Quotes of: People-say Keyword

My mother wasn't a fool," I say. "She just understood something you didn't. That it's not sacrifice if it's someone else's life you're giving away, it's just evil." I back up another step and say, "She taught me all about real sacrifice. That it shou...

Allegiant

She tried to remind herself that beauty was only skin deep, but that didn't offer any helpful excuses when she was berating herself for never knowing what to say to people. There was nothing more depressing than an ugly girl with no personality. It h...

Romancing Mister Bridgerton: The Epilogue II

Wizards don't believe in gods in the same way that most people don't find it necessary to believe in, say, tables. They know they're there, they know they're there for a purpose, they'd probably agree that they have a place in a well-organised univer...

Reaper Man

There are people everywhere. Lindsay wants to be sick, it's like he can feel all their eyes on him, but he does it anyway and when he finally moves away a good minute later Valentine seems to have turned from himself into a silly bashful schoolgirl, ...

No Beginning, No End

Consider A Move The steady time of being unknown, in solitude, without friends, is not a steadiness that sustains. I hear your voice waver on the phone: The voice zeroes through my ear, and waits. What should I say? There are ways to meet people you ...

New and Selected Poems

[about suicide] And why is it the biggest sin of all? All your life you're told that you'll be going to this marvellous place when you pass on. And the one thing you can do to get you there a bit quicker is something that stops you getting there at a...

A Long Way Down

The media are desperately afraid of being accused of bias. And that's partly because there's a whole machine out there, an organized attempt to accuse them of bias whenever they say anything that the Right doesn't like. So rather than really try to r...

Paul Krugman

Cancer seems a high price to pay for an innocuous-looking habit. You get into smoking and you are robbed of the last 25 years of your life. Some cocky souls will say, 'Ah yes, but they are the worst 25 years.' Nobody feels like that in a cancer ward....

Tony Parsons

When my brother,…, was a young boy learning the Chinese classics, I was in the habit of listening with him and I became unusually proficient at understanding those passages that he found too difficult to grasp and memorize. Father a most learned ma...

Murasaki Shikibu

The present importance of the Book of Job cannot be expressed adequately even by saying that it is the most interesting of ancient books. We may almost say of the Book of Job that it is the most interesting of modern books. In truth, of course, neith...

The Book of Job

Nothing is impossible . Its just that it has not been done yet. maybe its waiting for you to do it. Thats why its not done yet. So stop sitting and not doing anything. On that idea in your head, on that plan in your mind. On that skill/talent in you....

De philosopher Dj kyos

Blue eyes say, Love me or I die; black eyes say, Love me or I kill thee.

Spanish

They say that I'm stubborn, and my wife says that, too, but it's paid off so far.

Sugar Ray Leonard

Expression is saying what you wish to say, Impression is saying what others wish to hear.

Krishna Saagar

What Bill O'Reilly says means nothing. What Stephen Bennett says means nothing. What God says means everything.

Stephen Bennett

God has positioned me just this way to be just like I am, to say what I say how I say it.

Steve Harvey

I would never say never to marrying again but for the time being I'm having a great time.

Carol Vorderman

When somebody says, 'Action,' I act. When they say, 'Cut,' that's my job. I've done it.

James Callis

They say Elvis is dead. I say, no, you're looking at him. Elvis isn't dead; he just changed color.

Dennis Rodman

You never say never, but I don't think I'd want to do a long-running series.

Guy Pearce

They say the test of literary power is whether a man can write an inscription. I say, 'Can he name a kitten?'

Samuel Butler