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When we say disparaging things, even about inanimate objects, they can stick, so use discernment as to what you put out to the universe. — Russell Eric Dobda

To be able to say that "if we change our point of view in the following way ... things are simpler" is always a gain. — John Tukey

But I do not know whether the photograph can, or does, say things as they really are. Something has been lost. But the representation is all we have. — Edward Said

We can still be good people, even if we don't say or do good things all the time. — Eileen Cook

You know what we say in America about people who assume things? That they have two hours to get the fuck out of my apartment. — Courtney Maum

One of things we say on 'Arrow' is, 'The only constant is evolution.' — Marc Guggenheim

The past reflects eternally between two mirrors -the bright mirror of words and deeds, and the dark one, full of things we didn't do or say. — Gregory David Roberts

One of the things I say to people is: Imagine if we succeeded. — Ben Horowitz

Kindness is not in the things we say but the things we do. — Abdulazeez Henry Musa

The music we play has to be tomorrow's, the things we say have to be today, and the reason for bothering is yesterday. — Pete Townshend

Oh, that we would be people who would say, Our God will deliver us, but if not, we still refuse to worship the things of this world. — Billy Graham

Sometimes the things we want to say the most are the things that should never be said. — Megan Hart

In our deepest moments we say the most inadequate things. — Edna O'Brien

The comic spirit masquerades in all things we say and do. We are each a clown and do not need to put on a white face. — James Hillman

but things aren't real in the South if we don't say them out loud. — Jordan Nasser

Great claims are being made for the photograph as truth. We are showing you things, we show you the war. I say you can't actually. The camera can't. — David Hockney

Sometimes when we say things, is like putting the head inside of a tiger's mouth and wating for it not to be closed. — Kimberly Loskov

Professor, when people say such things after impossibility smacks them in the face, we call it denial — Taona Dumisani Chiveneko

God does expect us to say no to a whole lot of good things so that we can be freed up to say yes to the most important things he has for us. — Kevin DeYoung

All the things we don't say, all the words we swallow, and it makes nothing but trouble. — Anna Quindlen

There's nothing wrong with wanting a partner and doing the things to have one. To protect ourselves, we have to say, 'I don't need one.' — Hill Harper

Living with intention means saying no to the things that aren't important to us so we can say yes to what matters most. — Crystal Paine

Great art says the things we wished someone would say out loud, the things we wish we could say out loud. — Shauna Niequist

If we are quiet enough, we can hear it: the space between us filling up fast with all the things we are too afraid to say to each other. — Julian Aguon

The critics can say stupid things and we can enjoy them, if we have the legitimate feeling of superiority - the satisfaction of a duty accomplished. — Paul Gauguin

The Odyssey and Iliad say things about the human condition in ways we should re-acquaint ourselves with, and use as a prism to interpret though. — Robert Dessaix

The things we truly need to say are best said through action. — Marty Rubin

[...]that's how it works most of the time; we say the things that matter to people when it's already too late. — James Frey

We don't have the freedom of speech to talk about the weather. We have the first amendment so we can say some very controversial things. — Ron Paul

Most of the conversations we are ever likely to have with people are the things we do not and cannot say — Srividya Srinivasan

Nothing haunts us like the things we don't say. — Mitch Albom

One of the most dangerous things about the Bible is that it is big enough to say whatever we want it to say if we are willing to remove the context. — Jefferson Bethke

Sometimes humour is all we have to say the things that can't be said. — Simon R. Green

Speech is for the convenience of those who are hard of hearing; but there are many fine things which we cannot say if we have to shout. — Henry David Thoreau

My talent is getting things to work that people think are many decades in the future. I say we can make them happen now. — Rodney Brooks

Few things hold the perception more thoroughly captive than anxiety about what we have got to say — George Eliot

People could say things about Owen. They could. But they don't. We don't. Words are strong. The strongest. Worse than bruises on — Emma Hooper

Love is complicated, and in its best form, it's unspoken. It shows in the things we do, not what we say. — Lisa De Jong

We bite back the things we can't say and we cushion every surface for the inevitable moment when they all come fighting out. — Moira Fowley-Doyle

For all the things we say to our children for their own good, very little good ever comes of it. — Robin Oliveira

Most of the things we decide are not what we know to be the best. We say yes, merely because we are driven into a corner and must say something. — Frank Crane

You just look at the world, and you see things unraveling, and you say, 'I wonder what we ought to do?' Things are seldom crystal clear. — James F. Amos

And if you did it for a good reason, you'd do it for a bad one. You couldn't say "we're the good guys" and do bad-guy things. — Terry Pratchett

Under adrenalin, at the end of the race, we can say things that we really don't think. — Romain Grosjean

A Commander-in-Chief needs to do two things. One - tell us who the enemy is. And two - say we are fighting to win. — Oliver North

Greatness is judged not by the negative things we say but the positive things we do". — Abdulazeez Henry Musa

We really can say no in 10 seconds or so to 90%+ of all the things that come along simply because we have these filters. — Warren Buffett

We're teaching the wrong things. And you have to be strong enough to say if the culture doesn't work, don't buy it. Create your own. — Mitch Albom

But, you see, it is not so much in the things we say to them about Christ, but more in the things we do for them that mirror the ways of Christ. — John Corey Whaley

Oh why do we not say the important things, it would be so easy, and we are damned because we do not. — Bertolt Brecht

It isn't easy," is easy to say and sometimes I think that the only thing we can do
is say really easy things to each other. — Kris Kidd

Don't you wish we could pick the people we love?" "Yeah," I say. "Or just make the people we love want the same things we want. — Emily Giffin

Among all the loftier things we might say about it, Neptune is really, really weird. — Steven Forrest

Upon occasion, we misunderstand ourselves, or we lose faith. Whichever the case, we say things we think are true, only to find they are not. — Lisa Valdez

At the end of all things, the blessed will say, 'We never lived anywhere but in heaven.' — C.S. Lewis

So maybe when we can say things, when we can write the words, when we can express how it feels, we aren't so helpless. — Ava Dellaira

We're not big on irony in Jamaica, sarcasm and double-talk. We tend to say things plainly, sometimes to the point of boredom. — Marlon James

We do not know what things look like, as you say," the beast said. "We know what things are like. It must be a very limiting thing, this seeing. — Madeleine L'Engle

The silence is the worst part of any fight, because it's made up of all the things we wish we could say, if only we had the guts. — Pete Wentz

The real world has consequences when you do and say things about others. We're at a point now where you better be sure who you're going after. — Curt Schilling

A pity we hadn't had time to say all the things we wanted to each other. — Ilya Ehrenburg

When it comes to making commitments to other people, sometimes one of the hardest things to learn to say is no when we mean no. — Rory Vaden

All religions issue bibles again Satan, and say the most injurious things against him, but we never hear his side. — Mark Twain

We say of some things that they can't be forgiven, or that we will never forgive ourselves. But we do
we do it all the time. — Alice Munro

We might say that we perceive the things themselves, that we are the world that thinks itself
or that the world is at the heart of our flesh. — Maurice Merleau Ponty

There are things greater than our wisdom, beyond our justice. The right and wrong of this we cannot say, and it is not for us to judge. — Jack London

I think one of the nicest things that we created as a generation was just the fact that we could say, 'Hey, I don't like white people.' — Nikki Giovanni

What does it say about us that we are rarely perplexed by the good things that come our way, only the bad? — Andy Stanley

In life, we always fall for the person who will never fall for us, always want things we can't have, and say things we shouldn't. — Zayn Malik

People sometimes say we take things too seriously, but it's the only way you'll get anywhere. — Thom Yorke

We don't need as much as we have. Hardly any of us need as much money as we have. It's true what they say about the best things in life being free. — Donald Miller