Shy Quotes - Page 30

• He was painfully shy, which, as is often the manner of the painfully shy, he overcompensated for by being too loud at the wrong times.

  Neil Gaiman

  Loud, Wrong Time

  Neil Gaiman (2010). “Stardust”, p.31, Hachette UK

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• I'm always a bit shy around evil people.

  Craig Ferguson

  Evil People, Bits, People

  Craig Ferguson (2009). “American on Purpose: The Improbable Adventures of an Unlikely Patriot”, p.3, Harper Collins

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• I never wish to offend, but I am so foolishly shy, that I often seem negligent, when I am only kept back by my natural awkwardness ... Shyness is only the effect of a sense of inferiority in some way or other. If I could persuade myself that my manners were perfectly easy and graceful, I should not be shy.

  Jane Austen

  Wish, Inferiority, Way

  Jane Austen (2005). “Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1”, p.26, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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• It only meant that my natural inclination was to draw my "energy" from within instead of seeking it outside myself, plus my mom was an introvcert, and so were a lot of normal people. The problem was I was shy on top of that. And we all know how the world loves a shy introvert.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Mom, World Love, People

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• She holds herself with such reserve. She smiles, but the smile doesn't reach her eyes, even in the company of the girls she's chosen to eat with. Why? I have no clue, and I really don't want to spend my time worrying about it. But my brain pushes at the question anyway. Why are people aloof? Because they don't want to let others in. Why don't they want to let others in? Well, sometimes because they're shy, and sometimes because they're convinced of their own superiority. But those aren't the only reasons. Sometimes it's because thay have something to hide.

  Lauren Myracle

  Girl, Eye, People

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• Clearly she was expected to say something, but panic at having to speak stole the thoughts from her head.

  Shannon Hale

  Panic, Speak, Expected

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• The warm dampness of her breath made me shiver at the mix of the familiar and the unknown, with a soft exhalation she shifted her head and her lips found my collarbone, teasingly shy of my old scar. Tendrils pulsed in time with my heart, building on the ones before to an unseen height.

  Kim Harrison

  Heart, Unseen, Height

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• I've often wondered about the shyness of some of us in the West about standing for these ideals that have done so much to ease the plight of man and the hardships of our imperfect world. Let us be shy no longer. Let us go to our strength. Let us offer hope. Let us tell the world that a new age is not only possible, but probable.

  Ronald Reagan

  Men, Age, Done

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Lady Bird was very, very shy and yet she would go out and speak publicly on behalf of her husband and on issues that mattered to her. Someone asked her once how she did it, and she said you have to "get so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid." And I have found that that absolutely captures those moments when I fought for something I cared about. I get so caught up in fighting for things that are important to me that it pushes me through fear and doubt.

  Wendy Davis

  Husband, Fighting, Bird

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• In junior high P.E., I was way too shy to take a shower in front of the other kids. It was a horribly awkward time - body hair, odors... So I'd go from my sweaty shirt back into my regular clothes and have to continue the day.

  Will Ferrell

  Kids, Hair, Clothes

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• When time permits, I try to see interesting people in the cities I visit. In Seattle, I met Paul Allen, the co-founder of Microsoft, who is shy in personality but flamboyant in his philanthropy.

  Steven Pinker

  Cities, People, Interesting

  "My week" by Steven Pinker, www.theguardian.com. October 14, 2007.

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• After a few mouthfuls of moon-flavored air, even the stubbornly drowsy can find themselves wide-eyed.. All the normal noises of life were gone, leaving behind the secretive sounds, the shy sounds, the whispers and conversations of moss disputing with grass over some soft piece of earth, or the hummingbird snoring.

  N.D. Wilson

  Moon, Air, Leaving

  N. D. Wilson (2008). “Leepike Ridge”, p.17, Random House Books for Young Readers

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• I am convinced that most people do not grow up...We marry and dare to have children and call that growing up. I think what we do is mostly grow old. We carry accumulation of years in our bodies, and on our faces, but generally our real selves, the children inside, are innocent and shy as magnolias.

  Maya Angelou

  Life, Children, Growing Up

  Maya Angelou (2008). “Letter to My Daughter”, p.7, Random House

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• One is always half mad when one is shy of people.

  Robert Walser

  People, Mad, Half

  Robert Walser (2014). “Jakob von Gunten”, p.15, New York Review of Books

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• She forgot to be shy at the moment, in honestly warning him away from the sunken wreck he had a dream of raising; and looked at him with eyes which assuredly, in association with her patient face, her fragile figure, her spare dress, and the wind and rain, did not turn him from his purpose of helping her.

  Charles Dickens

  Dream, Rain, Eye

  Charles Dickens (2009). “The Complete Works of Charles Dickens (in 30 Volumes, Illustrated): Little Dorrit”, p.102, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I recommend you stick to your own species, Shy Babe." p. 155

  James Patterson

  Sticks, Babe, Species

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• I am not shy about admitting my modest talents. For example, I am happy to admit that I am better than average at clever remarks, and I also have a flair for getting people to like me. But to be perfectly fair to myself, I am ever-ready to confess my shortcomings, too, and a quick round of soul-searching forced me to admit that I had never been any good at all at breathing water. As I hung there from the seat belt, dazed and watching the water pour in and swirl around my head, this began to seem like a very large character flaw.

  Jeff Lindsay

  Clever, Smart, Character

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• I was a very shy child. I didn't like football. I didn't like the usual stuff that was shoved at. Sports were always down you and the Gaelic language, which I've actually disliked as a kid but as I grow up I quite like it.

  Gavin Friday

  Sports, Football, Children

  Source: bigthink.com

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• It's nice that I can go on the road and there are more people to buy tickets. There are also more people to piss off who might not buy a ticket if I say the wrong thing. But I have to remember that if I stifle what my gut tells me to say in the name of "What if that person doesn't buy a ticket someday?" that's just not how I came up or how I thought. I have to consciously remind myself that even though things are going better now, I still have to be who I've always been. I can't get gun shy or scared about that.

  Chris Gethard

  Nice, Gun, People

  Source: razorcake.org

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• I do feel kind of like I have a split identity in that there's Van Jones, who has this big public role and tries to inspire millions of people to do new stuff together. And then there's just me: a pretty quiet, shy, retiring person.

  Van Jones

  People, Inspire, Trying

  Source: therumpus.net

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• There are times when a market such as housing, transportation or the stock or mortgage market keep rising and people with capital want to join in this growth. Soon the markets become overheated, partly because of the abundance of investment money and speculation. This is when the government should raise interest rates and increase the cost of borrowed money. Governments are shy about doing this because it could cause the very recession. Yet this is the best time to do this so that the inevitable recession never reaches the magnitude of the recent Great Recession.

  Philip Kotler

  Government, People, Growth

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• I wasn't a great student, C average. I was pretty shy, but I drank a lot of beer.

  Kenny Chesney

  Beer, Average, Students

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• You just came wild and sexy all over my hand and even left some claw marks on my back to prove it. Don’t go getting shy on me now. ‘Cause baby, before the night is over you will be naked in my bed.

  Abbi Glines

  Sexy, Baby, Night

  Abbi Glines (2014). “Fallen Too Far: A Rosemary Beach Novel”, p.119, Simon and Schuster

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• It’s funny—when people call you “shy,” they usually smile. Like it’s cute, some funny little habit you’ll grow out of when you’re older, like the gaps in your grin when your baby teeth fall out. If they knew how it felt—really being shy, not just unsure at first—they wouldn’t smile. Not if they knew how the feeling knots up your stomach or makes your palms sweat or robs you of the ability to say anything that makes sense. It’s not cute at all.

  Claudia Gray

  Cute, Baby, Fall

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• I was a fairly shy person - not the hand raising type.

  John Green

  Hipster, Hands, Type

  John Green (2008). “An Abundance of Katherines”, p.225, Penguin

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