Top 100 Stated Quotes
#1. Finally, the cold was a major factor - as stated previously, initially no one wanted to leave the warmth of the interior of the ship to sit in a boat, out on the dark ocean, in the freezing cold. Without a sense of urgency, who could blame them? Ironically,
Henry Freeman
#2. The foundation of individual rights is the assumption that people have wants and needs and are authorities on what those wants and needs are. If people's stated desires were just some kind of erasable inscription or reprogrammable brainwashing, any atrocity could be justified.
Steven Pinker
#3. That we occasionally violate our own stated moral code does not imply that we are insincere in espousing that code.
Neal Stephenson
#4. The challenge in all intimate relationships is to preserve both the "I" and the "we" without losing either when the going gets tough. If we're faced with a choice, we need to choose speech over silence, keep our behavior in line with our stated values and beliefs - and save ourselves first.
Harriet Lerner
#5. The politicians, who once stated that war was too complex to be left to the generals, now act as though peace were too complex to be left to themselves.
Pierre Trudeau
#6. While the accompanimental [sic] figures come from Prelude, the melody is wholly original to this theme. First stated on a lonely duduk, and then in octaves by the violins and violas, it is a melancholy and contemplative tune.
Bear McCreary
#7. You know, the Bible is so clear. Go to Genesis chapter nine and you will find the death penalty clearly stated in Genesis chapter nine ... God ordains the death penalty!
Rafael Cruz
#8. The Federal Government is achieving its stated goal of helping more minorities go from being renters to being owners.
Bill Dedman
#9. The necessity of poetry has to be stated over and over, but only to those who have reason to fear its power, or those who still believe that language is 'only words' and that an old language is good enough for our descriptions of the world we are trying to transform.
Adrienne Rich
#10. Ecuador has never stated flatly that it would give asylum to Edward Snowden.
Barton Gellman
#11. Mac and cheese and pigs in a blanket with white fuckin' wine," he stated through his smile. "Is this duchess food?
Kristen Ashley
#12. The dungeon image helped. "You need to let Maximus go," I stated, my voice stronger now.
"No. Wine?
Jeaniene Frost
#13. I think I was respectful to my father in that I only told the portions that he had already told. So, I never went outside of the things that he had already stated in his article because then I think it becomes unfair.
Michael Landon Jr.
#14. No one truth is rightly held till it is clearly conceived and stated, and no single truth is adequately comprehended till it is viewed in harmonious relations to all the other truths of the system of which Christ is the centre
Archibald Alexander Hodge
#15. I don't know what's come over this place,' Maud stated. 'However, the Lord did, so in despair He showed me what I had better do.'
'And did the Lord suggest your sticking up your father for ten shillings?'
'No, I thought of that,' said Maud, not turning a hair.
Elizabeth Bowen
#16. We've stated very clearly that no negotiating chapters between the European Union and Turkey will be concluded before the Ankara Protocol is complied with: that's to say before Turkey grants all E.U. member states, including Cyprus, access to its ports.
Angela Merkel
#17. In the beginning of the contest with Britain, when we were sensible of danger, we had daily prayers in this room for Divine protection," he stated. "Our prayers, Sir, were heard, and they were graciously answered ... Do we imagine we no longer need His assistance?
Benjamin Franklin
#18. I myself have had a good deal to say on those subjects in previous books,1 basing my statements on holy Scripture; what I said there was either what I found stated in Scripture or what I could infer from scriptural statements, always keeping in conformity with the authority of the Bible. A
Augustine Of Hippo
#19. The essence of dramatic form is to let an idea come over people without it being plainly stated. When you say something directly, it's simply not as potent as it is when you allow people to discover it for themselves.
Stanley Kubrick
#20. This system, in which paper money is worth only a fraction of its stated value in gold or silver, was employed in the United States into the twentieth century. Then
Mark Sundeen
#21. Oliver has stated many times his dislike of hearing advice from his younger sister, so it is his own fault if he has not got sense enough to see which way the wind is blowing.
Patricia C. Wrede
#22. I should like to repeat what I stated recently in the Jeddah Economic Forum in Saudi Arabia: It won't be the religion, but rather the world-view of some of its followers that shall be made current.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan
#23. The universalism of Islam, in its all-embracing creed, is imposed on the believers as a continuous process of warfare, psychological and political, if not strictly military ... The Jihad, accordingly, may be stated as a doctrine of a permanent state of war, not continuous fighting.
Majid Khadduri
#24. Changes in our aesthetic tastes have no value or meaning in and of themselves; what has value and meaning is the idea of change itself. Or, better stated: not change in and of itself, but change as an agent or inspiration of modern creations.
Octavio Paz
#25. Well, we're going to need to expect something." Hunter stated.
"I suggest we expect the worst." Gwen announced.
Meghan Blistinsky
#26. You know who you've become," he stated through panting breaths, "you just don't recognize her. You've become mine.
Courtney Lane
#27. Whatever is worth saying, can be stated in fifty words or less.
Stanislaw Ulam
#28. She started it," Briec stated before holding his "perfect" daughter out to Talaith and announcing, "She
looks to need nourishment. Unleash your breasts for her.
G.A. Aiken
#29. The single simplest reason why human space flight is necessary is this, stated as plainly as possible: keeping all your breeding pairs in one place is a retarded way to run a species.
Warren Ellis
#30. Sudan replaced the U.S. on the U.N. Human Rights Commission joining Syria, and Cuba. So now, the commission members have no interest in upholding the stated mission of the panel. It's just like the Senate Ethics Committee.
Argus Hamilton
#31. I think the most important thing is just if you hire people whose personal values match the corporate core values - and not just the stated ones.
Tony Hsieh
#32. Last week, I stated this woman was the ugliest woman I had ever seen. I have since been visited by her sister, and now wish to withdraw that statement.
Mark Twain
#33. It is commonplace that a problem stated is well on its way to solution, for statement of the nature of a problem signifies that the underlying quality is being transformed into determinate distinctions of terms and relations or has become an object of articulate thought.
John Dewey
#34. Why should we need extra time in which to enjoy ourselves? If we expect to enjoy our life, we will have to learn to be joyful in all of it, not just at stated intervals when we can get time or when we have nothing else to do.
Laura Ingalls Wilder
#35. I began to perceive more deeply than it has ever yet been stated, the trembling immateriality, the mistlike transience, of this seemingly so solid body in which we walk attired.
Robert Louis Stevenson
#36. It's very clearly stated in the film: You make your own choices, and what you're always fighting is ego.
Taylor Hackford
#37. Most arguments with teenagers are setups. Your darling, simply stated, is manipulating you.
Kevin Leman
#39. Nevertheless, her own political philosophy could have been stated baldly (which it never was) as a belief that men should rule the world and women should rule men.
Robert A. Heinlein
#40. It would require a singularly stupid man to go hang around in narrow tunnels and cramped spaces alongside a threat like that.
"And I, Harry Dresden, am that man," I stated.
Jim Butcher
#41. No one is your judge now,' Mavriky Nikolayevich stated firmly, 'may God forgive you; I'm less worthy than anyone of being your judge!
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#42. When leaders carry out policies for decades that have no consequences for the stated goal and are very costly, you have to ask whether they are telling you the truth or whether the policies are for a different goal, because they are not reducing drug use.
Noam Chomsky
#43. I am under no illusions. My position, no matter how clearly stated, is likely to be misunderstood.
David Benatar
#44. My point of view is that science is essentially private, whereas the almost universal counter point of view, explicitly stated in many of the articles in the Encyclopaedia, is that it must be public.
Percy Williams Bridgman
#46. Herrmann Pidoux and Armand Trousseau stated 'Disease exists within us, because of us, and through us', Pasteur did not entirely disagree, 'This is true for certain diseases', he wrote cautiously, only to add immediately: 'I do not think that it is true for all of them'.
Louis Pasteur
#47. Holmes," I cried, "this is impossible." "Admirable!" he said. "A most illuminating remark. It IS impossible as I state it, and therefore I must in some respect have stated it wrong. Yet you saw for yourself. Can you suggest any fallacy?
Arthur Conan Doyle
#48. Simply stated, the need for accurate intelligence and prescient analysis from CIA has never been greater than it is in 2013 - or than it will be in the coming years.
John O. Brennan
#49. You used to be such a swell kid," Bobby stated briefly.
"Oh! And I ain't no more?" Helen little-girl'd.
J.D. Salinger
#50. Any problem can be solved as long as it is stated properly.
Edwin Land
#51. Its Seventh Commandment, italicized by the authors, stated: Battles are beyond everything else struggles of morale. Defeat is inevitable as soon as the hope of conquering ceases to exist. Success comes not to him who has suffered the least but to him whose will is firmest and morale strongest.
Barbara W. Tuchman
#52. Usability rules the web. Simply stated, if the customer can't find a product, then he or she will not buy it.
Jakob Nielsen
#53. Everything stated or expressed by man is a note in the margin of a completely erased text. From what's in the note we can extract the gist of what must have been in the text, but there's always a doubt, and the possible meanings are many.
Fernando Pessoa
#54. And for a very special group of people, we've provided their only job. I'm speaking of course of the disabled. They have stated they don't want a hand out just a hand. We are happy to give them one.
Carl Karcher
#55. I mention this fact as tending to support what I have often heard stated, namely, that a shark's sense of smell is so keen that, if men ever bathe in seas where they are found, a shark is almost sure to appear directly afterwards.
George Grey
#56. The principles stated in the proclamation on the family are a beautiful expression of this gospel culture.
Dallin H. Oaks
#58. Love can be simply stated to be the desire of the human being to integrate oneself with other selves in such a way that one starts feeling the pain and pleasure of another person as if of one's own.
Awdhesh Singh
#59. To understand Jesus when he stated that he was the way, the truth and the life, one must first recognize his manner of a walk and believe firmly that his manner is true.
The Tru Sum
#60. Someone has wisely stated that hate is not the opposite of love. Apathy is. We will not have time for apathy in life's journey if we speak and think positively. Seek, search, and work for worthy eternal qualities and friends.
Marvin J. Ashton
#61. Shortly after news of Zarqawi's death reached the media, al-Qaeda stated its intention to continue its oppression of the Iraqi people.
Mike Fitzpatrick
#62. Archimedes had stated, that given the force, any given weight might be moved; and even boasted that if there were another earth, by going into it he could remove this.
Plutarch
#63. Buddha was speaking about reality. Reality may be one, in its deepest essence, but Buddha also stated that all propositions about reality are only contingent.
Dalai Lama
#64. I am rather inclined, however, to agree with ancient writers, that in those passages[1]wherein it is stated that the angel of the Lord appeared to Abraham, Jacob, and Moses, Christ was that angel.
John Calvin
#65. It's just taking some getting used to. The snarling, the hissing, the purring. Then I have to deal with it from the baby ... ."
"Ha, ha," Mace stated dryly.
Shelly Laurenston
#66. I have stated it plain, an' my argument's thus ( It's all one, says the Sapper) There's only one Corps which is perfect - that's us; An' they call us Her Majesty's Engineers, With the rank and pay of a Sapper!
Rudyard Kipling
#67. Sophistry, like poison, is at once detected and nauseated, when presented to us in a concentrated form; but a fallacy which, when stated barely in a few sentences, would not deceive a child, may deceive half the world, if diluted in a quarto volume.
Richard Whately
#68. illustrations. Incidentally, although we have become accustomed to pronouncing his name rhyming with "Juice," his stated preference was more Germanic: "Seuss - rhymes with voice.
Herb Reich
#69. He stated that I had no place in a society whose most fundamental rules I ignored and that I could not appeal to the same human heart whose elementary response I knew nothing of.
Albert Camus
#70. The purpose of satire has been rightly stated as to strip off the veneer of comforting illusion and cosy half truth, and our job, as I see it, is to put it back again!
Michael Flanders
#71. Howard, everything you've done in your life is wrong according to the stated ideals of mankind. And here you are. And somehow it seems a huge joke on the whole world.
Ayn Rand
#72. I looked into his clear, gray determined eyes.
"Max-"
"I got in," he declared and he could say that again.
"Max-"
"I'm in, Duchess, you think for a second I'm gonna let you push me out?"
"Um ... "
"I'm not."
"Max-"
His hands started roaming and he stated, "No fuckin' way.
Kristen Ashley
#73. Although the pure truth has never been stated, nevertheless it has never been lost. Its existence does not depend upon human statement but upon human sensitivity. In this it is unlike all other knowledge.
Paul Brunton
#74. I fear I must warn you, if that ladle finds it's way to her lips, we will be revisited by my lunch," Ichabod stated without the slightest hint of a jest. "And mine will provide it company," Rip seconded.
Stacey Rourke
#75. I would give something to know for precisely whom the deeds were really done, of which it is publicly stated they were done 'for the Fatherland'.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
#76. My girl, always hated frogs," Jackie stated when she'd controlled her hilarity.
"That's right, Mom," Feb leveled her irate eyes at her mother, "I'm a girl therefore I hate frogs. I'd get kicked out of the girl club if I didn't.
Kristen Ashley
#77. The message, never stated but avuncularly implied, is that America's values ought to reflect those of the Walt Disney Company and not the other way around.
Carl Hiaasen
#78. I see you all know who I am," Hercules said. "Not that I'd expect anything else. After all, I am the Hercules."
My brow rose.
Seth snorted.
"Hercules is a dick." Apollo stated.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#79. The Prime Minister of India, at a meeting that I co-chaired a few months ago, stated that any development that is not sustainable is not development.
Maurice Strong
#80. I have frequently stated that I regard chess as an art form, where creativity prevails over other factors.
Vasily Smyslov
#81. Experimental investigation, to borrow a phrase employed by Kepler respecting the testing of hypotheses, is "a very great thief of time." Sometimes it costs many days to determine a fact that can be stated in a line.
John William Draper
#83. Many of our greatest musicians abandoned all of their aesthetic objectives to try to become pertinent. And, at the end of the day, they never became pop stars. I counter stated that very strongly, and I continue to do that.
Wynton Marsalis
#84. was all very interesting." She continued to look at me. "You don't think that," she then simply stated. "What have I to gain
Henry James
#85. Stated clearly enough, an idea may cancel itself out.
Mason Cooley
#86. Justice William Brennan stated that the phrase 'under God' in our Pledge of Allegiance is constitutional because it no longer has a religious purpose or meaning.
Mathew Staver
#87. When Shah Rukh stated, "Bhootnath ... will be among the top three hits of the year!", I told him, "Aapke moonh mein dudh, ghee, shakkar sab!
Amitabh Bachchan
#88. Tesla once stated, instinct is something which transcends knowledge. "Anton,
James Rollins
#89. My duchess," James stated, his eyes sweeping the crowd with the air of a man who has ruled the waves. "She is not a swan, because that would imply she had once been an ugly duckling.
Eloisa James
#90. A problem is often half-solved when it is clearly stated.
Dorothea Brande
#91. The proposition of Mr. Ricardo, which states that a rise in the price of labour lowers the price of a large class of commodities, has undoubtedly a very paradoxical air; but it is, nevertheless, true, and the appearance of paradox would vanish, if it were stated more naturally and correctly.
Thomas Malthus
#92. The facts, even the real ones, must be imagined before they can be stated.
Mason Cooley
#93. I stated that Hiroshima and Nagasaki are 'among the most unspeakable crimes in history.' I took no position on just where they stand on the scale of horrors relative to Auschwitz, the bombing of Chungking, Lidice, and so on.
Noam Chomsky
#94. Science is concerned with what is possible while engineering is concerned with choosing, from among the many possible ways, one that meets a number of often poorly stated economic and practical objectives.
Richard Hamming
#95. No matter how brilliantly an idea is stated, we will not really be moved unless we have already half thought of it ourselves.
Mignon McLaughlin
#96. We can translate word and letter into color - [Arthur] Rimbaud stated that in his color vowels, words quote "words" can be read in silent color.
William S. Burroughs
#97. You can't coach desire, and no matter how fancy your training plan or how high your stated goals are, it comes down to getting out the door and doing the work day after day.
Steve House
#98. He looked at my mouth then he looked in my eyes then his arm and hand gave me a squeeze before he stated, Now, I think she finally fuckin' gets me.
Kristen Ashley
#100. I could only tolerate an afternoon if I took a triple amount of the stated dose of valium prescribed by my GP (who would soon take his own life).
Steven Morrissey
