Quotes About Misunderstanding
There was general agreement that Brahe was correct, until Gell-Man taught the squad to swear in Arabic.
~ John Scalzi
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he wasn't much of a natural in anything. This was something he sensed early and hid with overcompensation, which is why so many of his training squad members thought he was an asshole.
~ John Scalzi
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Duvall sighed. "Anatoly," she said. "It's me." "Maia?" Kerensky said. "They got you too. Don't worry. I won't let these bastards do anything to you. Do you hear me, you sons of bitches?" Hester looked over to Dahl disbelievingly. Dahl shrugged. "Anatoly," Maia said, more forcefully. "They didn't get me too." "What?" Kerensky said. Then, after a minute, "Oh.
~ John Scalzi
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I'm guessing you thought I was way off on your political philosophy but right on the button about the other two. Just think about that for a while.
~ John Scalzi
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It's not like the countess doesn't already know we're fucking." Fundapellonan blinked at this. "What?" "I assumed she told you I like to fuck around, so you should get with me to see if I would say anything useful while we banged." "Is that what you really think is going on here?" Fundapellonan asked. "Isn't it?" "Well, yes," Fundapellonan admitted. "But you're not supposed to think it.
~ John Scalzi
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Many are the stories I have heard about myself. I have mistresses I have never met. When I hear that I am a sodomist and a zoophalist then I shall know that I have reached the high point of fame, but I suppose I can hardly expect such exaltation for many years.
~ John Steinbeck
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Tiny emerged on deck some hours later, shaken but smiling. He said that what he had been considering love had turned out to be simple flatulence. He said he wished all his romantic problems could be solved as easily.
~ John Steinbeck
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What's celebrate? Eddie asked. That's when you can't get no dame, said Mack. I thought it was a kind of a party, said Jones. A silence fell on the room.
~ John Steinbeck
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People have so often been hurt and trapped and tortured by ideas and contraptions which they did not understand, that they have come to believe all things passing their understanding are vicious and evil—things to be stamped out and destroyed by the first comer. They only protect themselves, thus, against the ghastly hurts that can come to them from little things grown up.
~ John Steinbeck
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I seen her beat the hell out of a tin peddler with a live chicken one time 'cause he give her a argument. She had the chicken in one han', an' the ax in the other, about to cut its head off. She aimed to go for that peddler with the ax, but she forgot which hand was which, an' she takes after him with the chicken. Couldn' even eat that chicken when she got done. They wasn't nothing but a pair a legs in her han'. Grampa throwed his hip outa joint laughin'. How'd my folks go so easy?
~ John Steinbeck
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When her mother died, she felt little besides shame. Her mother had wanted so much to be loved, and she hadn't known how to draw love. Her importunities had bothered the children and driven them away.
~ John Steinbeck
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It wasn't my fault. I'm innocent. Why won't these dogs believe me?
~ John Swartzwelder
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He looked at me like I was stupid. Why do people always look at me like that?
~ John Swartzwelder
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Oh,' she says, 'the Vat prints nothing but rapes. You know what a rape usually is? It's a woman who changed her mind afterward.
~ John Updike
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He had mistaken the two of them for one and entrusted to her this ghost of his alone. A mistake married people make.
~ John Updike
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Foo Kyu' is just a very unfortunate cultural coincidence. Just think about his poor son, 'Foo Kyu Two.'
~ John Zakour
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I have missed the point in thinking of my own feelings.
~ Unknown
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Any problem, big or small, within a family, always seems to start with bad communication. Someone isn't listening.
~ Emma Thompson
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Families break up when they get hints you don't intend and miss hints that you do.
~ Robert Frost
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That's how it goes within a family. You think you know each other so well, and so you don't bother hardly getting to know each other at all.
~ Orson Scott Card
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In my family, we seem to have a tortured history of not saying what we ought to and not meaning what we do.
~ Jodi Picoult
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It happens to be one of those days when I see everybody in the family, including myself, through the wrong end of a telescope.
~ J. D. Salinger
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Unfortunately in television, for whatever reason, fantasy became thought of as a kids' genre.
~ George R. R. Martin
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You mistake us for abstaining your kind from undeserving happiness when all we do is to fight for our cause. We are soldiers, not rebels.
~ Unknown
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