Favourite Quotes - Page 19

• The past can't hurt you anymore. Not unless you let it. They made you into a victim, Evey. They made you into a statistic. But, that's not the real you. That's not who you are inside.

  Alan Moore

  Hurt, Real, Past

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• Mistrust the man who finds everything good, the man who finds everything evil and still more the man who is indifferent to everything.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Inspirational, Men, Evil

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• Marianne Dashwood was born to an extraordinary fate. She was born to discover the falsehood of her own opinions, and to counteract, by her conduct, her most favourite maxims.

  Jane Austen

  Fate, Opinion, Born

  Jane Austen (2007). “The Complete Novels of Jane Austen”, p.230, Wordsworth Editions

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• What do you want?" Jace shrugged. "Clothes mostly, some weapons." Sebastion shook his head. "Too dangerous. We need to get in and out fast. Only emergency items." "My favourite jacket is an emergency item," Jace said. It was so much like hearing him talk to Alec, to any of his friends. "Much like myself, it is both snuggly and fashionable.

  Cassandra Clare

  Clothes, Needs, Want

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• Don't make me flip you off" "Why would I deprive you of a favourite hobby?" "Because my finger's getting sore.

  J.R. Ward

  Hobbies, Flip, Fingers

  J.R. Ward (2007). “Lover Unbound: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood”, p.36, Penguin

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• Sunday, January 27, 1884. -- There was another story in the paper a week or so since. A gentleman had a favourite cat whom he taught to sit at the dinner table where it behaved very well. He was in the habit of putting any scraps he left onto the cat's plate. One day puss did not take his place punctually, but presently appeared with two mice, one of which it placed on its master's plate, the other on its own.

  Beatrix Potter

  Cat, Sunday, Two

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• Yes, The Persuaders, that was great fun because one of my favourite actors is Roger Moore.

  Val Guest

  Fun, Actors, Roger

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• My definition of an expert in any field is a person who knows enough about what's really going on to be scared.

  P. J. Plauger

  Experts, Definitions, Fields

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• Don't ever wrestle with a pig. You'll both get dirty, but the pig will enjoy it.

  Cale Yarborough

  Dirty, Intelligent, Pigs

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• The coward dies a thousand deaths — the brave man only 500.

  Meredith Willson

  Men, Brave, Coward

  "Libretto for Meredith Wilson's the music man: book, music and lyrics".

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• My first meeting with you only confirmed what I first suspected. You are a fraud, a charlatan and a shyster. My favourite kind of person, in fact.

  Stephen Fry

  Firsts, Facts, Kind

  Stephen Fry (2003). “The Liar”, p.35, Soho Press

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• Never laugh at live dragons, Bilbo you fool!" he said to himself, and it became a favourite saying of his later, and passed into a proverb. "You aren't nearly through this adventure yet," he added, and that was pretty true as well.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Adventure, Dragons, Laughing

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.121, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I turned the pages so fast. And I suppose I was, in my mindless way, looking for a something, version of myself, a heroine I could slip inside as one might a pair of favourite shoes.

  Ian Mcewan

  Shoes, Might, Pages

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• Any action a woman engages in from a spirit of joy, and within a similarly safe and joyous environment, falls within the city-walls of feminism. A girl has a right to dance how she wants, when her favourite record comes on.

  Caitlin Moran

  Girl, Wall, Fall

  Caitlin Moran (2011). “How To Be a Woman”, p.174, Random House

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• Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it.

  Cullen Hightower

  Funny, Mistake, Laughing

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• It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.

  Jackie Mason

  Retirement, Health, Age

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If you want truly to understand something, try to change it.

  Kurt Lewin

  Change, Business, Understanding

  Attributed in "Problems of Theoretical Psychology - ISTP 1995" by Charles W. Tolman, (p. 31), 1996.

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• There are people who, instead of listening to what is being said to them, are already listening to what they are going to say themselves.

  Albert Guinon

  Relationship, People, Listening

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• Jamie glanced at her notes. "So let's be honest, Jacks, can we? What is the best part of being an Angel? Is it the lifestyle? Is it the parties? The fame? What's your favourite part?" "Just having this chance," he said after considering. "And what chance is that?" Jamie asked. Jacks's blue eyes twinkled. "The chance to be a hero.

  Scott Speer

  Party, Hero, Eye

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• You are everything that's ever been my favourite thing," she wanted to tell him. "You're my love song, my birthday cake, the sound of ocean waves and French words and a baby's laugh. You're a snow angel, crème brulée, a kaleidoscope filled with glitter. I love you and you'll never catch up, because I've gotten a head start and my heart is racing at light speed.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Song, Baby, Ocean

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• Understanding is simple. Knowing is complicated.

  Robert Fripp

  Simple, Knowing, Understanding

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• Invention is the mother of necessity.

  Thorstein Veblen

  Mother, Invention

  Thorstein Veblen (1994). “Absentee Ownership: Business Enterprise in Recent Times : the Case of America”, p.63, Transaction Publishers

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• Fred didn't have a favourite colour. He was just pleased that he could see all of the colours in the colour chart. That was his wish for everyone. Fred wanted people to experience the joy of seeing vivid colours - in nature: the greens and browns of the mountains; in their work: the orange, red and black of the back of the retina; and in life.

  Gabi Hollows

  Motivation, Orange, People

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• I go back to the reading room, where I sink down in the sofa and into the world of The Arabian Nights. Slowly, like a movie fadeout, the real world evaporates. I'm alone, inside the world of the story. My favourite feeling in the world.

  Haruki Murakami

  Real, Reading, Night

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “Kafka On The Shore”, p.61, Random House

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• Who are your favourite heroines in real life? The women of Afghanistan, Iraq, and Iran who risk their lives and their beauty to defy the foulness of theocracy. Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Azar Nafisi as their ideal feminine model.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Real, Iran, Iraq

  "Hitch-22: A Memoir". Book by Christopher Hitchens, 2010.

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