They Said Quotes

• A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Graduation, Senior, Education

  "Art of Communicating Ideas". Book by William Joseph Grace, p. 389, 1952.

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• I thought I could capture the stories of the city on paper. I thought I could write about the horrors of the city. Horror stories you see. I tell you I didn't have to look far for material. Everywhere I looked, there were stories hidden there in the dark corners. . . . I wrote and still there were more. . . . No one would publish them. 'Too horrible,' they said. 'Sick mind,' they said. I thought I could write about the horrors of the city but the horror is too big and it goes on forever.

  Grant Morrison

  Writing, Dark, Horror Stories

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• Forgiveness is the choice to see people as they are now. When we're mad at people, we're angry because of something they said or did before this moment. By letting go of the past, we make room for miracles to replace our grievances.

  Marianne Williamson

  Forgiveness, Letting Go, Past

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• We have to do that. We have to be thankful. That's what we said. Two things were told to us: To be thankful, so those are our ceremonies, ceremonies of thanksgiving. We built nations around it, and you can do that, too. And the other thing they said was enjoy life. That's a rule, a law- enjoy life- you're supposed to.

  Oren Lyons

  Law, Two, Enjoy Life

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• I wrote the book Don't Die, My Love as I was going through radiation, so it certainly has an air of authenticity about it because I was there. I think all of my books took on kind of a deeper tone when the lady who wrote about cancer all of a sudden had cancer. I'm doing well. I went through it all and they said, 'You're fine."

  Lurlene McDaniel

  Cancer, Book, Thinking

  Source: bookpage.com

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• The universe, they said, depended for its operation on the balance of four forces which they identified as charm, persuasion, uncertainty and bloody-mindedness.

  Terry Pratchett

  Balance, Four, Persuasion

  "The Light Fantastic". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1986.

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• PW spent time with Sigel in a New York recording studio shortly before he went away on his federal gun possession charge. He paged through a book of promotional photos of himself, one of which was shot shortly after 911. It featured him holding a copy of the Bible upright in one palm while the Koran rose from the other the Twin Towers. Some of the record company people, they wouldn't let me put this out, ... They said it would be too controversial. But this picture is saying 'Look, they can stand together. Don't have to be no fight.'

  Beanie Sigel

  New York, Book, Fighting

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• I didn't do what they said I did. I may have done enough so that I don't know if I can prove my innocence.

  Dick Morris

  Done, May, Innocence

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• Once they said they can only stop me with a pistol but today you need a machine gun to stop Messi.

  Hristo Stoichkov

  Gun, Messi, Needs

  "Only Machine Gun Can Halt Messi Magic, Says Stoichkov". uk.reuters.com. April 12, 2010.

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• I called my family, saying, "Guess what? I got a new show. It's about a cop who travels in time." And they said, "I think we've seen that one."

  Jason O'Mara

  Thinking, Cop, My Family

  "Jason O'Mara Talks TERRA NOVA and ONE FOR THE MONEY". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 4, 2011.

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• They said you had to take what the defense gave you. No, we are going to take what we want.

  Al Davis

  Defense, Want, Said

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• Among pacifists it was above all the English who always insisted on the importance of disarmament. They said that the man in the street would not understand the kind of pacifism that neglected to demand immediate restriction of armaments.

  Ludwig Quidde

  Men, Demand, Kind

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• Whether I'm at a dinner with Anna Wintour or a listening party with Pusha T or in Rome with Virgil (Abloh, his style adviser) giving Fendi our designs and getting them knocked down... we brought the leather jogging pants six years ago to Fendi, and they said no. How many m*****f***ers you done seen with a leather jogging pant?

  Kanye West

  Party, Rome, Years

  "Kanye West’s Zane Lowe Interview Can Only Be Described As Amazing" by Kia Makarechi, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 23, 2013.

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• God was something I did not understand the way kids who went to church did. They said God was a man in the sky with white hair and a beard like Santa. This seemed strange to me. When I thought of God, I imagined only mist over the pond, a sliver of moon in a dark sky, scatterings of stars, birdsong.

  Melissa Coleman

  Stars, Kids, Dark

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• They said daydreaming was against the law, but some of us escaped, slipping out windows and over cyclone fences, some of us flying away with heads like balloons. We taught our dogs to love the flavor of homework and became expert forgers of our parents’ signatures. We knew they were teaching us how to die but some of us said no in our stealthy and stubborn ways.

  Vern Rutsala

  Dog, Teaching, Law

  Vern Rutsala (2004). “A Handbook for Writers: New & Selected Prose Poems”, White Pine Press (NY)

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• Whatever someone told you, you can never be sure of what they said. Whatever someone said, you can never be sure of what you were meant to understand - so if it's really this complicated, what's the point of trying to infer things when you can just ask.

  Rebecca Taylor

  Wisdom, Trying, Complicated

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• During the whole funding process they said, 'We're interested in you guys because of your management team; we think you're fantastic...' Two weeks later they pull me into the office - before even the first board meeting - and say, 'We want to replace you as CEO.'

  Mark Fletcher

  Team, Thinking, Two

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• They said they wanted a lot of feathers, glitter, colourful colours. A costume. So I had a lady here in Calgary make it. She just kind of put together what I had in mind.

  Owen Hart

  Mind, Together, Glitter

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• To my utter astonishment I saw an airship descending over my cow lot. It was occupied by six of the strangest beings I ever saw. They were jabbering together, but we could not understand a word they said.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Together, Astonishment, Cows

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• Jephthah called together the men of Gilead and fought against Ephraim. The Gileadites captured the fords of the Jordan leading to Ephraim, and whenever a survivor of Ephraim said, 'Let me cross over,' the men of Gilead asked him, 'Are you an Ephraimite?' If he replied, 'No,' they said, 'All right, say Shibboleth.' If he said, 'Sibboleth,' because he could not pronounce the word correctly, they seized and killed him at the fords of the Jordan. Fourty-thousand were killed at the time.

  Edwidge Danticat

  Men, Together, Jordan

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• Everything I learned and didn't do in New York I would put into place here in the London West Hollywood. It's fascinating, when you look at the critics' reviews, and we had a great one in the New York Observer and all that, and then the New York Times came and it was a devastation; two stars out of four. They said that I played safe because it wasn't fireworks. Then they judged the persona over the substance that was on the plate.

  Gordon Ramsay

  New York, Stars, Two

  Source: www.crushable.com

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• I think of Wangari Mathai in Kenya. If she started out saying she wanted to plant 20 million trees, she would have been laughed at. In fact, the foresters and the government did laugh at her. They said, "Villagers? Un-schooled villagers? Planting trees? No, no, no, it takes foresters." So she planted trees anyway.

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Thinking, Government, Laughing

  Source: www.yesmagazine.org

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• The buildings that were in question, they said in the same report, which was - actually, it wasn't even a bad story, to be honest with you, but the buildings are worth $3.9 billion. And the $650 isn't even on that. But it's not $650. It's much less than that.

  Donald Trump

  Stories, Honest, Building

  Donald Trump's speech at the first 2016 Trump-Clinton presidential debate at Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York, moderated by anchor of NBC Nightly News Lester Holt, www.nbcnews.com. September 26, 2016.

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• Some people left you for dead. They thought it was over. They said you're hopeless, you're helpless. You can't be used. You're not ministry material. You're going to be poor. You're going to be messed up.But guess what?Tell the devil, go to hell. You're a liar.

  Paula White

  Liars, People, Devil

  Source: culteducation.com

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• For many years, they said the drug lords in Colombia were unbeatable, but all the same, we've eliminated all the big capos (as the drug lords are called in Colombia). The homicide rate is as low as it was 40 years ago and the kidnapping rate has dropped to the level of 1964. Now we'll be able to bring down the street criminals specializing in extortion and robbery.

  Juan Manuel Santos

  Years, Drug, Criminals

  "Waging War Is More Popular than Negotiating". Interview with Juliane von Mittelstaedt, Helene Zuber, www.spiegel.de. May 21, 2014.

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