Involved Quotes - Page 29

• It’s amazing that people don’t understand that the more the market is involved and the smaller the government, the lower the price, the better the distribution, and the higher the quality.

  Ron Paul

  Government, People, Quality

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• In making friends, she was wary of people who foster dependency and feed on it. She had been involved with a few--the blind attract them, and they are the enemy.

  Thomas Harris

  People, Enemy, Making Friends

  Thomas Harris (2009). “Red Dragon”, p.301, Penguin

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• I tell you, commander, it's true that some of the most terrible things in the world are done by people who think, genuinely think, that they're doing it for the best, especially if there is some god involved.

  Terry Pratchett

  Thinking, People, Done

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• When one watches some tired hack on the platform mechanically repeating the familiar phrases - bestial atrocities, iron heel, blood-stained tyranny, free peoples of the world, stand shoulder to shoulder - one often has a curious feeling that one is not watching a live human being but some kind of dummy, the appropriate noises are coming out of his larynx, but his brain is not involved

  George Orwell

  Tired, Blood, Iron

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• We’re so wrapped up with egotistical things, career, family, having enough money, meeting the mortgage, getting a new car, fixing the radiator when it breaks—we’re involved in trillions of little acts just to keep going. So we don’t get into the habit of standing back and looking at our lives and saying, Is this all? Is this all I want? Is something missing?

  Mitch Albom

  Careers, Missing, Want

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• Any attempts at autobiography before the age of eighty seem pretty self-involved to me. There are a lot of smart middle aged people but not many wise ones.

  Jimmy Buffett

  Wise, Smart, Self

  "A Pirate Looks at Fifty". Book by Jimmy Buffett, www.cnn.com. 1998.

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• It is significant that, as innocent babies are killed, and capital punishment is withheld from their murderers, the same men who plead for the murderer's life also demand the “right” to abortion. Usually, the same picketers that carry a sign one day, “Abolish Capital Punishment,” also carry “Legalize Abortion” another day. When this is called to their attention, their answer is, “There is no contradiction involved.” They are right: the thesis is “condemn the innocent and free the guilty.

  R.J. Rushdoony

  Baby, Men, Abortion

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• That's possible to likely. We're involved, you and me. I'm telling you what I'm going to do because I figure when people are involved, when they matter, they tell each other.

  Nora Roberts

  People, Matter, Figures

  Nora Roberts (2011). “The Next Always”, p.195, Penguin

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• All of my most significant moments somehow involved music. It's like my life was a John Hughes film and somebody had to put together the perfect soundtrack.

  Caprice Crane

  Perfect, Together, Film

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• There was no warning before the outbreaks began. One day, things were normal; the next, people who were supposedly dead were getting up and attacking anything that came into range. This was upsetting for everyone involved, except for the infected, who were past being upset about that sort of thing.

  Mira Grant

  Past, People, Upset

  Mira Grant (2012). “Countdown: A Newsflesh Novella”, p.91, Hachette UK

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• Elend: I kind of lost track of time… Breeze: For two hours? Elend: There were books involved.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Book, Two, Track

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• I know what kind of man it takes to get involved with something as barbarous as human trafficking.” “I get it, Swopes. He’s not the kind of man you take home to meet your stepmom.” I rethought that. “Wait a minute. Maybe my stepmom would like to meet him. Do you think he ships to Istanbul?

  Darynda Jones

  Home, Men, Thinking

  Darynda Jones (2015). “The Charley Davidson Series”, p.262, St. Martin's Press

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• I could tell you a tale about something,' Miach offered, rubbing her hand absently. 'If you like.' She frowned thoughtfully. 'What sort of something?' 'Something that would soothe you,' he promised. 'I'm sure there would be swords involved. Bloodshed. Peril. That kind of thing.

  Lynn Kurland

  Hands, Would Be, Kind

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• I wanted to tell her that if only something were wrong with my body it would be fine, I would rather have anything wrong with my body than something wrong with my head, but the idea seemed so involved and wearisome that I didn’t say anything. I only burrowed down further in the bed.

  Sylvia Plath

  Ideas, Say Anything, Bed

  Sylvia Plath (2016). “The Bell Jar”, p.93, Hamilton Books

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• If you have ever, sir, been through a breakup of a romantic relationship that involved great love, you will perhaps understand what I experienced. There is in such situations usually a moment of passion during which the unthinkable is said; this is followed by a sense of euphoria at finally being liberated; the world seems fresh as if seen for the first time then comes the inevitable period of doubt, the desperate and doomed backpedaling of regret; and only later, once emotions have receded, is one able to view with equanimity the journey through which one has passed.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Breakup, Regret, Love You

  Mohsin Hamid (2007). “The Reluctant Fundamentalist”, p.158, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• And I could see his internal struggle become an all out war. "It wouldn't have made a difference. Not with Adrian involved," he said..... "I meant it. I won't be that guy Rose. I won't be that man that takes someone else's girlfriend.

  Richelle Mead

  Girlfriend, War, Struggle

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• I'm not going to get involved in a debate with you. Just remember this: the gods give, and the gods take away. Even if you are not aware of having been granted what you posses, the gods remember what they gave you. They don't forget a thing. You should use the abilities you have been granted with the utmost care.

  Haruki Murakami

  Giving, Use, Care

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “1Q84: Books 1 and 2”, p.468, Random House

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• Most of our platitudes notwithstanding, self-deception remains the most difficult deception. The tricks that work on others count for nothing in that very well-lit back alley where one keeps assignation with oneself: no winning smiles will do here, no prettily drawn lists of good intentions. One shuffles flashily but in vain through one's marked cards- the kindness done for the wrong reason, the apparent triumph which involved no real effort, the seemingly heroic act into which one had been shamed.

  Joan Didion

  Kindness, Real, Winning

  Joan Didion (1968). “Slouching towards Bethlehem”

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• You sound worked up. Really worked up. No, that's not it. You sound agitated...flustered...aroused." I could feel her eyes widen. "He kissed you, didn't he?" No answer. "He did! I knew it! I've seen the way he looks at you. I knew this was coming. I saw it from a mile away." I didn't want to think about it. "What was it like?" Vee pressed. "A peach kiss? A plum kiss? Or an al-fal-fa kiss?" "What?" "Was it a peck, did mouths part, or was there tongue? Never mind. You don't have to answer that. Patch isn't the kind of guy to deal with preliminaries. There was tongue involved. Guaranteed.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Eye, Kissing, Thinking

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• Joy lies in the fight, in the attempt, in the suffering involved, not in the victory itself

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Running, Lying, Fighting

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

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• My career always involved being the person in charge of what I was portraying to people. "I never wanted to be an image of something I didn't believe in, an image that somebody else had put together. The idea of that just really scared me, more than the idea of failing.

  Taylor Swift

  Believe, Careers, Ideas

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• Abby: "You were great. I don't know what I'd have done without you." Dylan: "You'd have done fine. That's one of the most intimidating things about you." Abby: "Intimidating? Me?" Dylan: "It isn't easy for a man to get involved with a woman who's totally capable of handling anything that comes along... It isn't easy for a man to believe that there are woman who can not only do those things but enjoy them... [But] it's all natural for you isn't it? It's incredible.

  Nora Roberts

  Believe, Men, Abby

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• Rarely is it possible to study all of the instructions to a game before beginning to play, or to memorize the manual before turning on the computer. The excitement of improvisation lies not only in the risk of being involved but in the new ideas, as heady as the adrenaline of performance, that seems to come from nowhere.

  Mary Catherine Bateson

  Lying, Games, Play

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• I've learned that the universe doesn't care what our motives are, only our actions. So we should do things that will bring about good, even if there is an element of selfishness involved. Like the kids at my school might join the Key Club or Future Buisness Leaders of America, because it's a social thing and looks good on their record, not because they really want to volunteer at the nursing home. But the people at the nursing home still benefit from it, so it's better that the kids do it than not do it. And if they never did it, then they wouldn't find out that they actually liked it.

  Wendy Mass

  School, Kids, Home

  Wendy Mass (2011). “13 Gifts”, p.338, Scholastic Inc.

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• Alexia abhorred hypocrisy, especially when munitions were involved.

  Gail Carriger

  Hypocrisy

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