Top 100 She Did Quotes
#1. Don't try it."
"What?"
"To win any battle when I set the terms."
She did not answer. She was struck by what the words made her feel; it was not an emotion, but a physical sensation of pleasure ...
Ayn Rand
#2. Comparing man and woman on the whole, one may say: woman would not possess a genius for ornamentation if she did not also possessan instinct for the secondary role.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#3. I told myself no matter what she did i would not let the b**** take me down
Dave Pelzer
#4. She did not know what she had expected from her Dante, but she definitely hadn't received it. So with the wisdom that comes only from having experienced a broken heart, she resolved to let him go once and for all.
Sylvain Reynard
#5. I was in California when this journalist made a blanket statement about the fact that she did not think that black men and women had the kind of love relationship that Rebecca and Nathan had in Sounder.
Cicely Tyson
#6. He was always teaching, moulding her, encouraging her to curb her temper; in many ways he was as much a father figure to her as he was her husband; she in turn admired his knowledge and teaching, as she did everything about him.
Sarah Ferguson
#7. She did not sing it at bedtimes because all small boys born to the High Speech must face the dark alone,
Stephen King
#8. What I think the mentor gets is the great satisfaction of helping somebody along, helping somebody take advantage of an opportunity that maybe he or she did not have.
Clint Eastwood
#9. She had put despair and fear aside, as if they were garments she did not choose to wear.
George R R Martin
#10. The way I work with my people is totally different. I never wanted to compare myself, in a healthy way to Jillian [Michaels] because she did what she did, and I respect that. Now I want to do what I do.
Jessie Pavelka
#11. Even in good times we didn't socialize with most of our neighbors. Mom says when she was growing up she did, but so many of the old families have moved out and new people moved in and neighborliness has changed. Now being a good neighbor means minding your own business.
Susan Beth Pfeffer
#12. Theo explained, in what he thought was perfect Spanish, that Julio needed extra help with his algebra. Evidently, she did not understand perfect Spanish because she asked Julio what Theo was talking about.
John Grisham
#13. She did not exist: she would not be born till tomorrow, some time after eight o'clock a.m.; and I would wait to be assured she had come into the world alive before I assigned to her all that property.
Charlotte Bronte
#14. She did not care what a ludicrous picture she might be painting, a fat happy old lady in her night gown, swinging on a small little swing in the dead of the night.
Srividya Srinivasan
#15. hoped she did not bear a striking resemblance to a wad of dryer lint that had been struck by lightning. The look was adorable on a dust bunny, but her own hair standing on end would not make a good impression on clients.
Jayne Castle
#16. She tried not to think about what it would be like running across the airfield to the radio room an hour from now, under fire. But she did it. Because you do. It is incredible what you do, knowing you have to.
Elizabeth Wein
#17. I met my wife and, for the next ten years, we did no films at all. She did the first movie and then I did several after. My first movie was written by Tennessee Williams and directed by Kazan and was called Baby Doll.
Eli Wallach
#18. He drew some relief from knowing that she was happy doing whatever the hell it was she did. Sometimes it seemed to him she was the only happy person he knew, and that frightened him so badly it made him want to curl up and die.
Arlene Hunt
#19. She'd become a governess. It was one of the few jobs a known lady could do.
And she'd taken to it well. She'd sworn that if she did indeed ever find
herself dancing on rooftops with chimney sweeps she'd beat herself to death with her own umbrella.
Terry Pratchett
#20. Once an old woman came to Buddha and asked him how to meditate. He told her to remain aware of every movement of her hands as she drew the water from the well, knowing that if she did, she would soon find herself in that state of alert and spacious calm that is meditation.
Sogyal Rinpoche
#21. Or maybe when she realized that he was never going to come and rescue her, she did what all strong women do. She found a way to save herself.
Adriana Trigiani
#22. Men are sometimes driven by things that to a women make no sense, but she did know that Corelli had to be with his boys. Honour and common sense; in the light of the other, both of them are ridiculous.
Louis De Bernieres
#23. Comrade," said Snowball, "those ribbons that you are so devoted to are the badge of slavery. Can you not understand that liberty is worth more than ribbons?"
Mollie agreed, but she did not sound very convinced.
George Orwell
#24. She held out her right hand, palm up. "Duct tape." She did the same with her other hand. "M&M's. If I can't fix whatever's wrong with those two things, I'm going home and getting back into bed.
Sofie Kelly
#25. [Hillary Clinton] supports now a hike in the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour. Prior to that, she did not support that. Other issues that you could see, at least in the Democratic Party platform, they're there entirely because of the [Bernie] Sanders movement.
Jonathan Tasini
#26. I do not think I should care to go on worshipping a Madonna even if she did wink. One cannot make much out of a wink. We want something more than that from the object of our adoration.
Charles Spurgeon
#27. Every girl would secretly want to be "the one" even though she might lie to herself that she did not.
Kristen Ashley
#28. Every mother hopes that her daughter will marry a better man than she did, and is convinced that her son will never find a wife as good as his father did.
Martin Andersen Nexo
#29. I would just die if some little girl saw me jump into bed with someone in the movies, and then she did it and got AIDS and died.
T'Keyah Crystal Keymah
#30. She did not replace my mother; no one could do that; but she came into a vacancy in my heart, which closed upon her, and I felt towards her something I have never felt for any other human being
Charles Dickens
#31. The dreamer in her Had fallen in love with me and she did not know it. That moment the dreamer in me Fell in love with her and I knew it
Ted Hughes
#32. Josh loved his mother, but he did not know why. Diane loved her son, and she did not care why.
Joseph Fink
#33. She did not like seeing her loved ones like this, bent over with sorrow; everything in her wanted to cry out, to thrash and scream at the sight of it. But she knew that great grief came from great love, and that their grief was an honor to her. And she did love them so very much.
Anne Ursu
#34. I can't know if she lied about Sohtyr or not. Maybe she did trick us, I don't know. But what I do know is that I have to go after her." "Damn," Leth said. "It must be so confusing to be you."
V.R. Cardoso
#35. Margaret Thatcher made tough decisions. She put people out of work and she stood up to labor unions and she did a lot of things that I did not like.
Harvey Weinstein
#36. She was never so petty. She did not dabble with minnows at the surface when there were thirty-pound salmon swimming deeper down.
Elizabeth Wein
#37. This is the corpse road, she said, aligning her body with the invisible path. As she did, she could feel something inside her begin to hum agreeably, a sensation very much like the satisfaction that came from aligning book spines on a shelf.
Maggie Stiefvater
#38. It matters not, for she did not need her eyes to tell her who she was. She knew it by your love for her.
Kate Morton
#39. Artemis the bitch goddess. You know her. She's the one who stole your soul. (Simi)
She didn't steal it. (Gallagher)
Of course she did. She steals everything. (Simi)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#40. She did worse than break the law, she broke the rules
Leo Tolstoy
#41. She did not acknowledge that her brain was warped, for the brain itself must assist in that acknowledgement, and she was disordering the very instruments of life.
E. M. Forster
#42. My mother started out by being a very good girl. She did everything that was expected of her, and it cost her dearly. Late in her life, she was furious that she had not followed her own heart; she thought that it had ruined her life, and I think she was right.
Ruth Reichl
#43. When Joan D' Arc was asked by her judges why as a Christian she did not love the British, she answered that she did love them, but she loved British in their country. In the same way, we do not hate the Turks, we love them, but in their country.
Jean-Marie Le Pen
#44. But she did believe that the fundamentals of most people remained the same throughout their lifetimes. People who were generous usually remained generous, unless life taught them not to be. And people who saw the world through the prism of their own needs first and foremost would always be that way.
Sarah Mayberry
#45. She'd say thank you for giving her boy back something that left him when she did.
Jamie McGuire
#46. My mother told me not to listen to anyone. She had been told that she wouldn't be able to teach and she did.
Archie Panjabi
#47. She was tired these days because she was having job trouble too; her trouble meant she did not know how she could be useful in her life. Dad's job trouble was he had too much to do with his life. Sometimes I just wanted them to even it out but I couldn't think of how.
Aimee Bender
#48. It appeared to Harriet that she was always the one who remembered having seen other people. They never remembered having seen her. She did not like to seem (even to herself) so much more caught up in the importance of others when they cared so little for her.
Elizabeth Taylor
#49. She did not smile, but her face had the lovely serenity that can become a smile without transition.
Ayn Rand
#50. She was unstoppable. Not because she did not have failures or doubts, bit because she continued on despite them.
Beau Taplin
#51. You know, if Nancy Davis hadn't come along when she did, I would have lost my soul.
Ronald Reagan
#52. Bob," I asked. "What is all my stuff doing here?" "Oh," Bob said. "That. Well. Bianca got the idea, somewhere, that your stuff might explode if anyone messed around with it." I heard the wryness in my voice, though I didn't feel it. "She did, did she." "I can't imagine how." "I'm doubling your pay.
Jim Butcher
#53. Why do we always fight?" she whispered.
"You know why." Yeah, she did. "It's science." "Combustible chemistry," he agreed. "Dangerous.
Jill Shalvis
#54. ACT9.36 Now there was at Joppa a certain disciple named Tabitha, which by interpretation is called Dorcas: this woman was full of good works and almsdeeds which she did.
Anonymous
#55. He was never angry when she made mistakes. He complimented and encouraged her. He shared his own mishaps with a sense of humor that made her less annoyed with her own incompetence. He gave her hope that she could learn, and pride when she did.
Francine Rivers
#56. Evans, Evans!" He Cried.
Mrs. Smith was talking aloud to himself, Agnes the servant girl cries to Mrs. Filmer in the kitchen. "Evans, Evans" he had said as she brought in the tray. She jumped, she did. She scuttled downstairs.
Virginia Woolf
#57. In the forties [1940s] in Washington it was still unusual for a rich and socially well-connected married woman to work. If she did, her husband was assumed by his peers to be unable to support a household on his own and somehow to be inadequate.
David Brinkley
#58. Roarke wondered if she thought of how many more would be hers - victims and killers. And knew, as he knew her, she did.
J.D. Robb
#59. She did not look her best: so thin, so large-nosed, with that pink-and-white checked duster tied round her head. She felt her disadvantage. But she had had a good deal of suffering and sorrow, she did not mind any more.
D.H. Lawrence
#60. He smiled.
Her stomach felt strange.
She tried to smile back. She really should be going.
So naturally, she did not move.
Julia Quinn
#61. And she did not want him to think her quite mad, only a little unique, only containing within her just that measure of the unexpected sufficient to make her irreplaceable.
Rose Tremain
#62. She did drive me in the Park the other day. I thought it rather a hopeful
P.G. Wodehouse
#63. She did not get a medal - it was not fair. 'What a swizz,' she whispered bitterly to her mother as Cicely Barnard's name was called. 'She simply doesn't know enough to be bad.
Monica Dickens
#64. I went out with a promiscuous impressionist - she did everybody.
Jay London
#65. Only for a minute. I'll be right back." He plopped the baby in her lap and hopped to his feet. Wren held her at arm's length and frowned. She did not appreciate that, because she immediately began wailing.
"Here," Wren said, thrusting her in my direction. "Take the mutant baby.
Amy Tintera
#66. Her tone held a challenge. She did not need his condemnation or what his pity. Once, she had wanted his love, but that time had passed into dust. There was no point wanting things that could never be.
India Drummond
#67. a woman with a lover's impatience with the whole world, a woman who feared when she did not get what she wanted that it meant she was not loved by creation itself; her need for success at seduction was like her need for dinner or breakfast. When
Alexander Chee
#68. Her Protestant pastor had been sympathetic, until the Gestapo terrified him into silence. Perhaps the same would happen again. But she did not know what else to do. Heinrich took
Ken Follett
#70. She [Bettie Page] was a traumatized person, but she did have an active sex life.
Mary Harron
#71. He didn't give a shit what Sin did, who she "mated" with, or what she did with her assassin business. But this Lycus fucker was blackmailing her, and that just pissed him off. The sudden image of her naked, beneath a well-muscled body did'nt bother him at all. At. All.
Larissa Ione
#72. They never fought. I mean it: they never fought. In the evening, she did her sewing and he read his paper and we did our homework and we had what the Israelis call shalom bait, peace in the home.
Edith Hahn Beer
#73. Do you miss Wales? Tessa inquired. She wasn't sure why she did it; she knew asking Will about his past was like poking a dog with a sore tail, but she couldn't seem to help it.
Cassandra Clare
#74. What was the point of starting a new life if she did everything the same as her old one?
Donna Cummings
#75. And at the UN she took the advice - she had to take the advice - of the State Department and the Assistant Secretary of State for International Organizations. They keep our UN representatives on a very short leash. She did as she was told, and voted as she was told.
William A. Rusher
#76. A person who believes, as she did, that things fit: that there is a whole of which one is a part, and that in being a part one is whole: such a person has no desire whatever, at any time, to play God. Only those who have denied their being yearn to play at it.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#77. Everything I know about passive resistance I learned from Micheline. She always appeared to be doing exactly as she was told, but everything she did took twice as long as it should have.
Elizabeth Wein
#78. It wasn't Adonis that she didn't trust. She did. It was these skank hoes she had to keep an eye on.
Em Wolf
#79. It struck me there might be a reason why Helena Justina whipped along at such a cracking pace: she did not want to be stuck in the wilderness with my corpse. I thanked Jove for her ruthless good sense. I did not want my corpse to be stuck with her in any case.
Lindsey Davis
#80. I had never seen her wearing lipstick, but knew better than to say so in case she did that mysterious alchemy some girls do and transformed the comment into my accusing her of having gained weight.
Helen Oyeyemi
#81. You had to know someone very well to make them laugh like that. She had loved him for such a long time, she thought. How was it that she did not know him at all?
Cassandra Clare
#82. What she did was harmless. What you did, man, was begging to get laid.
Piper Shelly
#83. Johanna's face contorts, and I mimic her, to see what it feels like to have my face that way. It doesn't feel very good. I'm not sure why she did it to begin with.
Veronica Roth
#84. She did a karate chop move down the middle of the blankets. She was trying to draw a boundary line. Fucking adorable.
D.D. Prince
#85. My mom and I used to listen to records, read, and take train rides across the country in the summer. It was a very chill life. She didn't expose me to anything that was ahead of my development, but she expected me to adjust to her world - she did not expect to adjust to mine.
Martha Plimpton
#86. Perhaps she did more than anyone else, for she slapped the King and put him to bed without his tea,
E. Nesbit
#87. There was no one to really argue with, but Mama managed it expertly every chance she had. She could argue with the entire world in that kitchen and almost every evening, she did.
Markus Zusak
#88. her life was already so fraught with unpleasantnesses that she'd adopted the strategy of delaying encounters with them as long as possible, even when the delay made it likely that they would be even more unpleasant when she did encounter them.
Jonathan Franzen
#89. And most of all she wondered about the man at the next table whose voice was like ... like a dream which she did not know that she had dreamed.
Susan Glaspell
#90. She herself vacillated when it came to belief. She did not particularly believe in God. Or, rather, she didn't believe in a particular God. Nevertheless, she kept an open mind. She was not a melancholy agnostic, but the optimistic kind. She liked to give God the benefit of the doubt.
Allegra Goodman
#91. Ill met by moonlight,' said Deirdre.
'You could still be tied to a stake,' said Random, and she did not reply.
Roger Zelazny
#92. She did not understand grunge, the idea of looking shabby because you could afford not to be shabby; it mocked true shabbiness.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
#93. Everything that she did or undid, however disparate that looked to an observer with prejudices, was done for what should be done, that is, with courage and without fear of consequences.
Remedios Varo
#94. What she did was to open our eyes to details of country life such as teaching us names of wild flowers and getting us to draw and paint and learn poetry.
Laurie Lee
#95. She lov'd me for the dangers I had pass'd,
And I lov'd her that she did pity them
William Shakespeare
#96. She found that she did not mind losing the previous moment, for this one was just as lovely.
Leslye Walton
#97. My mother told me stories all the time ... And in all of those stories she told me who I was, who I was supposed to be, whom I came from, and who would follow me ... That's what she said and what she showed me in the things she did and the way she lives.
Paula Gunn Allen
#98. Yet even in such moments she didn't doubt that God existed. She just sometimes wondered if He remembered that she did.
Tamera Alexander
#99. I should stay to be sure she doesn't have a concussion. And that she doesn't need sex for it. Or just to be there in case she did ...
Robyn Carr
#100. I knew I couldn't let her go, not again, especially then that I knew she would not ever come back if she did.
Emiliano Campuzano
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