Say Anything Quotes - Page 8

• Oh, Lord. I didn't mean to say anything quotable.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Mean, Lord

  Donald Rumsfeld, United States. Dept. of Defense. Historical Office (2001). “Public statements of Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense, 2001”

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• I hate if a man says anything laddy. 'You're sexy' or whatever. I just want someone to be friendly and a little bit flirty.

  Kimberley Garner

  Relationship, Boyfriend, Sexy

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• It is easier not to say anything. Shut your trap, button your lip, can it. All that crap you hear on TV about communication and expressing feelings is a lie. Nobody really wants to hear what you have to say.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Lying, Communication, Feelings

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2011). “Speak”, p.9, Macmillan

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• Lawyers on TV always tell their clients not to say anything. The cops say that thing: 'Anything you say will be used against you.' Self-incrimination. I looked it up. Three-point vocab word. So why does everyone makes such a big hairy deal about me not talking? Maybe I don't want to incriminate myself. Maybe I don't like the sound of my voice. Maybe I don't have anything to say.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Self, Talking, Voice

  Laurie Halse Anderson (1999). “Speak”, Puffin

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• A word does not say anything
  And at the same time it hides everything
  
  Just as the wind that hides the water
  Like the flowers that mud hides.
  
  A glance does not say anything
  And at the same time it says everything
  Like rain on your face Or an old treasure map
  
  A truth does not say anything
  And at the same time it hides everything
  Like a bonfire that does not go out
  Like a stone that is born dust.
  
  If one day you need me, I will be nothing
  And at the same time I will be everything
  
  Because in your eyes are my wings
  And the shore where I drown.

  Carlos Varela

  Life, Rain, Flower

  "Una Palabra [A Word]". Song by Carlos Varela, www.imdb.com. 2000.

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• There are many possibilities that people can choose from. There are bad and there are good ones. So, look carefully to choose for yourself the noble path... ... Do not let the deeds and thoughts of other people confuse you; let them not prompt you to do or say anything evil! Listen to others' advice and deliberate yourself. Only fools acts thoughtlessly, without consideration!

  Vladimir Aleksandrovich Antonov

  People, Evil, Advice

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• We put pride into everything like salt. We like to see that our good works are known. If our virtues are seen, we are pleased; if our faults are perceived, we are sad. I remark that in a great many people; if one says anything to them, it disturbs them, it annoys them. The saints were not like that - they were vexed if their virtues were known, and pleased that their imperfections should be seen.

  John Vianney

  Pride, People, Imperfection

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• You basically can say anything to someone on an email or text as long as you put LOL at the end.

  Kanye West

  Inspirational, Long, Email

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• As they say, anything can happen in the World Wrestling Federation.

  Jerry Lawler

  Wrestling, World, Anything Can Happen

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• ['Fire and Rain'] is sort of almost uncomfortably close. Almost confessional. The reason I could write a song like that at that point, and probably couldn't now, is that I didn't have any sense that anyone would hear it. I started writing the song while I was in London...and I was totally unknown.... So I assumed that they would never be heard. I could just write or say anything I wanted. Now I'm very aware, and I have to deal with my stage fright and my anxiety about people examining or judging it. The idea that people will pass judgment on it is not a useful thought.

  James Taylor

  Song, Rain, Writing

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• Perhaps there really are occasions in life when it’s best not to say anything.

  Miljenko Jergovic

  Occasions

  Miljenko Jergović (1997). “Sarajevo Marlboro”, Penguin Uk

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• It is evident that one cannot say anything demonstrable about the problem before having resolved these preliminary questions, and yet we hardly possess the necessary information to solve some of them

  Georges Cuvier

  Information, Problem, Solve

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• If you can't say anything nice, at least have the decency to be vague.

  Susan Andersen

  Nice, Vague, Ifs

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• You can say anything to David Icke and he will accept it and put it into his ideology.

  Jon Ronson

  Accepting, Ideology

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• I can criticize your religion all I want, and you can criticize mine. I don't like this whole climate of, 'You can't ever say anything bad about the group I'm in, cause every group is untouchable.' We can all criticize each other and engage in debate all we want.

  Kathy Griffin

  Climate, Groups, Want

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• To say anything about women and men without marking oneself as either feminist or anti-feminist, male-basher or apologist for men seems as impossible for a woman as trying to get dressed in the morning without inviting interpretations of her character. Sitting at the conference table musing on these matters, I felt sad to think that we women didn't have the freedom to be unmarked that the men sitting next to us had. Some days you just want to get dressed and go about your business. But if you're a woman, you can't, because there is no unmarked woman.

  Deborah Tannen

  Morning, Character, Men

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• I never 'say' anything in my work. I invent a world. Let others decide what is being 'said'.

  Howard Barker

  World, Said

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• If you are insulted, if you are accused, if they gossip about you, don't say anything bad. Don't be the one who sees the shame, be the one who corrects it.

  Shams Tabrizi

  Gossip, Shame, Accused

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• The men I find myself attracted to are the ones who don't say anything and are quite shy.

  Katie Price

  Men, Shy, He Man

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• If I have anything to say against Obama it's not because I'm a racist, it's because I don't like what he's doing as President and anybody should be able to feel that way, but what I find now is that if you say anything against him you're called a racist.

  Angie Harmon

  President, Racist, Able

  "Angie Harmon: I'm Not Racist Because I Disagree With Obama". www.foxnews.com. March 31, 2009.

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• I decided to start anew-to strip away what I had been taught, to accept as true my own thinking. This was one of the best times of my life. There was no one around to look at what I was doing, no one interested, no one to say anything about it one way or another. I was alone and singularly free, working into my own, unknown-no one to satisfy but myself. I began with charcoal and paper and decided not to use any color until it was impossible to do what I wanted to do in black and white. I believe it was June before I needed blue.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Art, Believe, Black And White

  Georgia O'Keeffe (1977). “Georgia O'Keeffe”, Viking Pr

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• I never got to be in the driver's seat of my own life," she'd wept to me once, in the days after she learned she was going to die. "I always did what someone else wanted me to do. I've always been someone's daughter or mother or wife. I've never just been me." "Oh, Mom," was all I could say as I stroked her hand. I was too young to say anything else."

  Cheryl Strayed

  Inspirational, Mom, Daughter

  Cheryl Strayed (2012). “Wild: A Journey from Lost to Found”, p.241, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Something passes between us that I'm pretty sure both of us can feel, even though neither one of us says anything. It's not even any kind of attraction, even though I've been feeling that on and off all night. This is something different.We have a secret now. A secret from Ava.

  Lauren Barnholdt

  Night, Feelings, Secret

  Lauren Barnholdt (2012). “Sometimes It Happens”, p.141, Simon and Schuster

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• Always when you are about to say anything, first weigh it in your mind; for with many the tongue outruns the thought.

  Isocrates

  Communication, Mind, Tongue

  Isocrates (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Isocrates (Illustrated)”, p.19, Delphi Classics

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• This matter is in litigation. All of you know lawyers. They are adamant that you don't say anything.

  Connie Chung

  Matter, Lawyer, Adamant

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