Top 100 Say What You Quotes
#1. You cannot demand your rights, civil or otherwise, if you are unwilling to say what you are.
Merle Miller
#2. Say what you believe and see who follows.
Seth Godin
#3. Say what you will to the force that governs the universe. Perhaps we'll call it into being, and it will yet love us as we love it.
Anne Rice
#4. Why make this call and not just say what you wanted?
His eyes. His blue eyes. His blue imperfect eyes.
Joan Didion
#5. Say what you have to say and the first time you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending - sit down.
Winston Churchill
#6. Say what you wish about media in the Arab world, but say it knowing that no media channel in the world is absolutely free.
Aysha Taryam
#7. There were many ways to extract information if you have more time? but if you were in a rush, they recommended flaying, crushing digits, or electrocuting the genitalia.(Say what you will about the Russians, they certainly didn't beat around the bush.)
B. Justin Shier
#8. Have no discrepancy between what you say, what you are and what you do.
Dalai Lama
#9. Say what you will about Leona Helmsley, when it comes to standing trial, she's twice the man Jim Bakker is.
David Letterman
#10. I have found, writing a blog, that being non-opaque is necessary. You pretty much have to say what you know in much more firm terms or risk that the legions who always know more than you do will tell the story better.
Kara Swisher
#11. Say what you will, nothing can make a complete soldier except battle experience.
Ernie Pyle
#12. Replace it. 7. Please say what you are doing and how you propose to overcome the growing difficulties of sending reinforcements into Singapore. Also, what has been done about reducing number of useless mouths in Singapore Island? What was the reply about supplies? *** It is not possible to pursue
Winston S. Churchill
#13. Say what you will about Americans, but one thing they are not is passive. The Bush administration may have pushed through the Patriot Act weeks after 11 September, but, as the American public got to grips with how the law was affecting their individual rights, their protests grew loud and angry.
Heather Brooke
#15. I think in most cases, unless you're writing about a character who is garrulous, you say what you've got to say and then get out. Those little conjunctions, those little turnaround words help you do it. That's the way I like to write: I get rid of things rather than add them.
Randy Newman
#16. Say what you want about America - thirteen bucks can still get you a hell of a lot of mice!
George Michael
#17. Only in America - the land of the free - can an innocent person be forced to plead the Fifth for exercising their First Amendment rights. Say what you want, but you better shut your fucking pie hole if it offends someone's delicate sensibilities.
Kendall Grey
#18. When you only had words, you had to make up for things, say what you might not need to otherwise.
Sarah Dessen
#19. No person is perfect. I haven't, thank God, had any infidelity issues. But you can't say what you won't ever do. And you can't say that you won't have forgiveness in your heart if there were to be an issue like that.
Tasha Smith
#20. Say what you want about the deaf ...
Jimmy Carr
#21. Civilization depends on, and civility often requires, the willingness to say, "What you are doing is none of my business" and "What I am doing is none of your business.
George F. Will
#22. What is the compulsion to tell the truth if not a moral compulsion? Jacqueline Delon had asked. She was wrong. It's a survival necessity. You can't live if you can't accept what you are, and you can't accept what you are if you can't say what you do. The power of naming, as old as Adam. We
Glen Duncan
#24. Say what you say plainly, and then take responsibility for it.
Ai Weiwei
#25. Say what you will about the leadership of 'SNL,' they have crafted an institution as opposed to just running a show. I don't think that's by accident.
Phil LaMarr
#27. The funniest part of that joke is, 'say what you will about Hitler'.
-to Ricky Gervais on Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee
Jerry Seinfeld
#28. Concentrate on what you want to say to yourself and your friends. Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness. You say what you want to say when you don't care who's listening.
Allen Ginsberg
#29. You've got to say what you say / Don't let anybody get in your way
Noel Gallagher
#30. Participate in your own dreams, don't just say what you want or complain about what you don't have.
Steve Maraboli
#32. You say what you have to say. But you have to learn to say it in such a way that the reader can see what you mean.
Kurt Vonnegut
#33. Judge me all you want, say what you wanna say, but you, you, you, don't deserve my attention!
Me
#34. I think that a man should not be shy; you should say what you really think and feel - put it out there.
Andre Holland
#35. A Pakistan businessman is claiming that John Walker Lindh is gay and that he was his lover. Say what you will about Lindh, but when this guy goes to play for the other team - he goes all the way ... So Lindh may be both a terrorist and a gay man. That may be John Ashcroft's worst nightmare.
Jay Leno
#36. The most common thing that real reporters say to me is, "I wish I could say what you say." What I don't understand is, why can't they say what I say, even in their own way? Does that mean they want to be able to name certain bald contradictions or hypocrisies that politicians have?
Stephen Colbert
#37. In this country you can say what you like
because no one will listen to you anyway
Margaret Atwood
#38. Say what you believe in a manner that bespeaks the determination with which you believe it.
Taylor Mali
#39. If you don't say what you need to say when you have a chance ... you'll regret it. Even if you're mad, say it. Scream it into the world while you still have a chance to. Because once life passes you by, it's gone. And so are the words left unspoken.
Brittainy C. Cherry
#41. Nihilists! I mean, say what you like about the tenets of National Socialism, Dude, at least it's an ethos.
Walter
#43. Somebody who should have been born
is gone.
Yes, woman, such logic will lead
to loss without death. Or say what you meant,
you coward ... this baby that I bleed.
Anne Sexton
#45. If you don't say what you're thinking, you end up lying when you really need to speak up.
Banana Yoshimoto
#46. You're never terrified when you say what you mean - are you?
Mo Mowlam
#47. I guess if you're smart enough, you can do and say what you like and people just call you eccentric. It's like being old."
"Or rich," Alex said.
David Walton
#48. For say what you will of lovers there's nothing so flattering to female vanity as the praise of a husband, because it is universally considered a more difficult matter to retain affection than to win it.
Hannah Crafts
#49. Don't fake enthusiasms. Say what you think, not what you think you ought to think.
Darcy O'Brien
#50. Normally I hate people who whine all the time, but in your case, it would be okay to complain. Be selfish, say what you want once in a while. It's okay to let yourself be sad. -Kyo talking to Tohru
Natsuki Takaya
#51. Grateful and awake, ask what you need to know now. Say what you feel now. Love what you love now.
Mark Nepo
#52. You can say what you want about me. You can yell at me with a video camera and be TMZ. You can follow me around and take pictures all you want. I don't care.
Ben Affleck
#53. Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot.
D.H. Lawrence
#54. the things you 'just don't do' and the things you 'just do', in my eyes, are the actions of sheep. Act the way you feel, not the way you're expected to. Say what you mean.
Luke Smitherd
#55. Say what you have to say, not what you ought. Any truth is better than make-believe.
Henry David Thoreau
#56. Say what you will about him Ed Koch is still the best show in town.
Pete Hamill
#57. Say what you want, princess. You are a recipe for premature ejaculation, if I've ever seen one.
Rosanna Leo
#58. Takes twice as much courage to be who you are, say what you think, feel what you feel and let it show then it does to bury it. That shit you been holdin' onto will destroy you. You got a safe place to get rid of it, and you do, then you get rid of it like you just did. Yeah?
Kristen Ashley
#59. The Panza is here," said Sancho, before anyone could reply, "and Don Quixotissimus too; and so, most distressedest Duenissima, you may say what you willissimus, for we are all readissimus to do you any servissimus.
Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
#60. You really can't be a good artist if you can't say what you really feel. And people may be offended, but, you know, that's how you feel, and that is your right, and that is your gift as well.
Alice Walker
#62. Don't worry about what the people say; be yourself, say what you want to say with respect.
Mariano Rivera
#64. What you've got to do is be honest. Say what you believe. Give it to them straight. Just don't wuss out.
Michael Bloomberg
#65. Democracy: In which you say what you like and do what you're told.
Dave Barry
#66. Say what you like about my bloody murderous government,' I says, 'but don't insult me poor bleedin' country.
Edward Abbey
#67. Say what you want to say about the rest of his presidency, including his tone-deaf response to Katrina and a war waged in Iraq on false pretenses, Bush connected with Americans in the aftermath of 9/11 because he looked as frail and unforgiving as we felt.
Ron Fournier
#68. We must be conventional, Jack, or we are so cruelly, so vilely misunderstood. Even you, who are a man, cannot say what you think without being misunderstood and vilified
George Bernard Shaw
#69. Insult me all you want. Judge me as much as you want. Say what you think, everything you want. But one thing. Dont touch my fans.
Michael Jackson
#70. Lissen Percepied do you believe in freedom?-then say what you want, it's poetry, poetry, all of it is poetry, great prose is poetry, great verse is poetry.
Jack Kerouac
#71. And finally, have you trained well enough so you can say what you want to say without getting hamstrung? Have you written enough so that you are relaxed and can allow the truth to get out without being ruined by self-conscious posturings or changed by a desire to become rich?
Ray Bradbury
#72. Say what you see and you experience yourself through your style of seeing and saying.
Mark Doty
#73. Say what you will, dear sister, we do what we do for the promise of our youth. Yet it is always they who scar beneath the points of daggers.
Chris Galford
#74. You can't live if you can't accept what you are, and you can't accept what you are if you can't say what you do.
Glen Duncan
#75. Stop falling in love with everything that lets you down, even if your hands are shaking and your faith is broken, even as the eyes are closing, do it with a heart wide open. Say what you need to say.
John Mayer
#76. Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely vile.
Kurt Vonnegut
#77. I remember very vividly what it's like to be a child. The adults you liked were the ones who listened to you when you spoke and gave you time to say what you wanted to say and actually listened, and quite often reacted as a result of what you'd said.
Rolf Harris
#78. I think if you want to make an impact, you've got to say what you feel and do what you feel.
Cher Lloyd
#79. As a leader, it is so important that your words equal your actions. It is imperative that you make sure that you go through a self-evaluation process on an almost daily basis to make sure that your actions are in line with your words. You must do what you say and say what you do.
Jon Gordon
#80. Say what you will about Queen Eleanor, she was a savvy, quick-witted woman who made her mark on history. And as the founder of the Courts of Love, what better patron monarch could there be for a romantic novelist?
Lauren Willig
#81. You may say what you want to, but in my opinion she had more sand in her than any girl I ever see; in my opinion she was just full of sand.
Mark Twain
#82. There are all kinds of writers and all kinds of methods, and any method that helps you to say what you want to say is the right method for you.
William Zinsser
#83. We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly.
Bill Maher
#84. I went to see Chicago after I finished shooting, and say what you want about it, but that thing was so meticulously planned. It was planned like NASA planned its trips to the moon. It made me feel like some sort of horrible dilettante.
Guy Maddin
#85. It's always like you write a poem when you can't really say what you're trying to say.
David Duchovny
#86. Punk Funk means to be one with yourself. To be rebellious, aggressive, able to do and say what you feel at all times, without inflicting mental or spiritual pain.
Rick James
#87. Society needs a couple of vents that say what you're not supposed to say.
Sam Kinison
#88. Say what you like, but such things do happen - not often, but they do happen.
Randall Jarrell
#89. Say what you will about seeing the bright side in every situation, but sometimes there is no bright side. Sometimes the only thing to see is darkness for miles and miles with no way to find even a single glimmer of light.
Amy Matayo
#90. Say what you think; think what you mean.
Yusuf Islam
#91. You make a pact with life and death: so many years as a king, and then...Say what you will, dirty money spends as green as clean.
Arturo Perez-Reverte
#92. Say what you will of fortitude, but show me the man who can patiently endure the laughter of fools when they have obtained an advantage over him. 'Tis only when their nonsense is without foundation that one can suffer it without complaint.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#93. A podium is something you walk up to, you say what you want to say and when you're finished, you leave.
Joshua Oppenheimer
#94. Say what you like about melodrama, it beats confusion. The truth is we ought have a chance to say a little something when it's getting dark. We ought to have a closing scene.
Leif Enger
#95. There are five freedoms:
The freedom to see and hear what is;
The freedom to say what you feel and think;
The freedom to feel what you actually feel;
The freedom to ask for what you want;
The freedom to take risks on your own behalf.
Virginia Satir
#96. You say what you want to say when you don't care who's listening. If you're grasping to get your own voice, you're making a strained attempt to talk, so it's a matter of just listening to yourself as you sound when you're talking about something that's intensely important to you.
Allen Ginsberg
#97. Say what you have to say in the fewest possible words.
Arthur Bryant
#98. And that, to me, is the main attraction to comics. It's an avenue to say what you want to say.
Bill Sienkiewicz
#99. Say what you want about fairies, but you haven't rocked out until you've heard Smoke on the Water played on a harpsichord. ~Harlow
Red Tash
#100. There is only one duty, only one safe course, and that is to try to be right and not to fear to do or say what you believe to be right. That is the only way to deserve and to win the confidence of our great people in these days of trouble.
Winston Churchill
