Little Bit Quotes - Page 18

• A hero without faults is like an omelet without little bits of eggshell in it.

  Colin Cotterill

  Hero, Littles, Eggshells

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• Don't. Please, just let me hold you a little bit longer," he mumbled into my hair

  Abbi Glines

  Hair, Littles, Let Me

  Abbi Glines (2013). “The Vincent Boys Extended and Uncut Collection: The Vincent Boys -- Extended and Uncut; The Vincent Brothers -- Extended and Uncut”, p.347, Simon and Schuster

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• I don’t know, Sage. You threw yourself in the line of pepper spray for me. You must like me just a little bit.” “I— I figured it’d be a shame to ruin your pretty face,” I stammered.

  Richelle Mead

  Pepper Spray, Sage, Lines

  Richelle Mead (2013). “The Indigo Spell: A Bloodlines Novel”, p.83, Penguin

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• I don't need you to agree with me," she said quietly." I'll go away happy with a little bit of doubt. Doubt is good. It's an emotion we can build on. Perhaps if we feed it with curiosity it will blossom into something useful, like suspicion - and action.

  Jasper Fforde

  Curiosity, Doubt, I Don't Need You

  Jasper Fforde (2010). “Shades of Grey”, p.116, Hachette UK

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• Am I crazy?" she asked. "I feel like I am sometimes." "Maybe," he said, rubbing her forehead. "But don't worry about it. You need to be a little bit crazy. Crazy is the price you pay for having an imagination. It's your superpower. Tapping into the dream. It's a good thing not a bad thing.

  Ruth Ozeki

  Dream, Crazy, Imagination

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• Larger than life itself, and I can’t even believe this striking creature was once a little bit mine.

  Katy Evans

  Believe, Littles, Larger Than Life

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• The problem was you had to keep choosing between one evil or another, and no matter what you chose, they sliced a little bit more off you, until there was nothing left.

  Charles Bukowski

  Evil, Ham, Littles

  Charles Bukowski (2001). “Ham On Rye”, p.192, Canongate Books

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• ...if I know him and like him just a little bit more than I already do, our emotional connection will be too strong for me to ever go back to the way I was before him.

  Katy Evans

  Strong, Emotional, Connections

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• When somebody is a little bit wrong - say, when a waited puts nonfat milk in your espresso macchiato, instead of lowfat milk - it is often quite easy to explain to them how and why they are wrong. But if somebody is surprisingly wrong - say, when a waiter bites your nose instead of taking your order - you can often be so surprised that you are unable to say anything at all. Paralyzed by how wrong the waiter is, your moth would hang slightly open and your eyes would blink over and over, but you would be unable to say a word.

  Daniel Handler

  Eye, Often Is, Order

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• Limiting the freedom of news 'just a little bit' is in the same category with the classic example 'a little bit pregnant.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Example, News, Littles

  Robert A Heinlein (1966). “Moon Is Harsh Mistres”, Berkley

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• And didn't it always go like that--body parts not lining up the way you wanted them to, all of it a little bit off, as if the world itself were an animated sequence of longing and envy and self-hatred and grandiosity and failure and success, a strange and endless cartoon loop that you couldn't stop watching, because, despite all you knew by now, it was still so interesting.

  Meg Wolitzer

  Self, Envy, Interesting

  Meg Wolitzer (2013). “The Interestings”, p.468, Random House

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• I don’t need someone to complete me, I need someone to make things a little bit better every now and again.

  Jon Richardson

  Needs, Littles, Complete Me

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• Why were you even there?" Kami asked. "Were you following me home?" "Are you asking me if I was stalking you?" "Maybe," said Kami. "Were you?" "Yeah," said Jared. "Little bit.

  Sarah Rees Brennan

  Home, Asking, Littles

  Sarah Rees Brennan (2013). “Untold”, p.104, Simon and Schuster

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• Maybe it was that nearly everyone else was dead and she felt a little bit dead too, but she figured that even a vampire deserved to be saved. Maybe she ought to leave him, but she wasn't going to.

  Holly Black

  Vampire, Littles, Ought

  Holly Black (2013). “The Coldest Girl in Coldtown”, p.1, Hachette UK

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• If you have no money, men won't care for you, women won't love you; won't, that is, care for you or love you the last little bit that matters.

  George Orwell

  Love You, Men, Care

  George Orwell (1956). “The Orwell Reader: Fiction, Essays, and Reportage”, New York : Harcourt, Brace

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• Which is what one always hopes will happen: for life to take over and be bigger and more marvelous than what we can dream up on our own. Life doesn’t need magic to be magical. (But a little bit sure doesn't hurt.)

  Laini Taylor

  Dream, Hurt, Magic

  Laini Taylor (2017). “Night of Cake and Puppets: A Daughter of Smoke and Bone Novella”, p.138, Hachette UK

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• Fear is how you lose your life...a little bit at a time...What we give to fear, we take away from...faith.

  Mitch Albom

  Giving, Littles, Bits

  Mitch Albom (2013). “The First Phone Call From Heaven”, p.78, Hachette UK

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• And maybe I am a monster. I don't know the answer to that. But what I do know is that even if there's demon blood inside me, there is human blood inside me as well. And I couldn't love you like I do if I weren't at least a little bit human. Because demons want. But they don't love.

  Cassandra Clare

  Love You, Blood, Monsters

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.1186, Simon and Schuster

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• Life doesn’t need magic to be magical. (But a little bit sure doesn’t hurt.)

  Laini Taylor

  Hurt, Magic, Needs

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• I'll be honest with you. I'm a little bit of a loner. It's been a big part of my maturing process to learn to allow people to support me. I tend to be very self-reliant and private. And I have this history of wanting to work things out on my own and protect people from what's going on with me.

  Kerry Washington

  Inspiring, Women, Being Alone

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• I might have a little bit of cellulite. I might not be toned everywhere. I might struggle in this area or that. But accepting that just empowers me.

  Kim Kardashian

  Women, Struggle, Empowering

  "The Naked Truth: Kim Kardashian (And Other Celebs) Unretouched" by ose Apodaca, www.harpersbazaar.com. May 2, 2014.

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• Moderation. Small helpings. Sample a little bit of everything. These are the secrets of happiness and good health.

  Julia Child

  Inspirational, Happiness, Food

  "Julia Child: What I've Learned". Interview with Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. June 2001.

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• A little bit if listening with a passable ear will get an awful lot of messages anywhere.

  John Hendricks

  Music, Listening, Ears

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• Medical statistics are a little bit like a bikini: what they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.

  Irving R. Levine

  Science, Littles, Statistics

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• The foulest damage to our political life comes not from the 'secrets' which they hide from us, but from the little bits of half-truth and disinformation which they do tell us. These are already pre-digested, and then are sicked up as little gobbits of authorised spew. The columns of defense correspondents in the establishment sheets serve as the spittoons.

  E. P. Thompson

  Truth, Political, Secret

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