Z Quotes
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“Zane leaned closer to Ty and murmured something—he didn’t look at all appeased. When Ty just shook his head, Zane leaned back and kept his mouth shut. But his dark eyes were filled with something menacing that confused Deuce. Not many emotions inspired that kind of darkness: fury, desperation . . . utter devotion.”
Source: Sticks & Stones
“Zane let his head loll back and lifted one hand to gently prod his split lip. "Ow."
"Whine about it. It'll make it better," Ty offered as he stood in front of his locker, his back to Zane, and unwrapped the tape from his hands with jerky, irritated movements.
"Bite me," Zane muttered as he dug into his locker for a towel before starting in on the tape on his own hands. He spared an evil glance for Ty. "Teaching me to advance in a fight is a bad idea."
"Teaching you to fight at all is an exercise in futility," Ty responded in a matter-of-fact tone. "Luckily for you, I enjoy things like banging my head against a wall."
"I enjoy banging your head against a wall too," Zane replied as he tossed the balled-up tape at a nearby trash can. He let a small smile quirk his lips as he sat on the bench to unlace his shoes.
"Shut up," Ty grunted at him. But even though his back was still turned to him, Zane could hear the smile in his voice. "And cut it out with the damn cat jokes, huh? They're starting to catch on."
"Fine, fine. No reason to get catty about it," Zane told his partner with a barely concealed grin.
"A for effort," Ty conceded charitably.”
Source: Fish & Chips
“Zane liked his love life simple: catch and release, and then move on. The problem was, Missy wasn't anything like his usual prey.”
Source: Saved by a SEAL
“Zane looks pensive, and then his lips twitch. “They say most girls end up marrying a guy just like their dad.”
“Oh God … That’s so lame,” I say, spluttering as coffee dribbles down my chin.
“I believe it’s a tried and tested theory,” he says, standing up and wiping my chin with the back of his hand. I jolt at his touch.
“Now it’s a theory? I thought it was a saying? Next you’ll be telling me it’s a fact.” I flop back down on the couch.
“Empirical evidence shows that sixty-eight percent of girls marry a guy who displays similar personality traits to her father ...” His voice trails off as I shake my head. “What?” he asks, his palms open and raised.
“You really need to get out more. Where’d you glean that interesting nugget? The desperate men’s journal perhaps?”
Source: Beyond Reach
“Zane Parata,” she said, settling into the seat opposite him. “I thought you’d gotten swallowed up in a twister and settled among the indigenous people of Oz.”
Source: Captured Memories
“Zane ran his thumb over Ty’s cheek, seeing him suddenly with new eyes. Ty had never tried to be something he wasn’t. He’d never tried to hide what he was. Warrior. Weapon. Bad guy. Zane knew what he was. The pain and betrayal faded. The world faded.”
Source: Touch & Geaux
“Zane rolled his eyes. "Galloping crazies."
Ty squeezed his hand. "Well, you said you liked horses.”
Source: Stars & Stripes
“Zane rolled his eyes, glad he had come alone. Hell of a negotiator John would be. He would have given the whole damn company away and they'd all have been working for his father, God help them.
"So, how long?" John asked.
"I hope soon. With any luck he 'll have something for me to sign tomorrow. I'm going to hang here tonight, unless we get called in." It wouldn't kill him to sleep under his father's roof for one night, probably. That would also give time for the required show of good faith: the date with Missy.
"So that will be it then, a signed contract and we're good to go?"
"That's it." A signed contract and Zane's bachelorhood, if his father had his way.”
Source: Saved by a SEAL
“Zane," she breathed, and in the back of his mind, he thought, This woman. I want this woman to say my name on the caress of a kiss a thousand more times.”
Source: Keeping Mr. Right Now
“Zane," she moaned. "Please touch me."
"I will. I'm going to touch every inch of you until I know what makes you sigh and what makes you giggle and what makes you beg me to never stop. I'm going to make you shudder and scream so that long after tonight you'll remember the feel of my hands and exactly where they were on your body."
"I'm going to die if you don't get on with it.”
Source: Keeping Mr. Right Now
“Zane sighed. “I was so hoping this would be a normal vacation.”
Ty smacked him on the side of the head. “Don’t use bad words.”
Source: Ball & Chain
“Zane sighed. Jovan and Mother were just the same. “Maybe later” meant no.”
Source: Into the Hills: A Zane Johns Adventure
“Zane Smith is a guy who can shut you out as well as look at you.”
“Zane swallowed hard as he slid his hand to take Ty’s and lace their
fingers together. “Are you feeling this, too?” he asked, echoing what they’d
asked each other months ago, only to have it pushed aside. But not forgotten.”
Source: Cut & Run
“Zane was pretty sure that worries and bossing were related, like a pair of old aunties.”
Source: Into the Hills: A Zane Johns Adventure
“Zane was starting to piss him off again. Which was good, he supposed. It meant the urge to lick him all over was passing, at least.”
Source: Cut & Run
“Zane winced. “I just need you to know . . . I . . . I hate baseball.”
“You shut your whore mouth!”
Source: Crash & Burn
“Zanimljivo da je nekada bilo jako malo onih koji su tumačili snove a danas ih ima izuzetno mnogo. U ummetu se poveća broj snova jer mi, današnji muslimani, spavamo.”
“ZANY, n. A popular character in old Italian plays, who imitated with ludicrous incompetence the _buffone_, or clown, and was therefore the ape of an ape; for the clown himself imitated the serious characters of the play. The zany was progenitor to the specialist in humor, as we to-day have the unhappiness to know him. In the zany we see an example of creation; in the humorist, of transmission. Another excellent specimen of the modern zany is the curate, who apes the rector, who apes the bishop, who apes the archbishop, who apes the devil.”
Source: The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World
“Zapamiętane cierpienie nigdy nie wydaje się tak straszne jak to obecne, nawet jeśli w rzeczywistości było znacznie gorsze — nie pamiętamy, o ile bardziej cierpieliśmy kiedyś, bo pamięć jest słabsza od doświadczenia.”
Source: Beautiful World, Where Are You
“Zapamtite da vaša imena nisu imena kojim vas ljudi zovu i da ona nisu što kazuje nešto o vama. Vaša imena ustvari su vaša dobra ili loša djela.”
“Zapanjen sam kako sam svjesno, korak po korak, ušao u sve to; kako sam uvijek u tako jasnom svjetlu vidio svoj položaj, a ipak sam postupao kao dijete; kako i sada još jasno vidim, a još uvijek nema ni traga nade da stvari pođu nabolje.”
“Zaphod Beeblebrox, adventurer, ex-hippie, good-timer (crook? quite possibly), manic self-publicist, terrible bad at personal relationships, often thought to be completely out to lunch.”
Source: The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
“Zaphod did not want to tangle with them and, deciding that just as discretion is the better part of valor, so was cowardice is the better part of discretion, he valiantly hid himself in a closet.”
Source: The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
“Zaphod felt he was teetering on the edge of madness and wondered if he shouldn't just jump over and have done with it.”
Source: The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
“Zapped while zipping.”
Source: The Things They Carried
“Zappos is a customer service company that just happens to sell shoes.”
“Zappos uses call center technology to track average call time per agent. But the goal isn't to reduce this average - it's more important that we make an emotional connection with the customer, rather than just quickly getting them off the phone.”
“Zaqar Publishing House, a beast of red brick and chipped plaster, protruded from the surrounding buildings like a broken branch in swamp muck. You could hear the whirring of the massive printing presses from the street. Soot and smoke coated the walls, making it look like a smudge. This was, of course, in the days before the paper’s façade had to yellow for it to survive.”
Source: The Silent Symphony
“Zar nas tek velika nesreća zaista vraća sebi? (...) Ima nečega istinski velikog, za um i dušu velikog, u svakoj pravoj nesreći. Samo u njoj postoji jedna životna istina koje se više ne bi lišio. Nikad.”
Source: Vreme smrti, knjiga III
“Zar nije neobično dražesna? To je bilo mišljenje i čitavog društva. Ali užasno je tvrdoglavo - to slatko malo stvorenje.”
Source: A Doll's House
“Zar se, dakle, i heroji pod kožom tako malograđanski boje smrti?
Sasvim logično. Jedno je javna smrt, smrt u punom ornatu, a drugo je sitna, privatna smrt, Jedno je izložiti se zalutalom tanetu "na polju časti", atentatorskom metku u krunidbenoj povorci, pasti prosvirana šešira s perjem, "pod ešarpom izvršene dužnosti", a drugo je pasivno dotrajavanje sred četiri zida našeg tmurnog doma, među našim altdajč kredencima, rastočena trbuha pod kordonom kućne haljine, iz koje davno upijeni mirisi jela, kućevnosti, ishlapljena naftalina već čudno udaraju mirisom smrti.”
Source: Proljeća Ivana Galeba
“Zar su isti oni koji znanju i oni koji ne znaju?!
1. neznanje + siromaštvo = krađa
2. neznanje + imetak = rasipništvo
3. neznanje + sloboda = anarhija
4. neznanje + vlast = nepravda
5. neznanje + vjera = pretjerivanje
Na mjesto neznanja postavi znanje, pa ćeš spoznati njegovu vrijednost:
1. znanje + siromaštvo = zadovoljstvo
2. znanje + imetak = pomaganje drugih
3. znanje + sloboda = sretan život
4. znanje + vlast = pravda
5. znanje + vjera = ustrajnost”
“Zar čovjekovo poricanje Boga nije ponekad kapriciozno? Ograničenost savremenog čovjeka najviše se ogleda u njegovom uvjerenju da mu je sve jasno. Njegova mudrost je zbir njegovog znanja i ogromne količine neznanja koje on ne primjećuje, koje on, bolje rečeno, prihvata kao znanje. I pred licem najveće tajne on se ponaša samouvjereno i uobraženo. On ne vidi zagonetku i upravo u tome se očituje kolosalna mjera njegovog neznanja i predrasuda.”
Source: الإسلام بين الشرق والغرب
“Zara [Phillips] skis very well but is happy to take it easy around me. She will often wait for me when I'm on my snowboard but she can really whizz around if she needs to. I only snowboard if I'm on my own with Zara; if we're with other people who want to go a bit quicker, I will stick with skis.”
“Zara had two sisters, one of whom struggled with anorexia, and the other with depression, two conditions that Emira's mother believed black people didn't "get.”
“Zara.” He sighs. The wind bellows outside. “How can I make you understand this? I need your mom. If I don’t get her, more boys will die.”
“That’s ridiculous.”
“No, it’s just how it is.”
I think for a second. “If that’s true, then why did Ian try to turn me?”
He loses his composure. His face shifts into something worried, something almost human. “Did he kiss you?”
“Almost. Betty killed him first.”
He almost smiles. He pulls his hand through his hair. “Betty is fierce.”
“Is that why you stay away when she’s here?”
“Not even a pixie wants to tangle with a tiger.”
He blows on the ember in his hand. It turns to dust.
“You seem like you could handle almost anything,” I say.
“This?” He smirks. “Parlor tricks.”
Source: Need
“Zara, sympathy is just a good excuse to buy greeting cards and make sorry eyes and secretly gloat over how glad you are that you aren't the person whose crap is hanging out for everyone to see.”
Source: Captivate
“Zara turned in his arms. "What can I do to help?"
He let out a shuddering breath. "You can go find yourself a guy who's not all messed up."
"I kinda like this guy." She leaned up to kiss his cheek. "If you hadn't noticed, messed up is my specialty."
His hand slid under her nightshirt and he stroked the curve of her hip. "I need you."
"I was hoping you'd say that." She drew his hand down to her lace-covered rear. "I've been wearing special panties every night in case you did.”
Source: The Singles Table
“Zara. We all need to rescue and we all need to be rescued.”
Source: Captivate
“Zarafet olmadan güzellik yarım bir güzelliktir; güzellik olmadan zarafet hâlen tam bir güzelliktir!”
“Zarafet ve nezaket bu dünyanın kabalığına zarif ve nazik bir yanıttır!”
“Zarafetin misyonu, kabalığın çirkinliğini güzellikle yenmek ve böylece daha kibar bir dünya yaratmaktır!”
“Zarar verenin zarar verilenden daha sağlam olması gerekir, oysa kötülük erdemden daha güçlü değildir, dolayısıyla bilgeye zarar vermek mümkün değildir. Sadece kötüler iyilere haksızlık yapmaya yeltenir, iyiler kendi aralarında huzurludur, kötüler ise iyiler için değil, kendileri için tehlikelidir.”
Source: Bilgenin Sarsılmazlığı Üzerine – İnziva Üzerine
“Zarathustra answered: “I love mankind.”
Source: Thus Spoke Zarathustra
“Zarathustra left his home and the lake of his home and went into the mountains. Here he enjoyed his spirit and his solitude and for ten years he did not tire of it.”
Source: Thus Spoke Zarathustra
“Zarathustra was the first to consider the fight of good and evil the very wheel in the machinery of things: the transposition of morality into the metaphysical realm, as a force, cause, and end in itself, is his work. [...] Zarathustra created this most calamitous error, morality; consequently, he must also be the first to recognize it.”
Source: Philosophical Writings: Friedrich Nietzsche
“Zarek era stato forte per tutta la vita e voleva continuare a esserlo. Non l'avrebbe mai legata a sé. Non sarebbe stato giusto.
A volte una stella cade sulla terra.
Sentì le parole di Acheron in testa. Aveva ragione; a volte succedeva, ma col tempo quella stella si omologava alla banalità e alla sporcizia del mondo.
La sua era speciale.
Non avrebbe permesso che diventasse come le altre. Non avrebbe permesso che venisse infangata e perdesse la sua unicità.
No, il suo posto era nel cielo. Con la sua famiglia.”
Source: Dance With the Devil
“Zarek! I won’t leave you here to die. (Astrid) It’s okay, princess. I don’t mind dying for you. (Zarek)”
“Zarek? (Astrid) What?! (Zarek) Don’t use that tone with me. I like to know where people are in my house. Be nice, or I’ll make you wear a cowbell. (Astrid)”