#sayin

...there are often many things we feel we should do that, in fact, we don't really have to do. Getting to the point where we can tell the difference is a major milestone in the simplification process. ↗

— Elaine St. James

#simple-life #simple-living #life

Often it is important to listen to what people aren't saying. ↗

— Peter L. Bergen

#listen #often #people #saying

It is possible that Mount Olympus may have supplied the poets with the hint for saying that Jupiter obtained the kingdom of heaven, because Olympus is the common name both of the mountain and of heaven. ↗

— Lactantius

#both #common #heaven #hint #jupiter

What I'm not saying is that all government spending is bad. It's not - far, far from it, but there is no free lunch, as a former colleague of mine used to say. There is no public tooth fairy. Father Christmas does not work on the Treasury staff this year. You can never bail someone out of trouble without putting someone else into trouble. ↗

— Arthur Laffer

#bail #christmas #colleague #does #else

Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent. ↗

— Dalai Lama

#dynamic #impression #remaining #saying #significant

For it goes without saying that this great recognition at this time will aid tremendously our efforts to find the necessarily large funds for the next voyage of exploration farther into the depths of the atom. ↗

— Ernest Lawrence

#atom #depths #efforts #exploration #farther

Back home everyone said I didn't have any talent. They might be saying the same thing here but it sounds better in French. ↗

— Alan Jay Lerner

#back #better #everyone #french #here

No one knows if Saddam is still alive. They keep showing old footage of him on TV saying that it's live. You know, it's like the same thing we do with Dick Cheney. ↗

— David Letterman

#cheney #dick cheney #footage #him #keep

Especially in this industry, women challenge men much more now because we're saying, 'We can do it, too.' ↗

— Regina King

#challenge #especially #industry #men #more

My method of helping someone is saying, 'Wow, you look amazing. Let me help you look even better.' I think tearing someone down is an awful thing to do. It has a lasting impression on people. ↗

— Carson Kressley

#awful #awful thing #better #down #even