Seats Quotes - Page 39

• I need to call Matt and let him know I'm okay," I said. Finn held the passenger door open while I got inside. As soon as he got in the driver's seat, I turned to him. "Well? Can I call him?" "You really want to?" Finn asked as he started the car. "Yes, of course I do! Why is that so suprising?

  Amanda Hocking

  Doors, Car, Needs

  Amanda Hocking (2014). “Trylle: The Complete Trilogy”, p.55, Pan Macmillan

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• Wine's terrible for babies." Dorian swept into the sitting room to join me, elegantly arranging himself on a love seat that displayed his purple velvet robes to best effect. "Well of course it is. I'd never dream of giving wine to an infant! What do you take me for, a barbarian? But for you... well, it might go a long way to make you a little less jumpy. You've been positively unbearable to live around. "I can't have it either. It affects the babies in utero.

  Richelle Mead

  Dream, Baby, Wine

  Richelle Mead (2011). “Shadow Heir”, p.16, Kensington Publishing Corp.

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• Yes, well," said his da with a hint of a grow that told him just how worried Bran had been about him, "that'll teach you to dodge a bit quicker next time." "Sorry," he apologized meekly as he sat in the passenger seat. "Good," said Bran, shutting the door gently. "Don't let it happen again." -Bran and Charles

  Patricia Briggs

  Sorry, Doors, Hints

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• It's a good thing we're pretty to look at," I said as Lend sat down on the orange plastic seats next to me. "Because we don't have much else going for us as bowlers.

  Kiersten White

  Orange, Looks, Next

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• Is this seat taken?" a warm sexy drawl asked and I lifted my gaze and smiled up at Dank. "Yes. I'm saving it for my smoking hot boyfriend," I replied teasingly. Dank slid in beside me and put his arm around my shoulder. "Hmmm, well he should have gotten here sooner. You snooze, you lose.

  Abbi Glines

  Sexy, Taken, Should Have

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• I don’t want you to just be my tutor. I want you to be the girl I look for in the halls every morning and save a seat for in the cafeteria. I want you to be the one waiting for me when I walk off the field at my games. I want you to be the one I pick up the phone to call just to make me smile.

  Abbi Glines

  Girl, Morning, Phones

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• And Prometheus was flying directly toward them. William Shakespeare shifted uncomfortably in his seat. "Now, I've never been a warrior,and I know little about tactics,but shouldn't we be flying in the other direction?" They were close enough now to see the wide-eyed anpu in the nearest craft. "We will," Prometheus said. "Just as soon as the missiles explode." "Which missiles?" Shakespeare asked. "The two just behind us.

  Michael Scott

  Warrior, Two, Flying

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• The Alchemyst had discovered that the seats revolved and had been amusing himself by swinging back and forth. His chair squeaked with each turn.Finally Prometheus turned and glared at the immortal. "If you do that one more time, I'm going to feed you to the Lotan myself." "And I will help," Niten added.

  Michael Scott

  Helping, Amusing, Chairs

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• Beauty is something that is hard to debate. Every man thinks his ideal the best. But the wittiest woman rise to the top of this structure, conventional beauty often taking a back seat to a woman possessed of a clever tongue.

  Anne Mallory

  Clever, Men, Thinking

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• Probably" is a word with an emergency ejector seat.

  David Mitchell

  Emergencies

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• I get up, because I’m supposed to, but if it were up to me, I’d stay in my seat for the rest of time.

  Veronica Roth

  Get Up, Ifs

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• No. Absolutely not.” “Simon,” she said. “It’s a perfectly fine plan.” “The plan where you follow Jace and Sebastian off to some unknown dimensional pocket and we use these rings to communicate so those of us over here in the regular dimension of Earth can track you down? That plan?” “Yes.” “No,” he said. “No, it isn’t.” Clary sat back. “You don’t just get to say no.” “This plan involves me! I get to say no! No.” “Simon—” Simon patted the seat beside him as if someone were sitting there. “Let me introduce you to my good friend No.

  Cassandra Clare

  Good Friend, Track, Pockets

  Cassandra Clare (2014). “City of Lost Souls”, p.140, Simon and Schuster

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• Lucas: I wanted to talk to you after class, but you disappeared. Me: I have another class right after. One of those profs who stops talking, stares at you and waits until you get to your seat if you're late. Lucas: I would probably just walk to my seat even slower. ;)

  Tammara Webber

  Talking, Class, Waiting

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• Sensitive. That killed me. That guy Morrow was about as sensitive as a toilet seat.

  J. D. Salinger

  Guy, Toilet Seat, Toilets

  J. D. SALINGER (1951). “THE CATCHER IN THE RYE”

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• Who cares about 17-21 year olds? Jack Myers does, and you should, too, if you want a front row seat on where the future of business and civilization is going.

  Geraldine Laybourne

  Years, Civilization, Who Cares

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• I had now officially secured my front row seat on the train to Hell. Choo choo

  Tarryn Fisher

  Hell, Train, Secured

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• Never tell the box-office man that you can't hear well or he will sell you a seat where you can't see either.

  Kin Hubbard

  Men, Office, Boxes

  "Short Furrows". Book by Kin Hubbard, 1911.

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• Happiness is a tiger in your tank and a pussycat in your back seat.

  Johnny Carson

  Happiness, Tanks, Tigers

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• And amongst us one, Who most has suffer'd, takes dejectedly His seat upon the intellectual throne.

  Matthew Arnold

  Intellectual, Suffering, Thrones

  Matthew Arnold (2013). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold (Illustrated)”, p.241, Delphi Classics

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• So fully am I impressed with the vast importance and necessity of attaining what will be the object of my motion this night, that if, during the almost forty years that I have had the honour of a seat in parliament, I had been so fortunate as to accomplish that, and that only, I should think I had done enough, and could retire from public life with comfort, and the conscious satisfaction, that I had done my duty.

  Charles James Fox

  Night, Thinking, Years

  Charles James Fox (1815). “The speeches of the right honourable Charles James Fox, in the House of Commons”, p.659

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• The immortal mind, superior to his fate, amid the outrage of external things, firm as the solid base of this great world, rests on his own foundation. Blow, ye winds! Ye waves! ye thunders! roll your tempests on! Shake, ye old pillars of the marble sky! Till at its orbs and all its worlds of fire be loosen'd from their seats; yet still serene, the unconquer'd mind looks down upon the wreck; and ever stronger as the storms advance, firm through the closing ruin holds is way, when nature calls him to the destin'd goal.

  Mark Akenside

  Fate, Blow, Fire

  Mark Akenside, “The Pleasures Of Imagination: Book The Second”

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• I cannot be content with less than heaven; Living, and comprehensive of all life. Thee, universal heaven, celestial all; Thee, sacrjd seat of intellective time; Field of the soul 's best wisdom : home of truth , Star-throned.

  Philip James Bailey

  Wisdom, Stars, Home

  Philip James Bailey, “Fetus - XI”

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• I quitted my Seat in the House of Delegates, from a Conviction that I was no longer able to do any essential Service.

  George Mason

  House, Able, Essentials

  Letter to Edmund Randolph, October 19, 1782.

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• Talabani and Al-Maliki want to keep their seats for ever. Talabani forgets that the side which brought him to power was the United States and it brought him by rigging the elections.

  Jalal Talabani

  United States, Want, Als

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• Pleasure and distress, fear and courage, desire and aversion, where have these affections and experiences their seat?Clearly, either in the Soul alone, or in the Soul as employing the body, or in some third entity deriving from both. And for this third entity, again, there are two possible modes: it might be either a blend or a distinct form due to the blending.

  Plotinus

  Two, Soul, Desire

  Plotinus (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Plotinus - Complete Enneads (Illustrated)”, p.15, Delphi Classics

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