Said Quotes

Capitalism is at least tolerable, which cannot be said of Socialism or Communism

Precautions are always blamed. When successful they are said to be unnecessary.

We are a society dying, said Aunt Lydia, of too much choice.

If you have a child, I said, you have a responsibility at least to stay alive.

I would rather have it said, 'He lived usefully,' than, 'He died rich.'

You'd find it easier to be bad than good if you had red hair," said Anne reproachfully. "People who haven't red hair don't know what trouble is.

Just as the Supreme Court has said that women have the right to choose whether or not to be parents, men should also have that right.

How much do you love me?' Midori asked. 'Enough to melt all the tigers in the world to butter,' I said.

A man without decision can never be said to belong to himself.

My dear Elinor, you were obviously born into the wrong story,” said Dustfinger at last.

I wish you luck,' she said, kissing him on the cheek. He still had the most beautiful eyes of any boy she'd ever seen. But now her heart beat so much faster for someone else.

Someone reminded me I once said, 'Greed is good.' Now it seems it's legal.

Uncommon things must be said in common words.

Said the condor to the preying mantis, we're gonna lose this place just like we lost Atlantis.

As I've said, freedom is really an illusion. Anytime we think we have a real choice, it just means we haven't seen the shotgun aimed at our navel.

Are you sleepwalking?' A voice asked behind me. "I was testing dorm security," I said. "It sucks.

You must learn to respect," Papa said. But I do not respect her," I said. Papa paused for a moment, and patted my leg. "Then you must learn to hide your disrespect.

A famous actor, Edmund Kean, on his deathbed, was reported to have said, "Dying is easy. Comedy is hard."

I'm going to Heaven just like the thief on the cross who said in that last moment: 'Lord, remember me.'

I was out on the golf course, a guy came riding out in a golf cart and said, Did you know that Elvis died? And I just said, Well, there you go. It was like I had kinda been expecting it.

I never said that I wanted to be the only company, is it my fault that I ran my company well? Wouldn't you want the best for your company? Also consider that I started of small.

And at the same time, I had my very first concert at the age of 16. I hadn't heard a symphony orchestra before, and I was so deeply impressed I said I have to be a conductor.

In Northern Ireland, people said there would never be a solution. But once people begin to have the political will and force their governments to sit down, it can happen.

God is identical with His attributes, so that it may be said that He is the knowledge, the knower, and the known.

You are our dearly beloved brothers, and in a certain way, it could be said that you are our elder brothers.

As one Israeli said, "It's a big mistake for Israel to say it 'won' the war, when there was no war. There were no battles...no military enemy in the field."

Some people don't understand the promises they're making when they make them," I said. "Right, of course. But you keep the promise anyway. That's what love is. Love is keeping the promise anyway.

O that our hearts were enlarged in love to God, that we might turn inward, to the blessed comforter, that the blessed Jesus said the Father would send.

She said 'I love you' as if it were a secret, and an immense one.

It is said that life begins when the fetus can exist apart from its mother. By this definition, many people in Hollywood are legally dead.

You’re disgusting when you eat,” Chuck said, sitting on the bench next to him. “It’s like watching a starving pig eat his own klunk.

I asked Ring Lardner the other day how he writes his short stories, and he said he wrote a few widely separated words or phrases on a piece of paper and then went back and filled in the spaces.

I done been to the pearly gates, they sent me back said the good die young I ain't eligible for that

Earlier on today, apparently, a woman rung the BBC and said she heard there was a hurricane on the way... well, if you're watching, don't worry, there isn't!

Someone once said "Don't try to be a great man. Just be a man, and let history make its own judgements."

I said in my heart that, rather than have war, I would give up my country.

Some Harvard guy said that acid would open our minds, pot wouldn't hurt us, and cocaine was benign.

I felt unworthy to play Jesus. I just accepted the responsibility and said, 'What actor wouldn't want to play this role?'

Someone asked me the other day what my favourite record shop was, and I said YouTube.

G.K. Chesterton was the best writer of the 20th century. He said something about everything and he said it better than anybody else.

Age ain't nothing but a number, that's what Chi-Ali said. OK, then why don't you get that through the judge's head?

Christian said he'd call the next day, but in boy time that meant Thursday.

I am the girl who everyone said was never going anywhere. I guess I shocked a few people.

I've heard it said that the first law of journalism is to confirm existing prejudice, rather than contradict it.

God said, All right, I'm gonna show you. I made you what you are. God takes care of me. I'm just the one who delivers the message.

I knew his life deserved a chance/But everybody told me to be smart/Look at your career they said/Lauren, baby use your head/But instead I chose to use my heart.

Jesus clearly said that you can do all that he did if you can believe, if you can center yourself in the creative flow, as he was always centered.

I did a gig in the U.S. once for the homeless. I said 'It's nice to see so many bums on seats.'

A philosopher once said, 'It is necessary for the very existence of science that the same conditions always produce the same results.' Well, they don't!

Doctors said 'go home and enjoy what little is left of your life'. He recovered.