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“I pout my lower lip for a second, but then I grin as the pieces come together in my mind. "THAT'S why you like me!" I exclaim. "Because you're not very nice either! It makes so much more sense now.”

Mind Together Pieces Nice Lips Like Me Very Nice Insurgent Tris Tobias And Tris

Author:Veronica Roth

“I love you," I say. I said that once, before I went to Erudite headquarters, but he was asleep then. I don't know why I didn't say it when he could hear it. Maybe I was afraid to trust him with something so personal as my devotion. Or afraid that I did not know what it was to love someone. But now I think the scary thing was not saying it before it was too late. Not saying it before it was almost too late for me.”

Thinking Knows Said Love You Late Scary Devotion Too Late Love Someone Insurgent Scary Things Headquarters Erudite

Author:Veronica Roth

“I don’t know what world you live in, but in mine, people only do things for you for one of two reasons. The first is if they want something in return. And the second is if they feel like they owe you something.”

People Ifs Knows World Want Feels Firsts Two Reason Mines Return Want Something Insurgent

Author:Veronica Roth

“Not like Tobias, who is almost shy when he smiles, like he is surprised you bothered to look at him in the first place.”

Firsts Looks Shy Bothered Insurgent Tobias

Author:Veronica Roth

“You’re too important to just … die.” He shakes his head. He won’t even look at me—his eyes keep shifting across my face, to the wall behind me or the ceiling above me, to everything but me. I am too stunned to be angry. “I’m not important. Everyone will do just fine without me,” I say. “Who cares about everyone? What about me?”

Looks Important Eye Care Faces Dies Behinds Wall Fine Angry His Eyes Shakes Look At Me Who Cares Shifting Ceilings Stunned Insurgent Tobias

Author:Veronica Roth

“How is it I know this little about the boy who says he loves me-”

Knows Littles Boys Insurgent Beatrice Prior

Author:Veronica Roth

“One choice can transform you. One choice can destroy you. Once choice will define you.”

Choices Insurgent Define You Tris Prior

Author:Veronica Roth

“The evacuation of Petersburg and Richmond, and the surrender of the principal insurgent army, give hope of a righteous and speedy peace whose joyous expression can not be restrained. In the midst of this, however, He, from Whom all blessings flow, must not be forgotten. A call for a national thanksgiving is being prepared, and will be duly promulgated.”

Giving Religious Expression Blessing Flow Army Prepared Forgotten Surrender Midst Righteous Principal Can Not Joyous Insurgent Evacuation Richmond

Book:Selected writings of Abraham Lincoln

Source: Selected writings of Abraham Lincoln

“Oh, the transition concerns me because as we move towards an important political event, it's clear to me that the terrorists and insurgents will move as hard as they can to disrupt this process.”

Important Hard Moving Political Process Clear Military Events Concern Terrorist Transition Insurgent

Author:John Abizaid

“I was the hero of the young insurgent working class art movement.”

Art Young Class Movement Hero Working Class Insurgent Working Class Hero

Author:Elia Kazan

“It is a gift. You cannot earn it, or it ceases to be a gift.”

Cease Insurgent

Author:Veronica Roth

“We've got to ensure that the quality and the capability of these forces will be good enough to withstand the challenges that the insurgents and the terrorists will present to the new Iraqi government.”

Enough Government Force Challenges Quality Be Good Terrorist Good Enough Capability Insurgent

Author:John Abizaid

“Insurgents throughout Iraq continue to threaten our efforts and pose a danger to stability in the region. They fight not for their country, but rather against ours.”

Country Fighting Effort Danger Iraq Regions Stability Insurgent

Author:Paul Gillmor

“The gentleman holds justice to be of highest importance. If a gentleman has courage but neglects justice, he becomes insurgent. If an inferior man has courage but neglects justice, he becomes a thief.”

Ifs Men Justice Courage Highest Importance Gentleman Neglect Thieves Inferiors Have Courage Insurgent

Author:Confucius

“Insurgents have capitalized on popular resentment and anger towards the United States and the Iraqi government to build their own political, financial and military support, and the faith of Iraqi citizens in their new government has been severely undermined.”

Has Beens States Government Political United United States Support Military Citizens Anger Financial Resentment Insurgent New Government

Author:Tom Lantos

“Capturing any member of any terrorist cell or any insurgent cell that we may happen to come across is always very, very valuable, and the thing that interests me is that in most instances after a time people talk and they tell us what they know.”

People Knows May Happens Interest Members Valuable Terrorist Instance Cells Insurgent

Author:John Abizaid

“In 'Insurgent' we realise how large the world really is”

World Realising Insurgent

Author:Veronica Roth

“Most commonly revolt is born of material circumstances; but insurrection is always a moral phenomenon. Revolt is Masaniello, who led the Neapolitan insurgents in 1647; but insurrection is Spartacus. Insurrection is a thing of the spirit, revolt is a thing of the stomach.”

Spirit Born Moral Materials Circumstances Rebellion Phenomenon Stomach Revolt Insurgent Insurrection Spartacus

Book:Les Misérables

Source: Les Misérables

“[Insurgents] pose no strategic threat to the United States or to the Coalition Forces.”

States Politics Force United United States Threat Strategic Coalitions Insurgent

Author:Paul Bremer

“When you review the Central American wars or other Latin American wars, you find that there were dictators and there were insurgents.”

War Latin Reviews Dictator Latin America Insurgent Latin American American War

Author:Alvaro Uribe

“The violent illiteracies of the graffiti, the clenched silence of the adolescent, the nonsense cries from the stage-happening, are resolutely strategic. The insurgent and the freak-out have broken off discourse with a cultural system which they despise as a cruel, antiquated fraud. They will not bandy words with it. Accept, even momentarily, the conventions of literate linguistic exchange, and you are caught in the net of the old values, of the grammars that can condescend or enslave.”

Source: George Steiner: A Reader

“In religion, it is not the sycophants or those who cling most faithfully to the status quo who are ultimately praised. It is the insurgents.”

Status Quo Dissent Insurgent Sycophants

Book:The Courage to Create

Source: The Courage to Create

“At a time when the insurgents are saying that time is working against them, my Democratic colleagues are introducing a measure to set a timetable for withdrawal in Iraq that will undercut the momentum that the insurgents themselves say we have built in Iraq.”

Built Democratic Iraq Introducing Colleagues Momentum Withdrawal Insurgent Timetables Undercut

Author:Christopher Bond

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