They Did Quotes

#1. Each had his own language for seeing, and that language created vision. We all inherit vision just as they did - two men who stood side by side but were nevertheless separated by and intellectual chasm.

Siri Hustvedt

#2. The thing I enjoyed most were visits from children. They did not want public office.

Herbert Hoover

#3. That's the way to tell a true story from a made-up one. A made-up story always has a neat and tidy end. But true stories don't end, at least until their heroes and heroines die, and not then really because the things they did and didn't do, sometimes live on.

Elspeth Huxley

#4. I chose 'The Voice' because I knew they had a lot more respect for each artist, as opposed to the other shows. They don't get it. I don't think those shows ever got it. I was turned off by some of the other shows and how they did things.

Will Champlin

#5. On my last ride on the RR train I looked almost as lovingly at the faces and expressions of my fellow passengers as if I were staring a a photograph of times long past. They did not know that they made a photograph. They did not understand the vanishing background of their lives ...

Mark Helprin

#6. I don't know why or how he expected total compliance from us women. I mean, were their women that intimidated that they did everything they were told? Well, wakeup call from Earth. We do not bow to anyone.

T.J. Yelden

#7. But past events had impressed uponme how fast things could go wrong, and how different life might be after they did.

Audrey Couloumbis

#8. Nobody was born a master; amateurs become experts because they did not give up on learning. You are going as far as you can if you'll learn and apply!

Israelmore Ayivor

#9. It was a mutual thing. I made a deal with them: I asked them if they did not bring out the place card of Malachi, I would let them have two minutes with each one of my patients.

Norma McCorvey

#10. But just as they did in Philadelphia when they were writing the constitution, sooner or later, you've got to compromise. You've got to start making the compromises that arrive at a consensus and move the country forward.

Colin Powell

#11. Even in the days when they did Othello, you didn't necessarily have to be black to play Othello. You wore the makeup.

Jamie Farr

#12. Even if he could not see them, several lifetimes of listening to emperors, kings, princes, politicians and thieves had taught him that it was often not what people said, but what they did not say that revealed the truth.

Michael Scott

#13. The Russians did much bigger space launch vehicles for launching satellites and for getting men in orbit. They did that much sooner than America because America was very good at something else.

Burt Rutan

#14. I think models have a lot less power than they did in the '80s, when there were, like, only 10 supermodels who could dictate the rules, whereas now there's so many, and that changes the power dynamic and makes it a more insecure business.

Lily Cole

#15. There is a tendency for writers to be most exciting by whatever they just wrote. Sometimes that excitement is warranted. Sometimes on further listen it's not as good as something they did a couple of years ago, but it's just not in their sights at that particular time.

Stone Gossard

#16. There are people that I believe shouldn't like me, and if they did, I'd be sad.
~ Jon Stewart

Chris Smith

#17. The Christians and Jews can live side by side with the Muslims, as they did in the heart of Europe for over 800 years in Andalusia.

Anjem Choudary

#18. Well, they did a damn good job; there's no way I'll

Kim Boykin

#19. My new story collection won't please everyone, nor was it meant to. Then again, not everybody lives in my world. If they did, I'd have to move out and find another world to write about.

Ted Gargiulo

#20. Job's friends chose the right time to visit him, but took not the right course of improving their visit; had they spent the time in praying for him which they did in hot disputes with him, they would have profited him, and pleased God more.

William Gurnall

#21. I think it was in Moscow last year and I got changed for training the day before we played Moscow, but the fact is they actually wanted to do John's, me and John were next to each other and they did mine by mistake. John had done them I think. So yeah it is true.

Frank Lampard

#22. Guilt is anger directed at ourselves - at what we did or did not do. Resentment is anger directed at others - at what they did or did not do.

Peter McWilliams

#23. We broke camp together and set off in our opposite directions: we of the XIIth and our allies marched east, towards the rising sun, combat and honour; the IVth went west, to the setting sun, to ignominy and a wealth of digging. We sang as we marched. They did not.

M.C. Scott

#24. I tend to not discriminate when it comes to people I can learn from. Basically, if someone has built a meaningful business in software, technology or media, faced disruption and adversity, and overcame underdog status, I want to know how they did it.

Aaron Levie

#25. I mean, I was born the day war broke out, but I don't remember all the bombs though they did actually break up Liverpool, you know. I remember when I was a little older, there was big gaps in all the streets where houses used to be. We used to play over them.

Ringo Starr

#26. I read about some movie where they did everything on blue screen, and the actors were not even connecting to each other.

Michel Gondry

#27. By comparison with other less hectic days, the city is uncomfortable and inconvenient; but New Yorkers temperamentally do not crave comfort and convenience- if they did they would live elsewhere.

E.B. White

#28. By late 1953, going to New York on vacation, I had lined up several Time Inc. interviews - and what they did was give me a lifelong appreciation of the importance of luck in getting a job.

Carol Loomis

#29. The nights were comfortless and chill, and they did not dare to sing or talk too loud, for the echoes were uncanny, and the silence seemed to dislike being broken - except by the noise of water and the wail of wind and the crack of stone.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#30. I suspected the movies, considering her cheap crack about me being a ten-cent Clark Gable, which was ridiculous. He simpers, to begin with, and to end with no one can say I resemble a movie actor, and if they did it would be more apt to be Gary Cooper than Clark Gable.

Rex Stout

#31. The people of New Jersey stepped up. They shared in the sacrifice. You know what else they did? They rewarded politicians who lead instead of politicians who pandered.

Chris Christie

#32. Paternalistic is a very good word. They think they have to look out for these guys? Don't worry about it. Why? Because of history. Kevin Garnett, Tracy McGrady, LeBron James, Kobe Bryant. They did okay.

Sonny Vaccaro

#33. If everyone spent as much time o happiness as they did on drama and anger, they'd shine a lot brighter!

Jeffree Star

#34. We regard those other cultures, such as that of India, where many people live and believe and behave much as they did 1,000 or 2,000 years ago, as undeveloped.

Arthur Erickson

#35. They did not believe in making any contracts. They believed that as long as you were organized, you could hold the office to what it said it was going to do. But a contract, a piece of paper held you and so they didn't make any contracts.

Elizabeth Gurley Flynn

#36. We seem to be getting closer and closer to a situation where nobody is responsible for what they did but we are all responsible for what somebody else did.

Thomas Sowell

#37. My family still treats me like they did when I was 7 or 6.

Jackie Evancho

#38. A lot of the guys were like that - Oscar Pettiford - they just took me under their wing, and that's why I automatically help young people. I just love it, because they did that for me.

Quincy Jones

#39. However, neither rule of law nor political accountability exists in contemporary China any more than they did in dynastic China.

Francis Fukuyama

#40. YOU ARE STRONGER AND BIGGER AND BRAVER THAN WHAT THEY DID, AND YOU DON'T HAVE TO LET IT DEFINE YOU ANY LONGER. FORGIVE. LET GO. MOVE ON. DON'T LOOK BACK. YOUR NEW BEGINNING IS WAITING.

Mandy Hale

#41. The psalmist saith more to the point about true happiness in this short Psalm than any one of the philosophers, or all of them put together; they did but beat the bush, God hath here put the bird into our hand. John Trapp, 1660

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#42. A lot of paparazzi wanted to be real photographers but they failed, and they did that instead, and it's not right; it's stalking.

Peaches Geldof

#43. But what many psychologists have done, probably because they did well on a test themselves and everyone wants high self esteem, is to create this little box and then do their research inside it.

Robert Sternberg

#44. As the winter set in with its customary Canadian severity the real trouble of the French began. They did not suffer from the cold, but they were dying of scurvy.

Harry Johnston

#45. 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

#46. suffer hunger,' said the Cat. 'You, little Mouse, cannot venture everywhere in case you run at last into a trap.' This good counsel was followed, and a little pot of fat was bought. But they did not know where to put it. At length, after long consultation,

Andrew Lang

#47. Unfortunate and wretched are those who have respected a book they did not love and hated those they did.

Milorad Pavic

#48. To be diagnosed was the hardest thing because I didn't know what they were talking about ... And the doctor said, Don't worry, in three months you'll know. So I went about my business and then, one day, it jumped me. I couldn't get up ... Your muscles trick you; they did me.

Richard Pryor

#49. I forget what the official name of it was, but they did an all-day of roots music - every kind of music you can imagine from around the country - New Orleans Jazz to Indian flute players, R&B, you name it. I met and became good friends with (blues guitar player) Joe Louis Walker. He was on the show.

Scotty Moore

#50. They did it to try and belittle me, to try and to take away my pride. But I went through the whole system with them. And at the end, I - I wanted the public to know that I was okay, even though I was hurting.

Michael Jackson

#51. Sanctions alone could not stop Iran's nuclear program. But they did help bring Iran to the negotiating table.

Barack Obama

#52. It seems to me now almost incredibly wonderful that, with that swift fate hanging over us, men could go about their petty concerns as they did.

H.G.Wells

#53. They did not know; nor did they know that the negation of everything is in itself a form of servitude and
that real freedom is an inner submission to a value which defies history and its successes.

Albert Camus

#54. You cannot understand the otherness of places you have not encountered. If all young adults were required to spend two weeks in a foreign country, two-thirds of the world's diplomatic problems could be solved. It wouldn't matter what country they visited or what they did during their stays.

Andrew Solomon

#55. And when any internal or external force tried to change the past, they responded with anger and resolution: "We will die before we change." And they did.

Thom S. Rainer

#56. So very Russian," people around were murmuring. That they did meant this was an audience pretty low down on the scale of sophistication, otherwise they would be saying, "Just like us, isn't it?

Doris Lessing

#57. The children stared at him, awed and a little afraid. For a moment he was a stranger, someone they did not know. Jane had a sudden fantastic feeling that Great-Uncle Merry did not really exist at all, and would vanish away if they breathed or spoke.

Susan Cooper

#58. I have never met an author who was sorry he or she wrote a book. They are only sorry they did not write it sooner.

Sam Horn

#59. Maybe they did what they had to do to live, and tried to get a little love and have a little fun before the darkness took them.

Poppy Z. Brite

#60. One of the great lessons I learned about historical fiction from writing 'Loving Frank' is that you don't try to disguise what people did; my approach was to try to understand the characters and why they did what they did.

Nancy Horan

#61. I mean, it's not just the rappers, you know what i'm saying? People want to attack anybody that's a large figure, you know what I'm saying? They did it to [Michael] Jordan, they did it to [Mike] Tyson, they did it to Bill Cosby, you know what I'm saying? They're gonna' attack you if you on top.

The Notorious B.I.G.

#62. Now they had to sit in separate places and sometimes they'd even have to sit outside and look through the windows. But they did worship together.

Michael Emerson

#63. Visits are insatiable devourers of time, and fit only for those who, if they did not that, would do nothing.

William Cowper

#64. The law says they aren't allowed to share the info with anyone else, but of course they did - who wouldn't? - so now we're marked for life. His picture is even posted on the New Jersey Sex Offender Internet Registry.

Laura Wiess

#65. Find someone who has a life that you want and figure out how they got it. Read books, pick your role models wisely. Find out what they did and do it.

Lana Del Rey

#66. Grades don't measure tenacity, courage, leadership, guts or whatever you want to call it. Teachers or any other persons in a position of authority should never tell anybody they will not succeed because they did not get all A's in school.

Thomas J. Stanley

#67. Pardon the hurt others have caused you.What they did is past.What is bothering today are your current feelings that comes from this load.Let it go.

Chetan Bhagat

#68. Neither of my parents went to church, but they did everything that you needed to do to be Christian. That's something a Quaker would call an intimation of the divine.

Terry Pratchett

#69. I have always found the word 'Europe' in the mouths of those politicians who wanted from other powers something they did not dare to demand in their own name. Otto von Bismarck We

David Conway

#70. NASA's training philosophy is "no surprises." So what they did is put a simulator on Earth where it looks exactly the same as a shuttle toilet and they put a camera down in the bottom of the opening for solid-waste collection, with a light that basically illuminates your asshole.

Mike Mullane

#71. Prompted by the sky, which seemed to make it all a little futile - what they said, what they did - she said something perfectly commonplace again.

Virginia Woolf

#72. They did ask me to do 'Dancing With The Stars;' I said I can do one show, but on that show you have to come up with a new number every week, and I told them that I think I'm a little past that stage.

Dick Van Dyke

#73. She waited, unwilling to meet his eyes, hoping he would go on. When he didn't, the silence stretched between them like invisible cobwebs. In the dimmest part of her, she realized she might have wishes, too, elusive wishes that belonged more to a girl in a garden than they did to a captive.

Caragh M. O'Brien

#74. People like us were born to change the world. It's filled with shit. It's filled with people who did the things they did to you. It's filled with stupid pointlessness and ignorance and so much mundanity, it makes me want to scream. Don't you feel it too?

Laure Eve

#75. They talked on into the early morning, the high, pale cast of light in the windows, and they did not think of leaving.

Raymond Carver

#76. He kissed Kyle, checking to see that her eyes stayed sure and real. They did. Instead of saint and sinner, they were man and woman now. When Cole finally tasted her skin, the flavor was honeysuckle. Heaven was not something he had to die to enjoy. Kyle was here now.

Debra Anastasia

#77. The world would use us just as it did the martyrs, if we loved God as they did.

Thomas F. Wilson

#78. On clear nights, when the stars were white on black instead of smoggy gray, we'd lie on the roof together and say cheesy things like, 'At least they can't charge us for moonlight.' Although later they did, by way of imposing a curfew and fining those of us who broke it.

Parker Peevyhouse

#79. [deconstruction and other French theories] was the gift of the French. They gave Americans a language they did not need. It was like the Statue of Liberty. Nobody needs French theory.

Jean Baudrillard

#80. Part of my job as a food writer is to describe food. So my work on 'Top Chef,' I feel, is an extension of that. When we give a criticism to the contestant, we want to make sure we tell them why it's not working and why it would work if they did it a different way.

Padma Lakshmi

#81. The reason why I love people, and writing about them, is because they don't always respond with hate and anger. If they did I wouldn't have a story to tell. Who wants to know about someone who was brutalised and became brutal? I'm interested in the exceptions.

Chris Cleave

#82. In the judgment men will not be condemned because they conscientiously believed a lie, but because they did not believe the truth, because they neglected the opportunity of learning what is truth. Notwithstanding the sophistry of Satan to the contrary, it is always disastrous to disobey God.

Ellen G. White

#83. He had to give humans credit where it was due - they did seem to have a knack for building interesting places for cats to explore.

Jim Butcher

#84. I told him a story of two people. Two people who shouldn't have met, and who didn't like each other much when they did, but who found they were the only two people in the world who could possibly have understood each other.

Jojo Moyes

#85. Yes," she said. "People can't realize what France is like. If they did, it couldn't all go on. He didn't have a sabre cut. They blew him all to bits.

Anonymous

#86. In 2008, the Democrats made a great effort among African-American voters, and they did increase their turnout considerably, and among Latino voters.

Judy Woodruff

#87. When Gimme Shelter was recorded, early '69 or something, it was a time of war and tension, so that's reflected in this tune. It's still wheeled out when big storms happen, as they did the other week. It's been used a lot to evoke natural disaster.

Mick Jagger

#88. Using supernatural beings to build the perfect weapon? Intriguing idea."
"Not really," I said. "They did it on Buffy the Vampire Slayer. A sub-par season. I slept through half the episodes.

Kelley Armstrong

#89. I think my dad was happy. I phrase it like this because he seldom showed much emotion. Hugs and kisses wwere a rarity for me growing up, and when they did happen, they often struck me as lifeless, something he did because he felt he was supposed to, not because he wanted to.

Nicholas Sparks

#90. Wait a minute; I thought the Battles didn't pay the ransom." "No, they did but they got it back - well, at least most of it.

David Baldacci

#91. So many of us find ourselves saying, "but he was so great!" Yes, and the people who got on the Titanic thought they were going on vacation. Things changed and it's important to remember that they did.

Greg Behrendt

#92. I see my upbringing as a great success story. By disciplining me, my parents inculcated self-discipline. And by restricting my choices as a child, they gave me so many choices in my life as an adult. Because of what they did then, I get to do the work I love now.

Amy Chua

#93. I will say that I know Nirvana did a show and played a few chords from 'More Than a Feeling' before they did 'Teen Spirit,' and it wasn't very good. But in all seriousness, 'Teen Spirit' was a great song. If subconsciously or somehow I had any influence on that, I'll take that as a compliment.

Tom Scholz

#94. It was horrifying. You wouldn't believe how people are treated there. You could see that these people had withdrawn so far that they just lived in their own minds. They did terrible things to themselves.

Kate Millett

#95. Whatever you remember, or feel, you need to know that whatever they were they did one worthwhile thing in their miserable lives. And that was you. Whatever they were, they couldn't destroy that. They couldn't stop you from becoming.

Nora Roberts

#96. They did not believe death was accidental - life might be, but death was deliberate.

Toni Morrison

#97. It seemed to him that in Annawadi, fortunes derived not just from what people did, or how well they did it, but from the accidents and catastrophes they dodged. A decent life was the train that hadn't hit you, the slumlord you hadn't offended, the malaria you hadn't caught.

Katherine Boo

#98. They did not take their life seriously and despised it as something of no consequence. They preferred to close their eyes and to live in the past. Life for such people became meaningless. Naturally

Viktor E. Frankl

#99. Sometimes life just did things, he felt, and they didn't have to make sense. It helped when they did, and often the sense of a thing was just around a corner, but that didn't mean you ever got to see it.

Adam P. Knave

#100. I would say that Catholics came in and competed with the Protestant work ethic. That is one thing. And they did assimilate into the broader society and a lot of them, especially Irish Catholic did their best to sound like they were English rather than Irish by dropping and the O and the apostrophe.

Steve King