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I didn't have my parents to rebel against, but I had society, and that definitely is what they taught me. Just: Trust nothing.
— Ellar Coltrane
More great Americans were failures than they were successes. They mostly spent their lives in not having a buyer for what they had for sale.
— Gertrude Stein
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
In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!
— Graham Greene
My God, what did I do before Facebook? I guess I had to call people and see how they're doing! Now I can just read a post and call when in trouble.
— Marissa Jaret Winokur
They had been harboring a hatred for us which we had grown accustomed to calling "prejudice." What a gentle word that was! What a euphemism!
— Edith Hahn Beer
They'd had no interest in proving themselves. They just did what they loved - with tremendous drive and enthusiasm - and it led where it led.
— Carol S. Dweck
All those men had died for some senseless reason, died perhaps without ever knowing exactly what they had fought to accomplish.
— Terry Brooks
Maybe they did what they had to do to live, and tried to get a little love and have a little fun before the darkness took them.
— Poppy Z. Brite
What the Earthers had discovered is that when people have nothing else to do, they have babies.
— James S.A. Corey
Lots of small business men have been contacting me to say they wish they had the nerve to say what I said.
— David A. Siegel
If life were a movie, we'd have had what they call a "meet cute".
— James Patterson
If this had ever happened before, it couldn't be happening now. That's what they mean by 'once in a lifetime'.
— Rachel Vincent
What was the American Revolution? The people who joined to carry it out had different views of what they had done.
— Edmund Morgan
Of Adam and Eve: They had what they wanted. That they did not like it when they got it does not alter the fact that they certainly got it.
— Charles Williams
Well, as the boys said, you had to work somewhere. So they accepted what there was. This was the wisdom of the slave.
— Charles Bukowski
...yesterday, returning from Wawela I had some ethnological ideas, but I can't remember what they were.
— Bronislaw Malinowski
What exactly did people do when they had all the time in the world and could do whatever they liked? (p 153)
— Sharon Creech
He had learned Lesson One: Let French women tell you what they want.
— Peggy Kopman-Owens
Even the godsCowered like dogs at what they had done. — Herbert Mason
I knew that any of the girls in my class could have achieved what I had achieved if they had had their parents' support.
— Malala Yousafzai
Shallan sat down on the plush, white bed, and sank almost down to her neck. What had they made the thing out of? Air and wishes? It felt luxurious.
— Brandon Sanderson
We had a great many horses, of which we gave Lewis and Clark what they needed, and they gave us guns and tobacco in return.
— Chief Joseph
Unless I was delirious from my injury, we had just been captured by vampires.Who were they, and what did they intend to do with the rest of us? — Suzannah Daniels
Into the air, and what seemed corporal Melted as breath into the wind. Would they had stayed.
— Anonymous
businessmen learned quickly that working-class tourists had money to spend, too. What they lacked in sophistication they made up for in numbers.
— Nelson Johnson
All you had of a person was what they showed you.
— Caroline Leavitt
When Vern had described Meme users so estranged from everyday language that they didn't know what words they didn't know, I
— Alena Graedon
You had to be there to see what it looked like. They live in a dream, and we live in a nightmare.
— Philip Roth
But what's heartbreak? A feeling. I've had it with feelings, even if they haven't had it with me.
— Glen Duncan
She had asked the older women: "What is that fire?" And they had replied: "It is we who are burning.
— Primo Levi
As soon as the war was over, they had to justify what was done.
— Harry S. Truman
Gerge and Eby had succeeded where he had failed because they knew that what you lost is as much a part of you as what you found.
— Sarah Addison Allen
People had a way of folding what they saw into what they knew and what they wanted to believe.
— Robert Jordan
God sends drunks blackouts because if they knew what they had done they would surely die of shame.
— Lucia Berlin
They were short and squat and had too many limbs, and he had no idea what either of them were. But they looked suspicious.
— Karen Chance
The press keep asking me, 'What was your biggest mistake?' But if I had made a big mistake, they'd all be writing about it, wouldn't they?
— Ken Livingstone
I think if everyone had the luxury to pursue a life of exactly what they love, we would all be ranked as visionaries and brilliant.
— Neil DeGrasse Tyson
And what would our ideas of God, of religion, be like if they had come to us through the minds of women? Ever think of that?
— Tom Robbins
Their uptight concerns about what other people thought seemed like such a waste. Why had they been so careful and contained with their love?
— Liane Moriarty
Child-rearing today was so complicated. You always had to think of what they'd say on television later.
— Orson Scott Card
What indeed is there to say? To be or not to be married, that was the question, and they had decided it in the affirmative.
— E. M. Forster
Human beings are afraid of dying. They are always running after something: money, honor, and pleasure. But if you had to die now, what would you want?
— Taisen Deshimaru
Irish artists have a tradition of being very heavily engaged in what is happening in their own society. So it was important that they had a voice.
— Sinead O'Connor
Too often I would hear men boast of the miles covered that day, rarely of what they had seen.
— Louis L'Amour
If they'd had proof of what he'd tried to do, Porfirio wouldn't have lived long enough to die in an explosion.
— Richelle Mead
Warriors did not beg. They rarely even asked. They took what they wanted and killed for it if they had to.
— Anonymous
Humans said one thing with their bodies and another with their mouths and everyone had to spend time and energy figuring out what they really meant.
— Octavia E. Butler
People grew lazy. They knew too many blessings, and so lost the ability to appreciate what they had
— Ann Aguirre
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Alditha wondered if perhaps the key [to] contentment was not what they had, but seeing the beauty in what they had already been given.
— Sarah Holman
But what they had achieved apart on the dance floors of the world was nothing compared to what they achieved together.
— Siri Mitchell
But they made no sound and what I had almost remembered was uncommunicable again.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
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I love [my parents], but what if I could really talk to them? I mean, what if they had some answers? Or would that just be too weird?
— Paul Rudnick
Eli: People had more than they needed. We had no idea what was precious and what wasn't. We threw away things people kill each other for now.
— Book Of Eli Movie
I have a friend who wanted to practise on my head because they wanted to be a stylist. So I offered what hair I had left to turn white.
— James Michael Tyler
What stupid children they had been, to cause each other such pain and then to hold on to their wounds so fiercely. She
— Sherry Thomas
What the government wants is something they never had before. They want total awareness. The question is, is that something we should be allowing?
— Edward Snowden
I've never had a problem with people paying attention to what you're doing and say they find that they liked it.
— Viggo Mortensen
I always felt journalists had a very clear idea of what they wanted to write about me before the interview began.
— Ronald Frame
When I had nothing else, I had my mother and the piano. And you know what? They were all I needed.
— Alicia Keys
When I came to men, then found I them resting on an old infatuation: all of them thought they had long known what was good and bad for men.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
It can't be. They would never do that again.But they had. Ciena couldn't deny what she saw-
-a second Death Star. — Claudia Gray
They're politicians,' Win said. 'They'd lie and evade if you asked them what they had for breakfast.
— Harlan Coben
I never thought about the actors on television or film, like what kind of life they had.
— David Duchovny
What was more, they had taken the first step toward genuine friendship. They had exchanged vulnerabilities.
— Arthur C. Clarke
Most of the soloists at Birdland had to wait for Parker's next record in order to find out what to play next. What will they do now?
— Charles Mingus
He was a soldier, and if anyone had asked him what he wanted to be when he grew up, he wouldn't have known what they meant.
— Orson Scott Card
My parents have always done what they've loved, and they've had many different careers.
— Leona Lewis
Massachusetts has no idea what's coming for them. I bet you'll be the first Mae West they've ever had.
— Ruta Sepetys
Old age was naturally more honored in times when people could not know much more than what they had seen.
— Joseph Joubert
For their lives, for their children's lives, they will give up what little freedom they had left.
— Victoria Aveyard
To get what he wanted, a man had to give other people what they wanted.
— Dashiell Hammett
