‘Pathological liar’ is absolutely the toughest individual to deal with as a psychiatrist. Because you can’t take anything they say at face value. And you can’t, you know, fill in their personality. You don’t know what’s real and what’s not.
Capitalism is against the things that we say we believe in – democracy, freedom of choice, fairness. It’s not about any of those things now. It’s about protecting the wealthy and legalizing greed.
Being a nice person is about courtesy: you’re friendly, polite, agreeable, and accommodating. When people believe they have to be nice in order to give, they fail to set boundaries, rarely say no, and become pushovers, letting others walk all over them.
People like to say that the conflict is between good and evil. The real conflict is between truth and lies.
When you are trying to impress people with words, the more you say, the more common you appear, and the less in control. Even if you are saying something banal, it will seem original if you make it vague, open-ended, and sphinxlike.
They say that abandonment is a wound that never heals. I say only that an abandoned child never forgets.
Experience should be a plus as long as it doesn’t become complacency. If you say, ‘We’re not going to change; we didn’t do it that way before,’ then you’ve become too old.
We’re going to fight racism not with racism, but we’re going to fight with solidarity. We say we’re not going to fight capitalism with black capitalism, but we’re going to fight it with socialism.
They say a midget standing on a giant’s shoulders can see much further than the giant. So I got the whole rap world on my shoulders, they trying to see further than I am.
Every thought you produce, anything you say, any action you do, it bears your signature.
I wanted to play Dracula because I wanted to say: ‘I’ve crossed oceans of time to find you.’ It was worth playing the role just to say that line.
Propositions show what they say: tautologies and contradictions show that they say nothing.
It isn’t what they say about you, it’s what they whisper.
What I say is that, if a fellow really likes potatoes, he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow.
If I should say anything that is not in conformity with what is held by the Holy Roman Catholic Church, it will be through ignorance and not through malice. This may be taken as certain, and also that, through God’s goodness, I am, and shall always be, as I always have been, subject to her.
Find enough clever things to say, and you’re a Prime Minister; write them down and you’re a Shakespeare.
Time is very precious to me. I don’t know how much I have left and I have some things that I would like to say. Hopefully, at the end, I will have said something that will be important to other people too.
People who say, ‘Let the chips fall where they may,’ usually figure they will not be hit by a chip.
I walk every day, and I look at the mountains and the fields and the small city, and I say: ‘Oh my God, what a blessing.’ Then you realise it’s important to put it in a context beyond this woman, this man, this city, this country, this universe.
People usually compare the computer to the head of the human being. I would say that hardware is the bone of the head, the skull. The semiconductor is the brain within the head. The software is the wisdom. And data is the knowledge.
I go to Paris, I go to London, I go to Rome, and I always say, ‘There’s no place like New York. It’s the most exciting city in the world now. That’s the way it is. That’s it.’
‘Perfection’ to me is, I walk away from a situation and say, ‘I did everything I could do right there. There was nothing more that I could do.’ I was a hundred percent, like the meter was at the top. There was nothing else I could have done. You know? Like, I worked as hard as I possibly could have. That’s perfection.
Sometimes just when I say hello the right way, I’m like, ‘Whoa, I’m so cool.’
Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.
I cannot say for certain if there is such a thing as love at first sight, but I do know that the moment I first glimpsed Winnie Nomzamo, I knew that I wanted to have her as my wife.
People always say that I didn’t give up my seat because I was tired, but that isn’t true. I was not tired physically… No, the only tired I was, was tired of giving in.
People always come up to me and say that my smoking is bothering them… Well, it’s killing me!
What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.
First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say ‘I want to see the manager.’
I am what you might call abstractly anti-capitalist. For instance, I am suspicious of the old leftists who focus all their hatred on the United States. What about Chinese neo-colonialism? Why are the left silent about that? When I say this, it annoys them, of course. Good!
They talk most who have the least to say.
I am a proud member of the LGBT community and could never bear the idea that someone could say I was closeted.
You can’t judge a book by its cover until you open up and read it. There are going be a million stories out there, true or not true. I say get to know me first before you judge me.
That is the real spiritual awakening, when something emerges from within you that is deeper than who you thought you were. So, the person is still there, but one could almost say that something more powerful shines through the person.
If an injustice requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law. Let your life be a counter-friction to stop the government machine.
Let me just say: Peace to you, if you’re willing to fight for it.
About all I can say for the United States Senate is that it opens with a prayer and closes with an investigation.
You never say never. There’s always a chance to do things in the future.
As they say around the Texas Legislature, if you can’t drink their whiskey, screw their women, take their money, and vote against ’em anyway, you don’t belong in office.
When I was 11, I saw this ad for dish soap powder that said, ‘Women all over America are fighting greasy pots and pans.’ I was so angry. I couldn’t understand why it didn’t say men as well.
No one can confidently say that he will still be living tomorrow.
If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I’m looking for the truth, and it goes away. Puzzling.
Some people say video games rot your brain, but I think they work different muscles that maybe you don’t normally use.
She laughs at everything you say. Why? Because she has fine teeth.
We can’t drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times… and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK. That’s not leadership. That’s not going to happen.
Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.
There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, ‘Thy will be done,’ and those to whom God says, ‘All right, then, have it your way.’
Once you say you’re going to settle for second, that’s what happens to you in life.
They say it is better to be poor and happy than rich and miserable, but how about a compromise like moderately rich and just moody?
I hate stupid people. They should have to wear signs that just say, ‘I’m stupid.’
I’ve learned never to say never.
Why lie? I’m not going to be a hypocrite and say the opposite of what I think, like some others do.
I should like to know if, taking this old Declaration of Independence, which declares that all men are equal upon principle, you begin making exceptions to it, where will you stop? If one man says it does not mean a Negro, why not another say it does not mean some other man?
You can’t always write a chord ugly enough to say what you want to say, so sometimes you have to rely on a giraffe filled with whipped cream.
I like to say I’m determined; some people would call it stubborn. It depends on your perspective.
But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven; for he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.
If I could talk to my younger self, I would just say that the path to great things is filled with a lot of stumbles, suffering, and challenges along the way. But if you have the right attitude and know that hard times will pass – and you get up each time – you will reach your destination.
When God sneezed, I didn’t know what to say.
To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves. Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.
I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change if they are to get better.
Just say the lines and don’t trip over the furniture.
