Top 100 Of Course Quotes
#1. The most visible and often tragic sacrifice of proletarian socialism - not to mention internationalism - on the altar of nationalism, of course, has been by the states that proclaim themselves to be, or to aspire to become, socialist.
Andre Gunder Frank
#2. Well, he keeps saying that, and as defense secretary, of course he has to think of a lot of potential enemies. I do not think it's a wise course to articulate this or to base our policy on it. And I do not see under modern circumstances what we would be fighting about.
Henry A. Kissinger
#3. Then she said she wondered if she really loved me or not. I, of course, couldn't enlighten her as to that. And, after another silence, she murmured something about my being "a queer fellow." "And I daresay that's why I love you," she added. "But maybe that's why one day I'll come to hate you.
Albert Camus
#4. Of course, the discounting of future earnings should hurt all stocks. But it should hurt technology stocks more than others, because so many of them are valued at extremely high levels relative to their current earnings.
Alex Berenson
#5. Of course, I have Gene Roddenberry to thank for the creation of Barclay.
Dwight Schultz
#6. Paraffin never works. I have to do this. The police helicopters. And I pull the trigger. 30 IN MY FATHER'S house are many mansions. Of course, when I pulled the trigger, I died. Liar.
Chuck Palahniuk
#7. I prefer short stories, but publishers would, of course, rather that writers produce novels, since novels are still more commercially viable.
Charles Baxter
#8. I wanted to escape so badly. But of course I knew I couldn't just give up and leave school. It was only when I heard my mom's voice that I came out of my hiding place.
Zhang Ziyi
#9. ...and when the land kills of its own volition, we acquiesce and say the victim had no right to live. We are wrong, of course, but it doesn't matter. It's too late.
Toni Morrison
#10. Of course, for me, having served 22 years in the military and to have the opportunity to continue to serve my country is a great honor and is a privilege. So that's what makes it special each and every day.
Allen West
#11. This is a strange, little, complacent country [Switzerland], in many ways a USA in miniature but of course nearer the center of disturbance!
Eleanor Roosevelt
#12. If you're a Republican who's a threat to the Democrats, of course you are a racist. That's the definition of a racist, nowadays ...
Glenn Reynolds
#13. I think you'll find that I'm qualified to deal with practically everything, if I choose. That last part, of course, is essential. --Devyn DuChien
Chris Pavesic
#14. The word communist, of course, has become a rallying cry for certain people here just as the word Jew was in Hitler's Germany, a way of arousing emotion without engendering thought.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#15. Of course, I had met him. I shook his hand, and then my vagina shook his penis.
Addison Moore
#16. You can put it another way, of course; you always can.
Julian Barnes
#17. Of course it's kitsch, and of course our love for every cult figure gets called kitsch when we want to separate the suffering it requires to create a symbol that lives in the world from the ravages of one's own life.
W. Scott Poole
#18. Of course the fear of having my heart broken is there but that would be true with anyone you're falling for. Every time you have the chance to climb high, you also have the chance to fall.
Karina Halle
#19. I'm in love with you," I responded. He laughed the most beguiling and gentle laugh. "Of course you are," he replied. "I understand perfectly because I'm in love with myself. The fact that I'm not transfixed in front of the nearest mirror takes a great deal of self-control.
Anne Rice
#20. I'm not good, of course; I wouldn't give a fig to be good. So it's not vanity. It's on a far grander scale; a splendid selfishness, - authorized, too; and papa and mamma brought me up to worship beauty, -and there's the fifth commandment, you know.
Harriet Prescott Spofford
#21. Of course I will continue photography. I love photography. But when you become old, it's too much.
Sebastiao Salgado
#22. Of course, he sees creation as discovery. I mean, everything is already created, by the first cause
call it God if you like; everything is already there to be found.
Dodie Smith
#23. If you have very few experiences in your life, romantically, or whatever you're doing, then of course you're going to talk about those, because there were only a few of them - as opposed to the people who repeat patterns, always at the bar, always with someone, always blah blah blah.
Marnie Stern
#24. I have emphasized experiments more than theory. Of course, we need some theory when thinking of soft matter.
Pierre-Gilles De Gennes
#25. I heard a lot of those things. I heard that I was greedy; that I didn't care about winning; heard the questioning of my loyalty. And I'm thinking: 'Of course I want to win. I've been winning my entire life.'
James Harden
#26. Anything that can create balance in dogs is great. If veterinarians can give you the solution and give you why this is causing the behavior, of course. Anything that is good for an animal, let's do it.
Cesar Millan
#27. If we are to assume that North Korea becomes a nuclear-power state, of course the danger of having an all-out nuclear war, that possibility is very slim.
Lee Myung-bak
#28. Being queer you're supposed to adore figure skating. It's a sport, not an art. I love the costumes and hate the music and of course I worship Johnny Weir because so does he. Also he's real. It's a full gay thing and it always has been.
Mark Morris
#29. In a very little time they got to the corner of the field by the side of the pine wood where Eeyore's house wasn't any longer.
'There!' said Eeyore. 'Not a stick of it left! Of course, I've still got all this snow to do what I like with. One mustn't complain.
A.A. Milne
#30. There is no knowing how or why dread comes on a parent. Of course, many times apprehension arises when there is no reason for it at all. And it comes most often to the parents of only children, parents who have indulged in black dreams of loss.
John Steinbeck
#31. In an exclusive interview with the Christian Broadcasting Network Donald Trump said "I believe in god." But of course The Donald was talking about Himself.
Jay Leno
#32. I watch 'Shark Tank,' of course. It's very entertaining. I think it's actually good to help people think about the business they might start, and sometimes you get encouraged by looking at someone going into business and saying, 'Hey, I could do that.'
Fred DeLuca
#33. Guys are so transparent most of the time. Unless, of course, they're dating you, in which case they are utter mysteries.
Nicole Richie
#34. I went to parochial grammar school, and I give thanks to the Catholic training because of course, they brought me to the heart of Jesus.
Tony Orlando
#35. I have, of course, been called many other things. Most of them uncouth, although very few were unearned
Patrick Rothfuss
#36. I love film, and I would love to be a part of something that people universally love as a piece of film. Sure. Of course I would. And I would love to take acting lessons, and see that side of it someday. But I'm a musician.
Norah Jones
#37. Those who survived the San Francisco earthquake said, 'Thank God, I'm still alive.' But, of course, those who died, their lives will never be the same again.
Barbara Boxer
#38. Doonesbury had the requisite and overwhelming influence in 1980, as it did on any college cartoonist who was paying attention, of course.
Berkeley Breathed
#39. Well, listen, sweetheart. Boys only want one thing, of course, and guess what that means for you? Heartbreak. Pregnancy. Chlamydia, herpes, syphilis, crabs.
That's beautiful, Dad. You should set it to music.
Kristan Higgins
#40. Of course he bothers me. He's my husband.
Gish Jen
#41. Of course, tax revenues have ended up being substantially higher than they were at the time these dire projections were made, and we are very close now to having a balanced budget. All that has been very helpful.
Charles Vest
#42. Of course not," said Hermione. "Everything we need is here on this paper.
J.K. Rowling
#43. Of course there is sometimes a price to pay. While I was busy painting, not only was my light dissipating quickly, but the fog had crept in slowly at the same time. When I lifted my eyes from the panel, I realized that I had better get a move on - and quickly.
Cory Trepanier
#44. I didn't know you were such a caveman."
"I'm a damn contractor. Of course I'm a fucking caveman.
Madeleine Beckett
#45. I'm Chinese-American, of course, and so it's very interesting to see China actually launch their own astronauts, becoming the third nation, following the United States and Russia, to do so.
Leroy Chiao
#46. You still love her, don't you?" Pie said, once they were out and walking. "Of course I love her," Estabrook said. "That's why I want her dead." "There's no resurrection, Mr. Estabrook. Not for you, at least." "It's not me who's dying," he said. "I think it is," came the
Clive Barker
#48. Of course I saved you," she said. "I couldn't do without you." And because she was happy and flushed with magic, Holly leaned down and kissed Artemis, magic sparking around the contact like tiny fireworks.
Eoin Colfer
#49. I do suspect my star ratings average too high. But, of course, star ratings are ridiculous. I'm stuck with them.
Roger Ebert
#50. Grace was my best friend. I can't let anyone forget her. I'm sure you understand."
Mr. Farrow smiled, but the smile didn't quite reach his eyes. "Of course, it's easy to rewrite history when we lose a loved one, isn't it? Sometimes we only remember the things we want to remember.
Lisa Roecker
#51. Of course, we could do simulations with random number generators and make statistical predictions about long-term outcomes. But suppose that what looks to us like a random event is really controlled by forces outside our perceptible sphere?
Jonathan Marks
#52. I try to be original in every piece of music I do, and of course I probably fail every time.
Herbert
#53. There's a lot of things that go on when you're on tour that cannot be controlled. I'm not even talking about myself, but of course there's sexual activity and drugs, fighting and language; it is certainly not a place to raise a family.
Peter Steele
#54. I am terribly shy, but of course no one believes me. Come to think of it, neither would I.
Carol Channing
#55. All men kill the thing they hate, too, unless, of course, it kills them first.
James Thurber
#56. Of course, I feared that the joy I felt, like certain trees, had taken root at the edge of a craggy cliff. They may crane their necks and turn their leaves all they want toward the sun, but gravity has the last word.
Andre Aciman
#57. Of course women can have it all - if they want it all. I won't hear any defeatist talk. If you just dwell on problems, you won't get anywhere fast.
Louise Mensch
#58. But of course names were secret things, full of power. And
Stephen King
#59. At my lowest I was making nothing, of course.
Teri Hatcher
#60. The World Cup tournament overall and, naturally, the new stadiums at its heart, are the ideal platform to portray Germany as a positive and exceptional location, and above all of course, as a highly capable economic location.
Franz Beckenbauer
#61. Ammu loved her children (of course), but their wide-eyed vulnerability and their willingness to love people who didn't really love them exasperated her and sometimes made her want to hurt them
just as an education, a precaution.
Arundhati Roy
#62. Black lives, of course, matter. I spent 50 years of my life fighting for civil rights and for dignity, but if you don't want me to be here, that's OK. I don't want to out-scream people.
Bernie Sanders
#63. Questions. Questions. Questions. Don't you ever learn that questions don't ever get answered unless I ask them?" he says. "Questions are the lazy man's way to try to learn, when the only way to learn is not to ask." "Then what is the only way to learn?" "To live, of course." He tilts his head.
Cameron Jace
#64. If you have any young friends who aspire to become writers, the second greatest favor you can do them is to present them with copies of The Elements of Style. The first greatest, of course, is to shoot them now, while they're happy.
Dorothy Parker
#65. Don't be silly. I'm a mature, intelligent woman. Of course I'm afraid of my mother.
Jean Kerr
#66. Of course you're not egotistical.
I checked, and you look very humble in all 900 of the selfies you posted on facebook.
Sienna McQuillen
#67. And of course, the brain is not responsible for any of the sensations at all. The correct view is that the seat and source of sensation is the region of the heart.
Aristotle.
#68. Of course, you're always going to be biased but Submarine was amazing and I'm not surprised that people liked it.
Yasmin Paige
#69. Vampires are immortal, you can do whatever you want, and get away with it. And there's the seduction part of course, sex is a big part of the vampire thing.
Jonny Lee Miller
#70. But idealists of course are unpredictable. They tend to be the ones who turn bitter overnight, deceived by lies they've told themselves.
Don DeLillo
#71. The brain can be a wonderful tool, can be a willing slave, as has been evidenced by some men, but of course it works poorly when it has not the habit of usage. An automobile can become a source of delight, but the first time you drive you are as apt to go up a tree as to go up the road.
Robert Henri
#72. Of course the Premier League is the most difficult league in the world because it's so even. I think you can't really compare other leagues with the Premier League. In the Premier League, every team can beat every team, and in football, that's something where you can have surprises.
Mesut Ozil
#73. HIV is certainly character-building. It's made me see all of the shallow things we cling to, like ego and vanity. Of course, I'd rather have a few more T-cells and a little less character.
Randy Shilts
#74. I realised either I was crazy or the world was crazy; and I picked on the world.
And of course I was right.
Jack Kerouac
#75. An audience sabotages my freedom, devastates my innocence, corrupts my integrity, inhibits my great joy - and of course gives me further to fall.
Selima Hill
#76. There are some strange cold people in this world. It is priests, I think ... Training themselves out of natural feeling. They mean it for the best, of course.
Hilary Mantel
#77. You ever have that happen where you meet someone and just
clash? We were like a gravel and cream sandwhich."
"That is the weirdest thing you have ever said. I suppose you were the cream?" "Of course I was the cream. Sha."
Eve Rosser, The Drama Queen's Last Dance (Rachel Caine)
P.C. Cast
#78. Of course there is a monkey. There is always a monkey.
Doug Dorst
#79. Since Henry Miller's Tropic books, of course, it has become difficult to talk sensibly about girls' c*nts.
Martin Amis
#80. We think-although of course, now, we very seldom Clearly think- That the other side of War is Peace.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
#81. The part that I think is one of the most interesting is of course the one that Hayden Christensen plays.
Ian McDiarmid
#82. In fact, things are moving along rather well in Iraq. Nothing is perfect, of course, and freedom is messy work. The cooperation of the three major interests in Iraq has been remarkable.
John Linder
#83. Of course, I have my own limits as to how much game software I can take care of at any one time.
Shigeru Miyamoto
#84. The Buddha compared anger with picking up hot coals with one's bare hands and trying to throw them at the person with whom one is angry. Who gets burned first? The one who is angry of course.
Ayya Khema
#85. They had it all wrong, of course. Bravery wasn't required to conquer fear. Indifference was.
Stephanie Kuehn
#86. We offer them mediocrity while calling it magic. We offer them the illusion of intelligent software, seducing them into surrendering the task of thinking to the machine. Of course, the machine isn't thinking, which means that nobody is.
Larry Constantine
#87. Smartass Disciple: Master, why there was no second chance in garden of eden?
Master of Stupidity: Of course. Perhaps, human can only enjoy one-time virginity.
Toba Beta
#88. I love all kinds of movies. I love a really good comedy and not the cheesy ones. My parents hate this, but I love horror films. Those are my favorite, and of course, dramatic roles. I'm really drawn to those as well. All different genres.
Liana Liberato
#89. I don't record for my own glory.I mean, of course part of it is for career advancement, but more importantly, I want some of that repertoire - as much of it as possible - to remain and enter pianists' consciousness and, hopefully, into the standard repertoire.
Marc-Andre Hamelin
#90. We know: of course, with regard to the market and similar social structures, a great many facts which we cannot measure and on which indeed we have only some very imprecise and general information.
Friedrich August Von Hayek
#91. There are vast differences between scripts and stories, of course. Few fiction writers would want to give up the opportunity to explore how the minds of their characters work, or to set aside the opportunity to provide necessary background exposition in a succinct fashion.
Les Standiford
#92. History is, of course, a made thing. It does not exist by itself in anything like a recognizable form.
Jay Parini
#93. Sometimes, to ensure that a talented individual will work for you, or will stay working with you, you need to be flexible. Money is not always the great motivator here. Talented people want a good salary, of course, but surprisingly often they are more attracted to new opportunities and challenges.
Felix Dennis
#94. He ate when he wanted to, killed when he wanted to, and worked only when he wanted to. Unless, of course, he was with his mother, then he did everything she wanted to.
Mia Thompson
#95. No art can possibly comfort HER then, even though art is credited with so many things, especially an ability to offer solace. Sometimes, of course, art creates the suffering in the first place.
Elfriede Jelinek
#96. You know that bad people can make great art, don't you?'Said Annie.
'Yes, of course. Some of the people whose art I admire the most are assholes.'
'Dickens wasn't nice to his wife.'
'Dickens didn't make a memoir called I'm Nice to My Wife.
Nick Hornby
#97. Comedy is, of course, closely associated with eggs.
Harlan Tarbell
#98. The character of Rosie is based on a woman who used to live in the same apartment building I lived in many years ago. She's taken on a life of her own, of course.
Sue Grafton
#99. There is very little 'of course' when it comes to custom
Janet Kagan
#100. Even from when I was in grade school or church or wherever, I was always like: we're one, and we should respect each other and grow as one. And respect each other's diversity, of course.
Valerie June
