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Facts tend to take the punch out of a good hate rant and are therefore left best unsaid.


John Ridley

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DANIEL ROBERT O'NEILL I rant, therefore I am.
DENNIS MILLER When our time comes to check out of this world we will regret a thousand thousand times the good dee...
TONY BRADY In the world of diplomacy, some things are better left unsaid.
LINCOLN CHAFEE The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE The bitterest tear shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE That is enough. Some things are better left unsaid for now.
PADME AMIDALA One of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonab...
JONATHAN SWIFT One of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonab...
JONATHAN SWIFT One of the very best rules of conversation is to never, say anything which any of the company wish h...
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HARRIET BEECHER STOWE When words are all you have, much gets left unsaid...
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ALAN MORRISON The glory of love is overshadowed by things left unsaid
STARGAZER I was probably the best that ever walked this earth. And I could take a punch. I could deliver a pun...
LARRY HOLMES This was a feeling I had often, the sense of a subtext.
CATHERINE LACEY I say a lot of things, but I only mean the ones left unsaid.
MARIA BARRAGAN Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.
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MARC IMHOFF I hope you use your words for good because the only words you'll regret more than the ones left unsa...
TAYLOR SWIFT Therefore they sought again to take him: but he escaped out of their hand, / And went away again bey...
BIBLE You can never repeat the things you left unsaid.
DOMINIC C. HOWARTH Words said can never be recalled. So it is best, oftimes, not to speak too quickly. Yet words left u...
ANN RINALDI The kid got his arm out of the sweater somehow, and landed a good punch.
PAT QUINN Some things are better left unsaid, which I certainly realize, right after I say them.
ANONYMOUS Thanks to postmodernism, we tend to see all facts as meaningless trivia, no one more vital than any ...
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NEIL MARSHALL How should I know?" said Alice, surprised at her own courage. "It's no business of mine."
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LEWIS CARROLL A good rant is as necessary as a good laugh.
HENDRIK LUYCKX They tend to come out a colour called 'Pants left in wash'
EDDIE IZZARD I left it out over the plate and he recognized it. He's a good hitter, and good hitters take advanta...
JEFF HARRIS One of the best ways to make yourself happy in the present is to recall happy times from the past. P...
GRETCHEN RUBIN Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.
BRUCE LEE Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.
BRUCE LEE What was left unsaid is what the industry needs in order to accomplish implementation.
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NALINI SINGH We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.
WINSTON CHURCHILL We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out
WINSTON CHURCHILL We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL They're a good 1-2 punch, probably the best in the nation. But I thought we did a real good job. We ...
EVAN BENJAMIN So many things left unsaid, but I chose silence to avoid unnecessary pain.
MICHAEL HAYSSUS I punch left-handed.
MIKE WEIR They tend to come out a colour called 'Pants left in wash'
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C. JOYBELL C. People are looking to help any way they can. When disaster strikes, you hate to say it, but when dis...
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C. JOYBELL C. It was a slug-out. Just punch for punch. We were fortunate to get the last punch in.
KAY YOW With 30 seconds (left in the game), we were trying to get up a quick shot to keep it close and possi...
JUSTIN DOELLMAN Be of good comfort, Mr. Ridley, and play the man! We shall this day light such a candle by God's gra...
HUGH LATIMER I could rant and rave about a lot of things. I could rant and rave about the man in the middle. I co...
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DAVID LESLIE Angulo presents a difficult challenge because he's a fighter who can punch and take a great punc...
CANELO ALVAREZ Sometimes I rant, in a comical way, about how the gods give with one hand and take with the other.
SUE TOWNSEND People in bands don't have the kind of conversations people might think they have. The best thin...
THOM YORKE John has the ability, he is a slippery player, he is able to use good speed and he has a great chang...
JOE ALBERICI Don't take life too seriously. Punch it in the face when it needs a good hit. Laugh at it.
COLLEEN HOOVER The next Scotland coach needs to be someone with great ability and can get the best out of limited r...
BRIAN KENNEDY So they tend not to take as good care of themselves, both physically and psychologically, and in the...
CHARLES NEMEROFF Be of good comfort, Master Ridley, play the man! We shall this day light such a candle, by God's g...
HUGH LATIMER Be of good comfort, Master Ridley, play the man! We shall this day light such a candle, by God's gra...
HUGH LATIMER The Pacific Mozart Chorale in Berkeley asked four different composers (the other three are John Adam...
DAVE BRUBECK I hate newspapermen. They come into camp and pick up their camp rumors and print them as facts. I re...
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN It is my nature to strive to do my best. This does tend to take a toll on you.
KARISMA KAPOOR [As pointed out by Cass Sunstein, the University of Chicago law professor who wrote the 2001 book re...
CASS SUNSTEIN Words can break someone into a million pieces, but they can also put them back together. I hope you ...
TAYLOR SWIFT I'm not afraid to take a punch.
AUSTAN GOOLSBEE To suppress minority thinking and minority expression would tend to freeze society and prevent progr...
WENDELL PHILLIPS You have two hemispheres in your brain - a left and a right side. The left side controls the right s...
BILL LEE John Robinson will be missed. He is a good public servant and always had the best interest of the ci...
MAYOR SEBASTIAN GIULIANO Listen, my day job is also Chief Creative Officer for Marvel, and it's a very painful job becaus...
AVI ARAD Let us therefore be of a reverent spirit, and fear the long-suffering of God, that it tend not to ou...
IGNATIUS OF ANTIOCH One of the melancholy facts of political life is that your convictions tend to align with your paych...
BARTON SWAIM I recognize the power of silence in an extroverted world but there is a time for silence and a time ...
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MEHMET MURAT ILDAN She always believed love was good and hate was much better. But, indifference would’ve made her a ...
A.A. GUPTE John is one of these guys that if a nuclear bomb hits, it will be John and cockroaches left as the o...
KATHY PULLEY There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are...
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. As countries grapple with modernization, people who are left behind tend to hold firmer and firmer t...
RICHARD HOLBROOKE You have two hemispheres in your brain - a left and a right side. The left side controls the right s...
BILL LEE Muhammad could take a very good punch. He was slick, he could move, he could hit, make you miss, goo...
LARRY HOLMES I don't have to tell you it goes without saying there are some things better left unsaid. I think th...
GEORGE CARLIN Trivial facts are often the best hints to what is going on.
J.M. ROBERTS I shook the stick at him and boy, he gave me a good little punch. About a dozen lengths later he jus...
RUSSELL BAZE In every particular state of the world, those nations which are strongest tend to prevail over the o...
WALTER BAGEHOT You can take a gut punch and hit the mat or keep moving.
DAN WALDSCHMIDT Game shows are designed to make us feel better about the random, useless facts that are all we have ...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Game shows are designed to make us feel better about the random, useless facts that are all we have ...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK I tend to think that free-market conservative principles are the best ones for the CEO of a state.
BRUCE RAUNER Interfere with the reality of my world, and you therefore take the very life and heart out of my wil...
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EARL CAMPBELL nobody who knew much about the true facts of this case, or about John, expected him to be removed.
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RIDLEY SCOTT Technology continues to bring us wondrous advances in filmmaking to improve how we view movies.
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RIDLEY SCOTT Far from being dead, physical media has years of life left and must be preserved because there is no...
RIDLEY SCOTT She would've made an excellent pirate.
ERICA RIDLEY Moonseed Manor did not look like a place to live. Moonseed Manor looked like a place to die.
ERICA RIDLEY A word on 'Kingdom of Heaven:' if you get the four-disc set, which is 3 hr. 8 min., you'...
RIDLEY SCOTT I had been very impressed with the voiceover of 'Apocalypse Now,' with Martin Sheen's vo...
RIDLEY SCOTT The whole process of making movies and writing screenplays is visceral and intuitive.
RIDLEY SCOTT I'm a yarn teller. My job is to engage you as much as I can and as often as I can.
RIDLEY SCOTT As a young boy, I read 'Cheaper by the Dozen' and immediately became neurotic about my use o...
RIDLEY PEARSON One of the problems with science fiction, which is probably one of the reasons why I haven't don...
RIDLEY SCOTT If you go back and look, a completely underrated film is 'Quest for Fire.' That was one of t...
RIDLEY SCOTT The word 'comedy' implies slapstick.
RIDLEY SCOTT I've got many letters from Muslim organizations thanking me for making 'Kingdom of Heaven.&#...
RIDLEY SCOTT To most of us, adulthood means being able to earn a living, possess a home, get married and rear chi...
JANE RIDLEY Scaring someone's the hardest thing to do, and that's why most of these scary movies are not...
RIDLEY SCOTT I like Wadi Rum - it's the best view I've ever seen of what could be Mars.
RIDLEY SCOTT did a great job under challenging conditions.
FRED RIDLEY This is a major advance for amateur golf.
FRED RIDLEY This is a major advance for amateur golf. It gives amateurs who do not have access to substantial fa...
FRED RIDLEY Hopefully, some of the seeds we're planting today will pay off and we'll be happier on this issue in...
FRED RIDLEY The best stories come out of the truth.
RIDLEY SCOTT I'll reshoot a corridor 13 different ways, and you'll never recognise them.
RIDLEY SCOTT I'm a very practical person.
RIDLEY SCOTT I was one of those kids who tended to stay in on Saturday nights. My mother used to come and say, &#...
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