Top 100 Do When Quotes
#1. I don't understand these new coaches who don't drink. What do they do when they get beat?
Abe Lemons
#2. The most important thing you will do is yet to be seen. For me, I found my important thing to do when I learned to do surgery on the eye, when I learned to restore a person's vision.
Rand Paul
#3. Nobody knows what to do when there's a tragedy. Nobody practices for it.
Jean Thompson
#4. If we do the work that we can do in this country, the work that we will do when John Kerry is President, people like Christopher Reeve will get up out of that wheelchair and walk again.
John Edwards
#5. In my case, I think people are surprised that I'm doing exactly what I said I was going to do when I ran, because that's not the typical politician.
Rick Scott
#6. But I didn't know where I wanted to go. Or what I wanted to do when I got there. I had dreams, but they were vague things with no real substance. I wanted to be famous, or really rich, or wildly successful, but that was as far as the dream went. My whole life was a fill-in-the-blank.
Nick Hornby
#7. Someone once defined hard work as the accumulation of the easy things you didn't do when you should have.
John C. Maxwell
#9. When I was 20, journalists would ask me what I would do when I retire from waterpolo. For me this is not just a five- or ten-year-period in my life. This is life itself.
Tibor Benedek
#10. I'd love to go and I'd love to play for my country and go to a World Cup again. I've got to accept I'm not in the current squad and just think, 'If I get it, it's a bonus and I'll give it everything.' But it's hard to do when you've been thinking a different way all your life.
Michael Owen
#11. I am accused often of too much experimentation.., but what else should I do when all other factors of man are in the same condition. I thrust forward into space as science and the rest do.
Mark Tobey
#12. It is true that the movie is perhaps my most politically-charged. The story is thrust into motion by the idea of what do you do when your 13 year old daughter comes home pregnant. And not only is she pregnant, but she wants to keep the baby.
Todd Solondz
#13. You can talk to me, too."
"I do!"
"But you say so little."
"Women talk a great deal to one another. All this gossip and such. I am not a woman."
"What do you do when you have to command your men?" She inquired, exasperated. "Grunt?
Catherine Asaro
#14. People change. Time makes us grow. Life happens, good and bad, and it's the person you love, the man inside you can't live without, not the sum of what he did or didn't do when he was younger and still figuring life out.
Jay Crownover
#15. The first thing I do when I get up is I look out the window. I've been looking at the same image for six years. It's imprinted in my mind like an afterimage template.
Chris Ware
#16. Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next. What makes you a man is what you do when that storm comes.
Alexandre Dumas
#17. This is the currency of friendship, traded over years and miles, and I hope it's an even exchange someday. For now, I do what all best friends do when there's nothing left to say. We lie together in all the darkness, shoulder to shoulder, and wait for the worst to be over.
Emery Lord
#18. There's something you do when you're completely confident that just can't be replicated when you know you're doing something wrong.
Amy Heckerling
#19. What do you do when you discover your adult life is a sham?
Nathan Hill
#21. Kissing is what humans do when words have reached a place they can't escape from.
Matt Haig
#22. The men had scattered in all directions, which men are inclined to do when women leave them to their own devices for any length of time. I believe they are easily bored.
Elizabeth Peters
#23. What will I do when you're gone?" said Alasdair, with a faltering voice.
Bryeison placed a hand on his shoulder and said, with raging tranquility, "Do what is good and what is right.
Michelle Franklin
#24. What exactly did people do when they had all the time in the world and could do whatever they liked? (p 153)
Sharon Creech
#25. Think What You Do When You Run in Debt: You Give to Another Power over Your Liberty
Benjamin Franklin
#26. As I usually do when I want to get rid of someone whose conversation bores me, I pretended to agree.
Albert Camus
#27. We demonstrated what you could do when a band of entrepreneurs settles an empty country with vast resources. The Chinese have a billion people and are running out of water. Tougher problem for sure.
Charles R. Morris
#28. I saw a crow building a nest, I was watching him very carefully, I was kind of stalking him and he was aware of it. And you know what they do when they become aware of someone stalking them when they build a nest, which is a very vulnerable place to be? They build a decoy nest. It's just for you.
Tom Waits
#29. All I do when we're apart is think about you,and all I do when we're together is panic
Rainbow Rowell
#30. I hate people who talk about themselves, as you do, when one wants to talk about oneself, as I do.
Oscar Wilde
#31. Sometimes, it's better to stop thinking and trust your instincts. That's what I used to do when I first started making music, but as time goes on, you can sometimes over-intellectualise things.
Calvin Harris
#32. NIGHTINGALE AND I did what all good coppers do when faced with a spare moment in the middle of the day - we went looking for a pub.
Ben Aaronovitch
#33. There are other things I'd rather do when I'm alone with you."
Time to step off the edge. "Then do them.
Veronica Rossi
#34. It is a strange thing to find yourself doing something you have apparently always wanted to do, when in fact up until that moment you had never known that you had always wanted to do it, or even what it was,
Terry Pratchett
#35. I like - there's a better word for it, but I like the danger that a comic brings to a role. It has a feeling, even though everything's scripted and everything's planned what you're going to do. When I see Will Ferrell or Sacha Baron Cohen, there's a feeling that anything could happen.
Todd Phillips
#36. It's where we go, and what we do when we get there, that tells us who we really are.
Joyce Carol Oates
#37. We believe what we see.
So did Columbus. What do you do when you're in the dark?
Yann Martel
#38. What we really want to do is what we are really meant to do. When we do what we are meant to do, money comes to us, doors open for us, we feel useful, and the work we do feels like play to us.
Julia Cameron
#39. What do you do when your entire identity is destroyed in an instant? How do you cope when your whole life story turns out to bw wrong?
Chuck Palahniuk
#40. Until I figure out what I'm going to do when I grow up, I'm not going to be grown up.
Kay Panabaker
#41. We all have our la-la-la song. The thing we do when the world isn't singing a nice tune to us. We sing our own nice tune to drown out ugly.
Rita Williams-Garcia
#42. What do you do when other countries' intelligence agencies give you information and you aren't entirely certain about its source? Simply ignore it? That's impossible. We have a duty to guarantee the safety of our citizens.
Angela Merkel
#43. That is what you do when you breathe, you trespass, again and again you trespass on the world.
Karl Ove Knausgard
#44. Because that's what you do when the curtain is falling, you say the line the audience wants to hear.
Rick Yancey
#45. Alf's nails wander around his forehead like nails do when wandering among memories and opening doors that have long been closed.
Fredrik Backman
#46. All I was trying to do when they caught me was bury my mother in an unmarked grave.
S.L. Viehl
#47. They teach you how to handle life in England, but they don't teach you a thing about death. There's no book telling you what to do when your mum or dad dies.
Ozzy Osbourne
#48. The next millisecond demonstrated how much faster I can think than react. First I thought Blitzen had spotted an actual duck. Blitzen likes ducks. Then I realized he was telling me to get down, which is hard to do when you're the last in a line of three people on horseback.
Rick Riordan
#49. All we can do when we think of kids today is think of more hours of school, earlier age at the computer, and curfews. Who would want to grow up in that world?
James Hillman
#50. I thought about my father. I usually do, when I get that low. He was a good man, a generous man, a hopeless loser.
Jim Butcher
#51. I have a pretty fast metabolism, so I don't really have to worry about getting pudgy. What I try to do when I'm working out is taking in a lot of heavy protein - clean chicken, clean meats.
Chris Evans
#52. I can't understand guys who just have to have your autograph. What do you do when you get home, take it out & look at it?
Artie Shaw
#53. Make sure you are doing something you love to do when working out. Nobody likes to work, so when you do choose a workout, make it something you enjoy doing. You won't stick with it if you hate it and if it feels like work. Find something fun.
Miesha Tate
#54. It is not so important what deeds we do when times are good, but what good we do in bad times.
Jeffrey Fry
#55. You can't rightly estimate what a man will do when he's in drink.
Agatha Christie
#56. The first thing I do when I get up in the morning is wash my face with Olay Regenerist Thermal Mini-Peel Face Wash. My skin is super-dry, and this one is great for basically any skin type. As you cleanse your face, the face wash gets warmer, so it's soothing and also has some exfoliation to it.
Gracie Gold
#57. You don't know what it's like to lose a child, but I do. When they're gone, every cold word you uttered is a scar on your soul, every missed opportunity with them a pain that will never heal.
Jeaniene Frost
#58. Which leads me to ask ... what exactly are you going to do when we get there?"
I thought about it. "Rip Josh's nuggets off and feed them to his hamster?
Gemma Halliday
#59. I love poetry; it's my primary literary interest, and I suppose the kind of reading you do when you are reading poems - close reading - can carry over into how you read other things.
Jonathan Galassi
#60. Then it suddenly and theatrically began to clean itself in the way cats do when they want you to know what a big deal you aren't.
Adam Rex
#61. When you're dead, you're dead. No one is going to remember me when I'm dead. Oh, maybe a few friends will remember me affectionately. Being remembered isn't the most important thing, anyhow. It's what you do when you are here that's important.
Susan Hayward
#62. She mock shudders the way you do when you talk about someone's misfortunes that have nothing to do with you, that don't touch you, and never will. I've never hit a woman in my life, but for one minute I want to punch her in the face, give her a taste of the pain she's so casually describing.
Gayle Forman
#63. When I go home, the first thing I do is wash the dishes. It feels real and it feels like home and it's humbling, it's something you don't do when you're living in a hotel, everyone cleaning up after you.
V V Brown
#64. And we spend the rest of the evening getting very pissed and eating ice cream, as we always do when something good or bad happens to either one of us.
Sophie Kinsella
#65. You move differently than you do when you're filling the stage at Radio City. You have to be bigger than life there.
Nickolas Ashford
#66. You wanna have laughs? Do what I do. When I go through a tollbooth, I keep going. I tell the guy, The car behind me is paying for two.
Rodney Dangerfield
#67. Secrets. I can't take then with me. If I do, when I go, when I arrive at my final destination, I'll be ... impure.
Julie Anne Peters
#68. They had drifted apart, as people do when they promise to stay in touch; the ones who are going to stay in touch don't need to promise.
Edward St. Aubyn
#69. Violet sighed in the way you do when you know something bad is going to happen, but hope against hope that it won't, but it does anyway and you realize that you always knew it would and were stupid for having made yourself believe that you could stop it.
Victoria Forester
#70. But they took readily to Shakespeare, as all children do when he is not made horrible with parsing and analysing.
George Orwell
#71. There are all these things I want to do when I don't have to finish a book. But I have to keep writing because I keep having children.
Robert K. Massie
#72. What do you do when the one person you want comfort from the most is the one who caused your pain? How can I want so desperately for him to wrap me up in his arms but also want so much for him to leave me alone.
Amanda Grace
#73. Accepting your flaws is a hard thing to do when you're constantly reminded of them.
Auliq Ice
#74. The last thing you want to do when you are about to film a scene is think, 'Oh my God, so many people are going to watch this.'
Karen Gillan
#75. People text when they're meant to actually be driving. So imagine what they do when they think the car's got it under control.
Astro Teller
#76. All I do when I write scripts is think about food: 'Have I worked long enough to justify a walk to the kitchen?'
Nora Ephron
#77. That's what everybody wants to do when they love like that. They want to get married, they want to kiss and hug and carry on and have babies all the time.
Harper Lee
#78. It is astonishing what you can do when you have a lot of energy, ambition and plenty of ignorance.
Alfred P. Sloan
#79. I do what I always do when the day has shown me its worst: I make do.
Amy A. Bartol
#80. It's amazing how many things you can do when you're just pretending.
Kim Gordon
#81. So what do you do when you build yourself up - only to realise you built yourself with the wrong things?
Caitlin Moran
#82. The safest thing to do when in danger is to be too stupid to know you are in danger.
Thomm Quackenbush
#83. One thing I love to do when I'm working out is take my watch off, take my heart strap off, and just run - not for time, not for exertion, but just to get the blood flowing.
Abby Wambach
#84. You learn so much on set; I don't know if you learn as much anywhere else as you do when you're on set, working.
Maika Monroe
#85. Your money, or your life. We know what to do when a burglar makes this demand of us, but not when God does.
Mignon McLaughlin
#86. Whatcha gunna do when Hulkamanina and my 24 pythons run wild on you?!?!?!!?
Hulk Hogan
#87. Advertising is what you do when you can't go see somebody. That's all it is.
Fairfax Cone
#88. You may never remember the way you used to be with them, I have no doubt that you'll figure out a way that works with them one day. And when you do, when you figure everything out and decide with no regrets who you want to be, if you still want me, I'll be right here waiting for you.
Shelly Crane
#89. Well,' he said, 'we think you probably do.' When I imagine this scene as part of a movie, the minute of silence after my father says this is extended for an hour or so, and then the credits roll.
John Darnielle
#90. The reason we don't get what we want isn't because we don't have the ability or time. We aren't willing to do the things we need to do when we don't feel like doing them. There's an impact of that entitlement on their business. The attitude is you learn to fall in love with the daily grind.
Rory Vaden
#91. There's no briefing sheet on what to do when a supernatural soul-sucking horror disguised as a beautiful woman starts crying on your shoulder.
Charles Stross
#92. People often say that I have a child's eye. For example, I stare at ants gathering around sugar, or when I seek shelter from the rain, I gaze upon snails. These are things which you often do when you are a child aren't they? I have a very similar sensibility to that.
Rinko Kawauchi
#93. Bitch," he growls, immediately grasping for the world that most men do when they encounter a woman they can't control.
Kevin Hearne
#94. Opportunities come. The question is what will you do when they arrive?
Jeff Goins
#95. Leadership is the ability to get a person to do what you want him to do, when you want it done, in a way you want it done, because he wants to do it.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
#96. What is there to do when people die - people so dear and rare - but bring them back by remembering?
May Sarton
#97. Awakening your spiritual side is really what artists do. When you hit a groove, it's not you; it's the spirit world.
Tommy Chong
#98. The question is not only what is grown but what it's used for. There's not going to be a mass transformation of dietary habits in rich countries-on the contrary, the first thing people do when they become more prosperous is to buy more meat.
Susan George
#99. It's amazing what people will do when you see the best in them, when you honor them, when you respect them. It not only strengthens the relationship, but it will help that other person rise higher.
Joel Osteen
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