Should be able to master the art of horseriding.

Let sleeping dogs lie.

Let sleeping dogs lie.

Never trouble till trouble troubles you.

Don't trouble trouble until trouble troubles you.

He expressed himself clearly.

Have I made myself clear?

Am I clear?

Tom was vague.

The Fed has printed new bank reserves with reckless abandon.

Roger Ebert famously gave the film zero stars .

I thought I made that clear.

I think I've made myself clear.

You were very clear.

Perhaps I haven't made myself clear.

Okay? Somebody invented it.

As Ndey Sarr Nyancho put it

I must have expressed myself badly.

As he put it We are not secure people.

I guess I haven't made myself clear.

I think I didn't said it clearly enough.

And, in his own words, he looked like a freak.

I doubt a native speaker would say it that way.

I doubt whether a native speaker would say it like that.

I doubt whether a native speaker would express himself this way.

Pope Francis recently put it just right Safeguard Creation, he said.

That is how he puts it on his homepage

But much of it was just partisan politics.

As one university president put it Everyone asks, What s your vision?

As Arisotle put it, politics is the master science in the realm of action.

As one put it, the world is not flat, but spiky.

A look of fear appeared on his face but he immediately recovered himself.

NEW YORK In the 1987 film Wall Street, the character Gordon Gekko famously declared, Greed is good.

Security of property and tolerable administration of justice, as Smith put it.

As Walter Bagehot once famously said, Money will not manage itself.

As one put it, the world is not flat, but spiky.

It s no use throwing dollars out of a helicopter, as Brazilian Minister of Finance Guido Mantega put it.

Machiavelli famously said that it is more important for a prince to be feared than to be loved.

As he put it, the US was built for a purpose to serve eternal and universal principles.

Milton Friedman, a leading proponent of the profit oriented approach to corporate management, famously declared that the business of business is business.

As its leader, Hassan Nasrallah aptly put it, We are just a reaction to chronic injustice.

A prominent Chinese businessman who divides his time between Hong Kong and London was even more specific.

Facebook user Sol DjVaselli Duverne put it even more simply, captioning his post with a simple PAY UP.

Then they talked about horses, about that day's races, and how gallantly Vronsky's Atlasny had won the first prize.

But Shultz s Stanford colleague, Condoleezza Rice, wanted a more transformational diplomacy that did not accept the world as it was, but tried to change it.