“I mean, really: what kind of person could possibly dislike me?”
Jeff Lindsay book Dearly Devoted Dexter
Source: Dearly Devoted Dexter
Other quotes, 2014
Original: (ja) 逆境は嫌いじゃないので。弱くなってる自分がすごく嫌なんです。それは本当に嫌いですけど、でも弱いというのは強くなれる可能性があると思ってるんで。
Source: Excerpt from a press conference at the NHK Trophy 2014, held on 30 November 2014, aired the same day in ネオスポ (Neospo) on TV Tokyo and 15 December 2014 in News Every on NTV.
“I mean, really: what kind of person could possibly dislike me?”
Jeff Lindsay book Dearly Devoted Dexter
Source: Dearly Devoted Dexter
Jack Vance (1916–2013) American mystery and speculative fiction writer
Sail 25 (p. 75)
Short fiction, Future Tense (1964)
“I think I dislike what I don't like more than I like what I like.”
George Eliot book Daniel Deronda
Source: Daniel Deronda
E. Lockhart book We Were Liars
Variant: I will prove myself strong when they think I am sick. I will prove myself brave when they think I am weak -Cady Sinclair
Source: We Were Liars
Orson Scott Card (1951) American science fiction novelist
Homecoming saga, The Memory Of Earth (1992)
Jesse Ventura (1951) American politician and former professional wrestler
I Ain't Got Time To Bleed (1999)
Context: I'd like to clarify my comments about religious people being weak-minded. I didn't mean all religious people. I don't have any problem with the vast majority of religious folks. I count myself among them, more or less. But I believe because it makes sense to me, not because I think it can be proven. There are lots of people out there who think they know the truth about God and religion, but does anybody really know for sure? That's why the founding fathers built freedom of religious belief into the structure of this nation, so that everybody could make up their minds for themselves.
But I do have a problem with the people who think they have some right to try to impose their beliefs on others. I hate what the fundamentalist fanatics are doing to our country. It seems as though, if everybody doesn't accept their version of reality, that somehow invalidates it for them. Everybody must believe the same things they do. That's what I find weak and destructive.
John Stuart Mill book Autobiography
'Long before I had enlarged in any considerable degree, the basis of my intellectual creed, I had obtained in the natural course of my mental progress, poetic culture of the most valuable kind, by means of reverential admiration for the lives and characters of heroic persons; especially the heroes of philosophy.'
Autobiography (1873)