Quotes About Saying

in the Greek view, mythos (a "saying" or "story" without rational claim to truth) and history (the empirical search for truth about the past)7 were often indistinguishable;

Finding the home had been dispiriting at best. And the best had been only very occasional. She had been appalled, and alarmed, by most of what she had seen, frightened enough to say

Honestly, for a big city, London is by far my favourite city on earth, and I'm not just saying that!

The famous saying 'God is love', it is generally assumed, means that God is like our immediate emotional indulgence, not that the meaning of love ought to have something of the 'otherness' and terror of God.

There is a saying from the Southlands that there is truth in wine. There must be a bit of it in ale, also.

And for their part, the Abruzzese had a popular saying: "It is better to have a dead man in your house than a Marchegiani at your door," because the men of Marche had been used as tax collectors by the Romans, and so were universally hated.

I suppose it's natural to some people to please without trying, and others to always say and do the wrong thing in the wrong place.

Real life is a funny thing, you know. In real life saying the right thing at the right time is beyond crucial.

All wickedness is but little to the wickedness of a woman.

Saying that the Palestinian people aren't really a people - that's not a zany thing to say. That's a psychotic thing to say in the midst of all of the politics we live through on a daily basis.

A lot of people on the internet have been saying that there's no way we can pull off a musical in three acts. We just take that as a challenge.

There is an old saying that man only dares use his words for three purposes, to heal, bless or prosper. What man says of others will be said of him, and what he wishes for another, he is wishing for himself.

And she knew too: she had always known under her mind and now she confessed it; her agony had been, half of it, because one day he would say farewell to her, like that, with the inflexion of a verb. As, just occasionally, using the word 'we' - and perhaps without intention - he had let her know that he loved her.

We Fremen have a saying: 'God created Arrakis to train the faithful.' One cannot go against the word of God.

We Fremen have a saying: 'God created Arrakis to train the faithful.' One cannot go against the word of God.

We conservatives don't have a corner on saying 'no'. We're just the ones who say it when it's the right thing to say.

I tell ya one thing about me. I say "No" to drugs. When people ask me for some of my drugs, I say "No.

Meow!" said the chicken.

I am not the lady's husband. I do not have that honor and pleasure. Atalia is, in fact, my mistress." He allowed a little time for Shmuel to wallow in his astonishment before deigning to explain: "I am not using the word in the vulgar sense, of course, but rather as in the famous saying of the first Queen Elizabeth of England: 'I will have here but one mistress and no master.

APOPHTHEGM  (A'POPHTHEGM)   n.s. remarkable saying; a valuable maxim uttered on some sudden occasion.

It [I'm leaving] wasn't really necessary to say, especially if you were already walking away. Almost redundant. And yet, there was a comfort in being no question, no room for doubt.

Someone had said, and Wilhelm agreed with the saying, that in Los Angeles all the loose objects in the country were collected, as if America had been tilted and everything that wasn't tightly screwed down had slid into Southern California.

Reading Sartre on the Middle East, I wonder whether he really knows what he is saying.

What's most aggravating is feeling like I'm a radical for saying something so commonsense.