Backgrounds Quotes - Page 33

• A little background: Annabeth used to adventure with Hermes's son Luke. Over time, Annabeth developed a crush on Luke. As Annabeth got older, Luke developed feelings for her, too. Luke turned evil. Hermes blamed Annabeth for not preventing Luke from turning evil. Annabeth blamed Hermes for being a rotten dad and giving Luke the capacity to become evil in the first place. Luke died in war. Hermes and Annabeth blamed each other. Confused? Welcome to my world.

  Rick Riordan

  Crush, Dad, Confused

  "The Demigod Diaries". Book by Rick Riordan, August 14, 2012.

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• I've dug so deep into his background, I can practically tell you when he stopped waring diapers.

  C.C. Hunter

  Diapers, I Can

  C. C. Hunter (2012). “Whispers at Moonrise”, p.404, St. Martin's Griffin

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• It's only in the finer points that it gets complicated and contentious, the inability to realize that no matter what our religion or gender or race or geographic background, we all have about 98 percent in common with each other.... For whatever reason, we like to focus on the 2 percent that's different, and most of the conflict in the world comes from that.

  David Levithan

  Race, Focus, Inability

  David Levithan (2012). “Every Day”, p.77, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• I'm wondering if there's a spell to make lightning flash in the background whenever I make an ominous resolution.

  Eliezer Yudkowsky

  Lightning, Wonder, Resolution

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• You and I have been through too much together. We're too close, too connected. I wasn't that crazy on spirit when I said you're my flame in the dark. We chase away the shadows around each other. Our backgrounds don't matter. What we have is bigger than that. I love you, and beneath all that logic, calculation, and superstition, I know you love me too.

  Richelle Mead

  Crazy, Love You, Dark

  Richelle Mead (2013). “The Indigo Spell: A Bloodlines Novel”, p.156, Penguin

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• If you've been fat, you will always feel and see the world as a fat person; you know how difficult it is... It's the same coming from a working-class background... it never leaves you.

  Caitlin Moran

  Class, World, Fats

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• You all have your own distinct personal backgrounds. Of course some of you come from rich families, some from poor families. But circumstances beyond your control like that shouldn’t determine who you are. You must all realize what you’re worth on your own.

  Koushun Takami

  Rich Family, Realizing, Poor

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• I feel half faded away like some figure in the background of an old picture.

  Iris Murdoch

  Half, Figures, Feels

  Iris Murdoch (1976). “A Severed Head”, p.38, Penguin

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• Too often we judge people based on our own backgrounds and experiences, but when you understand people's stories, it's easier to understand their demeanor.

  Joel Osteen

  Judging, People, Understanding

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• Surfing?” he asked. She laughed, and the sound sent a shock wave through the water. The wailing faded to background noise. Annabeth wondered if anyone had ever laughed in Tartarus before—just a pure, simple laugh of pleasure. She doubted it.

  Rick Riordan

  Simple, Background Noise, Water

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• He barely knew I existed. I knew some of the same people he knew, but I was a girl in the background, several degrees of seperation removed.

  Rick Yancey

  Girl, People, Degrees

  Rick Yancey (2013). “The 5th Wave”, p.30, Penguin

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• The profoundest affinities are those most readily felt, and though a thousand later considerations may overlay and override them, they remain a background and standard for all happiness. If we trace them out we succeed.

  George Santayana

  Happiness, Success, Succeed

  "The The Life of Reason Or The Phases of Human Progress: Reason in Society, Volume VII, Book Two".

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• People often of masterful intelligence, trained usually in law or economics or perhaps in political science, who have led their governments into disastrous decisions and miscalculations because they have no awareness whatever of the historical background, the cultural universe, of the foreign societies with which they have to deal.

  Michael Howard

  Government, Law, People

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• The thing that is making jazz healthy today is that people are coming out of other backgrounds - from rock, folk, from ethnic music. It's changing the music, and for the better.

  Billy Taylor

  Music, Rocks, People

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• Jazz is not background music. You must concentrate in order to get the most out of it. You must absorb it.

  Horace Silver

  Music, Order, Jazz

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• Everybody has opinions: I have them, you have them. And we are all told from the moment we open our eyes, that everyone is entitled to his or her opinion. Well, that's horsepuckey, of course. We are not entitled to our opinions; we are entitled to our informed opinions. Without research, without background, without understanding, it's nothing. It's just bibble-babble. It's like a fart in a wind tunnel, folks.

  Harlan Ellison

  Eye, Tunnels, Wind

  Commentary on Sci-Fi Channel's "Sci-Fi Buzz", harlanellison.com.

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• Compassion is not a sloppy sentimental feeling for people who are underprivileged or sick... it is an absolutely practical belief that regardless of a person's background, ability or ability to pay, he should be provided with the best that society has to offer.

  Neil Kinnock

  Inspirational, Compassion, Sick

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• "Historians of every generation, I believe, unless they are pure antiquarians, see history against the background - the controlling background - of current events. They call upon it to explain the problems of their own time, to give to those problems a philosophical context, a continuum in which they may be reduced to proportion and perhaps made intelligible."

  Hugh Redwald Trevor-Roper

  Believe, Philosophical, History

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• Worship is not about personality, temperament, personal limitations, church background, or comfort. It is about God.

  John Wimber

  Personality, Church, Comfort

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• Colours change: in the morning light, red shines out bright and clear and the blues merge into their surroundings, melting into the greens; but by the evening the reds loose their piquancy, embracing a quieter tone and shifting toward the blues in the rainbow. Yellow flowers remain bright, and white ones become luminous, shining like ghostly figures against a darkening green background.

  Rosemary Verey

  Change, Morning, Flower

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• I mean, what's the elections? You know, two guys, same background, wealth, political influence, went to the same elite university, joined the same secret society where you're trained to be a ruler - they both can run because they're financed by the same corporate institutions.

  Noam Chomsky

  Running, Mean, Two

  "Final Edition". Book by Wallace Shawn, 2011.

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• This nation was founded by men of many nations and backgrounds. It was founded on the principle that all men are created equal, and that the rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened ... It ought to to be possible, in short, for every American to enjoy the privileges of being American without regard to his race or his color.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspiring, Equality, Men

  Civil Rights Address, delivered 11 June 1963

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• While most students were trying to draw one beautiful finished piece, I would be in the background drawing dozens of studies at different angles to use later.

  Fred Perry

  Beautiful, Athlete, Drawing

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• My athleticism was really the core to social acceptance, because in those days the overwhelming number of students came from more of a public school background than I did.

  Roger Bannister

  Sports, Athlete, School

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• Background vocals during her song "I Hope You Dance" .....'Time is a wheel in constant motion always, rolling us along. Tell me who wants to look back on their years and wonder, where those years have gone.'

  Lee Ann Womack

  Life, Song, Memories

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