Top 1200 Saying Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

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

We're saying to anyone who dares to attack us, Do not do it, you couldn't win, the result would be devastating! I think you're saying the same.

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

We've actually played badly, and people are saying, 'Ah, we're so proud.' Is it just because we're the women's team? If that was the men, you wouldn't be saying that.

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

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.

Everything in my life that I value has been gained at the cost of not saying what I really think and saying what they want me to say.

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

By saying you don’t care if the world falls apart, in some small way you’re saying you want it to stay together, on your own terms.

One of the most painfully inauthentic ways we show up in our lives sometimes is saying "yes" when we mean "no," and saying "no" when we mean "hell yes." I'm the oldest of four, a people-pleaser - that's the good girl straitjacket that I wear sometimes. I spent a lot of my life saying yes all the time and then being pissed off and resentful.

Stop saying 'I wish' and start saying 'I will'.

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

I've been saying it all along: please do not demonise Robert Mugabe. I'm not saying the methods he's using are correct, but he was put under great pressure.

I'm not saying that the action/science-fiction genre is bad in itself. I make those films. I'm just saying that the studios have put all their cards on black.

You have to have that emotional investment in the jokes that you're saying otherwise they actually don't work. You can say exactly the same thing, but if you don't believe it's funny at the time that you're saying it, it won't be.

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."

What I have said is, when the American people elect divided government, what are they saying? I think they're saying we know you have differences of opinion on big things.

Look. Every partisan in every party has to learn one thing: Sometimes your people are wrong. To paraphrase an old retort, saying "My party, right or wrong" is like saying "My Kennedy, drunk or sober." Credibility is earned, and standing up and saying "Fie!" now and then reinforces your truthfulness.

I'm not saying it was your fault. I'm saying it wasn't nice.

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

My dad was not good at saying no. I'm trying to be better at saying no.

Slavery built the South. I'm not saying we should bring it back; I'm just saying it had its merits. For one thing, the streets were safer after dark.

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

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

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.

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

Love is the silent saying and saying of a single name.

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.

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

I wasn't saying whatever they're saying I was saying. I'm sorry I said it really. I never meant it to be a lousy anti-religious thing. I apologize if that will make you happy. I still don't know quite what I've done. I've tried to tell you what I did do but if you want me to apologize, if that will make you happy, then OK, I'm sorry.

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

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.

A special pathway to citizenship is off the table... when I talk to members of the group in the Senate, they're saying that we're both saying the same thing.

I have no problem with saying I am a socialist or with saying I'm a feminist. That's how I was when I was 15, and you know, I haven't grown out of it and probably never will.

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

There is a good saying to the effect that when a new book appears one should read an old one. As as author I would not recommend too strict an adherence to this saying.

Honesty is as much saying everything as it is saying what is true.

I'm not saying [racial profiling] doesn't happen; I'm saying I haven't experienced it.

I guess, is we are not saying, "Look, William Shakespeare's written a critique of modern Africa." What we're saying is that we've shifted the metaphor to make it more immediate.

If I'm not saying it in four choruses or less, then I'm not saying it.

Things you think you're saying for the first time ever, have been said better before by Shakespeare, though they may need saying again.

I started to view theatre like a spiritual experience. You're on stage saying somebody else's lines, but you're saying them with full commitment of being that person.

When you're not confident as a young woman in saying "no" or even saying "yes" necessarily, you don't know which one you're more afraid of in some way. That happens a lot.

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

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.

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

Saying that Islam is in heart, is similar to giving back the exam's paper completely white and saying : knowledge is in brain.

Some men, who begin by saying that the world is a hell, often end by saying that it is a heaven when they succeed in the practice of self-control.

Writing is the act of saying "I," of imposing oneself upon other people, of saying "listen to me, see it my way, change your mind."

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

We now have political chaos. We've got parties in Ireland saying they want to merge with Northern Ireland. You've got parties in Scotland saying you want to leave the U.K. You've got the Spanish government saying it would like to take ownership of Gibraltar, which is a British overseas territory... So just the politics of this is a mess.

Don't you hear people saying things you can't believe they're saying?

If your response to a problem or scandal isn't genuine, followers will sense it. And remember, by saying nothing, you're saying something.

If you are making a record, you are the one saying 'action', and you are the one saying 'cut,' and you have to be sure that the most interesting thing is not going on outside the frame.

People think focus means saying yes to the thing you've got to focus on. But that's not what it means at all. It means saying no to the hundred other good ideas that there are. You have to pick carefully. I'm actually as proud of the things we haven't done as the things I have done. Innovation is saying no to 1,000 things.

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

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

The absolute negative, the ultimate saying of no to the world, when it is just too late. And always the subtle conviction that if you had said No a moment earlier, it would none of it have happened. But the saying of no comes too late by a little. You are always a little too late in saying it.

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

I was offered, within one year, three different witch roles. It was almost like the world was saying - or the studios were saying - 'We don't know what to do with you.'