Top 100 Says But Quotes
#1. Not everyone born free and equal, as the constitution says, but everyone made equal.
Ray Bradbury
#2. My type of humor is almost pure identification. A housewife reads my column and says, 'But that's happened to ME! I know just what she's talking about!
Erma Bombeck
#3. I'm sorry," Billy says, "but I felt it was too organized. I like ellipses and teeny jottings and spontaneous poems and particularly all those devices like long lists of melancholy things.
Edmund White
#4. Accidents happen. That's what everyone says. But in a quantum universe there are no such things as accidents, only possibilities and probabilities folded into existence by perception.
J. Michael Straczynski
#5. You can accept it that it may be true what somebody else says, but until you have experienced it, it is not dynamic to your own awareness.
Goswami Kriyananda
#6. I'm scared too," she says. "But I'm with you. If we fall, we fall together.
Laurelin Paige
#7. He bares his yellow teeth in a smile at me. 'Everyone is always our enemy,' he says. 'But right now, we are winning.
Philippa Gregory
#8. Why can't somebody give us a list of things everybody thinks and nobody says, and another list of the things that everybody says but nobody thinks?
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
#9. I think it looks hot," Duke says. "But that's just coming from the guy who hopes to play another role in your rebellion.
Kasie West
#10. I like you," she says, but I know this isn't what she really wants to say. "I like you too especially your tits." It's not what I want to say either, but fantasies need lies to keep them alive.
Bijou Hunter
#11. I think Steve King is absolutely wrong and I just hope that we can try to reach higher ground, because when you are spewing this kind of nonsense, things that Donald Trump says, Ben Carson says, but also [Marco] Rubio and [Ted] Cruz and even Jeb Bush have said.
Steve King
#12. Some People think 'coven' is a word for a group of witches, and it's true that's what the dictionary says. But the real word for a group of witches is 'an argument'.
Terry Pratchett
#13. I wanted to tell you something, she says, but it slipped under a chair.
Swoosie Kurtz
#14. ..he says, but that's wizard's talk, making things seem great by great words.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#15. I need a watchman to tell me this is what a man says but this is what he means, to draw a line down the middle and say here is this justice and there is that justice and make me understand the difference.
Harper Lee
#16. Go where ye list,' as the Good Book says. But go there alive, Trisha. Don't be no ghost. If you turn into one of those, it might be better if you stayed away.
Stephen King
#17. When you find a man you wish to marry, Tessa, remember this: You will know what kind of man he is not by the things he says, but by the things he does.
Cassandra Clare
#18. Sometimes, the only choices you have are horrible ones," she says. "But you must still choose. That is when you know you are strong, and there is grace in the struggle.
Sherry D. Ficklin
#19. Literature is without proofs. By which it must be understood that it cannot prove, not only what it says, but even that it is worth the trouble of saying it.
Roland Barthes
#20. There's a level of disrespect for the office that occurs. And that occurs in some cases and maybe even many cases because he's African American. There's no question about that and it's the kind of thing nobody ever says but everybody's thinking it.
Oprah Winfrey
#21. You don't love a man for what he says, but love what he says because you love him.
Andre Maurois
#22. A person may forget 90% of what a leader says, but he will never forget how the leader lives.
Kenneth Boa
#23. Filters let in a cup of water," he says, "but keep out the ocean.
Gloria Steinem
#25. Mikey, she says, but not like she's about to say anything more, just like she's identifying me, making a place for me here that's mine to exist in. I want her so much, my heart feels heavy, like I'm grieving. Is this what they meant about that stomach feeling? They didn't say it felt this sad.
Patrick Ness
#26. I want to taste that sweet little mouth of yours," he says, but he's not done. He's just using a dramatic pause to build the tension for the next bit. And it's good that he does, because the next part is this: "Before I make you come so hard you forget who you are.
Charlotte Stein
#27. Does she love you?"
"Not yet," Elliott says. "But she will. Araby's used to loving people who've done terrible things.
Bethany Griffin
#28. All things are a-flowing,' sage Heraclitus says, but a tawdry cheapness shall outlast all days.
Ezra Pound
#29. I don't want to be quoted as 'Tom Hiddleston, psychologist says ... ' But there is a psychological aspect to being an actor. We are particular students of human nature - not every actor is, of course, but that's what fascinates me about being an actor.
Tom Hiddleston
#30. I'm not sure I agree with everything he says; but then I'm not sure I agree with everything I say.
Carl Armerding
#31. You and I aren't going to spend our lives together," Jesse says. "But I finally understand that that doesn't take away any of the beauty of the fact that we were right for each other once.
Taylor Jenkins Reid
#32. Later, I came to see that Mr. Dickens and Mr. Wordsworth were thinking of men like me when they wrote their words. But most of all, I believe that Mr. Shakespeare was. Mind you, I cannot always make sense of what he says, but it will come.
Mary Ann Shaffer
#33. Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry. When we consider a book, we mustn't ask ourselves what it says but what it means ...
Umberto Eco
#34. Yeah, sometimes life really sucks," she says. "But you know what I'm holding on for?"
I raise my eyebrows.
She raises hers, too, mimicking me.
"The moments that don't suck," she says. "The trick is to notice them when they come around.
Veronica Roth
#35. Other kids grew up telling stories about the Pilot," Caleb says. "But I grew up watching him fly.
Ally Condie
#36. Yes, failure is part of the mix, he says, but it is a means, not an end. If you fail repeatedly, and in the same manner, you're an idiot, not a genius.
Eric Weiner
#37. ...Your love is evident,' she says. 'But, darling, sometimes the ballet does not love us back.
Jennifer Longo
#38. No,' Ben says, 'but I believe it. I believe it for you. And that's why it's hope.
Patrick Ness
#39. Leadership isn't what a team says, but what it does.
Orrin Woodward
#40. Say what you like about my bloody murderous government,' I says, 'but don't insult me poor bleedin' country.
Edward Abbey
#41. The best indicator of a man's philosophy is not what he reads or says, but the way in which he lives his life, the way in which he acts.
Chris Matakas
#42. Oh, you are not disappointing," Henry says. "But the moment you are, I will let you know.
Hilary Mantel
#43. It might not feel like it," the cop says, "but, Cooper, today is your lucky day.
David Levithan
#44. It's all right," he says. "But maybe - you could - " He looks into my eyes, deep, and I know what he wants. A kiss.
Ally Condie
#45. The Divine may have created many hells", he says, "but I think they pale beside what men create for themselves.
Robert Jackson Bennett
#46. Rose: You're crazy.
Jack: That's what everybody says but, with all due respect, Miss, I'm not the one hanging off the back of a ship here. Come on. C'mon, give me your hand. You don't want to do this.
James Cameron
#47. What, in the end, makes advertisements superior to criticism? Not what the moving red neon says - but the fiery pool reflecting it in the asphalt.
Walter Benjamin
#48. A man admires a woman not for what she says, but what she listens to.
George Jean Nathan
#49. Boys will be boys, that's what everyone always says. But no one ever mentions how girls have to be something other than themselves altogether.
Hilary Thayer Hamann
#50. Sobriety is okay enough," Denny says, "but someday, I'd like to live a life based on doing good stuff instead of just not doing bad stuff. You know?
Chuck Palahniuk
#51. Yes, I am Jewish," she says. "But I am also Catholic." She pauses and adds, "And Muslim too." ... "It is all the same, is it not? It is mankind that creates the differences. That does not mean it is not all the same God.
Kristin Harmel
#52. It's not what a person says but what he does that reveals his true character.
Philip Jose Farmer
#53. Day leans in toward me. He reaches up to touch my face. I can tell it still hurts him to use his fingers, and his nails are dark with dried blood. "You're brilliant," he says. "But you're a fool to stay wish someone like me."
I close my eyes at the touch of his hand. "Then we're both fools.
Marie Lu
#54. I love that you're worried,' she says, 'but you're worried about all the wrong things.
Patrick Ness
#55. God is great and God is good," Lisa says. "But where are the Apache attack helicopters when you need them?
Suzanne Finnamore
#56. You don't have to make any decisions right now," Colleen says. "But I'll tell you this. There's life after marriage."
~Excerpt from "Mad Dog Justice
Mark Rubinstein
#57. Don't let what he wants eclipse what you need. He is very dreamy," she says. "But he is not the sun. You are.
Shonda Rhimes
#58. I get lost in you," I whisper, wishing I could see her face but not wanting to move her. "Mm," she says. "But it's the kind of lost that's like being found.
Kristen Proby
#59. To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide
#60. Advertising is judged not by what it says, but by what the consumer thinks it says.
Kenneth Roman
#61. When then any man assents to that which is false, be assured that he did not intend to assent to it as false, for every soul is unwillingly deprived of the truth, as Plato says; but the falsity seemed to him to be true.
Epictetus
#62. I kiss her on the mouth. She looks around nervously. I watch her reflection in the BMW.
"What's wrong?" I ask. "Not here", she says, but as if "not here" is the promise of somewhere better.
Bret Easton Ellis
#63. The No. 1 most credible source of [online] recommendations is YouTube," Rand says. "But a friend liking a brand page and sharing that is now considered the second-most prominent form of recommendation, and third is online brand reviews.
Paul M. Rand
#64. Words do have consequences, and what one generation says but does not really believe, the next generation may believe, and even act upon.
Peter Singer
#65. Children can tell you what Channel 7 says, but not what Matthew 7 says.
Leonard Ravenhill
#66. According to her we are each our own greatest mystery, and our life's work is to solve ourselves. None of us ever succeeds, she says, but it is our duty to follow the trail. Regardless of how long it is or where it might
Jan-Philipp Sendker
#67. 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
#68. I tried getting my dad to buy me a beeper for my birthday," he says, "but he thinks only doctors and drug dealers need them.
Jay Asher
#69. My grandma has said many of the things her character says. But she was much nicer! I made her meaner for dramatic purposes.
Nicole Holofcener
#70. You were torturing a cat," she says. "With a freaking prod."
"A prod I built myself in metal shop," he says. "But of course you never mention that.
George Saunders
#71. The Reality of The Other Person Lies Not In What He Reveals To You, But What He Cannot Reveal To You.
Therefore, If You Would Understand Him, Listen Not To What He Says, But Rather To What He Does Not Say.
Kahlil Gibran
#72. If some one tells you that so and so speaks ill of you, do not defend yourself against what he says, but answer, 'He did not know my other faults, or he would not have mentioned these alone.' It
Marcus Aurelius
#73. A book is valuable not only for what it says but for what it makes you think, or causes you to remember. No matter what you wish to do or become there are books to teach you, help you, guide you.
Louis L'Amour
#74. Sometimes when your child talks, your friends cannot understand what he says; but the mother understands very well. So if our prayer comes from the heart, God understands our language.
Dwight L. Moody
#75. You're brilliant,"he says."But you're a fool to stay with someone like me."
I close my eyes at the touch of his hand."Then we are both fools.
Marie Lu
#76. The family we're born into is important, sure, but they're not all we have. They're not all we are. A part of life is making your own family. That's the beauty of it all." I smile softly. "Do you have a big family?" "I do," he says, "but most of us aren't blood related.
J.M. Darhower
#77. You can listen to what everybody says, but the fact remains that you've got to get out there and do the thing yourself.
Joan Sutherland
#78. You know that you're a true friend when somebody says "But what about that wart on the end of his nose?" and your honest response is "What wart?". You see true friends accept you for what you are, wart and all.
Jeffrey Michael
#79. I don't understand', I say,'why they care what I think, as long as I'm acting how they want me to.'
'You're acting how they want you to now', he says,'but what happens when your Abnegation-wired brain tells you to do something else, something they don't want?
Veronica Roth
#80. 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
#81. I know, I'm sorry, "Bailey says.
"What does exsanguinated mean?"
The girl smiles.
"It means draining all your blood," she says. "But they don't actually do that, I don't think.
Erin Morgenstern
#82. Sometimes I feel as if I'm racing with my own shadow, Korogi says. But that's one thing I'll never be able to outrun. Nobody can shake off their own shadow.
Haruki Murakami
#83. Maybe it's an addiction, she says, but she looks around her at meetings and she can't help thinking that meetings are good for people. They make people feel everything isn't such a muddle.
Alice Munro
#84. I love you."
"I know you do," he says. "But I'm not the only one you love. And you can only have one. And it might not be me.
Taylor Jenkins Reid
#85. Reason number twelve, you've got a mini-me out there somewhere, and I kind of want the chance to meet a little Scarlet." "You don't like kids," I point out. "True, I don't," he says. "But she's your kid, which means there's a decent chance she's not half-bad, either.
J.M. Darhower
#86. I wonder if I should believe what she says. But when you're not strong in yourself, anyone can tell you anything and you'll fall for it.
Sachin Kundalkar
#87. You saw his actions," Bow says, "but not his heart."
Is she serious? "Actions reveal heart."
"Not always. Deception is all about perception.
Gena Showalter
#88. I look back at him, determined, adamant. I'm going to tell him no way, no how is he coming with me. I don't care what he says. But then he smiles. And I give in.
Kristen Lippert-Martin
#89. You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says, but from what he fails to say and do.
Norman Douglas
#90. I look at the Chrissy Teigens of the world, who I absolutely love, and I wish that I could say some of the stuff that she says. But I know where I want to go in my career path and I know that there are some things I can't say.
Charissa Thompson
#91. I asked if you was pleased.'
'Course I'm pleased! You think I'd be mad if I wasn't pleased?'
'You don't make a lick of sense,' he says, but he is smiling now and he takes a step closer to me.
Erin Lindsay McCabe
#92. Love is a many-splendored thing," she says. "But it is also a pain in the ass.
Cynthia Hand
#93. Maybe it does bother me,' he says, 'but only peripherally. It's like a buzzing fly, you know? Annoying, but not actually life-threatening.
Nicola Yoon
#94. I guess the consolation is that she's not going to be beautiful forever," he says. "But I'd like to be with her before that happens.
Bret Easton Ellis
#95. We must all be alike. Not everyone born free and equal, as the Constitution says, but everyone made equal. Each man the image of every other; then all are happy, for there are no mountains to make them cower, to judge themselves against.
Ray Bradbury
#96. Your job is not just to do what your parents say, what your teachers say, what society says, but to figure out what your heart calling is and to be led by that.
Oprah Winfrey
#97. We would trust Jeff to take them to movies," Jackie Bezos says, "but the two of them would come back embarrassed, saying, 'Jeff laughs too loud.' It would be some Disney movie, and his laughter was drowning out everything." After
Brad Stone
#98. She says he says, but she could be lying to me, and he could be lying to her, so I can't believe her, even if I could believe her.
shit got to be real
sahi.
Loveless
#99. I never knew that missin somebody could hurt, I says. But it does. Deep inside. Like it's in my bones. We ain't never bin apart till now. Never. I dunno how to be without him. It's like ... I ain't nuthin.
Moira Young
#100. He has given me exactly ten Fritos and then secreted away the bag. He doesn't like the smell; it offends him, he says, but what he really doesn't like is my weight.
Gillian Flynn
