Top 100 So Be It Quotes
#1. If the primary ends up being a hard hitting, bloody battle, well so be it. Let's get ready for the general election
Steve Lonegan
#2. So be it. In my mind the beginning of a life, especially if it seems destined to be a challenging one, deserves the most promising name you can come up with. A beginning kind of name. Like Dawn, Or Hope. Or Aurora.
Sarah Weeks
#3. And it is this sense that some of us have to contribute to the culture, to the society in ways that may hurt financially, so what? We do it because we are born to do it, we feel we have no other choice and so be it.
Gunther Schuller
#4. I ruffle a lot of feathers. And I'm also selective - that makes you a troublemaker. But so be it. I laid a cornerstone for black actors, and that makes me happy.
Esther Rolle
#5. If David Brent is the best thing that I ever come up with, then so be it. What are you supposed to do, time the best thing you do for just before you die?
Ricky Gervais
#6. If the heart that matches the beat of your own comes in the body of a man, so be it. Doesn't change anything. You're the same man you were yesterday. Better, even.
L.C. Chase
#7. Dorian?"
"Yeah?:
"I want my mummy in our web."
Dorian's heart kicked in his chest. "She will be." It was the one thing he wouldn't compromise on. And if that made him animal in his possessiveness, so be it.
Nalini Singh
#8. I'm trying as hard as I possibly can each and every day to get my life better and better and stronger. And if I win championships along the way, so be it.
Tiger Woods
#9. if someone had noticed the signs in you, would you have sought help?" "No, I guess you're right." "Of course I am." He smiled. "And you need to stop worrying about pleasing everyone. If your family wants to shut you out, so be it.
Anne Patrick
#10. I'm not scared of diversity. We have to have debates and win the argument, and if there are amendments that need to be brought up so we find out where the party is, so be it.
Jason Chaffetz
#11. The astonishing fact is that similar mathematics applies so well to planets and to clocks. It needn't have been this way. We didn't impose it on the Universe. That's the way the Universe is. If this is reductionism, so be it.
Carl Sagan
#12. If circumstances dictate that your disposable income has to come from eating ramen alongside your vintage Cantillon gueuze, so be it.
Patrick Dawson
#13. If to get to the finish line the hero must walk over a sea of bodies, then so be it. He can die at said line, but he's got to get there.
Thomas C. Foster
#14. I have amazing kids, an amazing husband, a fabulous career, wonderful parents. If I had to go through some rough spots to get to this amazing place, so be it.
Melissa Marr
#15. I need just be a bayonet, a bayonet named Diving Punishment. I wish I'd been born a storm. Or a menace. Or a single grenade. No heart, no tears, just as a terrible gale'd have been good. If [by doing this] I become that, then so be it.
Kohta Hirano
#16. You can't give up something you really believe in for financial reasons. If you die by the roadside - so be it. But at least you know you've tried. Ten minutes in the music scene was the equal of one hundred years outside of it.
Robert Plant
#17. If 'extreme' means that I am unwilling to go to Washington, D.C., and do what President Obama tells me, then so be it. But I am certainly not going to Washington, D.C. to represent the interests of D.C. I'm going there to represent Colorado values.
Ken Buck
#18. Life before consciousness was like blank paper, so be it.
Santosh Kalwar
#19. Go for what you want if it doesn't want you back, so be it, it doesn't deserve you
Nicole Richie
#20. Man has no foothold that is not also a bargain. So be it!
Djuna Barnes
#21. After a moment the king said, "So be it."
Zsadist cursed. Butch whistled low. Rhage bit into a Tootsie Pop.
J.R. Ward
#22. They may well say not only is this not true, but I will put in an injunction to prevent publication. No, stories don't go in unless I'm convinced by the people who write them that they're true. And if I'm wrong, then so be it.
Ian Hislop
#23. So be it. I'm happy to bring the country together.
Mark McGwire
#24. He would, he realized, find them or spend the rest of his life looking, and this might not take so long. So be it. All he had ever needed, in that desert or this, was some say in how it went, some reassurance that he would go doing something worthwhile. A sappy idea, but not therefore false.
Claire Vaye Watkins
#25. The truth was that we all faced death here. For my part I was somewhat fatalistic - if it happened, then so be it. But I wanted to survive. The future - even without Alice - called to me, and I didn't want that taken away.
Joseph Delaney
#26. Well, now I tell you, I never seen good come o' goodness yet. Him as strikes first is my fancy; dead men don't bite; them's my views - amen, so be it. And
Robert Louis Stevenson
#27. Then so be it. I'll go where you go no matter how dark the path.
Cora Reilly
#28. If disaster, so be it, they said to themselves. There was nothing to be done except what could be done. The rest
like the salt water around them, which swallowed the snow without effort, remaining what it was implacably
was out of their hands, beyond.
David Guterson
#30. Scatology was strictly out, as nowhere in my psyche do I harbor the desire to shit on someone and even less do I have the inclination to be shat upon. And if I a a snob for not participating in films that involve sex with animals, then so be it; I am a snob.
Andrew Davidson
#31. You could kind of say that I was ready for war. If our marriage was over, then so be it.
Nika Michelle
#32. The Gaians sneered at the Zhore behind their backs, calling them pacifists, as if that word were an insult, but Lirzhan did not take it as such. A peaceful solution was always best, but if one did not present itself, then so be it.
Christine Pope
#33. My aim is to make you look the best you can and if that means a little bit of internal pulling and hoisting up, then so be it.
Bruce Oldfield
#35. If being recalled is the price for keeping one's promises, then so be it.
Russell Pearce
#36. If it takes talking about unpleasant truths to change Washington, then so be it.
Scott McClellan
#37. As angry as he was, his father could not help but laugh. 'You're not my son,' he told Bran when they fetched him down, 'you're a squirrel. So be it. If you must climb, then climb, but try not to let your mother see you.
George R R Martin
#39. If I have to die tonight,if this weight is going to kill me tonight,so be it! I am dying where I wanna be
Kai Greene
#40. I cannot live without you, Gwendolyn, nor can I believe the gods have brought us through so much only to tear us apart again. If I must face the possibility of death, then so be it.
Miriam Minger
#41. If there's any mystery to me at all, it's probably due to the fact that I'm not online and don't go to conventions
which means that I'm probably not as accessible to fans as most writers are these days. If that makes me seem like a weird recluse, so be it.
Bentley Little
#42. I'm cool with myself. If I can't have the body of Angie Bassett, so be it.
Queen Latifah
#43. I think that smart is sexy, and driven is sexy, and passion is sexy, and if you're passionate about math, so be it.
Jonathan Slavin
#44. The only time he cries is if he's hungry. We all have nipples. I don't care who I offend; my baby wants to eat. If I can't get a cover over me quick enough, so be it.
Selma Blair
#45. The environment that people live in is the environment that they learn to live in, respond to, and perpetuate. If the environment is good, so be it. But if it is poor, so is the quality of life within it.
Ellen Swallow Richards
#46. I believe that 'advocacy journalism' is not an oxymoron. If that means that I'm going to disrupt the cable, partisan fracas of obsession over what this means from left and right, then so be it. I will be disruptive of it.
Chris Cuomo
#47. I have dreamt of a life you will never know; the life of a loving and caring companion. I simply thought you should know. I see that you are in trouble. I watch and listen to you. I want to help, but you won't let me. So be it. I love you still. Do what you will, I shall watch over you.
Timothy Findley
#48. I don't steer towards anything. I steer towards character and truth. If it's funny then so be it. If it's dramatic, so be it. I just steer towards characters.
Tate Taylor
#49. I will make Maggie safe. If the world burns because of that then so be it. Me and the kid will roast some marshmallows.
Jim Butcher
#50. So be it. I'll wear my iron and hold my tongue. A man who won't listen can't hear.
George R R Martin
#51. I want some colleague to be free to come help me when I say the time has come. That's what I'm fighting for, me. Now that sounds selfish. And if it helps somebody else, so be it.
Jack Kevorkian
#52. People have to follow their hearts, and if their hearts lead them to WalMart, so be it.
Maynard James Keenan
#53. We shall draw nearer to God, not by trying to avoid the sufferings inherent in all loves, but by accepting them and offering them to Him; throwing away all defensive armour. If our hearts need to be broken, and if He chooses this as the way in which they should break, so be it.
C.S. Lewis
#54. The truest lengthening of life is to live while we live, wasting no time but using every hour for the highest ends. So be it this day.
Charles Spurgeon
#55. Amen meaneth assuredly, namely, that I am sure that petitions of this kind are accepted by my Heavenly Father, and heard by him, because he hath commanded us, that we should pray after this manner, and hath promised that he will hear us. Amen, Amen: that is, truly, certainly, so be it.
Martin Luther
#56. I am also about trusting maggot instincts. If I get played or taken advantage of? So be it. That's a life lesson. I would rather have believed in someone and get hurt than live life with distrust. I always go into a relationship with trust.
Masi Oka
#57. Modern literature is a north-east wind
a blight of the human soul. I take credit to myself for having helped to make it so. The way to produce fine fruit is to blight the flower. You call this a paradox. Marry, so be it.
Thomas Love Peacock
#58. All I care about is showing this chode exactly who he's messing with. Throwing my door open, I step out. If he has a gun, so be it. I'll take it in the chest like the animal I am.
Victoria Scott
#59. i am tough and ambitious and if that makes me a bitch.. then so be it.
Madona Bouglione
#60. You're not going anywhere. If I need to put you in chains to keep you by my side, then so be it.
Jayde Scott
#61. The most important thing is to illicit some reaction, good or bad. If some people are repellent to me, so be it. If some people are attracted to me, great. At the end, that's the object of entertainment - you want to provoke a reaction.
Michael Trucco
#62. Besides, dressing like I want to be invisible only makes me feel weak. I have to be strong. So if that means wearing cute boots and nice pants and a sweet blue shirt that looks especially good on me today for some reason if I do say so myself, then so be it.
Robin Brande
#63. I'm not going out with you."
"Come on, it can just be a friends thing. If we choose to get naked afterward, so be it.
Julie Johnson
#64. I love seeing on Twitter when someone says I'm gay, and I say, 'So what does it matter if I am? So be it. I hope you are not voting for me because you are making the presumption that I'm straight.'
Cory Booker
#65. I'm thinking that after last night you shouldn't have to spend your morning in a hospital finding out if my mother has tried to OD."
"And I'm thinking that after last night I want to be anywhere you are and if that means being in a hospital asking about your mother, then so be it.
Melina Marchetta
#66. I don't understand what it's all about or what's worth what, but if the people in the Swedish Academy decide that x, y or z wins the Nobel Prize, then so be it.
Richard P. Feynman
#67. I was determined to get it right on the pitch. Then, if I had to leave at the end of the season, so be it. I never felt threatened or isolated by the arrangement. We worked together and it worked out.
Bryan Robson
#68. All I can say is that I'm going to try to coach the way I've coached in the past. And if it ends up not being good enough, then so be it.
Steve Spurrier
#69. We make stupid mistakes when we're young; we do our best to make amends for them as we get older. We survive by learning; by learning we survive. Such is life. So be it.
Allen Steele
#70. Two choices. One future. I was so sick of running. So sick of hiding. So sick of being weak . I didn't run. I didn't deny it. Instead, I held my chin high and claimed all that I'd achieved. I'd won; they'd lost. So be it if my life was now over.
Pepper Winters
#71. A girl's got to do what she's got to do to make somebody pay her a compliment. If that means moaning 'til the cows come home, then so be it.
Cat Deeley
#72. At the end of the day, I fight for those who cannot fight for themselves. If that makes me an outlaw, so be it. I've been called worse.
Angela Parkhurst
#73. We old bachelors smell like dogs, do we? So be it. But I must take issue with your claim that doctors who treat female illnesses are womanizers and cynics at heart. Gynecologists deal with savage prose the likes of which you have never dreamed of.
Anton Chekhov
#74. I'm 5'9'. So, my height's an issue. If I'm feeling sexy, I'll put on some heels-if that makes me a little taller than you, so be it. You have to be secure enough to stand next to a stallion. For a woman to feel her best, her man has to support her.
Keri Hilson
#75. I'll never be good enough for you, I know that. But I'm no good without you, and if that makes me a selfish bastard for wanting you as badly as I do then so be it because I can't live a life that doesn't have you in it.
Samantha Towle
#76. Sometimes it's hard to say no. Ultimately, if you stick to your guns, you have the career that you want. Don't get me wrong. I love a good payday and I'll do films for fun. But ultimately my main goal is to do good work. If it doesn't pay well, so be it.
Philip Seymour Hoffman
#78. He wanted to be in a bad mood, so be it. Whatever. I had a new baby tiger who could talk to me and thought I was her Loolah!
Kristen Ashley
#79. Everyone will not favor you or
respect your beliefs, passion and purpose
so be it. But do not allow the views of others to hinder your quest. Remain steadfast.
Terry A. O'Neal
#80. If anyone decided to call the sea Neptune, and corn Ceres, and to misapply the name of Bacchus rather than to give liquor its right name, so be it; and let him dub the round world "Mother of the Gods" so long as he is careful not really to infest his mind with base superstitions.
Lucretius
#81. I just feel such freedom to do whatever. If a song's seven minutes or ten minutes long, then so be it - it's that long.
Charlie Daniels
#82. My role isn't to be politically smart. My role is to do what's right under the constitution. And if that's politically unpopular, so be it.
Rose Bird
#83. If you choose to crawl, so be it. If you choose to stroll, so be it. If you choose to fly, so be it.
Abhishek Kumar
#84. I don't think we can sit on the fence anymore. We have to make up our minds. And if one wants to choose the path of darkness, then so be it, but be conscious of what it is you're doing.
Seal
#85. If abandoning animal research means that there are some things we cannot learn, then so be it ... We have no basic right ... not to be harmed by those natural diseases we are heir to.
Tom Regan
#86. You sound like Darth Vader," I say bluntly. Elinor doesn't even flinch. "So be it," she says, and sips her water. That is totally a Darth Vader thing to say. Next she'll be ordering the destruction of a thousand innocent Jedi younglings.
Sophie Kinsella
#87. I am the way I am. If you like me because I'm glamorous, so be it. If you like me, because I speak well or I have a brain and opinion, so be it.
Malaika Arora Khan
#88. If I must go to hell to find my mother again, so be it: I will be another embodied disaster. But I will be a beautiful disaster.
Lyndsay Faye
#89. They like to tell us that it is important to speak the truth, but it has been my experience that real happiness lies in having people tell you what you want to believe, usually not the same thing at all, and if you have to stub your toe on the truth later, so be it.
Jeff Lindsay
#90. From what I've seen, a girl's got to behave like a mental midget before she'll get any action in this town. If resisting that makes me a freak, so be it. I may die with my hymen intact, but at least I'll have my dignity" ~ Confessions of a Triple Shot Betty
Jody Gehrman
#91. I think people loosely use the term 'free speech.' If the market wants to be such that people don't want to watch someone, so be it.
Greta Van Susteren
#92. A woman once rang me up and said, 'Mr. Escher, I am absolutely crazy about your work. In your print -Reptiles- you have given such a striking illustration of reincarnation.' I replied, 'Madam, if that's the way you see it, so be it.'
M.C. Escher
#93. Traditional Islam is a mixture of all obedience to Allah, and if that requires militancy, so be it.
Deepak Chopra
#94. It's gone on my whole life, this David and Goliath syndrome that a lot of these smaller guys always have. They think the only reason I've ever had any success in my career is because of my physical size. And you know what? If that's the case, so be it. I really don't care. Because I have that size.
Kevin Nash
#95. If I have to shoot 200,000 students to save China from another 100 years of disorder, so be it.
Lee Kuan Yew
#96. Over the last couple of years, I've really worked toward balancing my life out more, having a little bit more time with friends, family and my boyfriend. There was a period of time when they were way down the list. It was all about music and touring and if everything fell by the wayside, so be it.
Alanis Morissette
#97. I have very high expectations of myself. I'm a very competitive person but competitive with myself. I want to be the best that I can be and if that means that I'm eventually better than everyone else then so be it.
Wentworth Miller
#98. I am neither for conformity nor non-conformity. I am for individuality. If one's individuality is in effect non-conformity, then so be it. But basically, one's individuality consists of conformity
to one's self.
Paul Krassner
#99. If he only made three miles a day, so be it. Better to have those three miles behind him than ahead.
Michael Punke
#100. I do want to believe in love. I want all of its trappings, and if it costs me my sanity and a very good divorce lawyer, so be it.
Addison Moore
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