Was To Quotes

#1. Age has given me the gift of me, it just gave me what I was always longing for, which was to get to be the woman I've already dreamt of being. Which is somebody who can do rest and do hard work and be a really constant companion, a constant tender-hearted wife to myself.

Anne Lamott

#2. She was floating as the sea of pleasure took her out upon its rising tide and when she became aware of herself again it was to the feel of Zac behind her, supporting her weight by holding her under her arms. (Barely Restrained, 2011)

Brenda Cothern

#3. I was a dedicated, boring student. The last thing I wanted was to be a comedienne.

Anne Meara

#4. It was a fabled railway that was the issue of desperation and fanaticism, made as much of myth and unreality as it was to be of wood and iron and the thousands upon thousands of lives that were to be laid down over the next year to build it. But what reality was ever made by realists?

Richard Flanagan

#5. During these two and a half years that have followed the war, the most urgent problem we have encountered was: to activate the public enterprises, to bring them up to the level that international markets demand and we are just now getting them prepared for privatization.

Ibrahim Rugova

#6. It appeared clear to me - partly because of the lies that filled my history textbooks - that the intent of formal education was to inculcate obedience to a social order that did not deserve my loyalty. Defiance seemed the only dignified response to the adult world.

Timothy B. Tyson

#7. My biggest problem was to get the coaches to understand that I was a runner, and I wanted to prepare myself based upon the calisthenics I did and get myself ready. For example, I used my forearm when I ran the ball, so I didn't want to do pushups because I wanted my forearms to heal.

Jim Brown

#8. As she stepped into the steamboat at Dover which was to convey her to scenes so new, Lucilla felt more and more that she who held the reorganisation of society in Carlingford in her hands was a woman with a mission.

Mrs. Oliphant

#9. A great many people wonder why it was that Christ did not come at once to Martha and Mary, whom He loved, whenever He heard of their affliction. It was to try them, and it is the same with His dealings toward us. If He seems not to come to us in our affliction, it is only to test us.

Dwight L. Moody

#10. The whole idea of the suburbs was to create these family-friendly places where people could flock and have more control over their existences, and keep things very controlled and placid and keep outside forces at bay.

Josh Hamilton

#11. My first, big, silly role at school was as Arthur Crocker-Harris in Rattigan's 'The Browning Version,' where my job was to make school-masters' wives weep with recognition.

Benedict Cumberbatch

#12. The blackouts were horrible. It was hideous to let those nights slide into a crack in the ground. But even scarier was to take responsibility for the mess I'd made. Even scarier was to remember your own life.

Sarah Hepola

#13. The greatest punishment we could invent for her was to keep her separate from him ...

Emily Bronte

#14. Yes ... That's what it was to be alive. To move about in a cloud of ignorance; to go up and down trampling on the feelings of those ... about you. To spend and waste time as though you had a million years. To be always at the mercy of one self-centered passion or another.

Linda Dillow

#15. I think the first decision I took when I became a government minister was to reverse the planned closure of Monklands Accident and Emergency. It's an issue close to my heart.

Nicola Sturgeon

#16. I did a show with Tori Kelly, and it was really cool that I got to meet her. She has always been a huge inspiration of mine, and I'm obsessed with her voice, so it was great to get to talk to her about the industry. The best advice she gave me was to just be myself.

Daya

#17. If We allow Slaves, we act against the very Principles by which we associated together, which was to relieve the distressed.

James Oglethorpe

#18. If wisdom was to cease throughout the world, no one would suspect himself of ignorance.

Saadi

#19. South Africa was to evolve into the most pernicious example of the criminal practise of colonial and white minority domination.

Thabo Mbeki

#20. Women were expected to sit in the pews, receiving messages from men in the pulpit. Their role was to recognize God in their pastor, not to expect or demand that he recognize God in them.

Melissa V. Harris-Perry

#21. When I was younger, the main struggle was to be a 'good writer.' Now I more or less take my writing abilities for granted, although this doesn't mean I always write well.

Jonathan Franzen

#22. The proper way to understand any social system was to view it from above.

Eleanor Catton

#23. The North understand it better - they have told us for twenty years that their object was to pen up slavery within its present limits - surround it with a border of free States, and like the scorpion surrounded with fire, they will make it sting itself to death.

Robert Toombs

#24. Playing good girls in the 30s was difficult, when the fad was to play bad girls. Actually I think playing bad girls is a bore; I have always had more luck with good girl roles because they require more from an actress.

Olivia De Havilland

#25. Nothing was being done to help the non-dopers, to encourage or support them. Even the clean riders like myself and Moncout knew how easy it was to cheat the tests.

David Millar

#26. He'd been born into duty. As a demigod descendant, a death reaper, his first commitment was to serve the god of the underworld. Hades, as a conduit to usher evil souls to hell.

Zoe Forward

#27. To stand up for someone was to stitch your fate into the lining of theirs.

Tom Rob Smith

#28. Lee was too cool by nature to rage at fate; his manner was to raise an eyebrow and greet it laconically.

Philip Pullman

#29. She taught me so much, she said to herself. She built me as we were walking around after the sheep, and she told me all those things that I needed to know, and the first thing was to look after people. Of course, the other thing had been to look after the sheep.

Terry Pratchett

#30. I'm just delighted to get my hands on him. Paul Nicholls was very good about the whole affair. He said he would like to retain him but felt it was to the advantage of his owners he should be sold at this time.

Ginger McCain

#31. Everyone knew that all islands were worlds unto themselves, that to come to an island was to come to another world.

Guy Gavriel Kay

#32. To be imprisoned by the need to be loved was to be sealed in a cell in which one experienced an interminable torment and from which there was no escape.

Salman Rushdie

#33. Gertrude's remedy for her mood swings was to print up hundreds of black-bordered calling cards embossed with the single word "Woe," which she handed out gaily declaring, "Woe is me.

Ross Wetzsteon

#34. America was, to them, the place that good people went to when they died. They were prepared to believe that just about anything could happen in America.

Terry Pratchett

#35. Mankind's original destiny was to extend God's glorious dominion of love throughout the earth

Sunday Adelaja

#36. It's being made out that the whole point of the war was to topple the Taliban regime and liberate Afghan women from their burqas, we are being asked to believe that the U.S. marines are actually on a feminist mission.

Arundhati Roy

#37. My ambition was to bring to bear on medicine a chemical approach. I did that by chemical manipulation of viruses and chemical ways of thinking in biomedical research.

Jonas Salk

#38. I just had never occured to me to think that anything inherent to me was to blame for the things that went wrong (or the things that never even happened at all) with the other guys before him. Maybe it was all the time I'd had to decide I was cool and good and worthy without anyone else's help.

Katie Heaney

#39. Her punishment was to be made to feel like a fool. She had been given her opportunity to participate in civilization, and she had muffled it.

Kurt Vonnegut

#40. Family has always been the most important thing in my life. The only real goal that I ever had was to be a good mother.

Goldie Hawn

#41. I stared at the front door as reluctant to get out of the car as Kyle was to let me leave.

Kelly Oram

#42. Legal investigation. As Clinton noted, My goal in this deposition was to be truthful, but not particularly helpful.

Steven Pinker

#43. My biggest dream was to ruin the lives of my readers and crush their souls ... And I really think that worked out pretty well for me.

George R R Martin

#44. The Countess was very good company and not really the featherhead she seemed; all one had to do with her was to observe the simple condition of not believing a word she said.

Henry James

#45. Unsure where she was to find a purpose or meaning to her life, she passed one formless day after another.

Haruki Murakami

#46. What an honor it was to step into the shoes of Nelson Mandela and portray a man who defied odds, broke down barriers, and championed human rights before the eyes of the world.

Idris Elba

#47. She knew how fortunate she was to have her independence, and to have a disposition that cared so little for the opinions of others. Let them talk, she thought, as long as they also saw her holding her head high, and as long as she possessed the whip-hand of wealth.

Gordon Dahlquist

#48. In playing, I suppose my greatest gift was to express the way I felt or the willingness to express myself.

Eric Clapton

#49. I didn't think of what I was doing as political. To me it was a way to make the best out of what I liked to do privately, which was to dress up.

Cindy Sherman

#50. My desire was never to be famous. It was to try and create something interesting musically if I could.

Kate Bush

#51. Nobody was to be trusted. The plan that had ensnared her had been the brainchild of her protector, Maxim Childersin.

Frances Hardinge

#52. Suddenly, I viddied what I had to do, and what I had wanted to do, and that was to do myself in; to snuff it, to blast off for ever out of this wicked, cruel world. One moment of pain perhaps and, then, sleep forever, and ever and ever.

Anthony Burgess

#53. Carlyle said that how to observe was to look, but I say that it is rather to see, and the more you look the less you will observe.

Henry David Thoreau

#54. My mission in life was to make sure that there were no women walking around who didn't know me personally.

Lorenzo Lamas

#55. The difficult part was to tell the world that I was finishing.

Gabriela Sabatini

#56. I came into the world charged with the duty to uphold the right in every place, to destroy sin and evil ... the only reason I took birth was to see that righteousness may flourish, that good may live, and tyrants be torn out by their roots.

Guru Gobind Singh

#57. At the end of the 1960s, I was part of the downtown theatrical movement in New York that was making work in alleyways, garages, gyms, churches, non-traditional spaces. The idea was to get away from the illusion of the conventional theatre. But then I thought, what's wrong with illusion?

Robert Wilson

#58. There was a reason my first substantial role after rehab was to play a maniac whose personal story ended badly. I knew what it was like to go those dark places. I played a guy who died as a result of his abuse.

Charlie Sheen

#59. His message was to follow the Course, don't put it on a pedestal, and don't deify it or make it a holy text.

Carol Howe

#60. How terrible it was to still be mentally and emotionally attached to someone from whom you have been physically separated.

Elif Shafak

#61. My ambition in the Army was to make everybody I worked for regretful when I was ordered to other duty.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

#62. And here I felt a strange leaping of my heart-God did! My job was to simply follow His leading one step at a time, holding every decision up to him in prayer.

Corrie Ten Boom

#63. It was easier to know a character's point of view than it was to figure out what your point of view was.

Nick Kroll

#64. In 1980, when I graduated from high school, my goal was to be on 'The Tonight Show' with Johnny Carson at least once before our ten-year class reunion. Our class reunion was in June of 1990, and I was on 'The Tonight Show' in April 1990, so I made it by a few months.

Jeff Dunham

#65. I was surprised at how easy it was to get into hell, but then again, wasn't hell the easier path to take?

Cameo Renae

#66. My idea was to cut shape into the hair, to use it like fabric and take away everything that was superfluous.

Vidal Sassoon

#67. Even I realized that money was to politicians what the eucalyptus tree is to koala bears: food, water, shelter, and something to crap on.

P. J. O'Rourke

#68. It seemed at moments, when I sat alone in the dark stateroom, that the sky had come down the meet the sea and some great secret was to be revealed.

Anne Rice

#69. Morgan had been, for a very long time, the most remarkable object in her own landscape, and anything stranger than herself was, to her mind, either an obvious sham, or non-existent.

Shirley Jackson

#70. To die is one thing. How much worse to know that all the life that ever existed on this planet, and all it ever achieved, was to be obliterated?

Roger Ebert

#71. But one "surefire" way for a guy to attract a member of the opposite sex was to place a piece of bread in his armpit and leave it there for a while, before feeding it to the target individual without her knowing exactly what she was eating (Lid

J.T. Sibley

#72. I just wanted to set a good example. I wanted to do things that I hadn't done before. My whole thing was to just try to be professional. I think when you work hard, good things happen, so obviously, because we're going to the Finals.

Allen Iverson

#73. My greatest desire was to be in a sandbox with Kevin Kline or Kenneth Branagh - to be with the people I admired - and I have.

Robert Sean Leonard

#74. The Society for the Protection of Historical Buildings was the official body whose task it was to oversee repairs and maintenance to our beloved but battered listed building. We had them on speed-dial. They had us on their black list.

Jodi Taylor

#75. To be a good draftsman was to me a blessing.

John James Audubon

#76. The aim was to regulate the value of money by increasing or diminishing the quantity of it. The effects of these measures appeared to provide an inductive proof of the correctness of this superficial version of the Quantity Theory, and incidentally concealed the weaknesses of its logic.

Ludwig Von Mises

#77. The key question, it seemed to him, was that of whether man was to obey Nature, or attempt to command her.

Paul Bowles

#78. My function in life was to render clear what was already blindingly conspicuous.

Quentin Crisp

#79. Prayer is to me now what the sucking of the milk was to me in my infancy. Although I do not always feel the same relish for it, yet I am sure I cannot live without it.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#80. Maybe the point was to exist with an absence of pain. Yes, to exist with an absence of pain. Yes, maybe that was the only aim you needed in life. It

Matt Haig

#81. My aim in writing The Watch That Ends the Night was not to present history. My aim was to present humanity. The people represented in this book lived and breathed and loved. They were as real as you or me. They could have been any one of us.

Allan Wolf

#82. Growing up knowing that I wanted to be a sportscaster and knowing that the best school in the country was right in my back yard, I certainly knew all there was to know about Marty Glickman and about people like Bob Costas and Marv Albert and all of the other greats that have passed through there.

Beth Mowins

#83. I used to think the only use for sport was to give small boys something else to kick besides me.

Katharine Whitehorn

#84. You're never perfectly safe. No human being on Earth ever is or ever was. To live is to risk your life, your heart, everything.

Rick Yancey

#85. One of the things was to create a kind of amnesty environment.

Michael Dell

#86. You shall find dear, that the world is full of two-faced people and phonies.'.. And Uruvi was to discover a cruelly superficial world, which she had failed to recognize.

Kavita Kane

#87. And her deepest enjoyment was to feel the continuity between the movements of her own soul and the agitations of the world

Henry James

#88. But the purpose of stories was to take the ugly, terrifying truths with which one must live and turn them into brave and beautiful ideas one might love.

Mercedes Lackey

#89. But here too it should be noted that the President's approach was to first ask the repressive and brutal Taliban to surrender Osama bin Laden to us, and only after that government refused to do that did we invade.

Barney Frank

#90. Access to talented and creative people is to modern business what access to coal and iron ore was to steel-making.

Richard Florida

#91. One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing.

E.L. Doctorow

#92. Jokes in the face of calamity made one feel dirty, guilty; they also dissolved the fear and lessened the weight of uncertainty, of which there was to much to bear.

Elif Shafak

#93. He sat there studiously bent over his work (Bill saw him), which lay in a slant of crisp white winterlight, his face sober and absorbed, knowing that to be a librarian was to come as close as any human being can to sitting in the peak-seat of eternity's engine.

Stephen King

#94. She had quickly learned that to show unhappiness was to risk the loss of love.

P.D. James

#95. Generally, crises were Mom's domain. Dad's job was to listen, nod, act curmudgeonly, and offer to pay for things.

Lisa Wingate

#96. I always felt strongly connected to the region where I was born. But after leaving school, the only clear thought I had about my life was to leave this provincial area and go to places where real life was happening.

Volker Bertelmann

#97. Don't you see? This was to be ours together, the successes and the failures ... All of this? he said, and couldn't help a smile. Yes, all of this. Then she too smiled.

Eowyn Ivey

#98. Here, with whitened hair, desires failing, strength ebbing out of him, with the sun gone down and with only the serenity and the calm warning of the evening star left to him, he drank to Life, to all it had been, to what it was, to what it would be. Hurrah!

Sean O'Casey

#99. Later in life the force of abstinence was to really be understood and my parent's problems became very clear. When will man appreciate his pleasures and respect them enough to indulge in moderation?

Theresa Sjoquist

#100. Fauvism was our ordeal by fire ... colours became charges of dynamite. They were expected to charge light ... The great merit of this method was to free the picture from all imitative and conventional contact.

Andre Derain