Top 100 Responded Quotes
#1. When Jesus was asked, "What is the greatest commandment?" he responded with "Love.
Francis Chan
#2. Mauricio Macri. He successfully ran for mayor of Buenos Aires, and when I asked him a few months into his term whether it was more challenging to run a soccer club or a city, he responded: "A soccer club. Without a doubt.
Anita Elberse
#3. I made my first trip west of the Hudson and it was a revelation. The naked musculature of the Rockies was overpowering and my painting responded.
Elaine De Kooning
#4. Egypt has responded to hundreds of thousands of protesters by shutting down the Internet. Just a word of advice: If you want people to stay at home and do nothing, you should turn the Internet back on.
Conan O'Brien
#5. If I'd had a great level of success early on, who knows how I would have responded. I might have been a complete jerk.
Steve Carell
#6. Good responded nobly to this tax upon his inventive faculties. Never before had I the faintest conception of the breadth and depth and height of a naval officer's objurgatory powers. For ten minutes he went on in several languages without stopping, and he scarcely ever repeated himself.
H. Rider Haggard
#7. When his aunt Louisa asked him in his last weeks if he had made his peace with God, Thoreau responded quite simply: "I did not know we had ever quarreled.
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#8. There are certain performers that the gay community receives and recognizes with love, and my whole life, I've always responded to those same artists,
Annaleigh Ashford
#9. A well-trained mind responded to symptoms.
An ordinary mind reacted after it happened.
Toba Beta
#10. His memory is compromised,' Lidewij said. 'If only my memory would compromise,' Van Houten responded.
John Green
#11. When asked, -How is that you pick better moves than your opponents?, I responded: I'm very glad you asked me that, because, as it happens, there is a very simple answer. I think up my own moves, and I make my opponent think up his
Alexander Alekhine
#12. The first script I got was Narc and I really responded to it; it reminded me of a '70s type movie, I really liked the characters, I didn't anticipate the ending.
Ray Liotta
#13. I don't think I responded very well to the sudden celebrity, the sudden fame, and the loss of privacy.
David Schwimmer
#14. I can't count the times that upon telling someone I am vegetarian, he or she responded by pointing out an inconsistency in my lifestyle or trying to find a flaw in an argument I never made. (I have often felt that my vegetarianism matters more to such people than it does to me.)
Jonathan Safran Foer
#15. Life asked Death 'why do people love me, but hate you?'. Death responded 'because you are a beautiful lie and I am a painful truth'.
Unknown
#16. The ironic thing is that marketers have responded to this problem with the single worst cure possible. To deal with the clutter and the diminished effectiveness of Interruption Marketing, they're interrupting us even more!
Seth Godin
#17. If you can forgive me, forgive
me,' said her eyes, 'I am so happy.'
'I hate them all, and you, and myself,' his eyes
responded.
Leo Tolstoy
#18. When Occupy Wall Street happened, I took my money out of Citibank. I already had problems with all the banks - Citibank, Bank of America - but I was kind of just too lazy to take my money out until I saw how Citibank responded to Occupy Wall Street.
Talib Kweli
#19. Cornbread!" he screamed. "CHICKEN!" the crowd responded. "Rice!" "PEAS!" And then, all together: "WE GOT HIGHER S-A-Ts.
John Green
#20. When I was first exposed to the films of Ingmar Bergman, I found them frank and disturbing portraits of the world we live in, but that was not something that displeased me. They were beautiful. I thought people would respond to my plays the way I responded to Bergman's films.
Wallace Shawn
#21. We were lining up and counting off nice and easy till you came stumbling through like a doped-up bull,' Minho responded.
James Dashner
#22. Seth hustled over. "What's the password?"
"Passwords are for sissies," Warren's muffled voice responded.
"Works for me," Seth said, unlocking the door and opening it.
Brandon Mull
#23. I remember saying to my mentor, 'If I had more money, I would have a better plan.' He quickly responded, 'I would suggest that if you had a better plan, you would have more money.' You see, it's not the amount that counts; it's the plan that counts.
Jim Rohn
#24. There was only one thing about his own appearance which really pleased Hercule Poirot, and that was the profusion of his moustaches, and the way they responded to grooming and treatment and trimming. They were magnificent. He knew of nobody else who had any moustache half as good.
Agatha Christie
#25. Today, antibiotics are as common as a cup of coffee. In the 1950s they were relatively new. Today, over-use has reduced their efficacy but in the 1950s they really were a miracle drug. Sister Monica Joan had never had penicillin before, and responded immediately.
Jennifer Worth
#26. Rebecca let out a gusty sigh. "Pregnant, I tell you. I'm definitely getting pregnant." Her mother responded by passing over the tearful little guy. Not a bad idea, Jane decided. Birth control by baby brother
Christie Ridgway
#27. She responded to Letty's well-meaning suggestions with the unblinking disdain perfected by cats in their dealings with their humans.
Lauren Willig
#28. Hawk was on the dark side, walking a fine line when his body responded to just how he wanted to ruin the girl.
V. Theia
#29. It was the first kiss of her life to which her nature had really responded. It was a flaming torch that kindled desire.
Kate Chopin
#30. Quote from Deadly Deception:
He had always killed before just like a mechanic tightens a bolt; dispassionately, no attachments, with a trigger that responded perfectly to his command.
Eric
Eric Redmon
#31. Chief, Medical Staff, Technical Services Division, CIA responded, I imagine the only reason would have been concern for broadening awareness of its existence.
Colin A. Ross
#32. A wind whistled an eerie tune, and even the horses responded to the misery, tearing across the country as if they wanted to get as far from this place as possible.
Melina Marchetta
#33. I just really like the verve and muscle of good crime fiction, the narrative punch of it. The underlying principle of good crime fiction is an insistence on a kind of root democracy. I've always responded to that notion.
Daniel Woodrell
#34. There's a head inside the ball?" Surefire turned a shade paler along the edges of her face paint.
"It is good," Coatl responded. "Makes the ball lighter, bounce farther."
"You always want to get a head in the game," Raven added.
J.T. Bock
#35. Her mother had responded in kind, and the result was "unpleasantness and misery rebounding all the time.
Francine Prose
#36. I consider myself fortunate that I've been able to find a character that people have responded to.
Dennis Franz
#37. Mrs. Thatcher responded to our liberation of Grenada with the sounds of a somewhat hypersensitive Neville Chamberlain.
Emmett Tyrrell
#38. As class ended, Hector announced, "I'm hungry."
" okay," Rider responded as I said to my notebook into my bag. " what exactly do you want me to do about it?"
Hector grinned as he glanced over at me and winked. " I want you to take me out and feed me." Rider snorted.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#39. And you know, we did it as an independent film, and we weren't expecting it to be on television, and Lifetime ended up buying it. And the viewers responded intensely to that film.
Jenna Elfman
#40. To grow up as a "girl" is to be nearly fatally spoiled, deformed, confused, and terrified; to be responded to with falsities, to be reacted to as nothing or as a thing - and nearly to become that thing.
James Tiptree Jr.
#41. Hey, Jamie,' said Seb. 'Want a lift?'
'Hey, Seb,' Jamie responded without missing a beat 'Drop dead.
Sarah Rees Brennan
#42. He (Jesus) knew that the old eye-for-eye philosophy would leave everyone blind. He did not seek to overcome evil with evil. He overcame evil with good. Although crucified by hate, he responded with aggressive love.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#43. I'm not most guys." I tugged her over so she was sitting in my lap. "Haven't you figured that out yet?" She dropped her hands to my shoulders. "I'm a little slow sometimes." I laughed, and she responded with a smile. "Good thing I don't like you for your brains.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#44. My coach once told me "there's no "I" in "team." I responded there's also no "I" in "hackneyed." Then I had to run 12 laps.
Lev L. Spiro
#45. Even in China. Children there, next to the Great Wall, who had never seen Mickey Mouse responded. So the studio did have that skill to communicate with images.
John Hench
#46. His last word had been my name. A summons. And I had not responded.
Elie Wiesel
#47. Are you about to have sex in my bathroom?"
Without missing a beat, Kellan responded with, "Yes," and started closing the door.
S.C. Stephens
#48. You don't look gay," Joey said suspiciously.
Will blinked. Well, that was new. "Maybe I'm just really, really happy inside," Will responded with a bright smile.
Amy Lane
#49. 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
#50. I've experienced a private doubt, something that I've kept deeply inside, and then eventually delivered a piece of work that people responded to with huge enthusiasm.
Trevor Nunn
#51. The husband beats his wife," she responded. "The neighbors don't care, and even if they complained, the man would not change.
Felix Abt
#52. 'Es cor meum,' he murmured, his eyes dancing over my face.
Though I'd never heard the phrase, I responded: 'Ut tu meus.' As you are mine.
T.J. Klune
#53. I am not tormented, Fern responded. I am ... diminished. I have always believed that your soul grows when you do something that is good and brave, a right thing, a true thing, and when you do evil- no matter what the motive- your soul is eroded. Well, my soul is less.
Jan Siegel
#54. something: scenario x is responded to by action y. Everyone learns it and then practices it until responses are almost instinctive. It's all part of the "train hard, fight easy" philosophy that's central to military life - though veterans of the campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan smile
Nick Pope
#55. We must understand how we responded to formative trauma and how that response is perpetuated today. Otherwise, we will remain stuck in self-defeating attitudes and behaviors, all the while blaming them on someone else.
Russell Willingham
#56. I'll tell you sort of an odd story: My music taste changed on 9/11. And it's very strange. I actually intellectually find this very curious. But on 9/11, I didn't like how rock music responded. And country music collectively, the way they responded, it resonated with me.
Ted Cruz
#57. I got knocked down, I don't know how many years ago and I haven't been off my feet since, and I responded again against the best in division without the respect of having the chin I'm supposed to have.
Andre Ward
#58. These?" Mat said, gesturing to his coat and shirt. "I really have no idea. They were just down there. I'm completely baffled." He had been very pleased to learn that Seanchan guards-for all their stoic expressions and too-straight backs-responded to bribes like other people.
Robert Jordan
#59. The Anti-Slavery public have generously responded to our appeal, and sent the means to enable us to fit them out well, to pay their passages, supply them with many useful articles and give the Missionaries money to sustain themselves for a while.
Lewis Tappan
#60. I'm glad I'm not a woman trying to impress the opposite sex, Luke grunted. Kate shot him a quizzical look. Luke responded with one of his incongruous grins.
Maggie Brendan
#61. He puppeteers really responded to it. Patrick Bistrow really responded to it, it's great fun to do improve comedy with puppets.
Brian Henson
#62. Umm, how old are you?" Alexis asked, a little hesitant to answer before making sure he wasn't a minor.
"Twenty-one, but age is just a number," the guy responded.
Lindsay Chamberlin
#63. I responded that we needed a private sector to improve the market situation and make peoples lives easier.
Alexander Dubcek
#64. The entire time, he'd only ever looked at my body, never at my face, his empty eyes hungry, never seeing me at all. I wasn't the presence of a person, but a body. I could have said anything, he wouldn't have heard me. He'd never responded, not by stopping, not with his words.
Aspen Matis
#65. Melissa caught Luke's eyes and mouthed to him, "I love you."
He knew what she was saying, and responded by running over to her, grabbing her face and kissing her in front of six thousand people. "I love you too," he said [...].
Kat Green
#66. A reporter did a human-interest piece on the Texas Rangers. The reporter recognized the Colt Model 1911 the Ranger was carrying and asked him 'Why do you carry a 45?' The Ranger responded, 'Because they don't make a 46.'
Clint Smith
#67. It's not the mistakes I made but how I responded to them
Patrick Ness
#68. Well, most people would have said 'thank you' after they'd been given help, and then I would have responded to that with 'you're welcome'. I figured we'd skip straight to my part since social graces aren't your forte.
Heather James
#69. Singing was more of a hobby, and I was terrified of anyone's opinions. The only reason I kept doing it was because people responded positively, and if they hadn't I don't really know if I'd feel the same. I'm not into fighting for people's affections.
SZA
#70. I think my vision's blurred," he murmurred.
SHe responded with a hesitant laugh. "If that's all that happened, you're a heck of a better kisser than I am. I can't stand up."
"I'm afraid to touch you. We might go up in flames."
She sighed. "They story of my life ...
Christine Feehan
#71. John the Baptist, who we are told was related by blood to Jesus, was preaching the impending judgement of God, urging repentance and moral reform, and baptizing in the Jordan River those who responded.
Kenneth Scott Latourette
#72. Maybe he thinks wild translates into easy, Ryder said.
Or maybe he likes wild, I responded.
Maybe, but I bet he thinks you're easy.
You're killing my moment, Ryder.
OK, be happy he thinks you're easy.
Michelle Flick
#73. You eat donuts before you work out?" I queried. "Not every time, but do it occasionally to remind myself why I'm workin' out," he responded. This was absurd but I had to admit, it also made an absurd kind of sense.
Kristen Ashley
#74. I knew my transformation was complete when Dr.Keyes asked, "How are you feeling today, Tandy?" and I responded "I'm not
James Patterson
#75. The specific story line that people have responded to the most has been the horror of bathing suit shopping.
Cathy Guisewite
#76. She claimed she loved the camera, its warmth, its familiarity. She responded to its naked glare, its slavish attention to every expression of her face and body, with the kind of immediacy a trusted lover could expect.
Anne Edwards
#77. Then the Dean repeated the mantra that has had such a marked effect on the progress of knowledge throughout the ages.
"Why don't we just mix up absolutely everything and see what happens?" he said.
And Ridcully responded with the traditional response.
"It's got to be worth a try," he said.
Terry Pratchett
#78. Responded with a presidential note describing how Washington defined a "base." Work on the new facility was halted,
Walter Isaacson
#79. I know there has long been a great frustration among the African Americans in Nevada over their belief that we have not adequately responded to their desires to become more educated and more productive citizens.
James E. Rogers
#80. Come to the edge," he said.
"We can't, we're afraid!" they responded.
"Come to the edge," he said.
"We can't, We will fall!" they responded.
"Come to the edge," he said.
And so they came.
And he pushed them.
And they flew.
Guillaume Apollinaire
#81. Not everyone has been a bully or the victim of bullies, but everyone has seen bullying, and seeing it, has responded to it by joining in or objecting, by laughing or keeping silent, by feeling disgusted or feeling interested.
Octavia E. Butler
#82. Something in me was responding now as the audience responded, not in fear, but in some human way, to the magic of that fragile painted set, the mystery of the lighted world there.
Anne Rice
#83. I got history solidly under my belt, reading Russian history and biographies. I couldn't change the facts. I could only play with how the people might have responded to the facts of their lives.
Kathryn Harrison
#84. You're very passionate about your unhappiness aren't you, Chris?' I responded with, If it's worth doing, it's worth doing well.
Laura Buzo
#85. Legendary manners there, Karim," she commented, her voice calm. "Your mother teach you?"
"I was taught the advantage of surprise," he responded as he walked over to her massive desk.
Katherine McIntyre
#86. I think a lot of us responded intensely to 'True Detective' because it was so incredibly earnest. That's what made it heartbreaking and involving.
Annalee Newitz
#87. When Beverly and I got together in 1992, and I moved to be with her in the little round house she'd built in the middle of 20 acres of woods near Amity, I found myself immersed in a natural setting that I responded to with all my being.
Floyd Skloot
#88. Yet the greater the turmoil inside him, the more the revelations responded to it. It was as though the Quranic voice was able to see deep inside him and address questions he was barely aware he was asking.
Lesley Hazleton
#89. Asked to explain how he became a war hero he (Kennedy) responded, It was involuntary. They think my boat.
Sally Bedell Smith
#90. Where I'm from," Tom tilted his head to the side, "they call your kind a hipster or a lumbersexual, with the beard and flannel and such."
Without missing beat, Jethro responded, "Ah. See, where I'm from, they call my kind a man.
Penny Reid
#91. The ideal form for a poem, essay, or fiction, is that which the ideal writer would evolve spontaneously. One in whom the powers of expression fully responded to the state of feeling, would unconsciously use that variety in the mode of presenting his thoughts, which Art demands.
Herbert Spencer
#92. People responded to body language without even thinking. It was important to get it absolutely right.
Sara Sheridan
#93. Today our nation saw evil ... and we responded with the best of America.
George W. Bush
#94. Roland of Gilead responded as he ever had and ever would when such useless, mystifying questions were raised: 'Ka.
Stephen King
#95. Then you must be willing to fight," Mircea responded. "Life is not a gift, Raphael; it's a challenge. Rise to it!
Karen Chance
#96. To ensure a well-motivated participant, Pfungst rewarded Clever Hans with a small piece of bread, carrot or sugar each time he responded (interestingly, this same procedure still works well with most undergraduate students today).
Richard Wiseman
#97. Romulan or Vulcan?' the ushers asked each guest.
Marion, who had been poised to say 'friends of the bride' had responded to the question with an open-mouthed stare, and Jay Omega answered, 'Klingon! which got them seats in the back row of the Romulan side.
Sharyn McCrumb
#98. We were asked to do very little, and we responded. That's the bargain we tacitly make with our presidents: we won't ask too much of you, if you don't ask too much of us.
Bill Maher
#100. Don't you want to go outside and ... shag?" It was a strange word, but much better than fuck.
A quick grin lit his face before he responded. "Oh no. Right here. Love to do it in a truck.
Jeaniene Frost
