Saying Quotes - page 4

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

The function of a briefing paper is to prevent the ambassador from saying something dreadfully indiscreet. I sometimes think its true object is to prevent the ambassador from saying anything at all.

Kingman Brewster, Jr.

If you catch me saying ‘I am a serious actor,' I beg you to slap me.

Johnny Depp

While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, it was done.

Helen Keller

He had a massive stroke. He died with his tie on. Do you think that could be our generation's equivalent of that old saying about dying with your boots on?

Stephen King

You've got to find some way of saying it without saying it.

Duke Ellington

If you get down and quarell everyday, you're saying prayers to the devil, I say.

Bob Marley

Thinking as I do that the Creator of this world is a very cruel being, and being a worshipper of Christ, I cannot help saying ''the Son, O how unlike the Father'' First God Almighty comes with a thump on the head. Then Jesus Christ comes with a balm to heal it.

William Blake

No man is exempt from saying silly things; the mischief is to say them deliberately. (Michel de Montaigne)

True eloquence consists in saying all that is necessary, and nothing but what is necessary.

Heinrich Heine

It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows.

Erma Bombeck

Hands down, the biggest thrill is to get a letter from a kid saying, I loved your book. Will you write me another one?

Kate DiCamillo

When are we going to stop making excuses for the terrorists and saying that somebody is making them do it? No, these are simply evil people who want to kill.

Condoleezza Rice

The next thing to saying a good thing yourself, is to quote one.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

...those who say I am being punished are saying that god can't think of anything more vengeful than cancer for a heavy smoker.

Christopher Hitchens

Hobbies of any kind are boring except to people who have the same hobby. This is also true of religion, although you will not find me saying so in print.

Dave Barry

Love is the silent saying and saying of a single name.

Mignon McLaughlin

The idea behind digital computers may be explained by saying that these machines are intended to carry out any operations which could be done by a human computer.

Alan Turing

It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary. (Winston Churchill)

Spring is nature's way of saying, "Let's party!"

Robin Williams

Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it's from Neptune.

Noam Chomsky

Listening to what people were saying wasn't even important. But it was important to look as if you were listening to what people were saying. Actually, listening to what people are saying, to me, interferes with looking as if you were listening to what people are saying.

Errol Morris

Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law. For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet; and if there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

Paul

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