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As Hagrid had said, what would come would come and he would have to meet it when it did.
J.K. ROWLING What would come, would come...and he would have to meet it when it did.
J.K. ROWLING What would come, would come...and you would have to meet it, when it did.
J.K. ROWLING I would come to his defense if I knew what he had said, and if he had said blacks have an inherent p...
CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER You think it - wise - to trust Hagrid with something as important as this?"
"I would trust Hagr...
J.K. ROWLING I remember him saying -- he reached out his hand and said, 'If I stretch my hand, will a hand come t...
GILBERT LEVINE No good sittin' worryin' abou' it. What's comin' will come, an' we'll meet it when it does" -Hagrid
J.K. ROWLING He's trying to create an impression that he did a lot better than he would have is his clients had c...
ALAN HEVESI It's a situation that we hoped would come a lot faster than it did and it didn't come along as fast ...
LARRY BEIGHTOL I used to have nightmares about the Antichrist - what would happen, where it would come from, and wh...
MARILYN MANSON It just didn't come as fast we thought it would, but when it did happen it came all at one bunch.
DAVE HILL I said I knew it. I told them that I knew that it would come today, and I knew that it would come th...
MIKE ESPY I love J. K. Rowling. If I could meet any person, I would meet her.
RUTH B We would love it if he would come help us.
BURL CAIN I'm not like J.K. Rowling, where I know there's going to be this number of seasons, and I kn...
ALAN BALL We would love for him to come back. He did a great job. He's a really sweet guy, and he had a great ...
DAVID GOYER I was very inspired by him. He said he would come back and he did. I feel that he's embracing the mi...
LYNDON BROWN You have to remember, rights don't come in groups we shouldn't have 'gay rights'; rights come as ind...
RON PAUL If Jesus Christ were to come today, people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner,...
THOMAS CARLYLE Now how would an officer come to such a presumption: would it be because the person 'did not look Am...
TRACI HONG If he had not testified, it seems likely the jury would have come in in his favor.
CARL TOBIAS God take what He would," she said. And He did, and He did, and He did and then gave her Halle who ga...
TONI MORRISON I am not an insecure person. For me, insecurity comes when something I do does not come across the w...
SHAHID KAPOOR The truck would have made it to that fire that day and it would have made it back home again. And my...
MARGARET MCGOWAN Life wasn't easy growing up; it was frustrating. If I had been a better reader, then that would ...
CAITLYN JENNER Bill did not come tonight because he knew there would be reporters here, and he said he's tired of d...
JOE NICKEL All of us had to go by that rule, damn it. If he did [bet on baseball], then fess up and come clean ...
DAVE BRISTOL Every time we had an opportunity, they would come up with a play to get out of it. CoCo would run ar...
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GELLERT When an opportunity came for me to wrestle, I just worked hard. The coaches just kept telling me it ...
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BETTY RAY because it is true; had he not said it, it would have been misleading.
YASSER ARAFAT And he knew at that moment that love world never die, that it would never fade away altogether. The ...
MARY BALOGH If she had said no, he would have stopped what he was doing.
JOE AMENDOLA If you had told me when he made the switch that he would be on the Olympic team, I would have said h...
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KAREN JOY FOWLER Many believed this day would never come and many would say it should have happened a long time ago b...
BERTIE AHERN And I did wonder - because it's now three years ago since I left prison - whether there would come a...
JEFFREY ARCHER No good sittin’ worryin’ abou’ it,” he said. “What’s comin’ will come, an’ we’ll m...
J.K. ROWLING No good sittin' worryin' abou' it," he said. "What's comin' will come, an' we'll meet it when it doe...
J.K. ROWLING She would tell him what she wanted in her life--her hopes and dreams for the future--and he would li...
NICHOLAS SPARKS If human hearts allowed God to rule as He rules the universe, His kingdom would come and His will wo...
DAVID L. HATTON If he would have had fingernails he would have won it.
BRIAN BUCKLEY I definitely look up to Veronica Roth, Suzanne Collins, and J.K. Rowling.
VICTORIA AVEYARD Bunkum and tummyrot! You'll never get anywhere if you go about what-iffing like that. Would Columbus...
ROALD DAHL He was going to break my legs ,” she said, her chin held high, the barest quaver in her voice. “...
LEIGH BARDUGO We had a script reading, and that's where we met J.K. Rowling, which was really exciting.
RUPERT GRINT I think when Cleveland was mentioned it had nothing to do with the team as much as it did that he (w...
TERRY PORTER I thought the pivotal point in the game was in the second quarter when those two guys had to come ou...
LYNN WASHOWICH It was not only Odette's indifference, however, that he must take pains to circumvent; it was also, ...
MARCEL PROUST No good sittin’ worryin’ abou’ it,” he said. “What’s comin’ will come, an’ we’ll m...
J.K. ROWLING It would be great to see as many people as possible come to Community Night, Friday. What they have ...
DAMIAN SMITHERS If it would have hit a couple inches lower, it would have come through the windshield, and I wouldn'...
LEROY LIPTAK Duncan asked me a question he probably shouldn't have asked, ... If Tony had a question, he should h...
RICK WHITE What another would have done as well as you, do not do it. What another would have said as well as y...
ANDRE GIDE Come to the book as you would come to an unexplored land. Come without a map. Explore it and draw yo...
STEPHEN KING This is too much reality for a Friday.
AS GOOD AS IT GETS I would love to meet J.K. Rowling and tell her how much I admire her writing and am amazed by her im...
SHERYL SANDBERG Peter was not with them for the moment, and they felt rather lonely up there by themselves. He could...
J.M. BARRIE We feel that we're still going to win but it has taken a lot to get us there. I'm actually pretty ha...
BRENDAN GAUGHAN We didn't know whether he would ever come out of it.
JOY SEXTON I did get offers from Hollywood, but they were all scripts with monsters in them. If I had done them...
CAROLE BOUQUET As a younger actor, I had delusions. I would dream of Scorsese and De Niro; I would meet people, and...
VINCENT CASSEL Come on over anyway, John would have loved it.
JOHN SCANLON Had you come in here with only an action series, I would have passed. But when you said the wives, t...
ERIC HANEY He has realized the relationship is over and it?s time to move on. She would never call him to check...
KATRINA SZISH I have not signed anything. I can assure you I would know if it had come to us.
BARBARA HARVEY God will not suffer man to have the knowledge of things to come; for if he had prescience of his p...
ST. AUGUSTINE He would likely not have ever come back to that courthouse.
BARRY HAZEN Marveling at his own boldness, he said softly, "I would enter your sleep if I could, and guard you t...
PETER S. BEAGLE They would come back happy. One would have a banana. Another had a yellow apple, and one had a red a...
BETTY POTEAT I did not push Paul or Leo to come into the business. I let everything happen as it would, but I was...
LEONARD UNDERWOOD We did not play as well as we would have liked and our players had some problems adjusting to the sm...
BOB GRAY With the passing of time, she would slowly tire of this exercise. She would find it increasingly exh...
KHALED HOSSEINI What's coming will come and we'll just have to meet it when it does.
J. K. ROWLING Granville did not come to enquire after me, as I had known he would not. I had always considered him...
ANNA FREEMAN If I called her she would pretend not to hear, but would come a few moments later when it could appe...
ARTHUR WEIGALL [When Annan said in the 2004 letter that employees should not be afraid to disclose unethical behavi...
BARBARA DIXON We wanted to win this game, and we knew what would come along with it,
MARCUS TUBBS Once very near the end I said, 'If you can -- if it is allowed -- come to me when I too am on my dea...
C.S. LEWIS We never had any doubt that Harry Potter and his world came from the rich and extraordinary imaginat...
BARBARA MARCUS God will not suffer man to have a knowledge of things to come; for if he had prescience of his prosp...
SAINT AUGUSTINE We never would have thought that when we were kids we would be here, ... We just thought that we wou...
LEROY BURRELL This project would have never worked if it hadn't come from the youth in this town. They've come up ...
LOU DUGGAN Our relationship finally ended when he took to waking me up in the wee hours of the morning when he ...
CHELSEA HANDLER It would have been hard not to come out with a tie.
BRAD ZEIGEL If I would have had a clot come through there, it would have been all over. I was probably a heartbe...
HARVEY GREENE And you're not leaving," she said. "Promise me."
It was as if she had asked him to promis...
SHARON SHINN He did not want to play. He wanted to meet in the real world the unsubstantial image which his soul ...
JAMES JOYCE God never said it would be easy .... He just said He would go with me.
J.G. HOLLAND When he showed up, I wasn't looking for him, but he said he would, and sure enough he did.
BEFORE VEEDER When he showed up, I wasn't looking for him, but he said he would, and sure enough he did.
BEFORE DAVID VEEDER Orr was crazy and could be grounded. All he had to do was ask; and as soon as he did, he would no lo...
JOSEPH HELLER My dad is a really funny guy, and we would make jokes about my leukemia. When my friends would come ...
VANESSA BAYER He easily could have come to the officials responsible. If they hadn't acted then, he would resign, ...
CHUCK COLSON I know great songwriters. Fred Neil would come up when he was in L.A., we all used to hang out. He w...
BARRY MCGUIRE As of right now, we do not have any penalties. The only way they would come into effect is if (a pla...
MARK RICHARD Had the residents not done (what they did), the project would not have been what it is,
STEVE CURTIS He would never come to anything family. He didn't come to Christmas, didn't come to Thanksgiving. He...
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J.K. ROWLING Wow!” said Dennis, as though nobody in their wildest dreams could hope for more than being ...
J.K. ROWLING Half an hour later, each of them had been given a complicated circular chart, and was attempting to ...
J.K. ROWLING We must all face the choice between what is right and what is easy. ~Albus Dumbledore
J.K. ROWLING I just wondered where you —” Ron broke off, shrugging. “Nothing. I’m going back to bed.” J.K. ROWLING He had no memory of ever being hugged like this, as though by a mother. The full weight of everythin...
J.K. ROWLING Completely forgetting about dinner, he walked slowly back up to Gryffindor tower. Cho's voice echoin...
J.K. ROWLING She’s a veela!” he said hoarsely to Harry.
“Of course she isn’t!” said Hermion...
J.K. ROWLING I was ripped from my body, I was less than spirit, less than the meanest ghost . . . but still, I wa...
J.K. ROWLING He knew one thing only, and it was beyond fear or reason: He was not going to die crouching here lik...
J.K. ROWLING You know your mother, Malfoy?” said Harry “That expression she’s got, like she’s got ...
J.K. ROWLING I hate being poor.
J.K. ROWLING As Hagrid had said, what would come would come and he would have to meet it when it did.
J.K. ROWLING Enjoying it? I don’t reckon he’d come home if Dad didn’t make him. He’s obsessed. Just don�...
J.K. ROWLING Play to your strengths."
"I haven’t got any," said Harry, before he could stop himself....
J.K. ROWLING Oh you is a bad elf, Dobby!
J.K. ROWLING No, I'm fine,' said Harry, wondering why he kept telling people this, and wondering whether he had e...
J.K. ROWLING She can't keep writing about what a tragic little hero I am, it'll get boring.
J.K. ROWLING You’re JOKING!” said Fred Weasley loudly.
The tension that had filled the Hall ever since M...
J.K. ROWLING Yeah you can have a word," said Harry savagely. "Good-bye.
J.K. ROWLING Oh, shut up Weatherby.
J.K. ROWLING Hello, Professor McGonagall,” said Moody calmly, bouncing the ferret still higher.
“What �...
J.K. ROWLING He sounds exactly like Moody," said Harry quietly, tucking the letter away again inside his robes. "...
J.K. ROWLING Harry, Cedric, I suggest you both go up to bed," said Dumbledore, smiling at both of them. "I am sur...
J.K. ROWLING Muggle women wear them, Archie, not the men, they wear these,' said the Ministry wizard, and he bran...
J.K. ROWLING Really Hagrid, if you are holding out for universal popularity, I'm afraid you will be in this cabin...
J.K. ROWLING Well, I’m sure you’ll find someone somewhere who’ll have you.
J.K. ROWLING Of course we still want to know you!" Harry said, staring at Hagrid.
"You don't think anything ...
J.K. ROWLING Aaah ... when two Neptunes appear in the sky it is a sure sign that a midget in glasses is being bor...
J.K. ROWLING Wild!" Ron said, twiddling the replay knob on the side. "I can make that old bloke down there pick h...
J.K. ROWLING She should've interviewed Snape," said Harry grimly. "He'd give her the goods on me any day. "Pot...
J.K. ROWLING But Ron was staring at Hermione as though suddenly seeing her in a whole new light.
“Hermione...
J.K. ROWLING I sometimes find, and I am sure you know the feeling, that I simply have too many thoughts and memor...
J.K. ROWLING Ron's indignation on his behalf was worth about a hundred points to him.
J.K. ROWLING I have gone temporarily deaf and haven't any idea what you said, Harry.
J.K. ROWLING You fail to recognize that it matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be!
J.K. ROWLING I thought it sounded a bit like Percy singing... maybe you've got to attack him while he's in the sh...
J.K. ROWLING We're coming or you whether the Muggles like it or not, you can't miss the World Cup, only Mum and D...
J.K. ROWLING Well, you can't break an Unbreakable Vow...."
"I'd worked that much out for myself, funnily eno...
J.K. ROWLING Dark times lie ahead of us and there will be a time when we must choose between what is easy and wha...
J.K. ROWLING I love magic!
J.K. ROWLING Well, I can certainly see why we're trying to keep them alive. Who wouldn't want pets that can burn,...
J.K. ROWLING Love as powerful as your mother's for you leaves it's own mark. To have been loved so deeply, even t...
J.K. ROWLING He wished he could rip out his heart, his innards, everything that was screaming inside him...
J.K. ROWLING Potter wasn't such an unusual name. He was sure there were lots of people called Potter who had a so...
J.K. ROWLING I do believe something magical can happen when you read a good book
J.K. ROWLING Wandering around at midnight, Ickle Firsties? Tut, tut, tut. Naughty, naughty, you'll get caughty.
J.K. ROWLING Shooting stars all over Britain? Owls flying by daylight? Mysterious people in cloaks all over the p...
J.K. ROWLING Scars can come in handy. I have one myself above my left knee that is a perfect map of the London Un...
J.K. ROWLING Why do you live?
Because I have something worth living for.
J.K. ROWLING I am not forgotten, you know, no, I still receive a very great deal of fan mail.
. . . Gladys G...
J.K. ROWLING Oh, these people's minds work in strange ways, Petunia, they're not like you and me," said Uncle Ver...
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