Top 1200 Saying Maybe Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

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.

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.

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

All these fifty-year-old guys wearing baseball caps and shorts and acting like children. It winds me up. Men don't have to take responsibility anymore. Most of the guys I know would punch me on the nose for saying this, but maybe we do have to bring back conscription.

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

Saying, have a great work-out is like saying, I hope you pull something.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Maybe Liz was right and she'd wanted someplace safe. Maybe Mr. Solomon really did understand that running was the only way Macey would find out if we'd run after her. Or maybe, like me, she just wanted to disappear for a little while

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

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

There's this kind of almost - kind of a weird kind of elitism that says well maybe - maybe certain people in certain parts of the world shouldn't be free; maybe it's best just to let them sit in these tyrannical societies. And our foreign policy rejects that concept. And we don't accept it. And so we're working.

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

I'm going to put a museum on my ranch and people keep saying, "That's a huge idea." Yeah, it's big, but not bigger than the average big movie. A hundred million dollars in the art world is a substantial amount of cash to do anything. That's maybe a big gallery's total sales for a given year.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

I'm going to put a museum on my ranch and people keep saying, 'That's a huge idea.' Yeah, it's big, but not bigger than the average big movie. A hundred million dollars in the art world is a substantial amount of cash to do anything. That's maybe a big gallery's total sales for a given year.

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

Anybody who sits down to write, and they think 'thriller,' maybe shouldn't be thinking that way. Maybe we should be thinking 'novel,' maybe 'thriller' way in the background, but that these are real people to whom things are happening. It just happens to be a hell of an exciting story.

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

I did some years of therapy and self-realization, and I just move and think at a slower pace - doesn't make me sound very smart! But really not reacting and doing more listening than talking, and letting people say what they need to say, and then maybe not saying anything at all.

A lot of times we have these categories that maybe don't fit the reality of human experience and human identity. I'm completely sympathetic to what a lot of people in my community are saying - that often as Asian Americans we're made to feel more foreign than we internally feel ourselves.

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."

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

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

Maybe I don't really want to know what's going on. Maybe I'd rather not know. Maybe I couldn't bear to know. The Fall was a fall from innocence to knowledge.

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

General welfare is a general condition - maybe sound currency is general welfare, maybe markets, maybe judicial system, maybe a national defense, but this is specific welfare. This justifies the whole welfare state - the military industrial complex, the welfare to foreigners, the welfare state that imprisons our people and impoverishes our people and gives us our recession.

For centuries women have been saying many of the things we are saying today and which we have often thought of as new.

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.

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 didn't say you shouldn't worry, do you think I don't worry? But no, you probably can't do anything about me.' 'Well, maybe no, Sassenach, and maybe so. But I've lived a long enough time now to think it maybe doesna matter so much-- so long as I can love you.' -Claire & Jamie Fraser

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

If you have a car, you tune it up; you replace the parts. You try to keep it in good shape. This country has tires that are shot, a bunch of engine problems, and rather than saying, 'Okay, let's maybe put some new parts in here,' we just keep putting gas in and driving forward.

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

I meet people and a lot of times, instead of saying, "Are you from the East Coast?" people just go, "you're from the East Coast, right?", having no reason to have known that. I don't know what that is. Maybe it's just that I'm Jewish.

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

You existed. You existed now as a fractal. Definition: A fractal is generally a rough or fragmented geometric shape that can be broken into parts, each of which is (at least approximately) a reduced-size copy of the whole. Maybe I was a fractal. Maybe the photographer was a fractal. Maybe we were all fractals.

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, Ed Snowden was basically saying the same things that Bill Binney and Thomas Drake and other U.S. whistleblowers had said before him. But he came out more publicly, and maybe revealed more. He showed that when the U.S. government said, 'We are not surveilling U.S. citizens,' that was a lie.

It never occurred to me when I was young that I could be an author. That would be like saying, "I want to be a movie star" or "I want to be a wizard." I didn't have any concept of what that path would look like. Maybe that's why I didn't publish my first book until I was 38.

Success is just hanging out with my kids. I mean, I always say if you have options, you're rich. To me, success is the fact that hey, I just did a movie and maybe I'll do some stand up, maybe I'll will write a book or maybe I will do a play.

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

Maybe the biggest award show of the largest entertainment importer in the world needs an economic incentive to embrace diversity. Indeed, maybe we should boycott the show and pressure advertisers to do the same. Or maybe the Academy should learn the lesson of history and change because it's the right thing to do.

I saw a fleet of fishing boats...I flew down almost touching the craft and yelled at them, asking if I was on the right road to Ireland. They just stared. Maybe they didn't hear me. Maybe I didn't hear them. Or maybe they thought I was just a crazy fool.

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.

What you're saying is often less important than what you're feeling when you're saying it.