Top 100 Lisa See Quotes
#1. You know, I've learned that sometimes you can only see what you want to see by changing where you stand. And standing somewhere unexpected can lead to unexpected discoveries.
Lisa Mangum
#2. You should definitely visit the Louvre, a world-famous art museum where you can view, at close range, the backs of thousands of other tourists trying to see the Mona Lisa.
Dave Barry
#3. Parents die, daughters grow up and marry out, but sisters are for life.
Lisa See
#4. Humans long to cross the sea, to visit strange lands and see wonders undreamed of. Cats - well, most cats - do not.
Lisa Martin
#5. have forced myself to move forward, but I can never move on.
Lisa See
#6. He does that sometimes, our Charlie, when he can't find us in the house. I see it as 'abandonment retaliation.' A kind of - Where were you when I wanted you? It's like he is trying to say, 'I searched and searched the whole house and NOTHING. You were nowhere. Therefore, I shall poo in your bedroom.
Lisa Fleetwood
#7. You can film me 24 hours a day and you'll get a very accurate picture of who I am. You see the funny side, I work hard, and I try to be honest and just call it how it is.
Lisa Vanderpump
#8. How do we turn our heart to the Lord? One way is in going to the scripture to see him. "In the volume of the book it is written of me," Jesus said. In 1 John 3:2 we find that when we see him as he is, we are going to be like him, we're going to manifest him.
Kay Fairchild And Lisa Perdue
#9. Well, the first quality of being a good leader is you have to be able to follow. See, a good leader can't just be the leader all the time, I have to be able to follow.
Lisa Leslie
#10. I want morning and noon and nightfall with you. I want your tears, your smiles, your kisses ... the smell of your hair, the taste of your skin, the touch of your breath on my face. I want to see you in the final hour of my life ... to lie in your arms as I take my last breath.
Lisa Kleypas
#11. Obey, obey, obey, then do what you want.
Lisa See
#12. I wonder if there was anything I would have done differently. I hope I would have done everything differently, except I know everything would have turned out the same. That's the meaning of fate.
Lisa See
#13. How far does life take us? I don't see anything at the end.
Lisa Yaj
#14. I couldn't wait to see Phaelan. I'd know instantly if she'd dropped anchor on his ego. *
Lisa Shearin
#15. It used to happen in villages and towns in China that they would have - I guess you'd call them beauty contests - where all of the women of a particular village or town would be seated behind these screens or curtains with only their feet showing.
Lisa See
#16. I have been lucky and have a tight relationship with my daughter even if I don't see her as much as I did before but it got me thinking about all different women's situations - and what there wouldn't be without us.
Lisa Maffia
#17. All girls have dreams, even if our destinies are set.
Lisa See
#18. I came here to be happy, and I'm going to be happy. If I smile, then maybe I can convince my body just how happy I am.
Lisa See
#19. I don't care if we only have a few days together, I want to spend every second by your side. I want to memorize every curve of your face, and I want to see you smile and kiss that dimple in your cheek.
Lisa Kessler
#20. The fallen leaves return to the root.
Lisa See
#21. Opium and heroin had not caused our poverty and hopelessness. Rather, poverty and hopelessness had brought about an unquenchable desire to forget. After
Lisa See
#22. I didn't see the point of judging and analyzing a single moment in someone's life.
Lisa Unger
#23. I am an eighth Chinese, and I come from a large Chinese-American family in Los Angeles.
Lisa See
#24. Lord Hamlet, It seems you see all women as deceivers, be they beautiful or ugly. Perhaps the fault lies in the man who trust only his sight and is a slave to his base desire!
Lisa M. Klein
#25. With my people, what you see is what you get. We prefer blunt talk to diplomacy. My family was much the same way. Phaelan's idea of diplomacy involved firing cannon shot across your bow rather than through your waterline.
Lisa Shearin
#26. You're mad," he said in a low voice, "if you think I would leave you now. I'll see you safe and well no matter what it takes.
Lisa Kleypas
#27. Every day, police officers see the hairy, smelly underbelly of humanity, the most depraved and evil shit human beings are capable of, shit civilians thankfully can't imagine.
Lisa Genova
#28. The classics tell us that, in relationships, the one between teacher and student comes second only to the one between parent and child.
Lisa See
#29. I can't see where I'm going if I only look where I've been, my good man!
Lisa Mantchev
#30. Maybe we're all like that with our mothers. They seem ordinary until one day they're extraordinary.
Lisa See
#31. She tore her eyes from his abs and gave in to the temptation to look further down. Over his kilt her eyes wandered and stopped, speculating on the promising bulge beneath the blue tartan.
"Hope you like what you see...
Lisa Carlisle
#32. Snow Flower was my old same for life. I had a greater and deeper love for her than I could ever feel for a person who was my husband.
Lisa See
#33. Evie " came his faint whisper "I'm going to your mother see ... she's got 'em to leave a back door open ... so I can steal into 'eaven.
Lisa Kleypas
#34. I'd heard that if you saw a Reaper, you saw what you expected to see, what you thought the agents of Death would look like. Personally, I wanted to see little, fuzzy pink bunnies, but apparently my subconscious visualized tall, scary, and skeletal. My subconscious and I needed to have a long talk.
Lisa Shearin
#35. winter gone, mountains clear, water sparkles.
Lisa See
#36. When someone we love dies suddenly and tragically, it's like seeing the curvature of the earth. You always knew it was round, a contained sphere floating in space. But when you see the bend in the horizon line, it changes your perspective on everything else.
Lisa Unger
#37. Maybe stories and memories are destined to be incomplete...
Lisa See
#38. You can't do things unexpected in life if you're not willing to take a risk, and it's easier to risk your own life than it is for your parent to watch you take risks. It's very, very hard for parents to see children doing things that aren't a solid path. I've been through that.
Lisa Edelstein
#39. A lotta cats copy the Mona Lisa, but people still line up to see the original.
Louis Armstrong
#40. So soon? But I sup pose that is only to be expected. Lord Ramsay will want to see his estate."
"Yes, Mrs. Hunt." Leo said. "I adore bucolic settings. One can never view too many sheep.
Lisa Kleypas
#41. I hate this. Will the darkness ever fade?
Will I ever see light again?
Is it light where you are?
Lisa Schroeder
#42. Hidden, there,
behind the face
of a beautiful boy,
I see you.
The real you.
Lisa Schroeder
#43. To us, she was like a rare bird that had escaped its cage and was roaming through a courtyard of common chickens.
Lisa See
#44. There are so many remarkable playwrights working right now, that I see everything I can. Annie Baker is a genius, I'll see anything she writes. The same for Lynn Nottage, Cynthia Hopkins, and Lisa D'Amour. Anything they've got going on, I'll go see.
Lucy Alibar
#45. Waves of heat shimmy off the tarmac, and the air is stiflingly hot, with humidity that's even worse
Lisa See
#46. Ian stepped out to where he knew I could clearly see and identify his tall, dark, and dangerous self.
Lisa Shearin
#47. When fortune comes, do not enjoy all of it; when advantage comes, do not take all of it.
Lisa See
#48. We're told that men are strong & brave, but I think women know how to endure, accept defeat & bear physical & mental agony much better than men.
Lisa See
#49. My dad taught me never to talk to strangers," she said lightly.
"We're all strangers in the beginning."
"Then what are we in the end?"
"We'll have to see when we get there.
Lisa Mangum
#50. I write what I'm interested in.
Lisa See
#51. But teaching a lesson isn't a part of friendship.
Lisa See
#52. You have to be in the game long enough to see the results.
Lisa Newton
#53. So you think long and hard about what you see here
today, and where you're headed. But if you run, run fast. Because I'm going to come after you. That's
just the kind of bastard I can't seem to help being
Lisa Renee Jones
#54. While she is lovely, we need to remember that her face is not what distinguishes her. Her beauty is a reflection of the virtue and talent she keeps inside.
Lisa See
#55. There is only one perfect child in the world and every mother has him.
Lisa See
#56. Her heart was like a great road with room for everyone.
Lisa See
#57. Child, think not of those things, those dark possibilities. Your father and brothers are here with you today. Lavain will tug at your braids, Tirry will sing you songs, and your father will see his wife's beauty in you. Savor their love today. And it will never leave you.
Lisa Ann Sandell
#58. You can't fight your fate ... It is predestined.
Lisa See
#59. I'd be careful about watching me too closely."
"Why?" She smiled to match the sassy tone in her voice.
The smirk that had lingered on his face dropped away, replaced by a serious expression. "You might not like what you see.
Lisa Carlisle
#60. Not all scars show. Not all wounds heal. Sometimes you can't see, the pain someone feels.
Lisa French
#61. She loves you. She's just forgotten how to show it.
Lisa See
#62. Dreaming, dreaming, dreaming
weren't our dreams what gave us strength, hope, and desire?
Lisa See
#63. I think writers like to see how people bring their words to life, and it's always surprising. Always, no matter what, whether it's good or bad, it's always surprising because a whole human being is coming to that piece of writing.
Lisa Edelstein
#64. This is how things were: heavyhearted, but done in the traditional manner. THE
Lisa See
#65. I don't need any trinkets or pictures to remind me of my faith - all I need to do is stare out the window at the woods, and see how beautiful they are.
Lisa Kleypas
#66. The next time I see you," Sebastian said viciously, "no matter what the circumstances, I'm going to kill you. No law, nor weapon, nor God Himself will be able to stop it from happening. So if you value your life, don't let your path cross mine again.
Lisa Kleypas
#67. If I could have looked into the future to see what I would have become, I wouldn't have become the person I was always meant to be. ~ lw
Lisa L. Wiedmeier
#68. Perhaps he was afraid as I was that we'd be caught. Or perhaps he was breathing me in just as I was letting him come into my lungs, my eyes, my heart.
Lisa See
#69. Life would be boring if we knew how things would turn out in the future. You don't plot out your life and then live it. You live your life and see how it turns out.
Lisa Scott
#70. To make an ox or water buffalo work so hard, it needs to be blinded and uninformed. That's what the government is doing to the masses now.
Lisa See
#71. Sweetwater County, Tennessee. Population 5,000. Where your heart and home belong. Lisa Mortan would soon see if the county motto scribbled on their sign was true. It had been a long drive from
Ciara Knight
#72. The three most important powers are Heaven, Earth and Man. The three luminaries are the Sun, the Moon and the Stars. Opportunities given by Heaven are not equal to the advantages afforded by Earth, while the advantages of Earth do not match the blessings that come from harmony among men
Lisa See
#73. This is the secret to finding and keeping lasting friendships: become women who want to see the women around them flourish.
Lisa-Jo Baker
#74. With you, it's... I don't even know how to say it. It's like you're a work of art. Every time I'm with you, I see something new. Something beautiful.
Lisa Brown Roberts
#75. If it was scandalous for girls in the 1960s to wear pants to school, what else will we look back on & shake our heads at? What else can't we see in the future? And at that, what else can we dream up?
Lisa Factora-Borchers
#76. Guys are just scared of beautiful girls, Dad said.
Sure, Dad, I said. Only ugly girls go to dances.
The right one will come around, he promised.
You'll see.
Lisa Tawn Bergren
#77. I've never thought much about whether I was happy or if I had fun as a child. I was a so-so girl who lived with a so-so family in a so-so village. I didn't know that there might be another way to live, and I didn't worry about it either.
Lisa See
#78. I finally understand what the poets have written. In spring, moved to passion; in autumn only regret.
Lisa See
#79. What's the first impression you have of a new place? Is it the first meal you eat? The first time you have an ice cream cone? The first person you meet? The first night you spend in your new bed in your new home? The first broken promise?
Lisa See
#80. I knew immediately that this was not going to work out. Hunter is the kind of guy who dates women who wear high heels and a cocktail dress on a first date. I can't even walk in heels, and I generally believe that someone has to earn the right to see my legs.
Lisa Lutz
#82. I see the invisible spirits, where demons still find it livable. I need a hug to hold my soul inside my body.
Lisa Lopes
#83. The realization that truth, forgiveness, and goodness are more important than revenge, condemnation, and cruelty gives me courage and certainty.
Lisa See
#84. A bad past is like gristle. You can chew on it forever and starve yourself to death, or you can spit it out and see what else is on the table.
Lisa Wingate
#85. Paul says that our troubles are "light." Granted I may not see them as light in the midst of trauma, but looking back on them, they may seem light. He also says they are "momentary." They only last for a short time.
Lisa Bedrick
#86. Dad was the biological vessel who helped put my soul into this body,
Lisa See
#87. My dad's life was magnificent, but only if I let myself see and remember more than his years of decline.
Lisa J. Shultz
#88. He was her creation. From the moment they met when he wobbled onto the ice at the age of ten and refused to leave until he had learned his first jump, they could see into each others souls. Now when it counted most, there was a wall between them.
Lisa Luciano
#89. To believe in dreams is to spend half your life asleep.
Lisa See
#90. And yes, okay, I think she's pretty, but so? Lots of people, places and things are pretty. The Mona Lisa is pretty but you don't see me crushing on her.
J.C. Lillis
#91. Dreamers are born to be disappointed.
Lisa See
#92. May and I are sisters. We'll always fight, but we'll always make up as well. That's what sisters do: we argue, we point out each other's frailties, mistakes, and bad judgment, we flash the insecurities we've had since childhood, and then we come back together. Until the next time.
Lisa See
#93. I just want to see what it's like when I don't hurt.
Lisa Henry
#94. It's all these choices that we could have made, the things we might have done. We see them with perfect clarity only long after the moment has passed. Just thirty seconds either way, and I wouldn't have this story to tell you. I wouldn't be the same person telling it.
Lisa Unger
#95. Shirley MacLaine said, You're so funny, then gave me a hug. Everything went white. I couldn't hear, I couldn't see. I thought I was going to pass out.
Lisa Kudrow
#96. I know a lot about women and their suffering, but I still know almost nothing about men.
Lisa See
#97. Just because [butterflies'] lives were short didn't mean they were tragic ... See, they have a beautiful life.
Lisa Genova
#98. I always felt like I could be funny, but there was a part of me that always judged actors so harshly ... I thought all actors were dumb-that they must have serious emotional problems. Even if they don't, that's the perception I had of them. I didn't want anyone to see me that way.
Lisa Kudrow
#99. (Derek) "How do you see the beauty in a three-eared dog but not in a guy with big teeth?"
(Christy) "Dogs rule. People drool."
(Derek) "Only if you gag them.
Lisa Henry
#100. I was sick of people making fun of my hair and so I cut it off and I've got much more attention than ever before. It was like when Mona Lisa was stolen from the Louvre in 1906 - three times more people came to see where it used to be.
Emo Philips