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Quotes About Saying

These are Plenimaran marines, and there's not much most of them aren't capable of, if you take my meaning." "I don't think I do," said Alec, puzzled by Seregil's tone. "Then try this. They have a saying among them: 'When whores are few, a boy will do.' Got that?" "Oh." Alec felt his face go hot.
~ Lynn Flewelling
There's an ancient saying in Japan, that life is like walking from one side of infinite darkness to another, on a bridge of dreams. They say that we're all crossing the bridge of dreams together. That there's nothing more than that. Just us, on the bridge of dreams.
~ Unknown
Goodbyes hurt the most, when people leave without saying them.
~ Unknown
Every moment you show you care instead of saying it, you create an image of true sustained love.
~ Unknown
When I say I love you, please believe its true. When I say forever, know Ill never leave you. When I say goodbye, promise me you wont cry. Cause the day Ill be saying that would be the day I die.
~ Unknown
I hadn't fully realized just how powerful words could be before this. Whoever came up with the saying 'sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me' was talking out of his or her armpit.
~ Malorie Blackman
In this city, we've got a saying: once is coincidence, twice is a booking offense! -Judge Dredd
~ John Wagner
Doing, saying, or being anything puts you at risk for criticism; the only way to avoid criticism would be to do absolutely nothing interesting with your life. The subtext: stop worrying about people criticizing you and just live your life.
~ Unknown
as the saying is, climbing in opposition to my
~ Marcel Proust
with the slight emotion which a man feels when, even without being fully aware of what he is doing, he says something, not because it is true but because he enjoys saying it, and listens to his own voice uttering the words as though they came from some one else,
~ Marcel Proust
They should have remembered that famous saying of Bismarck: "Preventive war is like committing suicide out of fear of death.
~ Margaret MacMillan
All a writer has to do to get a woman is to say he's a writer. It's an aphrodisiac.
~ Saul Bellow
Few maxims are true in every respect.
~ Unknown
I know, I said, if the humans were dead, who would make the media? It was so outrageous, it sounded like something a human would say.
~ Martha Wells
There was an old Irish saying of my nana's – she always said you get the life you deserve. I hope against hope that there was no truth in that. But only time will tell.
~ Martina Cole
The East End had a saying: 'If you get a capture, hold your hand up.
~ Martina Cole
That old saying, how you always hurt the one you love, well, it works both ways
~ Chuck Palahniuk
The child is right," she announced firmly. Arrietty's eyes grew big. "Oh, no-" she began. It shocked her to be right. Parents were right, not children. Children could say anything, Arrietty knew, and enjoy saying it-knowing always they were safe and wrong.
~ Unknown
It was a common saying among the Puritans, "Brown bread and the Gospel is good fare."
~ Matthew Henry
In Egypt, there is a saying: When good fortune looks down upon us, it does so in threes, one for each part of the Eye of Horus. His upper lid, his lower lid and the eye itself.
~ Michelle Moran
Love is the silent saying and saying of a single name
~ Mignon McLaughlin
There is an old Italian saying: "Il lavoro nobilita I'uomo, e lo rende simile alle bestie"; or, "Work gives man nobility, and turns him into an animal.
~ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Is this the saying people say: 'A poor man's name is pronounced for his master's sake.' It is I who speak to you, and you invoke the high steward!
~ Unknown
Murphy's Law; When someone says 'It's not the money, it's the principle,' nine times out of ten, it's the money.
~ Unknown