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Quotes About Saying

Freedom is control in your own life. I have more control now than in the past, and I'm learning the value of saying no. That's very important.
~ Willie Nelson
Says he, 'I am a handsome man, but I'm a gay deceiver'.
~ George Colman
The idea of saying 'the handsome Pete Holmes' is preposterous.
~ Pete Holmes
Like a lot of freelance cartoonists, when any opportunity like that comes along, I have a hard time saying no, whether it makes sense or not.
~ Jim Woodring
I'm very careful about saying who would and wouldn't go to heaven. I don't know.
~ Joel Osteen
I overuse words. My kids catch me saying stuff. They're like, 'Hey, you say that all the time.' 'Boom' is one of those things.
~ Walker Hayes
or said some racist thing out loud at church...
~ George Saunders
Sure, kid. Look, there's a very old saying in my family: 'Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is another wizard fucking with you.
~ Scott Lynch
That there are evil people destroying America and it's a conspiracy and time is running out and we should do something about it - that's what millions of people hear Trump saying.
~ Chip Berlet
...sensation of rightness, of saying the right thing atthe right time to the right person, that too-raresensation of having the right thing to say and believing it.
~ Maggie Stiefvater
The saying is old that truth should not be spoken at all times; and those whom a sick conscience worries into habitual violation of the maxim are imbeciles and nuisances.
~ Mark Twain
She pointed to a poster on the casino that showed a mother telling her son, "I Would Rather You Came Home a Dead Patriot Than a Live Traitor." Maria said, "No mother on earth would say that. This worship of death is sick.
~ Martin Cruz Smith
In every human undertaking there is something which is not in our power and does not come within our calculations; the wish to win this for oneself is the origin of the gods. Primus in orbe Deos fecit timor is an old and true saying of Petronius.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
I have always disbelieved that Sicilian saying about revenge being a dish best served cold. I feel that – don't you? – when I see blinking, quivering octogenarian Nazi war criminals being led away in chains. Why not then? It's too late now. I want to see them taken back in time and punished then.
~ Stephen Fry
That's an interesting point,' said Adrian, 'in the sense of not being interesting at all.
~ Stephen Fry
You know, Glen Bateman said, looking out toward Grand Junction in the early light of morning, I've heard the saying 'That sucks' for years without really being sure of what it meant. Now I think I know.
~ Stephen King
I know this isn't a conventional love story. I know there are all sorts of reasons I shouldn't even be saying what I am. But I love you. I do. I knew it when I left Patrick. And I think you might even love me a little bit.
~ Jojo Moyes
We were to do more business after dinner; but after dinner is after dinner—an old saying and a true, "much drinking, little thinking."
~ Jonathan Swift
Speaking' and 'Saying' are two different languages. Speaking discharges resonance. Saying emanates ideas. ( "Words flew away like birds" )
~ Erik Pevernagie
But testifying was easier than saying no to Barney.
~ Ben S. Bernanke
People who like quotations love meaningless generalisations.
~ Graham Greene
Don't ask me who my favourite monster was because I'm sick of saying Tom Baker.
~ Lalla Ward
I'm dreading the time that is not near As a man on a cross I have no fear I can't believe these words I'm saying You've got to feel your lines
~ John Frusciante
This was in the before-time, last days of. Still no internet with all the ways of saying, Let's us be better than those guys so we can hate on them.
~ Barbara Kingsolver