Only So Many Times Quotes

#1. Hillary Clinton famously talked about how raising a child takes a village. Except our society isn't set up that way. We're organized in nuclear units, and a single mom can ask her friends only so many times for help picking up the kids.

Katharine Weymouth

#2. I was so tired of fighting. Tired of hurting. Tired of the guilt that never released me, and the regrets that could not be changed. I didn't want this life. They're were only so many times I could hear that I should never have been born, before I wished it to be true.

Rebecca Donovan

#3. There's only so many times you can fight before the only person you fight for is yourself.

S.R. Crawford

#4. I know nothing about hip-hop ... There's only so many times you can grab your crotch and prance around stage. I'm gonna get slammed now for this.

Tom Colicchio

#5. Echo might be on the outs since she became a cutter and all, but she's still a popular chick. She'll bail on you and treat you like shit in the end." She took another draw. "There's only so many times people like us can have our hearts ripped out. She's a ripper.

Katie McGarry

#6. There's only so many times you can kick a dog before it turns viscous. (Julian)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#7. There's only so many times you can read how ugly you are and how much people hate you.

Lizzy Caplan

#8. there are only so many times you can listen to the guitar solo in Pink Floyd's "Comfortably Numb" without going a little numb yourself,

John Seabrook

#9. We spend so much time defending our choice to do this that it becomes hard to show any vulnerability at all. There's only so many times you can handle someone asking about your fall back for when things don't work before you start thinking that maybe the fall back should just be your plan.

Cora Carmack

#10. Fine, I'll teach you,'
'Besides, there's only so many times a girl wants to fall on her butt in front of the boy she's out to impress.

Joss Stirling

#11. But there are only so many times you can handle heartbreak with someone before you have to start protecting yourself.

Molly McAdams

#12. If you've got kids who aren't being looked after by their parents, there's only so many times you can try and intervene to get that right.

Adam Giles

#13. There are only so many times I can say, 'I owe it to my offensive linemen,' or, 'The credit should go to my teammates,' before it becomes run down.

Marshawn Lynch

#14. I suppose there's only so many times you can take being rebuffed before you need some validation.

Jodi Picoult

#15. There are only so many times that you can utter 'It does not hurt' before it begins to hurt even more than the hurt. You become enlightened of the feeling of feeling hurt, which is worse, I am certain, than the existent hurt.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#16. There's only so many times a person can call you a pea-brain before you just snap and slap the shit out of them.

Angela Roquet

#17. I got into film acting because I wanted to be James Dean. We lost him at a very young age - he was only 24 - but I'm in my fifthies, so there's only so many times you can act like James Dean. I had to find new ways of expressing myself that kept me fascinated with film performance.

Nicolas Cage

#18. So many times in the history of Mormon polygamy, the outside world thought it had the movement on the ropes only to see it flourish anew.

Scott Anderson

#19. He'd always liked the way Josey smelled. He thought about how she was wearing her curly black hair down that night, how she was in that tight sweater he'd seen her in so many times, the red so striking against her pale skin. And he wasn't the only man here who had noticed.

Sarah Addison Allen

#20. The people running the business have to be people of good character. They have to have good Internet support. You can't be struggling to get payments. It has to be properly organized. You can only beat that horse of good and easy money so many times before it eventually dies.

Brian Tracy

#21. You can only ignore the call so many times before you know it's time to go.
Life is spreading her legs for me.
I'm going in.

Karina Halle

#22. Life brings darkness so many times, and we feel down in this phase of darkness. But the true value of darkness only realizes when we face the darkness, until we look some sunshine within the darkness.

John Magoss

#23. I know have lived, so many times, that the only thing I have left to remember is my writing, cause every single moment in life it's already written.

Piroska Rodriguez

#24. Today is only one day in all the days that will ever be. But what will happen in all the other days that ever come can depend on what you do today. It's been that way all this year. It's been that way so many times. All of war is that way.

Ernest Hemingway,

#25. So many times have I heard the common lament, "If only I could go back to that age, knowing what I now know!" Those words amuse me profoundly, for in truth, the lament should be, "If only I could reclaim the lust and the joy I knew then!

R.A. Salvatore

#26. Grace had torn me apart and put me back together so many times that I'd started to believe that was what I wanted. A kintsukuroi relationship, more beautiful for having been broken. But something can only be shattered so many times before it becomes irreparable...

Krystal Sutherland

#27. We've died so many times now that we can only wonder why we still care.

Charles Bukowski

#28. Why aren't the two of you together?'
The directness of her question throws me. 'I don't know. Sometimes I think there are only so many opportunities ... to get together with someone. And we've both screwed up so many times - that we've missed our chance.

Stephanie Perkins

#29. I think poetry is the only domain where a writer you like can truly be said to influence you, because you read and reread a poem so many times that it simply drills itself into your head.

Michel Houellebecq

#30. You can only swallow ugly words about yourself so many times before they become part of your DNA.

Lexi Ryan

#31. Reckless," he said. "You know, when I first showed up at the Institute, Alec called me reckless so many times that I went and looked it up in the dictionary

Cassandra Clare

#32. He has so many creations, and yet He never forgets me, but I only have One Creator, and I've forgotten him countless times.

Abd Ar-Rahman Ibn Nasir As-Sa'di

#33. So many Jonathans. A plague of literary Jonathans. If you read only the New York Times Book Review, you'd think it was the most common male name in America. Synonymous with talent, greatness. Ambition, vitality.

Jonathan Franzen

#34. You can only mend the vase so many times before you have to chuck it away.

Christine McVie

#35. You know that I had heard so many times people say things like, 'You could never write 'Harry Potter' and have it be about Harriett Potter because nobody would read it; people only want to read an adventure story if it's about a boy,' and I thought, 'I don't think that's true.'

Cassandra Clare

#36. A man can only do a given thing so many times with freshness and spirit--then, no matter what it is, it becomes like an office task. I enjoy cards and whoring, but even cards and whoring can grow boresome. You tup your wife a thousand times and that becomes an office task, too.

Larry McMurtry

#37. Let me be clear, la mia tigrotta. I'm taking you to bed. I'm going to strip off your clothes, bury myself deep inside you, and make you come so many times the only word from your lips will be my name, begging me to do it all over again.

Jennifer Probst

#38. Why hang about in long drawn out fights, you want them to be over as quick as possible and I was blessed with a pitiless punch that sorted the men out from the boys. The only drawback to having such a vicious punch is that my hands have been broken so many times over the years.

Stephen Richards

#39. I was outclassed and outgunned, and I was only realizing it when it was too late to do a damn thing about it. A heart could only break so many times before the cause was lost.

R.K. Lilley

#40. There were many tears, many unsure times, many troubled moments. The fun memories were only a few, but even so, those memories will shine bright like stardust, and continue to shine on in my heart.

Mika Yamamori

#41. You might have a favorite book or film, but you can only watch or read it so many times before you have to let it sit and then go back and realize it's your favorite still. At some point everything gets a little stale and you have to step away from it.

Les Claypool

#42. We can change so many times in our lives. We're born into a family, and it's the only life we can imagine, but it changes. Buildings collapse. Fires burn. And the next second we're someplace else entirely, going through different motions and trying to keep up with this new person we've become.

Lauren DeStefano

#43. That long sigh again, above us. This time I saw it, moving through the branches. Like the trees were listening; like they would've been sad about us, sad for us, only they'd heard it all so many thousand times before.

Tana French

#44. I'm finally beginning to realize that you can only fight with someone over the same thing so many times before you're burned out.

Anna Todd

#45. How soon will Ford blow up? Nobody knows how many thousand times it has been asked since. It is asked only because of the failure to grasp that a principle rather than an individual is at work, and the principle is so simple that it seems mysterious.

Henry Ford

#46. I must be honest. I can only read so many paragraphs of a New York Times story before I puke.

Rush Limbaugh

#47. 'It Girl' is supposed to be something that only lasts a certain amount of time. They keep calling me an 'It Girl,' and at this point it makes me laugh, because I've done that so many times: 'You're it;' 'You're not it.' What is 'it?'

Zooey Deschanel

#48. You can only get knocked down so many times before you start shying away from a raised hand, even if it's extended in kindness.

T.J. Klune

#49. Love at first sight. I don't believe in that shit. Weird, huh? Yeah, but the Little Drummer Boy has been fucked over too many times before. The fairytale only lasts so long as reality doesn't come stomping through to smash it.

C.M. Stunich

#50. You'll be one of us, so long as you'll remain in love with your rails and your engines - and they'll lead you back to us, no matter how many times you lose your way. The only man never to be redeemed is the man without passion.

Ayn Rand

#51. How many times had I wanted to scream the same way? To purge myself and release the pain in my soul. But somehow, I never had. Maybe those who felt free to do so were only those who didn't posses the guilt of having put the pain there in the first place.

Charles Martin

#52. But what bothers me is that I only accidentally noticed them. What else have I missed? How many times in my life have I been, so to speak, on the back porch, not the front porch? What would have been said to me that I failed to hear? What love might there have been that I didn't feel?

Lucia Berlin

#53. Sometimes I think there are only so many opportunities ... to get together with someone. And we've both screwed up so many times" - my voice grows quiet - "that we've missed our chance.

Stephanie Perkins

#54. something can only be shattered so many times before it becomes irreparable, just as a piece of paper can only be folded so many times before it cannot be folded any more. While

Krystal Sutherland

#55. So, with only finitely many different particle arrangements, the arrangements of particles within patches must be duplicated an infinite number of times. That's the result we've been after.

Brian Greene

#56. There is no narrative now, no "And then," only a disjointed series of images. A pile of photographs I've flipped through so many times that I don't even need to look at them anymore to know what's there, to see it, to cover my face with my hands and cry.

Kat Rosenfield

#57. How many times had Rusty reminded Miri, You're my only child. You're my life. So when it comes to doing stupid things, don't. Because I couldn't stand it if I lost you. Do you understand? Now Miri thought she understood. There was a burden to being the only child.

Judy Blume

#58. There's many times this year I've sat back and thought, I'm making a living from making things up. It's the only skill I have so I've been really lucky.

Colin Mochrie

#59. A heart can only break so many times. I'm not saying it fails entirely: just that it mends the wrong way. It warps. It's stitched together loose and askew and it doesn't work as it should.

Gillian Philip

#60. I don't think you can really make television based on what you think audiences want. You can only make stories that you like, because you have to watch it so many times.

Dick Wolf