Veronica Roth Quotes

I want people to come away from my book with questions. Questions about virtue and goodness. Not answers.

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• I have a strong upper body; I'm an arms swimmer, and I always have been.

  

  Natalie du Toit
  • Strong
  • Always
  • Body

• I produce for a low price and I sell it on my own to 80 countries.

  

  Uwe Boll
  • Own
  • Price
  • My Own

• You might think the thinner version of yourself is going to be the most positive or confident, but that's not how it is for me. When I'm over 200 pounds, that's when I'm the most confident version of myself.

  

  Garrett Hedlund
  • Myself
  • Positive
  • Yourself

• Forget mung beans' reputation as healthy yet bland - used right, they soak up loads of flavour.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Up
  • Forget
  • Healthy

• In 15 years we'll have all the sequence, a list of the genes everyone has in common and those that differ among people. We know only something like a tenth of 1 percent of the sequence at the moment.

  

  Walter Gilbert
  • People
  • Know
  • Moment

• I thought I'd be doing weird, Off Broadway theater after I graduated.

  

  Laura Harrier
  • Thought
  • Weird
  • Doing

• It takes having your golf peak four different times throughout the year. You have to like all four golf courses. You've got to be the best of that week for the four weeks.

  

  Karrie Webb
  • Different
  • Best
  • Golf

• It was that which gave promise that in due time the weights should be lifted from the shoulders of all men, and that all should have an equal chance. This is the sentiment embodied in that Declaration of Independence.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Time
  • Men
  • Promise

• I got the role I loved the most at a point in my career when most women are being phased out.

  

  Candice Bergen
  • Women
  • Career
  • Loved

• The most divisive issue facing New Yorkers in 2013 is stop and frisk, a tactic used by law enforcement to stop, question, and frisk people suspected of a crime.

  

  Sal Albanese
  • People
  • Law
  • Stop

• I want to thank the pioneering women who years ago opened the doors of politics in Costa Rica. My government will be open to all Costa Ricans of good faith.

  

  Laura Chinchilla
  • Good
  • Women
  • Faith

• I'm the girl who will show up in jeans no matter what - but the jeans can get fancier and fancier.

  

  Taylor Schilling
  • Up
  • Girl
  • Will

• I've had a few ditty hits.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Had
  • Few
  • Hits

• Gustafsson is a stud, man. He's a good fighter.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Good
  • Man
  • Fighter

• I've had loss in my life, and I like to think my mother's energy lives on in some faintly Buddhist way. I do find some comfort there.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Life
  • Mother
  • Energy

• We need to start looking at having a way of managing the whole ecosystem, because you can't pick away at it piece by piece, you have to truly start being coordinated and managing our resources as a system. We haven't gotten to that point yet.

  

  Ted Danson
  • You
  • Start
  • Looking

• I'm really close to my family, and we talk through things.

  

  Naomi Scott
  • Family
  • Talk
  • Through

• I acted in high school and studied at the British American Drama Academy in Oxford for one summer. I minored in theater, and I was always acting growing up and stuff, but really, I was just more interested in the comedy of it all. So for me, it's always comedy, and then acting is just one medium of comedy.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Comedy
  • Summer
  • Theater

• I think there is a big difference between the music business and music. And my relationship is to music, not music business. I think the business will keep changing, but music won't. Music will be there.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Music
  • Business
  • Think

• Whether slavery shall go into Nebraska, or other new territories, is not a matter of exclusive concern to the people who may go there. The whole nation is interested that the best use shall be made of these territories. We want them for the homes of free white people.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • People
  • May
  • Free

• I realized all of the possibilities that could exist for me with my camera: all of the images that I could capture, all of the lives I could enter, all of the people I could meet and how much I could learn from them.

  

  Mary Ellen Mark
  • People

• I never thought I'd do comedy, ever, in a million years. I always thought comedy was just for fun - to me, the real stuff was the real dramatic stuff. Now I know it's all valuable. There's a real excitement, a good feeling when you can make people laugh.

  

  Peri Gilpin
  • People
  • Good
  • Real

• If there is one thing I am, it's always right.

  

  Ted Nugent
  • Right

• I want people to come away from my book with questions. Questions about virtue and goodness. Not answers.

  

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