Top 100 Did We Quotes
#1. How did we ever get the idea that God would supply us on demand with quick fixes, that God is merely a rescuer and not a midwife?
Sue Monk Kidd
#2. My concern is that we live in an economy in which stabbing someone and waiting for them to complain before we remove the knife has become the normal way of doing business. When did we lose sight of the fact that it's not nice to stab people in the first place?
Simon Sinek
#3. We all must do what Christ did. We must make our experiment. We must make mistakes. We must live out our own version of life. And there will be error. If you avoid error you do not live.
Carl Jung
#4. And after we returned to the savannahs and abandoned the trees, did we long for those great graceful leaps and ecstatic moments of weightlessness in the shafts of sunlight of the forest roof?
Carl Sagan
#5. Today we have badminton set up, as well as a hike around the grounds, and trivia questions in the evening. Any questions?"
"When did we sign up for the senior citizen cruise?" Christian ridiculed.
Rachel Van Dyken
#6. There was no religion in my life growing up. Did God invent us or did we invent God?
Eddie Izzard
#7. We don't know what's happened out there since they put us in here, or how many generations have lived and died since they did.We could be the last people left.
Veronica Roth
#8. Writers want to summarize: What does this mean? What did we learn from this? That's a very 19th-century way of thinking about art, because it assumes that it should make our lives better or teach us something.
Laurie Anderson
#9. Lovers of concision, laconicism and economy of language will doubtless be asking, if the idea is such a simple one, why did we need all this waffle to arrive, at last, at the critical point.
Jose Saramago
#10. Vote?" Matthew said, incredulous. "Since when did we vote in this family?" "Since Marcus took over the Knights of Lazarus," Gallowglass replied, drawing a silver lighter from his pocket. "We've been choking on democracy since the day you left.
Deborah Harkness
#11. Love was here today and left us dry did we deserve Him?
Norman Mailer
#12. And when we pressed our heads to each other's hearts how did we not hear Carmen McRae singing? In Angela's fisted hands, Billie Holiday staggered past us and we didn't know her name. Nina Simone told us how beautiful we were and we didn't hear her voice.
Jacqueline Woodson
#14. When did we start believing God wants to send us to safe places to do easy things?
Mark Batterson
#15. Does anyone remember how we used to get cash before ATM's? Did we have to go inside the bank? Then what? We lived like apes!
Dana Gould
#16. More polar bears live in Canada than in the rest of the world combined, which raises the question, Why the hell did we choose the beaver as our national emblem? We could have had Nanuk of the North, Lord of the Arctic, as our symbol. Instead we got stuck with Squirrelly McTeeth. Sheesh.
Will Ferguson
#17. We yearned for the future. How did we learn it, that talent for insatiability?
Margaret Atwood
#18. The days are hot and the dead lie unburied. We cannot fetch them all in, if we did we should not know what to do with them. The shells will bury them ...
Enrich M. Remarque
#19. When did we begin to lose faith in our ability to effect change?
Wynton Marsalis
#20. If "con" is the opposite of pro, then isn't Congress the opposite of progress? Or did we just fucking blow your mind?!?
Jon Stewart
#21. We didn't start this war - the right wing did. We're tired of seeing good-paying jobs shipped overseas. This fight is about the economy, it's about jobs and it's about rebuilding America.
James P. Hoffa
#22. Did we come all the way here for a book, Baba?"
"Just one, my child. Just one."
"It must be a special book."
"All books are special, dear.
Renee Ahdieh
#24. To be conformed to Jesus, we must first begin to think as Jesus did. We need the "mind of Christ." We need to value the things He values and despise the things He despises. We need to have the same priorities He has. We need to consider weighty the things He considers weighty.
R.C. Sproul
#25. No sooner did we start than it all came to an end.
Ahmed Mostafa
#26. We all look back at some time or other and wonder why we didn't listen to our instincts. Why did we hestiate? Why did we lose our dreams?
Diane Griffith
#27. Any friend of my cousin's is a friend of mine, sir. How exactly do you know Lady Zoe?"
Before Tristan could answer, Zoe jumped in. "We met at some party, did we not, Mr. Bonnaud?"
"Yes." Tristan forced a smile. "Clearly a very dull one, since neither of us can remember which one it was.
Sabrina Jeffries
#28. At that time, we were in charge. We didn't ask. We just did. We just did what was in our heart.
Ben E. King
#29. But if you go over the line, you don't want to get stuck in a Nevada State court room. Honestly, because Nevada has been doing a good job of putting California criminals in jail. I mean, we couldn't put OJ in jail, but they did. We couldn't put Paris Hilton in jail, but they did.
James Belushi
#30. I had never met Woody Allen before Melinda and Melinda. My agent knew the producer of the movie and he suggested that we would work well together and then we did. We had a great time on that film.
Vilmos Zsigmond
#31. But what did we really know, even of one another? We never thought of a future. Our small solar system - what was it heading towards? And how long would each of us mean something to the others?
Michael Ondaatje
#32. Plyometrics. Hate them. Enough already. Jumping around, using your own body weight is so hard to me. How did we do it as kids?
Sarah Shahi
#33. In the middle of Little Italy little did we know that we riddled some middleman who didn't do diddily
Big Pun
#34. How did we go bankrupt? Two ways. Slowly, and then all of a sudden.
Ernest Hemingway,
#35. I feel that's one of the central questions of fantasy. What did we lose when we entered the 20th and 21st century, and how can we mourn what we lost, and what can we replace it with? We're still asking those questions in an urgent way.
Lev Grossman
#36. Examine the legacy that we inherited and what we did. We had boom-and-bust economics and a doubled national debt.
Tony Blair
#37. When I'm working in America, I wake up with an American accent and stay with it all day till makeup comes off. I just want everyone to be at ease, and not have the show's creators think, 'Oh my god, he's so English, why did we hire him?'
Damian Lewis
#38. All of which raises the question, how did we go from Character to Personality without realizing that we had sacrificed something meaningful along the way?
Susan Cain
#39. Why did we go to war? Why did we pick people from South Carolina, California, and all the places in between to go to a foreign land and risk their lives and have some die? To make sure that Saddam Hussein could do no more damage to the region or us than he has already done.
Lindsey Graham
#40. Freedom and liberty, the essays we wrote on them, papers for our tutors, for grades, but did we know the value of those words which we bandied about, of how precious they are, as precious as the air we breathe, the water we drink.
Benazir Bhutto
#41. How did we suddenly become entranced with gangster culture? I saw it this morning on campus. When did the black community say we should all look like criminals?
Tim Reid
#42. I thought, "Why? and how did we evolve with this weak, and useless passion in tact within the deep heart's core?" And the answer as I've formulated it to myself is that empathy is the engine that powers all the best in us.
Meryl Streep
#43. Did we ever find out for sure about the possible forked penis?
Rachel Vincent
#44. The greatest mercy, I have often thought, of the Mediterranean coast lies in its mosquitoes. Did we not suffer from their unwelcome attention, we could not bear our holidays to end.
Winifred Holtby
#45. And ask them about the town that was by the sea - when they transgressed in [the matter of] the sabbath - when their fish came to them openly on their sabbath day, and the day they had no sabbath they did not come to them. Thus did We give them trial because they were defiantly disobedient.
Qur'an
#46. Someday, our children, and our children's children, will look at us in the eye and they'll ask us, did we do all that we could when we had the chance to deal with this problem and leave them a cleaner, safer, more stable world?
Barack Obama
#47. The older one gets, the harder it is to account for time. Children ask: "Are we there yet?" Adults: "How did we get here so quickly?" Somehow,
Jonathan Safran Foer
#48. Let me get this straight, you don't remember anything?"
"No," I said, swallowing hard. "What did we do last night?"
"We got fucking married," he growled.
Kylie Scott
#49. Why did we all crave love so badly when half the time it left us annihilated?
Josh Lanyon
#50. How did we keep getting so lost in a midnight world? Why did we continue lamenting as we wounded our hearts and were cut apart?
Mizuki Nomura
#51. 'We the People' established the Constitution. Did we really do so to somehow keep ourselves out of the decision making. Are we only wise when it comes to electing people capable of governing our affairs, but wholly without the intellect to decide issues for ourselves?
Paul Jacob
#52. Did we make them
because we needed to love someone
and could not love each other?
Margaret Atwood
#53. (Is this what we fled, when we left the ocean? Did we grow legs so we could run away?)
Cherie Priest
#54. That policy was abandoned very quickly, and the military police were tagged with the responsibility of conducting training, which they did. We were not equipped or set up with personnel to recruit new Iraqi guards.
Janis Karpinski
#55. Did we ever plan on being billionaires? No, but we wanted to be millionaires.
Diane Hendricks
#56. When I got married, I was all in love, but then came life intruding in, and sometimes it's difficult ... I would look at my husband and ask, 'did we do it too quickly?' ... But my husband was strong in his resolve. He kept reminding me that people go through this, and that we were going to be ok.
Angela Bassett
#57. When our children and grandchildren look back on this period, one question will overwhelm all the rest: Did we do everything in our power to fight and to win the war on terror? That's the fundamental question this generation faces.
George W. Bush
#58. Is it me, or did we just stop in the median and the driver got out?" Larry asks.
"He has to go peewee," Jade informs us.
"Good to know I'm not demented," Larry remarks. "Merely imperiled.
Daniel Asa Rose
#59. Abraham obeyed God in the extremity, and as a result, he became the model of faith. Thus anyone who has faith in God and is thereby justified is a child in the spiritual line of Abraham. If we trust God as Abraham did, we can be confident in any test or trial.
John F. MacArthur Jr.
#60. We didn't really have to take everything so seriously, did we?
Ayn Rand
#61. On no days of our childhood did we live so fully perhaps as those we thought we had left behind without living them, those that we spent with a favourite book.
Marcel Proust
#62. For those who don't like Dave Letterman, there's Jay Leno; and for those who like neither, there's Craig Ferguson; and if you're still feeling undertained, there's George Lopez and Jimmy Fallon and Jimmy Kimmel and - let's see, did we leave out a Jimmy?
Tom Shales
#63. You thought, as a boy, that a mage is one who can do anything. So I thought, once. So did we all. And the truth is that as a man's real power grows and his knowledge widens, ever the way he can follow grows narrower: until at last he chooses nothing, but does only and wholly what he *must *do ...
Ursula K. Le Guin
#64. God save him, she smelled of a field of roses and tasted sweeter than port wine.
Drawing her hands over her mouth Charlotte gasped. "Hugh. How did we end up on the bed?"
"I think we must have floated," he whispered.
Amy Jarecki
#65. When did we get Watermelon Oreos? That just sounded so wrong.
Ashlan Thomas
#66. What did we possess of real value? ... For no one saw anything around him or in him which really belonged to him. It reached the point where we were just eight beggars, possessing nothing ...
Rene Daumal
#67. What Steve Jobs and I did-and at the same time Bill Gates and Paul Allen did-we had no savings accounts, no friends that could loan us money. But we had ideas, and I wanted all my life to be a part of a revolution.
Steve Wozniak
#68. What did we know about those closest to us, really? No one ever dared to speak plainly about desire; no one said the word out loud.
Alice Hoffman
#69. We never had to take any of it seriously, did we?' she whispered. 'No, we never had to.
Ayn Rand
#70. Aww, did we masturbate through the tears last night?
Kresley Cole
#71. Every record I have done was because I was a person's friend. The only time we did not continue to be friends was if the record did not become a hit. If it did, we became great friends.
Nile Rodgers
#72. When guilt rears its ugly head confront it, discuss it and let it go. The past is over. It is time to ask what can we do right, not what did we do wrong. Forgive yourself and move on.
Bernie Siegel
#73. Wow. This place looks classy. The smell of fertilizer and rot is really in this season. Remind me, what are we doing here?" she asked looking at him with a coy smile. "Did we come for bait?
Dennis Sharpe
#74. Why did we think having a cub was a good idea?
Nalini Singh
#75. I grew up in the '70s and '80s, at a time that I'd argue was the absolute golden age of American popular culture. Because not only did we have all of the fantastic new stuff in print and on screens, but we had a constant supply of everything that came before, as well.
Chris Roberson
#76. U feel that way sometimes wondering: wondering, how did we survive?
Haki R. Madhubuti
#77. You just robbed a revenue cart.' 'That was neither stealing nor robbery. Whose money did we capture?' 'Why, the King's!' 'King's, you say! What right has an English King to the wealth of our land?
Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay
#78. Did we get anything like the sort of reform that would make the EU work better? No. Not even close. And worse, even with the certainty of a UK referendum following the negotiation, it is clear that there was no appetite amongst European leaders for anything more than a few minor concessions.
Andrea Leadsom
#79. So we went on what we now call "The Beck Family Church Tour" and man did we see some churches.
Glenn Beck
#80. Did we miss out on a lot of targets? No. Was it disappointing? No.
David Moyes
#81. Just because a thing can't be done doesn't mean it can't be did. We all look into mirrors and see phantoms. Our error is our Eros. Why is there something instead of nothing? The answer is reckless and surreal.
Dean Young
#82. Despising each other as we did, we were constantly together, thereby degrading ourselves. If that is what the world calls friendship, the relations between Horiki and myself were undoubtedly those of friendship.
Osamu Dazai
#84. "There is love." Someone wrote that for me on a piece of paper in an airport when I probably looked like I really needed to hear it. I did. We all need the reminder sometimes.
Madi Diaz
#85. Not once did we ever have the money to buy them a single toy. AND
Julie Otsuka
#87. Why did we get married? What is the point of it? What are the rules involved?
Matt Haig
#88. Use unlikely materials. Who would choose Pnin as hero, but how did we live before Pnin?
Vladimir Nabokov
#89. I mean, when the British burned down the White House in the war of 1812, did we plant a "Tree of Remembrance" in the ashes, or did we get busy rebuilding?
Brian K. Vaughan
#90. And how did we
then face the odds,
of man's rude slapstick,
yes, and God's?
Quite at home and unafraid,
Thank-you,
in a game
our dreams remade.
Kurt Vonnegut
#91. Because that was what we all did - we searched for labels for people until we found one we thought might fit, and then we sighed in relief that we had placed them.
Erin McCarthy
#92. But here too it should be noted that the President's approach was to first ask the repressive and brutal Taliban to surrender Osama bin Laden to us, and only after that government refused to do that did we invade.
Barney Frank
#93. Apparently, that morning both Lorne's doorman and Robert De Niro had stopped him to say how uncanny the resemblance was. Did we dare disappoint Frank the Doorman and Robert De Niro?
Tina Fey
#94. Gary Berntsen, head of the CIA in Afghanistan there, he was a field commander. And he has a book out called "Jawbreaker." And he says we missed an opportunity at Tora Bora to get him. We put resources elsewhere. That's been a critique of the administration. Did we miss opportunities?
Alan Colmes
#95. I don't think we should really be judging on Chris Brown like that until we know what Rihanna did. We all got reasons for what we do. Look at me. I'm one of the top 10 performers of all-time. I had to beat this one mermaid ass in a seafood restaurant over some shrimps. No lie. You just never know.
Coolio
#96. I've lost six different times. You can't say, 'Well, he lost, that's the end of the world.' You have to say, 'Okay, you lost, what did we do wrong?
Bernie Sanders
#97. We can regret something that we did , we can regret something that we didn't do; but the only thing that we can not afford to regret is regretting being ourselves
Hisham Fawzi
#98. Many questions torment America in its dark night of the soul, questions more urgently pressing, and yet it must be asked: How did we get stuck with Piers Morgan? Who is he, why is he here, is he returnable?
James Wolcott
#99. Countries rush to war thinking it is the quickest, easiest solution to conflict, only to find themselves still entrenched years later, suffering more losses than they expected and asking themselves, bewildered, "How did we get here?" There is no "winning" a war.
Joseph Sebarenzi
#100. Let it be said by our children's children thta when we were tested we refused to let this journey end, that we did not turn back nor did we falter; and with eyes fixed on the horizon and God's grace upon us, we carried frth that great gift of freedom and delivered it safely to future generations.
Barack Obama
