Crowds Quotes - Page 21

• Crowds of questions stream through me like lines of people exiting a soccer ground or a concert. They push and shove and trip. Some make their way around. Some remain in their seats, waiting for their opportunity.

  Markus Zusak

  Soccer, Opportunity, People

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• Loneliness in a crowd of people was the worst kind of loneliness, but she couldn't help it.

  Lauren Kate

  Loneliness, People, Helping

  Lauren Kate (2013). “The Fallen Series: 4-Book Collection”, p.596, Delacorte Press

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• The vulgar crowd always is taken by appearances, and the world consists chiefly of the vulgar.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Taken, World, Appearance

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• Then something unexpected happens. At least, I don't expect it because I don't think of District 12 as a place that cares about me. But a shift has occurred since I stepped up to take Prim's place, and now it seems I have become someone precious. At first one, then another, then almost every member of the crowd touches the three middle fingers of their left hand to their lips and holds it out to me. It is an old and rarely used gesture of our district, occasionally seen at funerals. It means thanks, it means admiration, it means good-bye to someone you love.

  Suzanne Collins

  Mean, Thinking, Hands

  "The Hunger Games". Book by Suzanne Collins, 2008.

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• I also never would have imagined I'd quote back a church lesson, but when the rest of the crowd stood up to take communion, I found myself saying to Dimitri: "Don't you think that if God can supposedly forgive you, it's kind of egotistical for you not to forgive yourself?" "How long have you been waiting to use that line on me?" he asked. "Actually, it just came to me. Pretty good, huh? I bet you thought I wasn't paying attention." "You weren't. You never do. You were watching me.

  Richelle Mead

  Thinking, Long, Waiting

  Richelle Mead (2010). “Spirit Bound: A Vampire Academy Novel”, p.222, Penguin

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• I asked the professors who teach the meaning of life to tell me what is happiness. And I went to famous executives who boss the work of thousands of men. They all shook their heads and gave me a smile as though I was trying to fool with them. And then one Sunday afternoon I wandered out along the Desplaines river and I saw a crowd of Hungarians under the trees with their women and children and a keg of beer and an accordion.

  Carl Sandburg

  Children, Beer, Sunday

  Carl Sandburg, (2013). “Chicago Poems”, p.27, Read Books Ltd

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• I can't run no more with that lawless crowd while the killers in high places say their prayers out loud. But they've summoned, they've summoned up a thundercloud and they're going to hear from me. Ring the bells that still can ring Forget your perfect offering There is a crack in everything That's how the light gets in.

  Leonard Cohen

  Running, Prayer, Light

  Song: Anthem

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• So, instead of panicking, I closed my eyes and spent the twenty minutes' drive with Edward. I imagined that I had stayed at the airport to meet Edward. I visualized how I would stand on my toes, the sooner to see his face. How quickly, how gracefully he would move through the crowds of people separating us. And then I would run to close those last few feet between us - reckless as always - and I would be in his marble arms, finally safe.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Running, Moving, Eye

  Stephenie Meyer (2009). “Twilight: Twilight”, p.290, Hachette UK

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• The trouble is not really in being alone, it's being lonely. One can be lonely in the midst of a crowd, don't you think?

  Christine Feehan

  Lonely, Being Single, Thinking

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• Faust complained about having two souls in his breast, but I harbor a whole crowd of them and they quarrel. It is like being in a republic.

  Otto von Bismarck

  Two, Soul, Republic

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• The phrase booze and mischief left me worrying I'd stumbled into what my mother referred to as "the wrong crowd," but for the wrong crowd, they both seemed awfully smart.

  John Green

  Mother, Smart, Worry

  John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.21, Penguin

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• Always remember that the crowd that applauds your coronation is the same crowd that will applaud your beheading. People like a show.

  Terry Pratchett

  People, Remember, Discworld

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• THOUGH you are in your shining days, Voices among the crowd And new friends busy with your praise, Be not unkind or proud, But think about old friends the most: Time's bitter flood will rise, Your beauty perish and be lost For all eyes but these eyes.

  William Butler Yeats

  Eye, Thinking, Voice

  William Butler Yeats (1997). “The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition”, p.68, Simon and Schuster

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• Obviously it takes eight brains to come to one decision in this crowd. Good thing they have one another.

  Mari Mancusi

  Eight, Decision, Brain

  Mari Mancusi (2007). “Girls That Growl”, p.24, Penguin

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• No father, no son, no mother, no daughter should get so busy that he or she does not have time to study the scriptures and the words of modern prophets. None of us should get so busy that we crowd out contemplation and praying. None of us should become so busy in our formal Church assignments that there is no room left for quiet Christian service to our neighbors.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Christian, Mother, Daughter

  Spencer W. Kimball (1981). “Priesthood”, Shadow Mountain

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• I am stronger than words and I am bigger than the box I'm in, and then I see her in the crowd and I fall apart -I am listening and I am listening because what I'm playing isn't something I'm thinking about, it's something I'm feeling all over.

  Rachel Cohn

  Fall, Thinking, Feelings

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• A surging, seething, murmuring crowd of beings that are human only in name, for to the eye and ear they seem naught but savage creatures, animated by vile passions and by the lust of vengeance and of hate. The hour, some little time before sunset, and the place, the West Barricade, at the very spot where, a decade later, a proud tyrant raised an undying monument to the nation's glory and his own vanity.

  Baroness Orczy

  Hate, Passion, Sunset

  Baroness Orczy (2015). “The Scarlet Pimpernel”, p.5, Xist Publishing

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• Politics and prostitution have to be the only jobs where inexperience is considered a virtue. In what other profession would you brag about not knowing stuff? “I’m not one of those fancy Harvard heart surgeons. I’m just an unlicensed plumber with a dream and I’d like to cut your chest open.” The crowd cheers.

  Tina Fey

  Dream, Witty, Jobs

  "Bossypants". Book by Tina Fey, April 5, 2011.

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• I couldn't imagine what it would be like to be one of so many, to have not just parents and siblings but cousins and aunts and uncles, an entire tribe to claim as your own. Maybe you would feel lost in the crowd. Or sheltered by it. Whatever the case, one things was for sure: like it or not, you'd never be alone.

  Sarah Dessen

  Cousin, Uncles, Sibling

  Sarah Dessen (2008). “Lock and Key”, p.132, Penguin

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• Lou's such an old punk he was around when the Ramones were junkie hustlers first and musicians second, when punk meant something other than a mass-marketing concept designed to help the bridge-and-tunnel crowd feel cool.

  Rachel Cohn

  Tunnels, Bridges, Marketing

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2014). “Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist”, p.12, Egmont UK

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• You know, I don’t get why Fred and George only got three O.W.L.s each,” said Harry, watching as Fred, George, and Lee collected gold from the eager crowd. “They really know their stuff. . . .” “Oh, they only know flashy stuff that’s no real use to anyone,” said Hermione disparagingly. “No real use?” said Ron in a strained voice. “Hermione, they’ve got about twenty-six Galleons already. . . .

  J. K. Rowling

  Real, Voice, Gold

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• only kindness that raises its head from the crowd of the world to say it is I you have been looking for, and then goes with you everywhere like a shadow or a friend.

  Naomi Shihab Nye

  Kindness, Shadow, World

  Naomi Shihab Nye (1995). “Words under the words: selected poems”, The Eighth Mountain Press

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• There are idiots in every crowd.

  Heather Graham

  Idiot

  Heather Graham (2013). “Deadly Night”, p.222, Harlequin

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• The seals stupidly dive off rocks into swirling black water, barking mindlessly. The zookeepers feed them dead fish. A crowd gathers around the tank, mostly adults, a few accompanied by children. On the seals' tank a plaque warns: COINS CAN KILL——IF SWALLOWED, COINS CAN LODGE IN AN ANIMAL'S STOMACH AND CAUSE ULCERS, INFECTIONS AND DEATH. DO NOT THROW COINS IN THE POOL. So what do I do? Toss a handful of change into the tank when none of the zookeepers are watching. It's not the seals I hate——it's the audience's enjoyment of them that bothers me.

  Bret Easton Ellis

  Children, Hate, Animal

  Bret Easton Ellis (2014). “American Psycho: Picador Classic”, p.240, Pan Macmillan

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• If I come back to you now, can we be what we were before life’s uncertain rhythms tore us so far apart? If I return today, will your arms gather me in, or will I be wrenched away, snatched by riptide I have no power to resist? If I find my way to you, one man standing in a crowd, will I even know who you are?

  Ellen Hopkins

  Men, Arms, Today

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