Said Quotes

The Lord let the house of a brute to the soul of a man, And the man said, "Am I your debtor?" And the Lord--"Not yet: but make it as clean as you can, And then I will let you a better.

Our goal is to create a beloved community," said Dr. King, "and this will require a qualitative change in our souls as well as a quantitative change in our lives.

You look invincible,' my mother said one night. I loved these times, when we seemed to feel the same thing. I turned to her, wrapped in my thin gown, and said: I am.

The Italians are said to be noisy and to gesticulate, but that is a libel dreamed up by the English.

I am so tried by the things said about God. I understand God's patience with the wicked, but I do wonder how he can be so patient with the pious!

Cleavage is great," she said. "Like an extra pocket.

It was said of old Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, that she never puts dots over her I s, to save ink.

The preacher's task is to declare what God has said, explain the meaning, and establish the implications so that no one will mistake its relevance.

When enough individuals arrive at the same gut feeling, a company can be said to have a brand.

"The horror of that moment," the King went on, "I shall never, never forget!" "You will, though," the Queen said, "if you don't make a memorandum of it."

Forty-five States, as the gentleman just said, have determined by people that were elected by the people of that State that marriage is the definition of one man and one woman.

Nobody ever said that growing old would be easy. Just having to hold the newspaper out in your forties and then hair growing out of unusual parts of your body in your fifties. It's tough on the ego.

Jesus didn't tell us not to store up treasures. On the contrary, he commanded us to. He simply said, "Stop storing them up in the wrong place, and start storing them up in the right place."

It has been aptly said that all Egypt is but the facade of an immense sepulcher.

I cast a glance in my new admirer's direction. "You may call me Your Highness," I said. "Or Empress Beauty." He chuckled. I wasn't kidding.

And I said to myself, here's the problem with the world: The Italians are too Italian, and nobody else is Italian enough.

Note the three most important Cabinet positions. Rice said that it was better to find the weapons of mass destruction than to see a mushroom cloud.

When I was about eight, I asked my mother if it was true that God knows everything about you. When she answered yes, I said, "Then there's no hope for me, Mum."

Do not say anything harsh: what you have said will be said back to you.

God said, I am tired of kings, I suffer them no more; Up to my ear this morning brings The outrage of the poor.

It's been said that alcoholics are egomaniacs with low self -esteem. It's the prefect description. Being larger than life and yet your pride is crushed with self- loathing.

Some, merely to contradict what I had said, did not scruple to cast doubt upon things they had seen with their own eyes again and again.

An old pop music producer once said that there are really only four kinds of song a person can write: "I love you/I hate you/go away/come back!" That's a funny observation.

It's too late to correct it: when you've once said a thing, that fixes it, and you must take the consequences.

"I could have done it in a much more complicated way," said the Red Queen, immensely proud.

Cath ate the banana and held on to his gaze. “I’d give you the moon right now,” she said. Levi’s eyes flashed happily, and he hitched up an eyebrow. “Yeah, but would you slay it for me?

Debauchery conceived of as a kind of ascetic experience is not new, either for men or for women, but until Story of O no woman to my knowledge had said it.

It is said, that the thing you possess is worth more than two you may have in the future. The one is sure and the other is not.

I wish I hadn't cried so much!” said Alice, as she swam about, trying to find her way out. I shall be punished for it now, I suppose, by being drowned in my own tears !

Man is said to be a rational creature; but should it not rather be said, that man is a creature capable of being rational, as we say a parrot is a creature capable of speech?

Missing you?" she giggled incredulously. "I could cheerfully murder you." "I'd come back to haunt you," he threatened with a grin. "And that," she said, "is the only reason why I haven't tried.

Said the monk: "All these mountains and rivers and the earth and stars - where do they come from?" Said the master: "Where does your question come from?"

"What is the secret of your serenity?" Said the master: "Wholehearted cooperation with the inevitable."

"Well, I never heard it before," said the Mock Turtle; "but it sounds uncommon nonsense."

All the same it is being said everywhere that I played too softly, or rather, too delicately for people used to the piano-pounding of the artists here.

You won't kiss me for diamonds," he said, his voice slightly raspy, "but you will for chocolates?" Poppy nodded.

Of course, I love you,' the flower said to him. 'If you were not aware of it, it was my fault.

"Don't you want to join us?" I was recently asked by an acquaintance when he ran across me alone after midnight in a coffeehouse that was already almost deserted. "No, I don't," I said.

This girl said "Yes" when I wasn't ready. I kissed her lightly and got so dizzy I had to sit down.

I have said my philosophy - I'm a backyard philosopher, I guess - is that the dirtiest word in the English language is "retirement."

A man once said when the legend gets bigger than the man, you've lost the man and you have an unrealistic picture.

Nothing anybody's said or written about me ever bothers me, except when it does.

I asked my dad what afflicted meant and he said 'Sickness son, and things that don't fit.'

A man was found dead covered in sprinkles, strawberry sauce and a flake. Reports said he may have topped himself.

Who said anything about slicing you up? ... I just wanted to carve a little Z on your forehead-- nothing serious.

When all is said, its atmosphere [England's] still contains fewer germs of aggression and brutality per cubic foot in a crowded bus, pub or queue than in any other country in which I have lived

It's my wife Ruth's birthday soon. I said to her: "What would you like for your birthday?" She said: "I want a divorce." I said: "I wasn't planning on spending that much."

There was a man sitting in the dining room of the Titanic, he said: "I know I asked for ice, but this is ridiculous."

It has well been said that the arch-flatterer, with whom all petty flatterers have intelligence, is a man's self.

Leaders of the world's religions said, 'What do you think about what I teach?' Jesus said, 'Who do you say I am?'(Luke 9:20)