Involved Quotes - Page 28

• When we first met, I didn't want to get involved with anyone. I didn't have the time or energy, and I wasn't sure that I was ready for it. But you were so good to me, and I got swept up in that. And little by little, I found myself falling in love with you.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Love, Romantic, Time

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• You know anything about investigative work?" "Sure. Annoy the people involved until the guilt party tries to make you go away.

  Ilona Andrews

  Party, People, Guilt

  Ilona Andrews (2012). “Magic Bites: A Special Edition of the First Kate Daniels Novel”, p.18, Penguin

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• I never meant to get involved with you, Adrien. Rest easy; you're not.

  Josh Lanyon

  Easy, Rest Easy, Get Involved

  Josh Lanyon (2002). “A Dangerous Thing”, Millivres Books

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• Felix believed that the answer to every problem involved penguins; but it wasn't fair to birds, and I was getting tired of teleporting them back home. Somewhere in Antarctica, a whole flock of Magellanic penguins were undergoing psychotherapy.

  Rick Riordan

  Tired, Home, Bird

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• Remorse has no place in a warrior's mind... A war is like a game of chess, Nicholaa. Every battle is like a well-thought-out move on the board. Once it begins, there shouldn't be any emotion involved whatsoever.

  Julie Garwood

  War, Moving, Games

  Julie Garwood (1991). “The Prize”, p.46, Simon and Schuster

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• If no one had ever challenged religious authority, there’d be no democracy, no public schools, women’s rights, improvements to science and medicine, evolution of slavery and no laws against child abuse or spousal abuse. I was afraid to challenge my religious beliefs because that was the basis of creation—mine anyway. I was afraid to question the Bible or anything in it, and when I did, that’s when I became involved with PFLAG and realized that my son was a perfectly normal human being and there was nothing for God to heal because Bobby was perfect just the way he was.

  Mary Griffith

  Religious, Children, School

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• It is by being fully involved with every detail of our lives, whether good or bad, that we find happiness, not by trying to look for it directly.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Trying, Details, Looks

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (2009). “Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience”, p.11, Harper Collins

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• The god entered some women so completely that they became immortal, or very close to it. Bacchus was the god of the grape, of course, so bars are very interesting to maenads. In fact, so interesting that they don't like other creatures of darkness becoming involved. Maenads consider that the violence sparked by the consumption of alcohol belongs to them; that's what they feed off, now that no one formally worships their god. And they are attracted to pride.

  Charlaine Harris

  Pride, Interesting, Alcohol

  Charlaine Harris (2011). “True Blood Omnibus: Dead Until Dark, Living Dead in Dallas, Club Dead”, p.248, Hachette UK

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• There was a definite process by which one made people into friends, and it involved talking to them and listening to them for hours at a time.

  Rebecca West

  Women, Talking, People

  Rebecca West (2010). “The Thinking Reed”, p.91, Open Road Media

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• To be interested in something is to be involved in what is essentially a stressful relationship with that thing, to suffer anxiety on its behalf.

  Geoff Dyer

  Anxiety, Suffering, Stressful

  Geoff Dyer (2014). “Out of Sheer Rage: Wrestling with D. H. Lawrence”, p.205, North Point Press

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• that was the plan? part of it, you don't wan tot know the rest. i believe the word 'these dog colllars would make excellent restraints' were involved. it was a brilliant idea. and we only got really cute well-made collars. this is my favorite. we had the tag engraved to say BUBBA.

  Michele Jaffe

  Cute, Dog, Believe

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• When you do nothing you feel overwhelmed and powerless. But when you get involved you feel the sense of hope and accomplishment that comes from knowing you are working to make things better.

  Maya Angelou

  Hope, Honesty, Integrity

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• Later on Lady Maccon was to describe that particular day as the worst of her life. She had neither the soul nor the romanticism to consider childbirth magical or emotionally transporting. So far as she could gather it mostly involved pain indignity and mess. There was nothing engaging or appealing about the process. And as she told her husband firmly she intended never to go through it again.

  Gail Carriger

  Pain, Husband, Soul

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• This is a story about a family and, as there is a ghost involved, you might cal it a ghost story. But every family is a ghost story. The dead sit at out tables long after they have gone.

  Mitch Albom

  Ghost Stories, Long, Gone

  "For One More Day". Book by Mitch Albom, September 26, 2006.

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• …There are times when something is asked of us, and we find we must do it. There is no calculation involved, no measure of the necessity of the thing itself, the action that must be performed. There is simply an acknowledgment that we will do the thing in question, and then the thing is done, often at considerable personal cost. " "What goes into these decisions? What tiny factors, invisible, in the jutting edges of personality and circumstance, contribute to this inevitability?

  Jesse Ball

  Personality, Decision, Cost

  Jesse Ball (2011). “The Curfew”, p.38, Vintage

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• Ginny, listen... I can’t be involved with you anymore. We’ve got to stop seeing each other. We can’t be together.” “It’s for some stupid, noble reason, isn’t it?

  J. K. Rowling

  Stupid, Together, Noble

  "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Book 6)". Book by J. K. Rowling, July 16, 2005.

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• By the time she had interpreted Harry's dreams at the top of her voice (all of which, even the ones that involved eating porridge, apparently foretold a gruesome and early death), he was feeling much less sympathetic toward her.

  J. K. Rowling

  Dream, Voice, Feelings

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• Accept what you are able to do and what you are not able to do. Accept the past as past, without denying it or discarding it. Learn to forgive yourself and to forgive others. Don't assume that it's too late to get involved.

  Mitch Albom

  Past, Forgiving, Too Late

  Mitch Albom (2007). “Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson”, p.18, Broadway Books

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• Capitalists' wet dreams is to be involved in charity.

  Steig Larsson

  Dream, Charity, Capitalist

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• I feel like I am involved in an obscure and complex version of poker in a pitch-dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a dealer who won't tell me the rules, and who smiles all the time.

  Neil Gaiman

  Dark, Dice, Cards

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• There are always two people involved in cruelty, aren't there? One to be vicious and someone to suffer! And what's the use of getting rid of - of wickedness, say - in the outside world if you let it creep back into things from inside you?

  Margaret Mahy

  Two, People, Suffering

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• does you costume involve leather?" she'd asked. and he'd said, "Actually, yeah, it might." it really did. it involved a leather dog collar, leather pants and a leash, and the leash was held by Ysandre, who was in skintight red rubber, from neck to knee high boots. she'd topped it off with a pair of devil horns and a red tridant. she'd made Shane her dog, complete with furry dog mask. ***"Breathe," Myrnin said. "I'm not much for it myself, but i hear it's quite good for humans."***

  Rachel Caine

  Dog, Leather Pants, Devil

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• I don't know if you have noticed this, but it is quite possible for two human beings to have a conversation in which one or both parties involved has absolutely no idea what they're talking about.

  Jeff Lindsay

  Party, Talking, Ideas

  Jeff Lindsay (2009). “Dexter by Design”, p.120, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• You're...a demon hunter?' 'It's not as exciting as it sounds,' he said. 'There is a surprising amount of paperwork involved.

  Maureen Johnson

  Sound, Hunters, Demon

  Maureen Johnson (2006). “Devilish”

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• the answer to every problem involved penguins

  Rick Riordan

  Answers, Penguins, Problem

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