Mets Quotes - Page 38

• I was born for Abegnation. I was planning on leaving Dauntless, and becoming factionless. But then I met 'her', and...I felt like maybe I could make something more of my decision.

  Veronica Roth

  Decision, Leaving, Becoming

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• Artemis grit her teeth. "I need a favor. I have some hunting to do, alone. I need you to take my companions to Camp Half-Blood." "Sure Sis!" then he raised his hands in a "stop everything" gesture. "I feel a haiku comIng on." The Hunters all groaned. Apparently they'd met Apollo before. He cleared his throat and held up one hand dramatically. "Green grass breaks through snow. Artemis pleads for my help. I am so awesome.

  Rick Riordan

  Hunting, Blood, Hands

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• The last girl I love will be someone I haven’t even met yet, probably.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Girl, Lasts, Havens

  Chuck Klosterman (2005). “Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story”, p.232, Simon and Schuster

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• Bear with me on this, Evanlyn. I know you're anxious about Horace." WIll was a little puzzled by Halt's words. "No more anxious than the rest of us, surely," he said. Halt turned away and raised his eyebrows as his gaze met Selethen's. Sometimes, he thought, his former apprentice could be remarkably slow on the uptake. He saw the Arridi's slow nod of understanding. ~Halt & Will about Evanlyn and Horace

  John Flanagan

  Eyebrows, Understanding, Littles

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• I met a genius on the train today about 6 years old, he sat beside me and as the train ran down along the coast we came to the ocean and then he looked at me and said, it’s not pretty.

  Charles Bukowski

  Ocean, Years, Genius

  Charles Bukowski, “I Met A Genius”

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• Bud Johnson, God rest his soul of fame, a tenor saxophonist. Bud was always a big, big, big booster of mine and he always when I first met Bud in Pittsburgh when he came through there, he heard me sing and he wanted me to come to Chicago.

  Billy Eckstine

  Soul, Chicago, Bud

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• Percy is the most powerful demigod I've ever met. No offense to you guys but it's true.

  Rick Riordan

  Powerful, Guy, Demigods

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• It's because...you see, if we had souls, which we haven't, and if our souls met--yours and mine--they'd fight to the death. But after they had torn each other to pieces, to the very bottom, they'd see that they had the same root.

  Ayn Rand

  Fighting, Roots, Soul

  Ayn Rand (2009). “We the Living”, p.106, Penguin

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• and if anybody asks me is it easy to forget I'll say it is easily done, you just pick anyone, and pretend that you never have met

  Bob Dylan

  Done, Forget, Easy

  Bob Dylan (2014). “The Lyrics: Since 1962”, p.154, Simon and Schuster

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• Tessa exhaled. She hadn't realized that she had been holding her breath until that moment. Will must have heard her, for he raised his head and his gaze met hers across the clearing. Something in it made her look away. Agony stripped so raw was not meant for her eyes.

  Cassandra Clare

  Eye, Agony, Looks

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “Clockwork Prince”, p.129, Simon and Schuster

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• Words stand between silence and silence: between the silence of things and the silence of our own being. Between the silence of the world and the silence of God. When we have really met and known the world in silence, words do not separate us from the world nor from other men, nor from God, nor from ourselves because we no longer trust entirely in language to contain reality.

  Thomas Merton

  Reality, Men, Silence

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• Their tongues met, starving, two years without this delicious meal. They kissed and kissed and kissed. The joining of their mouths was more intense than that night on the ferry. This was a kiss of reunion. Of forgiveness. Of coming home.

  Lori Wilde

  Home, Kissing, Night

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• Bes had indeed put on his ugly outfit. He climbed onto the roof of the limbo and stood there, legs planted, arms akimbo, like superman-exept with only the underwear. I wasn't sure what to say except: "Put some clothes on!" "These children are under my protection," Bes insisted. "I don't know you," I said, "I never met you before today." "Nonsense. You expressly asked for my attention." "I didn't ask for the Speedo Patrol!

  Rick Riordan

  Children, Clothes, Underwear

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• I realized early in my career that precisely what one reader doesn't like is what another reader loves. Collectively, any writer's audience presents a mishmash of expectations that can never all be met. What one-tenth of my readership may not be crazy about the other nine-tenths savors. The moment you start altering a book or a painting or any type of art as if it's a public collaborative, you crucify its soul. I'd rather irritate a few people and delight a lot than touch no one." ~ Karen Marie Moning

  Karen Marie Moning

  Art, Crazy, Book

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• I took a plane from New York City to Los Angeles for an audition. I met all the people. After that, I was told to have another audition, but I didn't want to go there again.

  Ed O'Neill

  New York, Cities, People

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• Fear is met and destroyed with courage.

  James F. Bell, III

  Inspirational, Motivational, Fear

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• I have been all over the world. I have met some wonderful people, lots of them very simple, whom nobody will ever hear about, but who have been fabulous to me.

  Maureen Forrester

  Simple, People, World

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• From the happy expression on their faces you might have supposed that they welcomed the war. I have met with men who loved stamps, and stones, and snakes, but I could not imagine any man loving war.

  Margot Asquith

  War, Men, Snakes

  Margot Asquith (1963). “Autobiography”

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• Death had ruled my life till I met Lady Dance. Her dance had set me free.

  Jackie French

  Dancing, Song And Dance

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• In Scotland football hooliganism has been met by banning alcohol from grounds but in England this solution has been circumnavigated

  Wallace Mercer

  Soccer, Football, Scotland

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• Henman and Coria have met three times in the past and they've won one apiece.

  Annabel Croft

  Past, Tennis, Three

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• As soon as we fall in love and we realise we've met the one the rest of our lives can't come soon enough. It's not like you're in a rush to get to the finish line, you're in a rush to feel and experience everything and then do it all again.

  Johnny Depp

  Falling In Love, Romantic Love, Soon Enough

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• Even when you're down and blue, just remember that someone out there loves you, even if you don't know it and even if you haven't yet met them. There's someone out there waiting for you, remember that and keep faith. You'll get there.

  Johnny Depp

  Love You, Romantic Love, Blue

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• I have met with political leaders, legislators, and diplomats, seeking the next steps to press in reducing and eliminating the nuclear threat in this century. I have participated in public coalitions developing programmes for action to combat the global rash of small arms. All are trying and making a difference.

  Michael Douglas

  Nuclear Disarmament, Differences, Leader

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• I've met them down in the Cost and Accounting Department, clean-shaven and in white collars. They can't see a damn thing ridiculous about themselves... only about you.

  Jean Shepherd

  White, Cost, Ridiculous

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