Quotes about put
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“Its never to late to get back on your feet though we wont live forever make sure you accomplish what you were put here for”

Abigail Adams (1744–1818) 2nd First Lady of the United States (1797–1801)

Source: My Dearest Friend: Letters of Abigail and John Adams

“Put on your big girl pants and deal.”

Jessica Bird (1969) U.S. novelist

Variant: Pull up your big girl panties and just do it.
Source: Lover Avenged

Girl

“No one had ever called me unnatural before, except for the time I put ketchup on a taco.”

Richelle Mead Blood Promise

Source: Blood Promise

Time

“Let's put the fun back in funeral!”

Kresley Cole American writer

Source: Dark Needs at Night's Edge

“A photo says, you were happy, and I wanted to catch that. A photo says, you were so important to me that I put down everything else to come watch.”

Jodi Picoult (1966) Author

Happiness, Photo

“The more I did it―the more it owned me. It made things matter. It put a spine into my spineless life and that spine spread, into backbone, ribs, collarbone, neck held high.
It was something. Don't say it wasn't.”

Megan Abbott book Dare Me

Source: Dare Me

Life

“Anna looked at Brother Wolf. ‘I’d like to see someone try to put a radio control collar on Charles. It might be fun to watch on YouTube.”

Patricia Briggs book Fair Game

Source: Fair Game

Wolf

“Was the earth put here just to nourish human loneliness?”

Haruki Murakami book Sputnik Sweetheart

Source: Sputnik Sweetheart

Loneliness, Sad

“He gave me a look sure to put frost on anyone's pumpkin.”

Charlaine Harris (1951) American writer

“I'm scared of you two in the same place. That's like putting in an order for trouble, rather than just wishing for it.”

Lora Leigh (1965) American writer

Source: Wicked Pleasure

“There was a time when I liked a good riot. Put on some heavy old street clothes that could stand a bit of sidewalk-scraping, infect myself with something good and contagious, then go out and stamp on some cops. It was great, being nine years old.”

Warren Ellis (1968) English comics and fiction writer

Time, Clothes

“Depressed people cannot lead a revolution because depressed people can barely manage to get out of bed and put on their shoes and socks.”

Andrew Solomon book The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression

Source: The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression

People, Shoe

“Rosie get off your desk, and please put your beard away.”

Louise Rennison (1951–2016) British writer

Source: Stop in the Name of Pants!

“Just because you didn't put a name to something did not mean it wasn't there.”

Jodi Picoult book Handle With Care

Source: Handle with Care

“… One of the reasons so many women say "I'm not a feminist but…" (and then put forward a feminist position), is that in addition to being stereotyped as man-hating Amazons, feminists have also been cast as antifamily and antimotherhood.”

Susan J. Douglas (1950) writer

Women, Hate

“I'll put a bullet through my own brain. Let alone wait for stark to do it. Your sister will drive me to it, Howard. No offense.”

Meg Cabot (1967) Novelist

Source: Runaway

Sister, Waiting

“I put Algernon's body in a cheese box and buried him in the backyard. I cried.”

Daniel Keyes book Flowers for Algernon

Source: Flowers for Algernon

Box

“What we seek is some kind of compensation for what we put up with.”

Haruki Murakami book Dance Dance Dance

Source: Dance Dance Dance

“This is our world, although the people who drew this map decided to put their own land on top of ours. There is no top or bottom, you see.”

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie book Half of a Yellow Sun

Source: Half of a Yellow Sun

People, World

“When we put God first, all other things fall into their proper place or drop out of our lives. Our love of the Lord will govern the claims for our affection, the demands on our time, the interests we pursue, and the order of our priorities.”

Ezra Taft Benson (1899–1994) President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Love, God, Time

“And I’m calling in a favor. (Savitar)
Sav, you can’t keep doing this. I’m running out of places to put the bodies. (Takeshi)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Acheron

“I thought about all the people I knew who spent many of their waking hours feeling sorry for themselves. How useful it would be to put a daily limit on self-pity. Just a few tearful minutes, then on with the day.”

Mitch Albom Tuesdays with Morrie

Source: Tuesdays with Morrie

People, Feeling, Tear

“Well, a peach has a lovely taste and so does a mushroom, but you can't put the two together…”

Arthur Golden book Memoirs of a Geisha

Source: Memoirs of a Geisha

Love

“Doesn't surprise me," Nana snorted. "I wouldn't put anything past your late husband."
"He's not dead, Nana."
Nana sighed. "Hope springs eternal.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Lucky One

Source: The Lucky One

Hope, Spring, Past, Dead

“Moonlight making crosses
on your body, and me putting my mouth on every one.”

Richard Siken (1967) American poet

Source: Crush

“I gotta go to the bathroom," Emby mumbles.
"You should have thought of that before you left," says Hayden, putting on his best mother voice. "How many times do we have to tell you? Always use the potty before climbing into a shipping crate.”

Neal Shusterman book Unwind

Source: Unwind

Time

“Can I be blamed for wanting a real body, to put my arms around? Without it I too am disembodied. I can listen to my own heartbeat against the bedsprings… but there’s something dead about it, something deserted.”

Margaret Atwood book The Handmaid's Tale

Source: The Handmaid's Tale

Dead

“… and when he put his mind to it, he could make his words coil themselves around and around the listener until they held her in some sort of a mild hypnotic spell.”

Roald Dahl book Switch Bitch

Source: Switch Bitch

“[…] falling in love with someone beautiful and intelligent and the rest of it, then feeling like a blank twit put you at something of a disadvantage.”

Nick Hornby About a Boy

Source: About a Boy

Love, Beauty, Feeling, Intelligence

“Childhood is not from birth to a certain age and at a certain age
The child is grown, and puts away childish things.
Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies.
Nobody that matters, that is.”

Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892–1950) American poet

"Childhood Is the Kingdom Where Nobody Dies," lines 1-4, from Wine from These Grapes (1934)

Age, Birth, Childhood

“To see the beauty of the world is to put your hands on lines that run uninterrupted through life and through death. Touching them is an act of hope, for perhaps someone on the other side, if there is another side, is touching them, too.”

Mark Helprin A Soldier of the Great War

Source: A Soldier of the Great War

Life, Death, World, Beauty

“He reminded me of someone who put your fingers in the door and smiled and talked to you while he smashed them.”

Janet Fitch book White Oleander

Source: White Oleander

Smile

“Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it.”

Laurence J. Peter book The Peter Principle

Source: The Peter Principle

People, World

“We still should have enough time to reach Rome.”
Hazel scowled. “When you say…”
Leo shrugged. “How do you feel about?”
Hazel put her face in her hands for a count of three. “Sounds about typical for us.”

Rick Riordan The Mark of Athena

Source: The Mark of Athena

Feeling, Time

“I'll have that someday, thought Peter. Someone who'll kiss me good-bye at the door. Or maybe just someone to put a blindfold over my head before they shoot me. Depending on how things turn out.”

Orson Scott Card book Shadow of the Hegemon

Source: Shadow of the Hegemon

Kiss, Dependency

“Fish Ponies! I put them on the ceiling!"

-Tyson”

Rick Riordan book The Battle of the Labyrinth

Source: The Battle of the Labyrinth

Fish

“Nature can put on a thrilling show. The stage is vast, the lighting is dramatic, the extras are innumerable, and the budget for special effects is absolutely unlimited.”

Yann Martel book Life of Pi

Source: Life of Pi

Nature, Light

“There were a billion lights out there on the horizon and I knew that all of them put together weren't enough to light the darkness in the hearts of some men.”

Michael Connelly The Scarecrow

Source: The Scarecrow

Men, Light, Heart

“Nothing is ever finished and done with in this world. You may think a seed was finished and done with when it falls like a dead thing into the earth; but when it puts forth leaves and flowers next spring you see your mistake.”

Elizabeth Goudge book The Little White Horse

Source: The Little White Horse

World, Spring, Flowers, Thinking

“One has no talent. I have no talent. It's just a question of working, of being willing to put in the time.”

Graham Greene (1904–1991) English writer, playwright and literary critic

Question, Time

“He gave her a bright fake smile; so much of life was a putting off of unhappiness for another time. Nothing was ever lost by delay. He had a dim idea that perhaps if one delayed long enough, things were taken out of one's hands altogether by death.”

Graham Greene book The Heart of the Matter

Source: The Heart of the Matter

Life, Death, Smile, Idea

“Awaken people's curiosity. It is enough to open minds, do not overload them. Put there just a spark.”

Anatole France (1844–1924) French writer

People

“I choose my battles, Dresden. Not you." She looked up at me calmly. "Let me put this in terms that will get through your skull: My friend is going to save a child from monsters. I'm going with him. That's what friends do, Harry.”

Jim Butcher book Changes

Source: Changes

“Look, let me put it this way: with me, you’re number one and there isn’t even a number two.”

Charles Bukowski book Women

Source: Women

Way

“Freedom is the dream you dream
While putting thought in chains again”

Giacomo Leopardi Canti

Source: Canti

Dreams, Freedom

“The old women only stuck around this long out of a sense of duty. Your mom was the same way. That's why I loved her. She put her duty first, ahead of evverything.”

Rick Riordan book The Son of Neptune

Source: The Son of Neptune

Love, Women, Way, Moms

“When you put four Alaskans into a room, you have five marriages, six divorces, and seven political parties.”

Dana Stabenow (1952) American writer

Marriage

“I have a little dog who likes to nap with me.
He climbs on my body and puts his face in my neck.
He is sweeter than soap.
He is more wonderful than a diamond necklace,
which can't even bark…”

Mary Oliver (1935–2019) American writer

Dogs

“Can I ask you a question?" "I'd be disappointed if you didn't." "How many of those suits do you have? Do you like, send them to the laundry, or throw them out and put on a new one when it gets all gamey?" - Bobby talking to Saint Dane, RR”

D.J. MacHale (1955) American television director and producer

Disappointment, Question

“I guess nothing puts a damper on a one-night stand as much as your friend pointing out all the opportunities where you might have been killed.”

Mindy Kaling book Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?

Source: Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?

Night

“We're like pretty horses, and just as on horses, they mean to put blinders on us so we can't look left or right but only straight ahead where they would lead.”

Libba Bray book The Sweet Far Thing

Source: The Sweet Far Thing

Horse

“(T)he world is broken up into pieces, and… it's up to everyone to help put it all back together. It's about recognizing the spark of life in everyone and everything, and gluing those shards back together.”

Wendy Mass (1967) American children's writer

Source: 13 Gifts

Life, World, Help

“Show me a girl with her feet planted firmly on the ground and I'll show you a girl who can't put her pants on.
-Annik Marchand”

Ann Brashares book Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood

Source: Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood

Girl

“It's me," said Jace. "Watching me play Scrabble is enough to make most women swoon. Imagine if I actually put in some effort.”

Cassandra Clare The City of Lost Souls

Variant: It’s me,” said Jace. “Watching me play Scrabble is enough to make most women swoon. Imagine if I actually put in some effort.
Source: City of Lost Souls

Women, Imagination, Effort

“Bobby Tom told me he’s not afraid of the Chargers’ defense.”
“Bobby Tom’ll tell you he’s not afraid of nuclear war, so I wouldn’t put too much stock in his opinion.”

Susan Elizabeth Phillips book It Had to Be You

Source: It Had to Be You

War

“To photograph: it is to put on the same line of sight the head, the eye and the heart.”

Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908–2004) French photographer

Heart

“You can't put being in love on a scale. Either you are or you aren't.”

Jenny Han (1980) American writer

Source: We'll Always Have Summer

Love

“For moral reasons… the world appears to me to be put together in such a painful way that I prefer to believe that it was not created… intentionally.”

Stanisław Lem (1921–2006) Polish science fiction author

From Peter Engel, "An Interview With Stanislaw Lem": The Missouri Review, Volume VII, Number 2 (1984) http://www.missourireview.org/index.php?genre=Interviews&title=An+Interview+with+Stanislaw+Lem <br class="br">Context: For moral reasons I am an atheist — for moral reasons. I am of the opinion that you would recognize a creator by his creation, and the world appears to me to be put together in such a painful way that I prefer to believe that it was not created by anyone than to think that somebody created this intentionally.

Pain, World, Way, Appearance