Top 1200 Saying Less Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

Mr. President, no one is saying you broke any laws, we're just saying it's a little bit weird you didn't have to.

You're not listening to the Zen master, what he is saying outwardly, but even more importantly...what he is saying inwardly.

Saying you're an alcoholic and an addict is like saying you're from Los Angeles and from California.

Saying 'I notice you're a nerd' is like saying, 'Hey, I notice that you'd rather be intelligent than be stupid, that you'd rather be thoughtful than be vapid, that you believe that there are things that matter more than the arrest record of Lindsay Lohan. Why is that?' In fact, it seems to me that most contemporary insults are pretty lame. Even 'lame' is kind of lame. Saying 'You're lame' is like saying 'You walk with a limp.' Yeah, whatever, so does 50 Cent, and he's done all right for himself.

Saying We will destroy terrorism is about as meaningful as saying: We shall annihilate mockery.

Nothing is perfect...We're really more interested in what we're saying than how we're saying it.

When my mom ran for the Senate, my dad was there for her every step of the way. I can still hear her saying in her beautiful voice, 'Why should women have any less say than men, about the great decisions facing our nation?'

I'm not saying I'm ungrateful for fame at all. I'm just saying it's a crazy emotional experience.

You've got to find some way of saying it without saying it.

Saying, 'I'm sorry' is the same as saying, 'I apologize.' Except at a funeral.

I'm not saying that people should stop flying. I'm just saying it needs to be easier to be climate neutral.

In L.A., we have a saying - 'What do you do?' It's less of a question and more of a self-defense mechanism for wayward screenwriters looking to slip you a first draft, or the occasional actor looking to get in on the latest shoot. But I hate the question because of my own answer - I write about games.

The BBC always wants to blame things on Brexit. I'm not saying this is a conspiracy: I'm saying it is a fact of life.

Life is like that, full of words that are not worth saying or that were worth saying once but not any more, each word that we utter will take up the space of another more deserving word, not deserving in its own right, but because of the possible consequences of saying it.

Focus does not mean saying yes, it means saying no.

As I approach the end of my life, I have even less and less interest in examining what have got to be very superficial evaluations or opinions about the significance of one's life or one's work. I was never given to it when I was healthy, and I am less given to it now.

With Australians we're saying we're going to win before we start playing and pretty much keep on saying that.

Saying, 'I'm sorry' is the same as saying, ' I apologize.' Except at a funeral.

I keep trying to train myself to stop saying 'filmmaker' and start saying 'storyteller.' We're telling stories.

We, the Desaparecidos, are perfectly prepared for people to hate what we're saying or not like what we're saying.

A deep inner emptiness is needed; that inner emptiness becomes the womb. So I`m not saying stop doing, stop action; I`m not saying that. I am saying that whatsoever you are doing, let it be just an outside activity. Inside become feminine, silent, doors opened, empty, waiting.

Saying the Tech Bloom is not commercially driven is like saying Mother Teresa had an interest in the poor.

You have to believe in what you are saying. Maybe they will like it or not but they cannot contest that what you are saying is true.

I'm not saying I hate Jews, I'm just saying that I think they shouldn't be alive any more.

Saying atheism is a belief system is like saying not going skiing is a hobby.

When I'm painting outdoors, I only have time to think about what I'm saying, not how I'm saying it.

[On being deaf:] How much less pain there is in calmly estimating the enjoyments from which we must separate ourselves, of bravely saying, for once and for ever, 'Let them go,' than in feeling them waste and dwindle, till their very shadows escape from our grasp!

I assume everything I'm saying in an email or saying on the telephone is being looked at.

Tolerance is you saying something crazy and me smiling and saying, 'That's nice.'

Just saying yes because you can't bear the short-term pain of saying no is not going to help you do the work.

What do you mean less than nothing? I don't think there is any such thing as less than nothing. Nothing is absolutely the limit of nothingness. It's the lowest you can go. It's the end of the line. How can something be less than nothing? If there were something that was less than nothing, then nothing would not be nothing, it would be something - even though it's just a very little bit of something. But if nothing is nothing, then nothing has nothing that is less than it is.

Saying 'yes' to one thing means saying 'no' to another. That's why decisions can be hard sometimes.

If you speak your mind and if it is true what you're saying, then I think the integrity of what you're saying carries through.

Saying what we think gives us a wider conversational range than saying what we know.

A witty saying proves nothing, but saying something pointless gets people's attention.

You can go back 150 years and literally find the same people saying the same thing in the same way. "If we have to pay you more, it will be bad for you." And that's because saying that is a much more polite way of saying, "I'm rich, you're poor, and I would prefer to keep it that way."

Half of the troubles of this life can be traced to saying yes too quickly and not saying no soon enough.

Actors need to know why they're saying what they're saying, more than just learning their lines.

For much of the female half of the world, food is the first signal of our inferiority. It lets us know that our own families may consider female bodies to be less deserving, less needy, less valuable.

Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.

Become more watchful and anger will be less and greed will be less and jealousy will be less.

People shouldn't take my lack of interest in what they're saying personally. I don't really care about what I'm saying most of the time.

In order to enjoy the Word, we ought to continue to read it, and the way to obtain a spirit of prayer, is, to continue praying; for the less we read the Word of God, the less we desire to read it, and the less we pray, the less we desire to pray.

I do what the manager asks of me to the best of my ability. I'm not saying I'm brilliant or saying I'm perfect.

Saying you taught it but the student didn't learn it is like saying you sold it but the customer didn't buy it.

I'm a great believer that saying yes is a lot more fun than saying no.

Freedom is not an abstaction, nor is a little of it enough. A little more is not enough either. Having less, being less, empoverished in freedom and rights, women then invariably have less self-respect: less self-respect than any human being needs to live a brave and honest life.

A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.

The coverage [of crimes] is different. It's less angry when white [athletes] are involved, less accusatory, less judgemental. I see that in the pieces that are written and reported. At times it bothers me to the point that I just stop reading...just stop.

I'm a person who's fine saying 'No.' I like saying to myself, "no gossiping," "no nagging."

My heart aches for less divisiveness, less polarization Less mindless partisanship, which at times sounds almost hateful to the ear of Americans. How we conduct ourselves and how we treat you, Judge Roberts, can be a great start toward reconciliation in our country.

Although there are real hazards in saying yes to life, they are inconsequential when compared to the regrets that come with saying "no".

I mean, it's not just the rappers, you know what i'm saying? People want to attack anybody that's a large figure, you know what I'm saying? They did it to [Michael] Jordan, they did it to [Mike] Tyson, they did it to Bill Cosby, you know what I'm saying? They're gonna' attack you if you on top.

For me, saying 'I'm bossy' is a cute, tongue-in-cheek way of saying that I'm in control of my life.

Some cynical people think that every activity must revolve around the mighty dollar, and that anyone saying otherwise is just attempting to delude the public. I will probably never be able to convice them that that isn't always the case, but I do have the satisfaction of knowing that I live in a less dingy world than they do.

Saying no to something is actually much more powerful than saying yes.

Saying that cultural objects have value is like saying that telephones have conversations.

The more powerful you become, the less likely it is that people will tell you the truth. It must be why the 'Harry Potter' books become so bloated as the series progresses; think of the beautiful, precise editing of books 1-3 drowned in a mire of sycophancy and yea-saying.

It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists.

??Yes. That's exactly what I'm saying and I've been saying this for six months.