Bother Quotes - Page 10

• Here and there and not just in books we catch glimpses of a world of once upon a time and they lived happily ever after, of a world where there is a wizard to give courage and a heart, an angel with a white stone that has written on it our true and secret name, and it is so easy to dismiss it all that it is hardly worth bothering to do. ... But if the world of the fairy tale and our glimpses of it here and there are only a dream, they are one of the most haunting and powerful dreams that the world has ever dreamed.

  Frederick Buechner

  Dream, Powerful, Book

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• But in my heart I knew the old Bryce was toast. There was no going back. Not to Garrett or Shelly or Miranda or any of the other people who wouldn't understand. Juli was different, but after all these years that didn't bother me anymore. I liked it. I liked her.

  Wendelin Van Draanen

  Heart, Years, People

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• I am a book also, words and thoughts and stories held together by flesh. We open and close ourselves to the world. We are read by others or put away by them. We wait to be seen, sitting quietly on shelves for someone to bother having a look inside us.

  Ari Berk

  Book, Waiting, Together

  Ari Berk (2012). “Death Watch”, p.88, Simon and Schuster

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• As I look around on Sunday morning at the people populating the pews, I see the risk that God has assumed. For whatever reason, God now reveals himself in the world not through a pillar of smoke and fire, not even through the physical body of his Son in Galilee, but through the mongrel collection that comprises my local church and every other such gathering in God’s name. (p. 68, Church: Why Bother?)

  Philip Yancey

  Faith, Morning, Sunday

  FaceBook post by Philip Yancey from Jan 18, 2016

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• I don't know if there is actually more rain here in England, or if it was just that the rain seemed to be so deliberately annoying. Every drop hit the window with a peevish "Am I bothering you? Does this make you cold and wet? Oh, sorry.

  Maureen Johnson

  Sorry, Rain, Bothering You

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• Why bother inflicting enormous pain on yourself when sooner or later Life would certainly get around to doing it for you?

  Jeff Lindsay

  Pain, Enormous, Sooner Or Later

  Jeff Lindsay (2009). “Dexter by Design”, p.17, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• Gays, lesbians, straights, feminists, fascist pigs, communists, Hare Krishnas - none of them bother me. I don't care what banner they raise. But what I can't stand are hollow people. When I'm with them I just can't bare it, and wind up saying things I shouldn't.

  Haruki Murakami

  Gay, Pigs, Wind

  "Kafka on the Shore". Book by Haruki Murakami , Chapter 19: Oshima, 2002.

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• Charley: If you‘re not going to tell me where you are, if you‘re not going to trust me to help you, then why are you here? Why bother? Reyes: Because you‘re the reason I breathe.

  Darynda Jones

  Helping, Trust Me, Breathe

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• I can hear him weeping but I don't care. They probably won't even bother to question her, she's so far gone. Gone right off the deep end years ago in her Games. There's a good chance I'm headed in the same direction. Maybe I'm already going crazy and no one has the heart to tell me. I feel crazy enough.

  Suzanne Collins

  Crazy, Heart, Years

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.388, Scholastic Inc.

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• Here’s what I think. One, people should figure out that if they go around bothering bears, chances are they’re going to end up bear snacks. Second, people suck.

  Michael Thomas Ford

  Thinking, Snacks, People

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• YOU CHEATING SCUM!” Lee Jordan was howling into the megaphone, dancing out of Professor McGonagall’s reach. “YOU FILTHY, CHEATING B —” Professor McGonagall didn’t even bother to tell him off. She was actually shaking her finger in Malfoy’s direction, her hat had fallen off, and she too was shouting furiously.

  J. K. Rowling

  Cheating, Dancing, Scum

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• Hello, Uncle Brother Zachariah," James said without opening his eyes. "I would say that I'm sorry to bother you, but I'm sure this is the most excitement you've had all year. Not so lively in the City of Bones, now is it?" "James!" Will snapped. "Don't talk to Jem like that." "As if I am not used to badly behaved Herondales, Brother Zachariah said, in the way Jem had always tried to make peace between Will and the world.

  Cassandra Clare

  Brother, Uncles, Sorry

  Cassandra Clare, Sarah Rees Brennan (2013). “The Midnight Heir”, p.24, Simon and Schuster

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• Also she had the power of silent sympathy. That sounds rather dull, I know, but it's not so dull as it sounds. It just means that a person is able to know that you are unhappy, and to love you extra on that account, without bothering you by telling you all the time how sorry she is for you.

  E. Nesbit

  Sorry, Love You, Mean

  E. Nesbit (2013). “Delphi Complete Novels of E. Nesbit”, p.1388, Delphi Classics

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• Why is it that every time a girl says a guy is bothering her, it's fluffed off with oh, he just likes you, as if that makes it okay?

  Kelley Armstrong

  Girl, Guy, Likes

  Kelley Armstrong (2014). “The Darkest Powers Trilogy, 3-book bundle: The Summoning, The Awakening, The Reckoning”, p.72, Penguin

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• Did you ever think about all of the nights you lived through and can't remember The ones that were so mundane your brain just didn't bother to record them. Hundreds, maybe thousands of nights come and go without being preserved by our memory. Does that ever freak you out? Like maybe your mind recorded all of the wrong nights?

  Matthew Quick

  Memories, Night, Thinking

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• I respect you more than anyone. But right now I’m wondering what bothers you more, that I made a stupid decision or that I didn’t make your decision.

  Veronica Roth

  Stupid, Decision, Wonder

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• That's my girl," he murmured. "I'm not your girl." "Well," he said not bothering to hide his smile from her sightless eyes, "the good news is that the honey gave you back your sparkling personality." "And the bad news?" "The honey gave you back your sparkling personality.

  Larissa Ione

  Girl, Eye, Personality

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• I can understand people simply fleeing the mountainous effort Christmas has become... but there are always a few saving graces and finally they make up for all the bother and distress.

  May Sarton

  Christmas, People, Effort

  May Sarton (2014). “Journal of a Solitude”, p.47, Open Road Media

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• I waited a long time out in the world before I gave myself permission to fail. Please don't even bother asking. Don't bother telling the world you are ready. Show it. Do it.

  Peter Dinklage

  Inspirational, Graduation, Long

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• What interests us about the past is at least partly a function of what bothers us or makes us curious in the present.

  Adam Garfinkle

  Past, History, Curious

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• Never trust anything you read in a travel article. Travel articles appear in publications that sell large, expensive advertisements to tourism-related industries, and these industries do not wish to see articles with headlines like: URUGUAY: DON'T BOTHER.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Travel, Wish

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry's Greatest Hits”, p.262, Ballantine Books

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• Even though Christmas can be a lot of work, we all know the bustle is worth the bother.

  Lady Bird Johnson

  Christmas, Bustle, Knows

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• I'll tell you this: you cannot escape the impact of emotion, whether it's in a big theater or a tiny one. If you have it, it inflates you — correction, 'inflates' is not a good word. If you have it, it infects you and the audience. If you don't have it — don't bother; just say the lines as truthfully as you are capable of doing. You can't fake emotion. It immediately exposes the fact that you ain't got it.

  Sanford Meisner

  Fake, Theatre, Acting

  "Sanford Meisner on Acting".

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• We who are atheists are also a-fairyists, a-teapotists, and a-unicornists, but we don't have to bother saying so.

  Richard Dawkins

  Atheist, Religion, Atheism

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• As long as I continue to take myself seriously, how can I consider myself a saint? How can I consider myself a contemplative? For the self I bother about does not really exist, never will, never did except in my own imagination.

  Thomas Merton

  Spiritual, Self, Long

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