Damndest Quotes

#1. Cussed fellow-critters! Kick up de damndest row as ever you can; fill your dam bellies 'till dey bust - and den die

Herman Melville

#2. People do the damndest things when they're in love.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#3. I have tried my best to give the nation everything I had in me. There are probably a million people who could have done the job better than I did it, but I had the job and I always quote an epitaph on a tombstone in a cemetery in Tombstone, Arizona: "Here lies Jack Williams. He done his damndest."

Harry S. Truman

#4. Love and sex, honey. Either one can make you do the damndest things. The two combined will make you a sure 'nough fool.

Barbara Neely

#5. You can't predict a show, that is the damndest thing, you can't predict if a show is going to work or not until it's on the air.

Aaron Spelling

#6. I've done my damndest to rip a reader's nerves to rags, I don't want him satisfied.

John Steinbeck

#7. I think it's very useful for you folks (reporters) to try your damndest to be precise. And don't repeat things that are inaccurate if you can possibly avoid it. And when you see things that are inaccurate, knock them down
because there's a bucket of it floating around.

Donald Rumsfeld

#8. Know what we did, Lucy? You and me? We spent our whole lives yearning. Isn't that the God damndest thing?

Richard Yates

#9. People may believe correct things for the damndest and weirdest of wrong reasons.

Stephen Jay Gould

#10. You're trying your damndest, you strike out and they boo you. I act like it doesn't bother me, like I don't hear anything the fans say, but the truth is I hear every word of it and it kills me.

Mike Schmidt

#11. I came to accept that I have no right whatsoever to judge others in terms of my own customs, however much I may be proud of such customs.

Nelson Mandela

#12. Quit demagoguing. It's not true.

Mary Matalin

#13. thighs flesh rather than steel, her groin matted from the moisture of their passion. Her face is dark, the sun behind her, but he sees red flames dying in the multifaceted pits of her eyes. She smiles and he sees sunlight glint on rows of metal

Dan Simmons

#14. You can't belay a man who's falling in love.

Edward Abbey

#15. A severe apprenticeship in the trade of praying must be served in order to become a journeyman in it.

Edward McKendree Bounds

#16. You didn't promise to kill me," Wayne said, pulling on his socks. "You promised to have killed me. That there be the present perfect tense.

Brandon Sanderson

#17. The idea of science as a method rather than as a body of knowledge is not widely appreciated outside of science, or indeed in some corridors inside of science.

Carl Sagan

#18. There is a point at which everything becomes simple and there is no longer any question of choice, because all you have staked will be lost if you look back. Life's point of no return.

Dag Hammarskjold

#19. A sword so fine must bear a name. It would please me if you would call this one Oathkeeper.

George R R Martin