"Said" Quotes . Top 26 Short Quotes About "Said"

"Who was it who said, 'I hold the buying of more books than one can peradventure read, as nothing less than the soul's reaching towards infinity; which is the only thing that raises us above the beasts that perish.'? Whoever it was, I agree with him."

--- A. Edward Newton

#Buying #Book #Soul

"Think of negative speech as verbal pollution. And that's what I've been doing: visualizing insults and gossip as a dark cloud, maybe one with some sulfur dioxide. Once you've belched it out, you can't take it back. As grandma said, if you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all. The interesting this is, the less often I vocalize my negative thoughts, the fewer negative thoughts I cook up in the first place."

--- A. J. Jacobs

#Thinking #Dark Clouds #Speech

"Plus, in one of his e-mails, the guy said he didn't like pancakes. What kind of asshole doesn't like pancakes?"

--- A. J. Jacobs

#Said #Plus #Pancakes

"I've rarely said the word "Lord," unless it's followed by "of the Rings."

--- A. J. Jacobs

#Said #Rings #Lord

"I got a sense of the amazingness of ordinary life, and I became aware of the marvel that we're around to begin with. I visited a lot of extreme communities, like the Amish, Hasidic Jews, and serpent-handlers. And I was proud, because I think I'm the first person to ever out-Bible-talk a Jehovah's Witness. After four hours, he said, "Okay, I have to go.""

--- A. J. Jacobs

#Thinking #Ordinary Life #Said

"If nobody said anything unless he knew what he was talking about, a ghastly hush would descend upon the earth."

--- A. P. Herbert

#Said #Life #Learning

"The poet exposes himself to the risk. All that has been said about poetry, all that he has learned about poetry, is only a partial assurance."

--- A. R. Ammons

#Said #Risk #Poet

"There's something to be said in favor of working in isolation in the real world."

--- A. R. Ammons

#Said #Favors #World

"Narration is as much a part of human nature as breath and the circulation of the blood.... storytelling is intrinsic to biological time, which we cannot escape. Life, Pascal said, is like living in a prison from which every day fellow prisoners are taken away to be executed. We are all, like Scheherazade, under sentence of death, and we all think of our lives as narratives, with beginnings, middles and ends."

--- A. S. Byatt

#Thinking #Said #Narration

"A beautiful woman, Simone Weil said, seeing herself in the mirror, knows "This is I." An ugly woman knows with equal certainty, "This is not I." Maud knew this neat division represented an over-simplification. The doll-mask she saw had nothing to do with her, nothing."

--- A. S. Byatt

#Dolls #Division #Certainty

"I said, ‘There’s one idea I’ve been carrying in my hip pocket for 35 years. It’s Woodrow Wilson.’"

--- A. Scott Berg

#Said #Years #Pockets

"President J. Reuben Clark, Jr., a modern prophet, said over and over again that the Lord would never let one of his Saints who had been faithful in the payment of tithes and offerings go without the necessities of life” (Marion G. Romney, “The Blessings of an Honest Tithe,” New Era, Jan.-Feb. 1982, 45). Members who faithfully pay tithing are promised spiritual blessings as well. “I think it is not well known in the Church that payment of tithing has very little to do with money. Tithing has to do with faith"

--- A. Theodore Tuttle

#Thinking #Tithing #Payment

"Freedom of discussion is in England little else than the right to write or say anything which a jury of twelve shopkeepers think it expedient should be said or written."

--- A. V. Dicey

#Thinking #Shopkeepers #Said

"The Bible says, 'The truth shall make you free.' But let's not forget it was Spiro Agnew who said that a good lie will keep you out of jail in the first place."

--- A. Whitney Brown

#Said #Forget It #Good Lies

"It's probably hard for anyone looking at my landscapes today to realize that I was once regarded as a rebel, a dangerous influence; that I've been told I was on the verge of insanity, that my painting was nothing but meaningless daubs. Lawren Harris, the man most responsible for drawing the Group of Seven together, was accused of something perilously close to treason - his paintings, said his severest critics, were discouraging immigration."

--- A. Y. Jackson

#Realizing #Treason #Discouraging

"Socrates famously said that the unconsidered life is not worth living. He meant that a life lived without forethought or principle is a life so vulnerable to chance, and so dependent on the choices and actions of others, that it is of little real value to the person living it. He further meant that a life well lived is one which has goals, and integrity, which is chosen and directed by the one who lives it, to the fullest extent possible to a human agent caught in the webs of society and history."

--- A.C. Grayling

#Life Is Not Worth Living #Life Well Lived #Said

"But if science may be said to be blind without philosophy, it is true also that philosophy is virtually empty without science."

--- A.J. Ayer

#Said #May #Empty

"There never comes a point where a theory can be said to be true. The most that one can claim for any theory is that it has shared the successes of all its rivals and that it has passed at least one test which they have failed."

--- A.J. Ayer

#Said #Claims #Tests

"I've been singing all my life. I've always wanted this. I sang in church, in school plays, and my parents gave me vocal lessons. My parents always said this was destined for me."

--- Aaliyah

#Said #Play #Destined

"The Matrix is top secret. There isn't much that can be said right now."

--- Aaliyah

#Said #Secret #Right Now

"Shammiji is said to be India's answer to Elvis Presley, but I say that Elvis Presley is America's answer to Shammi Kapoor. The mark of a good actor is the belief with which he gives a shot and Shammiji gave his each shot with a strong belief and that makes him a great actor of all times."

--- Aamir Khan

#Great Actors #Said #Answers

"There are so many sci-fi fans and it's such a big business now. So many people love sci-fi, and they're so loyal. I would be lying if I said that the fact that I had been on a very popular sci-fi show and had some recognition in that world didn't help me get the job on another sci-fi show."

--- Aaron Ashmore

#People #Said #Fans

"I had a nice read on the putt and I said to myself, 'This is for you, Jesus, ' and knocked it in."

--- Aaron Baddeley

#Said #Nice #Jesus

"[The U.S. government] was tired of treaties. They were tired of sacred hills. They were tired of ghost dances. And they were tired of all the inconveniences of the Sioux. So they brought out their cannons. 'You want to be an Indian now?' they said, finger on the trigger."

--- Aaron Huey

#Soul #Said #Spirituality

"I sold my soul to the devil in L.A. He said 'sign your name here on the dotted line and your songs they all will play.'"

--- Aaron Lewis

#Soul #Said #Play

"So I went in front of the judge, and I had my St. Jude prayer book in my pocket and my St. Jude medal. And I'm standing there and that judge said I was found guilty, so he sentenced me to what the law prescribed: one to 14 years."

--- Aaron Neville

#Guilty #Book #Standing There

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