Crowds Quotes - Page 24

• Quite a crowd tonight, Gin. Usually, it's just you and Finn." I shrugged. "What can I say? I seem to attract minions wherever I go these days. Kind of like the Pied Piper." Behind me, Finn huffed out his displeasure. "Minion? I am most certainly not a mere minion. Head minion, perhaps. At the very least.

  Jennifer Estep

  Tonight, Kind, Pipers

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• As a recluse I couldn't bear traffic. It had nothing to do with jealousy, I simply disliked people, crowds, anywhere, except at my readings. People diminished me, they sucked me dry.

  Charles Bukowski

  Reading, People, Dry

  Charles Bukowski (2007). “Women”, Ecco

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• Then everyone leaves, and you are left, each night, to your own devices with a crowd of interesting people - most of whom you don't know - sitting in the dark.

  Anna Deavere Smith

  Dark, Night, People

  Anna Deavere Smith (2001). “Talk to Me: Listening Between the Lines”, p.134, Random House

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• I don't see any elderly people in the crowd. Are there any old Dauntless? Do they not last that long, or are they just sent away when they can't jump off moving trains anymore?

  Veronica Roth

  Moving, Elderly, Long

  Veronica Roth (2013). “Divergent Trilogy”, p.40, HarperCollins UK

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• New York is a nice place." "If you like concrete, crowds, and that claustrophobic, closed-in feeling.

  Janette Rallison

  New York, Nice, Feelings

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• We read the weird tales in newspapers to crowd out the even weirder stuff inside us.

  Alain de Botton

  Stuff, Newspapers, Tales

  Twitter post from May 11, 2012

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• The woman who follows the crowd will usually believe that I said this.

  Albert Einstein

  Strong Women, Believe, Following The Crowd

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• I took it for granted that there must be a few men left in the world who had that kind of strength. I assumed that those men would also be looking for women with principle. I did not want to be among the marked-down goods on the bargain table, cheap because they’d been pawed over. Crowds collect there. It is only the few who will pay full price. "You get what you pay for.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Men, Dating, Principles

  Elisabeth Elliot, Joshua Harris (2002). “Passion and Purity: Learning to Bring Your Love Life Under Christ's Control”, p.129, Revell

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• To follow the crowd Is to miss The destination.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Missing, Destination

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• Wanted, a man who will not lose his individuality in a crowd, a man who has the courage of his convictions, who is not afraid to say "No," though all the world say "Yes.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Men, Individuality, World

  Orison Swett Marden (2015). “ORISON SWETT MARDEN Premium Collection - Wisdom & Empowerment Series (18 Books in One Volume): Steps to Success and Power, How to Get What You Want, An Iron Will, Be Good to Yourself, Every Man A King, Keeping Fit, Prosperity – How to Attract It, Stepping-Stones To Fame And Fortune...”, p.51, e-artnow

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• His eyes search the crowd until they find my face. My heartbeat lives in my throat; lives in my cheeks. "I still don't understand," he says softly, "how she knew that it would work.

  Veronica Roth

  Eye, Faces, Tobias

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• Then I guess we cannot miss the famous festival in New Orleans," he found himself saying, just to take the shadows from her eyes. She was silent a moment, her fingers twisting in the blanket. "Do you mean it, Gregori? We can go?" "You know how much I love crowds of humans," he said, straight-faced. She laughed at him. "They don't bite." "I do," he said, the words low and soft, his silver gaze at once possessive.

  Christine Feehan

  Mean, Eye, New Orleans

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• Woods are not like other spaces. To begin with, they are cubic. Their trees surround you, loom over you, press in from all sides. Woods choke off views & leave you muddled & without bearings. They make you feel small & confused & vulnerable, like a small child lost in a crowd of strange legs. Stand in a desert or prairie & you know you are in a big space. Stand in the woods and you only sense it. They are vast, featureless nowhere. And they are alive.

  Bill Bryson

  Children, Confused, Views

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• To allow only the kind of art that the average man understands is the worst small-mindedness and the murder of mind and spirit. It is my conviction that the intellect can be certain that in doing what most disconcerts the crowd, in pursuing the most daring, unconventional advances and explorations, it will in some highly indirect fashion serve man - and in the long run, all men.

  Thomas Mann

  Running, Fashion, Art

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• The devil has made it his business to monopolize on three elements: noise, hurry, crowds. He will not allow quietness.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Inspiring, Devil, Three

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• Well, mi amore, this is awesome news! Let's get right on that," said Kami, and began to undo the buttons of her blouse. She looked down at the red buttons slipping out one by one from the black fabric of her shirt. She only had eight buttons, and there went the fourth. Jared sucked breath out of a horrified void and shouted, "stop that!" He angled himself to protect her from the eyes of a crowd that was not there. He hesitated, possibly because now he had a view directly down into shadows and curves.

  Sarah Rees Brennan

  Eye, Curves, Eight

  Sarah Rees Brennan (2012). “Unspoken (The Lynburn Legacy Book 1)”, p.78, Random House Books for Young Readers

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• Those who know that they are profound strive for clarity. Those who would like to seem profound to the crowd strive for obscurity. For the crowd believes that if it cannot see to the bottom of something it must be profound. It is so timid and dislikes going into the water.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Believe, Profound, Water

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• Juliet!' I whip around but not quickly enough. She's swallowed by the crowd, the gap that allowed her to break for the door closing just as quickly as it opened, a shifting Tetris pattern of bodies.

  Lauren Oliver

  Doors, Body, Patterns

  Lauren Oliver (2010). “Before I Fall”, p.287, Hachette UK

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• beware those quick to praise for they need praise in return beware those who are quick to censor they are afraid of what they do not know beware those who seek constant crowds for they are nothing alone beware the average man the average woman beware their love, their love is average seeks average

  Charles Bukowski

  Love Is, Men, Average

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• Land?' Froi whispered. 'You're giving them land? I'm not worth the valley.' 'You're worth a kingdom,' Finnikin said, turning back to the crowd.

  Melina Marchetta

  Land, Giving, Valleys

  Melina Marchetta (2015). “The Complete Lumatere Chronicles”, p.1332, Penguin UK

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• Those blue eyes that had stopped my heart the first time she looked at me found me in the crowd." -Cage

  Abbi Glines

  Heart, Eye, Blue

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• Can you at least tell us what these Sevens look like?" He said "could we pick one out in a crowd?" "A long time ago, they used to appear wearing robes and golden girtles," Ivy explained. "They sound like losers," Xavier muttered.

  Alexandra Adornetto

  Ivy, Long, Sound

  Alexandra Adornetto (2012). “Heaven”, p.54, Macmillan

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• I can't really believe that it's over. "I'll speak for her." Every face turns to where Sean Kendrick stands a little apart from the crowd, his arms crossed. "This island runs on courage, not blood," he says. His face is turned towards me, but his eyes are on Eaton and his groups. In the hush after he speaks, I can hear my heart thudding in my ears.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Running, Believe, Eye

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• The crowd, having been promised nothing, felt cheated, having received nothing.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Cheated, Felt

  Kurt Vonnegut (2007). “The Sirens of Titan”, p.38, Dial Press

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• My duchess,” James stated, his eyes sweeping the crowd with the air of a man who has ruled the waves. “She is not a swan, because that would imply she had once been an ugly duckling.

  Eloisa James

  Eye, Men, Swans

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