Quotes About What You Had

#1. When you lose the title, that doesn't mean you lose the contract to what you had. Just like when you win the title, it doesn't mean you win brains, PhDs and MAs.

Don King

#2. It was funny how as soon as you knew there was something better, what you had seemed unbearable.

Max Barry

#3. What you had left before I saw you, of course I do not know; but I counsel you to resist firmly every temptation which would incline you to look back: pursue your present career steadily, for some months at least

Charlotte Bronte

#4. Something inside you emerges ... an innate, indwelling peace, stillness, aliveness. It is the unconditioned, who you are in your essence. It is what you had been looking for in the love object. It is yourself.

Eckhart Tolle

#5. What does it mean for an actor to make a part his own? It means that he takes on what you had intended and starts to put in his own stuff so that it becomes something that could only happen if he played it.

James L. Brooks

#6. What's painful is that what you had together, all your inside jokes and favorite restaurants and that movie you both loved but everyone else hated - that's gone, and there's no replacement for it, you never replicate it, never get to have it ever again ...

Kim Culbertson

#7. To his surprise he ... discovered that it was possible to be good at what you had little interest in, just as it had been possible to be bad at something ... that you cared about a great deal.

Richard Russo

#8. You've been through a lot, I know that. We all know that. What you had to do to stay alive with them, all while helping us, finding out what you are, I don't know how you came out on the other side. But it changed you.

Victoria Aveyard

#9. If another person only had in his storehouse of deserved self-esteem what you had put there, what would he have to draw upon and to sustain him?

Neal A. Maxwell

#10. If life has taught me anything it's to appreciate what you've got. Take something for granted and it could be gone before you even realized what you had.

Kristen Callihan

#11. It was like a dream you might have after death in which lost people came back to life, your friends loved you again no matter what you had done, and your failures were unaccountably forgiven.

Ann Brashares

#12. So dress and conduct yourself so that people who have been in your company will not recall what you had on.

John Newton

#13. I really don't like the idea of people knowing what I am doing. I find telling everybody what you had for breakfast is really uninspiring.

Jim Sturgess

#14. This far into the Unclaimed Hills, the highstorms were incredibly powerful. The plants had learned to survive. That's what you had to do, learn to survive. Brace yourself, weather the storm.

Brandon Sanderson

#15. Richard Avedon taught me that if you go into a photo session and come out with what you had hoped for, it's a failure. You need to be surprised if you want it to be magical.

Amy Arbus

#16. Sometimes you learn about the personality of your favorite artist, and you like their art a little less, because it doesn't jibe with what you had envisioned.

Paul Banks

#17. My experience with Khonsu had taught me not be greedy about time. It was best to appreciate what you had and not yearn for more.

Rick Riordan

#18. Jo claimed that the reason people survived breakups was that within days of the amputation, Mother Nature started reminding you of what you had been doing without, what could have been better, all the samll discontents you had been filing away.

Emma Donoghue

#19. Dependence, she knew, and the longing for more than what you had, led to unhappiness and discontent.

Nora Roberts

#20. What we call a financial crisis is really at its core a crisis of management, and not just a crisis of management, but a crisis of management culture ... In other words, what you had is a detachment of people who know the business from people who are running the business.

Henry Mintzberg

#21. What if, when you woke up in the morning, ALL you had LEFT was what you had thanked God for the night before?

Jill Conner Browne

#22. Puppies are constantly inventing new ways to be bad. It's fascinating. You come into a room they've been in and see pieces of debris and try to figure out what you had that was made from wicker or what had been stuffed with fluff.

Julie Klam

#23. You've just got to have a sense of respect for the person you have children with. Anger doesn't help anybody. Ultimately you have to say forgiveness is important, and honoring what you had together is important. But it's easy to say and harder to do.

Nicole Kidman

#24. Say what you had to about Ethan, but the boy filled a library very, very well.
Okay - arguably, that wasn't the only thing he filled out well, but let's stay on track.

Chloe Neill

#25. Maybe it was love or maybe it was just loss," he repeats slowly. "I like that. That makes sense to me. Because sometimes you don't know, you just know what you had is gone and you know how that makes you feel.

Karina Halle

#26. You have to move in life, but the loyalty you develop in a community is always remembered. But if you leave, you don't pick it up in the next town. It's not an add-on, you know, because you lose what you had.

Richard DeVos

#27. Sometimes love does not look like what you had in mind.

Anne Lamott

#28. Desire was just the dumbest thing. You wanted what you wanted until it was yours. Then you didn't want it anymore. You took what you had for granted until it was no longer yours. This, it seemed to her, was one of the crueller paradoxes of human nature.

Ann Brashares

#29. One day, he said that what you had to do in any adversarial situation was to kill the king, as in chess. I said people didn't have kings any more. He said he meant the centre of power, but today it wouldn't be a single person, it would be the technological connections.

Margaret Atwood

#30. Life was all about choices. You chose what to make out of what you had. And I wasn't going to let it make me its bitch. I could be a mature adult who knew her limits. I could be a good person. Maybe not all the time, but enough.

Mariana Zapata

#31. sometimes responsibilities dictated your life, and you just had to make the best of what you had.

Christy Barritt

#32. To just let go, and not pick everything to death. To just let go and enjoy what you had. To just let go and not make everybody around you miserable with your own internal dialogue. To just let go and be happy. So simple. So difficult. So terrifying.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#33. It is almost an unbearable pain, to suddenly recognize the value of what you had being ignorant of which had been your possession.

Sunday Adelaja

#34. He wondered what you had to do to lose your driver's license in Italy.

Robert Hellenga

#35. I remembered what you had said to me on that wonderful evening we first dined together, about the search for beauty being the real secret of life ...

Oscar Wilde

#36. People say you don't know what you've got until it's gone. Truth is, you knew what you had, you just never thought you'd lose it." - Anonymous

Clarissa Wild

#37. Life was too short and ended too suddenly. If you didn't take advantage of what you had today, tomorrow it might be ripped from you.

Ilona Andrews

#38. You were able to sing something they related to instantly, because it was part of what you felt. It was part of what you had already traveled through. It's part of the people you were associating with daily. It was all of that.

Ben E. King

#39. Your health was what you had until the day you didn't have it and after that day you were screwed and it was better not to let doctors screw you before that day came.

Salman Rushdie

#40. Never apologize for it, never explain it away, never be ashamed of it. You did your best with what you knew, and you worked with what you had, in the time that you were given. You were invited, and you showed up, and you simply cannot do more than that.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#41. You get up, you go to work, you come home, you eat food that's very similar to what you had yesterday or last week, you sit in front of the shows you always watch, and finally you go to the same old bed.

Michael Marshall

#42. You never fully appreciate what you had until you don't have it anymore

Glenn Beck

#43. Do you ever want to talk away from your life? ... Do you ever think this life is not exactly what you had planned? Do you ever crave something, anything that could wake you up?

Elizabeth Flock

#44. But there's a beginning in an end, you know? It's true that you can't reclaim what you had, but you can lock it up behind you. Start fresh.

Alexandra Bracken

#45. No sympathy for the devil; keep that in mind. Buy the ticket, take the ride ... and if it occasionally gets a little heavier than what you had in mind, well ... maybe chalk it off to forced conscious expansion: Tune in, freak out, get beaten.

Hunter S. Thompson

#46. You know what? You had a rough weekend, but people are basically good. They really are. We're all just on this crazy blue marble together.

Jessi Klein

#47. Consider your second attention as a spiritual perceiver. Consider how you use it. You may plead innocence. You're not doing anything wrong. Don't feel that you've sinned. You have done what you had to do to survive, as did your mother, as did your grandmother.

Frederick Lenz

#48. One of the oddest things about being grown-up was looking back at something you thought you knew and finding out the truth of it was completely different from what you had always believed.

Patricia Briggs

#49. It was a matter of not living lavishly but enjoying what you had, growing things with your hands, working hard, but not being tied to a nine-to-five job, and generally feeling that there's more to life than money.

John Sulston

#50. You made it; your get to put it out there. Never apologize for it, never explain it away, never be ashamed of it. You did your best with what you knew, and you worked with what you had, in the time that you were given.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#51. You think you got something big to say? Something momentous? Or is it what you had to memorize in order to escape the men with lightning in their eyes?

John Yau

#52. Just like magic, each one of us had had that someone special walk into our lives and love us enough to fight for us. Life is funny that way. Fate happens, and it's better than what you had imagined in the first place.

Abbi Glines

#53. Everyone has days when they say: 'Well, my life isn't exactly lining up with my expectations.' But if life asked you what you had done for it, what would you say?

Paulo Coelho

#54. What you had could never make up for what you'd lost.

Jodi Picoult

#55. The past only had whatever power you gave it; life was what you made it and if you wanted something different from what you had, it was up to you to make it happen.

Sara Zarr

#56. It was possible to leave things behind - places, people, memories - at least for a time. But places held tight to the things that had happened in them, and to come again to a place you had once lived was to be brought face-to-face with what you had done there and who you had been.

Diana Gabaldon

#57. Do not expect your life to "return to normal." That's not what you had in mind when you embarked on this odyssey.

Rasha

#58. You did what you had to do. You're a hero, Vicky said.

Michael Grant

#59. What you had at the time was a dictatorship with the team owners.

Ted Lindsay

#60. Just because someone tried to make you into a victim didn't mean that's what you had to be.

Vicki Pettersson

#61. Life wasn't for lamenting what you'd lost. It was for enjoying what you had, for however long you got to have it. While it was always terrible to lose those precious to you, it was far more terrible never to have had them at all.

Sabrina Jeffries

#62. Plus he'd been raised on a farm, or near a farm anyways, and anybody raised on a farm knew you had to do what you had to do in terms of sick animals or extra animals - the pup being not sick, just extra.

George Saunders

#63. Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.

Dalai Lama XIV

#64. Hatred is like a dam waiting to burst, and when it does, it is more devastating than what you had originally intended.

Angelina Fleck

#65. Baby, you're not the one who's broken. The assholes who mistreated you, they're the broken ones. You did what you had to do to survive them.

Gina L. Maxwell

#66. In this world, you were either strong, or you were dead. you did what you had to if you wanted to survive. And i could barely take care of myself; i couldn't worry about someone else's insecurities.

Julie Kagawa

#67. Even when you felt that your own life had tumbled irrevocably out of control. You did what you had to do, somehow. You kept racing ahead and hoped for the best.

Carrie Vaughn

#68. He had always rather liked emergencies. Other people's at any rate. They put your own problems into perspective. It was like being on a ferry. You didn't have to think about what you had to do or where you had to go for the next few hours. It was all laid out for you.

Mark Haddon

#69. Because the lives you had before-that we all had before-we can never get them back. But there's a beginning in an end, you know? It's true that you can't reclaim what you had, but you can lock in up behind you. Start fresh.

Alexandra Bracken

#70. I'd settle for what you had to give

Mary Stewart

#71. What you had yesterday is only memories; what you will have tomorrow is your dreams and what you will do today, let it be love.

Santosh Kalwar

#72. That takes a lot of confidence to let your actors come up with something that could be theoretically funnier than what you had envisioned originally.

Jackie Schaffer

#73. If you always do what you've done before, you will always get what you had, not more ...

Shelley K. Wall

#74. Reasons always came with a purpose, to give the appearance of a struggle between principle and desire. Principle had power only until you found what you had to have.

Tobias Wolff

#75. The ultimate victory in competition is derived from the inner satisfaction of knowing that you have done your best and that you have gotten the most out of what you had to give.

Howard Cosell

#76. You did your best with what you knew, and you worked with what you had, in the time that you were given. You were invited, and you showed up, and you simply cannot do more than that. They

Elizabeth Gilbert

#77. If therefore you shall be remembered for what you did with what you had more than what you had, use what you have to do something distinctive now and leave a notable footprint before you go

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#78. I don't-" I shake my head. ( ... )
"What? What were you going to say?" This is another trick of shrinks. They never let you stop in midthought. If you open your mouth, they want to know exactly what you had the intention of saying.

Ned Vizzini

#79. My movies, in general, I have the impression that when they finish of course they're never originally what you had in mind.

Alejandro Amenabar

#80. To owe what you had not yet earned, to have to work to earn what you had already spent, was a personal diminishment, an insult to nature and common sense.

Wendell Berry

#81. Was enough to actually turn you into what you had to be.

J.R. Ward

#82. Be what you would seem to be - or, if you'd like it put more simply - never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise.

Lewis Carroll

#83. I didn't want to wear a checked shirt and grow a mustache - that's what you had to do, and everyone did.

Neil Tennant

#84. To his surprise he also discovered that it was possible to be good at what you had little interest in, just as it had been possible to be bad at something, whether painting or poetry, that you cared about a great deal.

Richard Russo

#85. You know, those parlor tricks would be much more impressive if they actually helped me. (Danger)
I wanted to see what you had in you. (Alexion)
Piss and vinegar. Next time you don't help me, I'll unleash it fully against you. (Danger)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#86. Life has all sorts of hills and valleys, and sometimes you don't end up doing what you had your heart set out on, but sometimes that's even better!

Ruth Buzzi

#87. Take a guy who can walk on water, who can raise people from the dead, who can look at you and tell you what you had for breakfast ... if a guy like that can't find twelve trustworthy mates, who can? Stop at eleven and call it done, that's the moral of that story.

Liam Perrin

#88. You could sometimes guide people's opinions, but if they didn't want to buy what you had to sell you could shout yourself hoarse trying to make them do it and it would never work.

Clive Barker

#89. Don't lose what you had to get something which just may not work.

Maya Angelou

#90. Think and then think what you have thought. Is it really what you had thought. Think again.

Amit Abraham

#91. Learn to appreciate what you have, before time makes you appreciate what you had.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

#92. A computer will do what you tell it to do, but that may be much different from what you had in mind.

Joseph Weizenbaum

#93. Sometimes you have to lose everything to know what you had.

Jeaniene Frost

#94. I guess I wouldn't want to be rich. you'd never be sure if people liked you for what you were or what you had.
Tellie

Diana Palmer

#95. Once the storm comes out, the landscape changes. What you had before is altered in some way. And you have a choice: build something new and better from what is left or abandon it.

David Levithan

#96. The Things That End Mourn what you lost. Celebrate what you had. All things come to an end. Just as all things come to a beginning.

Pleasefindthis

#97. One day you finally knew
what you had to do, and began ...

Mary Oliver

#98. Sitting here, beneath this majestic oak tree under the hot afternoon sun in the middle of nowhere, the concept of time, present, and future, were all blurred. What was time if you didn't know whether you had it?
When you weren't sure what you had to live for? - Skylla Warden

Rachael Wade

#99. What have I done?" I whispered.
Jill put her arm around me, but it was Dimitri who spoke.
"What you had to.

Richelle Mead

#100. Why not celebrate what you had had rather than spend your time mourning its passing? There
could be joy in things that ended.

Ann Brashares