Top 100 When It Quotes
#1. I don't think many writers like their best-known piece of work, particularly when it was written a long time ago.
Lillian Hellman
#2. Because - dig it - when it comes to death, what can you do but laugh?
Stephen King
#3. I'm very supportive of women getting to a place in life when it's right for them to start a family. It's important for women to take their time to come into their own. I only want to say we might not have as much time as we think we have.
Constance Marie
#4. Melancholy can be seductive when it's twined with self-pity.
Dean Koontz
#6. We must understand that when a society undermines intellectual freedom for its own purposes it is absolutely morally bad, but when it represses biological freedom for its own purposes it is absolutely morally good.
Robert M. Pirsig
#7. She hadn't felt the click often enough in her life to take it for granted. And when it was so obviously echoed in the man who caused it ... that was something to think about.
Nora Roberts
#8. Having an eye for beauty isn't the same thing as a weakness ... except possibly when it comes to you.
Suzanne Collins
#10. I love to sing, but I'm just terrible. I play guitar, and I play enough where I can play most country stuff, and I'll sing when it's just me.
Justin Deeley
#11. If the thought is slow to come, a glass of good wine encourages it; and when it does come, a glass of good wine rewards it.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
#12. I'll call you," he repeated.
"If you call me, I won't pick up the phone."
"You will wait by the phone for my call, and when it rings, you will pick it up and you will speak to me in a civil manner. If you don't know how, ask someone.
Ilona Andrews
#13. When it comes to spiritual truth, how can we know that we are on the right path? One way is by asking the right questions - the kind that help us ponder our progress and evaluate how things are working for us.
Dieter F. Uchtdorf
#14. When it comes to identifying a real leader, that task can be much easier. Don't listen to the claims of the person professing to be the leader. Don't examine his credentials. Don't check his title. Check his influence. The proof of leadership is found in the followers.
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John C. Maxwell
#15. When it's time for you to write how you want your life to go just write right before your pen run out of ink because i know the opportunity is jusT once and if u miss it, then you hustle very hard to get it
Efiba Progress
#16. Getting up to dance to your own stuff looks pretty pretentious. And leaving the dancefloor when it comes on is just awkward.
Sophie Ellis-Bextor
#17. The principle that a central bank, charged with controlling inflation, should be independent from the government is unassailable. It may also be true that it's easier for the central bank to guard its independence from political pressure when it mainly holds government securities.
Janet Yellen
#18. The power of Allah: no sound, no shape, no form. But when it manifests, none can resist it.
Idries Shah
#19. Housing works like a trampoline. When it is pushed down far enough and long enough, it will eventually snap upward very powerfully.
Roger Altman
#20. You never know what your parents are going to say when you tell them you're getting married - especially when it's with someone they haven't met yet.
Chad Kroeger
#21. What can I say?" I grinned. I have a magic touch when it comes to animals."
Daphne snorted. "You're touched in the head is more like it.
Jennifer Estep
#22. I can usually sense that a leading is from the Holy Spirit when it calls me to humble myself, serve somebody, encourage somebody or give something away. Very rarely will the evil one lead us to do those kinds of things.
Bill Hybels
#23. Just as I have insisted on his worth, he has always insisted on my strength, insisted that my capacity is greater than I believe. And I know, without being told, that's what love does, when it's right-it makes you more than you were, more than you thought you could be.
This is right.
Veronica Roth
#24. If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.
Ben Elton
#25. Leverage is the ability to apply positive pressure on yourself to follow through on your decisions even when it hurts.
Orrin Woodward
#26. I think in any situation, so much of effective leadership is when it comes from your own personality. And I feel very fortunate to be comfortable in the Colts locker room, where people can be who they are, and they don't have to change it when they show up to work that day.
Andrew Luck
#27. It's funny. No matter how hard you try, you can't close your heart forever. And the minute you open it up, you never know what's going to come in. But when it does, you just have to go for it! Because if you don't, there's not point in being here.
Kirstie Alley
#28. Truth has a habit f emerging just when it can do the most damage.
R.E. Oliver
#29. What makes bebop legitimate is the fact that when it was done, it was illegitimate.
Matthew Shipp
#30. Happiness can never be captured and is only elusive when it is chased after
Judy Azar LeBlanc
#31. Nobody notices it when your zipper is up, but everyone notices when it's down.
Cynthia Lewis
#32. One good thing about love, when it touches you, time stands still.
Debasish Mridha
#33. I think when it comes to television as opposed to film, the producers really are the writers. We work with people who are purely financial producers.
Marc Guggenheim
#34. I'm a very disciplined person when it comes to my work, but discipline can't save m from being a drug addict.
Steve Earle
#35. I equate fame towards people who know your work, people who will see your work. But all that stuff, like with the Genies and stuff like that, it was so much fun. It's so much fun and it's nice when it comes, but that's not what it's all about.
Sandra Oh
#36. When you cross a challenge that is expansive and deep, you may not even realize when you've come to the other side. That day will come. And when it does, how will you look at your crossing?
Teresa Hirst
#38. No nation can last long when it stops praying and takes up playing.
Vance Havner
#39. It's not easy, pairing yourself off with someone forever. It's an admirable thing, and I'm glad you're both doing it, but, boy-oh-girl-oh, there will be days you wish you'd never done it. And those will be the good times, when it's only days of regret and not months.
Gillian Flynn
#40. I grew up in the East Village, in Alphabet City, when it was a very dangerous neighborhood. To survive there, I had to learn to be a little bit invisible.
Josh Pais
#41. The brain can be a wonderful tool, can be a willing slave, as has been evidenced by some men, but of course it works poorly when it has not the habit of usage. An automobile can become a source of delight, but the first time you drive you are as apt to go up a tree as to go up the road.
Robert Henri
#42. Don't be ashamed to weep; 'tis right to grieve. Tears are only water, and flowers, trees, and fruit cannot grow without water. But there must be sunlight also. A wounded heart will heal in time, and when it does, the memory and love of our lost ones is sealed inside to comfort us.
Brian Jacques
#43. Our society is so obsessed with working out to be skinny, and none of that has a purpose. I love that my daughter sees me running because she knows I have a race and that I want to be faster. It becomes much less of a grind when it's that way.
Megyn Price
#44. When it comes to love triangles and duels to the death, you should always cheat. - Fairy Werewolf vs. Zombie Vampire
Charlie Jane Anders
#45. Militarism ... is the chief bulwark of capitalism. When it is that militarism is undermined, capitalism will fail.
Helen Keller
#46. The danger inherent in all force grows stronger when it is likely to gain success, for then it becomes temptation.
Rabindranath Tagore
#47. Wrath to come implies both the futurity and perpetuity of this wrath ... Yea, it is not only certainly future, but when it comes it will be abiding wrath, or wrath still coming. When millions of years and ages are past and gone, this will still be wrath to come. Ever coming as a river ever flowing.
John Flavel
#48. The Spirit inspired the Word when it originally was written. Today, He uses it to illumine us, and He applies it to our souls and hearts.
R.C. Sproul
#49. Fatherhood has taught me when it's too quiet my kids are usually sinning. God the Father knows the same. Are you praying?
Mark Hart
#50. I'm really very self-confident when it comes to my work. When I take on a project, I believe in it 100%. I really put my soul into it. I'd die for it. That's how I am.
Michael Jackson
#51. We have to be extremely vigilant and extremely careful when it comes to nuclear. Nuclear changes the whole ball game.
Donald Trump
#52. Gold is the kindest of all hosts when it shines in the sky, but comes as an evil guest to those who receive it in the hand.
Gene Wolfe
#53. Most books about writing are filled with bullshit. Fiction writers, present company included, don't understand very much about what they do - not why it works when it's good, not why it doesn't when it's bad.
Stephen King
#54. I didn't want to be a sweet boy's sweet girlfriend. I wanted to be Fawn's equal, the kind of girl who stood up for herself and took care of business, who cut guys loose when it was required.
Paula McLain
#55. I'm fairly out of the loop when it comes to pop culture.
Cynthia Nixon
#56. If your home is a ministry, shouldn't that ministry become a passion? Shouldn't your feelings and emotions be involved when it comes to the people and place you love? And shouldn't your work be done passionately? Your labors should be labors of love!
Elizabeth George
#57. I think right now we need to look back at the founding values of our country. Rise above partisanship, be less bitter when it comes to important matters that have to be solved.
Walter Isaacson
#58. When it comes to creative inspiration, job titles and hierarchy are meaningless.
Ed Catmull
#59. Especially when it came to his triumphant denunciations of his political enemies, each of whom, she suspected, were only too relieved that it was him rather than they who had been caught. She
Alexander McCall Smith
#60. When the government puts its imprimatur on a particular religion it conveys a message of exclusion to all those who do not adhere to the favored beliefs. A government cannot be premised on the belief that all persons are created equal when it asserts that God prefers some.
Harry A. Blackmun
#61. Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral: a thing as single and specious as a statue to the first glance, and yet, on examination, as lively and interesting as a forest in detail.
Robert Louis Stevenson
#62. When a thing is not done, continuing to work is the strength; but when it is done, the strength lies in stopping.
Eric Maisel
#63. Though fortune's wheel is generally on the turn, sometimes when it gets into the mud, it sticks there.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
#65. Do not withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in your power to do it. Do not say to your neighbor, "Go, and come again, tomorrow I will give it" - when you have it with you.
Crossway
#66. I knew then and I know now, when it comes to justice, there is no easy way to get it.
Claudette Colvin
#67. I wanted to call you, but I find myself feeling ... awkward when it comes to you."
"'Awkward' is the word du jour," I agreed. "So, I make you nervous?"
"Not quite nervous," he said. "Just unsettled."
I wriggled my eyebrows and inched a little closer to him. "Unsettled, that's even better.
Molly Harper
#68. That's the happiest moment. When it's all done. When we stop. When we can stop.
Edward Albee
#69. Be not forward, but friendly and courteous; the first to salute, hear and answer; and be not pensive when it is time to converse.
George Washington
#70. I think leadership is most effective when it's your own personality. But I feel like it's a natural progression as a quarterback, as well.
Andrew Luck
#71. A house doesn't make a home. When the place has got history, family, emotions, worries, joys worked into the wood, that's when it gets a solid threshold.
Jim Butcher
#72. The speculator who insists on trying to profit from daily minor movements will never be in a position to take advantage of the next important change marketwise when it occurs.
Anonymous
#73. She linked arms with me as we walked down the hall, and every wildlife researcher will tell you that when it comes to survival in a hostile environment, a pack of two is infinitely safer than a pack of one. One
Jodi Picoult
#74. Insanity is just what we call stupidity when it doesn't make sense.
Josh Lieb
#75. And I know you're frightened By my laughter But you're not afraid To hold my pain You see I'm never sure Just what you're after, Babe But it seems you only love me When it rains. How come you only love me when it rains?
Harry Chapin
#76. One thing about Southern women, they were tough. No one said no and got away with it. Especially not when it came to a loved one.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#77. Wood burns. Roots nourish. Branches shelter. Leaves heal." The words had become her mantra, her way of reigniting her courage when it started to falter. My life depends on a tree, she thought wryly as she cinched her pack.
Teresa Tsalaky
#78. If you are under the illusion that you can start a business and run it at your life's schedule, you are mistaken. The business is like a starving puppy - when it needs to eat, then it needs to eat regardless of what you have going on personally.
Robert Herjavec
#79. The value of affection going up when it was in short supply
LaVyrle Spencer
#80. I mean, it's nice to get a dinner reservation ahead of other people, but when it comes down to it, the most important thing to me is the actual work.
Scarlett Johansson
#81. Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.
Walter Scott
#82. When it's right it's never too late, when it's wrong it's always too soon
Sara Donati
#83. This is what it look like when it WORKS?
Jim Butcher
#84. I hate the moon - I am afraid of it - for when it shines on certain scenes familiar and loved it sometimes makes them unfamiliar and hideous. It
H.P. Lovecraft
#85. Daily life is better when it involves interactions with real people who have a personal investment in their labour, like shopkeepers, than it is with someone 'just doing my job' or the infernal self-checkout machine.
Julian Baggini
#86. When it comes to sitting down and composing, there is no hesitation, no concern, no critics breathing fire down my neck. For me, writing a song is the purest part of all. No one can mess with that.
Rufus Wainwright
#87. Due process and judicial process are not one and the same, particularly when it comes to national security.
Eric Holder
#88. Application when it comes to understanding the mysteries of creation or the fact that light can enter the eye and form an image in the brain and send a poetic tendril down the arm into a clutch of fingers that could write the Shakespearean sonnets.
James Lee Burke
#89. That was the worst thing about having a relationship with someone, even a pretend relationship. You opened up, let someone in, and when it was over, they had all the ammunition they needed to completely destroy you.
Sarra Manning
#90. I waded out of the sea while loving it still, even as I had earlier dropped from the stars while loving them; and in truth there is no place in Briah that is not lovely when it no longer holds the threat of death, save for the places men have made so.
Gene Wolfe
#92. [...]that's how it works most of the time; we say the things that matter to people when it's already too late.
James Frey
#93. Learning is stronger when it matters, when the abstract is made concrete and personal.
Peter C. Brown
#94. There is a lot of corruption all over the world and not only when it comes to illegal wildlife trade! There are a few ways to ensure this stops: If there are no customers, there will be no trade.
Jane Goodall
#95. I thought about my mother, and the words she said to me almost a lifetime ago. That's when it clicked: she had asked me not to settle, to fight for the person I loved, and for the first time, I did what she expected of me. I had finally lived up to who she wanted me to be.
Jamie McGuire
#96. Vanity is something that will only get in the way of doing your best work, and ultimately if you're truly vain you care more about your work than how you look in your work. I actually consider myself a pretty vain guy when it comes to that.
Philip Seymour Hoffman
#97. When it comes down to it, at the end of the day, I need more out of my life and I need to push myself harder. And if at the end of the day I don't have it, then I don't have it, but at least I'm going to put myself out there. If I fail, I'm going to fail terrifically.
Ali Larter
#98. The mind, when it reaches its limits, must make a judgment and choose its conclusions. This is where suicide and the reply stand.
Albert Camus
#99. Business is like sex. When it's good, it's very, very good; when it's not so good, it's still good.
George Katona
#100. If the word is not dead when it reaches the hearer, he murders it at once by a contradiction, a stipulation, a condition, a digression, an interruption, and all the thousand tricks of conversation.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
