say they are too busy and have no time for such activities. I make it a point to respond by telling people, look, you'll stop being busy either when you die or when the company goes bankrupt.

Shigeo Shingo

#100. This is a rumour-filled society and if people want to sit around and talk about whom I've dated, then I'd say they have a lot of spare time and should consider other topics ... or masturbation.

Johnny Depp