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Source: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

“Sometimes the little times you don't think are anything while they're happening turn out to be what marks a whole period of your life.”

Thinking Littles Sometimes Whole Turns Periods Happenings Mark Photographer Little Time

Book:The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again

Source: The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again

“There are genuine mysteries in the world that mark the limits of human knowing and thinking. Wisdom is fortified, not destroyed, by understanding its limitations. Ignorance does not make a fool as surely as self-deception.”

Thinking World Humans Doe Self Wisdom Understanding Knowing Mystery Ignorance Fool Limits Mark Genuine Destroyed Limitation Deception Self Deception

Author:Mortimer Adler

“Here's the thing: this eel spends its entire life trying to find a home, and what do you think women have inside them? Caves, where the eels like to live...when they find a cave they like, the wriggle around inside it for a while to be sure that...well, to be sure it's a nice cave, I suppose. And when they've made up their minds that it's comfortable, they mark the cave as their territory...by spitting.”

Thinking Trying Mind Wells Made Home Sex Nice Comfortable Mark Territory Caves Eels

Author:Arthur Golden

“What do you think? Does everything look right? " " You really expect me to look at anything but you? " She laughed even as her pulse jittered. " Boy, I must be in bad shape when a shopworn line like that hits the mark. " " I mean it, " he said and watched her smile fade. " I adore looking at you. " Laying a hand on her knees with a long, slow, thorough kiss. " Beautiful Margo. mine. " " Well, you're certainly taking my mind off my ... kiss me again. " " Glad to.”

Thinking Mind Wells Looks Mean Long Doe Said Hands Beautiful Lines Boys Mines Shapes Kissing Mark Glad Knees Laughed Fades Adore Pulse Thorough Kiss Me Her Smile

Book:Nora Roberts' Dream Trilogy

Source: Nora Roberts' Dream Trilogy

“'You hate America, don't you?' 'That would be as silly as loving it,' I said. 'It's impossible for me to get emotional about it, because real estate doesn't interest me. It's no doubt a great flaw in my personality, but I can't think in terms of boundaries. Those imaginary lines are as unreal to me as elves and pixies. I can't believe that they mark the end or the beginning of anything of real concern to a human soul. Virtues and vices, pleasures and pains cross boundaries at will.'”

“Remember, we Christians think man lives for ever. Therefore, what really matters is those little marks or twists on the central, inside part of the soul which are going to turn it, in the long run, into a heavenly or a hellish creature.”

Thinking Men Littles Long Soul Matter Running Christian Remember Turns Creatures Mark Heavenly Long Runs Twists

Book:The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics

Source: The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics

“I think the act of reading imbues the reader with a sensitivity toward the outside world that people who don't read can sometimes lack. I know it seems like a contradiction in terms; after all reading is such a solitary, internalizing act that it appears to represent a disengagement from day-to-day life. But reading, and particularly the reading of fiction, encourages us to view the world in new and challenging ways...It allows us to inhabit the consciousness of another which is a precursor to empathy, and empathy is, for me, one of the marks of a decent human being.”

Source: The Book of Lost Things: A Novel

“Losing It Some days I think I'm losing my mind. What seems so clear most of the time becomes a big question mark. Am I really the way I percieve myself, or is the person others see the truth of me? I wait for answers, but inside I know I have to go out and find them. And answers like knowledge, are not always where we first look for them.”

Thinking Knows Way Mind Firsts Looks Persons Bigs Seems Waiting Answers Clear Losing Mark Big Questions Question Mark Losing My Mind

Author:Ellen Hopkins

“For God's sake, Marks, do you think anyone really wants a glance at those dried-up matchsticks you call legs?”

Thinking Want Mark Sake Legs Glances Matchsticks

Book:Seduce Me at Sunrise

Source: Seduce Me at Sunrise

“maturity meant thinking about risk long before you pondered the reward, and that success and happiness in life were as much about avoiding mistakes as making your mark into the world.”

Thinking World Long Mistake Risk Mark Rewards Maturity Avoiding Life Happiness

Author:Nicholas Sparks

“What is that smell? (Nick) (It was like three-day-old cat vomit mixed with rotten asparagus.) Duck urine. It keeps the zombies from thinking I’m human. (Mark) Yeah, well it keeps me from thinking you’re sane. (Nick)”

Thinking Humans Wells Three Cat Mark Yeah Smell Ducks Sane Zombie Rotten Asparagus

Author:Sherrilyn Kenyon

“You need to up your vocabulary, boy. You can’t walk around letting people think you’re stupid. Expand your horizons. Besides, it’s fun to call people names they have to look up to realize they’ve been insulted. (Mark) Yeah, that’s a twofer there. You get away with it and then they’re twice as mad when they realize how bad you really insulted them. Especially if they mistake it for a compliment when you say it and thank you for it. (Bubba)”

People Ifs Thinking Needs Looks Names Fun Realizing Walks Mistake Boys Stupid Mark Yeah Mad Look Up Get Away Horizon Compliment Vocabulary Insulted Bubba You Re Stupid

Author:Sherrilyn Kenyon

“I know Mark,' I reply. 'And I don't like him.' 'But I do. And part of being social means being civil to someone you don't like.' 'That's stupid. It's a huge world. why not just get up and walk away?' 'Because that's rude,' Jess explains. 'I think it's rude to stick a smile on your face and pretend you like talking to someone when in reality you'd rather be sticking bamboo slivers under your fingernails.”

Thinking Knows World Mean Reality Faces Social Walks Talking Stupid Huge Mark Sticks Get Up Why Not Your Face Rude Fingernails Smile On Your Face Bamboo Talking To Someone

Author:Jodi Picoult

“Can anything be more disgusting than to hear people called 'educated' making small jokes about eating ham, and showing themselves empty of any real knowledge as to the relation of their own social and religious life to the history of the people they think themselves witty in insulting? [...] The best thing that can be said of it is, that it is a sign of the intellectual narrowness—in plain English, the stupidity which is still the average mark of our culture.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)

“There was a sergeant at a desk. I knew he was a sergeant because I recognized the marks on his uniform, and I knew it was a desk because it's always a desk. There's always someone at a desk, except when it's a table that functions as a desk. You sit behind a desk, and everyone knows you're supposed to be there, and that you're doing something that involves your brain. It's an odd, special kind of importance. I think everyone should get a desk; you can sit behind it when you feel like you don't matter.”

Thinking Knows Feels Should Kind Matter Behinds Brain Special Like You Function Importance Mark Tables Supposed To Be Odd Uniforms Desks Sergeants

Book:Iorich

Source: Iorich

“Did you fall in love with her?" "I care about her. A lot." "You're not supposed to marry someone if you don't fall in love with her." "Well, love is a choice, too." Holly shook her head. "I think it's something that happens to you." Mark smiled into her small, earnest face. "Maybe it's both," he said, and tucked her in.”

Ifs Thinking Wells Said Happens Care Faces Choices Fall Love Is Mark Falling In Love I Care Earnest Hollies Don't Fall In Love

Author:Lisa Kleypas

“We also mark what's ours. And as I'm not going to see you for twelve hours, I think I'll leave a little more all over you.”

Thinking Littles Hours Mark Over You Twelve

Book:Lover Unbound: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood

Source: Lover Unbound: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood

“The second death. To think that you died and no one would remember you. I wondered if this was why we tried so hard to make our mark in America. To be known. Think of how important celebrity has become. We sing to get famous; expose our worst secrets to get famous; lose weight, eat bugs, even commit murder to get famous. Our young people post their deepest thoughts on public web sites. They run cameras from their bedrooms. It’s as if we are screaming Notice Me! Remember Me! Yet the notoriety barely lasts. Names quickly blur and in time are forgotten.”

Source: Have a Little Faith: A True Story

“As Venus within Eros does not really aim at pleasure, so Eros does not aim at happiness. We may think he does, but when he is brought to the test it proves otherwise... For it is the very mark of Eros that when he is in us we had rather share unhappiness with the Beloved than be happy on any other terms.”

Thinking May Doe Term Pleasure Share Prove Tests Mark Aim Beloved Unhappiness Venus Eros

Author:C. S. Lewis

“Karkaroff intends to flee if the Mark burns." "Does he?" said Dumbledore softly, as Fleur Delacour and Roger Davies came giggling in from the grounds. "And are you tempted to join him?" "No," said Snape, his black eyes on Fleur's and Roger's retreating figures. "I am not such a coward." "No," agreed Dumbledore. You are a braver man by far than Igot Karkaroff. You know, I sometimes think we Sort too soon..." He walked away, leaving Snape looking stricken.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Men Doe Said Sometimes Eye Black Figures Mark Leaving Coward Tempted Roger Snape Black Eyes

Author:J. K. Rowling

“Contrary to what we may have been taught to think, unnecessary and unchosen suffering wounds us but need not scar us for life. It does mark us. What we allow the mark of our suffering to become is in our own hands.”

Thinking Needs May Doe Has Beens Hands Suffering Taught Mark Contrary Wounds Scar Unnecessary

Author:Bell Hooks

“According to one influential wing of modern secular society there are few more disreputable fates than to end up being 'like everyone else' for 'everyone else' is a category that comprises the mediocre and the conformist, the boring and the suburban. The goal of all right-thinking people should be to mark themselves off from the crowd and 'stand out' in whatever way their talents allow.”

People Thinking Way Should Ends Goal Fate Modern Talent Mark Wings Crowds Boring Categories Secular Mediocre Standing Out Influential Conformist Secular Society

Author:Alain de Botton

“I looked down at my clothes. They were slashed to pieces and full of bullet holes, but I was fine. Not a mark on me. Nico's mouth hung open. "You just . . . with a sword . . . you just—" "I think the river thing worked," I said. "Oh gee," he said sarcastically. "You think?”

Thinking Said Pieces Fine Clothes Mouths Rivers Mark Holes Hung Bullets Nico Di Angelo

Author:Rick Riordan

“Don't think for a minute that bad publicity and endless criticism don't leave their claw marks on everyone concerned. Your friends try to cheer you up by saying lightly, "I suppose you get used to it, and ignore it." You try. You try damned hard. But you never get used to it. It always wounds and hurts.”

Thinking Trying Hard Used Hurt Minutes Concerned Criticism Mark Wounds Endless Cheer Publicity Claws Cheer You Up

Author:Ava Gardner

“Pulvis et umbra sumus. It's a line from Horace. 'We are dust and shadows'. Appropriate, don't you think?" Will said. "It's not a long life, killing demons; one tends to die young, and then they burn your body - dust to dust, in the literal sense. And then we vanish into the shadows of history, nary a mark on the page of a mundane book to remind the world that once we existed at all.”

Source: The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess

“I love all people. I hate no one. And, you know, when you take a subject and you reduce it to something like a four-second sound bite, and a check mark on a ballot, I think that that's inappropriate and insensitive.”

People Thinking Knows Hate Sound Four Subjects I Hate Mark Checks Bites Ballots Inappropriate Insensitive Sound Bites

Author:Kirk Cameron

“It's funny how people mark their lives, the benchmarks they choose to decide when the moment is more of a moment than any other. For life is made of them. I like to think the best ones of all are in my mind, that they run through my blood in their own memory bank for no one else but me to see.”

People Thinking Mind Made Moments Running Life Is Memories Blood Mark

Author:Cecelia Ahern

“Emery cut in impatiantly, "For crying out loud. Who do you think you are, Nancy Drew?" Hey," I snapped, because no one sniped at my sister but me, and Mark echoed with a stern "Chill, dude." Phin was unperturbed. "Those books were highly unrealistic. Do you have any idea how much brain damage a person would have if she were hit on the head and drugged with chloroform that often?”

Ifs Thinking Persons Book Ideas Brain Cutting Cry Mark Hey Loud Damage My Sister Chill Nancy Nancy Drew Chloroform

Author:Rosemary Clement-Moore

“I think for a minute. Watching my wife fade into the distance, I put a hand on my heart. "Dead." I wave a hand toward my wife. "Dead." My eyes drift toward the sky and lose their focus. "Want it...to hurt. But...doesn't." Julie looks at me like she's waiting for more, and I wonder if I've expressed anything at all with my halting, mumbled soliloquy. Are my words ever actually audible, or do they just echo in my head while people stare at me, waiting? I want to change my punctuation. I long for exclamation marks, but I'm drowning in ellipses.”

Source: Warm Bodies: A Novel

“That is what marks out the warrior: the knowledge that willpower and courage are not the same thing. Courage can attract fear and adulation, but willpower requires patience and commitment. Men and women with immense willpower are generally solitary types and give off a kind of coolness. Many people mistakenly think that (they) are cold (people) when nothing could be further from the truth.”

People Thinking Men Giving Kind Type Cold Men And Women Commitment Mark Warrior Solitary Immense Willpower Coolness Adulation

Author:Paulo Coelho

“Please," Kendra said. "Think of all the lives that will be destroyed." "I have," Mark said. "Believe me, darling, I grasp all aspects of this, I really do. But how much has the public I'm protecting worried about me? My sanity, my happiness, my right to find peace?" "They made no promises," Bracken said. "They are not preventing the end of the world. Those who know about your sacrifice appreciate you immeasurably. Your life may not be fair, but it is absolutely necessary.”

“Obeying orders just to obey is the mark of a person who has ceased to think. Remember, it is better to suffer for doing what is right rather than for doing what is wrong.”

Thinking Persons Remember Suffering Order Mark Obeying

Author:Ilsa J. Bick

“California is like a beautiful wild kid on heroin, high as a kite and thinking she's on top of the world, not knowing she's dying, not believing it even if you show her the marks.”

Ifs Thinking World Believe Shows Kids Beautiful Knowing Dying Mark California Not Knowing Heroin Kites Top Of The World

Book:The Outsiders: That was Then, this is Now ; Rumble Fish

Source: The Outsiders: That was Then, this is Now ; Rumble Fish

“Listen and learn: you need fourteen characters, minimum. Use random letters, not words. Here’s a tip: think of a sentence, and use the first letter in each of those words. Mix it up between upper and lower case. Then pick two numbers that mean something to you – not dates – and stick them somewhere between the letters. Put a punctuation mark at the beginning of the password and then a symbol, like a dollar sign, at the end.”

Thinking Needs Firsts Mean Two Ends Character Use Numbers Cases Picks Letters Mark Dollars Sticks Sentences Symbols Minimum Fourteen Punctuation Passwords Punctuation Marks

Book:About That Night

Source: About That Night

“I think that it is a part of growing up, learning to control our suffering. I think that when we grow up, and learn that happiness is rare, and passes quickly, we become disillusioned and hurt. And how much we suffer is a mark of how much we have been hurt by this realisation. Suffering, you see, is a kind of anger. We rage against the unfairness, the injustice of our sad and sorry lot.”

Thinking Kind Has Beens Suffering Grows Hurt Growing Up Growing Mark Sorry Injustice Rage Realisation Unfairness Disillusioned Been Hurt

Book:Shantaram: A Novel

Source: Shantaram: A Novel

“Many men think they're playboys but they invariably land wide of the mark. Surrounding yourself with champagne, fast friends and paid escorts is the very definition of the word 'loser'.”

Thinking Men Land Mark Paid Definitions Wide Loser Champagne Playboy

Author:Graydon Carter

“The most important thing for any con artist is never to think like a mark. Marks think they can get something for nothing. Marks think they can get what they don’t deserve and could never deserve. Marks are stupid and pathetic and sad. Marks think they’re going to go home one night and have the girl they’ve loved since they were a kid suddenly love them back. Marks forget that whenever something’s too good to be true, that’s because it’s a con.”

Thinking Important Home Kids Artist Night Girl Forget Stupid Deserve Mark Important Things Being True Pathetic One Night Too Good To Be True Con Artist

Author:Holly Black

“I think you and he need to talk. And once you do, I won’t have to worry about being jumped like a felon again.” Blay frowned. “He and I have nothing to say to each other—” “With all due respect, the ligature marks around my neck would suggest otherwise.”

Thinking Needs Worry Mark Dues Necks Felons

Book:Lover At Last: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood

Source: Lover At Last: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood

“I think it was Mark Twain who said, “Get your facts straight, and then you can distort them as much as you like.”

Thinking Said Facts Mark

Book:A Dangerous Thing

Source: A Dangerous Thing

“The marks humans leave are too often scars. You build a hideous minimall or start a coup or try to become a rock star and you'll think "they'll remember me now," but (a) they don't remember you, and (b) all you leave behind are more scars. Your coup becomes a dictatorship. Your minimall becomes a lesion.”

Thinking Trying Humans Remember Stars Behinds Rocks Mark Scar Dictatorship Rock Star Hideous Remember Me Coups

Author:John Green

“No," said Simon. "I know we're not much compared to you, but we don't kill our friends. We try to save them. If Heaven didn't want it that way, we ought to have been given the ability to love." He shoved his hair back, baring the Mark more fully. "No, you don't need to help me. But if you don't, there's nothing stopping me from calling you up again and again, now that I know you can't kill me. Think of it as me leaning on you Heavenly doorbell... forever.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Way Want Needs Trying Has Beens Said Helping Given Heaven Ability Forever Hair Ought Calling Mark Help Me Heavenly Again And Again Stopping Kill Me Ability To Love

Author:Cassandra Clare

“The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness. The remarkable thing is that the cessation of the inner dialogue marks also the end of our concern with the world around us. It is as if we noted the world and think about it only when we have to report it to ourselves.”

Ifs Thinking World Ends Sadness Loneliness Concern Mark Finals Genuine Dialogue Reports Remarkable

Author:Eric Hoffer

“I think it's the mark of a great player to be confident in tough situations.”

Thinking Success Sports Situation Player Tough Mark Competition Self Confidence Motivational Sports Be Confident Tough Situations

Author:John McEnroe

“An attitude of positive expectation is the mark of the superior personality.”

“I try not to think about marks, the first place or gold medal. The most important thing is to show what you are capable of on ice. The rest will come on its own.”

Thinking Trying Firsts Important Shows Capable Gold Mark Important Things Ass Ice Bad Ass Medal Gold Medals

Author:Evgeni Plushenko

“Domestic violence causes far more pain than the visible marks of bruises and scars. It is devastating to be abused by someone that you love and think loves you in return. It is estimated that approximately 3 million incidents of domestic violence are reported each year in the United States.”

“It (the dash ) is a comfortable punctuation mark since even the most rigorous critic can seldom claim that any particular example of it is a misuse. Its overuse is its greatest danger, and the writer who can't resist dashes may be suspected of uncoordinated thinking.”

Thinking Writing May Danger Example Particular Comfortable Claims Mark Critics Misuse Punctuation Punctuation Marks

Author:Bergen Evans

“A home is much more than a house built of lumber, brick, or stone. A home is made of love, sacrifice, and respect. We are responsible for the homes we build. We must build wisely, for eternity is not a short voyage. There will be calm and wind, sunlight and shadows, joy and sorrow. But if we really try, our home can be a bit of heaven here on earth. The thoughts we think, the deeds we do, the lives we live not only influence the success of our earthly journey, they also mark the way to our eternal goals.”

“When you go back to your environment and you deal with employees... do you inspire people or do you make them feel fear? Do you make them feel confident or incompetent? I think that distinction really marks the leader.”

People Thinking Feels Leadership Deals Leader Environment Inspire Respect Mark Distinction Employee Our Environment Incompetent

Author:Liz Murray

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