Top 100 You Say Quotes
#1. If you believe everything comes from God, how can you say this is more important than that? Some things make more lasting impressions, but that's a whole nother question.
Jai Uttal
#2. Rap is rock 'n' roll. Rock is when you push the buttons in the system; when you say, I'm not going along with what you're saying. That's rock, whether it's done with guitars, or it's done with just beats.
Ice-T
#3. I've done a lot of plays before where I had to do a New York accent, but never a Philly one before. They do the rhotic 'r' - where you say the 'r' - where most New Yorkers don't.
Jacki Weaver
#4. You say you were asking for a pencil. I say you were sending me a clear message, a warning even, that if I didn't tell everyone about us, you'd move on, with Sarah.
Anonymous
#5. When you say you are in love with humanity, you are well satisfied with yourself.
Luigi Pirandello
#6. You dislike the emancipation proclamation; and, perhaps, would have it retracted. You say it is unconstitutional - I think differently.
Abraham Lincoln
#7. Too, if you're a true contemplative, your life and words will overflow with spiritual wisdom, compassion, and fruitful insight, because you're sure to measure out what you say carefully and calmly, eschewing lies and speaking without the shrill pretense of hypocrites.
Anonymous
#8. Today, people can say anything they want. Suddenly it gets in the rumor mill and then it evolves and then somehow it becomes fact and you say, What is this? You know, why don't you ask me?
Tom Cruise
#9. It's sad when you say a $30 million film is an inexpensive film, but it is.
Sandra Bullock
#10. India is beyond statement, for anything you say, the opposite is also true. It's rich and poor, spiritual and material, cruel and kind, angry but peaceful, ugly and beautiful, and smart but stupid. It's all the extremes.
Sarah Macdonald
#11. you say
we were never
meant for this vowed life,
golden bands of only us, and death
do us part. you
say love like it's held in quotation marks,
that this union soured before
it started.
Beth Morey
#12. I mention her name and the old pain returns. Forget her, you say? How can you forget a living human being?
Sholem Aleichem
#13. There are two tests in life, more important than any other test. On Monday morning, when you wake up, do you feel in the pit of your stomach you can't wait to go to work? And when you're ready to go home Friday afternoon, do you say, 'I can't wait to go home?'
Chuck Schumer
#14. If you say one thing, and do something different, how can your conscience trust you? Self-trust comes from integrity.
Ilchi Lee
#15. Lord Castlerosse was taken to task by Nancy Astor over the size of his stomach. 'What would you say if that was on a woman?' she asked, pointedly. 'Half an hour ago it was,' he replied.
Nigel Rees
#16. But I love filmmaking - I'm not ashamed of that. You're sort of vilified if you say that in England.
Minnie Driver
#17. if you say!
"A woman is A problem"
Gentleman,
"Probably you have never seen her sweeter part
Qalandar Nawaz
#18. Perfect, you say? That was your problem. It is our imperfections that make us endlessly fascinating.
Kathryn Craft
#19. Some parents let their kids sleep at other people's houses, where they drink alcohol, watch TV for hours and God knows what else. But if you say you have to get all A's and practice the violin for two hours, then they consider that abusive. That upsets me.
Amy Chua
#20. How do you say 'bring me sausage and eggs or I'll slit your throat' in Italian?"
"Look it up in the phrase book.
Regina Doman
#21. We're alone, but we are capable of communicating to one another both our loneliness and our desire to break through it. You say, 'I'm alone.' Someone answers, 'I'm alone too.' There's a shift in the scale of power. A bridge is thrown between the two abysses.
Elie Wiesel
#22. Until you've lived through all that," he said, "don't you ever complain about what we have. Because to me ... to me ... " He choked on the words, but he barely paused before he continued. "This - us - is heaven. I can't bear to hear you say otherwise.
Julia Quinn
#23. Real persuasion comes from putting more of you into everything you say. Words have an effect. Words loaded with emotion have a powerful effect.
Jim Rohn
#24. You say you love me, but you have no idea what love is; you're just mouthing words you've memorized because you think they sound good!
Colleen McCullough
#25. The worst stuff that you say sounds better than the best stuff that some other people say
Hannah
#26. Become what you desire! Before you say "I want"...say - "I am"...There is a great difference between "I want love" and "I am love"...
G. Creighton Bradshaw
#27. When you say '90210,' everyone knows what you're talking about. So why not make use of that? And they certainly have. I think the show looks beautiful, and all the actors are doing a great job. It's a tangled web they've created thus far. It's great.
Jason Priestley
#28. The heart attitude behind your prayer interests God much more than the actual words you say.
Andrew Wommack
#29. What I can't understand is why the silly things you say makes so much sense."
"I'll tell you why," said Papa Dima. "It's because the best idea is the idea you least expect. And the unexpected always seems silly at first.
Eduard Uspensky
#30. Crushes are wonderful-they make you feel like you're two years old, and you say the stupidest things.
Sandra Bullock
#31. People get upset when you say you kill people. Fair enough.
Adam Sternbergh
#32. You make me chuckle when you say that you are no longer young, that you have turned twenty-four. A man is or may be young to after sixty, and not old before eighty.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
#33. Life is a helluva lot more fun if you say yes rather than no
Richard Branson
#34. Courage comes with action. The minute you step forward, the minute you declare your decision, the minute you say, "This is how it's going to go," courage comes. It floods through you and energizes every single fiber of your being. You don't have to wait for it. It'll be there.
Gail Blanke
#35. Kale turned away from me and stepped to Alex. "I know exactly what that means, and if you say it again, I'll touch you."
"Sorry, dude," Alex said, waving his hands. He flashed Kale a mock frown. "I don't swing that-
Jus Accardo
#36. Swallowing your words before you say them is better than having to eat them afterward.
Kate Lloyd
#37. You don't just give up. You don't just let things happen. You make a stand! You say no! You have the guts to do what's right, even when everyone else just runs away.
Steven Moffat
#38. It's always weird when people approach me to make an investment. I tell them, 'I don't need any more money. I'm good.' Then I wait for their expression. That part is entertaining, because people look at you like you're crazy when you say you don't need any more money. Who says that?
Dr. Dre
#39. Usually you regret the things you say no to.
Jim Carrey
#40. Do you think you can cure the hatreds and the maladjustments of the world by hanging them? You simply show your ignorance and your hate when you say it. You may here and there cure hatred with love and understanding, but you can only add fuel to the flames by cruelty and hate.
Clarence Darrow
#41. I figured out something, Lorie," he said. "I figured out why you and me get along so well. You know more than you say and I say more than I know. That means we're a perfect match, as long as we don't hang around one another more than an hour at a stretch.
Larry McMurtry
#42. Sweetheart, when you say Matt's name, you have the same look in your eyes that he'd get whenever he'd say yours.
Sarah Ockler
#43. I think the biggest thing - and this I think is true of songs but also of movies and books and art in general - is when you have this moment where you hear a song or whatever and you say, "Hey, I've felt that exact way as a human being," and there's no easy way to describe it.
Craig Finn
#44. I am whatever you say I am; if I wasn't, then why would you say I am.
Eminem
#45. In a way you can feel that the poet actually is looking over your shoulder, and you say to yourself, now, how would this go for him? Would this do or not?
Robert Fitzgerald
#46. You don't know what I mean. She is so strong, and you assume that strength has no end, no breaking point. You and Teleus are among the few she still trusts enough to love, and you say yes, she should have you tortured and killed. What were you thinking?
Megan Whalen Turner
#47. What the fuck is going on Lor? What the hell did you do last night? What did you say to Kacey? Who the hell is Blue Eyes and why is my car spray-painted with the word 'asshole'?"
Spray-paint? Oh dear God, what have I done?
Joanne McClean
#48. I'm not your bitch, Phobos. You didn't drag me out of the pound to put a collar on me. Don't expect me to heel because you say so. You are on my turf now. Think about it. (ZT)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#49. In polite society what you say to an attractive woman who is dressed in a way that makes you understand the power of biology is, "You look nice.
Joe R. Lansdale
#50. If you say "the economy," you show you're stupid. There's no such thing as the economy. There is not a unity between the forces of production and the relations of production.
Christopher Hitchens
#51. Charity is great, but the moment you say it is all, you run the risk of running into materialism.
Swami Vivekananda
#52. Would you say my head was like a pumpkin, Wooster?' 'Not a bit, old man.' 'Not like a pumpkin?' 'No, not like a pumpkin. A touch of the dome of St Paul's, perhaps.
P.G. Wodehouse
#53. Who you are isn't tied solely to what you say, even though it may feel that way to you now.
Diane Ackerman
#54. Be aware that you can truly help people only by aiding them to become what they are, not what you are. I have heard you say 'If I were you, I would do this, or that.' 'I' am never 'you'
and my solutions may not be yours.
Anne Perry
#55. And so long as you say 'one' instead of 'I,' there's nothing in it and one can easily tell the story; but as soon as you admit to yourself that it is yourself you feel as though transfixed and horrified.
Franz Kafka
#56. I raise my wrist, show him the bracelets. I have pride in them now. They're true, and people can't screw with them. And when you say the truth you get stronger.
Ned Vizzini
#57. No matter what you say about your priorities, where you spend money and your time will prove them out.
Todd Henry
#58. Any future can be!" she replied, laughing at me. "If it were not so, if it were fixed, it would be a past. You say a foolish thing. How can a future be impossible?
Robin Hobb
#59. Writing humor for me is more like a watchful-ness. You have to watch. When you say something funny, or someone else does, it's more like you wait for the piece.
Ian Frazier
#60. First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
Epictetus
#61. the truth, then I suppose you're right. Did you say something about the bakery order? I glanced in
Rachel Hauck
#62. But you know, as you say, the original versions of my films are getting out there, slowly.
Dario Argento
#63. The way I view comedy clubs is, people are drinking, they're ordering food, they're out for the night, and there's also a person onstage talking. And with the theater, they came to the theater, and they're waiting to hear what you say. So you'd better have something to say.
Mike Birbiglia
#64. Daddy was like a lot of people who kind of turn their noses up when you say the word 'organic.'
Nell Newman
#66. Voting for the Green Party is how you say 'Up Yours!' to the Republicans and Democrats.
Steven Magee
#67. If you start getting involved with government on, this one gets this pay and this one gets that pay, then you say, where does it all start? Because you could have a woman that's much better than a man; you could have a woman that's not as good as a man.
Donald Trump
#68. For me, the acting part - and I have to say it makes me a little worried about my own psychological make-up - is that I just love to hide in other characters. I don't like to get up in front of people and talk as Kathy Baker. But as soon as you say 'action,' I'm lost in that character.
Kathy Baker
#69. I've learned the hard way that the best thing to do is say nothing about what you're really thinking. If you say nothing, they'll assume you're thinking nothing, only what you let them see.
Jennifer Niven
#70. If you like a person you say 'let's go into business together.' Man is a social animal after all, but such partnerships are fraught with danger.
Brian Tracy
#71. find this amusing. 'Didn't you say you lived in Richmond?' 'Yeah. So what?
Will Hodgkinson
#73. Parent in a retirement home is more likely to be visited by his grown children if they are expecting a sizable inheritance. But wait, you say: maybe the offspring of wealthy families are simply more caring toward their elderly parents?
Steven D. Levitt
#74. If you just tell the story of what the storys about, then it sparks curiosity, but I think it also arouses suspicion, as you say, that it could be overly sentimental. But it so isnt. And I think it was all about doing the inner work and then underplaying everything.
Gerard Butler
#75. And did you have to hack his arms off?" "Yes, I did. He wouldn't go through the door."
"You say it like you're proud of it."
I was proud of it. It was an example of quick thinking in a difficult situation.
Ilona Andrews
#76. If somebody votes for a party that you don't agree with, you're free to argue about it as much as you like. ... But on the other hand, if somebody says, 'I mustn't move a light switch on a Saturday,' you say, 'Fine, I respect that.'
Douglas Adams
#77. The way you walk, way you talk, way you say my name; it's beautiful, wonderful, don't you ever change.
Taylor Swift
#78. But didn't you say you were satisfied with your life?"
"Word games," I dismissed. "Every army needs a flag.
Haruki Murakami
#79. You are afraid to write your first novel because you say " I am not a talented great writer " But you forget that nobody was born a talented great writer.
Bangambiki Habyarimana
#80. All lives have equal value. And so you say, 'why do poor children die when other children don't? Why do some people have enough nutrition or reasonable toilets and other people don't?' So those basic needs that, through innovation, actually it's very affordable to bring them ... to everyone.
Bill Gates
#81. Your presence can be soothing so long as what you say is soothing
Gayle Forman
#82. It may not be important what you say, but it is very important who you are.
Debasish Mridha
#83. What's ka?" Eddie's voice was truculent. "I never heard of it. Except if you say it twice you come out with the baby word for shit.
Stephen King
#85. Your job as actors is to understand the size of what you say, to understand what's beneath the word.
Stella Adler
#86. When you need to correct someone, be resolved not to do so in a blaming manner. Before criticizing, view the situation from the other person's point of view. Then be careful to speak calmly and tactfully. Carefully edit what you say before you say it.
Zelig Pliskin
#87. {369} HOPE. I do believe, as you say, that fear tends much to men's good, and to make them right, at their beginning to go on pilgrimage.
John Bunyan
#88. Lead me, Lord, to the Rock that is higher than I. Let me hear your word, give me grace to obey, to build steadily, stone upon stone, day by day, to do what You say. Establish my heart where floods have no power to overwhelm, for Christ's sake. Amen.
Elisabeth Elliot
#90. You should have called me immediately."
"No, she should have called me straight away. "I'm her Alpha, and her brother."
Marcus glanced at Nick curiously. "You say that like you're more important than me. I'm confused.
Suzanne Wright
#91. Sometimes when you say goodbye, that's the right thing to do in a relationship.
Richard Bach
#92. 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
#93. You are loney, but you say you like to be alone" I nodded. "I do. I prefer it. But... it doesn't mean I don't want someone to love me. It doesn't mean that I don't have a lot of love in me to give someone
Karina Halle
#94. Can you come over to Amberwood? I need you to help me break curfew and escape my dorm."
There were a few moments of silence. "Sage, I've been waiting two months to hear you say those words. You want me to bring a ladder?
Richelle Mead
#95. It doesn't much matter what line of argument you take as a woman. If you venture into traditional male territory, the abuse comes anyway. It's not what you say that prompts it - it's the fact that you are saying it.
Mary Beard
#96. For it is a dreadful truth that the state of (as you say) 'having to depend solely on God' is what we all dread most.
C.S. Lewis
#98. It is not what you say or hope or wish or intend but only what you do that counts. Your choices tell you unerringly who you really are.
Brian Tracy
#99. Chicken is chicken no matter how you say it.
Eduardo