Quotes about lot
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“I ask for trust. It is a lot, I know; it isn't easy to give. But it is all I ask.”

Source: Hawksong

“Did you know that it's a lot harder to put organs back in the body than it is to get them out?”

Source: The Fiery Heart

“I have a system with bathrooms. I spend a lot of time in them. They are sanctuaries, public places of peace spaced throughout the world for people like me.”

Ned Vizzini book It's Kind of a Funny Story

Source: It's Kind of a Funny Story

People, World, Peace, Time

“I'm concealing a lot of things. That's what a lady does.”

Kerry Greenwood (1954) Australian crime writer

Source: Queen of the Flowers

“Because that's what you do, you stand up for your best friend. And you eat lunch with him and talk with him and share secrets and laugh a lot and go places and do stuff, and when you wake up in the morning, he's the first person you think of.”

Jerry Spinelli book Loser

Source: Loser

Secret, Thinking, Personality

“I was the Sumerian god of fertility. You know what that means, don’t you? (Sin)
You have a lot of penis envy over the other fertility gods? Don’t worry. I won’t tell the other gods about your small penis problem. (Kat)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Devil May Cry

God, Problem, Envy

“It may not seem obvious at first glance, but the way we make decisions in life tells a lot about the kind of faith we have in Jesus Christ.”

Jim Cymbala (1959) author, pastor

Source: Fresh Faith: What Happens When Real Faith Ignites God's People

Life, Faith, Way, Decision

“There are just lots of possibilities in the world… I need to keep my mind open for what could happen and not decide that the world is hopeless if what I want to happen doesn't happen. Because something else great might happen in between.”

Rachel Cohn (1968) American writer

Source: Dash & Lily's Book of Dares

World

“I did a lot of shopping for her in Tokyo because the colors here are very conservative. A shopaholic would have a coat in every color and lots of accessories”

Sophie Kinsella book The Secret Dreamworld of a Shopaholic

Source: Confessions of a Shopaholic

Color

“A lot of parents tell their children that if they want to be an actor, that's fine, but they should do something else first, so they've got something to fall back on. It doesn't work like that, as far as I'm concerned.”

Ewan McGregor (1971) British actor

Children, Parent

“You can tell a lot from a person's nails. When a life starts to unravel, they're among the first to go.”

Ian McEwan Saturday

Source: Saturday

Life, Personality

“That's the advantage of insomnia. People who go to be early always complain that the night is too short, but for those of us who stay up all night, it can feel as long as a lifetime. You get a lot done”

Banana Yoshimoto (1964) Japanese writer

Source: N.P

People, Feeling, Night

“To repeat, the way you get to the huge, impossible yes is, you start collecting a lot of easy, small yeses.”

Chuck Palahniuk (1962) American novelist, essayist

Source: Rant: The Oral History of Buster Casey

Way

“Community is a sign that love is possible in a materialistic world where people so often either ignore or fight each other. It is a sign that we don't need a lot of money to be happy--in fact, the opposite.”

Jean Vanier (1928–2019) Canadian humanitarian

Source: Community And Growth

Love, Money, Happiness, People

“Plus, I was about to spend six weeks with Christian Ozera. He was sarcastic, difficult, and made jokes about everything. Actually, he was a lot like me.
It was going to be a long six weeks.”

Richelle Mead Shadow Kiss

Source: Shadow Kiss

“What a lot we lost when we stopped writing letters. You can't reread a phone call.”

Liz Carpenter (1920–2010) American writer

“There are a lot of things a person with two hands couldn't steal," Eddis said.
"So?"
"If it's impossible to steal them with two hands, it's no more impossible to steal them with one. Steal peace, Eugenides. Steal me some time.”

Megan Whalen Turner The Queen of Attolia

Source: The Queen of Attolia

Peace, Time, Personality

“Because that's the thing about mean people: They make you think that the world will never work, that there are divides that you will fall into if you approach. It takes a whole lot of good people to fill in the breach created by a single mean one.”

David Levithan book Wide Awake

Source: Wide Awake

People, World, Thinking

“There's a lot of magic between you too, ain't no denying that. And magic makes forgettin' hard.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Best of Me

Source: The Best of Me

“A lot of truths about the living world are recorded in bad books; they are just badly written about.”

Joseph Roth (1894–1939) austrian novelist and journalist

Source: The Radetzky March

Truth, Books, World

“You're fun to look at," decided Galinda.

Boq's face fell. "Fun?" he said.

I'd give a lot to achieve fun," Elphaba said. "The best I usually hope for is stirring, and when people say that they're usually referring to digestion-”

Gregory Maguire book Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

Source: Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

People, Hope

“I'm quite sure more people fake an awful lot of everyday human contact. I just fake all of it." --Dexter”

Jeff Lindsay book Darkly Dreaming Dexter

Source: Darkly Dreaming Dexter

People

“One of my favorite things about hanging out with the monsters is the healing. Straight humans seemed to get killed on me a lot. Monsters survived. Let's hear it for the monsters.”

Laurell K. Hamilton book Cerulean Sins

Source: Cerulean Sins

“When I think about my relationship with America, I feel like a battered wife: Yeah, he knocks me around a lot, but boy, he sure can dance.”

Sarah Vowell book Take the Cannoli

Source: Take the Cannoli

Feeling, Boy, Thinking, Dance

“Having lots of money while not having inner peace is like dying of thirst while bathing in the ocean.”

Paramahansa Yogananda (1893–1952) Yogi, a guru of Kriya Yoga and founder of Self-Realization Fellowship

Money, Peace

“She was a lucky woman who had established a happy knack of writing what quite a lot of people wanted to read.”

Agatha Christie Elephants Can Remember

Source: Elephants Can Remember

Happiness, People, Reading

“Glad you're back to normal. The makeup and the dress were a lot more intimidating than the dagger."
"Get going, Sparky, before I skewer you."
"Sparky?”

Rick Riordan book The Lost Hero

Source: The Lost Hero

“Promises were a lot like impressions. The second one didn't count for much.”

Kristin Hannah (1960) American writer

Source: Distant Shores

“I’d always enjoyed life, and I knew I would again. But I was going to have to slog through a lot of bad patches to get there”

Charlaine Harris book Definitely Dead

Source: Definitely Dead

Life

“Man is born to live, to suffer, and to die, and what befalls him is a tragic lot. There is no denying this in the final end. But we must deny it all along the way.”

Thomas Wolfe (1900–1938) American writer

Way, Suffering

“Cause hearts are amazing things. They get lots bigger to make room for new people to love alongside the old people you love. -Simi”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Styxx

Love, People, Heart

“Of course there must be lots of Magic in the world, but people don't know what it is like or how to make it.”

Frances Hodgson Burnett The Secret Garden

Source: The Secret Garden

People, World

“I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even if we don't have the power to choose where we come from, we can still choose where we go from there.”

Stephen Chbosky book The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“When you think about it, most of the good ideas came along to make sin a whole lot easier.”

Joe Hill (1879–1915) Swedish-American labor activist, songwriter, and member of the Industrial Workers of the World

Source: Horns

Idea, Thinking

“I was a new person in the same world, which was a lot more difficult than being the same person in a new world.”

Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer

Source: Blue-Eyed Devil

World, Personality

“Pretending to be 'normal' is a lot harder than you think.”

Sue Grafton (1940–2017) American writer

Source: F is for Fugitive

Thinking

“Booze takes a lot of time and effort if you're going to do a good job with it.”

Raymond Carver (1938–1988) American short story author and poet

Source: Where I'm Calling From: New and Selected Stories

Effort, Time

“Information is a lot like water; it's hard to hold on to, and hard to keep from leaking away.”

Ruth Ozeki book A Tale for the Time Being

Source: A Tale for the Time Being

Water

“What I actually want to call you is a hell of a lot more unprintable than your name”

Cassandra Clare book City of Ashes

Source: City of Ashes

Hell

“Hmmmm… There certainly are a lot of pretty boys in this world.”

L.A. Meyer (1942–2014) American writer

Source: In the Belly of the Bloodhound: Being an Account of a Particularly Peculiar Adventure in the Life of Jacky Faber

World, Boy

“Want a Coke?” Abra asked. “Sugar solves lots of problems, that’s what I think.”

Stephen King book Doctor Sleep

Source: Doctor Sleep

Problem, Thinking

“Well, not in this case. He reached into the Inquisitor and he…" Clary shuddered. "There was a lot of blood."
"Like a special bonus for you," Jace said to Simon.
Simon ignored this.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Glass

Source: City of Glass

“A lot of our perception of history is influenced by inaccurate movies.”

Nelson DeMille book Plum Island

Source: Plum Island

History

“It's nice to have a lot of money, but you know, you don't want to keep it around forever. I prefer buying things. Otherwise, it's a little like saving sex for your old age.”

Warren Buffett (1930) American business magnate, investor, and philanthropist

Money, Age, Sex

“Maybe age is kinder to us than we think. With my bad eyes, I can't see how bad I look, and with my rotten memory, I have a good excuse for getting out of a lot of stuff.”

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: Family - The Ties that Bind...And Gag!

Age, Thinking, Memory

“He wanted to live life in such a way that if a photograph were taken at random, it would be a cool photograph. Things should look right. Fun; there should be a lot of fun and no more sadness than absolutely necessary.”

David Nicholls book One Day

Source: One Day

Life, Sadness, Way

“Takes a lot of tries before you hit perfection." He paused to reconsider that. "Well, except for my parents. They got it on the first try." (Adrian)”

Richelle Mead Bloodlines

Source: Bloodlines

Parent, Perfection

“It struck her all at once that dealing with other human beings was an awful lot of work.”

Anne Tyler book Back When We Were Grownups

Source: Back When We Were Grownups

“I woke up thinking a very pleasant thought. There is lots left in the world to read.”

Nicholson Baker book The Anthologist

Source: The Anthologist

World, Thinking, Reading

“These are the multiple shadows because there were a lot of things she walked away from without a word of explanation when she was younger & she still thinks about them more than she needs to.”

Brian Andreas (1956) American artist

Source: Trusting Soul

Thinking

“Personally, I quite like that. Such stupid gallantry.
Yes. I like that a lot.”

Markus Zusak book The Book Thief

Source: The Book Thief

Stupidity, Personality

“The man watched him. Real life is pretty bad?

What do you think?

Well, I think we're still here. A lot of bad things have happened but we're still here.

Yeah.

You don't think that's so great.

It's okay.”

Cormac McCarthy book The Road

Source: The Road

Life, Thinking

“Nico," he said gently, "I've seen a lot of brave things. But what you just did? That was maybe the bravest.”

Rick Riordan book The House of Hades

Variant: Nico, I've seen a lot of brave things. But what you just did? That was maybe the bravest.
Source: The House of Hades

“It’s a small story really, about, among other things:

* A girl
* Some words
* An accordionist
* Some fanatical Germans
* A Jewish fist fighter
* And quite a lot of thievery”

Markus Zusak book The Book Thief

Source: The Book Thief

Girl

“You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.”

Erica Jong (1942) Novelist, poet, memoirist, critic

Women, Guy, For women

“But I don't care what Megan Fox or Jessica Biel say: There are definite advantages to being the hottest girl on the planet. Number one was that I got paid for it. A lot.”

Meg Cabot (1967) Novelist

Source: Runaway

Girl

“Here's another piece of advice, only date people who have read a different set of books than you have read, it will save you lots of time in the library.”

Tony Kushner (1956) American playwright and screenwriter

People, Books, Time, Reading

“You’re different,” he said, touching my face.
Of course I was. The man I loved had killed for me. A lot of things became inconsequential after a sacrifice like that.”

Sylvia Day (1973) American writer

Source: Entwined with You

Love

“We are men and our lot in life is to learn and to be hurled into inconceivable new worlds.”

Carlos Castaneda A Separate Reality

Source: A Separate Reality

Life, Men, World, Learning

“What's going on?" he asked, looking from face to face. "I was having a good dream."
"I need you," said Lisa.
"I hear that from women a lot.”

Richelle Mead book Last Sacrifice

Source: Last Sacrifice

Women, Dreams

“Europeans condemned Chinese foot binding, but any society that had invented the corset had a lot to answer for.”

Mary Jo Putney (1946) American writer

Source: The China Bride

“Aren't you afraid of dying?
Not really. I've watched lots of good-for-nothing, worthless people die, and if people like that can do it, then I should be able to handle it.”

Haruki Murakami book Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

Source: Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

People

“The really magical things are the ones that happen right in front of you. A lot of the time you keep looking for beauty, but it is already there. And if you look with a bit more intention, you see it.”

Vik Muniz (1961) Brazilian artist

Beauty, Time

“If the lot of you survives, Curran will flay the skin off your backs," Doolittle said.
"That's what I always love about you, Doctor." Raphael grinned. "You're a cup-halfway-full kind of guy. All flowers and sunshine.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Strikes

Love, Guy, Flowers

“i drink caffeine" she said calmly "lot's of it gives you pep”

Ally Carter book Heist Society

Source: Heist Society

Drink

“I have a lot on my mind and not a lot to do so it's going to come out, all of it, and then, then, it may begin to make a sort of sense”

Bryan Lee O'Malley book Lost at Sea

Source: Lost at Sea

Sense

“There are a lot of questions I keep asking myself about why I do comedy. I guess I laugh to keep from crying. And I guess if you ever get me crying, I might not stop. This is the way I look at tragedy or else I'll cry.”

Bob Newhart (1929) American stand-up comedian and actor

Way, Question, Cry

“People with a high tolerance for boredom can get a lot of thinking done.”

Stephen King (1947) American author

Source: Bag of Bones/the Green Mile/the Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon

People, Thinking

“The home environment can undo a lot you try to do at school.”

Ray Bradbury book Fahrenheit 451

Source: Fahrenheit 451

School, Home

“One of the best protections against disappointment is to have a lot going on.”

Alain de Botton (1969) Swiss writer

Disappointment

“She reads a lot of books. Good things, books.”

Thorne Smith (1892–1934) an American writer of humorous supernatural fantasy fiction

Books, Reading

“This is a good place," he said.
"There's a lot of liquor," I agreed.”

Ernest Hemingway book The Sun Also Rises

Source: The Sun Also Rises

“If he had to have strange powers, Aden wished they could have been more like hers. That voodoo voice would have made his life a lot easier; he could have sent certain people (cough Ozzie cough) away with no memory of him.”

Gena Showalter (1975) American writer

Source: Intertwined

Life, People, Memory

“I suppose a lot of teenage girls feel invisible sometimes, like they just disappear. Well, that's me—Cammie the Chameleon. But I'm luckier than most because, at my school, that's considered cool.

I go to a school for spies.”

Ally Carter I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You

Source: I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You

School, Feeling, Girl

“It is a little-known fact about covert operations that you will spend a lot of time with people you can’t really trust. They may be traitors and liars. We call them assets or informants. But mostly, in those days, I called him Zach.”

Ally Carter book Only the Good Spy Young

Source: Only the Good Spy Young

People, Time

“If you knew where your happiness came from, it gave you patience. You realized that a lot of the time, you were just waiting out a situation, and that took the pressure off; you no longer looked to every interaction to actually do something for you.”

Curtis Sittenfeld book Prep

Source: Prep

Happiness, Time, Waiting, Patience

“Lots of people go mad in January. Not as many as in May, of course. Nor June. But January is your third most common month for madness.”

Karen Joy Fowler book Sarah Canary

Source: Sarah Canary

People, Madness

“Well, well, well," I said. "If it isn't the people responsible for unleashing Rose Hathaway on the world. You've got a lot to answer for.”

Richelle Mead book Last Sacrifice

Source: Last Sacrifice

People, World

“I have been to lots of parties
and acted perfectly disgraceful
but I never actually collapsed
oh Lana Turner we love you get up”

Frank O'Hara (1926–1966) American poet, art critic and writer

Love

“There's an awful lot of inactive kindness which is nothing but laziness, not wanting any trouble, confusion, or effort.”

John Steinbeck book The Winter of Our Discontent

Source: The Winter of Our Discontent

Effort

“I didn't want to kiss you goodbye — that was the trouble — I wanted to kiss you good night — and there's a lot of difference.”

Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) American author and journalist

Kiss, Night

“Guilty feelings about clothes are totally unnecessary. A lot of people earn their living by making clothes, so you should never feel bad.”

Karl Lagerfeld (1933–2019) German fashion designer

People, Feeling, Clothes

“… Don't feel sorry for me. I'm glad I had a second chance in life like you said to be smart because I learned a lot of things that I never knew were in this world, and I'm grateful I saw it even for a little bit.”

Daniel Keyes book Flowers for Algernon

Source: Flowers for Algernon

Life, World, Feeling, Learning

“… and he smiled a lot. The smile did not mean that he was happy. It meant he was stronger than most people, and that he intended to take advantage of it.”

Michael Cadnum (1949) American writer

Source: Flash

Happiness, People, Smile

“Which is not really a hell of a lot to ask, Lord, because the final incredible truth is that I am not guilty. All I did was take your gibberish seriously… and you see where it got me? My primitive Christian instincts have made me a criminal.”

Hunter S. Thompson book Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Source: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Truth, Hell

“All this hoping for something- or someone- that's maybe hopeless. I'm having a hard time processing what I am supposed to believe, or if I'm even supposed to. There is too much information, and I don't like a lot of it.”

David Levithan (1972) American author and editor

Source: Dash & Lily's Book of Dares

Hope, Time

“You see something you like?" I asked, echoing something I'd said to him ling ago, when he'd caught me in a compromising position at school.
"Lots," he said.
-Rose (Roza) to Dimitri”

Richelle Mead book Last Sacrifice

Source: Last Sacrifice

School

“There's a boy who they call Pony! He's always acting gross and horny! He thinks he's got a lot down there, but he sure wears tiny underwear!”

Cecily von Ziegesar The It Girl

Source: The It Girl

Boy, Thinking

“Rachel: They asked me a lot of questions about you. I played dumb.
Annabeth: Was it hard?”

Rick Riordan (1964) American writer

Question

“It's amazing how a little tomorrow can make up for a whole lot of yesterday.”

John Guare Landscape of the Body

Source: Landscape of the Body

Hope

“I'll see you later Roza."

"At our next practice?" I asked. "We are starting those up again, right? I mean you still have things to teach me."

Standing in the doorway, he looked over at me and smiled. "Yes. Lots of things.”

Richelle Mead book Frostbite

Source: Frostbite

Smile

“I'm sure partial to the evening,' Augustus said. 'The evening and the morning. If we just didn't have to have the rest of the dern day I'd be a lot happier.”

Larry McMurtry Lonesome Dove

Source: Lonesome Dove

“Rose: 'If you are an alien, how come you sound like you're from the north?'
Doctor: 'Lots of planets have a north!”

Russell T. Davies (1963) Screenwriter, former executive producer of Doctor Who

“There were a lot of gods. Gods always come in handy, they justify almost anything.”

Margaret Atwood book The Blind Assassin

Source: The Blind Assassin

God

“Writers aren’t people exactly. Or, if they’re any good, they’re a whole lot of people trying so hard to be one person.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald book The Love of the Last Tycoon

Source: The Love of the Last Tycoon

People, Personality

“A few weeks after the worst day, I started writing lots of letters. I don't know why, but it was one of the only things that made my boots lighter.”

Jonathan Safran Foer book Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

“I need you for a lot of things, Hardy. A lifetime's worth of things.”

Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer

Source: Blue-Eyed Devil

“It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.”

Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960) American folklorist, novelist, short story writer

Coffee

“It is kind of hard to hold a lot in. But for me… it’s sometimes even harder to let it out.”

Sarah Dessen book Just Listen

Source: Just Listen

“How is Eric?'
'Very tightly wound. Plus, a lot of stuff happened that he'll tell you about.'
'Thanks for the warning. I'll go to the house now. You're my favorite breather.'
'Oh. Well… great.'
She hung up.”

Charlaine Harris Dead in the Family

Source: Dead in the Family

Housing

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