Top 655 Say Quotes

When I first started out in this music industry, I was most concerned with freedom. Freedom to produce, freedom to play all the instruments on my records, freedom to say anything I wanted to.

People say that life is short, but it isn’t short. It’s very long.

We should not say that one man’s hour is worth another man’s hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time’s carcass.

It’s really a testament to my parents, because I was active, curious and creative as a child, and my parents nurtured that. But I wouldn’t say that I was a professional child actor at all. I was never the breadwinner of my family.

Even if I might say to myself, ‘I don’t need health insurance. I won’t get sick,’ the fact is, as human beings with mortality, we are going to get sick, and it’s unpredictable when.

It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.

Children say that people are hung sometimes for speaking the truth.

Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own; he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.

When you win, say nothing. When you lose, say less.

If it were necessary to give the briefest possible definition of imperialism, we should have to say that imperialism is the monopoly stage of capitalism.

I’d say it’s been my biggest problem all my life… it’s money. It takes a lot of money to make these dreams come true.

Take time to be kind and to say ‘thank you.’

I would honestly say I’m in the turtle’s race. My journey is a marathon.

I’ll say things that are serious and put them in a joke form so people can enjoy them. We laugh to keep from crying.

I don’t run a car, have never run a car. I could say that this is because I have this extremely tender environmentalist conscience, but the fact is I hate driving.

Sometimes I wish that I could go into a time machine right now and just look at my self and say, ‘Calm down. Things are gonna be fine. Things are gonna be all great. Just relax.’

I’m just not into trying to convince people like me. I always say to myself, ‘It is what it is.’ I walk into a situation knowing that people are either going to love me or they’re not, and that’s OK. I’m just going to be me. You can’t be everything to everyone.

What I treasure the most is people coming up to me in the elevator and saying, ‘You really did a great job’: neighbours who congratulate for a job well done or little fans who hug me and say they want to be like me.

Luck always favours the brave. And you must remember that brave are the people who follow their heart; brave are the people who take chances in life. Which also means you have to say no sometimes. I believe the power of no is greater than yes.

I can honestly say that I was never affected by the question of the success of an undertaking. If I felt it was the right thing to do, I was for it regardless of the possible outcome.

Systematic theology – be careful how you tie down the Word to fit your set and final creeds, systems, dogmas, and organized theistic philosophies! The Word of God is not bound! It’s free to say what it will to the individual, and no one can outline it into dispensations which cannot be broken.

If everything isn’t black and white, I say, ‘Why the hell not?’

It’s not what you wear it’s how you wear it, is what I say.

God has always given me the strength to say what is right.

You should make something. You should bring something into the world that wasn’t in the world before. It doesn’t matter what it is. It doesn’t matter if it’s a table or a film or gardening-everyone should create. You should do something, then sit back and say, ‘I did that.’

To say that you can kill in the name of God is blasphemy.

When I was saying, ‘White people go to hell,’ I never had trouble finding a publisher. But when I say, ‘Black and white unite and fight, destroy capitalism,’ then you suddenly become unreasonable.

When I say something’s going to happen, it’s going to happen.

As long as you as an individual… can convince yourself that in order to move forward as best you can you have to be optimistic, you can be described as ‘one of the faithful,’ one of those people who can say, ‘Well, look, something’s going to happen! Let’s just keep trying. Let’s not give up.

My thing is this; if I’m sick enough to think it, then I’m sick enough to say it.

The Christian life is not a constant high. I have my moments of deep discouragement. I have to go to God in prayer with tears in my eyes, and say, ‘O God, forgive me,’ or ‘Help me.’

I just change with the times. I really don’t have a say in what’s going on. Music was here before me.

Many things we need can wait. The child cannot. Now is the time his bones are formed, his mind developed. To him we cannot say tomorrow, his name is today.

I’m much more energetic now; you might say live performance is my mission.

I would say if you have a dream, follow it. It doesn’t really matter whether you are a woman or from India or from wherever.

Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning.

Censorship is saying: ‘I’m the one who says the last sentence. Whatever you say, the conclusion is mine.’ But the internet is like a tree that is growing. The people will always have the last word – even if someone has a very weak, quiet voice. Such power will collapse because of a whisper.

Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, ‘She doesn’t have what it takes’; They will say, ‘Women don’t have what it takes.’

Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.

There are times pop music is the end result when I’m in the studio, but I don’t really go in and say, ‘Today I am going to make a pop song,’ but it can happen.

I don’t think there’s much a person could say about me. My gangster’s never been on trial.

People say, ‘Dream big!’ – but you have to think about the logistics. It’s not just coming up with a great idea; it’s how you can sell or market or promote that great idea.

I have a problem when people say something’s real or not real, or normal or abnormal. The meaning of those words for me is very personal and subjective. I’ve always been confused and never had a clearcut understanding of the meaning of those kinds of words.

The things I talk about and explain couldn’t happen – yet, they don’t seem impossible – you could say I talk about the world in an abstract perspective. But then, the world is basically insane – and it’s trying to pass itself off as being a sane place. I show it for what it is.

Diplomacy is to do and say the nastiest things in the nicest way.

This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it.

I would be a liar, a hypocrite, or a fool – and I’m not any of those – to say that I don’t write for the reader. I do. But for the reader who hears, who really will work at it, going behind what I seem to say. So I write for myself and that reader who will pay the dues.

If I said it once, I’ll say it again: ‘We have the power to change everything.’

I say I am stronger than fear.

Everyone should have health insurance? I say everyone should have health care. I’m not selling insurance.

My music will go on forever. Maybe it’s a fool say that, but when me know facts me can say facts. My music will go on forever.

We say that we will work with anybody and form a coalition with anybody that has revolution on their mind.

But I can say that life is good to me. Has been and is good. So I think my task is to be good to it. So how do you be good to life? You live it.

I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn’t say any other way – things I had no words for.

I can honestly say I love getting older. Then again, I never put my glasses on before looking in the mirror.

It sounds strange to say, but someone’s bad luck is sometimes the happiness of the other.

I say find one true friend to help you get through the tough times.

We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.

I’ve been thinking of humorous things since I was… I can’t remember when. All the way through elementary school, all the way through junior high, all the way through high school, through college and after college, I was thinking of the same kinds of things that I say in front of an audience now.

Even if the government spends itself into bankruptcy and the economy still does not recover, Keynesians can always say that it would have worked if only the government had spent more.

If you love someone, you say it, right then, out loud. Otherwise, the moment just passes you by.

Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so.

People can choose between the sweet lie or the bitter truth. I say the bitter truth, but many people don’t want to hear it.