Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot.
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WENDELL SAY When you have nothing to say, say nothing.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON We all must learn that in some cases there is something much worse than saying the wrong thing; that...
RICHARD BELLZON When you have something good to say, say it. When you have something ill to say, say something else.
CHRISTIAN D. LARSON When you have nothing important or interesting to say, don't let anyone persuade you to say it.
H. JACKSON BROWN, JR. When you have nothing important or interesting to say, don't let anyone persuade you to say it.
H. JACKSON BROWN JR. You say it best, when you say nothing at all.
ALLISON KRAUSS When you win, say nothing. When you lose, say less.
PAUL BROWN When you have nothing important or interesting to say, don't let anyone persuade you to say it.
H. JACKSON BROWN, JR. If you have nothing good to say while i'm here. Have nothing good to say when i'm gone
NERRYMIAH SCIPIO Say nothing when you are giving -- only say something when you are receiving.
VIKRANT PARSAI Say it to God and tell him what you intend to accomplish, say it with conviction and passion.
DENNY PATTYN When people have nothing to say about you, it means you don't exist
ETC WANYANWU If you have nothing to say, say nothing.
MARK TWAIN When you say sorry to someone, do not swear on what you did and why you did, i.e. to say, you do not...
APURVA GAGLANI You can't always say what you'd like to say.
SEBASTIAN VETTEL You say 'erbs, and we say Herbs because there's a f*****g H in it!
EDDIE IZZARD Say nothing, if you have nothing good to say.
FAARIS NAZ We never say so much as when we do not quite know what we want to say. We need few words when we hav...
ERIC HOFFER It isn't what you say so much.
It's what you mean when you say it.
RUDYARD KIPLING When bitter, say little; when angry, say nothing; when happy, say much; when joyful, say all.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO Never say goodbye when you still want to try, never give up when you still feel you can't take it. N...
WINNIE THE POOH What you do, say, and have reveal who you are.
LORRIN L. LEE When life gives you lemons, say cool, what else you got?
CARMEN IN THE SISTERHOOD OF THE TRAVELING PANTS Nothing really you can say. What can you say?
JUSTIN REYNOLDS When you write in prose you say what you mean. When you write in rhyme you say what you must.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES If you ask what is the single most important key to longevity, I would have to say it is avoiding wo...
GEORGE BURNS ... ... ...say yes... when you mean yes ... ... ...say no... when you mean no... ... ...know what yo...
CHRIS VALENTINO When your rage is choking you, it is best to say nothing.
OCTAVIA E. BUTLER You said, 'I love you.' Why is it that the most unoriginal thing we can say to one another is still ...
JEANETTE WINTERSON When you least expect it, someone may actually listen to what you have to say.
MAGGIE KUHN It's quite simple, (public speaking) Say what you have to say and when you come to a sentence with a...
WINSTON CHURCHILL Say what you have to say, not what you ought.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown! Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers.
T.E. LAWRENCE Concentrate on what you want to say to yourself and your friends. Follow your inner moonlight; don't...
ALLEN GINSBERG When you're a mom and you have three children, nothing bothers you. Trust me. Who cares what peo...
FAITH HILL I mumble a lot when im off stage, so a lot of times when im with a friend i'll say something and he'...
MITCH HEDBERG You say you love rain, but you use an umbrella to walk under it. You say you love sun, but you seek ...
BOB MARLEY We only have a certain amount of time so don't focus on bullshit. Learn to separate the important fr...
CHRISTIAN A. YANARELLA Knowing what to say is sense, when to say it is intelligence, how to say it is wisdom, why and how t...
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO It doesn't matter how many times you say it. It'll still be true.'
'And it doesn't matter what ...
CASSANDRA CLARE Never say no when you really want to say yes.
JENNY HAN Who you are when you have no power to say anything, and who you become when you have power to say ev...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Say what you mean, mean what you say, but don't say it mean.
UNKNOWN When you lose it's easier to just divide. Having something to say after every game so far when you l...
RAY ALLEN As the campaign moves forward and when appropriate, I will have more to say about this.
AL GORE If you least understand the essence of timely and courageously saying no to what you have to say no ...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH When you say Yes, say it quickly. But always take a half hour to say No, so you can understand the o...
FRANCIS CARDINAL SPELLMAN Blessed are they who have nothing to say and who cannot be persuaded to say it.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Blessed are they that have nothing to say, and who cannot be persuaded to say it
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Suicide thought is a negative force that needs to be overcome with a positive force,positive thinkin...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Suicide is an option for the unwise,but for the wise suicide has got no room to be given an option.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Suicide is never the solution to life's problems but hope.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) When the mind is filled with positivity the thoughts of suicide becomes virtually non existing.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Everyone hears what you say,Friends listen to what you say,Best friends listen to what you don't say...
UNKNOWN Everyone hears what you say, Friends listen to what you say, Best friends listen to what you dont sa...
PROVERB If you least understand the essence of timely and courageously saying no to what you have to say no ...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH When you're a mom to three children, nothing bothers you. Trust me. Who cares what people say? I...
FAITH HILL In grammar class the teacher asks her student: When you sing you say 'I sing' what do you say when y...
ALBERT EINSTEIN I have nothing to say, and I'll only say it once
FLOYD SMITH You can't say everything, so you don't say nothing.
PATRICK NESS Respect, honor and appreciate those who say thank you when you do something for them even they say t...
HLONIM When will it ever be enough? ... When you ever say no?
BOB GRAY Say what you have to say in the fewest possible words.
ARTHUR BRYANT When you say you get 130 or 140 high school kids together, people say you must be insane.
ALAN MEEDER When life is sweet, say thank you and celebrate. And when life is bitter, say thank you and grow.
SHAUNA NIEQUIST I'd say mostly I paint hot chicks.
BAM MARGERA Never rise to speak till you have something to say; and when you have said it, cease.
WITHERSPOON Never rise to speak till you have something to say; and when you have said it, cease
JOHN WITHERSPOON If you ask what is the single most important key to longevity, I would have to say it is avoiding wo...
GEORGE BURNS If you ask what is the single most important key to longevity, I would have to say it is avoiding wo...
GEORGE F. BURNS If you can say nothing kind, then kindly say nothing.
SHELLY KAY WALDE When a person is missing and you don't have (a body), you cannot say goodbye, We can make a chance t...
SIGI GSTEU When you meet a head of state, and you say, 'What is your most precious natural resource?' t...
NICHOLAS NEGROPONTE When it’s not meant to make you up, it’s meant to fake you up. Just say no and act right. Be bol...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Do what you say and say what you do.
GILLES RAYMOND has absolutely nothing to do with what you say.
IMAD EDDIN BARAKAT YARKAS Mind what you say when someone is listening
SOTONYE ANGA I like when I don't have to be careful what I say. That's when you know you're with the right people
GEORGE MIKHAIL If you cannot say what you have to say in 20 minutes, you should go away and write a book about it
LORD BRABAZON Many people will often say you are a Smart, you are a Genius, give them a chance and they will say i...
DAVID SIKHOSANA If you got something to say, you should say it or it's just gonna tear you up inside.
MACGYVER Why try to listen, when you don't want to hear. Why try to talk when you have nothing to say. If you...
AVIS JOHN Say nothing good of yourself, you will be distrusted; say nothing bad of yourself, you will be taken...
JOSEPH ROUX You say you nothing owe, and so I say; He only owes, who has something to pay
PROVERB When life hands you a lemon, say, "Oh yeah, I like lemons. What else ya got?"
HENRY ROLLINS You've got to say what you mean and mean what you say...Doubt in your voice is an open door people w...
DEB CALETTI It isn’t what you say that counts, it’s what you don’t say.
JUDITH MCNAUGHT When it's in your favor, you say 'voters.' When it's not in your favor you say 'eligible voters.'
MAHMOUD OTHMAN When you observe your own truth; nothing is left to say; keep moving forward amphibiously
JEFFREY LEE GIBSON JR. You'd have to be an idiot to say no to 'Hunger Games.'
NATALIE DORMER He'd be challenged when he was out. I would let it roll off. Lawrence would respond differently. He ...
TONY BANKS When you say "I love you", I expect you to prove it.
NESHIALY S. When I'm looking for hot button answers to tough questions, I don't look to congressman or m...
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D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us. ...
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE The deadly Hydra now is the hydra of Equality. Liberty, Equality and Fraternity is the three-fanged ...
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE But the effort, the effort! And as the marrow is eaten out of a man's bones and the soul out of his ...
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE Never trust the teller, trust the tale.
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE God is only a great imaginative experience.
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE I cannot be a materialist -- but Oh, how is it possible that a God who speaks to all hearts can let ...
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE It is all a question of sensitiveness. Brute force and overbearing may make a terrific effect. But i...
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE I am part of the sun as my eye is part of me, That I am part of the earth my feet know perfectly, an...
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE I never saw a wild thing
sorry for itself;
A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough
...
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE And what's romance? Usually, a nice little tale where you have everything As You Like It, where rain...
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE Since obscenity is the truth of our passion today, it is the only stuff of art -- or almost the only...
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE Pornography is the attempt to insult sex, to do dirt on it.
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE Tragedy is like strong acid -- it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE I believe a man is born first unto himself --for the happy developing of himself, while the world is...
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE Reason is a supple nymph, and slippery as a fish by nature. She had as leave give her kiss to an abs...
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar.
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE Brute force crushes many plants. Yet the plants rise again. The Pyramids will not last a moment comp...
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE That is your trick, your bit of filthy magic: invisibility, and the anaesthetic power to deaden my a...
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE I love Italian opera -- it's so reckless. Damn Wagner, and his bellowings at Fate and death. Damn De...
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE Myth is an attempt to narrate a whole human experience, of which the purpose is too deep, going too ...
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE Museums, museums, museums, object-lessons rigged out to illustrate the unsound theories of archaeolo...
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE The moon is a white strange world, great, white, soft-seeming globe in the night sky, and what she a...
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE Design in art, is a recognition of the relation between various things, various elements in the crea...
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE We have to hate our immediate predecessors to get free of their authority.
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE You were a lord if you had a horse...
Far back, far back in our dark soul the horse prances. . . ...
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE I hold that the parentheses are by far the most important parts of a non-business letter.
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE The mind can assert anything and pretend it has proved it. My beliefs I test on my body, on my intui...
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE We make a mistake forsaking England and moving out into the periphery of life. After all, Taormina, ...
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE We have lost the art of living; and in the most important science of all, the science of daily life,...
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE Always this same morbid interest in other people and their doings, their privacies, their dirty line...
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE If a woman hasn't got a tiny streak of a harlot in her, she's a dry stick as a rule.
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE The peasants of Sicily, who have kept their own wheat and made their own bread, ah, it is amazing ho...
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE We need not feel ashamed of flirting with the zodiac. The zodiac is well worth flirting with.
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE Every civilization when it loses its inner vision and its cleaner energy, falls into a new sort of s...
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE Try to find your deepest issue in every confusion, and abide by that.
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE I shall be glad when you have strangled the invincible respectability that dogs your steps.
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE And if tonight my soul may find her peace
in sleep, and sink in good oblivion,
and in the morn...
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE Sleep is still most perfect when it is shared with a beloved. The warmth, the security and peace of ...
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE I am sure no other civilization, not even the Romans, has showed such a vast proportion of ignominio...
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE