Top 100 Having Quotes
#1. The sentence, having fumbled to a petering end, she too left.
Iain McKinnon
#2. Then again, having people around was no guarantee that they'd make good company.
Jessica Lawson
#3. Having been once incarcerated and treated in ways he had not enjoyed, he had since tended to come down on the side of flies and to reject the claims of spiders.
Matthew Hughes
#4. Bean decided to pay attention to what Ms. Aruba-Tate was saying. "Today, class, we are having a special science lesson." Science! Bean stopped thinking about Colorado. Science was usually dirt or fish, and Bean liked both of them.
Annie Barrows
#5. Not being a big one for having friends, I had no idea what I was going to do with Aubrey, you know, to entertain him.
Susan Juby
#6. You know not having my real dad around and having a step dad made me want to be a great dad. So now I have been one for 9 years. And now 3 daughters. So, that is what I am - a dad, first and foremost, before anything else. It's just something that comes natural now.
Tim McGraw
#7. Magnus noticed Maryse and Robert, who did not have the best relationship and hardly ever spoke to each other, having a brief whispered consultation about what YouTube might be.
Cassandra Clare
#8. It is impossible to think of a man of any actual force and originality, universally recognized as having those qualities, who spent his whole life appraising and describing the work of other men.
H.L. Mencken
#9. Having a highly trained obstetrical surgeon attend a normal birth is analogous to having a pediatric surgeon babysit a healthy 2-year-old.
Marsden Wagner
#10. I like having a private name and a public name. It helps keep things straight.
S.E. Hinton
#11. Students weren't allowed to use their avatar names while they were at school. This was to prevent teachers from having to say ridiculous things like "Pimp_Grease, please pay attention!" or "BigWang69, would you stand up and give us your book report?
Ernest Cline
#12. Having children is not something you do if you have time, having children is what God gave you time for.
Neil L. Anderson
#13. If a user is having a problem, it's our problem.
Steve Jobs
#14. Most people quit. If you don't quit, if you rewrite, if you keep publishing in fancier places, you will understand that "What's the secret?" is not the question, which is, "Are you having fun?"
Robert Lipsyte
#15. Love is like encountering a forest and having to chop down every tree but one. Oh, and you have to chop down each tree by hugging it until it falls.
Dark Jar Tin Zoo
#16. Some know the value of education by having it. I know it's value by not having it.
Frederick Douglass
#17. Because if every moment of a life is present in every other, so is every old self you've ever tried to outrun. And then how to know - the present self having always felt flimsy, somehow, compared to the one so acutely alive under the kitchen table - which you, specifically, is the real one?
Garth Risk Hallberg
#18. I like the idea of having a little bit of a mystery about me.
Liana Liberato
#19. How posterity will laugh at us, one way or other! If half a dozen break their necks, and balloonism is exploded, we shall be called fools for having imagined it could be brought to use: if it should be turned to account, we shall be ridiculed for having doubted.
Horace Walpole
#20. Kleos is sometimes translated as "acoustic renown" the spreading renown you get from people talking about your exploits. It's a bit like having a large Twitter following.
Rebecca Goldstein
#21. Sometimes English football takes pride in having the lowest yellow-card count in Europe, but of course it will have if you can take someone's leg off and still not be booked.
Luis Suarez
#22. I ask the rights to pursue happiness by having a voice in that government to which I am accountable.
Victoria Woodhull
#23. having the wisdom to tell what you can't change from what you can?
Rysa Walker
#24. Abandoning the project was incredibly stressful after having gone through the process of building the room, installing the kiln, collecting the stones, sitting with the kiln day and night as it came to temperature, experiencing the failures.
Andy Goldsworthy
#25. At this Linda gave up. Children might or might not enjoy air-raids actually in progress, but a child who was not thrilled by the idea of them was incomprehensible to her, and she could not imagine having conceived such a being. Useless to waste any more time and breath on this unnatural little girl.
Nancy Mitford
#26. The safety of the republic being the supreme law, and Texas having offered us the key to the safety of our country from all foreign intrigues and diplomacy, I say accept the key ... and bolt the door at once.
Andrew Jackson
#27. Still I pictured having you for fifty, sixty more years. I thought I might be ready then to let you go. But it's you, and I realize now that I won't be anymore ready to lose you then than I am right now. Which is not at all.
Cassandra Clare
#28. My policy on cake is pro having it and pro eating it.
Boris Johnson
#29. I struggle as a writer, and I'm convinced that if I was at school now, I'd be termed as having ADS. Two minutes and I'm drifting.
Johnny Vegas
#30. Having been in a relationship since I was 18, I'm very domestic, but I don't enjoy cooking for myself. I don't mind cooking for other people. But I don't like cleaning or washing dishes, although I don't mind doing laundry.
Megan Fox
#31. Fortunately, among werewolf women, the word "bitch" is not offensive. I was having a lot of fun with that.
"Hey there, bitches!" I called as I came through the door. "What are my favorite bitches up to today?
Molly Harper
#32. True respect comes when we fend for ourselves without the aid of anyone, and when we owned something and say, 'this is my own'! Not necessarily as a way of boasting of our abundance and grace, but having a feeling that we can use it without obstruction, or being asked to return the favor.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#33. If you want to stop two people from having sex, let them get married.
Greg Fitzsimmons
#34. I can't wait to be that age and hanging out with a bunch of people hanging out all day playing golf and going to the beach, all my own age. We'd be laughing and having a good time and getting loopy on our prescription drugs. Driving golf carts around. I can't wait.
Cameron Diaz
#35. I knew I was blessed with a gift of having both parents.
Kendrick Lamar
#36. Having received the Spirit of Christ to know good from evil, we should always choose the good.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
#37. Is a chameleon a coward because it can change its color? No. It's evolved and awesome. I like to think of myself in a similar fashion. There is nothing wrong with having a strong sense of self-preservation.
Penny Reid
#38. Performing in front of a live audience can be pretty intimidating, so having a full head of hair was important to me.
Joey Fatone
#39. Marie," he whispered against my hair.
"Yes?" I closed my eyes, bracing.
"You're holding me too tight."
"Oh, sorry." I loosened my arms, having to use a mental crowbar in the process.
Penny Reid
#40. In fact, after having abolished the monarchy, the best of all governments, [the French Revolution] had transferred all the public power to the people - the people ... ever easy to deceive and to lead into every excess
Pope Pius VI
#41. One always overcompensates for disabilities. I'm thinking of having my entire body surgically removed.
Douglas Adams
#42. When I turned pro, I made a vow to myself never to bow to PR bullshit, to never be untrue to myself, and I'm proud to say that I've never really deviated from that principle - often with some fairly incendiary results. Having
Cavendish Mark
#43. The Power Poker lottery would be won by a person having no ties to any Chicago street gangs or terrorists - Joe Normal.
Ridley Pearson
#44. Okay, is it me, or is anyone else having a problem with deciding whether to have a heart attack or an orgasm?" Meems asked.
"Orgasm," Jessie said instantly.
"Yep, same here," Dee put in.
Kristen Ashley
#45. Sex is probably the most fun you can have in life without gaining weight or having a hangover the next day.
Linda Sunshine
#46. No amount of power is worth having when it means hurting the people you love
Katie Kacvinsky
#47. I had to admit the man looked amazing in jeans. The ancient denim clung lightly to his hips and followed the long lines of some remarkable thigh muscles. And although I made a point of not checking out his rear view, my peripheral vision was having a very good day." ~ Haven Travis on Hardy Cates
Lisa Kleypas
#48. Well, the one thing I've thought about is having dad give me away. You know when he takes your hand and he puts it in the hand of the person you marry? That's the only part I've ever wanted.
Kiera Cass
#49. I'm not against speaking publicly and having passion for something. One of the cardinal beauties of America is that we have the freedom to do so.
Raul Ruiz
#50. I think having a child can really change you if you're open to it.
Tori Amos
#51. Be this our wall of brass, to be conscious of having done no evil, and to grow pale at no accusation.
Horace
#52. Our government is ready to guarantee their investments for them, and then we will create tax incentives. We are interested in having all these things and with the privatization we also want to create more jobs and better conditions for the workers.
Ibrahim Rugova
#53. I must confess that I know nothing whatsoever about true underlying reality, never having met any.
Edward Abbey
#54. One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#55. I love Australia. First of all, everyone is so nice. The people are down to Earth, and they like having fun with you.
Gabriel Iglesias
#56. Those who insist on having hostilities with us, kill and destroy the option of friendship with us in the future, which is unfortunate because it is clear the future belongs to Iran and that enmities will be fruitless.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
#57. Having kids certainly gets me to ask the question, 'Who is the adult here, and who is the kid?'
Christian Slater
#58. I've had some painful experiences in my life, but I feel like I'm trivializing them by using them for a scene in a movie. I don't want to do that. It just makes me feel kind of dirty for having done that.
Christian Bale
#59. All these troubles you've been having aren't a punishment from God. He wants to use them to draw you closer to himself.
Lynn Austin
#60. Repentance always brings a person to the point of saying, "I have sinned." The surest sign that God is at work in his life is when he says that and means it. Anything less is simply sorrow for having made foolish mistakes-a reflex action caused by self-disgust.
Oswald Chambers
#61. I love seeing people react to my music. Its like a drug, one of the strongest drugs ever in my opinion. Not that I'm doing drugs.. I just love that feeling. Putting out a feeling and having it really be the one is more addicting than anything in my life now.
Drake
#62. It's not dying you need to be afraid of, it's never having lived in the first place.
Seth Rogen
#63. God, the devil, good, evil, it's all in our heads, not in Heaven or Hell, which we also invented. We do not realize that, having invented God, we immediately became His slaves.
Jose Saramago
#64. Nixon's deep antipathy toward Jews is well known, and he took a strange satisfaction in having Kissinger in his inner circle, where he could periodically taunt him.
Robert Dallek
#65. I often find human behavior amusing. Like having a full refrigerator of food to eat yet buying fast food instead. If you learn to conquer the two big "N" words. Niceties vs Necessities. You might actually have some funds for the hard times that come.
Stanley Victor Paskavich
#66. Republicans don't want anyone having more fun than they do, and the Democrats don't want anyone making more money than they do. Libertarians want you to make money and have fun.
Andre Marrou
#67. Life is more than having perfect photographs edited via some random applications.
It's imperfect, each and every moment, one by one.
Crestless Wave
#68. A woman who can threaten your life before breakfast is the only sort of woman worth having.
Nora Roberts
#69. I still can't believe that some pseudocritics continue to accuse me of having murdered tango. They have it backward. They should look at me as the saviour of tango. I performed plastic surgery on it.
Astor Piazzolla
#70. I fell in love with coaching. I loved interacting with young people, having the opportunity to make a tremendous impression on them.
Morgan Wootten
#71. A garden is a public service and having one a public duty. It is a man's contribution to the community.
Richardson Wright
#72. Well, you don't get to do things that other children get to do, having friends and slumber parties and buddies. There were none of that for me. I didn't have friends when I was little. My brothers were my friends.
Michael Jackson
#73. Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds. I may be given credit for having blazed the trail, but when I look at the subsequent developments I feel the credit is due to others rather than to myself.
Alexander Graham Bell
#74. Getting something and having the wits to use it ... those are two different things.
Rick Riordan
#75. Ants are terrifying, having survived for 130 million years, evolving into a monarchical society of soldiers with bizarre levels of self sacrifice. Ants keep slaves. I don't crush them, it's pointless, they outnumber humans tenfold by body mass.
Pega Rose
#76. Well, we've made some changes on this tour. We're no longer sleeping in the parking lots and swimming in the fountains. We've been staying in hotels most of the way, though I will say some hotels have declined to take us because we're just having too much fun.
Bill Walton
#77. I didn't know how to show my self love, and I didn't want anyone else to hurt me. So my tough girl attitude was like, 'I'm not having it.'
Mary J. Blige
#78. Never apologize for having high standards. People who really want to be in your life will rise up to meet them.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
#79. Baltimore was like a small town when I got there - the Colts, the Orioles, guys like Frank Robinson, we all knew and respected each other. Everyone would cross paths at one point at Lenny Moore's Sportsman's Lounge, trading stories and having some fun.
Earl Monroe
#80. At Cardozo, study of law is part of a larger culture. You can get a law degree and make a good living, but it is best that you do that having studied the discipline for its own inherent merit, because you love studying.
Norman Lamm
#81. In between the Queen and the First Lady, Nancy Reagan, sat Tony Richardson, looking very calm. Later on it emerged that this was because, having not been apprised of the placement until he was about to sit down, he had died of fright. To have expired was to be fortunate.
Clive James
#82. I did theater for a few years while I was in New York, but it was tough having to perform scripts worse than what I knew I could write.
Zach Braff
#83. If you put Buddha, Jesus Christ, Socrates, Shakespeare, Arjuna, Krishna at a dinner table together, I can't see them having an argument.
Hugh Jackman
#84. The thing I hate about the film business, is having to pitch your idea.
Crispian Mills
#85. We writers can use our own longing - and frequently do - without ever having to understand or analyze it. That is why our stories are often wiser than we are.
Marion Dane Bauer
#86. For Europeans a president having an affair, especially in France, is a joke. No one cares, it would never bring this kind of trouble to a country.
Julie Delpy
#87. I've continued to always keep in mind having a healthy does of that in Hollywood, now that I am part of the system and obviously have to follow the way the system works - you still have to have that crazy determination.
Renny Harlin
#88. I've always worked with my partner, my husband, Cameron, since 'Raw Like Sushi,' and in a way, I feel very free with what I do, but he also has an amazing insight in having intuitions that tend to be right a lot of the time, about where we should go next.
Neneh Cherry
#89. If I'm really feeling good and not having a lot of interruptions, I can do a minute of animation a day, so theoretically, I could do a film in three months without any interruptions.
Bill Plympton
#90. In order to be happy we must first possess inner contentment; and inner contentment doesn't come from having all we want; but rather from wanting and appreciating being grateful for all we have.
Dalai Lama
#91. Find advocates! Having advocates and people who will tell your story for you will only help you get noticed faster by more people.
Brit Morin
#92. I love having beautiful furniture and things, but I don't want my space to look like a showroom.
Brad Goreski
#93. This exaggerated power comes not from the size of Natick's research budget, which is relatively small, but from the simple fact of having an overarching goal, a long-term plan, and relentless focus - which, come to think of it, may be the three traits in life most important to making things happen.
Anastacia Marx De Salcedo
#94. One advantage to having a kid on the spectrum: they tend to be rule followers. Socially, things are harder for them than most kids.
Claire Scovell LaZebnik
#95. In the early days of the world, the Almighty said to the first of our race "In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread"; and since then, if we except the light and the air of heaven, no good thing has been, or can be enjoyed by us, without having first cost labour.
Abraham Lincoln
#96. If I was influenced by anything, it was architecture: structure having to do with logic. If you don't do it right, the whole thing is going to cave in. In a certain sense, you can carry that to graphic design. Fortunately, however, nobody is going to die if you do it wrong.
Paul Rand
#97. Reality is neither the subject nor the object of true art which creates its own special reality having nothing to do with the average "reality" perceived by the communal eye.
Vladimir Nabokov
#98. I'm not against people having new cars. I'm against them having you. We spend a tremendous amount impressing somebody at the stoplight who we'll never meet. It makes you broke and keeps you broke.
Dave Ramsey
#99. Do you know how few men there are worth having?
Glen Duncan
