Top 100 When He Quotes
#1. When Job was prospering, he prayed. When he was suffering, he still prayed.
Timothy Keller
#2. Everything is possible for an eccentric, especially when he is English.
Jules Verne
#3. He's a man of few words, and he doesn't know what either of them means, people said, but not when he was within hearing.
Terry Pratchett
#4. Magic," Martha whispered breathlessly, "is diplomacy. It isn't just saying the words. It's who says them, how he says them, and when he says them.
Gene Wolfe
#5. What is it with these prophets? Almost without exception ordinary men, some of them with more vices than virtues, suddenly they were touched with fire.
Is it that a man sees best the stars when he is prone?
Little Pigeon
#6. He who has once made himself notorious as utterly unprincipled, is not credited even when he speaks the truth.
Periander
#7. A man able to think isn't defeated - even when he is defeated.
Milan Kundera
#8. It's a lovely answer and takes me entirely by surprise. I hadn't realized we were having a serious conversation, or I think I would've given a better reply when he asked me.
Maggie Stiefvater
#9. The loner may be respected, but he is always resented by his colleagues, for he seems to be passing a critical judgment on them, when he may be simply making a limiting statement about himself.
Sydney J. Harris
#10. Now I was only confused as to why a person would want to kiss anyone but Callum. When he lifted his head from mine I
Amy Tintera
#11. [T]hat's the way of torturers of every age, to put the blame on the victim, especially when he strikes back.
Orson Scott Card
#12. The much-quoted immaculate conception of the Virgin Mary occurred but once so that the world might know that Almighty God, when He so chooses, has no need of men, though He cannot dispense with women.
Jose Saramago
#13. Ballet is like football. I don't understand a footballer's technique but I can see when he's playing brilliantly. People don't like ballet because they think they don't understand it. Actually they do. It's the most primitive form of appeal.
Robert Helpmann
#14. I think the journey for a politician goes from wanting to please all the people all the time, to a political leader that realises in the end his responsibility is to decide. And when he decides, he divides.
Tony Blair
#15. Just as a child respects his father even when he perceives his weaknesses and faults, so a German will not despise the old Germany which was once a symbol of greatness to him.
Gustav Stresemann
#16. Your rack looks fabulous in this dress. You should wear this one. He'll lose his shit when he sees you in it."
"You always know the right things to say," I joked.
"I know. I'm like a super-hot version of Yoda.
J.L. Berg
#17. He explains, the times where there is only a single set of footprints were not when He walked beside them, but instead, when He carried them.
Tillie Cole
#18. Snowden was extremely good at digital self-defense. When he was employed by the C.I.A. and N.S.A., one of his jobs was to teach U.S. national security officials and C.I.A. employees how to protect their data in high-threat digital environments.
Luke Harding
#19. The irony of life is that the child begins to become an adult when he starts to live alone and he loses the security provided by those who love him and are always close to him.
Mark Curl
#20. Adam Johnson was a revolution when he came on
Bobby Gould
#21. When he walks, he sounds like a tree still full of dead leaves holding on.
Zachary Schomburg
#22. He has not despised or abhorred the affliction of the afflicted, and he has not hidden his face from him, but has heard, when he cried to him" (Ps. 22:24). Because
Chris Bruno
#23. Augustine does not disagree with this when he teaches that it is a faculty of the reason and the will to choose good with the assistance of grace; evil, when grace is absent.
John Calvin
#24. Never will He hold your hand more tightly than when He is leading you through the dark.
Beth Moore
#25. When will money not come to one? It is when he speaks ill of others and scandalizes. Money will come to the one who has purity of mind, body and speech.
Dada Bhagwan
#26. I have to try hard - but I do succeed - to not burst out laughing when he compares my breasts to a perfectly cooked creme brulee - 'souple mais ferme.
Frances Gendlin
#27. When I finished high school, I wanted to take all my graduation money and buy myself a motorcycle. But my mom said no. See, she had a brother who died in a horrible motorcycle accident when he was 18. And I could just have his motorcycle.
Anthony Jeselnik
#28. Atticus said that Jem was trying hard to forget something, but what he was really doing was storing it away for a while, until enough time passed. Then he would be able to think about it and sort things out. When he was able to think about it, Jem would be himself again.
Harper Lee
#29. The modern materialist often makes it simply: "Do what you like," and then rushes off to ask his psychoanalyst when he no longer likes anything.
Joy Davidman
#30. Mike tyson made a prolific quote that I will never forget. It came when he was being interviewed by a reporter about another boxers plan for an upcoming fight... Mike said, "Everyone has a plan until you get hit in the face.
Mike Tyson
#31. But how can the devil be stopped when he lives inside you?
Patricia Elliott
#32. A person repents when he comes to the place where he discovers that the will of God is the government of his life and the glory of God is the reason for his life. He only has repented who has changed his mind about his reason for being.
Paris Reidhead
#33. He gazed up at her seriously from the dust of the dooryard. He knew that however much she might love him, he would always love her more. And as always when he thought these things, the premonition came that ka was not their friend, that it would end badly between them.
Stephen King
#34. When he to whom one speaks does not understand, and he who speaks himself does not understand, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire
#35. My dad started teaching me how to play guitar when I was 13 years old. When he'd go to work, he'd map out guitar cords on a piece of notebook paper. I'd sit down and look at it every day and practice while he was gone.
Jason Aldean
#37. Loomis has always felt himself responsible for the fact that he did not stop Michael when he first murdered his sister, and so he's got that guilt to live with.
Donald Pleasence
#38. He was a loving father, but he did his loving in private. Quietly, he would tell his daughter to drive safely. On her wedding day, when he walked her down the aisle, he'd whisper the words to her. But today, above the noise, he would have to shout it.
Debra Anastasia
#39. For I am the daughter of Elrond. I shall not go with him when he departs to the Havens: for mine is the choice of Luthien, and as she so have I chosen, both the sweet and the bitter.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#40. There comes a time in the seeker's life when he discovers that he is at once the lover and the beloved.
Sri Chinmoy
#41. Man is just what he thinks himself to be ... He will attract to himself what the thinks most about. He can learn to govern his own destiny when he learns to control his thoughts.
Ernest Holmes
#42. These are the kinds of things a guy thinks about when he visits his own grave.
Kami Garcia
#43. He was heading over the line when he strutted in here thinking he could rattle his federal balls at me.
J.D. Robb
#44. It seems that the fiction writer has a revolting attachment to the poor, for even when he writes about the rich, he is more concerned with what they lack than with what they have.
Flannery O'Connor
#45. A man can feel pain in an amputated arm (an arm that is not there). A man can also feel anxious when he thinks about how his soul will burn in the fire of hell when he is threatened by it though he cannot see it physically
Bangambiki Habyarimana
#46. When a warrior has put an end to his routines, when he doesn't care anymore whether he has company or is alone, because he has heard the silent whisper of the spirit; then you can say that, truly, he has died. From that point on, even the simplest things in life become extraordinary for him.
Carlos Castaneda
#47. While my friend was my friend, he flattered me, and I never heard the truth from him. When he became my enemy, he shot it to me on a poisoned arrow.
Henry David Thoreau
#48. He shook his head when he was in the elevator, going down. Dames were a mystery. He could solve cases but not women.
C.S. Montanye
#49. Tell him you see me when he takes you in his arms
Leigh Bardugo
#50. I was trying to learn about Lyndon Johnson when he was young and creating his first political machine in the Texas hill country. I moved there for three years. You had to learn that world.
Robert Caro
#51. When he returned to the Iron Man production office, Downey asked that Favreau be sure to place a Tesla Roadster in Tony Stark's workshop.
Ashlee Vance
#52. When he is forced to perform the same task several times, the Warrior uses this tactic and transforms work into prayer.
Paulo Coelho
#53. I don't think George Bush is a good president by any imagination, but when he said, 'If you're talking to Al-Quaeda, we want to know what it's about,' it just proves one thing: If you're president long enough, you will one day say something that is true.
Bill Maher
#55. A man deserves credit when he accomplishes something of importance. Something that provides for the betterment of his life and his family's life and, whenever possible, mankind.
Therese Anne Fowler
#56. I never imagined I'd meet Berry Gordy who told me when he first heard me sing, "You know, your singing's okay, but I like your harmonica playing better."
Stevie Wonder
#57. I'd stood my ground against him. I wasn't going to jump when he said jump. I was more likely to give him the finger.
Gena Showalter
#58. And why, just at the moment when he had brought away the embryo of his idea from the old woman had he dropped at once upon a conversation about her?
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#59. I've always been the kind of woman who had a man in her life even when he was the wrong man.
Gretchen Wilson
#60. I lost track of day and night too. My time was divided into Dimitri and not-Dimitri. He was my world. When he wasn't there, the moments were agony.
Richelle Mead
#61. Well, the one thing I've thought about is having dad give me away. You know when he takes your hand and he puts it in the hand of the person you marry? That's the only part I've ever wanted.
Kiera Cass
#62. I don't. But if I had your love, I wouldn't waste it like he does. He's playing a game with you. He'll regret pushing you away, though, when he realizes I'm here, waiting to catch you.
Jessica Hawkins
#63. He looked so beautiful, and it pissed me off that he could look so beautiful when he was so ugly.
Nashoda Rose
#64. [Lee Morgan] was the only young cat that scared me when he played. He had so much fire and natural feeling. I had more technique, but he had that feeling. People seemed to like him more than they like me at the beginning.
Freddie Hubbard
#65. You did not kill the fish only to keep alive and to sell for food, he thought. You killed him for pride and because you are a fisherman. You loved him when he was alive and you loved him after. If you love him, it is not a sin to kill him. Or is it more?
Ernest Hemingway,
#66. F.D.R. had an economic crisis of unprecedented proportions in 1933 when he drove 15 major bills through the Congress, and super majorities in the House and the Senate in 1935 when he won passage of Social Security.
Robert Dallek
#67. In becoming part of the Body of Christ, sickness should have no more mastery over us than it had over the Body of Christ when He was on the earth.
James Gordon Lindsay
#68. When he did appear his eyes were as brown as I remembered, pupils flecked with gold like beach pebbles.
Amber Dawn
#69. And if there's one thing I've learned, it's that trying to make someone stay with you when he doesn't want to is a recipe for heartbreak.
Susan Ee
#70. When Jesus died on the cross, so did your sin; when He rose from the dead, so did your HOPE.
Max Lucado
#71. George MacDonald gives me renewed strength during times of trouble
times when I have seen people tempted to deny God
when he says, The Son of God suffered unto death, not that men might not suffer, but that their sufferings might be like his.
Madeleine L'Engle
#72. A man is culpable in the eyes of society when he escapes from the jurisdiction of its mediocrity.
Edgard Varese
#73. This kiss had to last Park forever.
It had to get him home.
He needed to remember it when he woke up scared in the middle of the night.
Rainbow Rowell
#74. It is 3:38 a.m., and the time of night when my mind starts running around all wild and out of control, like my cat, George, when he was a kitten.
Jennifer Niven
#75. I missed my father so much when he died that writing about his life and mine was a way of bringing him back to life and getting me to sort of understand more about him and what made him the father, the husband and the man that he was, and how that made me the man, husband and father that I am.
Dan Hill
#76. A man can do what he ought to do; and when he says he cannot, it is because he will not.
Johann Gottlieb Fichte
#77. I think every girl's dream is to find a bad boy at the right time, when he wants to not be bad anymore.
Taylor Swift
#78. So long as a man attends to his business the public does not count his drinks. When he fails they notice if he takes even a glass of root beer.
Corra May Harris
#79. When each partner loves so completely that he has forgotten to ask himself whether or not he is loved in return; when he only knows that he loves and is moving to its music
then, and then only are two people able to dance perfectly in tune to the same rhythm.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
#80. Every man has a train of thought on which he rides when he is alone.
Joseph Fort Newton
#81. It's just that I'm curious, that's all. He usually walks alone" "Yeah, he's a loner, all right," the waitress murmured. "Even when he's with someone, he's alone.
David Goodis
#82. He was there. Like always, holding me up when I couldn't' stand and letting me go when he knew I needed him to. He was more than just a shelter. Aiden was my other half, my equal.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#83. Whoever commits to paper what he suffers becomes a melancholy author: but he becomes a serious author when he tells us what he suffered and why he now reposes in joy.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#84. How can one look happy when he is contemplating the anomolous Zeeman effect? (Wolfgang Pauli)
Manjit Kumar
#85. He felt like the invisible boy. When he got to be part of the mystery Men he felt like he had a purpose.
Kel Mitchell
#86. Repentance always brings a person to the point of saying, "I have sinned." The surest sign that God is at work in his life is when he says that and means it. Anything less is simply sorrow for having made foolish mistakes-a reflex action caused by self-disgust.
Oswald Chambers
#87. When he came in first, he was happy to find all sorts of meaning in the results.
H.W. Brands
#88. He mentioned Beethoven. She had read in the library about that musician - his name was pronounced with an a and spelled with a double e. He was a German fellow like Mozart. When he was living he spoke in a foreign language and lived in a foreign place - like she wanted to do.
Carson McCullers
#89. The Lord confers great honor on his servants when he brings them suffering ...
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#90. Allah is Most Merciful even when He sends us trials, for even His punishment is for our own good.
Omar Suleiman
#91. Thanks for being here for me," she whispered.
He started to answer flippantly, but stopped when he realized how much it meant to him as well, that he could be there for her. "Anytime, babe."
And for the first time in his life, he actually meant it.
Jill Shalvis
#92. Goosnargh, said Ford Prefect, which was a special Betelgeusian word he used when he knew he should say something but didn't know what it should be.
Douglas Adams
#93. What I said was that I was at first supportive of Bernie [Sanders] when he came to Los Angeles for his first rally, I was there, I was supportive.
Tom Hayden
#94. Man is a free agent; but he is not free if he does not believe it, for the more power he attributes to Destiny, the more he deprives himself of the power which God granted him when he gave him reason.
Giacomo Casanova
#95. Each night Father fills me with dread
When he sits on the foot of my bed;
I'd not mind that he speaks
In gibbers and squeaks,
But for seventeen years he's been dead.
Edward Gorey
#96. I asked Fred Astaire once when he was about my age if he still danced, and he said 'Yes, but it hurts now.' That's exactly it. I can still dance, too, but it hurts now!
Dick Van Dyke
#97. One has neither independence nor freedom from bondage when he is obligated to others
Gordon B. Hinckley
#98. When he went to college he wrote me letters which I answered within four days. Each letter took at least five drafts before I thought it suitable to send to Cambridge.
Laurie Colwin
#99. If we rationalize our problems when He points them out, we will spend less and less time meditating because we won't want to face God in that area of our lives.
Charles Stanley
#100. O voyagers, O seamen,
You who came to port, and you whose bodies
Will suffer the trial and judgement of the sea,
Or whatever event, this is your real destination.'
So Krishna, as when he admonished Arjuna
On the field of battle.
Not fare well,
But fare forward, voyagers.
T. S. Eliot
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