It's not often real that you encounter the real person behind a good-natured mask, the darkest part of someone. It's not comfortable what you do.
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VERONICA ROTH i believe in love. lust. sex. romance. i don't want everything to add up to the perfect equation...i...
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~ANYA SUNDQUIST~ Do whatever you like because life is short
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LADY STARLIGHT Time is like the fan, if you keep enjoying its comfortable air without using it distinctively, you s...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH "Karma has fixed menu,No A-la carté is served.
VISHESH LUNI ...the person you encounter is often more than the person you see.
CLARE VANDERPOOL You do not just get to know what you did not know when you travel to the right scenery, but you get ...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH In the real journey of life, it is not what you do; it is what you don't do that matters the most.
HARSHIT WALIA But when you work with the director and the real person who is playing opposite you, it changes ever...
OLIVIER MARTINEZ The real question is, can you love the real me? Not the perfect person you want me to be, not that i...
CHRISTINE FEEHAN Real results come from what you do, not what you say you can do.
SCOTTIE SOMERS The real power of AJAX is not so much in its (technical) innovation. Its real power is in the adopti...
DANNY SABBAH The real power of AJAX is not so much in its [technical] innovation. Its real power is in the adopti...
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DANNY SABBAH Its not its what your country can do for you what you could do for your country.
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CAROL OATES We become increasingly aware that the human dream, the human drama, with all its questionable, damag...
DONNA GODDARD The real acts of a real devil you know have been made acceptable by the fictitious actions of a none...
MIKE KLEPPER To have the comfort of sharing and laughing with genuine people who actually care is like taking a n...
GARY F EVANS... We laugh if its real. Its a joke if isn't real. I don't laugh much in jokes, because I know they are...
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CLIFTON FADIMAN What a person cannot do he will not do, no matter how much he wants to do it. Normative economics ha...
HERBERT SIMON What is real is not the external form, but the essence of things... it is impossible for anyone to e...
CONSTANTIN BRANCUSI Do a favor of yourself, watch what you like, do what you like, and be a person not what your wife/hu...
DEYTH BANGER If you're treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person. If certain things are described...
JAMES BALDWIN You can never connect on a deeper level if you idolise someone - you don't see the real person.
ALEXANDER SKARSGARD If someone buys the same shoe that you have, it has nothing to do with you. Its the joy in you, that...
SUSIE L HILL You have to realize that a lot of years have to pass before the track records and resumes make you f...
BUCK SHOWALTER From a durability standpoint, I don't know that there's much more you can do. We're real pleased wit...
THOMAS MILLER [That means, of course, that management must treat its employees well.] If you treat employees nicel...
KEN OLSEN Ideas emerge when a part of the real or imagined world is studied for its own sake.
E. O. WILSON Relationships are about taking off the mask you wear to make someone like you and letting them see t...
SOMAN CHAINANI If you offshore, if you telecommute, if you do anything to minimize your company's physical real...
DYLAN TAYLOR Information exists for a reason, as well as the Consciousness. The Ego and the Self are important co...
LIONEL SUGGS Real victories are those that protect human life, not those that result from its destruction or emer...
HUSSEIN OF JORDAN I'm not sure what a good person is, exactly. On the one hand, it could be someone who always play by...
MICHAEL THOMAS FORD It puts a real person behind what is otherwise described in a textbook.
CLAY CALVERT This is part of the way we are transforming a real estate company to one that is known by its brands...
JAVIER BENITO Good writing does not succeed or fail on the strength of its ability to persuade. It succeeds or fai...
MALCOLM GLADWELL It's not real good news out there. We're basically falling behind.
WAYNE SCHLOOP Being offended is part of being in the real world.
COURTNEY LOVE My life is good because I am not passive about it. I invest in what is real. Like real people, to do...
GWYNETH PALTROW Hypothetically, if the only choice you got is to do the wrong thing, then its not really a wrong thi...
VLADIMIR LEM There's something about a place you've been with someone you love. It takes on a meaning in your min...
CASSANDRA CLARE Wondering whether Christianity is real is not the same as wondering whether Christianity is true. If...
GREGORY A. BOYD Sometimes your inability to let go has nothing to do with real love and everything to do with what t...
SHANNON L. ALDER A cultivated style would be like a mask. Everybody knows it's a mask, and sooner or later you must s...
KATHERINE ANNE PORTER If you're treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person. If certain things are descr...
JAMES BALDWIN You must set and identify the real time limit for its implementation
SUNDAY ADELAJA If you leave a good trace behind you, that trace will continue its walk even if you stop!
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN I am not a fan of historical fiction that is sloppy in its research or is dishonest about the real h...
KATE MOSSE I dislike the phrase 'Internet friends,' because it implies that people you know online aren't reall...
JOHN GREEN The opposite of love is not hate, its apathy, when you simply don't bother about that person!
AMISH TRIPATHI The real secret of happiness is not what you have or what you receive; it's what you share
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MATTHEW QUICK I definitely look up to Veronica Roth, Suzanne Collins, and J.K. Rowling.
VICTORIA AVEYARD I can't tell if she's actually real, or if she's stopped caring if she's real or not. Or is not cari...
JENNIFER EGAN It is the consistency of the information that matters for a good story, not its completeness. Indeed...
DANIEL KAHNEMAN You don't get second chances in the real world.
GAIL SIMMONS For economist the real world is often a special case.
EDGAR FIEDLER He's also someone who men and women are instantly fond of , ... He's the cutest, funniest boy that y...
JOHN WATERS Stand for something. Make your life mean something. Start where you are with what you have. You are ...
GERMANY KENT It is in the nature of man to want what he does not have. This modern concern for happiness seems a ...
CRISS JAMI You can never have real success till you meet the real person -- YOU.
SOURCE UNKNOWN What is not yours always chirps for its master.
SPANISH PROVERB We don't know what the damage is, per se. We don't know if its salvageable or not. But while the bui...
DANNY WUERFFEL It is often that a cow does not take after its breed.
IRISH PROVERB It's not my fault, its everyone else's......losers!
JACKIE MCQUILLAN Millions of people acknowledge today that they do not know the meaning of life.
JAMES C. DOBSON The life that I have lived was no more than a mask covering the real me. What has happened was not t...
E'YEN A. GARDNER Focus on your work. Do what you're great at. Don't compare yourself to others and or waste time crit...
GERMANY KENT In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love you want the other person.
MARGARET ANDERSON I am not loved. I am not a beautiful soul. I am not a good-natured, giving person. I am not anybody'...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Negative thinking is subtle and deceptive. It wears many faces and hides behind the mask of excuses....
ROBERT H. SCHULLER You're still trying to protect me. Real or not real," he whispers.
"Real," I answer. "Because t...
SUZANNE COLLINS You often love someone not for what they are, but for what you are when you are with them.
JEFFREY FRY It is what it looks like and is called. A jail. it is not a front for something else, not a facade, ...
URSULA K. LE GUIN A real desire to believe all the good you can of others and to make others as comfortable as you can...
C.S. LEWIS I always felt there was a kind of humanistic impulse in my thinking about film as well as a real int...
LENNY ABRAHAMSON Its not just the visual blight of seeing those poles when you come into the neighborhood off of Pric...
MIKE DIDOMENICO This concept could easily have gone awry. Stories about love tend to go that way sometimes. They wan...
VERONICA ROTH And once you cease to be a real person, you stop being a good actor.
SCOTT SPEEDMAN real strength is not hitting when what you most want to do is kill.
ALLY CARTER Being in love isn't always the fairytale we want it to be, but guess what? Fairytales aren't real. L...
CAROL LYNNE To make real change, you have to be well anchored - not only in the belief that it can be done, but ...
TWYLA THARP Open your mind, open your heart and focus on the record, ... If you are in fact disposed to vote for...
GREGORY CRAIG How can love be worthy of its name if one selects solely the pretty things and leaves out the hardsh...
ELIF SHAFAK You can fake your age or mask it, but the passion that moves the characters has to be real.
VICTORIA ABRIL You want to meet someone who likes the same things you do, and who likes you most when you're most b...
B.J. NOVAK In many ways, playing a real person is slightly easier because you have a road map. When you're ...
RUTH NEGGA you wanna know what is the perfect weapon?the perfect way of manipulation?Its not a big secreat,ITS ...
RAJA Do what you do so well that they will want to see it again and bring their friends.
~WALT DISNEY 'PiAno,piAno'It's not a bloody piano, its a clarenARt...you weird talking person.
EDDIE IZZARD There is always a story behind what you like. Like what you like and be happy with what you like but...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH My name is Four,” I say. “Call me ‘Stiff’ again and you and I will have a problem.
VERONICA ROTH If you do not ask the right questions, you do not get the right answers. A question asked in the rig...
EDWARD HODNETT If you do not ask the right questions, you do not get the right answers. A question asked in the r...
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"You're one to talk."
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"What Choice?"
"Daunt...
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"Not just a cloud of moths," she says, "...
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VERONICA ROTH What do you think they're going to do to us when they find us guilty?" she says after a few minutes ...
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VERONICA ROTH He slides his hand over my cheek, one finger anchored behind my ear. Then he tilts his head down and...
VERONICA ROTH Okay, okay.” I set my hand on top of his and guide it to my chest, so it’s right over my heart. ...
VERONICA ROTH Resisting is worth doing.
VERONICA ROTH Someone shouts, "Enough!" and I think too much and nothing at all.
VERONICA ROTH I want to be brave, and selfless, and smart, and kind, and honest.
VERONICA ROTH One thing I know: For helping me forget how awful the world is, I prefer her to alcohol.
VERONICA ROTH I never used to understand why people bothered to hold hands as they walked, but then he runs one of...
VERONICA ROTH It isn't just brave that she died for me; it is brave that she did it without announcing it, without...
VERONICA ROTH One choice can transform you.
One choice can destroy you.
Once choice will define you.
VERONICA ROTH It is more important for you to be safe than right, for the time being. Understand? (...) But please...
VERONICA ROTH Every faction conditions its members to think and act a certain way. And most people do it. For most...
VERONICA ROTH My name is Four,” I say. “Call me ‘Stiff’ again and you and I will have a problem.
VERONICA ROTH And I'm the kind of person who does not let inconsequential things like boys and near death experien...
VERONICA ROTH He turns toward me. I want to touch him, but I’m afraid of his bareness; afraid that he will make ...
VERONICA ROTH Yeah, well," I say, "I left Abnegation because I wasn't selfless enough, no matter how hard I tried ...
VERONICA ROTH Okay. Then...I can talk. Ask me something."
"Okay." He laughs shakily in my ear. "Why is your h...
VERONICA ROTH You nearly died today,' he says. 'I almost shot you. Why didn't you shoot me, Tris?'
'I couldn'...
VERONICA ROTH I release the trigger of my gun and drop it. Before I can lose my nerve, I turn and press my forehea...
VERONICA ROTH We believe in ordinary acts of bravery, in the courage that drives one person to stand up for anothe...
VERONICA ROTH Now i remember why I chose Dauntless. Not because they were brave or anything. But because they were...
VERONICA ROTH The knife will only hurt for a moment. Then your choice will be made, and it will all be over.
VERONICA ROTH Killing you is not the worst thing they can do to you," I say. "Controlling you is.
VERONICA ROTH