Undeferring Quotes & Sayings

I should retire for the night," she said. "I know I make it look so effortless, but world domination is exhausting. — Chris Colfer

What is the worst pain? To me, it's always the pain that is present. — Suzanne Collins

The appeal of reading, she thought, lay in its indifference: there was something undeferring about literature. Books did not care who was reading them or whether one read them or not. All readers were equal, herself included. Literature, she thought, is a commonwealth; letters a republic. — Alan Bennett

[It] has a lot of things in it that I like, but I think it's way too hard on financing things from immigrants. — William J. Clinton

Let's hope that when you're coming down I'll be looking up. — Jack Higgins

Desiring another person is perhaps the most risky endeavor of all. As soon as you want somebody - really want him - it is as though you have taken a surgical needle and sutured your happiness to the skin of that person, so that any separation will now cause a lacerating injury. — Elizabeth Gilbert

The journals may give you an opportunity to express your feelings without inviting further tables. — David Patneaude

I feel like I'm a New Yorker to the bone. But there is a lot of the South in me. I know there is a lot of the South in my mannerisms. There's a lot of the South in my expectations of other people and how people treat each other. There's a lot of the South in the way I speak, but it could never be home. — Jacqueline Woodson