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Quotes About Shrugging

Nova shrugged, looking as if she had personally invented shrugging and hadn't quite sorted out the fine details yet.
~ Philip Reeve
I don't mean to imply that they were cowards...," Maurizio said, shrugging, clearly implying that [they] were cowards.
~ Rachel Hartman
For Ashley was born of a line of men who used their leisure for thinking, not doing, for spinning brightly colored dreams that had in them no touch of reality... He looked on people, and he neither liked nor disliked them. He looked on life and was neither heartened nor saddened. He accepted the universe and his place in it for what they were and, shrugging, turned to his music and books and his better world.
~ Margaret Mitchell
Big Government depends on going around the country stirring up apathy—creating the sense that problems are so big, so complex, so intractable that even attempting to think about them for yourself gives you such a splitting headache it's easier to shrug and accept as given the proposition that only government can deal with them.
~ Mark Steyn
Got some red on me, yeah," she kind-of-quotes, shrugging his inspection off, all the tiny scars up and down her thighs and hips crawling over themselves to be seen.
~ Stephen Graham Jones
People could not accept the presence of Evil. They had to laugh, or shrug. Walk away, or look elsewhere.
~ Caroline B. Cooney
the sky was shrugging away the clouds
~ Gretta Mulrooney