You Had Quotes

#1. Fuck it, I thought. As Don Rumsfeld once said, You go to war with the army you have, not the army you wish you had.

Avi Steinberg

#2. If you had told me when I was 18 that I wouldn't have made it until I was 29, I would have said, Forget it.

Helen Reddy

#3. least. I couldn't look away when I saw you. You had this expression on your face like you were imagining heaven.

L. H. Cosway

#4. People change, couples change, and you have to be able to accept what is coming without trying to hang on things that you had before that they may disappear but they may transform into something that is even better.

Antonio Banderas

#5. You rolled me once, you rolled me twice and the third time, you had taught to win the game.

Auliq Ice

#6. If you had really loved something, wouldn't a little bit of it always linger?

Susan Orlean

#7. When the chips are down, you are given
the chance to find the strength you never knew you had and put it toward the greater good. Or go over to the dark side. You know, if that's how you roll.

Jessica Lave

#8. A lot of times, you had to beat the bullies at their own game. But the difficulty is not becoming the bully yourself.

Pierce Brown

#9. There are ledgers. Those I kill. Those I reward."
"There are legends. You used to be one."
"I am a legend."
"Dani's a legend. Not you."
"This Dani appears to matter to you."
"Always."
"Perhaps you had a funny way of showing it.

Karen Marie Moning

#10. At the end of the day, you sign a record deal and you understand where it could go if you had the right song.

Tinie Tempah

#11. Who said you had to fill his shoes?" said Karen. "Wear your own shoes. They're bound to fit better. Walk your own path your own way and you'll be more likely to get to where you need to be".

Jennifer Chiaverini

#12. Do you still perform autopsies on conversations you had lives ago?

Donte Collins

#13. True, he had chosen to live alone, but not unbearably alone. The worst of being unbearably alone was that you had to bear it - either that or you were sunk. You had to work hard to prevent your mind from sabotaging you by its looking hungrily back at the superabundant past.

Philip Roth

#14. If you're Chris Christie, who is governor of New Jersey, a state that obviously was impacted by 9/11, this gives you an opportunity to talk about how, as governor, you had to deal with terrorism and security issues.

Amy Walter

#15. Socrates was famously executed for his philosophical and political beliefs. I wondered what would happen if you had a similar character, who was so relentlessly questioning of everything? In a modern society, would we be any more or any less tolerant of that kind of character?

Samantha Harvey

#16. You became the sum total of where you lived, where you shopped, which church you went to, how many kids you had and which taxi company you used, and you only associated with people who had the same responses on their list.

Sara Sheridan

#17. Being certain one is alive isn't something to which one pays mind. If you could ask the question, you were fine. If you could not, hopefully you had a cozy coffin.

Thomm Quackenbush

#18. I don't collect any memorabilia. I wish I'd have kept everything I had. But who knew you had to keep it. Just gave it away. And we lost so much and we didn't look after a lot of it.

Ringo Starr

#19. Parents should be completely dull and ordinary and predictable. You want their relationship to be stable and incredibly boring, as though you would kill yourself if you had to be in that marriage. Neither

Meg Wolitzer

#20. Expand your love, your consciousness, and your loving compassion by experiencing everything that everyone does or says as though you had done or said it.

Ken Keyes Jr.

#21. You had to get everything exactly right or the editors would give you hell.

Kurt Vonnegut

#22. If you had half an hour of exercise this morning, you're in the right frame of mind to sit still and focus on this paragraph, and your brain is far more equipped to remember it.

John Ratey

#23. That, I decided, was what it meant to be a slave: your past didn't matter, in the present you were invisible and you had no claim on the future.

Lawrence Hill

#24. Have you had contact with any other survivors?"
"Only one," the Alderaanian senator said grimly. "Lock onto my coordinates. He's waiting for you.

Matthew Woodring Stover

#25. You painted a naked woman because you enjoyed looking at her, put a mirror in her hand and you called the painting "Vanity," thus morally condemning the woman whose nakedness you had depicted for you own pleasure.

John Berger

#26. Oh, I'm not afraid of death! What have I got to live for after all? I suppose you believe it's very wrong to kill a person who has injured you-even if they've taken away everything you had in the world?

Agatha Christie

#27. But painting houses wasn't unsatisfying work. You had your good karma jobs, your decent clients. It felt pretty good when you drove away on that last day, paid in full, having restored a little color to someone's shit-brown life.

Wally Lamb

#28. It had very punctual prophets. You could set your calendar by them, if you had one big enough.

Terry Pratchett

#29. And before we begin, I should like one thing noted. I knew you had Secret Pain.

Tessa Dare

#30. The thing you had had and loved and taken for granted caught up with you all at once and for no sensible reason suddenly cost more than you could afford.

Ann Brashares

#31. The '80s were the worst period. You had these horrible pop bands growing their hair and calling themselves metal.

Geezer Butler

#32. What if you slept? And what if, in your sleep you dreamed? And what if, in your dream, you went to heaven and there plucked a strange and beautiful flower? And what if, when you awoke, you had the flower in your hand? - SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE

Wayne W. Dyer

#33. Dealing with Prophet wasn't entirely unlike dealing with a live grenade or a Claymore mine. You had to know when to ease off the pressure and when to stay firmly planted and unmoving so you didn't die in the explosion.

S.E. Jakes

#34. Mrs. Roberts, you remember when Mr. Roberts was out of town and you had me over? The thing we did with the pie? Who would have thought I could eat a whole pie, but then again who would have thought you could hold an entire pie down, well, down there?

Alex Morgan

#35. I missed the idea of marriage, the one you had when you were young and emotionally unblemished.

Tarryn Fisher

#36. Do you really think that when this body expires, you cease to exist? That you fall into some oblivion, as if you had never been alive at all? No. There is a place beyond death for all of us,

Bella Forrest

#37. When I was coming up in the '80s television, if you were on television that meant either you were a young actor just coming up like I was, or you were an older actor whose career was over and you had to go on television.

Billy Bob Thornton

#38. Psychology, the talking cure, linguistics, and semantics - they're all like dogs poking around and sniffing their own vomit. There might be some gems in there, you never know. For certain you will at the very least know what you had for lunch. And you can ascertain what not to eat again.

David Byrne

#39. You just said you had been thinking about it for awhile," Dawn cut in. "Thinking about it," I said. "But you know me - " "I thought I did." Dawn jammed some bean curd in her mouth.

Ann M. Martin

#40. Lies were like having a pregnant rabbit. One day you had one, but before you knew it, there were rabbits all over the place.

Charles De Lint

#41. Love needs no words.
You had me before you even spoke

Vi Keeland

#42. Now that Olive was grown, I didn't know what to do with myself. You could build your life around one single thing, like a view or a child, but that was risky. You had so much to lose.

Michael Lee West

#43. What she had come to understand ... was that mourning was no crime. it wasn't her feeling all boo-hoo sorry for herself, or being disgustingly self - engrossed, it was what you had to do to go on.

Julia Gregson

#44. To believe, perhaps you had to cease looking for explanations and instead hold the little thing in your hands as long as your were able before it slipped like water between your fingers.

Eowyn Ivey

#45. Maybe ... Maybe this was one of those moments in life, one of those karmic incidents you had to embrace. Maybe the universe had put this man in my path for a reason. Maybe it wasn't coincidence that he'd been there to unlock the dressing room door.

Annabel Joseph

#46. I was carried away, swept along by the mighty stream of words pouring from the hundreds of pages. To me it was the ultimate book: once you had read it, neither your own life nor the world you lived in would ever look the same.

Dai Sijie

#47. Once you had your man, you let all your accomplishments go. You don't sew or sing any more, you haven't illuminated a manuscript in years - and

Peter S. Beagle

#48. Don't be afraid to ask the 'dumb' question, everyone else will be relieved you had the guts to ask!

Sheryl Sandberg

#49. The dead were not so scary. The living were the ones you had to watch out for.

Laura Thalassa

#50. Once you have dared to dream, I believe you MUST pursue that dream. If you do not pursue your dreams they will consume you; the knowledge that you had a dream but did not pursue it is killing knowledge. Consider it absolutely necessary to go after your dreams.

Les Brown

#51. Mmmm ... the comedy that matters is the comedy you pull out of thin air. It's a bit like when something funny has happened and you try to explain it to someone else and end up saying, 'You had to be there.'

Jack Dee

#52. I just looked you in TedX, I just check out... you had a problem in one of the eyes... probably and in the both eyes... also you were woried. I'm sure as conclusion I can say that you weren't sure what to say.

Deyth Banger

#53. You don't have in IN you to be like that, Hughie.
You had too nice an upbringing.
Your mom and dad were too good to you.
And I wish you could see that you're not less of a MAN, or some sort of inferior person, just because you can't be harsh and hard and cold.

Garth Ennis

#54. Maybe you held back for too long and then you had to explode. Maybe there was no middle ground let. Sometimes we need to get violent with out words because no one is listening otherwise.

Matthew Quick

#55. If you are made for flight, intended for it,
you had better find a pursuer, fast.
Otherwise, all that fleeing is going nowhere.

Dan Chiasson

#56. I was involved in some of the very first meetings that created the maps that showed what would happen if you had a Category 1, 2 or 3 hurricane in New York.

Joseph J. Lhota

#57. You dumb asshole," Ross said to Nate."You could be a freakin' amoeba and
you'd still be a brother. And the only reason I'm not throwing a punch
right now is because you had such a dipshit upbringing you don't get that.

Karina Bliss

#58. I think if you had to choose between running a tabloid and being president of the United States, of course you'd run the tabloid, especially in New York.

Pete Hamill

#59. 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

#60. Did you think you had educated the superstition out of those people?'
'I certainly did think it.'
'Well, then, you may unthink it.

Mark Twain

#61. She(Pam) said you had a habit of killing the bartenders of Fangtasia," Felicia said, her lovely doe eyes wide
with amazement. "She said I must come to beg your mercy. But you just seem like a human, to me.

Charlaine Harris

#62. It's very funny because every time I make a movie, and I've heard this re-echoed by other filmmakers and actors I have worked with, you kind of feel like you're naked again. You have to figure it all out from scratch, as if you had never done it before.

Todd Haynes

#63. There are precedents for what happens when societies allow the divide between rich and poor to get so huge that it stops being funny and starts becoming a sick, blood-boiling joke. If you had a Tardis, you could go back to 1917 and ask the Russian royal family how it was all going.

John Niven

#64. Now, if you want me to get out of the world, you had better get the women votin' soon. I shan't go till I can do that.

Sojourner Truth

#65. And the world said, Child, you will not be missed. You are cheaper than a wrench, your back is a road; Your death is a table in a book. You had our wit, our heart was sealed to you: Man is the judgment of the world.

Randall Jarrell

#66. When you make it to eighty-four, then you're ready to sit back and think universal and systematic. I was a philosophy major a long, long time ago. At Stony Brook. You had something to do with some state university school?

Richard Meltzer

#67. If you had felt yourself sufficient, it would have been a proof that you were not.

C.S. Lewis

#68. True freedom is living as if you had completely chosen whatever you feel or experience in this moment. This inner alignment with the Now is the end of suffering.

Eckhart Tolle

#69. My mother always used to say, 'Well, if you had been born a little girl growing up in Egypt, you would go to church or go to worship Allah, but surely if those people are worshipping a God, it must be the same God' - that's what she always said. The same God with different names.

Jane Goodall

#70. No, no. I get it. You had to do it." Kieran's eyes narrowed. "Believe it or not, I'm a sucker for romance. Two star-crossed lovers who don't fit in each other's world. Kind of like Romeo and Juliet - just with fangs.

Jayde Scott

#71. POPPY (on her mother not breastfeeding her during infancy): If you had breastfed me, it might have increased my IQ, and I'd have a lot of pressure to succeed. My average IQ means I can simply coast through life, so thank you.

Bijou Hunter

#72. i would've done anything to make you happy.
i think you knew that.

i think this is why you knew you had to let me go.

AVA.

#73. Writing well means never having to say, I guess you had to be there.

Jef Mallett

#74. I can see in your eyes that there's no seam of untapped joy left in you. The best of life has come and gone. Those days when sudden epiphanies swept over you, and you had visions of the rightness of all things and of your place amongst them; they're history. You're in a darker place now.

Clive Barker

#75. My dear girl, is it that you are so lonely that you had to create this?

Mark Z. Danielewski

#76. From what I hear, it's a normal thing to feel guilty as a mother, especially when trying to fill the needs of a newborn along with maintaining what you had with your first child.

Jennie Finch

#77. My mother carried me for 10 months. I asked her 'Mother, you had an extra month, why you didn't make me a beautiful face?' and mother told me, 'My son, I was busy making your beautiful hands and heart.'

Mstislav Rostropovich

#78. I just thank God that I didn't grow up with so much money or privilege because you had to create ways to make it happen.

Kim Basinger

#79. I tried out for my basketball team every year and I never made it. You had to buy the shoes before you knew if you were on the team because it took a few weeks for them to ship. I bought the shoes every year, never once made the team, had a ton of high school basketball shoes.

Adam DeVine

#80. Modern PCs are horrible. ACPI is a complete design disaster in every way. But we're kind of stuck with it. If any Intel people are listening to this and you had anything to do with ACPI, shoot yourself now, before you reproduce.

Linus Torvalds

#81. If you had told me at the beginning of the year that I was going to be a shoo-in for the Cy Young, I would have been absolutely ecstatic and amazed.

Justin Verlander

#82. Going back to Hemingway's work after several years is like going back to a brook where you had often fished and finding the woods as deep and cool as they used to be.

Malcolm Cowley

#83. All I knew was that hate was so deadly as any poison and did no one any good. You had to control and eliminate it, if you could.

Louis Zamperini

#84. Stretch the bow to the very full, and you will wish you had stopped in time.

Laozi

#85. A biggest mistake I made when I started doing a talk show was I thought you had to read the books.

Dick Cavett

#86. It is better to have had your wish than to have wish you had.

Patrick Cranshaw

#87. Andcuffs, massage oil, some edible underwear-"
Aidan held up his hand. "No need to explain anymore. You had me at handcuffs,

Katie Ashley

#88. We had spent only a few weeks together, five years ago, but when you finally meet the person who in daydreams you had sculpted without words, the transparency of time becomes the color of hair, and shapeless years become the shape of lips.

Simon Van Booy

#89. If you had no devil to tempt you, no enemies to fight you, and no world to ensnare you, you would still find in yourself enough evil to be a sore trial to you, for the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#90. Dying wasn't the joke, it was the punchline, the final guffaw, the crack-up, when your listeners' eyes should be streaming and your woman pees in her pants with laughing. You had to live with sufficient panache that the punchline worked.

Jane Messer

#91. When I used to play nightclubs, you had to play Top 40 or favorite oldies that maybe people could relate to.

Rick Danko

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Anonymous

#93. To survive, you had to steer your course midstream, where the water was deepest and ran fastest, that you had to paddle fast, as fast as you could to stay there to stay still in the rushing current because the price of failure was to be washed up on the beach or dashed to pieces on the wharves.

Melanie McGrath

#94. Oh my God. It is your nookie box. How many times have you had sex on that blanket?"
"Never, you sicko. I make them stand."
"Asshole.

J.A. Huss

#95. If you would like to leave footprints in the sands of time, you had better wear work shoes.

Herbert V. Prochnow

#96. You don't get your prebaby body back, ever, because you cannot go back to being a person who hasn't had a baby. Because you had a baby.

Wednesday Martin

#97. What happend to that Moroi boy you had in tow last time?"
"Oh, he's over there," I said, flushing slightly. "I ,uh, married him

Richelle Mead

#98. You might be a redneck if you missed 5th grade graduation because you had jury duty.

Jeff Foxworthy

#99. If you had to hurt somebody or intimidate them or kill them, it would be morally justifiable.

Jerry Vlasak

#100. Imagine the choices you'd make if you had no fear-of falling, of losing, of being alone, of disapproval.

Martha Beck