Quotes about follower
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“In Japanese and Italian, the response to ["How are you?"] is "I'm fine, and you?" In German it's answered with a sigh and a slight pause, followed by "Not so good.”

David Sedaris book Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls

Source: Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls

“I yearn to be a woman of more depth, but I'm not so fond of the path I'd need to follow to get there.”

Jen Lancaster (1967) American writer

Source: Bright Lights, Big Ass: A Self-Indulgent, Surly, Ex-Sorority Girl's Guide to Why It Often Sucks in the City, or Who Are These Idiots and Why Do They All Live Next Door to Me?

“How do you invent a religion?” Evie asked.

Will looked over the top of his spectacles. “You say, ‘God told me the following,’ and then wait for people to sign up.”

Libba Bray book The Diviners

Source: The Diviners

God, People, Religion, Waiting

“Follow me,' Myrnin said. 'And do stay together. And by the way, this is the last time I go anywhere with you people. You are all insane.”

Rachel Caine (1962) American writer

Source: Bite Club

People, Way, Time

“… when you put your life in a good place, good things follow.”

Willie Nelson (1933) American country music singer-songwriter.

Source: The Tao of Willie: A Guide to the Happiness in Your Heart

Life

“Wait!" he yelled.
I didn't turn around, I walked faster. Then I heard him slam his fist on the hood of his car. I almost stopped.
Maybe I would have if he'd followed me. But he didn't. He got in his car and he left, just like he said he would.”

Jenny Han (1980) American writer

Source: It's Not Summer Without You

Cars, Waiting

“If you didn't love him, this never would have happened. But you did. And accepting that love and everything that followed it is part of letting it go.”

Sarah Dessen book Dreamland

Source: Dreamland

Love, Parting

“As long as skies are blue, and fields are green,
Evening must usher night, night urge the morrow,
Month follow month with woe, and year wake year to sorrow.”

Percy Bysshe Shelley Adonaïs

St. XXI
Adonais (1821)

Night

“I've exercised with women so thin, buzzards followed them to their cars.”

Erma Bombeck (1927–1996) When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent le…

Source: Forever, Erma

Women, Cars, Exercises

“The two are now bound inextricably. Should one die, the other will follow. No wepon in this world can wound only one of them”

Cassandra Clare The City of Lost Souls

Source: City of Lost Souls

World

“"I'll follow him to the ends of the earth," she sobbed. Yes, darling. But the earth doesn't have any ends. Columbus fixed that.”

Tom Robbins book Still Life with Woodpecker

Source: Still Life with Woodpecker (1980)

“When the leader lacks confidence, the followers lack commitment.”

John C. Maxwell (1947) American author, speaker and pastor

Source: Developing the Leader Within You

Confidence

“Tavi looked wildly around the courtyard, and when his gaze flicked toward them, his face lit witha ferocious smile. "Uncle Bernard! Uncle Bernard!" he shouted, pointing at Doroga. "He followed me home! Can we keep him?”

Jim Butcher Furies of Calderon

Source: Furies of Calderon

Smile, Home

“I will not fall for any of the following: alcoholics, workaholics, commitment phobics, people with girlfriends or wives, misogynists, megalomanics, chauvists, emotional fuckwits or freeloaders, perverts.”

Helen Fielding book Bridget Jones's Diary

Source: Bridget Jones's Diary

People, Alcohol

“Thou art my father, thou my author, thou my being gav'st me; whom should I obey but thee, whom follow?”

John Milton book Paradise Lost

Source: Paradise Lost

Art

“Everything is fine and bright. Day must follow every night. My power keeps me safe from harm. The Goddess holds me in her arms.”

Cate Tiernan (1961) American novelist

Source: Full Circle

Night

“God, I hate rogue necromancers," said Magnus. "Why can't they just follow the rules?"
"Probably because the biggest rule is 'no necromancy'?" Emma suggested”

Cassandra Clare book Lady Midnight

Source: Lady Midnight

God, Hate

“Darkness was and darkness was good. As with light. Light and Darkness dancing together, born together, born of each other, neither preceding, neither following, both fully being, in joyful rhythm.”

Madeleine L'Engle (1918–2007) American writer

Light, Dance

“Someday, Will, I will go where none can follow me, and I think it will be sooner rather than later. Have you ever asked yourself why I agreed to be your parabatai?”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Prince

Source: Clockwork Prince

Thinking

“He had followed the trail left by a dead man. It was only now that he realized it might lead only to a grave.”

Anthony Horowitz book Stormbreaker

Source: Stormbreaker

Dead

“FOCUS - Follow One Course Until Successful”

Robert T. Kiyosaki (1947) American finance author , investor

Source: Why We Want You To Be Rich

Success

“I hear a guttural sound followed by a weak sigh and look back at the bodies.
"I'm going to kill the kid," Barrons says faintly.
Ryodan makes a burbling sound like a bloody laugh. I don't think he even has the parts left to laugh with. "Get in line.”

Karen Marie Moning (1964) author

Source: Iced

Thinking, Parting

“We may say we're looking for love, following dreams, chasing the dollar, but aren't we just looking for a place where we belong? A place where our thoughts, feelings, and fears are understood? - Ridley Jones”

Lisa Unger book Beautiful Lies

Source: Beautiful Lies

Love, Fear, Dreams, Feeling

“Quickly, Holly," said Artemis urgently. "Follow those bubbles."

Holly opened the throttle. "Now there's an order I never thought I'd hear from you.”

Eoin Colfer (1965) Irish author of children's books

Source: The Atlantis Complex

“The ashes of your existence will fertilize the soil for the universe to follow.”

Richard Kadrey (1957) San Francisco-based novelist, freelance writer, and photographer

Source: Sandman Slim

Universe

“I thought, There goes my lord, whom I was born to follow. I have found a King.
And, I said to myself, looking after him as he walked away, I will have him, if I die for it.”

Mary Renault book The Persian Boy

Source: The Persian Boy

“Regin hissed at him and followed Mariketa, with Carrow right behind them. As Carrow passed Bowe, she said, “Prick. You and Twice-Baked here deserve each other.”

Kresley Cole American writer

Source: Wicked Deeds on a Winter's Night

“Never let yourself be persuaded that any one Great Man, any one leader, is necessary to the salvation of America. When America consists of one leader and 158 million followers, it will no longer be America.”

Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890–1969) American general and politician, 34th president of the United States (in office from 1953 to 1961)

“The Empress will follow where you go," she said.
"So she will," Mat said. "As I'll follow where she goes, I suppose. I hope that doesn't lead us in too many circles.”

Robert Jordan The Wheel of Time

Source: A Memory of Light

Hope

“The person who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. The person who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever seen before.”

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity

Variant: The woman who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. The woman who walks alone is likely to find herself in places no one has ever been before.

Personality

“The path I choose through the maze makes me what I am. I am not only a thing, but also a way of being--one of many ways--and knowing the paths I have followed and the ones left to take will help me understand what I am becoming.”

Daniel Keyes book Flowers for Algernon

Source: Flowers for Algernon

Way, Understanding, Help

“We're all clichés, all following scripts that have been written and played out long before we landed the role.”

Jonathan Tropper (1970) American writer

Source: One Last Thing Before I Go

“He'd always been a man who followed his head and not his heart. The heart was just a bloody motor. The head was meant to drive”

Mario Puzo (1920–1999) American Novelist

Heart

“The brief silence that follows is as tender as a
rainstorm of daisies.”

Mathias Malzieu book La Mécanique du cœur

Source: La Mécanique du cœur

Silence

“In general, people only ask for advice that they may not follow it; or, if they should follow it, that they may have somebody to blame for having given it.”

Alexandre Dumas book The Three Musketeers

Variant: As a general rule... people ask for advice only in order not to follow it; or if they do follow it, in order to have someone to blame for giving it.
Source: The Three Musketeers

People

“Any road followed precisely to its end leads precisely nowhere. Climb the mountain just a little bit to test that it's a mountain. From the top of the mountain, you cannot see the mountain.”

Frank Herbert book Dune

Source: Dune

Mountain

“He smiles at me, and I am suddenly seventeen again - the year I realize that love doesn't follow the rules, the year I understood that nothing is worth having so much as something unattainable”

Jodi Picoult My Sister's Keeper

Source: My Sister's Keeper

Love, Smile

“If I play a stupid girl and ask a stupid question, I've got to follow it through, what am I supposed to do, look intelligent?”

Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962) American actress, model, and singer

Stupidity, Girl, Intelligence, Question

“You must understand the following: In order to master a field, you must love the subject and feel a profound connection to it. Your interest must transcend the field itself and border on the religious.”

Robert Greene book Mastery

Source: Mastery

Love, Feeling, Understanding

“I will follow you — until you tell me to go away. Then I'll leave. But I have to love you for the rest of my life.”

Paulo Coelho book By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

By The River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept (1994)
Source: By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
Context: I am going to sit here with you by the river. If you go home to sleep, I will sleep in front of your house. And if you go away, I will follow you — until you tell me to go away. Then I'll leave. But I have to love you for the rest of my life.

Love, Life

“Who? Who is but the form following the function of what, and what I am is a man in a mask.”

Alan Moore V for Vendetta

Source: V for Vendetta

“I'm leaving!" she said, with, in her opinion, great drama and resolve.
But he just answered her with a sly half smile, and said, "I'm following."
And the bloody man remained two strides behind her the entire way home.”

Julia Quinn (1970) American novelist

Source: An Offer From a Gentleman

Smile, Way, Home

“He crossed the street toward the man in the trench coat, which left me with two choices: follow my dad and see what was going on, or do what I was told.
I decided on the slightly less dangerous path.
I went to retrieve my sister”

Rick Riordan book The Red Pyramid

Source: The Red Pyramid

Sister

“Don't forget that everything you deal with is only one thing and nothing else……. above all dont forget to follow your destiny through to its conclusion”

Paulo Coelho book The Alchemist

Source: The Alchemist

Forgetting

“There is no vacuum in the human heart. Certain demolitions take place, and it is well that they do, but on condition that they are followed by reconstructions.”

Victor Hugo book Les Misérables

Source: Les Misérables

Heart

“to know a piece of grass, you’ve got to see the ground that grew it. Maybe that’s why I remember every detail of that night, every inch of ground we covered, as I followed Zach to the place that had made him, seeing them both with fresh eyes.”

Ally Carter book Only the Good Spy Young

Source: Only the Good Spy Young

Grass, Night

“That is the most common excuse, and the most foolish of all. Love has never prevented a man from following his dreams. If she truly loves you, she will want the best for you.”

Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist

Source: Warrior of the Light

Love, Dreams

“A superior man in dealing with the world is not for anything or against anything. He follows righteousness as the standard.”

Confucius (-551–-479 BC) Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher

World

“It has always been this way. Death is followed by birth. To reach paradise, man must pass through inferno. - Bertrand Zobrist”

Dan Brown book Inferno

Source: Inferno

Death, Way, Birth

“Human females, they're kind of crazy during this time aren't they?

If you chose to believe the stories written by male writers.

They heard a bang and thump from the kitchen. Followed by Meg yelling at something.

That many males can't be wrong.”

Anne Bishop book Murder of Crows

Source: Murder of Crows

Time

“The barriers between reality and fiction are softer than we think; a bit like a frozen lake. Hundreds of people can walk across it, but then one evening a thin spot develops and someone falls through; the hole is frozen over by the following morning.”

Jasper Fforde book The Eyre Affair

Source: The Eyre Affair

People, Thinking, Reality

“Wherever love is, I want to be, I will follow it as surely as the land-locked salmon finds the sea.”

Jeanette Winterson (1959) English writer

Love, Sea

“I listen with attention to the judgment of all men;
but so far as I can remember,
I have followed none but my own.”

Michel De Montaigne (1533–1592) (1533-1592) French-Occitan author, humanistic philosopher, statesman

Men

“I will follow you to the ends of the world.”

Khaled Hosseini book A Thousand Splendid Suns

Source: A Thousand Splendid Suns

World

“rules exist for a reason. Rules exist because when people don't follow them, people get hurt.”

Ally Carter book Don't Judge a Girl by Her Cover

Source: Don't Judge a Girl by Her Cover

People, Hurt

“Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.”

Henry David Thoreau book Walden ou la vie dans les bois

Source: Walden

Fashion

“My lawyers will fricassee your testicles for breakfast. And if you dare board my plane without a warrant, your spleen will follow.”

Dan Brown book The Da Vinci Code

Source: The Da Vinci Code

“You remind me of everything that followed.”

Jhumpa Lahiri book The Namesake

Source: The Namesake

“I will repeat the following until I am hoarse: it is contagion that determines the fate of a theory in social science, not its validity.”

Nassim Nicholas Taleb (1960) Lebanese-American essayist, scholar, statistician, former trader and risk analyst

Source: The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable

Fate, Science

“Sure, in a ninja's world, those who violate the rules and fail to follow orders… are lower than garbage. However… those who do not care for and support their fellows… are even lower than that!" - Obito Uchiha”

Masashi Kishimoto book Naruto

Source: Naruto, Vol. 27: Departure

World, Support

“Blay’s head whipped around to his mate. “Really? You asked my dad?” Qhuinn nodded, then started to smile like a mother fucker. “It’s my one and only shot. So I wanted to follow protocol.”

Jessica Bird (1969) U.S. novelist

Source: Lover at Last

Smile

“The heart makes its choices without weighing the consequences. It doesn't look ahead to the lonely nights that follow.”

Tess Gerritsen (1953) Chinese-American novelist

Source: Keeping The Dead

Heart, Night

“One thing only do I know for certain and that is that man's judgments of value follow directly his wishes for happiness-that, accordingly, they are an attempt to support his illusions with arguments. [p.111]”

Sigmund Freud book Civilization and Its Discontents

Source: Civilization and Its Discontents

Support, Happiness

“Don't follow me, I'm lost.”

U.G. Krishnamurti (1918–2007) Indian philosopher

Source: Thought Is Your Enemy: Conversations With U.G. Krishnamurti

“As my sufferings mounted I soon realized that there were two ways in which I could respond to my situation -- either to react with bitterness or seek to transform the suffering into a creative force. I decided to follow the latter course.”

Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement

Way, Suffering

“When you realize that eternity is right here now, that it is within your possibility to experience the eternity of your own truth and being, then you grasp the following: That which you are was never born and will never die…. (90)”

Joseph Campbell (1904–1987) American mythologist, writer and lecturer

Source: Thou Art That: Transforming Religious Metaphor

Truth

“Follow your feelings. If it feels right, move forward. If it doesn't feel right, don't do it.”

Oprah Winfrey (1954) American businesswoman, talk show host, actress, producer, and philanthropist

Feeling

“You had to take risks, follow some paths and abandon others.”

Paulo Coelho book Brida

Source: Brida

“Money's a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.”

Henry James (1843–1916) American novelist, short story author, and literary critic

Money

“Piper gripped his hand and followed him, “If I fall, you’re catching me.” “Uh, sure.” Jason hoped he wasn’t blushing.
Leo stepped out next. “You’re catching me, too, Superman. But I ain’t holding your hand.”

Rick Riordan book The Lost Hero

Source: If i fall your catching me" Piper said as she grabbed Jasons arm
"Uh... sure" Jason hoped he wasn't blushing
Leo stepped out next "Your catching me too superman, but i ain't holding your hand"
- The Lost Hero, Aeolus place

Hope