Top 100 When He Said Quotes
#1. I cherish the memories of a question my grandson asked me the other day when he said, 'Grandpa, were you a hero in the war?' Grandpa said 'No ... but I served in a company of heroes.'
Richard Winters
#2. Caesar gave the ultimate definition of ambition when he said: 'Better to be the chief of a village than a subaltern in Rome'.
Fernando Pessoa
#3. 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
#4. 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
#5. I know exactly what Einstein meant when he said, "Dancers are the athletes of God." You three look like angels. I can't wait to see you dancing in the Christmas concert.
Kirsty Murray
#6. The mind does not regulate its own condition. Mental depression, for example, is a state caused by the body ... William James described this relationship when he said we become sad because we shed tears: we do not shed tears because we are sad.
Jack Henry Abbott
#7. Du Bois marked a great stage in the history of Negro struggles when he said that Negroes could no longer accept the subordination which Booker T. Washington had preached.
C.L.R. James
#8. August remembered Harvey's words, and when he said good-bye he silently let them go. Released them into their own lives. He wished for their father to stay out of trouble, even if it meant he'd never see the boys again. Because that's just what you do. You let go.
Catherine Ryan Hyde
#9. Diogenes was asked what wine he liked best; and he answered as I would have done when he said, "Somebody else's".
Michel De Montaigne
#10. Shadows." The world seemed darker when he said it.
"Every man who walks the earth casts a shadow on the world. Some are thin and weak, others long and dark.
George R R Martin
#11. l the kingdom of heaven is at hand." 3For this is he who was spoken of by the prophet Isaiah when he said, m "The voice of one crying in the wilderness: n 'Prepare [1] the way of the Lord; make his paths straight.
Anonymous
#12. Nobody thinks Asian guys are hot," Park said finally. He had to look away from her when he said it - way away, he turned his head completely. "Not here, anyway. I assume Asian guys do all right in Asia.
Rainbow Rowell
#13. Aelyx's voice was guarded when he said, "Our geneticists terminated the program."
"Why?"
"Because we all started growing tentacles."
Her eyes opened wide. "Really?"
"No," he said, totally deadpan. "Not really."
Damn, she'd walked right into that one.
Melissa Landers
#14. You realize Shakespeare wasn't stuck for an idea when he said, 'All the world's a stage.'
Peter Riegert
#15. Be obsessed with Jesus. Breathe, sleep, eat, dream, and live Jesus! The apostle Paul could not have put it any better when he said in Philippians 1:21 that for to me, to live is Christ, and to die is gain.
Pedro Okoro
#16. Most likely not, but he believed solely because he desired to believe and possibly he fully believed in his secret heart, even when he said: "I do not believe till I see".
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#17. When he asked me, with obvious self-satisfaction, what I thought of the scenario, I hardly knew how to answer. I asked if he had seen the play and was hardly surprised when he said no.
Elmer Rice
#18. Miseria fortes viros, Ronan," Adam said.
When he said "Ronan," it meant: Ronan.
Maggie Stiefvater
#19. Stormtroopers were literally supposed to be within the same range of height and weight in part because of exactly that - he wasn't joking when he said he was too tall to be a stormtrooper.
Chuck Wendig
#20. Sometimes I think," he told me the only time we talked somewhat seriously, "I've never looked anyone in the eye." It was an exaggeration, but I'm not sure the man was exaggerating on purpose. After all, he wasn't looking me in the eye when he said those words.
Juan Gabriel Vasquez
#21. As to the nature of that drive, one thing was now certain, even though all else was mystery. There were no jets of gas, no beams of ions or plasma thrusting Rama into its new orbit. No one put it better than Sergeant Professor Myron, when he said, in shocked
Arthur C. Clarke
#22. God really meant it when He said, 'Seek FIRST the kingdom of God.'
Karen Wheaton
#23. Your purpose is God's success. You can't pay for what God want to be done. It's God's business; it's his farmland, so when he said he'll provide the rain, don't doubt it!
Israelmore Ayivor
#24. Jesus never uttered a loftier or a grander truth than when he said that wisdom cometh out of the mouths of babes.
Mahatma Gandhi
#25. I know very well what Goethe meant when he said that he never had a chagrin but he made a poem out of it. I have altogether too much patience of this kind.
Henry David Thoreau
#26. When I look around, I begin to understand what Socrates meant when he said, 'How much there is in the world I do not want.'
Nicolas Roeg
#27. You know what her punishment is for tormenting you way back when?" he said.
I looked at him.
He said, "her punishment is being her,
Curtis Sittenfeld
#28. I think Ru [Paul] gave me the best advice when he said to talk into a recorder and transcribe it. That is what worked for me. I just talked. Out of the talking I listened to it found what was cohesive. It all came together.
Michelle Visage
#29. Dor felt a warm, calming feeling when he said those words - She is my wife - because ever since they were children she was like the sky to him, forever around.
Mitch Albom
#30. Goethe tells us in his greatest poem that Faust lost the liberty of his soul when he said to the passing moment, 'Stay, thou art so fair.
Robert Kennedy
#31. A man is already of consequence in the world when it is known that we can implicitly rely upon him. Often I have known a man to be preferred in stations of honor and profit because he had this reputation: When he said he knew a thing, he knew it, and when he said he would do a thing, he did it.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
#32. When he said they needed to humble themselves and listen to God's commands and obey them, he was not posturing. He wanted to impart this vision of God and was saying that one must utterly trust God now and must know that hearing him is indeed all that matters.
Eric Metaxas
#33. To believe God when He said He works all things together for good for those who love Him.
Lynette Eason
#34. My father predicted everything when he said I would procrastinate until I died.
Jane Bowles
#35. loved Leonidis Day, and was serious when he said he probably always had.
A.E. Via
#36. So these are the fresh meat, eh?" Zuko smirked.
I cringed when he said fresh meat. How demeaning.
"Well, I don't know how well all of you can fight. So I'll find out the quickest and simplest way." He raised a scarred arm and pointed it at all of us, "ATTACK THE FRESH MEAT!
L. Benitez
#37. After my victory at the Warriors 1, the self-proclaimed and well named Monarch of the Underworld, Dave Courtney, came up to me and commended me when he said, 'Richy, you can hit, I'm fucking glad you're not hitting me.' The way Dave said it and the expression on his face made me laugh.
Stephen Richards
#38. As the evening progressed, Scott said that he was looking forward to settling down, but that he hadn't yet found the right person. The way he looked at me when he said that made me feel he might be wondering whether I was that person.
Amber Frey
#39. My father used to say, 'If you want to know the artist, look at the art'.
He was usually talking about Stanley Matthews or Don Bradman when he said it.
David Peace
#40. Now we can understand Schopenhauer when he said that mankind was apparently doomed to vacillate eternally between the two extremes of distress and boredom.
Viktor E. Frankl
#41. Warren Buffett's company reportedly owes the IRS a billion dollars in back taxes. When he said he wasn't paying enough taxes, he wasn't kidding.
Jay Leno
#42. Russell, an atheist, hypothesized a less vain deity when he said, "And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that He would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt His existence" - which I might add He hides so well.
Anonymous
#43. Moreover, from the time when He said, 'Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of heaven;' and again, 'He that loseth his life for my sake shall find it; ' no one becomes a member of Christ except it be either by baptism in Christ, or death for Christ.
Saint Augustine
#44. You sat in your nice little flat all through our war and watched us, bleeding all over the TV news. And you thought, 'How awful!' and then you got up and made yourself another cup of gourmet coffee." I flinched when he said that. It was a pretty accurate description.
Geraldine Brooks
#45. Then Gansey said, very slowly, "Ronan, you're never going to talk to Jane like that again."
Both Adam and Blue stared at Gansey, who concentrated his gaze on his napkin. It wasn't what he said but how he looked at no one when he said it that made the moment strange.
Maggie Stiefvater
#46. My father's face, when he said that, dissolved into a stillness, a sad expression, sadder than human feeling.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#47. It was an impressive fight.'
'Yes, I know,' said Laurent.
He didn't smile when he said things like that.
C.S. Pacat
#48. Maybe Napoleon was wrong when he said we were a nation of shopkeepers ... Today England looked like a nation of goalkeepers.
Tom Stoppard
#49. Justice Lewis Powell spoke for all of us when he said: Equal justice under law is perhaps the most inspiring idea of our society. It is one of the ends for which our entire legal system exists.
Edward Kennedy
#50. Someone once said that taxes are the price we pay for civilization. That may have been true when he said it, but today taxes are mostly the price we pay so that politicians can play Santa Claus and get reelected.
Thomas Sowell
#51. The comment threw her off a little, not because of the words - words were cheap, after all - but because of the way Callan looked when he said it.
K.M. Shea
#52. His trips home were handholds for her, so she could swing from one square on the calendar to the next. When he said he was going to come home and didn't, she swung forward and grasped thin air, fell.
Janet Fitch
#53. MSNBC host Lawrence O'Donnell is saying Donald Trump lied when he said he made $20 million a year off his 'Apprentice' series on NBC. NBC also denied Trump's claim, saying, 'We don't have $20 million. We're NBC.'
Jimmy Fallon
#54. If you have any questions for Jesus Christ it is only because you were not paying attention when he said "It is finished; I died for you on the cross." John 19:30.
Felix Wantang
#55. The brilliant Schiller was wrong in his Joan of Arc when he said against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain. It is actually by means of the gods that we make our stupidity and gullibility into something ineffable.
Christopher Hitchens
#56. Abraham Lincoln was on the side of the social scientists when he said, God must have loved the people of lower and middle socioeconomic status, because he made such a multiplicity of them.
Edwin Newman
#57. Flaubert was right when he said that our use of language is like a cracked kettle on which we bang out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we need to move the very stars to pity.
Christopher Hitchens
#58. What do you think Socrates meant when he said, "The unexamined life is not worth living"? Third,
Karen Armstrong
#59. I was raised Catholic," he began. "But you're not now?" the judge asked, frowning. "No," he said. He had worked for years to keep the apology out of his voice when he said this.
Hanya Yanagihara
#60. What?' Diane was enjoying listening to Cecil. She loved the end of his show, when he said, 'Good night, Night Vale, good night.' No matter how difficult her life was or how troublesome the news he was reporting, his voice and his sign-off put her at such ease.
Joseph Fink
#61. I was thinking of the immortal words of Socrates when he said ... I drank what?
Val Kilmer
#62. The Buddha never intended to make desire itself the problem. When he said craving causes suffering, he was referring not to our natural inclination as living beings to have wants and needs, but to our habit of clinging to experience that must, by nature, pass away.
Tara Brach
#63. Marshall McLuhan was right when he said that television has made a global village of the world - but he didn't know the global village would be Beirut.
Joseph Campbell
#64. What bothered me the most was the hesitation in his voice when he said that - like he was running out of time.
Katherine McIntyre
#65. When he said this, it was not a form of criticism. It was just a simple observation that led to another bite from the movie on his plate called The Old Man and the Stew.
Richard Brautigan
#66. She had never thought about her name much before, but when he said it, it was as if she were hearing it for the first time - the hard T, the caress of the double S, the way it seemed to end on a breath.
Cassandra Clare
#67. There are no good men in this game," said Mitch. But Sydney didn't care about good. She wasn't sure she believed in it. "I'm not afraid of Victor." "I know." He sounded sad when he said it.
V.E Schwab
#68. My dad said it best when he said, "John, on your deathbed you will never wish you spent more time at the office." So I started spending a little more time at home. I settled into a pretty good, if ordinary, existence.
Robin S. Sharma
#69. Don't worry', he said. I almost laughed when he said that. Don't worry. It's only the people who've never had to worry about shit in their lives who say that.
Dinaw Mengestu
#70. When Trace simply held her hands out to her sides and looked at her, Priss asked, "Are we going to have sex now?"
His mouth twitched, and his gaze warmed, but he sounded dead serious when he said, "Yeah, I think we are.
Lori Foster
#71. East Africa. Had Lance been deliberately misleading when he said West instead of East? Miss
Agatha Christie
#72. When he said we were trying to make a fool of him, I could only murmur that the Creator had beat us to it.
Ilka Chase
#73. And it seems to me that there is nothing more likely to cure a woman of lust than marriage. Now I understand what the saint meant when he said that it was better to marry than to burn. In my experience, if you marry, you certainly won't burn.
Philippa Gregory
#74. Buffett, when he gave away his money, referenced Carnegie. He quoted from Carnegie. When he said, "The man who dies rich dies disgraced," in the 1880s, his fellow millionaires looked on him like he was a lunatic, you know, an idiot, a mad man.
David Nasaw
#75. He liked words and images. "Blue" was one of his favorite words. He liked the feeling it made on his lips and tongue when he said it.
Robert James Waller
#76. Now I know exactly what Ben meant when he said he finds it difficult to control his indignation in the presence of absurdity. He thinks my insecurities are absurd, and he took it upon himself to prove that to me.
Colleen Hoover
#77. No. Freud said it best, I think, when he said, "sometimes a cigar is just a cigar." Sometimes your mother's boyfriend is just a loser
Nenia Campbell
#78. Thus, though I dislike to differ with such a great man, Voltaire was simply ludicrous when he said that if god did not exist it would be necessary to invent him. The human invention of god is the problem to begin with.
Christopher Hitchens
#79. He was standing on a ladder when he said it, which made it seem almost Shakespearean.
Rainbow Rowell
#80. The English are no nearer than they were a hundred years ago to knowing what Jefferson really meant when he said that God had created all men equal.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#81. This is what Aristotle meant when he said that the object of science is the necessary and the universal; man and not this man.
Fulton J. Sheen
#82. Jesus was the first great teacher of men who showed a genuine sympathy for childhood. When He said "Of such is the kingdom of heaven," it was a revelation.
Edward Eggleston
#83. Mark Twain put it best when he said, 'Reports of my demise are greatly exaggerated,.
Bill Bradley
#84. I'm like Muhammed Ali. When he said he would knock someone out in the fourth round, he did it.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic
#85. I think Ralph Nader is the biggest liar in American politics when he said it didn't matter who was president.
James Carville
#86. Pierre was right when he said that one must believe in the possibility of happiness in order to be happy, and I now believe in it. Let the dead bury the dead, but while I'm alive, I must live and be happy.
Leo Tolstoy
#87. Red: "I could tell he was grinning, when he said, 'I have nothing but time, my little love. I have been waiting patiently for you to come for me again.' 'You mean come to you,' I corrected. -Kate SeRine
Kate SeRine
#88. The Crown Prince was camped at Nesson this very minute, on his way to the border to stand up to Akielos. He was a young man serious about his responsibilities, Charls said. Damen had to make an effort not to look over at Laurent, gambling, when he said it.
C.S. Pacat
#89. Laws and conditions that tend to debase human personality - a God-given force - be they brought by the State or individuals, must be relentlessly opposed in the spirit of defiance shown by St. Peter when he said to the rulers of his day: 'Shall we obey God or man?'
Albert Lutuli
#90. He swore to kill her. She could still see his face when he said it.
He was nineteen then. He'd be thirty-nine when released. That was still years away, if there was no early parole. She didn't understand why this had started now, only three years after she was hidden from everyone.
Judith-Victoria Douglas
#91. They all laughed at Christopher Columbus
When he said the world was round.
Ira Gershwin
#92. I probably should've listened to Michael a year ago when he said that Charles will never win a championship because he doesn't show any dedication.
Scottie Pippen
#93. Trying so hard to make things go our way in this world, doing so much leaning, is exhausting. I am convinced that is exactly what Jesus had in mind when he said, 'Come to me all you who are weary and heavy-laden and I will give you rest' (Matthew 11:28 NASB).
Van Harden
#94. Plato was right when he said that all evil comes from ignorance. He forgot that ignorance also comes from evil.
Peter Kreeft
#95. He look'd a little disorder'd, when he said this, but I did not apprehend any thing from it at that time, believing as it us'd to be said, that they who do those things never talk of them; or that they who talk of such things never do them.
Daniel Defoe
#96. Probably Hobbes got it right when he said that a leviathan, a third party with a monopoly on the use of legitimate use of force in a territory, might be among the biggest violence reduction techniques ever invented.
Steven Pinker
#97. All along I've had an ambivalent relationship to photography - but as to whether I thought it an art form, or a craft, or a technique, well, I've always been taken with Henry Geldzahler's answer to that question when he said, I thought it was a hobby.
David Hockney
#98. How lucky Adam was. He knew when he said a good thing, nobody had said it before.
Mark Twain
#99. ("Tell me," a rabbi asked Daniel Bell when he said, as a child, that he did not believe in God. "Do you think God cares?")
Joan Didion
#100. During last night's Republican debate, Mike Huckabee got a big laugh when he said that Congress has been spending money like John Edwards at a beauty salon. Then Huckabee got an even bigger laugh when he said he's running for president
Conan O'Brien
