Being Influenced By Your Surroundings Quotes & Sayings

Readers of a certain class are apt to call good the plot of that story in which "you can't tell what is going to happen next." But in some of the most tedious novels ever written you can't tell what is going to happen next--and you don't care a fig what is going to happen next. — Arnold Bennett

Watching you pretend to hate the nickname is the best part of my day. — Sally Thorne

This world belongs to all of us, and all sexes should be able to live in respect and harmony. — Michelle Yeoh

Actually, I hear a lot of rock music. My husband is a big rock fan. — Dolly Parton

A love story is not the same as a romance novel. A romance novel is the story of two people falling in love against their will. This is a story of two people who leave each other against their will. It starts to end the minute they meet. — Tiffany Reisz

I will follow my father's footsteps by doing what is right, and God will take care of the rest. My father is my role model. My living role model is Cory Aquino. — Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo

The people of Ankh-Morpork had a straightforward, no-nonsense approach to entertainment, and while they were looking forward to seeing a dragon slain, they'd be happy to settle instead for seeing someone being baked alive in his own armour. You didn't get the chance every day to see someone baked alive in their own armour. It would be something for the children to remember. — Terry Pratchett

Trying to force things only disturbs your goals. Forcing will not help. Everything happens in its right time. — Judith Orloff

My dad goes along with it because no one in my family has ever pretended that my mother doesn't make all the decisions. — Melina Marchetta

I danced with Jacques d'Amboise. At that time, he was the tallest man in the company. So it was a different kind of choreography. It was lyrical. — Patricia McBride

I'd internalized an astonishing amount of misogyny growing up that I didn't even recognize until my early twenties. — Kameron Hurley

We are all going to die soon. Do you really wish to waste time being angry at me?"
"Yes. I remain an unrepentant optimist. If i see that I am about to die, or you, I will forgive you. But not until then, you bastard. — Sherry Thomas