Welcome to They Say Quotes, where words become the windows to wisdom and the portals to inspiration. In a world saturated with noise, finding moments of clarity and insight can feel like stumbling upon rare gems in a vast desert. Yet, amidst the cacophony of voices, there exist timeless utterances quotes that encapsulate profound truths, evoke powerful emotions, and ignite the fires of imagination. Whether penned by celebrated authors, revered philosophers, or ordinary individuals, these quotes possess an enduring quality that transcends time and resonates with the depths of the human experience.
Here, we invite you to embark on a journey through the corridors of thought, where each quote serves as a beacon of enlightenment, guiding you towards greater understanding and self-discovery. From poignant reflections on love and loss to stirring declarations of courage and resilience, our collection spans the spectrum of human emotions and endeavors. Whether you seek solace in moments of solitude or seek inspiration to conquer life’s challenges, our curated selection of quotes promises to uplift, motivate, and provoke thought.
Whenever I go to New York or any European country, they say: ‘Nawal, why don’t you get a facelift?’ I tell them, ‘I am proud of my wrinkles. Every wrinkle on my face tells the story of my life. Why should I hide my age?’ Nawal El Saadawi
You don’t remember people you love by the wise things they say but the silly things they do. Howard Jacobson
They say it is better to be poor and happy than rich and miserable, but how about a compromise like moderately rich and just moody? Princess Diana
They say marriage will change you but it didn’t change me. Being in love changed me. R. Kelly
They say military have the so-called ‘secret intelligence’ – this amount of intelligence must be very secret, since I’ve never seen any intelligent military person, nor I have seen any sense in the bloody stupid wars. Ozzy Osbourne
I don’t hate redheads! The millionaire men – wealthy men – never pick them. Every time I offer them they say no. I could say the most gorgeous redhead in the world and they’ll say no, they don’t want it. Now if you ask an Irish guy in Ireland, he says ‘yes,’ because that’s indigenous to that country. Patti Stanger
In our period, they say there is free speech. They say there is no penalty for poets, There is no penalty for writing poems. They say this. This is the penalty. Muriel Rukeyser
They say in the grave there is peace, and peace and the grave are one and the same. Georg Buchner
They say it is the first step that costs the effort. I do not find it so. I am sure I could write unlimited ‘first chapters’. I have indeed written many. J. R. R. Tolkien
They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for. Tom Bodett
What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things. Margaret Mead
Our children are counting on us to provide two things: consistency and structure. Children need parents who say what they mean, mean what they say, and do what they say they are going to do. Barbara Coloroso
All an actor has is their blind faith that they are who they say they are today, in any scene. Meryl Streep
We’ve observed that people who stall in their personal growth work often have counterproductive soft addictions that stand in their way of growth and having the life they say they want. It can be a simple thing, such as watching TV instead of finishing a project. Judith Wright
Incongruity, they say, is one of the main ingredients of humor. Maybe it’s because everybody can feel superior to me. I honestly don’t know. Emmett Kelly
They say the way to a man’s heart is through his stomach. It’s the same way with women… or at least the ones I want to be with. Ian Somerhalder
One of the downsides of being famous is that folks pay far more attention to you than they should. American celebrities are constantly under surveillance, and every word they say is subject to scrutiny. So, be careful what you wish for if you desire fame. No human being should be a goldfish. Bill O’Reilly
They say women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men. Clare Boothe Luce
A lot of people think I’m gay. I have really red lips, so they say I wear lipstick; they say my dance is very feminine, and a lot of people think I look like a girl. But that’s fine. I take the criticism positively. Tiger Shroff
As long as my face is on page one, I don’t care what they say about me on page seventeen. Mick Jagger
They say never meet your heroes. But the addendum to that is ‘unless they’re Harrison Ford.’ Ryan Gosling
Inconsistency on the part of pastors and the faithful between what they say and what they do, between word and manner of life, is undermining the Church’s credibility. Pope Francis
It isn’t what they say about you, it’s what they whisper. Errol Flynn
Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations. Michel de Montaigne
They say that love is blind, but it’s trauma that’s blind. Love sees what is. Neil Strauss
What do most people say on their deathbed? They don’t say, ‘I wish I’d made more money.’ What they say is, ‘I wish I’d spent more time with my family and done more for society or my community.’ David Rubenstein
They say that every snowflake is different. If that were true, how could the world go on? How could we ever get up off our knees? How could we ever recover from the wonder of it? Jeanette Winterson
Like they say, you can learn more from a guide in one day than you can in three months fishing alone. Mario Lopez
They say people live to be happy. If you actually think about what happiness is, it’s nothing much. When you get to eat ramen after feeling really, really hungry, that’s happiness. RM
They say you can rap about anything except for Jesus, that means guns, sex, lies, video tapes, but if I talk about God my record won’t get played Huh? Kanye West
Twice and thrice over, as they say, good is it to repeat and review what is good. Plato
What is objectionable, what is dangerous about extremists, is not that they are extreme, but that they are intolerant. The evil is not what they say about their cause, but what they say about their opponents. Robert Kennedy
They say Princes learn no art truly, but the art of horsemanship. The reason is, the brave beast is no flatterer. He will throw a prince as soon as his groom. Ben Jonson
They say women and music should never be dated. Oliver Goldsmith
They say Rome wasn’t built in a day, but I wasn’t on that particular job. Brian Clough
I have long since come to believe that people never mean half of what they say, and that it is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions. Dorothy Day
All governments are run by liars and nothing they say should be believed. I. F. Stone
They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it’s not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance. Terry Pratchett
A lasting marriage, they say, is one where the two reach for different sections of the Sunday paper. Me, I go right for the obituaries, just like those very elderly characters in Muriel Spark’s spooky novel, ‘Memento Mori.’ Billy Collins
But as they say about sharks, it’s not the ones you see that you have to worry about, it’s the ones you don’t see. David Blaine
They say that abandonment is a wound that never heals. I say only that an abandoned child never forgets. Mario Balotelli
You’re never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you’re never as bad as they say when you lose. Lou Holtz
You can win more friends with your ears than with your mouth. People who feel like they’re being listened to feel accepted and appreciated. They feel like they’re being taken seriously and what they say really matters. Harvey Mackay
I hate the whole race. There is no believing a word they say, your professional poets, I mean there never existed a more worthless set than Byron and his friends for example. Duke of Wellington
People are wrong when they say opera is not what it used to be. It is what it used to be. That is what’s wrong with it. Noel Coward
They say a midget standing on a giant’s shoulders can see much further than the giant. So I got the whole rap world on my shoulders, they trying to see further than I am. Jay-Z
They say, ‘Nothing can be done here!’ I reply, ‘I know no such word in the vocabulary I adopt!’ Dorothea Dix
They say that every Jewish person is supposed to love one black person in his life. I’m glad Lorne Michaels chose me. Tracy Morgan
I don’t care what they say about me when I’m through with sports. I don’t want to be known as anything else in life but a great father. Deion Sanders
I don’t have time for their judgement and their stupidity and you know they lay down with their ugly wives in front of their ugly children and look at their loser lives and then they look at me and they say, ‘I can’t process it’ well, no, you never will stop trying, just sit back and enjoy the show. You know? Charlie Sheen
The special ops guys and the firefighters around the world have this great phrase. They say, ‘Slow is smooth, and smooth is fast,’ and that is true. Everything I’ve accomplished in my life has been because of that attitude. Jeff Bezos
The fact is: It’s true what they say about the United States. It is a land of opportunity. It is too various to get bored with it. Christopher Hitchens
You’re never as good as they say you are, you’re never as bad as they say you are. That’s a quote I live by. Israel Adesanya
A good compromise, a good piece of legislation, is like a good sentence; or a good piece of music. Everybody can recognize it. They say, ‘Huh. It works. It makes sense.’ Barack Obama
Women in my focus groups, they say a bald man is trustworthy. He has nothing to hide. Kellyanne Conway
They say an elephant never forgets. Well, you are not an elephant. Take notes, constantly. Save interesting thoughts, quotations, films, technologies… the medium doesn’t matter, so long as it inspires you. Aaron Koblin
They say it’s better to bury your sadness in a graveyard or garden that waits for the spring to wake from its sleep and burst into green. Conor Oberst
They say baseball’s a game of failure. Well, that’s only true on the offensive side. Clayton Kershaw
‘Pathological liar’ is absolutely the toughest individual to deal with as a psychiatrist. Because you can’t take anything they say at face value. And you can’t, you know, fill in their personality. You don’t know what’s real and what’s not. Dale Archer
If you know you are on the right track, if you have this inner knowledge, then nobody can turn you off… no matter what they say. Barbara McClintock
Nothing in the universe can travel at the speed of light, they say, forgetful of the shadow’s speed. Howard Nemerov
They say any landing you can walk away from is a good one. Alan Shepard
As they say around the Texas Legislature, if you can’t drink their whiskey, screw their women, take their money, and vote against ’em anyway, you don’t belong in office. Molly Ivins
I think I’m basically the same guy I always was. Maybe I’ve learned, through experience, to rein in some of the anger and temper they say redheads normally have. Willie Nelson
The working men, I’ll go by and they’ll whistle. At first they whistle because they think, ‘Oh, it’s a girl. She’s got blond hair and she’s not out of shape,’ and then they say, ‘Gosh, it’s Marilyn Monroe!’ Marilyn Monroe
Patience, they say, is a virtue. Yet in times of emergency, the government needs to be able to make snap decisions and take bold, decisive action to protect the American people. Jared Polis
Comics, in a sense, the style, the images – it’s almost like music. They say music is a universal language, but when the eyes behold something, a figure, somebody moving; it’s real, and it cannot be denied. John Lewis
Nothing has ever gotten in my way. They say, ‘Wally, you’re a girl, you can’t do that.’ I said, ‘Guess what, doesn’t matter what you are, you can still do it if you want to do it,’ and I like to do things that nobody’s ever done before. Wally Funk
Intuition is the key to everything, in painting, filmmaking, business – everything. I think you could have an intellectual ability, but if you can sharpen your intuition, which they say is emotion and intellect joining together, then a knowingness occurs. David Lynch
Yes sir, I am a tortured man for all seasons, as they say, and I have powerful friends in high places. Birds sing where I walk, and children smile when they see me coming. Hunter S. Thompson
I love those hockey moms. You know what they say the difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull is? Lipstick. Sarah Palin
They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad that I’m going to miss mine by just a few days. Garrison Keillor
Age, they say, is only important if you’re cheese. or a wine. They also say, if you are stuck behind one on a golf course, that a tree is 90 per cent air. How come, then, that you invariably send your ball crashing into the remaining 10 per cent? Terry Wogan
I’m so hard on myself. I play these sketches in my computer for friends and they say ‘Gee whiz, the vocal’s beautiful.’ I hear, ‘It needs to be better.’ Steve Perry
They say the universe is expanding. That should help with the traffic. Steven Wright
How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten? Logan Pearsall Smith
I spend a great deal of time with the President. We have a very close, personal, loyal relationship. I’m not, as they say, a potted plant in these meetings. Dan Quayle
There are times where fans don’t understand that change is inevitable or that changes are done too fast. They say, ‘We like the way you used to be.’ Or they say, ‘We liked what you did then.’ You can’t stay the same. As you mature as an adult, you find out you have to keep changing in this business. It’s something The Undertaker laid on me. Bray Wyatt
People are going to say what they say. I know sometimes I say things; I offend people. Mike Tyson
I tend to be… they say ‘workaholic,’ which I just find to be ‘motivated.’ Sarah Hay
There’s nothing I dislike more than being in a photo shoot where they say, ‘Be yourself.’ That’s not why I became an actress. That’s what I find so funny: that you become an actor, and all of a sudden, everyone wants to know about you. But I didn’t become an actor so I could show you me. Margot Robbie
People say I’m too skinny, but if I gain a little weight, they say I look chubby. You can’t please everyone. As long as you’re happy, that’s all that matters. Madison Beer
They say the world has become too complex for simple answers. They are wrong. Ronald Reagan
They say eyes clear with age. Philip Larkin
I’ve met so many people in person who watch my videos, and the best thing I hear is when they say, ‘I love you just for being you.’ Trisha Paytas
There are no atheists in foxholes, they say, and I was a foxhole atheist for a long time. But after going through a midlife crisis and having many things change very quickly, it made me realize my mortality. And when you start to think about death, you start to think about what’s after it. And then you start hoping there is a God. Peter Steele
They say fame is important and that maintaining your fame is even more important. But to me, the most important thing is to deserve the respect of your fans. Juan Gabriel
They say that theater is the actor’s medium, television is the writer’s medium and film is the director’s medium, and it’s really true. Charlie Hunnam
They say everything you go through in your childhood builds character and inner strength. Curtis Joseph
They say President Wilson has blundered. Perhaps he has, but I notice he usually blunders forward. Thomas A. Edison
It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say. Abba Eban
They say miracles are past. William Shakespeare
If you are the kind of person who makes homemade chicken stock on the regular and keeps it frozen in various sized containers for all your cooking needs, I truly commend you. Quality homemade stock will invariably add great depth of flavor and body to a recipe. But it’s a luxury, not a necessity – it gilds the lily, as they say. Claire Saffitz
I’d rather try and fail than not try at all, as they say. Bobby Rahal
They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse. Emily Dickinson
You know what they say about Chicago. If you don’t like the weather, wait fifteen minutes. Ralph Kiner
They say in the Middle East a pessimist is simply an optimist with experience. Ehud Barak
They say the first thing to go is your legs, then it’s your reflexes, then it’s your friends. Kris Kristofferson
They say some of my stars drink whiskey, but I have found that ones who drink milkshakes don’t win many ball games. Casey Stengel
It is sad that the Republican leadership is not as interested as they say they are in protecting the institution of marriage as they are in waging a campaign to divide and distract the American people from the real issues that need to be addressed. Kendrick Meek