Top 100 What You Said Quotes
#1. ALways be careful what you say. You can always say you're sorry, but you can never take back what you said.
F.B. Newman
#3. I have gone temporarily deaf and haven't any idea what you said, Harry.
J.K. Rowling
#5. In this day and age of digital media, as we've learned, it's not as though nobody's going to find out what you said.
Michael Bennet
#6. I will forget what you said, but I will never forget how lively, joyful and grateful you made me feel.
Debasish Mridha
#7. There is nothing more entertaining then leaving someone speechless. Yet, there is nothing sadder than realizing that person was incapable of retaining half of what you said, and will repeat the story all wrong to someone else.
Shannon L. Alder
#8. It's one thing to say, 'I don't like what you said to me and I find it rude and offensive,' but the moment you threaten violence in return, you've taken it to another level, where you lose whatever credibility you had.
Salman Rushdie
#9. Have the purest of intentions for what you said you'd do and do it bravely.
Pleasefindthis
#10. Livingston: I know it was your sixth company, but was there anything that you found you were better at? Greenspun: I think I was probably mostly worse at things than I thought. The VCs had a point when they said people remember how you made them feel more than what you said.
Jessica Livingston
#11. DoveWing (talking to LoinBlaze): You got somthing wrong, what you said to ToadStep. You are the hero.
Erin Hunter
#12. People may not remember exactly what you did or what you said but they will always remember how you made them feel.
W. Somerset Maugham
#13. They were both Filipino and laughed no matter what you said. Were the Philippines really such a happy place or were the carers just happy not to be there?
Kate Atkinson
#14. I gave it a shot, Lex. I gave you your space. I let you be happy. That's what you said you wanted." He gripped her hand a little harder. "How did that work? Are you happy? Are you happy without me?
K.A. Linde
#15. What's this?" He brought the brown square to his nose.
"It smells musty."
"It's chocolate. You'll love it."
"That's what you said about Skittles. I vomited a rainbow afterward.
Melissa Landers
#16. In the White House, you can be on the pitcher's mound or you can be in the catcher's position. Put points on the board. Show people you can govern. Deliver on what you said you were going to deliver on.
Rahm Emanuel
#17. Tell the truth. If you tell the truth all the time you don't have to worry three months down the line about what you said three months earlier. Truth is always the truth. You won't have to complicate your life by trying to cover up.
Ben Carson
#18. It's easy to tell someone something you know they want to hear. What's not so easy is following up on those easy words and making what you said come to life. It's in taking the words and turning them into actions where most people give up and bail out.
Melyssa Winchester
#19. Do you remember what you said to me once? That you could help me only by loving me? Well-you did love me for a moment; and it helped me. It has always helped me.
Edith Wharton
#20. ' ... he said you were way too damn obnoxious to be merely human, so you had to be some kind of divine messenger, and he figured he'd better do what you said quick so you'd go ahead and disappear.'
Maculategiraffe
#22. Whether it's a relationship or what you're wearing, or how much you weigh and what you said when you didn't mean it, like - it's hard to be totally under the microscope.
Amy Lee
#23. In a promise, what you thought, and not what you said, is always to be considered.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#24. Do what you said you would do, when you said you would do it, the way you said you would do it.
Larry Winget
#25. I made a lot of mistakes, one of them was to promise. I must stop promise, the promise is like something which you in everytime in any case you must do what you said you will do! - That's why I hate it!
Deyth Banger
#26. But people as a rule believe only what they want to believe, and if you tell them anything else they'll call you a trouble-maker and get rid of you and never give you your job back, even if what you said is proved spot on right by time.
Dick Francis
#27. It didn't matter what you said as long as you were quoted.
Jonathan Galassi
#28. Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.
Ernest Hemingway,
#29. Monsignor ... you are asking whether I promise God chastity, poverty, and obedience. I heard what you said and my answer is no
Denis Diderot
#30. The way the creative process works is that .you first say something, and later, sometimes years later, you understand what you said.
Michael Lewis
#31. Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done.
Amelia Earhart
#32. What you said hurt me very much. I cried all the way to the bank.
Liberace
#33. When it's all over, you're remembered for what you did, not what you said you were going to do.
Jodi Picoult
#34. So you really meant what you said to me yesterday?" Her voice rose. "I should find myself a nice wolf and settle down?"
He fought off the rising incursions of dissonance, the razor blades sliding through his brain stem and traveling down his spine. "That would be rushing things.
Nalini Singh
#35. Did you mean what you said? You will pursue this?'
Brisbane sipped at his tea. 'I suppose. I have a few other matters that I must bring to conclusion, but nothing that cannot wait. And I have no other clients questioning either my integrity or my courage at present.
Deanna Raybourn
#36. Son, always tell the truth. Then you'll never have to remember what you said the last time.
Sam Rayburn
#37. Did you mean what you said before? About the dead hanging around? You really believe it?
Jennifer Walkup
#38. It's better to be remembered for what you said, not what you earned.
Carla H. Krueger
#39. And as for the people you loved, even their names will escape you. Did you not mean what you said when you said, I will love you forever? You did. Though now it's hard to remember ...
P.K. Page
#40. The one thing I learned is not to say anything about my own paintings. Keep my mouth shut. You'll never stop hearing what you said. It will come back to you again and again, people will always tell you about it. Even if you were the source of what's wrong with it.
Frank Stella
#41. It is clear enough that you are making some distinction in what you said, that there is some nicety of terminology in your words. I can't quite follow you.
Flann O'Brien
#42. Politics is when you say you are going to do one thing while intending to do another. Then you do neither what you said nor what you intended.
Saddam Hussein
#43. That's now what you said last night," he banters.
Connor's lip rise."Shh, that's between us love.
Krista Ritchie
#44. In honorable dealing you should consider what you intended, not what you said or thought.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#45. The very man who has argued you down, will sometimes be found, years later, to have been influenced by what you said
C.S. Lewis
#46. You always want to know the truth, isn't that what you said? Even if it hurts. Even if it's messy and complicated and inconvenient, and means you have to change your mind.
Alex Gabriel
#47. You remember what you said this morning? About it being totally stupid to fall in love with me?"
At that, my eyes open. He adds quietly, "Then you should start calling me a fuckin' moron.
Belle Aurora
#48. The way I would characterize what you said about me is I do try to say what I think as clearly as I can without first thinking, "Uh-oh, which way is the wind blowing and are people going to like this?"
Christy Clark
#49. There are degrees of seriousness," replied Syme. "I have never doubted that you were perfectly sincere in this sense, that you thought what you said well worth saying, that you thought a paradox might wake men up to a neglected truth.
G.K. Chesterton
#50. My dear young lady, there was a great deal of truth; I dare say, in what you said, and you looked very pretty while you said it, which is much more important.
Oscar Wilde
#51. Long after people forget what you said or did, they'll remember how you made them feel.
T. Rafael Cimino
#52. You remember what you said in 1994 about, 'I think I can guard you, I can shut you down, I would love to play against you?' Well, you're about to get your chance.
Michael Jordan
#53. Nobody minded what you did in bed or what you said about God, a very civilized attitude in 1948.
Simon Raven
#54. I was reminding myself of the one basic rule for experts on females: confine yourself absolutely to explaining why she did what she has already done because that will save the trouble of explaining why she didn't do what you said she would.
Rex Stout
#55. Kelly pulled away from the kiss, leaving Nick wide-eyed and speechless. "Ty told me what you said. Love you, too.
Abigail Roux
#56. Did you really mean what you said?" she asked softly. "If God Himself were waiting at Gloucester, you would not relinquish me?" He did not meet her gaze, but the muscles in his arms bunched beneath her hands as he pulled her close again. "I meant it, he whispered, burying his lips in her hair.
Marsha Canham
#57. I may not remember ... what you said.
I may not remember ... what you did,
but,
I will remember ...
The way you made me feel
Arafath Shanas
#58. It just goes to show, never say never, or the next thing you know, you'll be doing what you said you never would, owning a dog you swore you didn't want and walking (or carrying) a tiny, totally enchanting little dog on a rhinestone-studded pink leash.
Danielle Steel
#59. What you said about the sweetest pain? That fits us.
Ann Aguirre
#60. What matters more? What you said you'd do, what you hoped to do, or what you did?
Ron Kaufman
#61. I have a hard time keeping a story straight when I tell the truth because when you start lying you have to remember what you said, and I'm not very good at that.
Lisa Vanderpump
#62. It's not about what you said. It's not about what you did. It's not about what you love. It's about them feeling bad about themselves.
Wil Wheaton
#64. I think especially older people, and I count myself one, in the business - people get to know who you really are. So there comes a time when you can't just go in and audition without everybody knowing exactly how you've brought up your kids, what you said at the meeting, what kind of food you cook.
Mimi Kennedy
#65. If you weren't pretty, it wouldn't matter what you said or didn't say. That's why you're getting this attention.
Miesha Tate
#66. I don't see the point, in making the point that you will never say or do something by doing what you said you would never do ... ????
Emma Paul
#67. Jesus, Shep. I told you ... "
"I know what you said. You have eighteen missed calls."
"All Trent?"
"One is from Panty Wearers Anonymous.
Jamie McGuire
#69. Wars are won with quills and ravens, wasn't that what you said?
George R R Martin
#70. Yeah, well, that's what you said the last time it did this, and it was doing it that time too,' Tiercel said waspishly.
Clear as mud,' Harrier muttered.
Mercedes Lackey
#71. Success is doing what you said you would do, consistantly, with clarity, focus, ease and grace.
Maria Nemeth
#72. At the end of the day people won't remember what you said or did, they will remember how you made them feel.
Maya Angelou
#73. It's the night sky. See the dots? They're stars. I remembered what you said about the stars moving. You said they were different when you met Persephone, and- this is how they are now. When you met me.
Aimee Carter
#74. She was never likely to say out loud, "I wish that I could marry a handsome prince," but knowing that if you did you'd probably open the door to find a stunned prince, a tied-up priest, and a Nac Mac Feegle grinning cheerfully and ready to act as best man definitely made you watch what you said.
Terry Pratchett
#75. In the immortal words of Maya Angelou ... people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will
never forget how you made them feel.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#76. I learned at a very early age, the easiest thing in the world is to tell the truth, and then you don't have to remember what you said. It has nothing to do with morality, just remembering what you said.
Robert Evans
#77. I mean, that's a sad day in America when you're recalled because you did what you said you were going to do, and the public voted you in to do that.
Russell Pearce
#78. Scoot over, man. I don't like you that much."
"Dick. That's not what you said last night."
"Bite me.
Rachel Caine
#79. It wasn't what you said", he told her."It was how I felt when you said it".
Anne Tyler
#80. WHAT! WE CANT TALK AT THE SAME TIME! I talk, you talk, I talk, you talk, I talk, you talk, WE CAN'T DO IT! Peanut. WHAT! You said my name wrong. No it's Jeff Dun-ham. No it's dunham, No dun-ham. No dunha. No you see it says dunham jeff dun-HAM. Actually if you look at it, it say jef f dunham
Jeff Dunham
#81. You know, it gets frustrating, because you know in your heart where you were and what you said, and then people doubt you. And that's what bothers me the most. -Valeen Schnurr of the Columbine massacre
Dave Cullen
#82. He "had developed a trick in college for speaking with authority. He believed that breaking his argument into numbers forced people to pay attention. How you said something could be more important than what you said.
Nick McDonell
#83. You do 1,000 interviews, 20 percent of every one is not what you said, or is twisted a little. If you multiply 20 by 1,000 you've got a lot of inaccuracies out there.
Steven Seagal
#84. When someone goes, 'Oh, this group is really pissed off at what you said,' there's not a piece of my body that goes, 'Sweet!' That means I did it wrong. I'm just trying to make people laugh.
Trey Parker
#85. What you said was true. we don't live or love in a vacuum. There are people around us who care about us who would be hurt, maybe destroyed if we let ourselves feel what we might want to feel.
Cassandra Clare
#86. Here's how a child listens: you tell him something, and he puts his own interpretation on what you said. That's what he hears. No one has ever heard you.
Byron Katie
#87. The greatest thing about speaking the truth is that you never have to remember what you said." -Judge Judy
Benjamin D. Cox
#88. I heard what you said. I'm not the silly romantic you think. I don't want the heavens or the shooting stars. I don't want gemstones or gold. I have those things already. I want ... a steady hand. A kind soul. I want to fall asleep, and wake, knowing my heart is safe. I want to love, and be loved.
Shana Abe
#89. Well, remember what you said, because in a day or two, I'll have a witty and blistering retort! You'll be devastated THEN
Bill Watterson
#90. Choose your words carefully. The only place you can take back what you said is the Congressional Record.
Ron Brackin
#91. Allah protect us,' Bold said politely. Then, in Arabic, 'In the name of God, the merciful, the compassionate.' In his years in Temur's army he had learned to be as much a Muslim as anyone. The Buddha did not mind what you said to be polite.
Kim Stanley Robinson
#92. The greatest advantage of speaking the truth is you don't have to remember what you said.
Anonymous
#93. What exactly did you expect me to do? I told The Boss what you said, but he's not going to budge. Nobody gets dental.
H.D. Smith
#94. I did try to remember what you said, and to think more of others, but it is so difficult sometimes [ ... ] live only in trying to do, and to be, as other people like. I don't see any end to it. I might as well never have lived.
Elizabeth Gaskell
#95. Think before you speak, because words can really hurt, and you can't take back what you said, because the damage is already done.
M. Clarke
#96. They could not seem to grasp that what mattered was what you did. Not what you said or thought about.
Philipp Meyer
#97. Still remember what you said The positive thinker sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible ;) #Cerialah
Nuci Priatni
#98. Afterwards, people come and say, "I felt like you said that just to me. What you said is something I'm going through right now," so you know that spiritual connection is going on.
Sandra Cisneros
#99. Smack me if we ever get that awful."
"But I smack you so often," she said, "how will you know that's what I'm smacking you for?"
"We shall work out a smacking code.
Gina Damico
#100. I'm not a masochistic reader. If something is just too dense or not enjoyable, even though I'm told it should be good for me, I'll put it down. That said, most of what I read would be considered high-end or good for you, I suppose. But, I also think that reading should be enjoyable.
Josh Radnor
