I Hate Quotes - Page 9

• I see people, as they approach me, trying to make up their minds whether they'll 'say something about it' or not. I hate if they do, and if they don't.

  C. S. Lewis

  Hate, People, Mind

  C.S. Lewis (2012). “A Grief Observed”, p.8, Faber & Faber

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• I hate all those flirty-birty games that women make up. Life's too short. If you ever find a man you love, don't waste time hanging your head and simpering. Go right up to him and say, 'I love you. How about getting married?

  Betty Smith

  Flirty, Hate, Love You

  BETTY SMITH (1947). “A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN MAGGIE NOW”

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• Not proud you have, but thankful that you have. Proud can I never be of what I hate, but thankful even for hate that is meant love.

  William Shakespeare

  Hate, Proud, Juliet

  William Shakespeare (2000). “Romeo and Juliet”, p.205, Classic Books Company

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• One's character is set at an early age. The choices you make now will affect you for the rest of your life. I hate to see you swim out so far you can't swim back.

  Wendelin Van Draanen

  Hate, Character, Choices

  Wendelin Van Draanen (2008). “Flipped”, p.85, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• When Jo's conservative sister Meg says she must turn up her hair now that she is a "young lady," Jo shouts, "I'm not! and if turning up my hair makes me one, I'll wear it in two tails till I'm twenty.... I hate to think I've got to grow up, and be Miss March, and wear long gowns, and look as prim as a China aster! It's bad enough to be a girl anyway, when I like boys' games and work and manners! I can't get over my disappointment in not being a boy; and it's worse than ever now, for I'm dying to go and fight with Papa, and I can only stay at home and knit, like a poky old woman.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Girl, Disappointment, Growing Up

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• It is my first morning of high school. I have seven new notebooks, a skirt I hate, and a stomachache.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Notebook, Morning, Hate

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2011). “Speak”, p.3, Macmillan

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• Shigure: JUST LISTEN TO ME FOR A SECOND, KYO! Kyo: SHUT UP! I HATE THIS! DO YOU REALLY GET THAT MUCH ENJOYMENT FROM PLAYING WITH PEOPLES' LIVES?! Shigure: Well, yes, now that you mention it, I do--BUT THIS IS FOR YOUR OWN GOOD! Kyo: Man, your persuasion skills SUCK! Tohru: Um, welcome home. Dinner's- Kyo: NOT HUNGRY! Shigure: KYO! DON'T TAKE THIS OUT ON TOHRU! And come back to the entrance hall this instant and take those shoes off! Yuki: He's right, Shigure. You really do suck at persuasion.

  Natsuki Takaya

  Hate, Home, Men

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• Gordie, the white boy genius, gave me this book by a Russian dude named Tolstoy, who wrote, 'Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.' Well, I hate to argue with a Russian genius, but Tolstoy didn't know Indians, and he didn't know that all Indian families are unhappy for the same exact reasons: the frikkin' booze.

  Sherman Alexie

  Hate, Book, Boys

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

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• I hate solitude but I am afraid of intimacy. The substance of my life is a private conversation with myself and to turn it into a dialogue would be equivalent to self-destruction. The company I need is the company which a pub or a cafe will provide. I have never wanted a communion of souls.

  Iris Murdoch

  Hate, Self, Soul

  "Under the Net".

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• This topic brings me to that worst outcrop of herd life, the military system, which I abhor... This plague-spot of civilization ought to be abolished with all possible speed. Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -- how passionately I hate them!

  Albert Einstein

  Hate, Military, Civilization

  Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.10, Broadway Books

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• I hate you." I love you." You're a freak, you know that? Everyone says so. They always have." I'm trying not to be.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Hate, Love You, Trying

  "The Perks of Being a Wallflower". Book by Stephen Chbosky, p.26, 1999.

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• Mythologically speaking, if there's anything I hate worse than trios of old ladies, it's bulls. Last summer, I fought the Minotaur on top of Half-Blood Hill. This time what I saw up there was even worse: two bulls. And not just regular bulls - bronze ones the size of elephants. And even that wasn't bad enough. Naturally they had to breathe fire, too.

  Rick Riordan

  Summer, Hate, Fire

  Rick Riordan (2008). “Percy Jackson and the Sea of Monsters”, p.34, Penguin UK

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• I took the T from Logan airport to Harvard Square. I hate driving in Boston. It's the traffic that drives me spare, and the absolutely terrible manners of the motorists. Other New Englanders refer to Massachusetts drivers as "Massholes.

  Geraldine Brooks

  Hate, Airports, Squares

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• You know what I figured out?" I hate this part." Dr. Martin leaned back in his chair. "It means I'm about to lose income or I'm about to learn what a crappy shrink I am." (276)

  Gail Giles

  Hate, Mean, Drs

  Gail Giles (2008). “Right Behind You”, p.113, Hachette UK

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• Well, I hate to admit it, but it is possible that there is (one) such a thing as telepathy and (two) that the CETI project's idea that we might communicate with extraterrestrial beings via telepathy is possibly a reasonable idea--if telepathy exists and if ETIs exist. Otherwise we are trying to communicate with someone who doesn't exist with a system which doesn't work.

  Philip K. Dick

  Hate, Ideas, Two

  "The Dark Haired Girl". Book by Philip K. Dick, 1989.

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• I hate how my past actions keep messing up my future options, Seth muttered. Then you've started down the road to wisdom, Grandpa replied.

  Brandon Mull

  Hate, Past, Grandpa

  Brandon Mull, Brandon Dorman (2010). “Secrets of the Dragon Sanctuary”, p.193, Simon and Schuster

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• O sun, to tell thee how I hate thy beams That bring to my remembrance from what state I fell, how glorious once above thy sphere.

  John Milton

  Hate, Remembrance, Sun

  John Milton, David Scott Kastan “Paradise Lost (Kastan Edition)”, Hackett Publishing

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• I am doing something I hate for you. This is what it means to be in love.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Hate, Mean

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Everything Is Illuminated”, p.27, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I hate those endless descriptions of a heroine's physical attributes . . . it really bothers me how in books it seems like the only two choices are perfection or self-hatred. As if readers will only like a character who's ideal--or completely shattered.

  E. Lockhart

  Hate, Book, Character

  E. Lockhart (2016). “Ruby Oliver 1: The Boyfriend List”, p.19, Bonnier Publishing Fiction Ltd.

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• Sometimes I hate you, sometimes I hate myself, but always I miss you

  David Henry Hwang

  Hate, Missing, Sometimes

  David Henry Hwang (1988). “M. Butterfly”, p.30, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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• Dear Complete and Utter Stranger, The first thing that I have to say is that I hate oatmeal. I really hate it. And you know what? If you like oatmeal at all? I mean even the tiniest bit? I mean, say you were lost in the Himalayas, right, and you hadn't eaten anything except a Mars Bar for about seven years, right, and you're really cold and your fingers are all dropping off, right, and you look behind this rock, and there's this bowl of oatmeal? Say you would even think about eating the oatmeal? Well, JUST DON'T BOTHER WRITING TO ME, OKAY?

  Jaclyn Moriarty

  Hate, Mean, Writing

  Jaclyn Moriarty (2014). “Feeling Sorry for Celia: A Novel”, p.10, St. Martin's Press

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• You know what I hate? The outdoors. I mean, generally. I don't like outside. I'm an inside person. I'm all about refrigeration and indoor plumbing and Judge Judy.

  John Green

  Hate, Mean, Judging

  John Green (2008). “An Abundance of Katherines”, p.158, Penguin

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• Jason settled back on the bench. 'I hate to break this to you, but as a rule, wizards are nasty people. They're powerful, capricious, ruthless, egotistical, used to getting their own way. That's being kind.

  Cinda Williams Chima

  Powerful, Hate, People

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• That mirror, that's one I hate to let go, he said. That was my daughter's the whole time she was growing up. It probably seen her more than me--everything from a baby up to twenty years old. Sometimes I wonder if all that might still be inside it. Got to make an impression on a thing, reflecting the same person every day.

  David Wroblewski

  Letting Go, Daughter, Baby

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• I love America and I hate it. I'm torn between the two. I have two conflicting visions of America. One is a kind of dream landscape and the other is a kind of black comedy.

  Bono

  Dream, Hate, Two

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