Nobody Quotes (page 12)

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• game
• personality
• good

Nobody wants to admit to this, but bad things will keep on happening. Maybe that's beause it's all a chain, and a long time ago someone did the first bad thing, and that led someone else to do another bad thing, and so on. You know, like that game where you whisper a sentence into someone's ear, and that person whispers it to someone else, and it all comes out wrong in the end. But then again, maybe bad things happen because it's the only way we can keep remembering what good is supposed to... Jodi Picoult

• alone
• manly
• lets

Nobody sees any one as he is, let alone an elderly lady sitting opposite a strange young man in a railway carriage. They see a whole--they see all sorts of things--they see themselves... Virginia Woolf

• life
• time
• winning

Nobody's going to win all the time. On the highway of life you can't always be in the fast lane. Haruki Murakami

• love husband
• children
• husband

Nobody around here had ever seen a lady beekeeper till her. She liked to tell everybody that women made the best beekeepers, 'cause they have a special ability built into them to love creatures that sting. It comes from years of loving children and husbands. Sue Monk Kidd

• truthful
• driven
• abstraction

Nobody is driven by abstractions like 'seeking truth. Michael Crichton

• helpful
• wishes
• him

Nobody likes cravens,” he said uncomfortably. “I wish we hadn’t helped him. What if they think we’re craven too?” "You're too stupid to be craven,” Pyp told him. “I am not,” Grenn said. “Yes you are. If a bear attacked you in the woods, you’d be too stupid to run away.” “I would not,” Grenn insisted. “I’d run away faster than you.” He stopped suddenly, scowling when he saw Pyp’s grin and realized what he’d just said. George R. R. Martin

• love
• imagination
• yourself and love

Nobody knows you. You don't know yourself. And I, who am half in love with you, What am I in love with? My own imaginings? David Herbert Lawrence

• happy
• light
• she

Nobody's happy. What's happy? Happiness is over when the lights come on."The older woman poured herself a glass of sangria. "Screw that," she said quietly."What?"Screw that. Wash your mouth out. Who taught you that half-assed existential drivel? Armistead Maupin

• weird
• know
• knowing

NOBODY KNOWS THE WEIRDNESS I'VE SEEN ON THE TRAIL OF THE BROWN BUFFALO Hunter S. Thompson

• time
• real
• who

Nobody who's really using his ego, his real ego, has any time for any goddam hobbies J. D. Salinger

• simple
• power
• powerful

Nobody goes "AAAAAAAGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!" when they sing it. Maybe because it puts the life adventure in such clear and simple terms. The small creature is alive and looks for adventure. Here's the drainpipe--a long tunnel going up toward some light. The spider doesn't even think about it--just goes. Disaster befalls it--rain, flood, powerful foces. And the spider is knocked down and out beyond where it started. Does the spider say, "To hell with that"? No. Sun comes out--clears... Robert Fulghum

• hero
• saying
• will

Nobody who says, ‘I told you so’ has ever been, or will ever be, a hero. Ursula K. Le Guin

• love
• die
• lovely

Nobody dies from the lack of sex. It's lack of love we die from. Margaret Atwood

• ignorance
• becomes
• problem

Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problem of wheat. Socrates

• evening
• heart
• imagination

Nobody even imagines how well one can lie about the state of one’s own heart. Yukio Mishima