Went Quotes

"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived."
-Henry David Thoreau

"It is pleasant to have been to a place the way a river went."
-Henry David Thoreau

"Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth. I sat at a table where were rich food and wine in abundance, and obsequious attendance, but sincerity and truth were not; and I went away hungry from the inhospitable board."
-Henry David Thoreau

"Heaven goes by favour. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in."
-Mark Twain

"Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it."
-George Orwell

"Who would ever think that so much went on in the soul of a young girl?"
-Anne Frank

"America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between."
-Oscar Wilde

"It is our task in our time and in our generation to hand down undiminished to those who come after us, as was handed down to us by those who went before, the natural wealth and beauty which is ours."
-John F. Kennedy

"Sundown, yellow moon, I replay the past. I know every scene by heart, they all went by so fast."
-Bob Dylan

"So we went to Atari and said, 'Hey, we've got this amazing thing, even built with some of your parts, and what do you think about funding us? Or we'll give it to you. We just want to do it. Pay our salary, we'll come work for you.' And they said, 'No.' So then we went to Hewlett-Packard, and they said, 'Hey, we don't need you. You haven't got through college yet.'"
-Steve Jobs

"We have to ask the wealthiest Americans to pay their fair share again. Their incomes went up in the 1980s and their taxes went down. We can't ask the middle class to pay more; their incomes went down and their taxes went up."
-Bill Clinton

"When that one went out, the wheels kind of fell off. We knew what we were up against."
-John Atkinson

"Last year, when you went into Turn 3 and 1, if you had a truck on the right side of you, there was a sweet spot. When you turned, you had to really be careful."
-David Starr Jordan

"The show went through several stages before it went on the air."
-Bob Newhart

"My education was dismal. I went to a series of schools for mentally disturbed teachers."
-Woody Allen

"It was turnovers, unforced turnovers. Bellville just kind of hung around. And when they hung around, you could see their confidence grow. We went to sleep on a couple of put-backs."
-Steve Brooks

"I've been working on it all season and trying my shot better and Ellen Craven, who I played together with on travel team, she heard me yelling 'top of box' and she played a great ball back and I went for it."
-Amanda Harding

"For so many years, boot-cut jeans were it. It was the one thing that almost every woman went to. Boot cut is universally flattering, but the trend had to go somewhere else."
-Hope Greenberg

"I just never thought about going anywhere else. My sister (Elise) went here and all my friends were going here."
-Jillian Ware

"We were about to go oh-for-April. I remember the night before, Frank Robinson talking to Mark Williamson and I and saying Mark was going to start the game and pitch six and I was going to pitch after him for three and get this nonsense over with. And that's the way it went."
-Dave Schmidt

"It does make a difference to finish off with a win. It's been a disappointing year for us. I don't think it was just one thing that went wrong, but the bottom line is a lot of us didn't play up to our potential."
-Markus Naslund

"The rest of the campaigns kind of laughed at us and rolled their eyes and went, 'Yeah right.' Well I think today they're going, 'Oh, man,'."
-Joe Trippi

"He's good-looking, he's got a great charismatic presence, and he's a very good actor. He hasn't always had the material or opportunity to show just how good. In a lot of ways, he's very underrated. When he came aboard, he went all the way."
-John Dahl

"I went to the museum where they had all the heads and arms from the statues that are in all the other museums."
-Stephen Wright

"I'm very grateful to have this. It's funny. I was talking to friends who work in offices and they're complaining about all the stuff like candy and chocolate that trickles in during the holidays, and I just went to my doctor to get a fat supplement."
-James Nash

"I went to Bali for two months and met my wife, and that's how the story started... We had a very simple beginning, selling art on the street."
-Andrew Jack

"It goes to someone that has that disease where they lose all their hair. And it goes to people who have went through chemotherapy because wigs are very expensive."
-Pam Finkelstein

"One fine day as my mother was putting the bread in the oven, I went up to her and taking her by her flour-smeared elbow I said to her, "Mama I want to be a painter.""
-Marc Chagall