#sayin

We distinguish the excellent man from the common man by saying that the former is the one who makes great demands on himself, and the latter who makes no demands on himself. ↗

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

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My mom was always saying: 'Be whatever you want to be, but stick with it. Don't waver. Don't change who you are for anybody.' ↗

— Miranda Lambert

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There's an old saying, this too shall pass, and change is good. ↗

— Joe Lando

#good #old #pass #saying #shall

But if I've heard this saying once, I've heard it a thousand times- everything happens for a reason. And possibly it does. I just haven't found the reason that this all happened yet. ↗

— Jerry Lawler

#everything #found #happened #happens #haven

I take full responsibility for what happened at Enron. But saying that, I know in my mind that I did nothing criminal. ↗

— Kenneth Lay

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The trite saying that honesty is the best policy has met with the just criticism that honesty is not policy. The real honest man is honest from conviction of what is right, not from policy. ↗

— Robert E. Lee

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I'm not used to saying no to this man on any level. ↗

— Andrea Mackris

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We had an eyeball-to-eyeball agreement at a restaurant before I came back that, if I came back, he would never talk to me that way again or I was simply saying no. ↗

— Andrea Mackris

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Everybody is sitting around saying, 'Well, jeez, we need somebody to solve this problem of bias.' That somebody is us. We all have to try to figure out a better way to get along. ↗

— Wilma Mankiller

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If you get down and quarell everyday, you're saying prayers to the devil, I say. ↗

— Bob Marley

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