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The usual complaint is, 'I have no other way of earning a living.' The harsh reply can be, 'Do you have to live?' -- Tertullian
I know you. It's a statement, not a question...............No, I reply..................I want to. -- M. Leighton
My reply is: the software has no known bugs, therefore it has not been updated. -- Wietse Venema
They say, 'Nothing can be done here!' I reply, 'I know no such word in the vocabulary I adopt!' -- Dorothea Dix
When people come up to me and say, 'Oh my God - you're that character,' I feel like replying, 'No, I'm just like you; it's just a job.' -- Antonia Thomas
Recently, I was asked if I was going to fire an employee who made a mistake that cost the company $600,000. No, I replied, I just spent $600,000 training him. Why would I want somebody to hire his experience? -- Thomas J. Watson
A five minute call replaces the time it takes to read and reply to the original email and read and reply to their reply... or replies. And I no longer spend 20+ minutes crafting the perfect email - no need to. -- Simon Sinek
Then they held my mouth shut for a while and hit me in the face, and with a whip across chest and back. I then collapsed, rolled on the floor, always keeping face down and no longer replied to any of their questions. -- Ernst Thalmann
I've given up email. Well, almost. At the weekend I set up one of those auto-reply messages, informing my correspondents that I would no longer be checking my emails, and that instead they might like to call or write, as we used to in the olden days. -- Tom Hodgkinson
I had the easiest publishing experience in the entire world. I sent out fifteen courier letters to agents, got five no replies, nine rejections and one I want to see it. A month later I had an agent. Another month later I had a three book deal with Little Brown. -- Stephenie Meyer
A newspaperman said, 'You have to have a team in New York.' I replied, 'Who says you have to have a team in New York?' What came out in the papers was a headline that said, Giles Says, 'Who needs New York?' I confess that quote bothered me, and there seemed to be no way to dispose of it. It was repeated again and again. -- Warren Giles
Clavo saca clavo.Nothing sacas nothing, you reply. No one will ever be like her. -- Junot Diaz
Hello, Magnus said to the monkey. The monkey did not replyI shall call you Ragnor. -- Cassandra Clare
Let it be a reminder that nothing in this world can last.Even pain, I reply. -- Michelle Moran
Margaret could not reply. Was he incredibly stupid, or did he understand her better than she understood herself? -- E. M. Forster
Annabeth sat up and glared at her ankleYou HAD to break, she scolded it.The ankle did not reply. -- Rick Riordan
Literature cannot be the business of a woman's life, and it ought not to be.(Southey's reply to Charlotte Bronte) -- Southey, Robert
When I read something saying I've not done anything as good as 'Catch-22' I'm tempted to reply, 'Who has?' -- Joseph Heller
Tina leans forward and asks quietly, 'Do you? You know? Love her?'Squeezing Nat's knee again, I reply, 'She's teachin' me how. -- Belle Aurora
Ill met by moonlight,' said Deirdre.'You could still be tied to a stake,' said Random, and she did not reply. -- Roger Zelazny
You know, that's a really beautiful bow, Neverfell interrupted suddenlyDid you make it?Found it, mended it, modified it, was the curt reply. -- Frances Hardinge
Each creature has a universally unique name, a sacred identity.If you know and call them by that name, they will definitely reply. -- Toba Beta
Barney did not reply. He looked at Krendler as though the left and right hemispheres of Krendler's brain were two dogs stuck together. -- Thomas Harris
The hope of a new politics does not lie in formulating a left-wing reply to the right-it lies in rejecting conventional political categories. -- Christopher Lasch
You better not turn out to be an asshole, she says quietly.And you better be done with that guy in Italy, I reply. -- Colleen Hoover
Theirs not to make reply, Theirs not to reason why, Theirs but to do & die, Into the valley of Death Rode the six hundred. -- Alfred Tennyson
I shouted into the phone, but there was no reply. Silence floated up from the receiver like smoke from the mouth of a gun. -- Haruki Murakami
I make no other answer than the act, the Master said: The only fit reply to a fit request is silence and the fact. [XXIV] -- Dante Alighieri
...it was better to answer, no matter how ineptly, thank to withhold a reply. Because sometimes silence could wound someone nearly as badly as a bullet. -- Lisa Kleypas
Sometimes no words come as a response, only shapes spring to mind. But after you tell me you love me, I can't very well reply, Hexagon! -- Jarod Kintz
Sunny did not reply, but her siblings were not alarmed because they imagined it was difficult to say much when you had a mouthful of wall. -- Lemony Snicket
I bet you're the type of guy not afraid of anything, huh?Oh, no, there are things that terrify me. Like what? Muppets, came his solemn reply. -- Jennifer L. Armentrout
Tibby cried into her soup when it finally cameI'm scared... , she told it. The carrots and peas made no reply, but she felt better for having told them. -- Ann Brashares
No matter when, at whatever moment, if she were asked what she was thinking about she could reply quite correctly - one thing, her happiness and her unhappiness. -- Leo Tolstoy
She howl'd aloud, I am on fire within.There comes no murmur of reply.What is it that will take away my sin,And save me lest I die? -- Alfred Tennyson
What's the good of Mercator's North Poles and Equators, Tropics, Zones, and Meridian Lines? So the Bellman would cry: and the crew would reply They are merely conventional signs! -- Lewis Carroll
If someone speaks badly of you, do not defend yourself against the accusations, but reply; you obviously don't know about my other vices, otherwise you would have mentioned these as well -- Epictetus
Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. --written for the Pennsylvania Assembly in its Reply to the Governor of November 11, 1755. -- Benjamin Franklin
Let him talk, said Dupin, who had not thought it necessary to replyLet him discourse; it will ease his conscience, I a satisfied with having defeated him in his own castle. -- Edgar Allan Poe
He disliked contradiction, and still more, arguments that were continually skipping from one thing to another, introducing new and disconnected points, so that there was no knowing to which to reply. -- Leo Tolstoy
I have to laugh when I receive newsletters from major personalities and when you hit reply, you get a 'do-not-reply' address. It's ridiculous! Don't you want your customers to reply to you? -- Brendon Burchard
After another minute Reuben brought forth the following sentence:I ha' scranleted two hundred furrows come five o'clock down i' the bute.It was a difficult remark, Flora felt, to which to reply. -- Stella Gibbons
I finally had to go to the American Civil Liberties Union here in northern California to get my reply published to what I considered to be a hatchet job done by Stanley Crouch. -- Ishmael Reed
So the moment he walks in the door I snap, I swear if you cry, I'll kill you here and now.Cinna just smilesHad a damp morning?You could wring me out, I reply. -- Suzanne Collins
[Smiley contemplates graffiti:]'Punk is destructive. Society does not need it.' The assertion caused him a moment's indecision. 'Oh, but society does,' he wanted to reply; 'society is an association of minorities. -- John le Carre
My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, 'You're tearing up the grass'; 'We're not raising grass,' Dad would reply. 'We're raising boys.' -- Harmon Killebrew
The chaos of the mind cannot constitute a reply to the providence of the universe. All it can be is an awakening in the night, where all that can be heard is anguished poetry let loose. -- Georges Bataille
The Maestro spoke againWhen we are not, at what point do we become? I could not reply. For I had grasped no shape of his thoughts. I understood neither what he said nor his intent behind it. -- Theresa Breslin
I promoted myself on Twitter and Facebook as hard as possible, nonstop. People started realizing that if they commented on my videos, I'd reply to their comment, so I started getting a lot more views and comments. -- Austin Mahone
M. de Charlus persisted in not replying. I thought I could see a smile flicker about his lips: the smile of the man who looks down from a great height on the characters and manners of lesser men. -- Marcel Proust
You have nothing if you're texting a guy in a relationship. We can text six women a minute. We can text it and push 'reply all.' I mean, since we're lying, we might as well lie to everybody. -- Steve Harvey
I. cannot stoop to reply to the folly and the slander of every poor Tory partisan who assails me, and I should not have noticed you but for the fact that you are a member of the House of Commons. -- John Bright
Darya Alexandrovna made no reply. She suddenly felt that she had got far away from Anna; that there lay between them a barrier of questions on which they could never agree, and about which it was better not to speak. -- Leo Tolstoy
Nature does not often say 'See?' to her poor creature at a time when seeing can lead to happy doing; or reply 'Here!' to a body's cry of 'Where?' till the hide-and-seek has become an irksome, outworn game. -- Thomas Hardy
I say in speeches that a plausible mission of artists is to make people appreciate being alive at least a little bit. I am then asked if I know of any artists who pulled that off. I reply, 'The Beatles did. -- Kurt Vonnegut
I folded my armYou know, I suspect you and Edward would be friends if it weren't for this place.His eyes were on fireIt's not this island keeping us from being friends.My pounding heart stole the words to reply to that. -- Megan Shepherd
Why do people not listen when you say no? Why do they think you are too stupid or too young to understand? Why do they think you are too shy to reply? Why do they keep badgering you until you will say yes? -- Sharon Creech
You know, if a waitress asks me if I want ketchup with my fries, I'll reply, No thanks, I'll just drink water. And that's not just a statement about table etiquette; it's a personal quote that accurately reflects my moral and philosophical belief system. -- Jarod Kintz
Telling Blake about Livia had not broken him. It had given him wings. Cole prayed for forgiveness for the jealousy he felt. He pulled out his phone and texted Beckett:He's playing! Like an angel. No Ave Maria.Beckett's reply came from ecstatic fingers:MdamttohAwebome!!! -- Debra Anastasia
What kind of wedding would you like? he asked, and stole another kiss before she could reply.The kind that turns you into my husband. She touched the firm line of his mouth with her fingersWhat kind would you like?He smiled ruefullyA fast one. -- Lisa Kleypas
I took the one letter he had for us. It was from the Switchblade Gas & Electric Company. I didn't know I had admirers there too, but I wasn't that surprised. I threw it in the trash with the IRS's love letters and closed the door without reply. -- The Harvard Lampoon
Nowadays, people don't ask you how you are, they say, 'Are you busy?' meaning, 'Are you well?' If someone actually does ask you how you are, the most cheerful answer, of course, is a robust 'Busy!' to which the person will reply 'Good!' -- Jo Ann Davis
And if that weren't bad enough, the next sound he heard was a loud click.The damned woman had locked him out. She'd taken all the food and locked him out.You'll pay for this! he yelled at the door.Do be quiet, came the muffled replyI'm eating. -- Julia Quinn
But it can happen that a phrase intended to indicate a state beyond concepts just becomes another concept in itself, in the same way that if you ask a person their name and they reply that they have no name, you will then perhaps mistakenly call them 'No name'. -- Namkhai Norbu
As we shall see, the concept of time has no meaning before the beginning of the universe. This was first pointed out by St. Augustine. When asked: What did God do before he created the universe? Augustine didn't reply: He was preparing Hell for people who asked such questions. -- Stephen Hawking
Why aren't I seeing more tracks? After no reply he repeated himselfHelllloooo, why aren't there more tracks? His eyes examined the ground. Then he suddenly saw a foot? Breccan slowly lifted his head to see Darius, obviously irritated, standing in front of him with his arms crossed over his chest. -- Madison Thorne Grey
So, says Jack at at last...you broke up with Connor.Wow. So we're straight to the pointSo, I reply defiantlyYou decided to stay.Yes, well..., I thought I might take a closer look at some of the European subsidiaries. He looks upHow about you?Same reason. I nodEuropean subsidiaries. -- Sophie Kinsella
Randolph, he said, do you know something? I'm very happy. To which his friend made no reply. The reason for this happiness seemed to be simply that he did not feel unhappy; rather, he knew all through him a kind of balance. There was little for him to cope with. -- Truman Capote
One day, you said to me, I saw the sunset forty-four times!And a little later you added:You know-- one loves the sunet, when one is so sad...Were you so sad, then? I asked, on the day of the forty-four sunsets?But the little prince made no reply. -- Antoine De Saint Exupéry
I heard you before, but I could not immediately determine what to say in reply. You wanted me, I know, to say 'Yes,' that you might have the pleasure of despising my taste; but I always delight in overthrowing those kind of schemes, and cheating a person of their premeditated contempt. -- Jane Austen
As we ride the elevator Gale finally says You're still angry.And you're still not sorry, I reply.I will stand by what I said. Do you want me to lie about it? he asks.No, I want you to rethink it and come up with the right opinion, I tell him. -- Suzanne Collins
He saw that the Prisoner had listened carefully all the time, looking gently in his face--But evidently he did not want to reply. The old man longed for Him to say something, however bitter and terrible. But he suddenly approached the old man in silence and softly kissed him on the forehead. -- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The library was like a second home. Or maybe more like a real home, more than the place I lived in. By going every day I got to know all the lady librarians who worked there. They knew my name and always said hi. I was painfully shy, though, and could barely reply. -- Haruki Murakami
I had requested all who might find aught meriting censure in my writings, to do me the favor of pointing it out to me, I may state that no objections worthy of remark have been alleged against what I then said on these questions except two, to which I will here briefly reply. -- Thomas Hobbes
I want to hire someone to stand outside my door and knock three times, with each knock being three years apart. At the end of the nine years I'll reply, Who is it? And without delay or reply, the person on the other side of the door is to find a new job. -- Jarod Kintz
What is JUST in a worldyou've ripped in twoas if there could bea half for mea half for youwhat is FAIR whenthere is nothingleft to sharewhat is YOURS whenyour pain is mine to bearthis sad math is minethis mad path is minesubtract they saydon't cryback to the desktryforget additionmultiplyand i replythis is whyremaindershatedivision -- Kami Garcia And Margaret Stohl
My brother's death: wise, good, serious, he fell ill while still a young man, suffered for more than a year, and died painfully, not understanding why he had lived and still less why he had to die. No theories could give me, or him, any reply to these questions during his slow and painful dying. -- Leo Tolstoy
Under the Volcano embraces everything from Dante to Freud to the cabala. Here it shambles like Cervantes, there it rages like Ahab, and every page of it pulsates on Out of Body Auto-Reply, that style of pure Lowry that points at once backward, to all European literature, and forward, to the mother of all nervous breakdowns. -- Malcolm Lowry
Now we're e-mailing and tweeting and texting so much, a phone call comes as a fresh surprise. I get text messages on my cell phone all day long, and it warbles to alert me that someone has sent me a message on Facebook or a reply or direct message on Twitter, but it rarely ever rings. -- Susan Orlean
Eragon went to see the dragon for the first time since it had spoken to him. He approached apprehensively, aware now that it was an equal.Eragon.Is that all you can say? he snapped.Yes.His eyes widened at the unexpected reply, and he sat down roughly. Now it has a sense of humor. What next? -- Christopher Paolini
Covenant did not reply at once. He trembled also, and hand to clench himself before he could say without a tremor, Why? Why do you trust me?The Hirebrand's eyes gleamed as if he were on the verge of tears, but he was smiling as he said, You are a man who knows the value of beauty. -- Stephen R. Donaldson
Don Jacinto did not reply; perhaps he understood that there was no measure for love of country except in sacrifice, and why ask the poor for more sacrifices? It was the comfortable, the rich like himself--although Istak did not put it this way--who should express it with their wealth. The poor had only their lives to give.-Istak -- F. Sionil Jose
What kind of kids live in Mulhoney, Wisconsin? Would they like me? Would I like them? Have they ever eaten sushi? That's usually how I determine food sophistication. Maybe a personal ad would get the ball rolling:Insightful, hardworking, 16-year-old girl, emotionally generous and witty, seeks friend/pal/chum to while away meaningful hours. Picky eaters need not reply. -- Joan Bauer
Ugh. Peeta makes comments like this in such an offhand way, and it's like being hit in the gut. He's only answering my question honestly. He's not pressing me to reply in kind, to make any declaration of love. But I still feel awful, as if I've been using him in some terrible way. Have I? I don't know. -- Suzanne Collins
Ingrates! says the garment, I protected you in inclement weather. Why will you have nothing to do with me? I have just come from the deep sea, says the fishI have been a rose, says the perfumeI have loved you, says the corpseI have civilized you, says the convent. To this there is but one reply: In former days. -- Victor Hugo
You do know Chris is thoroughly fucked-up, don't you? My reply is instant, defensive. ProtectiveAren't we all? Not like Chris. I don't ask how he knows. It could be the club. Maybe a friendship that once was and is now lost. It doesn't matterIt's his imperfections that make him perfect, I reply, and there is conviction in my voice. -- Lisa Renee Jones
When in the puppet-show of dreams we hold in hand the strings of quite a number of actors, controlling their actions and their speech, we are not aware of this being so. Only one of them is myself, the dreamer. In him I act and speak immediately, while I may be awaiting eagerly and anxiously what another one will reply -- Erwin Schrodinger
I want the right to spend time with you, not only fuck you. I want the right to stay for breakfast. And I want you bareback.Ah so this all boils down to sex.Everything boils down to sex, honey. Always. My drive to fuck you is huge, don't be mistaken, but this is more.More?He nodded but didn't reply. -- Elle Aycart
Daniel?I raise an eyebrow to match his expressionHolder?What are you up to?I do not know what you are talking about, I reply innocently.You do know what I am talking about because when you are lying, you do not use contractions when you speak.I ponder his observation for a few seconds. Is that true?Shit. It's true. -- Colleen Hoover
Is it fair for the bears to come down to where humans live, looking for food? Is it fair for the Duke's soldiers to shoot at them? Is it fair for the bears to crush them with giant snowballs? Often, if you point out something that isn't fair, someone will reply, Life isn't fair. What is to be done with such people? -- Lemony Snicket
Stop whining; you're eighteen years old and you keep acting like a puppy.Throgh my complaint carried a teasing note, the irriated eddge behind it was real. The focus required by the hunt made me tense. It's not my fault. His plaintive reply came back. I've never had a tail before. I can't figure out what exactly it's supposed to do. It's so distracting. -- Andrea Cremer
Thinking about her again caused his body to harden, to ready...Uh, I'm happy to sit close to you and everything, but I had no idea you would like it so much, Paris muttered.For the first time in hundreds of years, Maddox felt a blush creep into his cheek, It's not for you.Thank the gods, was his friends reply.-Maddox and Paris -- Gena Showalter
He sent Eliza a small smile before turning to LawrenceWhat say you and I return to the hotel for a bit? I need to check on my daughter, and you need some time away from my sister. Not giving Lawrence an opportunity to reply, Grayson took him by the arm and hurried him out of the room.It was lovely to have a big brother again. -- Jen Turano
Coming to stand by her husband's side, Lara touched his arm tentatively.My lord, she said gratefullyThank you for protecting my sister. Thank you.He shot her a gaze of hot black intensityThank me in bed, he said, barely audible.Lara stared at him, startledNow? she whispered, feeling her cheeks prickle with heat. Hunter didn't reply, only continued to stare at her in that alarming way. -- Lisa Kleypas
To such perseverance in willful self-deception Elizabeth would make no reply, and immediately and in silence withdrew; determined, that if he persisted in considering her repeated refusals as flattering encouragement, to apply to her father, whose negative might be uttered in such a manner as must be decisive, and whose behavior at least could not be mistaken for the affectation and coquetry of an elegant female. -- Jane Austen
I'll call if I break a leg or get eaten by a bear.Play like a rock.Now?No, if a bear starts eating you.I thought for a moment before replyingDo they have screaming, sobbing rocks, 'cause that's probably what I'll be doing if a bear is gnawing my arm off.It would be difficult to just lay there and be eaten alive, huh?Ya think? -- Darynda Jones
If someone smells a flower and says he does not understand, the reply to him is: there is nothing to understand, it is only a scent. If he persists, saying: that I know, but what does it all mean? Then one has either to change the subject, or make it more abstruse by saying that the scent is the shape which the universal joy takes in the flower. -- Rabindranath Tagore
Oh, I thought you were trying to build a canal. If it's jobs you want, then you should give these workers spoons, not shovels. [Reply to the government bureaucrat of one Asian country who told him that, reason why there were workers with shovels instead of modern tractors and earth movers at a worksite of a new canal, was that: You don't understand. This is a jobs program.] -- Milton Friedman
Are the angels of her bed the angelswho come near me alone in mine?Are the green trees in her windowthe color is see in ripe plums?If she always sees backwardand upside down without knowing itwhat chance do we have? I am hauntedby the feeling that she is sayingmelting lords of death, avalanches,rivers and moments of passing through,And I am replying, Yes, yes.Shoes and pudding. -- Jack Gilbert
Guilt is also a way for us to express to others that we are a person of good conscience. 'I feel really guilty about getting drunk last night,' we say, when in actual fact we feel no guilt whatsoever or, at least, we could choose to feel no guilt. When people say to me, 'I drank too much last night,' I always reply, 'I drank exactly the right amount. -- Tom Hodgkinson
They stood there for a while, not saying anything. Then Eli said: 'Do you want to come in?'Oskar didn't reply. Eli pulled on her T-shirt, lifted her hands, let them fall.'I'm never going to hurt you.''I know that.''What are you thinking about?''That T-shirt. Is it from the trash room?''...yes.''Have you washed it?'Eli didn't answer.'You're a little gross, you know that?''I can change, if you like.''Good. Do that. -- John Ajvide Lindqvist
But what is truth? 'Twas Pilate's question put To Truth itself, that deign'd him no reply. -- William Cowper
A fool hath no dialogue within himself, the first thought carrieth him without the reply of a second. -- E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax
People don't listen to understand. They listen to reply. The collective monologue is everyone talking and no one listening. -- Stephen Covey
M. de Charlus made no reply and looked as if he had not heard, which was one of his favourite forms of rudeness. -- Marcel Proust
Believe me, there exists no such dilemma as that in which a gentleman is placed when he is forced to reply to a blackguard. -- Edgar Allan Poe
To the questioning glance of love, as it flashes out and then conceals itself, speech has no reply; the smile, the kiss, the sigh answer. -- Jose Rizal
I am on fire within. There comes no murmur of reply. What is it that will take away my sin, And save me lest I die? -- Alfred Lord Tennyson
Tibby cried into her soup when it finally came. "I'm scared... ," she told it. The carrots and peas made no reply, but she felt better for having told them. -- Ann Brashares
You know-- one loves the sunset, when one is so sad...""Were you so sad, then?" I asked, "on the day of the forty-four sunsets?"But the little prince made no reply. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
If only, if only, the moon speaks no reply; Reflecting the sun and all that's gone by. Be strong my weary wolf, turn around boldly. Fly high, my baby bird, My angel, my only -- Louis Sachar
Eudine did not reply. She was indecipherable, so ageless and immaculate. Her eyes were the same caramel shade as her skin. Her face was a placid lake, such depths. A woman with a face like that could be a confessor, could be told anything, no matter how awful, and remain steady as granite. -- Ayana Mathis

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