Quotes about put
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“Procrastination is not the problem. It is the solution.

Procrastinate now, don’t put it off.”

Ellen DeGeneres (1958) American stand-up comedian, television host, and actress

Problem

“Trust your luck, Taran Wanderer. But don't forget to put out your nets!”

Lloyd Alexander book Taran Wanderer

Source: Taran Wanderer

Forgetting

“You can't fool me, comrade. You want to put on a cowboy hat and keep lawless bank robbers in line.”

Richelle Mead Shadow Kiss

Source: Shadow Kiss

Fools

“When you were the son of evil, there was little you couldn't do, own, or kill, and yet her mortal self was an elusive trophy he could touch, but not put on his shelf.

This made her rare. This made her precious.

This made him… love her.”

Jessica Bird (1969) U.S. novelist

Source: Lover Mine

Love, Evil

“Look at that,' she whispered, and then after a moment: 'I'd like to just get one of those pink clouds and put you in it and push you around.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby

Source: The Great Gatsby

“Frankly, I mean, sometimes the interpretations I've seen on some of the songs that I've written are a lot more interesting than the input that I put in.”

David Bowie (1947–2016) British musician, actor, record producer and arranger

“I was looking for the opposite, really -something that might put an end to being in love”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Angel

Source: Clockwork Angel

Love

“They desecrate Riora’s sacred temple! She will be enraged.”
“Oh, gods, look at the marble. We are all beyond doomed.”
“Somebody put a plant in front of it!”

Kresley Cole book No Rest for the Wicked

Source: No Rest for the Wicked

God

“From your parents you learn love and laughter and how to put one foot before the other. But when books are opened you discover that you have wings.”

Helen Hayes (1900–1993) actress

Love, Books, Parent, Laughter

“In the beginning, I was put off by the harshness of German. Someone would order a piece of cake, and it sounded as if it were an actual order, like, "Cut the cake and lie facedown in that ditch between the cobbler and the little girl."”

David Sedaris book Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls

I'm guessing this comes from having watched too many Second World War movies.

Essay, "Easy, tiger". p.80
Source: Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls (2013)

Lie, Girl

“Dalmatia,” Nico said, making Jason jump. Jason wished he could put a bell around Nico di Angelo’s neck to remind him the guy was there. Nico had this disturbing habit of standing silently in the corner, blending into the shadows.”

Rick Riordan book The House of Hades

Source: The House of Hades

Guy

“But let us not put our sights too high. We do not have to be saviours of the world! We are simply human beings, enfolded in weakness and in hope, called together to change our world one heart at a time. (163)”

Jean Vanier (1928–2019) Canadian humanitarian

Source: Becoming Human

World, Hope, Change, Time

“I didn’t hear him behind me. I felt him. Electric. Wild. One foot in the swamp. Never going to crawl all the way out.
And I wanted to have sex with whatever he was. Where was I supposed to put that in my head?”

Karen Marie Moning (1964) author

Source: Faefever

Sex, Way

“They who have put out the people's eyes reproach them of their blindness.”

John Milton (1608–1674) English epic poet

Apology for Smectymnuus (1642), section VIII
Source: An apology for Smectymnuus with the reason of church-government by John Milton ...
Context: So little care they of beasts to make them men, that by their sorcerous doctrine of formalities, they take the way to transform them out of Christian men into judaizing beasts. Had they but taught the land, or suffered it to be taught, as Christ would it should have been in all plenteous dispensation of the word, then the poor mechanic might have so accustomed his ear to good teaching, as to have discerned between faithful teachers and false. But now, with a most inhuman cruelty, they who have put out the people’s eyes, reproach them of their blindness; just as the Pharisees their true fathers were wont, who could not endure that the people should be thought competent judges of Christ’s doctrine, although we know they judged far better than those great rabbis: yet “this people,” said they, “that know not the law is accursed.”

People

“When someone asks you, A penny for your thoughts, and you put your two cents in, what happens to the other penny?”

George Carlin (1937–2008) American stand-up comedian

“I suppose we must work on being gracious and grateful until we can do for ourselves. Someday the wheel of fate will put us in a position to be of use to them, and we will remember how much easier it is to give help than it is to accept it.”

Patricia Briggs book River Marked

Source: River Marked

Fate, Help

“I'm too careless. I don't put out enough effort. I'm tired.”

Charles Bukowski book South of No North

Source: South of No North

Effort

“Never put a sock in a toaster.”

Eddie Izzard (1962) British stand-up comedian, actor and writer

“Ready to put your claws where your mouth is, or are you going to cringe behind the big boys and yip all day?"
His eyes flared yellow "Is that a challenge?"
"Yes it is.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Bleeds

Boy

“I mean, imagine how some unfortunate Master Criminal would feel, on coming down to do a murder at the old Grange, if he found that not only was Sherlock Holmes putting in the weekend there, but Hercule Poirot, as well." ~ Bertram "Bertie" Wooster”

P.G. Wodehouse book The Code of the Woosters

Source: The Code of the Woosters

Feeling, Imagination

“How strange to have the power to literally transform yourself into other people, and yet be so unable to put yourself in their place.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Angel

Source: Clockwork Angel

People

“Are you mad? (Artemis)
Yes, I am. Mad at this world where we are nothing to the gods. Mad at the Fates who put us here for no purpose except to toy with us for their petty amusement. I wish all of the gods were dead and gone. (Acheron)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Acheron

God, Fate, World, Madness

“It's an illusion I've noticed before-- words on a page are like oxygen to a petrol engine, firing up ghosts. It only lasts while the words are in your head. After you put down the paper or pen, the pistons fall lifeless again.”

Elizabeth Wein book Rose Under Fire

Source: Rose Under Fire

“if you put your trust in God, you’ll be all right in the end.”

Nicholas Sparks book A Walk to Remember

Source: A Walk to Remember

God

“He put his arms about himself as if he were cold. "I do not know who to be without him.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Princess

Source: Clockwork Princess

“I put the ick in magic.”

Jim Butcher book Death Masks

Source: Death Masks

“Apollo?” I guessed…
He put a finger to his lips. “I’m incognito. Call me Fred.”
A god named Fred?”

Rick Riordan book The Titan's Curse

Source: The Titan's Curse

God

“It was a catch-22: If you didn’t put the trauma behind you, you couldn’t move on. But if you did put the trauma behind you, you willingly gave up your claim to the person you were before it happened.”

Jodi Picoult book The Tenth Circle

Source: The Tenth Circle

Personality

“I put a dollar in a change machine. Nothing changed.”

George Carlin (1937–2008) American stand-up comedian

Books, Brain Droppings (1997)

Change

“Thus we use our supposed "knowledge" of others to speak on their behalf, and condemn them for their words we ourselves put in their silent mouths.”

Margaret George (1943) American writer

Source: The Autobiography of Henry VIII: With Notes by His Fool, Will Somers

Knowledge

“Put your expectations on God, not on people.”

Joyce Meyer (1943) American author and speaker

God, People

“So here I am walking around with another person inside of me. Though I think I put it better the day we parted when I said there is a third person we have created from the two of us. And I am stalked now by that other entity.”

Robert James Waller The Bridges of Madison County

Source: The Bridges of Madison County

Thinking, Parting, Personality

“I think they’ll probably put that on my gravestone. ‘He Was Heterosexual and Had Low Expectations.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire

Alec Lightwood and Jace Herondale, pg. 438
Source: The Mortal Instruments, City of Heavenly Fire (2014)
Context: "'Sure, he likes you,' said Alec. 'You're heterosexual and have low expectations of father figures.'
'I think they'll probably put that on my gravestone. "He Was Heterosexual and Had Low Expectations."'"

Thinking

“The Lord is in me, the Lord is in you, as life is in every seed, put false pride away and seek the Lord within..”

Kabir (1440–1518) Indian mystic poet

Life, Falseness

“I learned that you should feel when writing, not like Lord Byron on a mountain top, but like a child stringing beads in kindergarten - happy, absorbed and quietly putting one bead on after another.”

Brenda Ueland (1891–1985) Journalist and writer

Happiness, Feeling, Mountain, Learning

“It did cross our minds at one point. Actually it seemed to keep crossing them. Maybe we should put in a crosswalk.
Ash”

L.J. Smith (1965) American author

Source: Night World, No. 1

“people's emotions are rarely put into words, far more often they are expressed through other cues.
the key to intuiting another's feelings is in the ability to read nonverbal channels, tone of voice, gesture, facial expression and the like”

Daniel Goleman (1946) American psychologist & journalist

Source: Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ

People, Feeling, Reading

“Women always put men first. That's how everything got so screwed up.”

Janet Fitch book White Oleander

Source: White Oleander

Women, Men

“We've come from the same history - 2000 years of persecution - we've just expressed our sufferings differently. Blacks developed the blues. Jews complained, we just never thought of putting it to music.”

Jon Stewart (1962) American political satirist, writer, television host, actor, media critic and stand-up comedian

Music, History, Suffering

“I sighed and put Slayer between the front seats. "Stay here. Guard the car."
Saiman shut the door. "Is the sword sentient?"
"No. But I like to pretend it is.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Strikes

Cars

“A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.”

Edmond de Goncourt (1822–1896) French writer

Star

“I put my head
out of my window and see
how much the wind’s knife
wants to slice it off.
On this unseen
guillotine, I’ve placed
the eyeless head
of all my desires.”

Federico García Lorca (1898–1936) Spanish poet, dramatist and theatre director

“Twenty years of schoolin'
And they put you on the day shift”

Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist

Song lyrics, Bringing It All Back Home (1965), Subterranean Homesick Blues

“The thoughts he put in her head. Someone should’ve arrested him for it.”

Junot Díaz book The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

Source: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

“The world is not to be put in order. The world is order. It is for us to put ourselves in unison with this order.”

Henry Miller (1891–1980) American novelist

Source: Miller, H. (1969). “Creation,” The Henry Miller Reader. New York: New Directions Publishing Corporation. p.33.
Context: Through art then, one finally establishes contact with reality: that is the great discovery. Here all is play and invention; there is no solid foothold from which to launch the projectiles which will pierce the miasma of folly, ignorance and greed. The world has not to be put in order: the world is order incarnate. It is for us to put ourselves in unison with this order, to know what is the world order in contradistinction to the wishful-thinking orders which we seek to impose on one another. The power which we long to possess, in order to establish the good, the true and the beautiful, would prove to be, if we could have it, but the means of destroying one another. It is fortunate that we are powerless.

World, Beauty, Peaceful

“I put my hand on her knee. I just wish you'd say you love me.”

Junot Díaz book This Is How You Lose Her

Source: This Is How You Lose Her

Love

“What an odd thing a diary is: the things you omit are more important than those you put in.”

Simone de Beauvoir (1908–1986) French writer, intellectual, existentialist philosopher, political activist, feminist, and social theorist

Source: The Woman Destroyed

“Wouldn't that put a twist in your toga?”

Rick Riordan (1964) American writer

“I'm putting you in Dink Meeker's toon. From now on, as far as you're concerned, Dink Meeker is God."
"Then who are you?"
"The personnel officer who hired God.”

Orson Scott Card book Ender's Game

Source: Ender's Game

God

“He put his hand on my waist, and my heart began to pound, a rougher rhythm than the music. I held my skirt. Our free hands met. His felt warm and comforting and unsettling and bewildering--all at once.”

Gail Carson Levine Ella Enchanted

Source: Ella Enchanted

Music, Heart

“I'm putting up a great front, then because I feel like I'm breaking apart inside.”

Christine Feehan book Dark Prince

Source: Dark Prince

Feeling

“If put to the pinch, an ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness.

(, 1928)”

Elbert Hubbard (1856–1915) American writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher fue el escritor del jarron azul

Source: Works of Elbert Hubbard

Loyalty

“I can't believe that God put us on this earth to be ordinary.”

Lou Holtz (1937) American college football coach, professional football coach, television sports announcer

God

“He put a dark place in me and I can't forgive him for that. But it's a part of me now and how can I regret what I am - though it often makes me sad.”

Valerie Martin (1948) American writer

Sadness, Forgiveness, Parting

“You want to put a band-aid on something that needs stitches.”

Eric Jerome Dickey (1961) American author

Source: Cheaters

“To grow up is to stop putting blame on parents”

Maya Angelou (1928–2014) American author and poet

Source: Becoming Myself: Reflections on Growing Up Female

Parent

“The healthiest competition occurs when average people win by putting in above-average effort.”

Colin Powell (1937) Former U.S. Secretary of State and retired four-star general

1990s, My American Journey (1996)

People, Effort

“They encouraged you to put some of your weight in their hands and soon as you felt how light and lovely it was, they studied your scars and tribulations…”

Toni Morrison book Beloved

Source: Beloved

Love, Study, Light

“One of the greatest opportunities to live our values-or betray them-lies in the food we put on our plates.”

Jonathan Safran Foer book Eating Animals

Source: Eating Animals

Food

“To put everything in balance is good, to put everything in harmony is better.”

Victor Hugo (1802–1885) French poet, novelist, and dramatist

Mettre tout en équilibre, c'est bien; mettre tout en harmonie, c'est mieux. <br class="br">Quatre-vingt-treize (Ninety-Three) (1874), Book VII, Chapter V http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Quatre-vingt-treize_-_III%2C_7#V_LE_CACHOT <br class="br">Ninety-Three (1874)

Deep

“Annabeth hit a slippery patch of moss and her foot slipped. Fortunately, she found something else to put it against. Unfortunately, that something was my face.”

Rick Riordan (1964) American writer

“Should we put out the light? And then put out the light. But once put out thy light, I cannot give it vital breath again. It needs must wither.”

Anne Rice (1941) American writer

Light

“I missed you so much," she breathed.
I tilted my head back and put my hands on her shoulders. I could hardly believe this was happening. I was finally getting to touch her. To kiss her. It was all happening. "I missed you, too.”

Kieran Scott (1974) American writer

Source: He's So Not Worth It

Kiss, Missing You

“So I put up with bad behavior in the name of loving the way I thought you were supposed to love.”

Deb Caletti (1963) American writer

Source: The Secret Life of Prince Charming

Love, Way, Behavior

“I think people would live a bit longer if they didn't know how old they were. Age puts restrictions on things.”

Karl Pilkington (1972) English television personality, social commentator, actor, author and former radio producer

People, Age, Thinking

“Did you strangle the wolf alpha?" Not that she didn't deserve it.
Curran grimaced. "Of course not. I needed information. After I put her face in my mouth, we agreed that it was in her best interests to tell me what I wanted to know.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Breaks

Wolf

“If you do not hear music in your words, you have put too much thought into your writing and not enough heart.”

Terry Brooks (1944) American writer

Source: Sometimes the Magic Works: Lessons from a Writing Life

Music, Heart

“So I take Peter’s hand; I put it on my heart. I tell him, “You have to take good care of this, because it’s yours.”

Jenny Han book P.S. I Still Love You

Source: P.S. I Still Love You

Heart

“To set a forest on fire, you light a match. To set a character on fire, you put him in conflict.”

James N. Frey (1943) American writer

Source: How to Write a Damn Good Novel: A Step-by-Step No Nonsense Guide to Dramatic Storytelling

Light

“Tessa put a hand against the wall as she made her way numbly down the stairs. What had she almost done? What had she nearly told Will?”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Princess

Source: Clockwork Princess

Way

“Because God's gifts put man's best dreams to shame.”

Elizabeth Barrett Browning book Sonnets from the Portuguese

No. XXVI
Sonnets from the Portuguese (1850)

God, Dreams

“When I was little I bragged about my firefighting father: my father would go to heaven, because if he went to hell he would put out all the fires”

Jodi Picoult My Sister's Keeper

Source: My Sister's Keeper

Hell

“Grace is the light or electricity or juice or breeze that takes you from that isolated place and puts you with others who are as startled and embarrassed and eventually grateful as you are to be there.”

Anne Lamott (1954) Novelist, essayist, memoirist, activist

Light

“Flip-flop, hippety-hop, offa your rocker and over the top, life's a fiction and the world's a lie, so put on some Creedence and let's get high.”

Stephen King book The Dark Tower II: The Drawing of the Three

Source: The Drawing of the Three

Life, Lie, World

“Friendship is like a glass ornament, once it is broken it can rarely be put back together exactly the same way.”

Charles Kingsley (1819–1875) English clergyman, historian and novelist

Friendship, Way, Heartbreaking, Friendship

“The future could go this way, that way. The future's futures have never looked so rocky. Don't put money on it. Take my advice and stick to the present. It's the real stuff, the only stuff, it's all there is, the present, the panting present.”

Martin Amis book Money

Source: Money

Money, Way, Future

“Truly great people emit a light that warms the hearts of those around them. When that light has been put out, a heavy shadow of despair descends.”

Banana Yoshimoto book Kitchen

Source: Kitchen

People, Light, Heart, Despair

“Maybe it's good to put things in perspective, but sometimes, I think that the only perspective is to really be there.”

Stephen Chbosky book The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Thinking

“Walk with care in dark places, and do not put your faith in anyone who promises you the forgiveness of the Lord or a certain place in Paradise.”

Clive Barker book Mister B. Gone

Source: Mister B. Gone

Faith, Forgiveness

“God put me on earth to accomplish certain things. Right now, I’m so far behind, I’ll never die.”

Bill Watterson (1958) American comic artist

God

“If God wanted us to bend over he would put diamonds on the floor.”

Joan Rivers (1933–2014) American comedian, actress, and television host

„I'm Jewish. I don't work out.."

As quoted in Dick Enberg's Humorous Quotes for All Occasions (2000), p. 101
Variant: I'm Jewish. I don't work out. If God had wanted us to bend over, he would have put diamonds on the floor.

God

“Oh- and grab the plastic bag over by my suitcase."
I slug down the last of the coffee and get up. The bag contains panty hose. I put them on her desk.
"They're for you."
"You want me to look homeless, desperate, but also kind of fabulous?”

Holly Black book Red Glove

Source: Red Glove

Coffee

“It's human; we all put self interest first.”

Euripidés Medea

Source: Medea

“You might want to put some clothes on' suggested Jace 'I'm all for the bra and panties look, but you don't want the Silent Brothers to die of excitement”

Cassandra Clare book City of Fallen Angels

Source: City of Fallen Angels

Clothes

“One of the gravestones in the cemetery near the earliest church has an anchor on it and an hourglass, and the words In Hope.

In Hope. Why did they put that above a dead person? Was it the corpse hoping, or those still alive?”

Margaret Atwood book The Handmaid's Tale

Source: The Handmaid's Tale

Hope, Personality, Dead

“I'm guessing whatever 'ways' you have in mind aren't Jill-appropriate either."
"Put your books away and I'll show you.”

Richelle Mead book The Fiery Heart

Source: The Fiery Heart

Books, Way

“I have seen this too many times before. The unwarranted devotion. Putting up with the fear of being with the wrong person because you can’t deal with the fear of being alone. The hope tinged with doubt, and the doubt tinged with hope.”

David Levithan book Every Day

Source: Every Day

Fear, Hope, Time, Personality

“I mean, if I went 'round saying I was an emperor, just because some moistened bint had lobbed a scimitar at me, they'd put me away!”

Graham Chapman (1941–1989) English comedian, writer and actor

Source: Monty Python and the Holy Grail: Screenplay

“At times God puts us through the discipline of darkness to teach us to heed Him. Song birds are taught to sing in the dark, and we are put into the shadow of God’s hand until we learn to hear Him.”

Oswald Chambers (1874–1917) British missionary

Source: My Utmost for His Highest: Traditional Updated Edition

God, Bird, Learning, Singing

“Rumor travels Faster, but it don't stay put as long as Truth.”

Will Rogers (1879–1935) American humorist and entertainer

"Politics Getting Ready to Jell" 
The Illiterate Digest (1924)
Context: Every Gag I tell must be based on truth. No matter how much I may exaggerate it, it must have a certain amount of Truth.... Now Rumor travels Faster, but it don't stay put as long as Truth.

Truth, Travel