Say Quotes

The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than others are saying.

I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about short and cheap?

Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?

Dependency arguments often come from elites - either aid agencies or governments - and say something about attitudes to poor people.

Oh, you hate your job? Why didn't you say so? There's a support group for that. It's called everybody, and they meet at the bar.

I just look around and say, I'm a mess. I don't know why I do things.

In my case, I can sincerely say that nothing is impossible... When I was saying I want to be No. 1 of the world, and I was seven or eight years old, most of the people were laughing at me because it seems like I have one percent of chances to do that, and I've done it.

I am really cautious about what I say and do.

When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know, the end result is tyranny and oppression no matter how holy the motives.

There are two kinds of people in the world. Those who walk into a room and say, "There you are" and those who say, "Here I am"

You have to forget about what other people say, when you're supposed to die, or when you're supposed to be loving. You have to forget about all these things.

My biggest nightmare is I'm driving home and get sick and go to hospital. I say: 'Please help me.' And the people say: 'Hey, you look like...' And I'm dying while they're wondering whether I'm Barbra Streisand.

To make films like 'X-Men' work commercially - and also have some class - is one of the hardest things there is to do. I want to be seen to be able to cross lots of genres and still be 'fair dinkum,' as we say in Australia, which means genuine and true and, well, unique.

The last three or four reps is what makes the muscle grow. This area of pain divides the champion from someone else who is not a champion. That's what most people lack, having the guts to go on and just say they'll go through the pain no matter what happens.

It's shocking to say, but the cinema is quite a while away from me, and I haven't got a car yet.

There comes a point in every man's life when he has to say: 'Enough is enough.'

Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.

I have reached a place in my life where I need to sit down and say, 'Well, what do I do? What's best for me?' I need to look into options for the future.

Plots and character don't make life. Life is here and now, anytime you say the word, anytime you let her rip.

People make mistakes - they say things they shouldn't have or didn't necessarily mean. But I strongly believe in consequences. If there are none, someone might feel like they've gotten away with something, or that what they said couldn't have been that bad.

Don't say "the White House wants." Buildings can't want.

I had concussions as a kid playing football and basketball, and know what it feels like and to have someone say 'Just rub some dirt on it, and get back in there.'

A jealous lover of human liberty, deeming it the absolute condition of all that we admire and respect in humanity, I reverse the phrase of Voltaire, and say that, if God really existed, it would be necessary to abolish him.

Supposing everyone lived at one time what would they say. They would observe that stringing string beans is universal.

No, I will be the pattern of all patience; I will say nothing.

But if you say that we should not educate children who have come into our state for no other reason than they've been brought there by no fault of their own, I don't think you have a heart. We need to be educating these children, because they will become a drag on our society.

It is a monstrous thing that I will say, but I will say it all the same: I find in many things more restraint and order in my morals than in my opinions, and my lust less depraved than my reason.

I have treated many hundreds of patients. Among those in the second half of life - that is to say, over 35 - there has not been one whose problem in the last resort was not that of finding a religious outlook on life.

Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.

It does not prove a thing to be right because the majority say it is so.