Sections Quotes - Page 4

• I'm OMAC! Evacuate this section! I'm going to destroy it!

  Jack Kirby

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• You took a walk on a Sunday afternoon and came to a nice neighborhood, very refined. You saw a small one of these trees through the iron gate leading to someone's yard and you knew that soon that section of Brooklyn would get to be a tenement district. The tree knew. It came there first. Afterwards, poor foreigners seeped in and the quiet old brownstone houses were hacked up into flats, feather beds were pushed out on the window sills to air and the Tree of Heaven flourished. That was the kind of tree it was. It liked poor people.

  Betty Smith

  Nice, Sunday, Air

  Betty Smith (2009). “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn”, p.6, Harper Collins

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• I swallow any sort of apology. "screwing your neighbor." There. Said it. React, okay? pregnant pause becomes three weeks overdue. Four weeks. Time for a C-section. What? Oh, Kaeleigh, I'm so sorry. Are you sure...?

  Ellen Hopkins

  Sorry, Apology, Three

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• In the classics section, she had picked up a copy of The Magic Mountain and recalled the summer between her junior and senior years of high school, when she read it, how she lay in bed hours after she should have gotten up, the sheet growing warmer against her skin as the sun rose higher in the sky, her mother poking her head in now and then to see if she'd gotten up yet, but never suggesting that she should: Eleanor didn't have many rules about child rearing, but one of them was this: Never interrupt reading.

  Elizabeth Berg

  Summer, Senior, Mother

  Elizabeth Berg (2009). “Home Safe: A Novel”, p.228, Random House

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• We boarded the plane after boxing our stakes and knives and taking them to a FedEx carrier, airport security being so strict nowadays. In the section marked 'contents', Bones filled out 'Tofu'. God, but he had a sick sense of humor sometimes.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Airports, Filled Out, Knives

  Jeaniene Frost (2010). “Halfway to the Grave: A Night Huntress Novel”, p.184, Hachette UK

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• Mircea leaned over to refill my wineglass, and a section of his bare chest showed under the robe, along with a hint of dusky nipple. It's a good thing I'm too stuffed to move, I thought hazily. I would so have jumped that.

  Karen Chance

  Moving, Hints, Nipples

  Karen Chance (2011). “Hunt the Moon: A Cassie Palmer Novel”, p.134, Penguin

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• Not many women got to live out the daydream of women—to have a room, even a section of a room, that only gets messed up when she messes it up herself.

  Maxine Hong Kingston

  Rooms, Daydreaming, Messed Up

  Maxine Hong Kingston (2010). “The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts”, p.69, Vintage

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• America must begin the struggle for democracy at home. The advocacy of free elections in Europe by American officials is hypocrisy when free elections are not held in great sections of America.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Struggle, Home, Europe

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• A large section of the intelligentsia seems wholly devoid of intelligence.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Intelligent, Seems

  "The Autobiography of G.K. Chesterton". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1936.

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• One section of our country believes slavery is right, and ought to be extended, while the other believes it is wrong, and ought not to be extended.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Country, Believe, Civil War

  Abraham Lincoln, Terence Ball (2013). “Lincoln: Political Writings and Speeches”, p.121, Cambridge University Press

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• Thousands of volumes have been written about aviation, but we do not automatically have thousands of true and special friends in their authors. That rare writer who comes alive on a page does it by giving of himself, by writing of meanings, and not just of fact or of things that have happened to him. The writers of flight who have done this are usually found together in a special section on private bookshelves.

  Richard Bach

  Writing, Airplane, Giving

  Richard Bach (2012). “A Gift of Wings”, p.94, Dell

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• The slowness of one section of the world about adopting the valuable ideas of another section of it is a curious thing and unaccountable.

  Mark Twain

  Ideas, World, Curious

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.194, Courier Corporation

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• I hate turkeys. If you stand in the meat section at the grocery store long enough, you start to get mad at turkeys. There's turkey ham, turkey bologna, turkey pastrami. Some one needs to tell the turkey, 'man, just be yourself.'

  Mitch Hedberg

  Thanksgiving, Being Yourself, Fun

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• My school was so tough the school newspaper had an obituary section.

  Norm Crosby

  Funny, Graduation, Witty

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• No one can tell what goes on in between the person you were and the person you become. No one can chart that blue and lonely section of hell. There are no maps of the change. You just come out the other side. Or you don't.

  Stephen King

  Change, Lonely, Blue

  Stephen King (2008). “The Stand”, p.654, Anchor

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• If the family were a fruit, it would be an orange, a circle of sections, held together but separable - each segment distinct.

  Letty Cottin Pogrebin

  Family, Children, Home

  Letty Cottin Pogrebin (1983). “Family politics: love and power on an intimate frontier”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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• Hardware: where the people in your company's software section will tell you the problem is. Software: where the people in your company's hardware section will tell you the problem is.

  Dave Barry

  Technology, People, Computer

  Dave Barry (1986). “Claw Your Way to the Top: How to Become the Head of a Major Corporation in Roughly a Week”, p.43, Rodale

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• There is surely no contradiction in saying that a certain section of the community may be quite competent to protect the persons and property of the rest, yet quite unfit to direct our opinions, or to superintend our private habits.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Government, Community, Liberty

  "Southey's Colloquies on Society". Book by Thomas B. Macaulay, 1830.

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• Every man has been brought up with the idea that decent women don't pop in and out of bed; he has always been told by his mother that "nice girls don't." He finds, of course, when he gets older that this may be untrue-but only in a certain section of society.

  Barbara Cartland

  Girl, Mother, Nice

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• In every section of the entire area where the word science may properly be applied, the limiting factor is a human one. We shall have rapid or slow advance in this direction or in that depending on the number of really first-class men who are engaged in the work in question. ... So in the last analysis, the future of science in this country will be determined by our basic educational policy.

  James Bryant Conant

  Country, Educational, Science

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• I've always studied business. Even when I was a ball player, I'd read business journals and the business sections of newspapers.

  Magic Johnson

  Business, Player, Balls

  "Making Magic". Interview with Janean Chun, www.entrepreneur.com. July 1, 1998.

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• The decision for me was whether to have 'The Father' be a book that told a story - from the point of view of this speaker, the daughter - without, as in the earlier books, then having a section on something else and a section on something else.

  Sharon Olds

  Daughter, Mother, Father

  "Salon" Interview with Dwight Garner, www.english.illinois.edu.

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• Most people today still believe, perhaps unconsciously, in the heliocentric universe. Every newspaper in the land has a section on astrology, yet few have anything at all on astronomy.

  Hannes Alfven

  Believe, Land, Astrology

  "Hannes Alfvén: Dean of the Plasma Dissidents". Book by Anthony L. Peratt, p. 196, 1998.

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• We may observe in some of the abrupt grounds we meet with, sections of great masses of strata, where it is as easy to read the history of the sea, as it is to read the history of Man in the archives of any nation.

  Jean-Andre Deluc

  Science, Men, Sea

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• The Antichrist, Section 7

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Philosophical, Antichrist

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “On the Genealogy of Morals and Ecce Homo”, p.335, Vintage

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