Saying Quotes - page 3

Arguing that you don't care about privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don't care about free speech because you have nothing to say. (Edward Snowden)

I am two fools, I know, For loving, and for saying so In whining poetry.

John Donne

Except by name, Jean Paul Friedrich Richter is little known out of Germany. The only thing connected with him, we think, that has reached this country is his saying,imported by Madame de Stal, and thankfully pocketed by most newspaper critics,'Providence has given to the French the empire of the land to the English that of the sea to the Germans that ofthe air' Richter German humorist prose writer.

Thomas Carlyle

A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.

Italo Calvino

Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.

William Makepeace Thackeray

If you talk bad about country music, it's like saying bad things about my momma. Them's fightin' words.

Dolly Parton

But the problem is that when I go around and speak on campuses, I still don't get young men standing up and saying, 'How can I combine career and family?'

Gertrude Stein

Right now I think censorship is necessary; the things they're doing and saying in films right now just shouldn't be allowed. There's no dignity anymore and I think that's very important.

Mae West

A lot of the advertisement is done by saying: first of all, have a complex about who you are.

Isabella Rossellini

There's an old saying in Tennessee - I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee - that says, fool me once, shame on - shame on you. Fool me - you can't get fooled again.

George W. Bush

When I read something saying I've not done anything as good as 'Catch-22' I'm tempted to reply, 'Who has?' (Joseph Heller)

There's no use saying anything in the schoolyard because there's always someone with an answer and there's nothing you can do but punch them in the nose and if you were to punch everyone who has an answer you'd be punching morning noon and night.

Frank McCourt

People ask me if I have some kind of death wish, to keep saying the things I do. The answer is no: I would like to keep living. However, some things must be said, and there are times when silence becomes an accomplice to injustice.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

At first, it was hard to sit down and read the things that people were saying. A lot of people would've worked their way up to this position and would've gotten a thick skin over a few years' time. For me, though, all this happened in a few months.

Carrie Underwood

Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.

Iris Murdoch

When people say there is too much violence in [my books], what they are saying is there is too much reality in life.

Joyce Carol Oates

I don't have a girlfriend. But I do know a woman who'd be mad at me for saying that.

Mitch Hedberg

We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming - well, that's like saying you can never change your fate.

Amy Tan

I succeeded by saying what everyone else is thinking.

Joan Rivers

That old saying, how you always hurt the one you love, well, it works both ways.

Chuck Palahniuk

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying. (Oscar Wilde)

Genuine good taste consists in saying much in few words, in choosing among our thoughts, in having order and arrangement in what we say, and in speaking with composure.

François Fénelon

There is surely no contradiction in saying that a certain section of the community may be quite competent to protect the persons and property of the rest, yet quite unfit to direct our opinions, or to superintend our private habits.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

When people stand up and talk about the great success that the EU has been, I'm not sure anybody saying it really believes it themselves anymore.

Nigel Farage

I'm an ambitious person. I never consider myself in competition with anyone, and I'm not saying that from an arrogant standpoint, it's just that my journey started so, so long ago, and I'm still on it and I won't stand still.

Idris Elba

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