Experts Quotes - Page 15

• There is something about words. In expert hands, manipulated deftly, they take you prisoner.

  Diane Setterfield

  Hands, Prisoner

  "The Thirteenth Tale". Book by Diane Setterfield, 2006.

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• I realise there's something incredibly honest about trees in winter, how they're experts at letting things go.

  Jeffrey McDaniel

  Break Up, Heartbroken, Letting Go

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• Fifteen minutes later I was an expert. That's all you need. I think I was even getting the upper hand, which is very simple with a guy. Anything seems to turn them on.

  Melina Marchetta

  Simple, Thinking, Hands

  Melina Marchetta (1992). “Looking for Alibrandi”, p.182, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Grappling with fate is like meeting an expert wrestler: to escape, you have to accept the fall when you are thrown. The only thing that counts is whether you get back up.

  Ming-Dao Deng

  Fall, Wrestling, Fate

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• I wouldn’t want you to get in the shower and then pass out or some such. How about if I help you get out of your clothes? I’m an expert in platonic undressings.” He gave me that wicked smile. “Give it a rest. I’m not going to strip naked in front of you, and I’d rather pee in private.” “Half the injuries in a home happen in the bathroom. What kind of friend would I be to let you face that kind of danger alone? I mean, sure, you walked out of death, but this is a shower.” “Shame. Get out of my bathroom.

  Devon Monk

  Home, Mean, Clothes

  Devon Monk (2010). “Magic at the Gate: An Allie Beckstrom Novel”, p.66, Penguin

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• What if she stepped on a needle and it went right into her foot and Roberta would not feel it and the needle would rise and rise and rise through the veins leading up to the heart and then the needle would STAB HER IN THE HEART and Roberta would DIE and it would be VERY PAINFUL this according to nurse mother a medical expert on Freaky Ways to Croak... The mother shouted that she knew several people who died from the Rising Stab of the Unfelt Needle or RSUN she has seen cases of it many times and not ONE PERSON HAS SURVIVED IT.

  Lynda Barry

  Mother, Heart, Feet

  Lynda Barry (2001). “Cruddy: A Novel”, p.9, Simon and Schuster

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• Cole kissed me.. It was the sort of kiss that would take a long time to recover from. You could take each of our kisses, from the very first moment we'd met and put them on a slide in a microscope, and I was pretty sure what you'd find. Even an expert would see nothing on the first one, and then on the next one, the start of something - mostly outnumbered, easily destroyed - and then more and more until finally this one, something that even the untrained eye could spot. Evidence that we'd probably never be cured of each other, but we might be able to keep it from killing us.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Eye, Kissing, Long

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• One good test is worth a thousand expert opinions.

  Wernher von Braun

  Tests, Opinion, Thousand

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• And although one broken heart doesn't make me an expert in the subject, I believe you need both things - time and an emotional replacement - to fully mend one.

  Emily Giffin

  Believe, Heart, Emotional

  Emily Giffin (2008). “Love the One You're With”, p.75, Macmillan

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• But everyone's an expert with the virtue of hindsight . . . .

  Kate Morton

  Virtue, Hindsight

  Kate Morton (2011). “The Distant Hours: A Novel”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

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• but all I could think was in New York that kid would have been stuck in a straitjacket practically from birth and dangled over a tank full of Educational Consultants and Remedial Experts all snapping at his ankles for the next twenty years arguing about his Special Needs and getting paid plenty for it.

  Meg Rosoff

  New York, Educational, Kids

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• I may not look like much, but I'm an expert at pretending to be a ninja.

  Darynda Jones

  Looks, May, Ninja

  Darynda Jones (2015). “The Charley Davidson Series”, p.306, St. Martin's Press

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• All right, Watson. Don’t look so scared,” he muttered in a very weak voice. “It’s not as bad as it seems.” “Thank God for that!” “I’m a bit of a single-stick expert, as you know. I took most of them on my guard. It was the second man that was too much for me.” “What can I do, Holmes? Of course, it was that damned fellow who set them on. I’ll go and thrash the hide off him if you give the word.” “Good old Watson!(...)

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Men, Voice, Giving

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2014). “Sherlock Holmes Complete Collection With illustrated Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - 4 Novels, 56 Short Stories and 120+ illustrations”, p.1483, Ageless Reads

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• It is curious that people tend to regard government as a quasi-divine, selfless, Santa Claus organization. Government was constructed neither for ability nor for the exercise of loving care; government was built for the use of force and for necessarily demagogic appeals for votes. If individuals do not know their own interests in many cases, they are free to turn to private experts for guidance. It is absurd to say that they will be served better by a coercive, demagogic apparatus.

  Murray Rothbard

  Exercise, Organization, Government

  Murray N. Rothbard (2004). “Man, Economy, and State with Power and Market, Scholar's Edition”, p.1302, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• Then she told herself to stop her nonsense. If you looked for things to make you feel hurt and wretched and unnecessary, you were certain to find them, more easily each time, so easily, soon, that you did not even realize you had gone out searching. Women alone often developed into experts at the practice. She must never join their dismal league.

  Dorothy Parker

  Hurt, Practice, League

  Dorothy Parker (2002). “Complete Stories”, p.264, Penguin

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• pain is inevitable,suffering is optional... we have bigger houses,but smaller families. More conveniences,but less time. We have knowledge,but less judgements; more experts,but more problems ; more medicines but less health.

  Dalai Lama

  Pain, Medicine, House

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• Did you get checked out?” “Yeah, by a hot blond who sat in the corner of the bar and made googly eyes at me.” “I meant by a doctor.” “No, but a balding yet bizarrely hot paramedic said I’d be fine." “Oh, and he’s an expert?” “At flirting.

  Darynda Jones

  Eye, Flirting, Doctors

  Darynda Jones (2015). “The Charley Davidson Series”, p.54, St. Martin's Press

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• Sorry, Sage. Last I checked, you aren’t an expert in social matters..." "At least I take action. You? You let the world go by without you. You have no spine. You don’t fight back." “You don’t know the first thing about me, Adrian Ivashkov. I fight back plenty.

  Richelle Mead

  Sorry, Fighting, Firsts

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• I am a hunter of beauty and I move slow and I keep the eyes wide, every fiber of every muscle sensing all wonder and this is the thrill of the hunt and I could be an expert on the life full, the beauty meat that lurks in every moment. I hunger to taste life. God.

  Ann Voskamp

  Moving, Eye, Meat

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• Give a girl a boyfriend and she becomes a total expert on relationships

  Cecily von Ziegesar

  Boyfriend, Girl, Cute Relationship

  Cecily von Ziegesar (2008). “Gossip Girl 2: You Know You Love Me”, p.166, A&C Black

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• I remember," she said. "Lawrence Malley. He was an expert in security systems." "Aka Lightfinger Larry." Dan grinned. "He was also wanted in five states." "Great," Amy groaned. "I sent you to a tutorial with a crook." "It got us in here, didn't it?" "I guess I'm grateful to him, then," Amy said doubtfully. "Don't be," Dan said. "The first lock I opened was on your diary. Don't worry, I read two pages and fell asleep.

  Judy Blundell

  Grateful, Two, Security Systems

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• The Truth is in the prolouge. Death to the romantic fool., the expert in solitary confinement.

  Pablo Neruda

  Fool, Truth Is, Solitary

  Pablo Neruda, “Still Another Day: XVII/Men”

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• our unconscious reactions come out of a locked room, and we can't look inside that room. but with experience we become expert at using our behavior and our training to interpret - and decode - what lies behind our snap judgment and first impressions.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Lying, Training, First Impression

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• According to all the experts, it's time for me to talk about what I'm going through... I can't. I'd need a new alphabet, one made of falling, of tectonic plates shifting, of the deep devouring dark.

  Jandy Nelson

  Fall, Dark, Needs

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• The Orient and Islam have a kind of extrareal, phenomenologically reduced status that puts them out of reach of everyone except the Western expert. From the beginning of Western speculation about the Orient, the one thing th orient could not do was to represent itself. Evidence of the Orient was credible only after it had passed through and been made firm by the refining fire of the Orientalist’s work.

  Edward Said

  Fire, Islam, Kind

  Edward W. Said (2014). “Orientalism”, p.283, Vintage

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