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Carter Bays Quotes

Total quotes: 32
“I realized that I'm searching, searching for what I really want in life. And you know what? I have absolutely no idea what that is.”
— Barney Stinson, How I Met Your Mother, How I Met Your Mother Season 8: Lobster Crawl
Tagged: Searching, Clueless
“There are two big days in any love story: the day you meet the girl of your dreams and the day you marry her.”
— Ted Mosby, How I Met Your Mother, Season 6: Big Days
Tagged: Marriage, Love Stories, Dreams, big days
“You can't cling to the past. Because no matter how tightly you hold on, it's already gone.”
— Ted Mosby, How I Met Your Mother, How I Met Your Mother Season 8: Something Old
Tagged: The Past, Moving On, Change, Moving Forward, Letting Go
“Nothing good happens after 2:00 am… when 2:00 am rolls around, just go home and go to sleep.”
— Ted Mosby, How I Met Your Mother, Season 1: Nothing Good Happens After 2 A.M.
Tagged: 2 am, nothing good happens, Home, Sleep
“It's kind of insane how much happened in just a day and a half.”
— Ted Mosby, How I Met Your Mother, Season 9: Daisy
Tagged: insane, Action-Packed, happened
“Whether a gesture's charming or alarming, depends on how it's received.”
— Ted Mosby, How I Met Your Mother, How I Met Your Mother Season 8: The Final Page
Tagged: charming, Alarming, Gesture
“Because sometimes even if you know how something's gonna end that doesn't mean you can't enjoy the ride.”
— Ted Mosby, How I Met Your Mother, Season 2: Monday Night Football
Tagged: Carpe Diem, enjoy the ride
“If I ask you to change too many things about yourself, you're not gonna be the man I fell in love with. Turns out I accept and appreciate even the grossest, creepiest, most sociopathic parts of you.”
— Robin Scherbatsky, How I Met Your Mother, How I Met Your Mother Season 8: The Fortress
Tagged: Loving Their Flaws, Acceptance
“But that's the funny thing about destiny: it happens whether you plan it or not. It turns out I was just too close to the puzzle to see the picture that was forming.”
— Ted Mosby, How I Met Your Mother, Season 1: Pilot
Tagged: Destiny, Chance, Planning, Puzzle
“Your package has always been big enough. You may not realize this, Marshall Eriksen, but you’ve got a huge package!”
— Lily Aldrin, How I Met Your Mother, Season 1: Life Among the Gorillas
Tagged: Big Dick Energy, Huge Package
“I used to be in such a hurry all the time. Everything was so urgent. Now I figured, if it's going to happen it'll happen when it happens. I'm not going anywhere, she's not going anywhere. What's the rush, right?”
— Ted Mosby, How I Met Your Mother, Season 9: Platonish
Tagged: Hurry, urgent, Rush, not going anywhere
“So really the biggest mistake would be not to make that mistake, because then you’ll go your whole life not knowing if something was a mistake or not.”
— Lily Aldrin, How I Met Your Mother, Season 1: Milk
Tagged: big, mistake, whole life
“Robin: I'm such a mess. Why do you even like me?

Barney: I guess, because you're almost as messed up as I am.”
— Barney Stinson, How I Met Your Mother, Season 7: Tick Tick Tick
Tagged: crushes, Insecurity
“We spend an hour arguing about where to eat, and we end up here anyway. I haven't eaten for two days. Can we please, for the love of God, just order something now?”
— Robin Scherbatsky, How I Met Your Mother, Season 4: The Best Burger in New York
Tagged: Hunger, Arguing, order food
“You guys dated before. That time counts. The clock doesn't reset to zero. It un-pauses from where you left off.”
— Lily Aldrin, How I Met Your Mother, How I Met Your Mother Season 8: The Autumn of Break-Ups
Tagged: Dating, Breakups, reunited
“Somewhere along the line, I forgot to pursue my dream and now I'm old and I'm a mom and it's just too late for me.”
— Lily Aldrin, How I Met Your Mother, How I Met Your Mother Season 8: The Ashtray
Tagged: Dreams, Dream Deferred, Old, Mom, Too Late
“Three days. We wait three days to call a woman, because that's how long Jesus wants us to wait... True story.”
— Barney Stinson, How I Met Your Mother, Season 4: The Three Days Rule
Tagged: jesus, Three Days Rule
“There’s three rules of cheating: 1. It’s not cheating if you’re not the one who’s married. 2. It’s not cheating if her name has two adjacent vowels. 3. And it's not cheating if she’s from a different area code.”
— Barney Stinson, How I Met Your Mother, Season 3: No Tomorrow
Tagged: Cheating, Cheaters
“I think for the most part if you're really honest with yourself about what you want out of life, life gives it to you.”
— Ted Mosby, How I Met Your Mother, Season 2: Something Blue
Tagged: Life, honestly, Love, Relationships, The Universe, Destiny
“That was the year I was left at the altar. The year I was beat up by a crazy bartender. The year I got fired. The year I got beat up by a goat, a girl goat at that. And dammit, if it wasn't the best year of my life.”
— Ted Mosby, How I Met Your Mother, Season 4: The Leap
Tagged: Life, Left at the Altar, Bartender, Fired, Best Year Of My Life
“In marriage, being right is less important than being supportive. Remember: Happy wife equals happy life.”
— Lily Aldrin, How I Met Your Mother, Season 9: The Poker Game
Tagged: Marriage, Being Right, being supportive, Happy Wife
“I've never asked Lily to do anything ‘no questions asked’ because I never wanted to. She's the love of my life. I never keep anything from her.”
— Marshall Eriksen, How I Met Your Mother, Season 9: No Questions Asked
Tagged: no questions asked, Love of My Life
“Say goodbye to all the times you felt lost, to all the times it was a No instead of a Yes, to all the scrapes and bruises, to all the heartache.”
— Lily Aldrin, How I Met Your Mother, Season 9: Last Time in New York
Tagged: Goodbyes, Moving Forward
“Revenge fantasies never work out the way you want.”
— Marshall Eriksen, How I Met Your Mother, How I Met Your Mother Season 8: The Final Page
Tagged: revenge fantasies, never work out
“If you’re looking for the word that means caring about someone beyond all rationality and wanting them to have everything they want no matter how much it destroys you, it’s love. And when you love someone you don’t stop, ever. Even when people roll their eyes, and call you crazy. Even then. Especially then.”
— Ted Mosby, How I Met Your Mother, Season 9: Sunrise
Tagged: Love, Relationships, caring, Unrequited Love
“We gotta wait for the real thing, no matter how tough it gets.”
— Ted Mosby, How I Met Your Mother, Season 7: The Rebound Girl
Tagged: real thing, Keeping It Real, Tough, Hard Times
“The best I can give you is a fake smile and dead eyes.”
— Robin Scherbatsky, How I Met Your Mother, Season 1: Cupcake
Tagged: fake smile, dead eyes
“Barney: You're the most awesome person I've ever met. Well, second.

Robin: Right, first being you.

Barney: No, actually, it's this guy I know who lives in something called the mirror. What up?”
— Barney Stinson, How I Met Your Mother, Season 3: Sandcastles in the Sand
Tagged: compliments, Cheering Up
“When you believe in people, people come through.”
— Ted Mosby, How I Met Your Mother, Season 9: Coming Back
Tagged: Belief, Faith, Persistence, rewards
“You and Marshall belong together. The two of you have something most people search their whole lives for and never find. I know you love him and if you knew what he was going through right now you wouldn't be here for one more second. I bought you a ticket home. Marshall is one of the best people I know and it won't be long until someone else realizes that and you will lose him forever.”
— Barney Stinson, How I Met Your Mother, Season 2: Bachelor Party
Tagged: Belong Together, forever person
“You see, kids, right from the moment I met your mom I knew, I have to love this woman as much as I can, and as long as I can, and I can never stop loving her, not even for a second. I carried that lesson through every stupid fight we ever had, every 5 a.m. Christmas morning, every sleepy Sunday afternoon, every speed bump, every pang of jealousy or boredom or uncertainty that came our way. I carried that lesson with me.’”
— Ted Mosby, How I Met Your Mother, Season 9: Last Forever
Tagged: caring, Christmas, Jealousy, Boredom, Uncertainty
“ I love everything about her, and I’m not a guy who says that lightly. I’m a guy who has faked love his entire life. I thought love was just something idiots thought they felt, but this woman has a hold on my heart that I could not break if I wanted to -- and there have been times that I wanted to. It has been... overwhelming and humbling and even painful at times, but I could not stop loving her any more than I could stop breathing. I am hopelessly, irretrievably in love with her. More than she knows.”
— Barney Stinson, How I Met Your Mother, How I Met Your Mother Season 8: Splitsville
Tagged: Loving Someone, Madly In Love
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