Packs Quotes - Page 13

• For Adam, screwed-up bonding thing or not, I’d wait forever. “Really?” he asked in a tone I’d never heard from him before. Softer. Vulnerable. Adam didn’t do vulnerable. “Really what?” I asked. “Despite the way our bond scares you, despite the way someone in the pack played you, you’d still have me?” He'd been listening to my thoughts. This time it didn't bother me. “Adam,” I told him, “I’d walk barefoot over hot coals for you.

  Patricia Briggs

  Waiting, Forever, Listening

  Patricia Briggs (2010). “Silver Borne”, p.78, Penguin

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• Neal stood, kicking free of the clinging curtain. "I'll kill you." I drew the firestar and pointed it at him. "I don't think so." "She is pack now," Sylvie said. "You fight one of us, and you fight all of us." Edward raised his eyebrows at me. "What is going on, Anita?" "I think I've been adopted," I said.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Fighting, Thinking, Eyebrows

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2011). “Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter collection 6-10”, p.146, Penguin

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• The vexing thing about human behavior is that when we say we know we should do something, we really and truly do know it. It's hard to be 50 lbs. overweight or smoke a pack a day or feel miserable every moment you spend at work and not understand in a deep and primal way that change is in order - and that in some cases it could even save your life.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Order, Way, Miserable

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• Wolves and women are relational by nature, inquiring, possessed of great endurance and strength. They are deeply intuitive, intensely concerned with their young, their mate and their pack. Yet both have been hounded, harassed and falsely imputed to be devouring and devious, overly aggressive, of less value than those who are their detractors.

  Clarissa Pinkola Estes

  Endurance, Inquiring, Mates

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• I hadn't thought that I was generally a pack rat, but it turns out I am.

  Joan Didion

  Rats, Turns

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• I am not suggesting that all those missionary organizations working in Haiti should pack up and go home, but I am urging them to understand that Haiti does not need clever Americans with newly contrived schemes for saving their country.

  Tony Campolo

  Country, Clever, Home

  "Making Matters Worse in Haiti" by Tony Campolo, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 2, 2010.

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• The success of the Rat Pack or the Clan was due to the camaraderie, the three guys who work together and kid each other and love each other.

  Sammy Davis, Jr.

  Kids, Guy, Working Together

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• Everything in New York seems to merit preserving. If it's not historical, it's personal. If it's not personal, it's cultural. But you can't. You can't save everything. You just have to pack it up in your brain and take it with you when you go.

  Sloane Crosley

  New York, Historical, Brain

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• I'm telling you, until I shaved my head, I never realized how much heat is lost through the top of the head. I walk out in winter and it feels like I have an ice pack on my head. Unbelievable.

  Bryan Cranston

  Winter, Ice, Heat

  Interview with Fred Topel, www.malcolminthemiddle.co.uk. March 23, 2009.

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• I think it's because in America you always get the sense that if you fail, you can just pack up your things and go somewhere else and try again. But in England, it's so geographically small that if somebody succeeds here, it reduces your chances of succeeding.

  John Cleese

  Thinking, Somewhere Else, America

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• I was going to have to come up with a rank for myself besides Alpha's mate. In the pack, I was just Mercy- but if ten more people called me the Alpha's mate, I was going to hit someone. It sounded like a chess move.

  Patricia Briggs

  Moving, People, Chess

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• Coyotes hunt in packs, and so do assholes.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Coyotes, Hunts

  Ellen Hopkins (2014). “Tilt”, p.12, Simon and Schuster

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• Oh, I forgot to mention it: My brother is the kind of man whom women stalk. In cooperative packs.

  Jim Butcher

  Brother, Men, Kind

  Jim Butcher (2012). “Cold Days: The Dresden Files, Book Fourteen”, p.98, Hachette UK

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• When she was like this, the wildness of her barely contained, it was hard to believe she'd come into his pack Silent, her emotions blockaded behind so much ice, it had infuriated his wolf.

  Nalini Singh

  Believe, Ice, Emotion

  Nalini Singh (2011). “Kiss of Snow”, p.14, Penguin

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• I never had one beer. If I bought a six-pack of beer, I kept drinking till all six beers were gone. You have to have that kind of understanding about yourself. I haven't had a drink now in 12 years.

  Samuel L. Jackson

  Drinking, Beer, Years

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• Some of the stage outfits I've got are ridiculous. I'll lay out clothes to pack, and it'll look like Polly Pocket clothing - because it's all stretchy, it's tiny. I don't need a case when I tour; I can fit it all in my handbag.

  Jessie J

  Clothes, Pockets, Needs

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

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• Which is better -- to be a pack of painted Indians like you are, or to be sensible like Ralph is? Which is better -- to have rules and agree, or to hunt and kill? Which is better, law and rescue, or hunting and breaking things up?

  William Golding

  Hunting, Law, Like You

  William Golding (2016). “Lord of the Flies”, p.131, Hamilton Books

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• In the past, there's always been one leader that has led the pack to development of the music.

  Herbie Hancock

  Past, Leader, Development

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• I can look back at different times in my life when I felt I could not find my way out of whatever it was. I'm not necessarily talking about marriage, but I wanted to pack it in. I wanted to disappear. A lot of that has to do with being in the public eye.

  Amy Grant

  Eye, Talking, Different

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• You may be leading, then you might be at the back of the pack trying to work your way up. It's just a constant reminder not to give up, and to know that God, in my mind, is really in control.

  Jeff Gordon

  Giving Up, Mind, Trying

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• How did people get over this? They obviously did. Every day someone fell in love with the wrong person and had to pack up all their fragile, misguided hopes and unwanted affection, and move on to the next picnic table.

  Josh Lanyon

  Moving, People, Tables

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• Their leaving made me melancholy, though I also felt something like relief when they disappeared into the dark trees. I hadn't needed to get anything from my pack; I'd only wanted to be alone. Alone had always felt like an actual place to me, as if it weren't a state of being, but rather a room where I could retreat to be who I really was.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Dark, Tree, Leaving

  Cheryl Strayed (2012). “Wild: A Journey from Lost to Found”, p.107, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• I'm a selective pack rat. There's some things I have no problem getting rid of and others I hold onto dearly.

  Will Ferrell

  Rats, Problem, Selective

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• There are big bad wolves all over the world who tremble at the sound of his name, yet a little puny coyote girl peanut-buttered the seat of Bran Cornick’s car because he told her that she should wear a dress to perform for the pack.

  Patricia Briggs

  Girl, Names, Car

  Patricia Briggs (2013). “Frost Burned: Mercy Thompson”, p.110, Hachette UK

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• Madness is the WHO staring into the abyss and denying it is there. Madness is an ostrich who sticks her head in the sand while a pack of hyenas closes around her. - Lanky Man with green eyes

  Dan Brown

  Eye, Men, Ostriches

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