Regularly spoken phrases/V-Z

"We're the good guys"

• "We're the good guys Michael." - Ben to Michael ("Live Together, Die Alone, Part 2")
• Ben to Elliott ("A New Day")
• "We must be the good guys." - Bernard to Jin ("Ji Yeon")
• Bram to Frank ("The Incident, Part 1")
• "They say they're the good guys. I'm not buying it either" - Frank to Sun about Jacob's bodyguards ("LA X, Part 1")

"What did you do?"

• Desmond to Jack, Locke, and Kate (twice) ("Orientation")
• Diane Janssen to Kate ("What Kate Did")
• Jack to Locke ("Through the Looking Glass, Part 2")
• Locke to Ben ("The Shape of Things to Come")
• Florence to Locke ("Cabin Fever")
• Locke to Ben ("There's No Place Like Home, Part 2")

"Whatever happened, happened"

• "If we try to do anything different, we will fail every time. Whatever happened, happened." - Daniel to Sawyer ("Because You Left")
• "Doesn't matter what we do. Whatever happened, happened." - Daniel to Miles ("LaFleur")
• Episode title ("Whatever Happened, Happened")
• "Can't change the past. Can't do it. Whatever happened, happened. All right? But then I finally realized... I had been spending so much time focused on the constants, I forgot about the variables." - Daniel to Jack and Kate ("The Variable")
• "I'm three people shy of getting off this island and Kate can help me get those people on the plane. But... once she does... then whatever happens, happens." - Man in Black to Claire ("The Package")
• "What happened, happened." - Eloise Widmore to Desmond ("Happily Ever After")
• "What happened, happened..." - Jack to Locke ("The Candidate")
• "There are no do-overs. What happened, happened. All of this matters." - Jack to Desmond ("The End")

"Whatever you think I am, I'm not."

• "I'm not who you think I am. My brother made me an addict." - Charlie to Eko ("The 23rd Psalm")
• Ben to Sayid ("One of Them")
• Juliet to Richard Alpert ("Not in Portland")

"What's done is done"

• "So, what's done is done?" - Jack to Locke ("Lockdown")
• "What is done is done." - Yemi to Eko ("?")
• Sawyer to Juliet ("The Little Prince")
• Uncle Doug to Sawyer ("The Incident, Part 1")
• Sawyer to Jack ("The Incident, Part 2")
• Widmore to Zoe ("The Package")
• Ben to Walt ("The New Man in Charge")

"Where are we?"

• "Guys... where are we?" - Charlie to the other survivors ("Pilot, Part 2")
• "If this isn't hell, friend, then where are we?" - Anthony Cooper to Sawyer ("The Brig")
• "I need to determine where we are now... in time." Daniel ("The Lie")
• Kate to Miles ("LA X, Part 1")
• "What happened? Where are we? - Jack to Kate ("LA X, Part 1")
• "Wh-wh-where are we?" - Juliet to Sawyer ("LA X, Part 1")
• Sawyer to Kate ("LA X, Part 2")
• "Where are we, dad?" - Jack to Christian ("The End")

"Where he wants to be"

• "I'm exactly where I want to be." - Miles to Kate ("Eggtown")
• "He's exactly where he wants to be." - Harper about Benjamin Linus ("The Other Woman")

"Who are you people?"

• "Who are you? Who are you? Who are you people?" - Claire to Losties ("Homecoming")
• "Hey, what the hell's going on here? Who are you people?" - Michael to Tom ("Exodus, Part 2")
• Michael to Ben ("Live Together, Die Alone, Part 1")
• "Alright, who are you people?" - Desmond to Freighties and Sayid ("The Constant")
• "What am I doing here? Who are you people?" - Desmond to Freighties and Sayid ("The Constant")
• Desmond to Keamy and Omar ("The Constant")
• Amy to Sawyer ("LaFleur")
• "Who are you?" - Dr. Linus to Desmond ("What They Died For")

"Why are you asking me these questions?"

• "I don't know why you're asking me all these questions." - Ben to Sayid ("One of Them")
• "Why are you asking me all these questions?" - Michael to Bea Klugh ("Three Minutes")
• "Why are you asking me these questions, Jack?" - Ben to Jack ("The Cost of Living")
• "Why are you even asking me these questions?" - Claire to Barnes ("Par Avion")
• "Why are you asking me all these questions, Jack?" - Sun to Jack ("D.O.C.")

"Why are you telling me this?"

• Sayid to Shannon - ("Whatever the Case May Be")
• Locke to Sawyer - ("The Long Con")
• Charlie to Sayid - ("One of Them")
• Ben (as Henry Gale) to Eko - ("Maternity Leave")
• Sun to Dr. Je-Gyu Kim - ("The Whole Truth")
• Jack to Sawyer - ("Three Minutes")
• Sawyer to Cassidy ("Every Man for Himself")
• Jack to Ben - ("The Cost of Living")
• Kate to Sawyer - ("There's No Place Like Home, Part 2")
• "Why are you telling me this now, Jack?" Sun to Jack - ("This Place Is Death")
• Daniel to Charlotte - ("This Place Is Death")
• Howard Gray to Miles - ("Some Like It Hoth")
• "Why am I even telling you this?" Miles to Hurley - ("Some Like It Hoth")
• "Why would you tell me that?" Daniel to Widmore - ("The Variable")
• "I tried to avoid telling you this." Daniel to young Charlotte - ("The Variable")
• Kate to The Man in Black - ("Recon")
• Jack to Sayid - ("The Candidate")

"Work to do"

Walt guiding Locke.

• "I'm sorry. I had work to do." - Eko to Charlie, in reference to his journey to the "?" ("Three Minutes")
• "Get up. We've got work to do." - Hurley to Sawyer and Jin about fixing the DHARMA Van ("Tricia Tanaka Is Dead")
• "All right detectives, that's enough. Mr. Locke has work to do today." - William Kincaid to detectives Reed and Mason ("The Man from Tallahassee")
• "You have work to do." - Walt to Locke ("Through the Looking Glass, Part 1")
• "He has work to do." - Christian Shephard, in reference to Jack ("So It Begins")
• "I've got work to do." - Charlotte Lewis to Frank Lapidus ("The Economist")
• "You've still got work to do, Mike." - Tom to Michael ("Meet Kevin Johnson")
• "You've got a lot of work to do." - Ana Lucia to Hurley ("The Lie")
• "John, you can't die. You've got too much work to do." - Ben to Locke ("The Life and Death of Jeremy Bentham")

"Wrong people for mission"

• "These are the wrong people for a mission like this." - Naomi to Matthew Abaddon ("Confirmed Dead")
• "You're not the best candidate for this kind of mission." - Sayid to Jack ("The Economist")

"You can go now."

• Miles to ghost in the bedroom ("Confirmed Dead")
• "Maybe you and your gun can go, too."Harper to Jack ("The Other Woman")
• Christian to Michael ("There's No Place Like Home, Part 3")

"You don't call, you don't write"

• "Boy, you bunk with a guy for 48 days -- now he doesn't call or write." - Bernard to Eko ("S.O.S.")
• "So, you wake up in the middle of the night; you grab your Jesus stick; you race off into the jungle. You don't call, you don't write?" - Charlie to Eko ("Three Minutes")
• "So you're gone for a whole day after a massive hatch detonation -- you don't call, you don't write?" - Charlie to Locke ("Further Instructions")

"You make your own luck"

Martha Toomey discussing luck with Hurley.

• "You make your own luck, Mr. Reyes. Don't blame it on the damn numbers." - Martha Toomey to Hurley ("Numbers")
• "You make your own luck, Hugo." - Hurley's dad to Hurley ("Tricia Tanaka Is Dead")
• "Let's make our own luck." - Hurley to Charlie ("Tricia Tanaka Is Dead")
• "We make our own luck." - Hurley to himself ("Tricia Tanaka Is Dead")

"You're doing fine"

• Jack tells Kate she is doing fine when she is stitching him up. ("Pilot, Part 1")
• Libby tells Hurley that he is doing fine when he says he finds it hard just talking to a girl. ("Everybody Loves Hugo")

"You'll speak when you have something worth saying"

• Boone to Locke ("Further Instructions")
• "I bet he will when he has something to say." - Horace to Roger ("The Man Behind the Curtain")

"You don't seem to know much about him"

• "Well, for someone who wants to retain his paternal rights so badly you don't seem to know much about your son, Mr. Dawson. - Lizzy to Michael ("Adrift")
• "For someone who wants his son back so badly, you don't seem to know much about him, Michael. - Bea Klugh to Michael ("Three Minutes")