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Say Quotes by George Orwell
- At any given moment there is an orthodoxy, a body of ideas of which it is assumed that all right-thinking people will accept without question.…
- [What Hayek] does not see, or will not admit, [is] that a return to "free" competition means for the great mass of people a tyranny…
- To say "I accept" in an age like our own is to say that you accept concentration-camps, rubber truncheons, Hitler, Stalin, bombs, aeroplanes, tinned food,…
- Sometimes they threaten you with something - something you can't stand up to, can't even think about. And then you say, Don't do it to…
- A scrupulous writer in every sentence that he writes will ask himself. . . What am I trying to say? What words will express it?...And…
- Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
- No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy.
- The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to…
- A scrupulous writer, in every sentence that he writes, will ask himself at least four questions, thus: 1. What am I trying to say? 2.…
- If you set yourself to it, you can live the same life, rich or poor. You can keep on with your books and your ideas.…
- I know it is the fashion to say that most of recorded history is lies anyway. I am willing to believe that history is for…
- Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print. Never use a long word where a…
- they say that time heals all things, they say you can always forget; but the smiles and the tears across the years they twist my…
- Confession is not betrayal. What you say or do doesn't matter; only feelings matter. If they could make me stop loving you-that would be the…
- When I sit down to write a book, I do not say to myself, 'I am going to produce a work of art.' I write…
- He would say that God had given him a tail to keep the flies off, but that he would sooner have had no tail and…
- I suppose there is no place in the world where snobbery is quite so ever-present or where it is cultivated in such refined and subtle…
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- With a goose-quill and a few sheets of paper, I mock myself of the universe. They say I am the son of… — Pietro Aretino
- Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. — Aristophanes
- I will undoubtedly have to seek what is happily known as gainful employment, which I am glad to say does not describe… — Dean Acheson
- Live never to be ashamed if anything you say or do is published around the world, even if what is said is… — Richard Bach
- I would definitely say the Oakland Raiders are the punk rock band of football. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Compassion is not a popular virtue. Very often when I talk to religious people, and mention how important it is that compassion… — Karen Armstrong
- My mom was such a strong character. I don't want to say she was like a man, but she was tough. — Lance Armstrong
- I can honestly say - and it's a big surprise to me - that I have never had a dream about being… — Neil Armstrong
- I grew up in a working-class family, so I guess you could say I write from what I know. — Andrea Arnold
- I try to live my life where I end up at a point where I have no regrets. So I try to… — Darren Aronofsky
- Writing comes more easily if you have something to say. — Sholem Asch
- We must have a theme, a goal, a purpose in our lives. If you don't know where you're aiming, you don't have… — Mary Kay Ash