Said Quotes

It is said that man doesn't live by bread alone. Sometimes this is unfortunate, because people who cannot live by bread alone too often kill other people in consequence of the fights they get into.

People stopped me on the street and said 'I can't live up to you.' Of course, they're referring to June Cleaver.

In a polling conducted by the Wall Street Journal, 11 out of 12 Americans said they oppose the taking of private property, even if it is for public economic good.

The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, 'Let no one be called happy till his death;' to which I would add, 'Let no one, till his death, be called unhappy.'

My father said there were two kinds of people in the world: givers and takers. The takers may eat better, but the givers sleep better.

I reiterate my proposal of creating life sentences for politicians who make deals with organized criminals. They deserve the maximum penalty because a politician that makes deals with criminals - I've said it, and I repeat it - is no longer a politician but just another 'capo.'

Much has been said and continues to be said of what little concern the Turks had for the Acropolis treasures.

The quality of what is said inevitably influences the way in which it is said, however inexperienced the writer.

'I hate discussions of feminism that end up with who does the dishes,' she said. So do I. But at the end, there are always the damned dishes.

Has there ever been a more revealing moment this year? Let me just put this in fairly simple terms: Al Jazeera now broadcasts the words of Senator Durbin to the Mideast, certainly putting our troops in greater danger. No more needs to be said about the motives of liberals.

It was Jung who first said to explain the symbol as if talking to a man from mars who knew nothing about our life on earth.

What I finally did in 1995 was I said, I'm going to get out of this town and I'm going to go out West.

I gave guitar lessons. I tried to join bands. My mom always said it was obvious that nothing was going to stop me.

I don't disagree with anything I've ever said. Why in God's name would I disagree with something I've said?

New-Year's Day arriving, and the ministers, to whom I wrote, remaining silent, I consider their silence as evidence, that they cannot prove what I said not to be from the Lord, and have therefore published as I was directed.

There is nothing so strange and so unbelievable that it has not been said by one philosopher or another.

When a Benefit is wrongly conferred, the author of the Benefit may often be said to injure.

I met the Coens here a few years ago and they said they liked my work.

I'm not sure what I think about current fashion, though. A few years ago, I would have said it's really, really bad and you hardly ever see anybody looking good. There must be some very good designers in the world.

I'm very at ease, and I like it. I never thought I would be such a family-oriented guy; I didn't think that was part of my makeup. But somebody said that as you get older you become the person you always should have been, and I feel that's happening to me. I'm rather surprised at who I am, because I'm actually like my dad!

It is a wise man who said that there is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals.

I'm like a bunch of college guys who got together and said, 'Let's make a dude, a crazy dude'.

A man acquainted with history may, in some respect, be said to have lived from the beginning of the world, and to have been making continual additions to his stock of knowledge in every century.

Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.

In the White House, you can be on the pitcher's mound or you can be in the catcher's position. Put points on the board. Show people you can govern. Deliver on what you said you were going to deliver on.

Nature and nature's laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light!

Take off your bedroom slippers. Put on your marching shoes," he said, his voice rising as applause and cheers mounted. "Shake it off. Stop complainin'. Stop grumblin'. Stop cryin'. We are going to press on. We have work to do.

If they would have told me when I was just 18 that I was going to have a career that would last so long, I'd have said it was impossible, that it was crazy that that could happen in my life, so I'm happy to be here. To be able to go out on stage every day.

I lasted one night. They said my playing spoiled people's appetites.

And if you remember the other part of the context is we were then all deceived about the French position and told the French had said they'd veto any second resolution - which wasn't true, we now know.