Reply Quotes

#1. Zane didn't reply immediately. After a short pause he spoke quietly.
"I'll warn you, I'm going to be grouchy as my back really starts hurting."
"And I'll be on the lookout for that major change of attitude," Ty
responded sarcastically.

Madeleine Urban

#2. When asked why I write psychological horror, I always reply that this form is the most intimate way to reach a reader. Think about it.

Wayne Allen Sallee

#3. But you answer, that the Constitution recognizes property in slaves. It would be sufficient, then, to reply, that this constitutional recognition must be void, because it is repugnant to the law of nature and of nations.

William H. Seward

#4. Tiffany opened her mouth to reply before she had any idea what she was going to say, but that is not unusual among human beings.

Terry Pratchett

#5. I have to laugh when I receive newsletters from major personalities and when you hit reply, you get a 'do-not-reply' address. It's ridiculous! Don't you want your customers to reply to you?

Brendon Burchard

#6. Unable to help it, even with his teeth chattering, Stefan grinned at him. "Good. I'm a hermit, remember? I don't like people."
"He's not people," Cordon pointed out, "he's more like a bear."
Golon growled in reply.

Jack Lewis Baillot

#7. People enquire as to the craft behind our art and we reply by making references to a patently childish notion.

Jay Sankey

#8. The right to kill: supposing the life of X ... were linked with our own so that the two deaths had to be simultaneous, should we still wish him to die? If with our whole body and soul we desire life and if nevertheless without lying, we can reply 'yes'> then we have the right to kill.

Simone Weil

#9. I shall commit my thoughts to paper, it is true; but that is a poor medium for the communication of feeling. I desire the company of a man who could sympathize with me, whose eyes would reply to mine.

Mary Shelley

#10. What can you do if they have slapped you with a legal notice? You have to reply. For all you know, they have taken you to jail or something.

Kangana Ranaut

#11. The hope of a new politics does not lie in formulating a left-wing reply to the right-it lies in rejecting conventional political categories.

Christopher Lasch

#12. I cannot go to elections with an open stomach. If you want to negotiate we have to conclude it before the elections. I cannot just start the negotiations [with Palestinians] saying we are ready to do this and that and not having any reply.

Shimon Peres

#13. Yes. I reply, though in all honesty I'm just not sure. I feel a paradigm shift. I know that if I do this thing with him, I will get hurt. He's not capable, interested, or willing to offer me any more ... and I want more. Much more.

E.L. James

#14. We can finally start translating the book," Cate said. "At least, I think we can."

"A rousing call, not dissimilar from the band of brothers speech in Henry V." [reply from Noah]

Nina Post

#15. Who taught you all this, doctor?"
The reply came promptly:
"Suffering.

Albert Camus

#16. It was a beautiful voice. He wanted to reply to it. But he couldn't work out how to. It was very dark. 'Cheradenine?' A very patient voice. Concerned, somehow, but a hopeful voice; a cheerful, even loving voice. He tried to remember his mother. 'Cheradenine?' the voice said again.

Iain M. Banks

#17. Ill met by moonlight,' said Deirdre.
'You could still be tied to a stake,' said Random, and she did not reply.

Roger Zelazny

#18. In reply to 'how do I flirt with people?':
Just be yourself and not want anything out of anybody. Desire is the killer of all smoothness.

Patrick Stump

#19. I pull back, gasping for breath. Reeling. His breath is ragged, and I place my hands on his cheeks to steady him. "Is this okay?" I whisper. "Are you okay?"
His reply is anguished. Honest. "I love you.

Stephanie Perkins

#20. His reply came cold and quick: "Sometimes I think that's the only reason you ever talked to me." She opened her eyes. "What?" "Everybody knows." Neal's chin was practically touching his chest - that's how not he was looking at her.

Rainbow Rowell

#21. An insolent reply from a polite person is a bad sign.

Hippocrates

#22. It has to be now," he insisted, a flick of amusement in his voice. He nudged his burgeoning loins against her. "After all, you can't allow me to go around like this all day."
"From what I've learned so far, this is your natural condition," came her pert reply.

Lisa Kleypas

#23. I'm often asked whether I believe in Global Warming. I now just reply with the question: "Do you believe in Gravity?"

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#24. King as thou art, free speech at least is mine. To make reply; in this I am thy peer.

Sophocles

#25. Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.

Stephen R. Covey

#26. I regret to say I'm
unable to reply to your unexpressed desires.

Harryette Mullen

#27. The Panza is here," said Sancho, before anyone could reply, "and Don Quixotissimus too; and so, most distressedest Duenissima, you may say what you willissimus, for we are all readissimus to do you any servissimus.

Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

#28. Forgetting her promise of no questions, Littlest suddenly asked, "Might we be human?" But Fastidious did not reply.

Lois Lowry

#29. But it can happen that a phrase intended to indicate a state beyond concepts just becomes another concept in itself, in the same way that if you ask a person their name and they reply that they have no name, you will then perhaps mistakenly call them 'No name'.

Namkhai Norbu

#30. You better not turn out to be an asshole," she says quietly.
"And you better be done with that guy in Italy," I reply.

Colleen Hoover

#31. Hello?" No reply. My shoulders sag. "What's the point of a staircase if no one is here to watch my entrance?

Stephanie Perkins

#32. I'm exceptionally email un-savvy, so to reply to my emails is like a torture. It's like literally, half of all my emails, I get my secretary to type out for me. And the personal ones, I avoid and just pick up the phone and call them.

Karan Johar

#33. God! I hate clever women!" She froze for an instant before the reply was on her lips. "I love clever men!" Her eyes raked him up and down. "It seems we are both to be disappointed.

Anne Perry

#34. If there is one question I dread, to which I have never been able to invent a satisfactory reply, it is the question what am I doing.

Samuel Beckett

#35. If anyone should tell you that a particular person has spoken critically of you, don't bother with excuses or defenses. Just smile and reply, "I guess that person doesn't know about all my other faults. Otherwise, he wouldn't have mentioned only these."

Epictetus

#36. We learn from the Gospel that when they asked Jesus what the truth was, he did not reply.

Giulio Andreotti

#37. In America, film is the highest form of art that the public aspires to. People will come to me and say 'Oh, your book was so good, they ought to make a movie out of it!' To which I reply 'Well, why? It's already a book.

Orson Scott Card

#38. People come up to me and say, 'Can I just thank you for writing my life?' And I reply, 'I'm glad someone else is as idiotic as I am.'

Miranda Hart

#39. To kill deliberately is very wrong," said Chen Gong. "I would rather betray the world than let the world betray me," was Cao Cao's reply. Chen Gong could say nothing.

Luo Guanzhong

#40. She asked me the definition of beauty. So I told her name in my reply!

Avijeet Das

#41. She let herself love me for three minutes.
Can three minutes last forever? I ask myself, but already know the answer.
Probably not, I reply. But maybe they last long enough.

Markus Zusak

#42. I look on that man as happy, who, when there is question of success, looks into his work for a reply.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#43. It has been objected that I am a boy," said Roosevelt wearily - he had been hearing the charge for years - "but I can only offer the time-honored reply, that years will cure me of that." He

Edmund Morris

#44. I get a lot of letters, mostly from family members who have been affected by cancer rather than young people themselves. I reply to them all.

Jenny Downham

#45. So,' he said, his lip curling. 'There are some things you deem worthy enough to kill for, Gianluca.'
Luca's reply came in one steady breath. 'Only one.

Catherine Doyle

#46. They who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.
- written for the Pennsylvania Assembly in its Reply to the Governor, 11 November 1755

Benjamin Franklin

#47. Wrath what do you say"
"Fuck' came the reply
"Appropriate word choice, my lord, but not really an answer".

J.R. Ward

#48. Giving someone shit, Rodney knew was a sign of love in Catholic families. And the same held true for Rodney and his friends. But he wished it weren't Keith's default setting, his auto-reply to everything.

Steve Rushin

#49. Let him talk," said Dupin, who had not thought it necessary to reply. "Let him discourse; it will ease his conscience, I a satisfied with having defeated him in his own castle.

Edgar Allan Poe

#50. His reply offers infinite solace in a single word. Always.

Ann Aguirre

#51. From this arises an argument: whether it is better to be loved than feared. I reply that one should like to be both one and the other; but since it is difficult to join them together, it is much safer to be feared than to be loved when one of the two must be lacking.

Niccolo Machiavelli

#52. He pressed a kiss on her shoulder, enjoying the way she shivered. "What is it?"
There was a long pause, then a wobbly breath. "Why can't I resist you?"
"Because you don't want to."
Before she could reply, he spun her around and kissed her again.

Elle Kennedy

#53. And what about yellowback dogs who'd use children to kill the whole world from ambush, my friend? The whole universe?" The Weasel blinked at that, as if he'd expected no such reply. Perhaps any reply at all. "I had . . . my orders.

Stephen King

#54. Diss me and you'll never hear a reply for it

Drake

#55. [ ... ]certainly not one of them would have known what to reply if they had been asked, Why are you holding hands as you go, it simply came about, there are gestures for which we cannot always find an easy explanation, sometimes not even a difficult one can be found.

Jose Saramago

#56. I opened my mouth to reply, but then closed it again. Talking to Mom was a bit like trying to fold a fitted sheet: no matter how hard you try, it always ends up a lumpy, crooked mess. So why even bother? (Page 120)

Marci Lyn Curtis

#57. An old man was asked what had robbed him of joy in his life. His reply was, "Things that never happened."

Dale Carnegie

#58. Gansey held Ronan's arm a second longer to make sure he hadn't mistaken his meaning, and then dropped it and turned to Adam. "Were you just going to stand there?"
"Yeah," replied Adam.
"Decent of you," Gansey said.
There was no heat in Adam's reply. "I can't kill his demons.

Maggie Stiefvater

#59. My reply is: the software has no known bugs, therefore it has not been updated.

Wietse Venema

#60. I've given up email. Well, almost. At the weekend I set up one of those auto-reply messages, informing my correspondents that I would no longer be checking my emails, and that instead they might like to call or write, as we used to in the olden days.

Tom Hodgkinson

#61. If your mother tells you to do a thing, it is wrong to reply that you won't. It is better and more becoming to intimate that you will do as she bids you, and then afterward act quietly in the matter according to the dictates of your best judgment.

Mark Twain

#62. At present I would prefer not to be a little reasonable,' was his mildly cadaverous reply.

Herman Melville

#63. Margaret could not reply. Was he incredibly stupid, or did he understand her better than she understood herself?

E. M. Forster

#64. To listen closely and reply well is the highest perfection we are able to attain in the art of conversation.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

#65. My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, 'You're tearing up the grass'; 'We're not raising grass,' Dad would reply. 'We're raising boys.'

Harmon Killebrew

#66. You listen first with the ears - then, you wait and listen for what your heart feels - then you consider what they've said - then, you reply ...

John Geddes

#67. When someone asks you, 'What's punk?' my reply is, 'If you have to ask, you're never going to know.'

Henry Rollins

#68. Adults and pups alike, they surrounded her in the greeting ceremony, licking her face and wagging their tails. Brokefang let the girl hug him fiercely about the neck and nuzzled her in reply.

Tamora Pierce

#69. When asked why I don't believe in God I reply, quite simply, "vaginas".

Robert Clark

#70. Theirs is not to make reply: Theirs is not to reason why: Theirs is but to do and die.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

#71. I have such a horror of telegrams that ask me how I am!! I always want to reply dead.

Katherine Mansfield

#72. What's it like to face your own mortality? "It makes you think," I reply. "The big things, the small things. The dreams, the regrets.

Leylah Attar

#73. My name's Margareta, by the way." "Oh," I said, then thought that I ought to say something more. She looked as if she were expecting a reply, but what could I say? What could I possibly have to say about her name? Her name was Margareta. Okay. Good. Nice name.

Jonas Karlsson

#74. She had uttered these words simply in order to provoke a reply in certain other words, which she seemed, indeed, to wish to hear spoken, but, from prudence, would let her friend be the first to speak.

Marcel Proust

#75. Listen with the intent to understand, not the intent to reply.

Stephen Covey

#76. In a similar vein the author recalls sending an email to a senior music executive in the early 2000's and getting a reply in the post, hand written on a print out of his original email.

Mark Mulligan

#77. MY river runs to thee:
Blue sea, wilt welcome me?
My river waits reply.
Oh sea, look graciously!
I 'll fetch thee brooks
From spotted nooks,
Say, sea,
Take me!

Emily Dickinson

#78. My eyes are up here, Declan."
"I'm aware," I reply lazily without looking up.

Kristen Proby

#79. Tibby cried into her soup when it finally came. "I'm scared ... ," she told it. The carrots and peas made no reply, but she felt better for having told them.

Ann Brashares

#80. My co-stars call me selfish. They say, 'You are only interested in yourself and what you are only interested is yourself and what you are doing in front of the camera.' I reply, 'I can't help it; it's what got me where I am.'

Kareena Kapoor Khan

#81. Just before I drop into a chair in my English classroom I pick up my phone and send Nolan a text.
"What if there's a day when I can't be there with my mom when she's at home?"
I don't even have to wait thirty seconds before he sends his reply:
"Then I'll be there

Paige McKenzie

#82. Of-course we did, but we didn't reply because we knew once this leaks the others will scatter, so in the few days we moved quickly before the press got hold of it. The press did get hold of it a few days later, we nabbed, we were able to get 15, the others got away.

Lee Kuan Yew

#83. I thought you were going to CALL me? I call this texting ;-)

The reply came back within seconds:

I find it easier to take rejection in writing...

Karen Mahoney

#84. People often say to me, 'I understand what you are talking about intellectually, but I don't really feel it, I don't realize it,' and I am apt to reply, 'I wonder whether you do understand it intellectually, because if you did you would also feel it.'

Alan Watts

#85. Reply to Plato: I seen horses I seen cows I haint never yet seen horsiness nor that there bovinity neither.

Edward Abbey

#86. Even now, when I'm asked how I'm doing, I like to reply, 'Pretty good. I've got all my fingers and both eyes.

Charley Pride

#87. Three men had approached her at a bar, one asking if he could buy her a drink. Her reply had been, "Sure. Petrol, please. Unleaded.

Tessa Bailey

#88. You're at my table," Cormac whispers in my ear.
"My dream come true," I reply.
"I'm sorry?" he says in a voice that dares me to repeat myself.
"I said, lead the way.

Gennifer Albin

#89. What do you want to risk to get away?" he asks. I swallow past the bile corrupting my throat. "Everything," I reply. "I'll risk everything to stay with you.

Amy A. Bartol

#90. Is vintage Bunau-Varilla: My only reply to such critics is that they have not the

David McCullough

#91. Replace it. 7. Please say what you are doing and how you propose to overcome the growing difficulties of sending reinforcements into Singapore. Also, what has been done about reducing number of useless mouths in Singapore Island? What was the reply about supplies? *** It is not possible to pursue

Winston S. Churchill

#92. In reply to "Why are people at school such d*cks"
Cause they're sad and scared and insecure. Don't let them spread it to you. Try and spread confidence and kindness

Patrick Stump

#93. Master Bates saw something so exquisitely ludicrous in this reply, that he burst into another laugh; which laugh, meeting the coffee he was drinking, and carrying it down some wrong channel, very nearly terminated in his premature suffocation.

Charles Dickens

#94. And now, As I come near the end of this book in which I have recorded so many considerable achievements of the Americans, if I am asked how we should account for the unusual prosperity and growing strength of this nation, I would reply that they must be attributed to the superiority of their woman.

Alexis De Tocqueville

#95. She Snores," said Siku, looking at me. "You better get earplugs. That kind of thing runs in the family."

I opened my mouth, glancing at Caleb, whose eyes got wide in disbelief. Had Siku made a joke? I was too dumbfounded to reply.

Nina Berry

#96. I paused, partly for breath, and partly because I felt I had said enough. I stood there, waiting for her reply, wishing I had a throat lozenge to suck.

P.G. Wodehouse

#97. Tut, tut," said Professor Umbridge. "That won't do, now, will it? I should like you, please, to reply 'Good afternoon, Professor Umbridge.' One more time, please. Good afternoon, class!

J.K. Rowling

#98. It was her, Marie Antoinette, scrutinizing me, satanically silent. Some would say that Marie Antoinette could only express her hate in silence because she was a turtle. To these naive souls I would reply that hate, like laughter, makes less noise the deeper it is.
-pg 100

Albert Sanchez Pinol

#99. I sometimes think one of the great blessings we shall enjoy in heaven, will be to receive letters by every post and never be obliged to reply to them.

Washington Irving

#100. Fundamental problems are the same for everyone," I reply as we move ahead again, then stop again. "Life, death, sickness, diets, relationships, bills that need to be paid.

Patricia Cornwell