Had For Quotes

#1. Compressed air can provide limitless amounts of clean energy using technology we have had for hundreds of years.

Bill Mollison

#2. Whenever I'm in sync with the trends, it's always an accident. I still love wearing clothes I've had for ten years. I think understated luxury is the chicest thing.

Padma Lakshmi

#3. I've got two little dogs, a little Chihuahua-Pomeranian I've had for about eight years - his name is Oliver - and a miniature German Schnauzer I've had for about seven years. They're like little brothers.

Scott Michael Foster

#4. As I started to read the 100 year old letters their story unwound and I began to share their passion for life and the love they had for one another.

Mark Wardlaw

#5. I want to clear my mind a little bit and give my mind a little bit of time to breathe so I can pinpoint or at least nail down feelings I'm having and that I've had for the last however long. I need to nail them down long enough to actually write about and elaborate on them.

Fred Durst

#6. With rue my heart is laden For golden friends I had, For many a rose-lipped maiden And many a lightfoot lad.

A.E. Housman

#7. ...like two children who had, for the first time, discovered someone who shared their thoughts...

Ronald Everett Capps

#8. Stick to the classics, and you can't ever go wrong. I see old ladies on the street who have fabulous style and realize it's because they are probably wearing really classic items that they've had for years and years. I think if you find something that suits you, you should just stick to it.

Alexa Chung

#9. In his youth, Jon Connington had shared the disdain most knights had for bowmen, but he had grown wiser in exile.

George R R Martin

#10. Heroics are not easily had for the young in our times. Perhaps that is why they go to such extremes to create their own dangers.

Gail Godwin

#11. They had entered the thorny wilderness, and the golden gates of their childhood had for ever closed behind them.

George Eliot

#12. There's no such thing as a tax on happiness," Helen said, rubbing her forehead.
The countess regarded her with rueful sympathy. "My poor girl... it certainly can't be had for free.

Lisa Kleypas

#13. I understand you've been spending some time in the company of my son." Adam's father had a disconcerting stare. His eyes were hazel, close in color to my own, but there was an uncanny awareness in them - like he knew what you'd had for breakfast that morning and how you would sleep that night.

Jennifer Lynn Barnes

#14. On the other hand, if these four-Mr. Graces, the brutish Frank, the mysterious Mr. Liu, and rude little Henry-were the only company John had had for a hundred and sixty-odd years, it explained a lot about his brooding.

Meg Cabot

#15. Isherwood received bags of fan mail, far more than Tennessee Williams had for Memoirs. There was the sexual and jokey (a fifteen-year-old English schoolboy sent his photo and wrote on the back, "My tits are on fire").

Christopher Bram

#16. I have the same friends that I've had for 15 years. I think also, just by having each other, as soon as one of us gets a big head, we shoot the other one down.

Khloe Kardashian

#17. We have no adequate conception of the perfection of the ancient tragic dance. The pleasure which the greeks received from it had for its basis difference; & the more unfit the vehicle, the more lively was the curiosity & intense the delights at seeing the difficulty overcome.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#18. History is powerful stuff. One day your world is fine. The next day it's knocked for a metaphysical loop. Was Napoleon really at Waterloo? Would that change what I had for breakfast?

Henry Bromell

#19. The contrast between the realization of his neglect and the fondness I had for my father was painful.

Yangsze Choo

#20. I have the same friends I've had for years and the same family. Unless you love rock n' roll and Hollywood parties and having your photo taken, I don't think necessarily things need to change too much.

Theo James

#21. If I was going to do something, I wanted to give my life over to it, to love it, to wake up in the morning for it like I had for dance.

Melissa Kantor

#22. If I want to hand one of my old shotguns that I've had for 50 years to my grandkid one day, I have to go through a federal transfer? It's crazy.

Donald Trump Jr.

#23. The preference most of them had for seeing through their camera, rather than looking at the real thing, and so on.

Alice Munro

#24. Someone dehumanises you by violating your child and every human thought you had for them is broken, undermined, then gone.

Abigail Tarttelin

#25. The essence of grace, we suppose, is that the account has been paid in advance; and, because it has been paid, everything can be had for nothing.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#26. His grief at your leaving is also his fear of losing the power he has had for lifetimes. Those days are over for him, and he is in turmoil. But if you are to help him on his soul's quest, you will leave him. It is your job
your sacred contract
to free him, and to free yourself.

Elizabeth Lesser

#27. Fireheart recognized Mistyfoot, Silverstream's best friend. He knew she would love these kits as much as her own. But no cat could feel more strongly for Graystripe than Fireheart had, for four long seasons.

Erin Hunter

#28. (She cupped his face in her palms.) They were so close now that his features lost distinction and all she could see was the feeling she had for him.

Rachel Joyce

#29. The more respect I had for myself, and the more I took care of myself, the more I understood what I needed out of a partner.

Reese Witherspoon

#30. I was very much an only child who was raised by the television and movies, and I grew up in New York. We weren't, like, rich people, but we were middle-class people and my parents supported this love I had for entertainment.

Billy Eichner

#31. Humanity, morality, decency, might be forgotten, but codfish must still be had for the use of the faithful in Lent and on fast days.

Francis Parkman

#32. The love and passion I had for the game was my key. I never had that taken out of me by my parents or a silly coach.

Bobby Orr

#33. The worst job I ever had was an office job that I had for six years, and that's nothing against the people who I was surrounded by, because they were wonderful people.

Kumail Nanjiani

#34. My dad always told me that the principal reason he chose New Zealand to emigrate to after World War II was the high regard his father had for the Kiwis he encountered at Gallipoli.

Peter Jackson

#35. Of course, while Katherine took the accolades in stride, she never took the work for granted. Not a morning dawned that she didn't wake up eager to get to the office. The passion that she had for her job was a gift, one that few people ever experienced.

Margot Lee Shetterly

#36. waif. They would hear his reedy voice, the one he'd had in the war. He swallowed, knew that all he had for a voice box was a little whistle cut from a willow switch. Worse - he had nothing to say. The crowd

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

#37. 'Built This Pool' was an idea that I had for a song starting several years ago, and as we were in between takes of recording something, I was actually holding a guitar at the time, and I played this silly thing, and sang the lyrics to 'Built This Pool' kinda in the background.

Mark Hoppus

#38. I opened the door and went inside, calling "I'm home!" Except that I wasn't, really. Because home meant something else to me now, and had for quite awhile. And he didn't live there anymore.

Meg Cabot

#39. There were some situations where I was giving up everything I had for the band and I just expected everybody else to feel the same way. I realized I was just kidding myself.

Jerry Only

#40. I can't tell you how many people say they were turned off from science because of a science teacher that completely sucked out all the inspiration and enthusiasm they had for the course.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#41. But you'll want me someday? That feeling you once had for me ... that hasn't left either?" Our hearts beat the same wild rhythm. They're playing the same song. "It never left," I say.

Stephanie Perkins

#42. Most of us are "living the dream" living, that is, the dream we once had for ourselves.

William B. Irvine

#43. The solid, middle-class values of hard work, responsibility, family, community, and faith my father talked about tirelessly from Iowa to New York, he lived at home. The hopes he had for his family and for me, he had for all Americans. I think Americans understood this.

Chelsea Clinton

#44. Is she sane?' asked Mrs. Linton, appealing to me. 'I'll repeat our conversation, word for word, Isabella; and you point out any charm it could have had for you.

Emily Bronte

#45. Make today the day you begin that awesome idea you have had for years. Now go, write this book, and remember that today is an important day in history.

M. Kirin

#46. My parents had this incredibly vital relationship with an audience, like muscle with blood. This was the main competition I had for my parents' attention: an audience.

Carrie Fisher

#47. I made a decision when I started writing 'All is Song' to take the compliments I had for 'The Wilderness' and try to be confident and not overwhelmed by it.

Samantha Harvey

#48. The fact that I loved Jesus was beginning to interfere with the plans I once had for my life and certainly with the plans others had for me. My heart had been apprehended by a great love, a love that compelled me to live differently.

Katie Davis

#49. This was after stew. But then, so is everything. When the first man crawled out of the slime and went to make his home on land, what he had for dinner that night was stew.

William Goldman

#50. On this land, Muslims, Christians and Jews can coexist together, as they have - as they had for the - for hundreds of years in the framework of a democratic state.

Hassan Nasrallah

#51. Brie wasn't a woman that would try to fit whatever ideal mold I thought I had for a partner; she was a woman that shattered the mold and made me feel the excitement of young love again - the kind of love where you never know what to expect next and you can't wait to find out.

R.S. Grey

#52. So at least I could rest my soul knowing I had truly given it my all. And when my future child asks why I stopped pursuing a dream I had had for so many years, I can say with no regret, "The love I have for you and your mother is far greater than any dream.

Rico Lamoureux

#53. I was angry at myself for my inclination to vice. I longed for the day when a state of frenzy would lead my mind to sober pasture, just as it had for Saint Augustine. I longed for the day when the love of one woman would be sacred enough to forget all the rest.

Roman Payne

#54. Once, in Lisbon, I tried my best to work the phone book in a way that would assuage a longing [Alice and I] had for certain Chinese dishes ...

Calvin Trillin

#55. [Pierre] involuntarily started comparing these two men, so different and at the same time so similar, because of the love he had for both of them, and because both had lived and both had died.

Leo Tolstoy

#56. I always found when I was reading an interview with an actor that I wasn't interested in their political opinions - I just wanted to know what they'd had for breakfast.

Elizabeth Hurley

#57. I'd thought I knew what beauty was in women; but she'd surpassed all the language I had for it.

Anne Rice

#58. Our parents taught us to love God, love our family and love our country. Their own grandparents were immigrants. Their first language may not have been English, but the hopes and dreams they had for their children were purely American.

Martin O'Malley

#59. There is not one piece of artwork I have ever done that lived up to the vision I had for it in my head. That's why I keep on trying. Maybe someday I'll do it. I don't want to be in the past. I want to get to the next thing.

Jim Steranko

#60. I was reading Plato's 'The Republic' at age 18, and I can't account fully the electricity that had for me.

Raymond Moody

#61. It occurred to him that the increasing patience of age was as great a myth as the unalloyed joy of youth. The longer he lived, the less tolerance he had for the patently evil.

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

#62. In the past, the respect people had for religion meant that ethical practice was maintained through a majority following one religion or another. But this is no longer the case. We must therefore find some other way of establishing basic ethical principles.

Dalai Lama

#63. Nadia shook her head, marveling at the capacity people had for ignoring what they had in common, and fighting bitterly over whatever small differences existed between them. She

Kim Stanley Robinson

#64. You always get that one customer that decides that your name is boy. Or something. It certainly reinforces a respect I already had for people that are in the hospitality industry.

Ryan Reynolds

#65. The mother in her believed that the love she had for her daughter was safe from the mayhem of her mind, because it lived in her heart.

Lisa Genova

#66. I am so used to having two faces. A face that I had for black America and a face for white America. When Obama became president, I lost both faces. Now I only have one face.

Lee Daniels

#67. I still have the same friends I've had for the last 15 or 20 years.

Amanda Hocking

#68. He belonged to the new breed of male epicureans who viewed cooking as a competitive sport, and pursued it with the same avidity that others had for fly-fishing or golf, with the attendant fetishization of the associated gadgetry and equipment. He

Jay McInerney

#69. What separates the successful from the unsuccessful are the expectations that they had for their own lives. Yet the message of the right is increasingly: It's not your fault that you're a loser; it's the government's fault.

J.D. Vance

#70. If the idea of death during this period had, as we have seen, cast a gloom over love, the memory of love had for a long time now helped me not to be afraid of death. For I understood that dying was not something new but quite the reverse, that since my childhood I had already died a number of times.

Marcel Proust

#71. My view is that marriage is a relationship between a man and a woman. That's the position I've had for some time, and I don't intend to make any adjustments at this point ... Or ever, by the way.

Mitt Romney

#72. I had for breakfast more paprika, and a sort of porridge of maize flour which they said was "mamaliga", and egg-plant stuffed with forcemeat, a very excellent dish, which they call "impletata". (Mem.,get recipe for this also.)

Bram Stoker

#73. I'm going to be sick. I'm going to vomit that weird eggplant tapenade I had for dinner, and everyone will hear, and no one will invite me to watch the mimes escape from their invisible boxes, or whatever it is people do here in their spare time.

Stephanie Perkins

#74. Celebrate every relationship you've ever had. For better or worse, your relationships are your best teachers.

Christiane Northrup

#75. Sadie heard her inside cleaning up the kitchen and wondered what dreams Betty's mother had for herself, if all mothers had them, bottled up beneath their mother exteriors.

Karen Brown

#76. The politician has no more use for pride than Falstaff had for honour.

Bernard Crick

#77. She has the kind of beauty that shames your understanding of the word.
She is the waking dream I've had for so long.

Kirk Diedrich

#78. She had, for too many years, found it easier to bend than to stand.

Nora Roberts

#79. Goal we've always had for design at Apple is to create solutions that are inevitable.

Jonathan Ive

#80. The record was only released in the UK, and then when the idea for the remixed album came about, which was an idea that I've had for the longest time, I said this would be great song to remix as well, and so we did it.

Deborah Cox

#81. My father is definitely not the kind of guy who'd place his children in key roles within his organization if he didn't think we could surpass the expectations he had for us.

Ivanka Trump

#82. If anyone asks me what I had for lunch, I'm totally gonna say, the cream of some young guy.

J.B. Hartnett

#83. Meghann knew however strong the evil inside Simon Baldevar was, it was tempered by the love he had for her and their children.

Trisha Baker

#84. The Blair government perhaps ranks as the best the U.K. has had for 50 years. It cannot match the scale of Attlee's reforms, but has a fine record of constitutional reform and economic competence. In my own areas - science and innovation - there have been well-judged and effective changes.

Martin Rees

#85. what I remember most of all is that I was happy - I no longer feared the school bell at the end of the day, I knew where I'd be living the next month, and no one's romantic decisions affected my life. And out of that happiness came so many of the opportunities I've had for the past twelve years.

J.D. Vance

#86. And the beer I had for breakfast wasn't bad, so I had one more for dessert

Kris Kristofferson

#87. His body, his mind, his soul, had, for years, served only for the profit of others. He had his own people to whom he was pledged. Three million. They were the currency of his freedom.

Colum McCann

#88. Haley Joel Osment said "Party girl" which was a term they had for people who did not speak in a quiet monotone and were not severely detached.

Tao Lin

#89. No one nowadays talks about the absolute, not even people with firm and deep religious convictions. The whole Hegelian project has no resonance for us, as it once had for the Germans in the 1820s and the British and Americans around the 1880s.

Frederick C. Beiser

#90. Psychology, the talking cure, linguistics, and semantics - they're all like dogs poking around and sniffing their own vomit. There might be some gems in there, you never know. For certain you will at the very least know what you had for lunch. And you can ascertain what not to eat again.

David Byrne

#91. I had blind faith in him. My faith in Elijah Muhammad was more blind and more uncompromising than any faith that any man has ever had for another man. And so I didn't try and see him as he actually was.

Malcolm X

#92. I just did a play in New York which has been my best experience that I've had for maybe ever. It was Paul Weitz's play called Privilege and I was in New York for three months.

Bob Saget

#93. But I want to give in to it sometimes, only because I'm tired and the feeling that I've had for a while-that something is haunting me down-becomes all consuming and I'm frightened that one morning there will be not enough to keep me going.

Melina Marchetta

#94. The news had, for Flaubert, armed stupidity and given authority to fools.

Alain De Botton

#95. Oh, there was no doubt about it, I wanted to fuck her. I wanted to fuck her so bad I couldn't sit properly. I wanted to fuck her, make sweet love to her, do very bad things to her. It was crazy fucking beautiful - the need I had for this woman.

K. Langston

#96. I was having such a hard time when I made Sylvia. I gave everything I had for that role. It's one or two or three things I'm most proud of in terms of my work. But it was very dark.

Gwyneth Paltrow

#97. So often I have known, right there in the pulpit, even as I read the words, how far they fell short of any hopes I had for them.

Marilynne Robinson

#98. The 1986 tax act is sort of the unsung hero of the very good economic times we had for a long time. Of course, politics gums it all up again and preferences get put in.

George P. Shultz

#99. And he waited - as he always had - for life to come and find him.

Jess Walter

#100. I therefore suggested that WWF should invite leaders from the major religions to meet together to discuss what - if any - responsibility they felt they had for the natural environment as a "sacred" entity.

Prince Philip