Top 33 Eric Roth Quotes
#1. When I fail, I feel jealous or resentful of these others. When I succeed, I worry that others will be jealous or resentful of me. I become suspicious or defensive and increasingly afraid that I won't get what I so much desire or will lose what I already have. Caught
Henri J.M. Nouwen
#2. At first Eric stares at Four in silence. Four stares back.
Veronica Roth
#3. Eric walks toward me, and I back away by instinct. I try not to be afraid of him, but I know how smart he is and that if I'm not careful he'll notice that I keep staring at her, and that will be my undoing.
Veronica Roth
#4. If somebody had told me my method would not work I nevertheless would have tried it out to make sure for myself, for when I am wrong only one thing convinces me of it, and that is, to lose money. And I am only right when I make money. That is speculating.
Jesse Lauriston Livermore
#5. Leaving us with Eric is like hiring a babysitter who spends his time sharpening knives.
Veronica Roth
#6. Eric called Al's suicide brave, and he was wrong. My mother's death was brave. I remember how calm she was, how determined. It isn't just brave that she died for me; it is brave that she did it without announcing it, without hesitation, and without appearing to consider another option.
Veronica Roth
#8. I tried to shut myself down completely, put up my best screensaver personality to coast through the day. I didn't want to see her. I was desperate to see her. I wanted to hold it together. I wanted to melt down right at her feet and scream, Look what you've done to me.
David Levithan
#9. Ultimately it doesn't matter whether you go forwards or backwards: you need to live your life as well as you can.
Eric Roth
#10. I am glad I sleep fully clothed, because Christina stands next to our bunk wearing only a T-shirt, her long legs bare. She folds her arms and stares at Eric. I wish, suddenly, that I could stare so boldly at someone with hardly any clothes on, but I could never do that.
Veronica Roth
#11. I hold the gun out from my body, my arms straight, just as Four taught me, when that was his only name. I used a gun like this to defend my father and brother from simulation-bound Dauntless. I used it to stop Eric from shooting Tobias in the head. It is not inherently evil. It is just a tool.
Veronica Roth
#12. I've already proved myself today. I do not want to be greedy; I do not want to be like Eric, terrified of other people's strength.
Veronica Roth
#13. You never know what's coming for you.
Eric Roth
#14. If you are really one of us, it won't matter to you that you might fail. And if it does, you are a coward.
Veronica Roth
#15. There's nothing on this planet I like more than a challenge.
Melody Anne
#16. Keep out of Chancery. It's being ground to bits in a slow mill; it's being roasted at a slow fire; it's being stung to death by single bees; it's being drowned by drops; it's going mad by grains.
Charles Dickens
#17. When absurdities get repeated often enough, they start sounding like truth.
T. Colin Campbell
#18. People think I'm all gloom and doom all the time. I'm not. I also have bad days where I'm pessimistic.
Jarod Kintz
#19. I recognize Eric for what he is: an Erudite disguised as a Dauntless, a genius as well as a sadist, a hunter of the Divergent.
Veronica Roth
#20. I think part of being a good screenwriter is being as concise as possible.
Eric Roth
#21. It's a funny thing coming home. Nothing changes. Everything looks the same, feels the same, even smells the same. You realize what's changed, is you.
Eric Roth
#22. Benjamin, we're meant to lose the people we love. How else would we know how important they are to us?
Eric Roth
#23. You can be as mad as a mad dog at the way things went, you can curse the fates, but when it comes to the end, you have to let go.
Eric Roth
#24. Life can only be understood looking backward. It must be lived forward.
Eric Roth
#25. She taught me to play the piano, and what it meant to miss somebody.
Eric Roth
#26. We were just emerging from the Depression. Superman started in 1938. Batman started in 1939. So, we were just recovering.
Jerry Robinson
#27. Some days I totally appreciate everything that's happening to me, and some days I feel everyone's waiting for me to mess up.
Taylor Swift
#28. I hope you live a life you're proud of. If you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again.
Eric Roth
#29. When I met Richard Leakey, I thought, 'This is the most charismatic man I've ever met.' He has no legs. He lost them when his plane was sabotaged. But he's an interesting, sort of narcissistic guy.
Eric Roth
#30. The wish fulfillment of growing younger is not necessarily all it's cracked up to be. You have new problems that arise which you are not anticipating and you deal with the same problems you would deal with if you were ageing normally: what is the end of life about? What have I accomplished?
Eric Roth
#31. Our lives are defined by opportunities, even the ones we miss.
Eric Roth
#32. If Eric thinks I did something right, I must have done it wrong.
Veronica Roth
#33. I look up at Eric,sniffing "I tried to...and..."I shake my head.
"You tired to what?" asks Eric
"Kiss me," says Tobias. "And I rejected her,and she went running off like a five-year-old. there's really nothing to blame her for but stupidity.
Veronica Roth
