Then They Quotes

#1. If somebody doesn't have enough judgment to be able to look at plastic surgery and realize how phony it is, then they can't be helped.

Brian Austin Green

#2. It was not really Saturday night, at least it may have been, for they had long lost count of the days; but always if they wanted to do anything special they said this was Saturday night, and then they did it.

J.M. Barrie

#3. Reading, like writing, is a creative act. If readers only bring a narrow range of themselves to the book, then they'll only see their narrow range reflected in it.

Ben Okri

#4. Coaches must be flexible, for then they won't get bent out of shape.

John Kessel

#5. Because people who aren't good at their jobs don't want to be measured, because then they have to be accountable for something. Great employees love that kind of accountability. They crave it. Poor ones run away from it.

Patrick Lencioni

#6. If after giving it all that you possibly can, you do lose to the competition, then they really deserve the win.

Nabil N. Jamal

#7. If a writer is not offending someone, then they are not doing their job.

Patrick O'Neil

#8. I remember there was someone. Someone to love. Someone to hate. And I was something. Something special. And proud of it. For a time. Then they turned on me. He turned on me. I remember ... dying.

Todd McFarlane

#9. Secrets are like pregnancies hereabouts. You can hide them for a while but then they will start screaming.

Jim Crace

#10. I think we crushed ourselves down over the centuries. Buried ourselves under greed and hate and whatever other sins we could find until our souls finally hit the rock bottom of the universe. And then they scraped a hole through it, into some ... darker place.

Isaac Marion

#11. Fashion is, after all, a form of escapism, and in fact people are buying more special things than ever, nowadays. They deny and deny themselves, and wait and wait, and then they get sick of it and spend to make themselves feel better.

Tom Ford

#12. The original 'RoboCop' was X-rated, and then they had to cut it down so it became R-rated, and Verhoeven claimed that actually made the movie more violent, because it's what you don't see that actually scares you.

Joel Kinnaman

#13. Your children will smash your understanding, knowledge and reality. You will be better off. Then they will leave. You'll miss them forever.

Tibor Kalman

#14. Then, when I'm in these relationships with people who are also creative, or creative in their own way, what happens is the attraction is initially there and it's all unicorns and rainbows. And then they hate me.

Lady Gaga

#15. I want to change history, do something important in my life, and influence individuals like we have with millions of small businesses on Alibaba. Then they love and respect you because you made their life important.

Jack Ma

#16. If men cease to believe that they will one day become gods then they will surely become worms.

Henry Miller

#17. So many people say they want a new life, but then they take the new one they get every morning for granted. Don't do this.

Marc D. Angel

#18. Florida is an awesome place to find sweaters. People buy a really nice sweater for their trips up north, then they just keep it in the closet forever, so you're finding super nice sweaters down here at the Salvation Army. It's hard to say no sometimes.

Jim Drain

#19. The day of my arrest I was first put in a room where there were already several other prisoners, most of them Arabs. They laughed when they saw me. Then they asked what I was in for. I said I'd killed an Arab and they were all silent

Albert Camus

#20. White men have always controlled their wives' wages. Colored men were not able to do so until they themselves became free. Then they owned both their wives and their wages.

Susan B. Anthony

#21. And then they were kissing. Something exploded within his chest burning away the tension and confusion and fear. Burning away the hurt of seconds earlier. For a moment it felt like nothing mattered anymore. Like nothing would matter ever again.

James Dashner

#22. In this room I have picked which gun was unloaded out of ten options. And then they pulled the trigger on me. I have picked stocks that went on to skyrocket. I have picked which pencil I would shove into Ms. Robertson's ear until she kicked me out for thinking about it.

Kiersten White

#23. Just then they were both vulnerable, and the only thing standing between them and our enemies, was me.
It seemed nobody wanted to take those odds because no one approached. I was mildly flattered.

Violet Cross

#24. I would be embarrassed to tell you how many folks ran saying that they weren't going to spend a bunch of money, they weren't going to raise the debt ceiling, and then they went to Washington, D.C., and did exactly that.

Mick Mulvaney

#25. 'Pears like my heart go flutter, flutter, and then they may say, 'Peace, Peace,' as much as they likes - I know it's goin' to be war!

Harriet Tubman

#26. We can think of solutions in various theoretical ways, but it's not so on the ground. If they don't have a reference that helps them to belong, then they will end up excluding, and through that they get to feel that they belong on the basis of some narrow identity, language or color.

Tariq Ramadan

#27. When you make mistakes, whether they are from this life or another, learn from them- then they become opportunities

P.C. Cast

#28. My first ten years in Hollywood were really tough. I'd be coaching friends who came to me for acting advice, and then they'd make it before I did. I'd still be helping them while they were on movie sets and I had four lines on a TV show.

Michael Pena

#29. What you want to worship above youth, I think, is beauty, and beauty is so beyond just appearances after a while. Because you can be with someone who's good-looking; if they open their mouths and they're an idiot, then they cease to be beautiful very quickly.

Patton Oswalt

#30. AI don't make a big thing out of my race. If you try to preach, people give you a little sympathy and then they want to get out of the way. So you don't preach; you tell the story.

Jim Brown

#31. You know, I believe that people need to find what they love to do most in the world, what they're best at, and then they need to use that ability to make the world better.

Jessica Warman

#32. Boys forget what their country means by just reading 'The Land of the Free' in history books. Then they get to be men. They forget even more. Liberty's too precious a thing to be buried in books.

Jefferson Smith

#33. I started on television, and on sitcoms, and loved them, but then they sort of seemed to be going through sort of an ice age, and they started dying off one by one, and I recognized that, and my representatives recognized that, and we said 'Well, let's look at dramas and other things like that.'

David Alan Basche

#34. All you need to do is to get clients in the hotel door; then they hand you their wallets for five days.

John Pritzker

#35. There's nothing nicer than getting a round of applause for turning up for work. It's amazing! You start work, and people clap. Do you know what I mean? And then they stand up and clap at the end.

James Corden

#36. For a long time, television said, 'We won't cover cricket unless you pay us to cover it.' Then they said, 'OK, the next rights are sold for 55 million dollars. The next rights are sold for 612 million dollars.' So, it's a bit of a curve, that.

Harsha Bhogle

#37. If you created a place in air where they're breathing and running around in, and then they speak in that fictional milieu, it's perfectly authenticated because the whole world relies on you, who've made it possible.

Fred D'Aguiar

#38. After the Dutch left Indonesia, after the Indonesians got loose in 1945, the freemen were not as widely used, but then they went through a real Renaissance where military dictatorship took over.

Joshua Oppenheimer

#39. Bigots see something they expect and then they stop thinking about what is in front of them. It's probably how they got to be bigots in the first place.

Jim Butcher

#40. It's very difficult once you've been on telly because people know what you do. They give you a little bit of grace but then they're harsher if you're not funny, so you have to be funny.

Noel Fielding

#41. I think the issue of women's choice is essential for a woman being able to have their lives - if they cannot control their own bodies by choosing if or when to have a child, then they cannot control their working life or anything around them.

Tavis Smiley

#42. I do believe that people hire immigrants, legal and illegal immigrants, to do certain jobs that maybe possibly could go to American citizens, and that's unfortunate. If they're here legally, I think it's OK. If they're here illegally, then they ought not be taking jobs from American citizens.

Jan Brewer

#43. With animal behavior, they're all fine until you introduce some rogue element into the cage, and then they go crazy.

Jeanette Winterson

#44. Don't ya ever get too big for your britches or someone's gonna bust your britches wide open and then they'll find out you got a butt like everybody else. Nothing special about it.

Cathy Lamb

#45. I believe in myself like a five-year-old believes in himself. They say look at me, look at me! Then they do a flip in the backyard. It won't even be that amazing, but everyone will be clapping for them.

Kanye West

#46. They basically ask their engineers to volunteer some probability figures, then they take the average. This is not science. This is voodoo,

Michio Kaku

#47. These guys, my guys, are a bunch of assholes and I have to dig deep to find things about them I like so I can keep their secrets and keep them alive. Then they do these things, they betray me, and I have to let go of the love I worked so hard to find and splatter their brains all over the wall.

Bonnie Morse

#48. I beg my Children to be just and virtuous, never to disgrace my name or theirs, and then they are out of fortune's power.

Thomas Willis

#49. True hearts have ears and eyes, no tongues to speak;
They hear and see, and sigh, and then they break.

Edward Dyer

#50. Oh dear ... then they must already be on the march! We have to hurry and get to the Hamblings ... before nightfall!' - Phillip Celeste from Curse of Ancient Shadows

Rod Tyson

#51. If only they could listen with their hearts & not their minds, maybe then they would understand that often times it's the emotions not spoken that are longing to be heard.

Christine Upton

#52. You can't demand truth and reconciliation. You have to demand truth - people have to hear it, and then they have to want to reconcile themselves to that truth.

Bryan Stevenson

#53. What's up with guys? All they see is a bright smile, and they never look past a woman's tits until they get married and then they wonder why Mary Sunshine got replaced with Sally Yells a Lot.

Lexi Blake

#54. His body distorted, eyes appeared all over him, and wings spread from his back - three wings on each side. My breath caught. They were magnificent. Then they burst into flames, raging red and blue fire, and he just stood there in front of me, his arms slightly apart as he burned. Then he was gone.

Jessica Shirvington

#55. And then they were staring again. And it happened again, just as it had in the theater yesterday. Time slowed, atoms and particles separating and recombining in a secret sphere around them.

Suanne Laqueur

#56. Girls say they like a sensitive man, but then they complain about my premature ejaculation.

Tom Sims

#57. Faith then they vowed
Fast, unyielding,
There each to each
In oaths binding.
Bliss there was born
When Brynhild woke;
Yet fate is strong
To find its end.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#58. Keep working at whatever you do. I don't care if you don't see results right then, they will come sooner or later. And it don't even necessarily have to be in music. Anything you do, with hard work, it's gonna always pay off.

Short Dawg

#59. People don't tell others when they lose interest, just like they don't tell others when they love them. And then they wonder why they are so unhappy.

Donna Lynn Hope

#60. Lots of firemen got their start setting fires. They learn to set them, then they learn to put them out. Tom

Ann Patchett

#61. At first people refuse to believe that a strange new thing can be done, then they begin to hope it can be done, then they see it can be done
then it is done and all the world wonders why it was not done centuries ago.

Frances Hodgson Burnett

#62. When you know the truth about a person then they become real to you, not just a face that you can forget.

Drea Damara

#63. I remember one tour with two male-fronted bands, and they had a fight over who could use the bathroom first. Then they just ended up having a beef with each other for the entire rest of the tour.

Taylor Momsen

#64. She added, perhaps to herself, "You have to become old and ugly before anyone listens to you, and then they don't, because you're ugly and old.

Gregory Maguire

#65. Play gives children a chance to practice what they are learning ... They have to play with what they know to be true in order to find out more, and then they can use what they learn in new forms of play.

Fred Rogers

#66. I have stayed true to that first idea that people can have a day in their lives that is very important and if they can reconnect with that day, reconnect with the people they were then, they can suddenly revive their emotions.

Victoria Wood

#67. People see me as Andre first. Then they see me as someone who happens to be a Muslim.

Andre Carson

#68. To minimize suffering and to maximize security were natural and proper ends of society and Caesar. But then they became the only ends, somehow, and the only basis of law - a perversion. Inevitably, then, in seeking only them, we found only their opposites: maximum suffering and minimum security.

Walter M. Miller Jr.

#69. If you don't get in them and rev them up every now and then, they turn in to cranky old bitches who refuse to do a damn thing for you.
Connerism from Quinn's Need

S.J.D. Peterson

#70. Usually, the best thing is when the band goes to the bar and gets the corner table, we sit there like kings, and then they bring people to us. It's just rock 'n' roll. It's stupid, really.

Andy Summers

#71. Butterflies are symbols of hope. They land beside us, like sunbeams, and belong to us for a moment, but then they fly away. And while we wish they might have stayed longer to share their beauty, we feel blessed for having s-seen them.

RaeAnne Thayne

#72. As I'm always fond of telling hosts at the Oscars who are doing it for their first time, for everybody who wins, there are four people who don't. As the evening wears on, the room fills up with losers, and then they are bitter.

Bruce Vilanch

#73. This was why I hated beautiful people. They build you up and then they destroy you. And we let 'em.

Cassandra Rose Clarke

#74. They sat for several hours over a pot of tea and a plate of cake, and then they wandered the streets, impervious to time. By the end of the day, both realised that their lives had altered course.

Penelope Lively

#75. My accomplishments do not live up to my tennis game. Most people have to work really hard and win some big matches, and then they get money and popularity. For me it has been the reverse of everybody else. The exact opposite.

Andre Agassi

#76. A staccato script of letters and digits beamed from an alternate world. Then they ceased communicating altogether. and began to liase in dreams and nightmares.

Will Self

#77. Little mirrors were attached to the front of their cars, at which they glanced to see where they had been; then they stared ahead again. I had thought that only beetles had this delusion of Progress.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#78. If it has to be that wars and battles are begun for many reasons and quarrels, then they should also be avoided and shunned by better and more valid reasons ...

Christine De Pizan

#79. A lot of times, people start out with a lot of good ideas, but then they don't execute. They lose the purity of their vision. You end up running around in circles.

Jan Koum

#80. I think it's a great time to put out quality work, and it will speak for itself. You don't have to work so hard at being successful at it, because it is something that people want, so when they want it and it is good, then they're going to get it and continue to give it to other people.

Anthony Hamilton

#81. If the gods do evil then they are not gods.

Euripides

#82. He asked that God remember those who had died and he asked that the living gathered together here remember that the corn grows by the will of God and beyond that will there is neither corn nor growing nor light nor air nor rain nor anything at all save only darkness. Then they ate.

Cormac McCarthy

#83. You don't need great actors to do a 3D picture. All of this condescending stuff that they put out? "Oh, we will always need actors." Bullshit! They are able to take anybody and put some markers on them, and have them walk through an empty room. Then they paint in the background.

William Friedkin

#84. So many designers only sketch and leave pattern-making to others. Pattern-making is important so you know the structure. Then if someone tells me, 'I can't make a pattern from that sketch,' I can tell them, 'I will make it' and then they are quiet. If I can't make it, I don't design it.

Tadashi Shoji

#85. Sensations of peace, joy, and love will enter into you. They will be very subtle at first. Then they will grow stronger.

Frederick Lenz

#86. It's usually, my people speak to your people and then they speak around each other and trade calls for weeks.

Mary Steenburgen

#87. Hungries toggle between two states. They're frozen in place most of the time, just standing there like they're never going to move again. Then they smell prey, or hear it, or catch sight of it, and they break into that terrifying dead sprint. No warm-up, no warning. Warp factor nine.

M.R. Carey

#88. I love the pigeons. I just raise them, period, and feed them. Pigeons go away, and they always come back. You get a touch of freedom, and then they are free to come back to you. I love the idea of pigeons.

George Foreman

#89. Children are born atheists. Then they are indoctrinated and abused by so-called 'God's representatives.' Innocents are scarred emotionally and psychologically by those who are sworn to protect them.

C.J. Anderson

#90. Noble words, my friend; you can't drink them or wrap them around your feet or burn them in your firepit or give them to children crying in hunger ... They will cry for a month, then they will eat his share of the food. And wouldn't he want it that way?

Tracy Hickman

#91. Many of us have had that experience of being in love with someone and then they end up being your enemy and there's a stranger in your bed.

Rachel Holmes

#92. Those moments of knowing are sharp and merciless, but then they fade out, like stars when the sky gets light in the morning. You know, and then you don't know.

Joan Wickersham

#93. You have to step on people's feet and kick them in the back of the leg," Grandma said, "then they move away from you.

Janet Evanovich

#94. We created a brand for ourselves, so that now people can't get mad at what we do, because then they're just making of themselves.

Trey Parker

#95. Then they show up at the door and the reality is that they are 5-foot-8, 240 pounds and have not run a mile in years. A background check is not going to help you with that.

Charlene Li

#96. Ideas are useless unless used. The proof of their value is in their implementation. Until then, they are in limbo.

Theodore Levitt

#97. If you look a little punkish, then they're going to give you the parts. And if you play an iconic villain early on in your career, you tend to get asked to play one over and over and over again.

Malcolm McDowell

#98. I answered an ad, for a campus cartoonist at the university I was in, my freshman year. I was like, Oh, I can draw, and I'm sort of a funny guy. I should try this. Then they paid me to do a comic strip for the paper.

Dan Povenmire

#99. If it's not in New York, let's say it's in St. Louis, then they've got to find a place or get with someone who knows about the work ... they've got to find a place like that and do scenes, and then try to get in plays.

Ray Walston

#100. All joking aside, I'm a television watcher and I get frustrated with shows sometimes when they set up puzzles and then they don't give answers. It's just more questions and more questions.

Sarah Michelle Gellar