Have You Quotes

#1. Age doesn't arrive slowly, it comes in a rush. One day nothing has changed, a week later, everything has. A week may be too long a time, it can happen overnight. You are the same and still the same and suddenly one morning two distinct lines, ineradicable, have appeared at the corners of your mouth.

James Salter

#2. SuperMemo is based on the insight that there is an ideal moment to practice what you've learned. Practice too soon and you waste your time. Practice too late and you've forgotten the material and have to relearn it. The right time to practice is just at the moment you're about to forget.

Gary Wolf

#3. Attention Morte. I have a question. Do you have a destiny? A
purpose?"
"Is Annah still wearing clothes?"
"Affirmatory."
"Then the answer is yes.

Chris Avellone

#4. There is only one expert who is qualified to examine the souls and the life of a people and make a valuable report - the native novelist ... And when a thousand able novels have been written, there you have the soul of the people; and not anywhere else can these be had.

Mark Twain

#5. When we have no families, we must find support elsewhere. Sometimes in strangers. We're all alone on this earth. We must take any hand that's offered us. I offer you mine...I'll be your friend, if you wish. The faithful kind.

- Elva

Paul Fleischman

#6. But killing a man ought to mean something, even if you have to do it.

Joe R. Lansdale

#7. The universe will never force a mindset on you. You have complete free agency to choose fear and suffer unnecessarily if you want to.

Kimberly Giles

#8. You have to be intense. This only comes from the CEO, this only comes from the founders.

Sam Altman

#9. And be careful of this, that each day at your meals you have two overseers over your household when you sit at meals, and of this be sure, that you shall be very much feared and reverenced.

Robert Grosseteste

#10. You must show no mercy ... nor have any belief whatsoever in how others judge you ... for your greatness will silence them all.

The Ultimate Warrior

#11. But maybe...maybe you have to know where you come from, and what you are, before you run away to become something new.

Tanya Lloyd Kyi

#12. We must bring light to as many people as possible. Who has time to indulge in self-pity or guilt? In advanced self-giving you have no time for this. You just push these emotions out.

Frederick Lenz

#13. I always find the first thing that really bothers me when I start a screenplay is, I have to find a different form. You can't follow the form of the novel. It's a different thing completely. It's impossible. You just somehow have to find a structure for the whole thing. You have to crack that.

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

#14. I'm beginning to think a dictionary would have been a far more advantageous birthday gift for you."
"More advantageous than being eaten alive by a giant, carnivorous bunny? Yes, most things fall in that category, I think.

William Ritter

#15. What if instead of focusing on what you don't have, you concentrate on what you've got?

Jodi Picoult

#16. I'm sorry," he says, "for that time I kissed you at that party and for that time at the wedding and more than anything for the thousand times that I wanted to and didn't have the guts to.

Melina Marchetta

#17. Once you have love as a motivator in a story, your character is free to do anything. Once you say the character is in love, he can do the craziest thing that nobody would do who's not in love. Once you're in love, you have that excuse to go and do whatever you want.

Josh Hutcherson

#18. You don't have to show people how successful you are.

Martin Yan

#19. Anyway, you don't have to be terribly intelligent to complete a PhD," Karim grumps. "You just need to be stupidly persistent. If anything, being too smart gets in the way -

Charles Stross

#20. The worker must have bread, but she must have roses, too. Help, you women of privilege, give her the ballot to fight with.

Rose Schneiderman

#21. Fame is what you have taken, character is what you give; when to this truth you waken then you begin to live.

Bayard Taylor

#22. Once you start altering your body's blueprint, things start falling apart. Some players take steroids, and two years later, after they've broken records, suddenly they have back problems, shoulder problems, arm problems. They're out of the game for good.

Charlie Sheen

#23. I don't miss the bureaucracy of being in the Army. But I still love the relationships you can build. And it doesn't have to be in military service - it can be anything you're doing with someone that matters. You develop a bond.

Stanley A. McChrystal

#24. If you're a painter, paint. But you don't have to put Jesus in every picture. Paint well, and if you paint well enough, they might ask you why you do that.

Isaac Slade

#25. So it wasn't actually that bad, it took a couple of weeks to sort of get used to uh, you know, standing around and pretending to have ice shoot out of your hand, but once you got used to that it uh, it was actually not that hard.

Shawn Ashmore

#26. I have spent my spare time studying literature popular with young women of this planet. One should always study the battlefield."
Sean glanced at him. "And?"
"I suggest you give up now. According to my research, in a vampire-werewolf love triangle, the vampire always gets the girl.

Ilona Andrews

#27. When you look back from your Olympic experience, you never want to question whether you could have done more. The one thing you can control is your off-ice preparation.

Angela Ruggiero

#28. we do not need sight to see what you have become.

Adam Johnson

#29. No. Sorry. You have spent months being the biggest jerk to me. You don't get to decide to like me one day and think I will forget that. I want someone to care for me like my dad cared for my mom. And you aren't him.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#30. Let me out," Harry said again.
"No," Dumbledore repeated.
"If you don't - if you keep me in here - if you don't let me-"
"By all means continue destroying my possessions," said Dumbledore. "I daresay I have too many.

J.K. Rowling

#31. You hear mothers say all the time that they would die for their children, but my mom never said shit like that. She didn't have to. When it came to my brother, it was written across her face in 112-point Tupac Gothic.

Junot Diaz

#32. The institutions of psychiatry, law enforcement, and goverment have proved that no matter what our resources, you cannot reliable control the conduct of CRAZY PEOPLE. It is not fair, but it is so

Gavin De Becker

#33. The belief of an infinity of creative and created Gods, each more eminently requiring an intelligent author of his being than the foregoing, is a direct consequence of the premises, which you have stated.

Christopher Hitchens

#34. House Speaker John Boehner says President Obama should have clearly outlined his exact plans before bombing Libya. Apparently it's only Iraq where you don't have to do that.

Jay Leno

#35. Do you have a name?" asked Gerta. "I do," said the raven. Gerta waited. The raven fluffed its beard. "I am the Sound of Mouse Bones Crunching Under the Hooves of God."

T. Kingfisher

#36. When you're acting, everything is there around you, you just have to believe that it's real. When you're standing there with a slightly grey wig on and you have a baby in your arms screaming in your ear, you can go: "Well, I guess this is what it's like!"

Jim Sturgess

#37. The only relationship where you'll never have your heart broken is the relationship between you and Allah.

Little_adam

#38. Sometimes, you have to make the choice to forgive 10 times a day when you have these pockets of anger come up. That's a lot of work, but to me it's worthwhile.

Amanda Lindhout

#39. If George W. Bush is the kind of person folks might like to have a beer with, John McCain is the guy you pray you don't get seated next to at a dinner party.

Ellen Malcolm

#40. The trouble with many plans is that they are based on the way things are now. To be successful, your personal plan must focus on what you want, not what you have.

Nido R. Qubein

#41. I have a problem with that silver medal. It's like, 'Congratulation s, you almost won. Of all the losers, you're the number one loser. No one lost ahead of you.'

Jerry Seinfeld

#42. Firefly: Now that you're Secretary of War, what kind of an army do you think we oughta have? Chicolini: Well, I tell you what I think. I think we should have a standing army. Firefly: Why should we have a standing army? Chicolini: Because then we save money on chairs.

Groucho Marx

#43. If you know how to read, you have a complete education about life, then you know how to vote within a democracy. But if you don't know how to read, you don't know how to decide. That's the great thing about our country - we're a democracy of readers, and we should keep it that way.

Ray Bradbury

#44. To have a girl two thousand miles away going to pieces over you, weeping at the mere memory of you, losing her appetite, losing herself and her self respect - well, that's a trophy enough for a guy's ego, huh?

Jerry Spinelli

#45. For years of our lives the days pass waywardly, featureless, without meaning, without particular happiness or unhappiness. Then, like turning over a tapestry when you have only known the back of it, there is spread the pattern.

Jane Gardam

#46. You have to nourish your creativity for it to flourish ...

Kat Von D.

#47. A lot of people would have loved me to keep singing ... You come to a point where you have sung, more or less ... your whole repertoire and you want to get down to the job of living.

Cat Stevens

#48. When I was younger, I felt very much like, 'Oh, I have to be a certain way, I have to look a certain way.' You really, really don't. That's the way women are treated differently than men. I mean, I've had actors argue with me about this.

Anne Hathaway

#49. And when they start talking, and they always do, you find that each of them has a story they want to tell. Everyone, no matter how old or young, has some lesson they want to teach. And I sit there and listen and learn all about life from people who have no idea how to live it.

Paul Neilan

#50. Can you get it? (Jaden) If I swear myself to eternal slavery to Artemis. Yes. (Acheron) I'd rather trade places with Prometheus and have my innards ripped out every day. (Jaden) So would I. (Acheron)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#51. I think when you have spent the money that we have, it's bound to bring it's own pressure. The players have shown that they can handle that though.
(on Chelsea)

Frank Lampard

#52. You cannot receive a shock unless you have an electric affinity for that which shocks you.

Henry David Thoreau

#53. A hungry man can be a fast learner. When you come to a table with nothing but need, you are grateful for things you might have pushed aside before. And when you kneel, hungry & broken at His table, you receive a grace from Him you might, at some other time, have completely missed.

Mike Yankoski

#54. Have you ever tried?'
'No.'
'Then don't tell me I can't.

Melissa Marr

#55. OUT OF AN INFINITE LOVE, you, O Lord, have made me an heir of your kingdom and joint heir with Christ. O Good Jesus, to whom else shall I go? You have the words of eternal life. I hope, and I believe in you. Lord keep me from despair. Amen. O

Derek A. Olsen

#56. Just because you have to walk sometimes doesn't mean life isn't taking you places.

Melodie Ramone

#57. There is no such thing as a natural puncher. There is a natural aptitude for punching and that is different. Nobody is born the best. You have to practice and train to become the best.

Cus D'Amato

#58. I feel like any experience you can have which adds to your repertoire of things you've done and can add to your character - I'm willing to try.

Christa B. Allen

#59. Modern families are complicated things. Siblings, half siblings, stepparents, stepcousins, what have you. You can't pick who you're born to, that's for sure.

Cherie Priest

#60. Not one word," Kel warned. "Tobe and I have reached an understanding."
Neal's lips twitched. "Why do I feel you did most of the understanding.

Tamora Pierce

#61. You're the one who can do no wrong." "I do plenty wrong." "You don't have to tell me.

Joy Fielding

#62. But it's better to have bad options than no options. And people won't save you either, ya know.

J.A. Huss

#63. You can give your message to anybody, to everybody, from anywhere, from everywhere, in every way possible. The only thing you have to consider is this: Let your message be simple and understandable!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#64. Even so you have managed to live that love in the only way possible for you. Losing it before it happened.

Marguerite Duras

#65. Non-violent resistance activities cannot succeed against an enemy that is able freely to use violence. That's pretty obvious. You can't have non-violent resistance against the Nazis in a concentration camp, to take an extreme case ...

Noam Chomsky

#66. You have to be careful not to use anything too colloquial or you date the book.

Chris Crutcher

#67. To stop drinking, all you have to do is sit. In 100 percent of the documented cases of alcoholism worldwide, the people who recovered all shared one thing in common, no matter how they did it: They didn't do it.

Augusten Burroughs

#68. In order to be a success in life you have to be willing to take a chance. Its like putting a blindfold on and jumping off a cliff and hoping you'll land on something soft.

Ricky Star

#69. What do you have in this car?" he asked.
"What do you mean, like weapons?"
"That would be a good start."
"Well, I 've got a mini Swiss Army Knife on my key chain."
"A two-inch stainless steel blade and a nail file. They might as well surrender to us now ...

Richard Castle

#70. If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience.

Robert Fulghum

#71. My songs, they have just the one chord, there's none of that fancy stuff you hear now, with lots of chords in one song. If I find another chord I leave it for another song.

Junior Kimbrough

#72. But they feel pain! They have feelings! And yet you call yourself a Celestial Spirit Mage?

Hiro Mashima

#73. I think one of the big issues with, you know, people who have strong faith in addition to competing is that conflict between accepting things the way they are, and wanting to compete and get better, and at what point are you in the right balance.

Tom Lehman

#74. Unless you have been to boarding-school when you are very young, it is absolutely impossible to appreciate the delights of living at home.

Roald Dahl

#75. There's an assumption if you have any faith you vote this way, you vote that way, or you're this, or you're absolutely a conservative, and those just aren't all true.

Corbin Bernsen

#76. You have to stay faithful to what you're working on.

Stephen King

#77. Everyone has a right to bear arms. If you take guns away from legal gun owners, then the only people who have guns are the bad guys.

Bruce Willis

#78. You have got to be good in that town if you want to beat the crowd.' So says young John on his first sight of New York City. THE CROWD (1928)

Steven Jay Schneider

#79. You have summoned me in my weakness. You must sustain me in your strength.

Franklin Pierce

#80. Keep moving. Have a goal, One day you will arrive at a place that is better than the place where you were, even if it is only in your head.

Linda Bloodworth Thomason

#81. Well I have you know, several CD's out; one of my best friends is Sully Erna from Godsmack - he is Godsmack, and we're going to be working on an album together.

Criss Angel

#82. Then you go ahead and cry, " Will said.

That ended my weeping. Had he asked me not to cry, I would not have been able to stop, but his permission somehow quit my tears.

Kathleen Grissom

#83. If you've led a rather bohemian and rackety life, as I have, it's precisely the cancer that you'd expect to get. That's a bit of a yawn.

Christopher Hitchens

#84. You may have learned from your mother or any other hunted woman. Smiling at devils is a useful learned thing. Swallowing discomfort down in spades. Holding it tight in your belly. Ageing on the inside only. Keeping it forever sexy.

Yrsa Daley-Ward

#85. You have to like the present; if not your life becomes secondhand, if you think it was better before. Or that it will be better in the future.

Karl Lagerfeld

#86. You have a grand gift for silence, Watson. It makes you quite invaluable as a companion.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#87. I thought I would have a heart attack just looking at you.

Brenda Hodnett

#88. I have a responsibility to not look crazy in public. I don't want to be the person where later in life when I have kids, to say, 'Don't do this' and my kids go, 'But Mom, you did it.'

Raven-Symone

#89. You have to have a revelation of God's will and pursue it in order to fulfill it in your life.

Paul Silway

#90. Each of you, get rid of the vile images you have set your eyes on, and do not defile yourselves

Anonymous

#91. The song 'If I Had a Hammer' is geared toward people who don't have a hammer. Maybe before I had a hammer I thought I'd hammer in the morning and hammer in the evening. But once you get a hammer, you find you don't really hammer as much as you thought you would.

Ellen DeGeneres

#92. I have a second bedroom I don't use. I'm going to start the Second Bedroom Film Festival. You're all invited.

Vincent Schiavelli

#93. Tell the truth. That way you don't have to remember a story.

John Wooden

#94. You know what they say, 'You have to work at wisdom; you have to take pains to be reasonable, but to be foolish, just let yourself go.

Louise Colet

#95. Shine with all you have. When someone tries to blow you out, just take their oxygen and burn brighter.

Katelyn S. Bolds

#96. If you give money to poor guy he knows how to spend them, so if you have money which are redundant give them too a poor person. He will probably buy something for eat or he will get out of his misery.

Deyth Banger

#97. Dale: "No, no
curse it, Beka, you're the prickliest woman I've ever met!"
Goodwin: "No, I am. But she comes very close, I have to say."
- Dale Rowan and Clara Goodwin when Beka didn't want to accept money for being Dale's "luck

Tamora Pierce

#98. I have always liked drawing, when you draw you see things more intensely.

Henry Moore

#99. Can I ask what you're reading?" ... She turned the book so the cover faced me. Wuthering Heights. "Have you read it?" She said. I nodded. I could feel the pulsating beat of my heart behind my eyes. "It's a sad story." "Sad stories make good books," She said. "They do.

Khaled Hosseini

#100. To become distinguished in your industry, you have to constantly manage, master and maximise your time.

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