Top 100 He Would Quotes
#1. He wanted to close his eyes and shut out the pearly nothingness that surrounded him, but that was an act of a coward and he would not yield to it.
Arthur C. Clarke
#2. Two days ago we waded through the mud out to this grave beneath the pines at the foot of the hill to place a Christmas wreath on it, hoping he would look down from the Paradise of Ten Billion Trees and Unrationable Dog Biscuits and pity us.
Eugene O'Neill
#3. How subtle is the relationship between the traveler and his luggage! He knows, as no one else knows, its idiosyncrasies, its contents ... and always some small nuisance which he wishes he had not brought; had known, indeed, before starting that he would regret it, but brought it all the same.
Vita Sackville-West
#4. not waste his energy on it. He would give his best to prevent her abduction, but if his best failed he had to be prepared to face the cellar. And so, Josh wanted the dreams, he wanted to remember every disgusting detail and use it to his
I.C. Camilleri
#5. Sunrises and sunsets were breathtaking moments in his life. Moments of exhilaration and ecstasy. Deeply moving moments when he would dream. Dreams that splashed myriad colors on his mind's gray canvas!
Avijeet Das
#6. The war had made a man of him! It had coarsened him and hardened him. There was no other way to look at it. It had made him reach a point at which he would no longer stand unbearable things.
Ford Madox Ford
#7. He was moving through a new order of creation, of which few men had ever dreamed. Beyond the realms of sea and land and air and space lay the realms of fire, which he alone had been privileged to glimpse. It was too much to expect that he would also understand.
Arthur C. Clarke
#8. And at that moment Jude thought something that he would never forgive himself for.
He wished that he had never met any of them.
Melina Marchetta
#9. He could have died for such a smile . . . and thought he would, if circumstances demanded.
Stephen King
#10. He giggled and sniggered. He would have laughed out loud but he didn't have the room.
Douglas Adams
#11. A week ago, he would've sank his fangs into her flesh without a second thought. But now? Muriah had lured him into her world, into her reality, not as a god, but as a partner, a man.
Lisa Kessler
#12. Not only was he sorrowful at the prospect of leaving home, he was convinced, he whispered, that he would never return alive. Herndon implored him to abandon such thoughts.
Harold Holzer
#13. His jaw was slack and his mouth open, and he wondered if perhaps he would drown eventually; drowned by the falling rain.
Iain M. Banks
#14. When I was in Grade 9, there was an election for high school president, and one of the candidates told us that if we elected him, he would abolish homework. He promised this to the entire student body from the stage in the school gymnasium.
Martin O'Malley
#15. He would have no inkling of the great slog of effort that tied up people like her in the day-to-day.
Barbara Kingsolver
#16. He wanted Rachel to be his wife, his lover, the centre of his whole world; a girlfriend implied that he would see her from time to time, that she would have some kind of independent existence away from him, and he didn't want that at all.
Nick Hornby
#17. Anthony Howard, then editor of the left-wing New Statesman, once pointed out that if Huey Long had only used left-wing phraseology he would have enjoyed wide support from the New York and London intelligentsia.
Robert Conquest
#18. I think my father thought I might be president of the United States. I think he would've been satisfied with secretary of state. I'm a foreign policy person, and to have a chance to serve my country as the nation's chief diplomat at a time of peril and consequence, that was enough.
Condoleezza Rice
#19. She knew he would like taking it off; he tended to prefer her dresses on the floor rather than on her person.
Maya Rodale
#20. And if it took me more than thirty seconds of thinking, he wouldn't let me flounder. He would jump right in and explain. Not like so many others who liked to call themselves teachers.
Lili St. Crow
#21. He would like best of all to persecute us with fire and sword, but this method has availed him little because through the blood of martyrs the church has been watered.
Martin Luther
#22. Whenever the ark set out, Moses would say: Arise, Lord! Let Your enemies be scattered, and those who hate You flee from Your presence. v 36 When it came to rest, he would say: Return, Lord, to the countless thousands of Israel. w
Anonymous
#23. And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that He would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt His existence
Bertrand Russell
#24. The light was everywhere. He would tell me later I looked like an angel... but he just looked like the same devil to me
Quil Carter
#25. He would never know know her. Such intimacy but no communication, because words - even if she could speak or write them - could never explain her world to him.
Mary Balogh
#26. Martin Luther King (Jr.) during the civil rights movement used to exclaim that he looked forward to heaven where he would be "Free at last." That is the inscription on his tomb in Atlanta.
Billy Graham
#27. Oh shit, she'd done that wrong, hadn't she? She'd said that wrong, he didn't understand what she meant. She'd thought he would know, that he'd be able to read between the lines and understand, but what if he hadn't? SHould she say more? But how much more?
Stacia Kane
#28. Besieged by lawsuits that threatened to engulf almost everyone at the White House, Clinton assistants shunned paper or e-mail records of their daily deliberations. One told me that he would go down the hall to confer with his division chief face to face rather than discuss an issue on the telephone.
Robert Dallek
#29. If the crow had been satisfied to eat his prey in silence, he would have had more meat and less quarreling and envy.
Horace
#30. We poison the wine as He decants it into us; murder a melody He would play with us as the instrument ... Hence all sin, whatever else it is, is sacrilege.
C.S. Lewis
#31. There is no question that, if John F. Kennedy Jr. had lived, he would have
been a formidable political candidate. But his premature death prevented us
from ever knowing if he indeed would have publicly confronted the deaths
of his father and uncle, and other related issues.
Donald Jeffries
#32. Oh, poor me (jokingly, after being told that Randy Johnson & Pedro Martinez would make more in 2003 than he would). What do I do now? I guess I'll have to get a second job.
Greg Maddux
#33. A mind devoid of prepossessions is likely to be devoid of all mental furniture. And the historian who thinks that he can clean his mind as he would a slate with a wet sponge, is ignorant of the simplest facts of mental life.
Allen Johnson
#34. If anyone had asked him there and then if it was worth it, he would have whispered: "I don't know." Sometimes life doesn't let you choose your battles. Just the company you keep. He
Fredrik Backman
#35. Immersed in solitude, he would dream or read far into the night. By protracted contemplation of the same thoughts, his mind grew sharp, his vague, undeveloped ideas took on form.
Joris-Karl Huysmans
#36. If the Prince of Peace should come to earth, one of the first things he would do would be to put psychiatrists in their place.
Aldous Huxley
#37. When Carlo turned sixteen, he was obliged by Italian law to serve two years of reserve military training. The bishop told Carlo that if he entered seminary he would be exempt from this duty. Carlo told the priest that he planned to enter seminary but that first he needed to understand evil.
Dan Brown
#38. Do not believe that he who seeks to comfort you lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. His life has much difficulty and sadness and remains far behind yours. Were it otherwise he would never have been able to find those words.
Rainer Maria Rilke
#39. Poor old G.K.C.! It's too bad he didn't live to see the change. What paradoxes he would have dreamed up!
Poul Anderson
#40. If he had a million men he would swear the enemy has two millions, and then he would sit down in the mud and yell for three.
Edwin M. Stanton
#41. Our relationship finally ended when he took to waking me up in the wee hours o the morning when he would go surfing. He thought it might be fun to have me come watch. "Fun for who?" I wanted to ask. i had never asked him to come to Happy Hour and watch me drink.
Chelsea Handler
#42. Go find someone who will care for ye good, to sit quiet by yore side at the fire, an' if he treats ye decent as you hoped he would, you'll have all that your heart can desire.
Brian Jacques
#43. If God wanted man to become a spacefaring species, he would have given man a moon.
Krafft Arnold Ehricke
#44. He would not give her up,he could not.For the first time in his life he'd found someone who filled all the empty spaces in his heart
Julia Quinn
#45. He said to tell you to remember your heart in all things, that it is where your honor and your destiny will be found. Does it mean anything to you?'
It is something he would say from time to time-that the eye could be misled, but that the heart was true.
Libba Bray
#46. There were always dog walkers out & about. Sometimes they even stopped for a chat while the various mutts inspected each other. Rebus would be asked how old his dog was.
No idea.
The breed, then ?
Mongrel.
And all the while, he would be thinking about cigarettes.
Ian Rankin
#47. In his dreams he would be a hero. In his life he felt like a zero.
David Walliams
#48. We must give up the silly idea of folding our hands and waiting on God to do everything for us. If God had intended for that, then he would not have given us a mind. Whatever you want in life, you must make up your mind to do it for yourself.
Marcus Garvey
#49. If the killer had really wanted to keep his victim's provenance hidden, he would have taken the head far away, or simply weighted it and thrown it into the fast-flowing tide of the Thames. The invention of the garbage bag had been a boon to murderers everywhere.
Christopher Fowler
#50. Though it hadn't been in his mind, and even though he would not entertain such an offer, he was nevertheless disappointed to find she thought the idea repulsive.
Terry Goodkind
#51. He felt overwelmed when he thought of all the books he hadn't read, all the books he wanted to read, and all the books he would want to read. Not to mention all the books that he hadn't heard of.
Those dismayed him the most.
Kristine Grayson
#52. I always wanted a guitar. I always wanted to be a cowboy singer because I also listened to Hank Williams, and he would always sing these neat romantic songs.
Dick Dale
#53. He had told her that he would never care deeply for her, that he was incapable of strong feelings. Tess would - would /spit/ before she believed that nonsense.
Eloisa James
#54. He turned his head to avoid seeing the happy tableau of pleasures that he had passionately loved and that he would never enjoy again.
Marcel Proust
#55. Wouldn't you like to make sure all those millions you give to Uncle Sam went to schools and hospitals instead of nuclear warheads?'
As a matter of fact, he would. Playgrounds for big kids, preschool programs to little ones, and mandatory LASIK surgery for NFL refs.
Susan Elizabeth Phillips
#56. There is simply no plausible construction of the known evidence that leaves out Novak either providing a proffer through his lawyer of what he would say if he testified or having testified directly.
Michael Isikoff
#57. He would still see it as his duty to shut up and get on with it, not cause any trouble. In our own time we've made a hero of the rebel, and it's more heroic to speak up.
Eddie Campbell
#58. I ached for the difference between Carlisle and me - that he could touch her so gently, without fear, knowing he would never harm her.
Stephenie Meyer
#59. And yet I think of Christopher Reeve who said he would pay two million dollars to be able to feel pain again. What a courageous man! So I have to think that pain is a blessing.
Ricardo Montalban
#60. Do these robots looked armed? And I was talking to the dinosaur. Were you worried he would discuss me to death?
A. Lee Martinez
#61. My little Renoirs. Matisse describes having seen Renoir make these tiny canvases. When he had finished working, he would use up the color left in his brushes on them.
Jean Cocteau
#62. If God didn't want you to masturbate, he would have given you short arms.
George Carlin
#63. Whenever he was out of luck and a little down-hearted, he would fall to mourning over the loss of a wonderful cat he used to own (for where women and children are not, men of kindly impulses take up with pets, for they must love something)
Mark Twain
#64. He had brought no possessions with him; he would take none away. There were none to have
everything of value was in the school computer or his own head and hands.
Orson Scott Card
#66. If John had been paying close attention to Lester's face, he would have seen him go white, the way men do when they see a trap swinging shut on them.
Douglas Wilson
#67. When a man could no longer pay his debts, the soldiers would seize the tabletop he would be using to display his wares (banco) and break it (rotta). Hence, bankruptcy.
Jodi Taylor
#68. He would have been half-hanged, taken down alive, castrated, his genitals stuffed in his mouth, his stomach slit open, and his intestines taken out and burnt, and his carcase chopped into four quarters.
John Broadbent
#69. Get back to work, he would tell himself sternly. There's a garuda to get airborne.
China Mieville
#70. Life would happen to him, and he would have to try to answer it, just like the rest of them all.
Hanya Yanagihara
#71. A writer is someone who tells you one thing so someday he can tell his readers another thing: what he was thinking but declined to say, or what he would have thought had he been wiser. A writer turns his life into material, and if you're in his life, he uses yours, too.
Walter Kirn
#72. Rage twisted his features. He would hurt her now, and badly, she knew that. Crack. The whip made a sound like thunder. The coil took Viserys around the throat and yanked him backward. He went sprawling in the grass, stunned and choking.
George R R Martin
#73. Just when he knew he would walk into the sun without hesitation, he had been sent an angel. A slow smile softened his mouth. His angel refused to do anything he told her. She responded far better when he thought to ask.
Christine Feehan
#74. James loved Rhode Island, ... He loved the ocean. He would sit in his beach chair for hours and look out at the ocean.
Ann Wright
#75. And when the Old Man wished to kill someone, he would take him and say: "Go and do this thing. I do this because I want to make you return to paradise." And the assassins go and perform the deed willingly.
Marco Polo
#76. We should have no concern for the environment, because, after the great flood with Noah, God promised that He would never ruin the earth again.
James Inhofe
#77. The religion I have is music. Even the times I have headaches, when I'm singing, I can't feel them. My dad used to say that, too, especially near the end of his life. He would be in pain - a lot of pain - and he said the only time when he didn't feel pain was when he performed and sang.
Rosanne Cash
#78. He believed books had an aura that protected him, that without one beside him he would die. He happily slept without women. He never slept without a book.
Richard Flanagan
#79. A man with no one to revere, Julian said, is a man alone.' At that moment, he seemed to consider such loneliness the worst of fates, a sentence he would not have imposed upon the vilest man on earth. And yet, at times, I thought now, he had seemed to impose that very loneliness upon himself.
Thomas H. Cook
#80. Would certainly not have admired Jesus Christ and he would have been horrified by St Paul - does
Alasdair MacIntyre
#81. Algernon is so smart he has to solve a problem with a lock that changes every time he goes in to eat so he has to lern something new to get his food. That made me sad because if he coulnt lern he wouldnt be able to eat and he would be hungry.
Daniel Keyes
#82. I interrupted to make Uncle Jack let me know when he would pull it out, but he held up a bloody splinter in a pair of tweezers and said he yanked it while I was laughing, that was what was known as relativity.
Harper Lee
#83. It was a pattern he would play out his entire life: Rather than lose someone he cared for, he would withdraw first, usually by creating some mock conflict as a way of lessening the abandonment he felt was inevitable.
Charles R. Cross
#84. If only the president hadn't tried to dodge, he would have been all right. As it was, the toe of her jackboot caught him in the groin with perfect unplanned accuracy. His mouth made a soundless "O" and he went down behind the rostrum. Cordelia,
Lois McMaster Bujold
#85. It is a misconception that the innocent sleep well. The worse a man is, the more profound his slumber; for if he had a conscience, he would not be a villain. When
Elizabeth Peters
#87. None of us knows the wisdom of the Lord. We do not know in advance exactly how He would get us from where we are to where we need to be, but He does offer us broad outlines in our patriarchal blessings. We encounter many bumps, bends, and forks in the road of life that leads to the eternities.
James E. Faust
#88. When we would say 'No way,' he would say, 'My way.' Then the ones who doubted would scramble to salvage the blessing. And the one who gave it would savor the surprise.
Max Lucado
#89. I can't protect you as I am now, Laurent had said. Damen hadn't thought about what protection might entail, but he would never have imagined that Laurent would step into the ring on his behalf. And stay in it. "I
C.S. Pacat
#90. When I was in the ring at the Olympics, it was my father's words that I was hearing, not the coaches'. 'I never listened to what the coaches said. I would call my father and he would give me advice from prison.
Floyd Mayweather Jr.
#91. Answers to. Maybe the locals already had answers. He would take
David Baldacci
#92. The procedure was that an artist got a mural and then he would have anywhere from two to ten assistants depending on the size of the mural and how many assistants he needed, or she needed.
Lee Krasner
#93. a woman of her understanding should already presume that marrying the wealthy would come with sacrifices. Jerry Roth told him yesterday that he would courier their prenuptial marriage decree and obviously from her mood, she had not received it.
Charles Soto
#94. If Satan should ever replace God he would find it necessary to assume the attributes of Divinity.
Robert A. Heinlein
#95. If he had given away anything else, he would have been charged with indecent exposure.
Edmund Campion
#96. If there were a god, don't you think he would have flicked Hitler's head off?
Eddie Izzard
#97. My father doesn't have views. He would like to, but he can't take the risk.
Hilary Mantel
#98. Christmas is God being relentless to the point that He would die in that relentlessness.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#99. The cable was still sending sharp sparks into the air. He could think of nothing in life that he especially desired, but those purple sparks
those wildly-blooming flowers of fire
he would trade his life for the chance to hold them in his hands."
-from "The Life of a Stupid Man
Ryunosuke Akutagawa
#100. When I used to work for Reverend Jesse Jackson he would say, "You've got to know the rules in order to break the rules." The 1988 campaign of Reverend Jesse Jackson made fundamental changes to the way Democrats do business.
Leah D. Daughtry
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