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In every American election, crazy things are said. Positions are taken which the winners try very hard to forget afterwards.
~ Lee Hsien Loong
And the people I have been accountable to every single day in the Senate are the 27 million Texans who I represent and I made a promise to them that I make to you today, which is, if I am elected, every single day I will do two things: tell the truth, and do what I said I would do.
~ Ted Cruz
What," said Ruby fatly as she reentered the store.
~ Ann M. Martin
Once upon a time," he said out loud to the darkness. He said these words because they were the best, the most powerful words that he knew and just the saying of them comforted him.
~ Kate DiCamillo
Lestat, what did I say last night?' he asked. 'You are the damnedest creature !
~ Anne Rice
Everybody is forever saying that the essay is dead. This is always said in essays.
~ John Leonard
Hmm," I said. "Nuisance" at least sounded affectionate. My wife had been alternately terrified of or furious with me.
~ Ashley Gardner
Revenge is a dish best served cold, her mother always said.
~ B.J. Daniels
People have said I can come off a little trial-lawyerish. I tell people I never actually became a lawyer, but I play one at City Hall.
~ Christine Quinn
All which he understood by rote, And, as occasion served, would quote; No matter whether right or wrong; They might be either said or sung.
~ Samuel Butler
Don't." Clary raised a warning hand. "I'm not really in the mood right now." "That's got to be the first time a girl's ever said that to me," Jace mused.
~ Cassandra Clare
I should tell you, Stella, that your clothes are completely unsuitable for this weather.' 'It's okay,' I said, opening my car door. 'I don't plan on wearing them for very long.
~ Marian Keyes
Again, all any heart has ever said, and just as the word is said the moment is gone, so there is not even any sort of promise in it.
~ Marilynne Robinson
It was true, however, that he sometimes startled his hearers by things which might have been considered to border on coarseness if they had not been said by a clergyman.
~ Anthony Trollope
I don't think you need alarm yourself," said I. "I have usually found that there was method in his madness." "Some folks might say there was madness in his method," muttered the Inspector.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
Your little face was so sweet, yesterday, when you said 'Oh you looked at me, you looked at me.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
Let me tell you why. As a clever man once said: a treasure such as this should not be left in the hands of Philistines. And Poppy is a treasure, though she doesn't realize it . . .' I
~ Sophie Kinsella
Are names more properly said to be the names of things, or of our ideas of things? The first is the expression in common use; the last is that of some metaphysicians, who conceived that in adopting it they were introducing a highly important distinction.
~ John Stuart Mill
Everything that can be said on the nuclear threat has already been said. Nothing has ever happened.... Nothing will ever happen. It is a system of general terror. But we are as if turned to stone by this potential destruction.
~ baudrillard jean iii
Well, first of all, I'm an incredibly gullible person - I'm so bad that when I said that to someone, my friend said, 'You know, 'gullible' isn't even in the dictionary.' And I said, 'Really?' As I was saying 'Really?' I will acknowledge that I then realized what was happening, but that's how bad I am.
~ Carla Gugino
The act is truth. Nothing that was ever recorded is truth. Nothing that was ever said is truth. Only the act.
~ Jack Bowman
This was too much for Pen. 'Well I think it was a ridiculous thing to have said.' 'You see, she knows nothing of the world, Pen,' he said earnestly. 'Then too, she is impulsive! Do you know, she always makes me think of a bird?' 'A goose I suppose,' said Pen somewhat tartly.
~ Georgette Heyer
He begged hard, and said he couldn't play—a plausible excuse, but too thin; there wasn't a musician in the country that could.
~ Mark Twain
They was strong words but they was said and I let them stay said.
~ Mark Twain