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I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people.
Edmund Burke

War, Long, Against

I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences.
Walt Whitman

Art, Past, Democracy

Even if you have nothing to write, write and say so.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Men are born with two eyes, but with one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say.
Charles Caleb Colton

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

In all professions each affects a look and an exterior to appear what he wishes the world to believe that he is. Thus we may say that the whole world is made up of appearances.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

May, Made, Whole

As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so small wits seem to have the gift of speaking much and saying nothing.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Great, Nothing, Saying

Whatever good things people say of us, they tell us nothing new.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Good, Nothing, Tell

In the last analysis, what we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do.
Stephen Covey

Far, Last, Analysis

Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
Abraham Joshua Heschel

Sense, Discipline, Ability

I don't care what you say about me. Just be sure to spell my name wrong.
Barbra Streisand

Care, Wrong, Sure

We can say with certainty - or 90% probability - that the new industries that are about to be born will have nothing to do with information.
Peter Drucker

Nothing, Born, Certainty

If you tell God no because He won't explain the reason He wants you to do something, you are actually hindering His blessing. But when you say yes to Him, all of heaven opens to pour out His goodness and reward your obedience. What matters more than material blessings are the things He is teaching us in our spirit.
Charles Stanley

God, Blessings, Him

And the relationships that happen become so intense, deep, involved and complex and really hard to say goodbye to. The hardest part of the show is saying goodbye when it's all done. It really breaks you.
Genevieve Gorder

Deep, Saying, Hard

Most chick singers say 'if you hurt me, I'll die'... I say, 'if you hurt me, I'll kick your ass.'
Pat Benatar

Hurt, Die, Kick

It wasn't until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say, 'I don't know.'
W. Somerset Maugham

Life, Easy, Until

I always say, decisions I make, I live with them. There's always ways you can correct them or ways you can do them better. At the end of the day, I live with them.
LeBron James

Live, End, Decisions

People say that money is not the key to happiness, but I always figured if you have enough money, you can have a key made.
Joan Rivers

Happiness, Money, Made

I'm in a position of feeling secure enough so that I can say what I think is right and if so many people think it's wrong that I get fired, well, I've got enough to eat.
Andy Rooney

Feeling, Enough, Wrong

Let me say this loud and clear. There is a world of difference between terrorist acts and the Islamic Shari'a. Islam is not only a religion, but a way of life. And at its heart lie the sacred principles of tolerance and dialogue.
King Hussein I

Life, Religion, Islam

If the choice were made, one for us to lose our sovereignty and become a member of the Commonwealth or remain with our sovereignty and lose the membership of the Commonwealth, I would say let the Commonwealth go.
Robert Mugabe

Made, Become, Lose

If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
Gaston Bachelard

Peace, Dream, House

Some say that the age of chivalry is past, that the spirit of romance is dead. The age of chivalry is never past, so long as there is a wrong left unredressed on earth.
Charles Kingsley

Age, Past, Long

Beware of anyone who says they know. Trust me, they don't, or they wouldn't have to say they did.
Harvey Fierstein

Trust, Anyone, Says

Smoking sucks! The one thing I would say to my kid is, 'It's not just that it's bad for you. Do you want to spend the rest of your life fighting a stupid addiction to a stupid thing that doesn't even really give you a good buzz?'
Katherine Heigl

Life, Good, Stupid

When I say that human beings are just gene machines, one shouldn't put too much emphasis on the word 'just.' There is a very great deal of complication, and indeed beauty in being a gene machine.
Richard Dawkins

Beauty, Great, Human

I won't say that the papers misquote me, but I sometimes wonder where Christianity would be today if some of those reporters had been Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.
Barry Goldwater

Today, Sometimes, Won

As long as you as an individual... can convince yourself that in order to move forward as best you can you have to be optimistic, you can be described as 'one of the faithful,' one of those people who can say, 'Well, look, something's going to happen! Let's just keep trying. Let's not give up.
Tom Hanks

Best, Forward, Yourself

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 P. Smith

Life, Success, Enough

I say a murder is abstract. You pull the trigger and after that you do not understand anything that happens.
Jean-Paul Sartre

Understand, After, Happens

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