Top 100 Have Had Quotes
#1. I wondered if people might not have had enough of Simon Armitage and wondered whether I hadn't had enough of Simon Armitage.
Simon Armitage
#2. If the crow had been satisfied to eat his prey in silence, he would have had more meat and less quarreling and envy.
Horace
#3. I have had quite a lot of prizes, but I don't think it makes any difference to the ease or difficulty to the writing process.
Ruth Rendell
#4. I have had a long unabashed love affair with dogs that stretches back to early childhood.
Caspar Weinberger
#5. There's no way I would have thought I would have had the career that I did and the longevity. Absolutely no idea.
Curtis Joseph
#6. I am profoundly grateful that all of my life I have had a simple faith that Jesus is the Christ. That witness has been confirmed to me hundreds of times. It is the crowning knowledge of my soul. It is the spiritual light of my being. It is the cornerstone of my life.
James E. Faust
#7. Every life is a story. Every story has mistakes. If you focus too much on the mistakes, you will miss the story. In doing that, you are making a dreadful mistake yourself. Sometimes, it is the mistakes that enrich and give the story so much more meaning than it would have had otherwise.
Beverly S. Harless
#8. I would have loved to have had a gay dad. At school, there were always kids saying 'my dad is bigger than your dad, my dad will batter your dad!' So what? My dad will shag your dad..and your dad will enjoy it.
Frankie Boyle
#9. Our virtues are dearer to us the more we have had to suffer for them. It is the same with our children. All profound affection entertains a sacrifice. Our thoughts are often worse than we are, just as they are often better.
George Eliot
#10. Ever since John Kennedy, Democrats have had a weakness for dashing younger men like Bill Clinton and Barack Obama and, I suppose, Jimmy Carter. They balance their tickets with senior statesmen - Lyndon Johnson, Joe Biden, Walter Mondale. (Al Gore was young but played ancient).
Joe Klein
#11. Books hold most of the secrets of the world, most of the thoughts that men and women have had. And when you are reading a book, you and the author are alone together-just the two of you.
E.B. White
#13. I want you to know,' said Damen, carefully, 'that I haven't done anything to encourage the idea that I-that you and I-'
'If I thought you had, I'd have had you tied to a post and flogged until your front matched your back.
C.S. Pacat
#14. Ghastly and Anton have been murdered. Ravel's betrayed us. Valkyrie is ... gone. The Dead Men have had their last stand and we've fallen, Saracen. The three of us are all that remain. - Skulduggery
Derek Landy
#15. I have had to experience so much stupidity, so many vices, so much error, so much nausea, disillusionment and sorrow, just in order to become a child again and begin anew. I had to experience despair, I had to sink to the greatest mental depths, to thoughts of suicide, in order to experience grace.
Hermann Hesse
#16. The majority of the people in the United States have had only an elementary education and have a speaking vocabulary of about two thousand words. (Even a well-educated person has a speaking vocabulary of approximately nine thousand words.)
Judith C. Waller
#18. All the records I've put out have had either artwork that I did while I was young or something that my Dad painted.
Gotye
#19. Like, I have had moments, which I think most people have, where you'll be watching TV, and it'll be interrupted by some tragic event, and you'll actually find yourself thinking, 'I don't want to hear about this train being derailed! What happened to 'The Flintstones?'
Al Yankovic
#20. Our success has not been a continual series of victories. We have had a number of devastating setbacks; how these are handled is the making of a great team ... winning does not happen in straight lines.
Clive Woodward
#21. Seasoned digital daters are like lions who have had their prey killed, butchered, and served to them on a tray in their artificial habitat for so long that they've forgotten how to hunt.
Maggie Young
#22. If misery spelled revolt, we should have had nothing but revolt from the beginning of time. On the contrary, it is quite rare.
Christina Stead
#23. Since we have had this baby with us, I have never again wondering why I never got pregnant. There is no doubt in my mind that God, in His wonderful way, was saving us to be the parents of this wonderful little boy.
Kathleen Silber
#24. I don't think of myself as a feminist, but if someone calls me a feminist icon, that's fine. I've always stood up for women and myself in general. I have a great love and respect, because I have had beautiful sisters, aunts and my grandmas, but I love men. I totally understand the nature of men.
Dolly Parton
#25. I have had a lot of good things happen, but I've also had a lot of terrible things happen.
Ralph Lauren
#26. While 'Teachers' may have had its following, it was on late-night Channel Four, whereas 'EastEnders' was seen by millions and millions of people. I certainly don't have the cache to sell a programme like that, and certainly nobody's coming up and asking me to.
Raquel Cassidy
#27. Now that I am much older, I have had a number of sax players tell me I was responsible for them playing sax. Some of them I have admired over the years.
Clarence Clemons
#29. While I've written in the POV (point of view) of adolescent characters before ... I never have had to create novels in which those characters not only drive the plot, but also are instrumental in resolving whatever issue the plot deals with.
Elizabeth George
#30. Billions of people have had sex. I don't know how many have actually made love.
Sheila Wray Gregoire
#31. You have had me spinning for days, for I am drunk off the words that flow endlessly from your deep red lips that taste of wine.
Karen Quan
#32. I have had to contend against the unkindness of his sister, and the insolence of his mother; and have suffered the punishment of an attachment, without enjoying its advantages.
Jane Austen
#33. It is a good thing to go to Paris for a few days if you have had a lot of trouble, and that is my advice to everyone except Parisians.
Muriel Spark
#34. So many other countries have had female leaders, in fact the U.S. ranks 61st in female representation in government and I think it is startling and sign of a change that needs to be made.
Geena Davis
#35. We were just meant to be and fate in all her conniving, wicked glory, wouldn't have had this union any other way.
Sarah Michelle Lynch
#36. Since I wrote to you last we have got our chapel beautifully lighted with gas and have had our anniversary.
John Hawley
#37. There is often a good deal of the child left in people who have had to grow up too soon.
Willa Cather
#38. We have had some great shows this summer, the Jammin Against the Darkness event was pretty incredible and it was good to see everyone at the festivals. Today we head to South Dakota for the start of the tour with Falling Up, The Wedding and Mainstay.
John Reuben Zappin
#40. And as to experience-well, think how little some good poets have had, or how much some bad ones have.
Elizabeth Bishop
#41. So I think we're kind of an alternate choice for people who have had it with sex and violence.
Dick Van Dyke
#42. Inside the museum infinity goes up on trial. Voices echo, 'This is what salvation must be like after a while.' But Mona Lisa must have had the highway blues; you can tell by the way she smiles.
Bob Dylan
#43. The old man may have had all his own teeth, but only because no one else could possibly have wanted them; just one of them, placed under the pillow, would have made the Tooth Fairy hand in its wand.
Anonymous
#44. In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.
Stendhal
#45. Without accepting some risk we would never have had vaccines, X-rays, airplanes, or antibiotics. Caution is simply a different kind of risk, one that is even more likely to kill people
Michael Specter
#46. You can have a poem like "B-Movie" and sum up thirty conversations that people have had on the subject, but I wrote it down, and other people didn't.
Gil Scott-Heron
#47. My life has been happy because I have had wonderful friends and plenty of interesting work to do,
Helen Keller
#48. Women who have managed to get successful normally have had to carve out pretty much their own route for doing it, because there are few roadmaps for how, as a woman, you become successful. You think about having to do it yourself, you carve your own way. Does that relate to being Jewish?
Noreena Hertz
#49. Despite the painful changes we have had to make, we continue to believe in the St. Louis market. And we are hoping to add flights, in a careful way, as the economics of our business improve and the demands of the traveling public in St. Louis become clear.
Gerard Arpey
#50. I am deeply saddened by the tragic loss of my dear friend Ronni Chasen. I have had the honor of working with her for over 15 years. She was one of a kind. I loved her. I miss her.
Diane Warren
#51. Things are so convenient for us these days, our perceptions are probably that much duller. Even if its the same moon hanging in the sky, we may be looking at something quite different. Four hundred years ago, we might have had richer spirits that were closer to nature.
Haruki Murakami
#52. Friendship is the most important thing in my life. It's rare to have friends like I've got. If I had as great a taste in husbands as I have in friends, what an even better life I would have had!
Andrea Michaels
#53. I joyfully hasten to meet death. If it come before I have had opportunity to develop all my artistic faculties, it will come, my hard fate notwithstanding, too soon, and I should probably wish it later - yet even then I shall be happy, for will it not deliver me from a state of endless suffering?
Ludwig Van Beethoven
#54. I have had prayers answered - most strangely so sometimes - but I think our Heavenly Father's loving-kindness has been even more evident in what He has refused me.
Lewis Carroll
#55. Mickey had turned into Daisy, and Goofy had turned into Einstein - we were talking about a transmutation that would even have had Paracelsus foaming at the mouth.
Novala Takemoto
#56. The main benefit of the book for the more experienced practitioners is as an evangelical tool. The book will give you some ways of expressing the value and importance of your work that you may not have had before.
Jesse James Garrett
#57. I would have had the same narrative, regardless of the atmosphere and the restrictions.
Asghar Farhadi
#58. Cultivating literature as I do upon a little oatmeal, and driving, when in a position to be driven at all, in that humble vehicle, the 'bus, I have had, perhaps, exceptional opportunities for observing their mutual position and behaviour; and it is very peculiar.
James Payn
#59. I cannot but feel I have had a call from God to devote myself to help save souls in their last hour ...
I have been drawn so strongly to pray for the dying and I believe it to be a work appointed for me, perpetual prayer for the dying.
Mary Potter
#60. I have had this view of the optimization of the electrode design for a long time. Historically we went through various phases in the work and eventually worked on large sheets - very large sheets - of palladium.
Martin Fleischmann
#61. When I was writing 'The Satanic Verses,' if you had asked me about the phenomenon that we all now know as radical Islam, I wouldn't have had much to say. As recently as the mid-1980s, it didn't seem to be a big deal.
Salman Rushdie
#62. The girl who built her life so carefully so she'd never have to ask anybody for anything. I have had it with me. Whoever I was!
Adriana Trigiani
#63. I think that compared to other politicians who have been put in jail in the past, compared to the human-rights activists in history who have had to face political prosecution, the activists in Hong Kong nowadays are already quite lucky compared to that.
Joshua Wong
#64. I have had quite a few injuries during my time and if you are not injured in this sport [bodybuilding], you are not doing anything.
Ronnie Coleman
#65. What would become of history, had we not a dependence on the veracity of the historian, according to the experience, what we have had of mankind?
David Hume
#66. I have a great relationship with Special Olympics back in Baltimore and have had one for many years.
Joe Flacco
#67. I hope you have had spiritual experiences that have taught you that the only source of comfort when you are afflicted is the Word of God. Only it assures you of your salvation.
C.F.W. Walther
#68. I don't like being a celebrity, really ... Some people get greater praise than they deserve because they have had exposure in the media. I don't think I agree with that at all.
Robert Winston
#69. Is it better to have had a good thing and lost it, or never to have had it?
Jennifer E. Smith
#70. The skill of making, and maintaining Common-wealths, consisteth in certain Rules, as doth Arithmetique and Geometry; not (as Tennis-play) on Practise onely: which Rules, neither poor men have the leisure, nor men that have had the leisure, have hitherto had the curiosity, or the method to find out.
Thomas Hobbes
#71. Listening to him, I realized how lucky I was not to have had a wonderful childhood. Those who do, or those who peak in their early years, have only that remembered joy or strength to tide them over the rest of their lives. Nothing could ever be as good as that time; for them nothing ever is.
Jonathan Carroll
#72. All people have had ill luck, but Jairus's daughter and Lazarus had the worst.
Mark Twain
#73. If we claim only reasonable probability, it will be as much as men who love the truth can ever at any given moment hope to have within their grasp. Pretty surely it will be more than we could have had, if we were unconscious of our liability to err.
William James
#74. Recognize your failures when they happen but don't dwell on them. Instead, focus on the successes you have had in your life. If you've done it once, you can do it again. Build on that. Letting thoughts of past failures creep into your mindset are nothing but dream killing distractions.
Jason Versey
#75. You have had your last bad meal. But, you have also heard your last honest compliment, and you have lost your last true friend.
Abraham Flexner
#76. I have had the feeling that a properly constructed flying-machine should be capable of being flown as a kite; and conversely, that a properly constructed kite should be capable of use as a flying-machine when driven by its own propellers.
Alexander Graham Bell
#77. Insider trading is hard to prove. To be convicted, a person must have bought or sold a stock based on material information that is both unknown to the general public and likely to have had an important effect on a company's stock price.
Alex Berenson
#78. I have had a pretty hardcore crash course on living out of a suitcase. Some people take consistency in their lives for granted. When you have little to none, you discover it's kind of a nice thing.
Chet Faker
#79. When you have had the kind of fame I had, I was always hounded by the media and I lived a very isolated life. Now it's even more difficult. The world has changed dramatically.
David Cassidy
#80. He was nothing to me and I could have had no foresight then, that he ever would be anything to me, but it happened that I had this opportunity of observing him well.
Charles Dickens
#81. To direct actors is difficult. To direct actors in another language is more difficult, but directing non-actors in another language is one of the craziest things that I have done and one of the most rewarding experiences I have had.
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
#82. I think I learned a lot about collaboration and about joint creativity with other people. It is honestly so much fun and I don't think that I would have had the same album if I had just written it by myself.
Bridgit Mendler
#83. I wrote an ITV drama in the 1960s, a satire on management theory that starred Leonard Rossiter. I'm also a poet and have had work in the 'Spectator.'
Maurice Flanagan
#84. Me, I don't want any children, I don't want responsibility. I am gay, I smoke weed and I do exactly what I want in my life because of my talent. I represent an ideal which others have had to let go and they blame me for that. Especially men.
George Michael
#85. These valuable thing produced in us a feeling of intimidation. We knew that no matter how far we got in life, we would never really be meant for such fineness, that the few expensive antiques we did have had fallen to us from a higher life and now condescended to live among us.
Nicole Krauss
#86. I don't think I'm a funny person in general. I have had to learn comedy.
Ashton Kutcher
#87. The best results I have had in my life; the most enjoyable times, have all come from asking the simple question: 'What is the worst that could happen?'
Tim Ferriss
#88. As a foreign worker in Haiti, speaking for myself, speaking for the workers, our organization is about 95 percent Haitian, but even foreign workers driving through, we have had very minimal security issues.
Sean Penn
#89. 'Bond' was like Christmas: can't wait for it to come around. Being in the films brought me to a global audience, and I have had the opportunity to meet incredible people.
Colin Salmon
#90. I know you're just a rag doll now, sewn together with memories that we might have had. I know you're just the dream inside of a dream And don't worry, I know I don't know you, anymore.
Pleasefindthis
#91. It's hard to say. Sometimes people have had terrible childhoods. And sometimes they just haven't found their special place in life. And sometimes they're dogs from hell and must be destroyed.
Charles Addams
#92. Since 1946, the Cubs have had two problems: They put too few runs on the scoreboard and the other guys put too many. So what is the new management improving? The scoreboard.
George Will
#93. In order to get up you have had to fell down
Jai
#94. I would really like to have had the guts and the energy and so on to be able to write about, you know, people having battles with the DHSS. But I ... I haven't. They're dull things. I mean, I'm an arty person. OK, I write overblown, purple, self-indulgent prose. So fucking what?
Angela Carter
#95. I have had someone wonderful things happen to me during my career and lifetime. Of course, personally, the birth of my daughter is the highlight of my life.
Olivia Newton-John
#96. Before you criticize others, remember, they may not have had the same opportunities in life as you have had
F Scott Fitzgerald
#97. Whatever happens I have had these blissful, perfect moments and they are worth living for.
Katherine Mansfield
#98. It is impossible that had Buonaparte descended from a race of vegetable feeders that he could have had either the inclination or the power to ascend the throne of the Bourbons.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
#99. I might even pursue a career in politics. If I do, I will have had great practice dealing with the avalanche of daily criticism from working at Fox News and being a former Miss America. I'm ready for anything!
Gretchen Carlson
#100. There are people that have had worse happen to them. All those people that died in the hotel bombing? All those that were maimed and left orphaned?
Sonal Panse
