I Quotes
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“I say it with my tongue firmly planted in cheek but there's truth to it - being a comedian is very close to being a therapist. When you're working smaller clubs, you're listening. You're feeling an energy, you're going with a tone but when people start yelling out, you almost start a conversation with people.”
“I say it's a girls' world.”
“I say I’m an atheist but I wouldn’t mind being visited by a ghost.”
“I say I’m not shy, but… Acting is a very vulnerable experience, and you’ve got to be really confident to put yourself out there to be judged.”
“I say let Matteo Renzi work. He took over a country that was in disarray, not florid. And not the other way around.”
“I say let me never be complete, I say may I never be content,I say deliver me from Swedish furniture, I say deliver me from clever arts, I say deliver me from clear skin and perfect teeth,I say you have to give up! I say evolve, and let the chips fall where they may!”
“I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.”
“I say, let the world perish, if I can always drink my tea.”
Source: Notes from Underground & The Double
“I say let's be idealists. "Faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not yet see" (Hebrews 11:1).”
“I say let's go back to a truer use of the word 'freedom.' Let's start with President Franklin Roosevelt's Four Freedoms: freedom of speech and expression, freedom of worship, freedom from want and freedom from fear. I would add the freedom to bargain collectively. Those freedoms are under attack today.”
“I say," Llandrindon remarked, "your performance at bowls is exceptional, Miss Bowman. I've never seen a beginner do so well. How do you manage to deliver it perfectly every time?"
"Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be," she replied, and saw the line of Swift's cheek tighten with a sudden grin as he recognized the Machiavelli quote.”
Source: Scandal in Spring
“I say," Llandrindon remarked, "your performance at bowls is exceptional, Miss Bowman. I've never seen a beginner do so well. How o you manage to deliver it perfectly every time?"
"Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be," she replied, and saw the line of Swift's cheek tighten with a sudden grin as he recognized the Machiavelli quote.”
Source: Scandal in Spring
“I say long and lean as opposed to tall, because you could be 5 four and look long and lean.”
“I say looking on the bright side of life never killed anybody.”
Source: To All the Boys I've Loved Before
“I say love, and the world populates itself with doves.”
“I say love, it is a flower, and you, its only seed.”
“I say luck is when an opportunity comes along and you're prepared for it.”
“I say, ‘Man, you best behave youself this time, cause we ain’t never getting this mattress out from in here.’ … Berry say, ‘Don’t you worry about that. Cause I’s a married man now, I got to behave. My name done write.’ He say, ‘Why I going in some other bed when I got this big foam bed to lie in?’ I say, ‘It ain’t the bed it’s who does hot the sheets.’ He say, ‘Well best bring them sheets let we hot them up right now.”
Source: Blessed Is the Fruit: A Novel
“I say me, knowing all the while it's not me.”
“I say money has no value; it's just the way you spend it.”
Source: FAULKNER READER
“I say more power to [Madonna], though I don't know how much more power is out there.”
“I say most truly that at that moment the spirit of life, which hath its dwelling in the secretest chamber of the heart, began to tremble so violently that the least pulses of my body shook therewith; and in trembling it said these words: Ecce deus fortior me, qui veniens dominabitur mihi, (“Here is a deity stronger than I ; who, coming, shall rule over me.”)”
Source: Vita Nuova
“I say my god is a true gangster comparing to all these thugs here on earth, because when he shoot he won’t missed.”
“I say my hell is the closet I'm stuck inside.”
“I say never be complete, I say stop being perfect, I say let... lets evolve, let the chips fall where they may.”
Source: You do not talk about Fight Club: I am Jack's completely unauthorized essay collection
“I say nice things about Mariah Carey all the time. I tell Mariah all the time how much of a fan I am of her. She's one of my favorite artists of all time... She's shaped a generation of singers.”
“I say no body of men are fit to make Presidents, judges and generals, unless they themselves supply the best specimens of the same; and that supplying one or two such specimens illuminates the whole body for a thousand years.”
Source: Specimen Days & Collect
“I say no regrets because I think life is such that you need to keep counting the blessings, not the misfortunes. If you keep counting your blessings, you will be a much happier person and it naturally stays with you. My grandmother has given me a happy childhood. Although we were very poor, she provided an environment where I could be happy and free.”
“I say no to a double standard that men can roam and women must stay put at home. I say no to the fact that men are allowed to claim their sexuality and women just have to pretend that it doesn't matter to them. It's resisting poor relational arrangements. An affair is a way of saying, "No. I'm not playing by the rules." And sometimes betrayal is part of that because you deceive somebody else but you feel like you are, for the first time, being honest with yourself. Sometimes when people have affairs, they feel like they have been lying to themselves for years.”
“I say no to a lot of things that just don't fit my life. I involve my kids in what I'm struggling with so they don't compete with it.”
“I say no to doubt and yes to life!”
“I say no to drugs, but they don't listen.”
“I say no to nothing, yes to moderation. Thats how I approach everything. No matter if its candy or foie gras. When you have the real deal, youre satisfied with that one bite. I say go full throttle and call it a day.”
“I say no very easily because I know what is important to me.”
Source: Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less
“I say no wealth is worth my life.”
“I say no words... I can't speak with him. I shy. He too good.”
“I say not one penny more to countries that are burning our flag.”
“I say nothing, not one word, from beginning to end, and neither does he. If it were lawful for a woman to hate her husband, I would hate him as a rapist.”
Source: The Red Queen
“I say nothing, so she can assume I'm feeling whatever emotion she wants me to feel.”
Source: The Djinn Falls in Love & Other Stories
“I say nothing to him I love him”
“I say now, however, as I have all the while said, that on the territorial question - that is, the question of extending slavery under the national auspices, - I am inflexible. I am for no compromise which assists or permits the extension of the institution on soil owned by the nation.”
Source: Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 2: 1859-1865: Library of America #46
“I say on the air all time, "if you take what I say as gospel, you're an idiot."”
“I say one evil empire down...one to go.”
“I say one thing, you write another, and those who read you understand still something else! I say: cross, death, kingdom of heaven, God...and what do you understand? Each of you attaches his own suffering, interests and desires to each of these sacred words, and my words disappear, my soul is lost. I can't stand it any longer!”
Source: The last temptation of Christ
“I say only that this man [Donald Trump] is not Christian if he has said things like that [about wall]. We must see if he said things in that way and in this I give the benefit of the doubt.”
“I say openly that I am an anti-war person, with the point being, show me some reason not to be against this war. You have to be sort of asleep at the switch not to be critical of it. And the parallel between one quagmire we went through in Vietnam and the one we're in now is clear for everybody to see.”
“I say, Parker, these are funny cases, ain't they? Every line of inquiry seems to peter out. It's awfully exciting up to a point, you know, and then nothing comes of it. It's like rivers getting lost in the sand.”
Source: Whose Body?
“I say people who feel they must have a faith or religion in order to face life are showing a kind of cowardice, which in any other sphere would be considered contemptible. But when it is in the religious sphere it is thought admirable, and I cannot admire cowardice whatever sphere it is in.”
Source: Bertrand Russell's Best
“I say personally because I am 84 years old, and [Barack Obama's] is the first administration that has scared me in terms of my lifespan.”
“I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its Churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world.”
Source: Why I Am Not a Christian: And Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects