Top 100 Joan Bauer Quotes
#1. WELCOME HOME, FOLKS
WE'RE GOING TO MAKE IT
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#2. Sometimes you've got to shout the truth and wake people up.
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#3. When you're going through a tough spell, it's easy to think that's all your life is about. You forget the good things, forget the quiet places. But they're always inside of us and we can pull them up when we need to set ourselves right.
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#4. Woe unto you when all men speak well of you.
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#6. It's a complete rush to get what you've been hoping for - to get it so full and complete that it fills your senses.
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#7. Teenagers are like bees at night, I think. We don't like waking up and we don't always get with the program immediately, but once we figure out our mission, we'll see it through.
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#8. Infatuation cannot be sustained indefinitely, my friend. Love that embraces the entire person is a monumental gift that takes time to grow.
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#9. The problem with the heart is how it can have so many opposite feelings coursing through it all at the same time. It's really an inconsistent thing- appreciating something one minute and hating it the next.
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#10. I mean, jillian gushed. you have this force connecting you. it's under the surface, but it runs deep.
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#11. Words are such powerful things. We can rip somebody apart with them, we can write words down that can forever hurt another person. We can use them to tell stories and lies. We can misquote them and change what other people said to make ourselves look good ...
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#12. I watched that plant in the office every day.
Watered it; misted it. I loved thinking about it like G.T. said, but part of me was worried the tree surgery wouldn't take. Something would go wrong and then Id be stuck with a metaphor that couldn't go the distance.
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#13. Everyone needs fudge, Hildy. It's how God helps us cope.
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#14. On cheap tippers:"Don't take it personally; they were deprived somehow as children.
On low-fat entrees: "They sell well enough, but nobody's too happy after the meal.
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#15. Have you ever noticed that it takes a textbook dozens of pages to say what normal people can cover fast?
Example:
What was the full impact of World War II?
Clear-cut teenage answer: we won.
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#16. Harrison wrote a two-page poem about his deep feelings of loss when his dog Filbert died, and Mrs. Minerva, the creative writing teacher, gave it a B-minus. Do you know what that does to a a person to get a B-minus in Grief?
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#17. Hope-to cherish a desire with expectation of fulfillment.
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#18. You think all teenagers care about are musicians and movie stars?
Spend some time in Wisconsin.
We'll blow your socks off.
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#19. You don't understand how much light you have until the lights go out.
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#20. To quote Shirley Polanski, head waitress at the Humdinger Diner: "Beware of a big man whose stomach doesn't move when he laughs."
I think a Chinese philosopher said it first, but these things trickle down to the food service community.
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#21. sometimes a kid has to act older than they are
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#22. You can't be with someone else effectively, unless you can stand to be alone with yourself," he declared. "Being part of a couple isn't the final answer. It can't define who you are.
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#23. If she's really psychic," Zack said when he saw Tanisha's photo at school, "why does she need a doorbell?
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#24. You don't know which way a thing will come at you, but you need to welcome it with your whole heart which ever way it arrives.
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#25. He stood up, put the tree back under the grow light. 'There. That's what's going to happen to us. It's called grafting. Taking something from one place and fixing it to another until they grow together. We didn't start from the same tree, but we're going to grow together like we did.
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#26. People are so cheap. Everyone wants quality, no one wants to pay for it. Here's the suburban dream
to hire great workers who are such meek morons that they don't have the guts to ask for a living wage.
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#27. Mother, this is a confidential business discussion. I hardly think that your driver can add anything noteworthy.
I could kick you in the stomach, I thought, moving toward the couch. I could drag you across Texas by your pointy ears.
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#28. I've never said this to a girl before."
I bit my lip, waiting.
"Well ... " He looked down. "I'm not sure how to say this." He took a deep breath and announced, "I really like fighting evil with you.
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#29. Wes held my hand in front of Dad, who played it real easy, like I had boys around all the time. JoAnn said I was lucky, and she should know. Her father specialized in fear, being a life insurance salesman, and could bring a boy to his knees.
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#30. The attendant walked closer. "Where'd you come from, soldier?"
Tree tried to think of a recent war and coudn't, so he said, "Canada."
The attendant looked surprised. "Canada?"
"It was a secret mission," Grandpa said.
"It saved the Republic," Wild Man whispered.
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#31. My grandma always said that God made libraries so that people didn't have any excuse to be stupid.
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#32. No wonder you get along with so many kinds of people, Foster. Look at all this heritage that's part of you. That's something to be proud of.
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#33. Was it alright?"
"It was fine."
"What aspect of the definition of fine was it?"
"We had a decent time."
I've been to Walgreens and had a decent time.
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#34. I hope you'll have the kind of life where what you stand for is so important that it makes some people outright hostile. You won't know how strong your beliefs really are until you have to defend them.
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#35. I looked at her from the corner of my eye. Some people are hard to imagine as children.
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#36. You need a negative charge and a positive one to get something moving. We've got the negative; we're going to find the positive if it kills us.
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#37. If you can't find an answer at the mall or the library, what does that say about the world?
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#38. You know where we got stuck? We were looking for faithfull, loving and perfect relationships-males who were always glad to see us."
"So?"
"We already have that!"
"What do you mean?"
"We've got dogs!
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#39. You don't need fancy things to feel good. You can hug a puppy. You can buy a can of paint and surround yourself with color. You can plant a flower and watch it grow. You can decide to trust people - the right people. You can decide to start over and let other people start over too -Sugar Mae Cole
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#40. Millstone sputtered, I don't know where you're getting your information, G.T., but that's as bogus as a barking cat!
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#41. I'll tell you something about tough times. They just about kill you, but if you decide to keep working at them, you'll find your way through.
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#42. And we learned that you don't have to be famous or rich or physically healthy to be a leader. You just have to try to be a true person. We learned that helping other people brings out the good in everybody.
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#43. Staring down hard truth takes guts.
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#45. It's like getting an extraordinary meal after you've been eating junk food for a long time. The taste just sweeps through your sensibilities, bringing all-out contentment, and the sheer goodness of it makes up for every bad meal you ever had.
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#46. Parents just concentrate on the thing that drives them nuts and all the other good stuff you do goes out the window.
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#47. New places always help us look at life differently
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#48. If you worry about every little thing you're going to have one thoroughly miserable life.
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#49. Addie always keeps her promises.
That's why my mother gave me to her.
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#50. Life and death played out before my very eyes.
You don't see these things if you clean your room regularly.
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#51. When hope gets released in a place, all kinds of things are possible
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#52. It was bad enough not having a boyfriend for New Year's Eve. Now I had to cope with Valentine datelessness, feeling consummate social pressure from every retailer in America who stuck hearts and cupids on their windows by January second to rub it in. (Thwonk)
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#53. Know why I plant trees?"
"No."
"I like thinking that they'll be here long after I'm gone. All those fine memories pushing up to the sky.
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#54. You know what it's like to move from being happy to being not? It's like swinging as high as you can and someone stops you as you come back down.
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#55. And I suddenly understand what to do when bad things come. You don't hide, you don't look away; you get right up on them, you take the reins and you ride.
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#56. When you listen to G. T. Stoop, you understand the importance of being a honorable person, you get charged to fight for the truth, you get angry that so many politicians are playing games with people's trust.
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#57. She studied my face.
I rubbed my eyes. "I'm fine," I assured her.
That was five months ago. I wasn't fine then and I'm not fine now. (Thwonk)
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#58. There's a lot of cheese where you're going, Hope. I'm not sure how this affects people long term.
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#59. How could a man with so much heart die from a heart attack?
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#60. Sometimes just getting up in the morning and standing at the gate can bring the gate down.
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#62. Elden started toward me, "I think that's enough!"
The man I almost knocked down bolted from his chair and shouted, "Let her speak!"
Yield, rat boy!
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#63. It isn't the problems along the way that make us or break us. It's how we learn to stand and face them that makes the difference.
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#64. Difficult relationships come into our lives for a reason. No one would choose them, certainly. But if we let them, they can teach us how to be flexible with others and more forgiving.
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#65. Toys "R" Us. Zack put on a wool cap and sunglasses.
"You look like a bank robber," I observed.
"No toy is safe.
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#66. But through it all I held Mrs. Pettibone's words in my heart-the ones she spoke to me after the funeral when she took my hand, looked into my face and said, You've got your father's eyes.
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#67. Huevos up. Swing up to the window, swing back to Al B. Hall, who says, "Bless you," and would I get him a bottle of Satan's Red-Hot Revenge for the eggs?
Sure thing, Pastor.
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#68. Librarians understand about power - they know how to find anything.
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#69. I stood up, and my pants ripped completely across the seam. It was inevitable, but for once in my life, my timing had been decent.
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#70. Perchance, I would listen. Have you said anything?
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#71. But then Macon smiled at me. Just be yourself, Foster. That's the best thing in the world.
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#72. I don't want you to leap into another relationship without thinking. Looking for perfect is a big, fat myth because perfect isn't out there.
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#73. When you can carry five full dinner platters on your left arm, you should be able to vote, even if you're not eighteen.
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#74. Sometimes it takes a lot of courage to be who you are.
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#75. When you have something so important, something that you'll stay awake for, something you know that you were designed to do, well, it's worth getting a few dark circles, don't you think?
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#76. But Reba taught me to be grateful no matter what. I looked up at the blue sky.
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#77. The choices we make can have lasting consequences.
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#78. I've got my Replogle globe, because you've got to keep a world view, you can't just live like you're the only person on the planet who matters
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#79. I hate leaving places i love i was never at one place long. am i selfish?
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#80. They marched. Not for themselves. They marched to remember the ones who didn't make it back. They marched because seeing so much loss can teach you about life. they marched because we're all fighting a war whether we know it or not ... a war for our minds and souls and what we believe in.
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#81. I don't do normal. I have a reputation to uphold. (Thwonk)
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#82. You know what we learned from living under the rule of Communism?"
"No."
"We learned to get mad.
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#83. My father always told me that in this world we are going to make a truckload of mistakes, but the best mistake we can ever make is to err on the side of mercy
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#84. You cannot measure the loss of a human life. It's all the things a person was, all their dreams, all the people who loved them, all they hoped to be and could give back to the world.
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#85. COOK'S TIP: Bake every day. If you have to leave town fast, you'll always have something good to eat in the car.
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#86. A man who was, as we say in the restaurant business, one taco short of a combo platter.
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#87. Almost. It's a big word for me. I feel it everywhere. Almost home. Almost happy. Almost changed. Almost, but not quite. Not yet. Soon, maybe.
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#88. If you stick that anger behind you, one day you're going to turn around and find it's gone.
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#89. All people are alike when they sleep."
Jeremiah Lopper paraphrasing Aristotle (p. 146)
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#90. Will we have bodyguards?"
"We're not quite set up for that. But with all these mothers, you don't need them.
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#91. Motherhood should be like driving a car
you should have to pass a test before you can do it legally.
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#93. The problem with human beings is we think we can wear too many hats at once. It's not possible. It's an outright fashion disaster.
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#94. Ellie: "You could lie to me. You could tell me to be encouraged, that good will triumph over evil."
Richard: "Good will triumph over evil."
Ellie: "Liar.
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#95. You got to laugh Tree, if you don't you'll cry.
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#96. You don't become a real sailor until you sail in a storm.
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#97. You've got to love yourself with all your short comings, and you've got to love the world no matter how bad it gets.
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#98. I nearly tripped over Stieglitz, my dog, a forty-pound black-and-white keeshond (pronounced caze-hawnd) furball. He lunged at me with unbridled glee because the mere sight of my presence always made his day. It's important to have a dog. Dogs love unconditionally. (Thwonk)
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#99. Coach Perkins will stand trial for second-degree murder in Cincinnati.
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#100. It takes a great cook to pull life truth from poultry.
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