Said One Quotes
74 quotes by 68 authors
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Nothing is impossible,' said one of the seven sages of Greece, 'to industry.' Let us change the word, 'industry,' to 'persevering prayer,' and the motto…
— Adoniram Judson
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But as a philosopher said, one day after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, after all the scientific and technological achievements, we…
— Sargent Shriver
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Writing a first draft is like groping one's way into a dark room, or overhearing a faint conversation, or telling a joke whose punchline you've…
— Ted Solotaroff
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But having considered everything which has been said, one could by this believe that the earth and not the heavens is so moved, and there…
— Nicole Oresme
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I have crushes on celebrities or people I meet or see in the coffee shop, and every day I fall in love with three people…
— Mindy Kaling
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Famous Playboy Hugh Hefner managed to successfully stop an order of monks from operating a business on his property. The police forced the friars to…
— Colin Mochrie
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My phone rings, they call me up and say, 'Chael, your testosterone level is too high.' I say, 'Well, how high was it?' They say,…
— Chael Sonnen
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Said one oyster to a neighboring oyster, "I have a very great pain within me. It is heavy and round and I am in distress."…
— Khalil Gibran
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Thousands of people are being buried and no one attends the funerals,' said one of the soldiers. 'In peacetime it's the other way round: one…
— Vasily Grossman
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If we try to listen we find it extraordinarily difficult, because we are always projecting our opinions and ideas, our prejudices, our background, our inclinations,…
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
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I don't think anyone can say I have said one thing in public and done another in private.
— David Blunkett
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Where Chanel came from in France is anyone’s guess. She said one thing one day and another thing the next. She was a peasant—and a…
— Diana Vreeland
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There used to be this guy called Vinny who worked on the floor of the stock exchange, said one big investor who had observed the…
— Michael Lewis
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There's a part of me that wishes I'd never said one single solitary word on any subject publicly. Then I could have been the tortured…
— Richard Thompson
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The English writer, Charles Lamb, said one day: "I hate that man." "But you don't know him." "Of course, I don't," said Lamb. "Do you…
— Charles Lamb
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I asked, "What are words?" The tenzo said, "One, two, three, four, five." I asked again, "What is practice?" "Nothing in the entire universe is…
— Dogen
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One of the things that I discovered in lecturing was that gradually one ceased to hear what one said one heard what the audience hears…
— Gertrude Stein
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The Chinese tell time by 'The Year of the Horse' or 'The Year of the Dragon.' I tell time by 'The Year of the Back'…
— Earl Weaver
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Unless you really understand the water, and understand the reason for being on it, and understand the love of sailing and the feeling of quietness…
— Humphrey Bogart
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After a while, another voice said: One, two, three, four- And the universe came into being. It was wrong to call it a big bang.…
— Terry Pratchett
Who Wrote These Said One Quotes
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