“Do you honestly want credit because you didn’t do anything to a helpless female?”
“No! Yes. No, damn it—”

“I woke up in the morning and I didn’t want anything, didn’t do anything, couldn’t do it anyway, just lay there listening to the blood rush
through me and it never made any sense, anything.”

Richard Siken (1967) American poet

“You didn’t get the quest you wanted, you got the one you could do.”

Lev Grossman The Magician King

“I used to tease the other kids because I played better than them. Then my father said, Come here. Don’t do this with the kids, because God gave you the gift to play football. You didn’t do anything.”

Pelé (1940–2022) Brazilian association football player

“You don't need someone else's approval to do what you want; just figure it out and do it, damn it!”

Megan Mullally (1958) American actress

“science is the best way to do anything (if you want to do terrible things with technology, a terrible weapons for example science is the best way to do it because science is the best way to do anything)”

Richard Dawkins (1941) English ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author

“so whatever you want to do, just do it… Making a damn fool of yourself is absolutely essential.”

Gloria Steinem (1934) American feminist and journalist

“Be happy with who you are and what you do, and you can do anything you want.”

Steve Maraboli (1975)

“Do you ever think of anything
but sex?”
“Yes, I do. Sometimes I think of waking up next to you. Or making you laugh.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

“Do all lovers feel helpless and valiant in the presence of the beloved? Helpless because the need to roll over like a pet dog is never far away. Valiant because you know you would slay a dragon with a pocket knife if you had to.”

Jeanette Winterson book The Passion