Top 99 Quotes About Bravado

#1. I know the Muslim psychology. It is all pomposity and bravado. I give you my word that if Islam is ridiculed publicly and systematically, it will be defeated. Shame is a great motivator as well as deterrent. Do not underestimate the power of ridicule. This is serious stuff not a laughing matter.

Ali Sina

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#2. With wives, men hide behind the air of bravado, which is basically a defence mechanism, I think. Clever creatures, women. Very clever.

Les Dawson

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#3. Good-to-great companies set their goals and strategies based on understanding; comparison companies set their goals and strategies based on bravado.

James C. Collins

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#4. I've seen courage like yours before - from women, mostly." Matthew continued as if I hadn't spoken. "Men don't have it. Our resolve is born out of fear. It's merely bravado.

Deborah Harkness

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#5. I was a pretty confident kid, even if it was all false bravado.

Simon Baker

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#6. My only stake was the hook I shot in the moon, trying to capture stardom on my way to heaven. Without bravado. Just footsteps plodding me along till my big show. My showstopper. The one where I landed in a place without gravity.

Juliet Castle

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#7. It's disgusting, but my father taught me when your mouth gets dry, just suck the sweat out of your own jersey. There's no bravado to any of it; it's just a disgusting little trick.

Kobe Bryant

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#8. The bitterest creature under heaven is the wife who discovers that her husband's bravery is only bravado, that his strength is only a uniform, that his power is but a gun in the hands of a fool.

Pearl S. Buck

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#9. I get paralyzingly nervous a lot of times, so I tried bravado. The way I dress and carry myself, a lot of people find it intimidating. I think my whole career can be boiled down to the one word I always say in meetings: 'strength.'

Lorde

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#10. I had a great deal of arrogance and a great deal of bravado, but I think the bravado was brought on by a huge insecurity.

Brian Molko

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#11. Good economic policy requires not so much the bravado to implement drastic change as the strength and wisdom to make reasonable trade-offs over the many years it takes to transform a country's standard of living.

Peter Blair Henry

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#12. Cats don't bark and act brave when they see something small in fur or feathers, they kill it. Dogs tend to bravado. They're braggarts. In the great evolutionary drama the dog is Sergeant Bilko, the cat is Rambo.

James P. Gorman

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#13. It was endlessly tricky being in the know. It was a state Carmen had a achieved with a certain bravado, but she found it difficult to maintain. Without Jones, she could easily slip out of the know, relapse into her natural eagerness, and probably never get hired for another part in her life.

Ann Brashares

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#14. Cer sighed. "The bravado of you, Lucaius," he said, like a father disappointed in his son. "This
time will be different because you are in my land, at my mercy, and stripped of all defenses."
"You will make me blush.

Caroline Hanson

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#15. Bravery shared doesn't act like bravado among her own.

Linda Robinson

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#16. Do not be misled by expert bravado or by an expert's own sense of how he or she is doing. Evidence is a much better guide than an impressive self-presentation.

Cass R. Sunstein

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#17. She pulled her arm free from his grasp and stood back, her arms crossed. "So, what then? You're holding me hostage? Are you even really a sheriff?"
"I am," he said, highly amused at her attempt at bravado. "You wanna see my badge?

Roxanne Snopek

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#18. His eyes moved over me, but hovered mostly on my face. That was almost worse. Who am I without this? I thought. Without the seduction I wear like armor, without my bravado and cocksure confidence? Am I really just a little girl under it all?

Leah Raeder

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#19. Manliness consists not in bluff, bravado or loneliness. It consists in daring to do the right thing and facing consequences whether it is in matters social, political or other. It consists in deeds not words.

Mahatma Gandhi

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#20. She drew gallantry from men as the sun drew water. Her pertness enchanted them. Young men went away from her with a feeling of bravado. Old men were enslaved by her silver curls. Something about her was forever female and made all men virile.

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

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#21. Any simpleton can speak with confidence. Sometimes the greatest fools have the most bravado.

Brandon Mull

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#22. I'm not a follower, but I'm not brave enough to be the leader either. I don't see this as a flaw; it's a strength, really. Leaders get burned for having strong opinions. I get to have them without the pretentious bravado.

Tarryn Fisher

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#23. Boasting and bravado may exist in the breast even of the coward, if he is successful through a mere lucky hit; but a just contempt of an enemy can alone arise in those who feel that they are superior to their opponent by the prudence of their measures.

Thucydides

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#24. I see Christina, emerging, chewing and sticky-fingered, between two panels of the tent. Partly out of bravado and partly in order to test what will happen, I bite her on the arm as hard as I can

Kathy Page

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#25. I think masculinity is bravado against the mystery of the universe of women. It's just a fear of not knowing what women have that's so powerful. It's this shield they put up to try to get closer.

K.d. Lang

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#26. The mere possession of a gun is, in itself, an urge to kill, not only by design, but by accident, by madness, by fright, by bravado.

Louisa May Alcott

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#27. Preparation is the only way to get ready for a hard test, whether a court trial, race, boxing match, Broadway appearance or death. You can fake readiness, falling back on past experience and bravado. But without backbreaking preparation for a main event, you know inside that you aren't really ready.

James Donovan

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#28. I think girls have to play a little hard to get because we come with so much bravado.

Jamie Foxx

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#29. [in regards to Chad's Nifty Over Fifty Moustache and Beard Darkener] "'Dark Bravado Blonde, Number 143.' The name alone makes my loins all aquiver."
Amber

Laurie Faria Stolarz

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#30. There's something about the intimacy of comics that gives you a false bravado; you don't always consider the consequences.

Gene Luen Yang

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#31. Men don't have it. Our resolve is born out of fear. It's merely bravado." His glance

Deborah Harkness

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#32. It is my hope and my belief that you will be able to report that I died with dignity, without animal fear and without bravado. I owe that much to myself.

Caryl Chessman

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#33. To operate based on conviction and belief requires an acceptance that your actions could get you fired. This is different from pig-headed bravado, and it is different from putting the company at risk.

Simon Sinek

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#34. She was not light, but she was not as heavy as she should be. Her bones should be made of iron, for what else was fit to support her bravado? It would shame generals. Emperors. Professional pirates.

Meredith Duran

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#35. The cold seemed less relentless now. The small circle of white light from my bedside lamp and its hint of the dawn to come seemed to drive the worst of the chill away and the hot tea did the rest, as I lay and read further into the life of the young woman in the bravado coat.

Jane Lovering

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#36. As I came down the Highgate Hill, The Highgate Hill, the Highgate Hill, As I came down the Highgate Hill I met the sun's bravado, And saw below me, fold on fold, Grey to pearl and pearl to gold, This London like a land of old, The land of Eldorado.

Henry Howarth Bashford

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#37. A bully hides his fears with fake bravado. That is the opposite of self-assertiveness.

Nathaniel Branden

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#38. I am Hel," she agreed. "Sometimes called Hela, though most mortals dare not speak my name at all. No jokes, Magnus Chase? Who the Hel are you? What the Hel do you want? You look Hela bad. I was expecting more bravado.

Rick Riordan

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#39. The hallmark of insecurity is bravado.

Brandon Sanderson

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#40. There's no room for bravado when you're alone in the bush.

Les Stroud

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#41. I've forgotten what it's like to remember. I've lost the mindless confidence that a moment, an idea, a thought will be there for me later, the bravado of breezing through experience in the certainty that it will become part of my self, part of my story.

Floyd Skloot

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#42. In time, you'll see a thin line between friend and rival.
Between you and me: stupidity and men's bravado.

Ka

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#43. A boy starts with bravado, and then he grows into real bravery." -- Nancy Freund, Rapeseed

Nancy Freund

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#44. If you are at a boys' school, especially, there is a level of bravado that you have to keep up otherwise you'll get picked on.

Tom Hiddleston

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#45. Where can one buy a lit of that *Right Stuff* bravado required to shrug off the fact that your airplane is now a convertible?

Josh Gates

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#46. For all my bravado, when I fell, I fell hard. I fell fast. I fell stupid. I invested too much too soon. My capacity for giving was matched only by their capacity for taking.

Penny Reid

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#47. Men are forced to resort to ridiculous displays of bravado in front of women.

Kathleen Tessaro

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#48. He is such a child underneath all his alpha male bravado. A selfish child who thinks everything in the whole world is meant for him.

Amy Engel

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#49. Despite their displays of bravado, young boys can be peculiarly susceptible to atmosphere
("Between Four Yews")

Reggie Oliver

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#50. When in doubt, bravado. Always bravado.

Melissa Grey

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#51. Claude rubs the back of his neck and wrinkles his nose, about to tell me he was never sad. I believe this is called bravado and is not limited to lawyers, or even men, although that combination makes it almost unavoidable.

Rachel Hartman

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#52. I loved our mutual corny sense of humor. Underneath all his macho bravado, he was a dork. Just like me.

Kate Rockland

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#53. Adults can talk all they want about youth feeling invincible. Surely, some of us had that bravado. But there was also the dark inner voice telling us we were doomed. And then we were doomed. And then we weren't. You should never feel doomed.

David Levithan

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#54. As boys without bonds to their fathers grow older and more desperate about their masculinity, they are in danger of forming gangs in which they strut their masculinity for one another, often overdo it, and sometimes turn to displays of fierce, macho bravado and even violence.

Frank Pittman

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#55. I like your manly bravado," she said. "Do it some more.

Patrick Rothfuss

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#56. Swimming in the U.K. is not really about enjoying a sultry experience. It's about cold, clear acts of purification, and constitutional durability. It's about invigoration and bravado.

Sarah Hall

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#57. I always think that the most interesting characters are those that are trying to cover something or those that have some sense of bravado or composure.

Emily Blunt

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#58. Sweet fiction, in which bravado and despair beckon from a cold panache, in which the protected essential self suffers flashes of its existence to be immortalized by a writing self that is incapable of performing its actions without mixing our essence with what is false.

Frank Bidart

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#59. We always have to ask ourselves whether the level of risk is worth the story. What is bravery, and what is bravado?

Marie Colvin

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#60. Paul faced each stage of his illness with grace - not with bravado or a misguided faith that he would "overcome" or "beat" cancer but with an authenticity that allowed him to grieve the loss of the future he had planned and forge a new one.

Paul Kalanithi

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#61. It was a stirring piece of bravado but Powell deftly set it aside. "My wife would understand perfectly your loyalty as a general's wife," he said, "but I tell you there is no honour in throwing away lives when the outcome is already determined.

Nancy Gibbs; Michael Duffy

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#62. As prayer without faith is but a beating of the air, so trust without prayer [is] but a presumptuous bravado. He that promises to give, and bids us trust His promises, commands us to pray, and expects obedience to his commands. He will give, but not without our asking.

Thomas Lye

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#63. Kell stared at her, at a loss. Was her bravado a front, or did she truly have so little to lose? But she had a life, and a life was a thing that could always be lost.

V.E Schwab

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#64. Kate heard the bravado in her friend's voice and saw it in her eyes. "I prayed for you." "You did?" Tully asked. "Wow. Thanks." Kate didn't know what to say to that. To her, praying was like brushing your teeth before bed, just something you did. Tully

Kristin Hannah

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#65. Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

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#66. None of the bravado he usually showed was there. I guess there was "usually" and then there was being held in the grip of a really ripped, really tall, and really pissed off Russian guy.

Richelle Mead

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#67. Sometimes I'm afraid I'm happy, but because I expect it to be something else, I question the experience. So now, when in doubt," she shrugged with true bravado, "I'll assume I'm happy.

Carrie Fisher

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#68. I loved ... the honest soul he kept hidden safe under all his bravado, and I loved how I was still, every day, learning him.

Katie Cotugno

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#69. I was taken in by the bravado and the sounds of Mexico ... not so much the music, but the spirit.

Herb Alpert

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#70. Behind the cool mask of bravado, past the one-way mirror of his mind, underneath the rock-solid layers of self-control, in the Zen garden that was Master Sewer's soul, a high-pitched anxiety fart rustled through the still leaves. If farts could talk, this one would have said, Damn coppers!

Sorin Suciu

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#71. I was in love with a poet. "I'm in it for the pleasure," I told my poet once, in a moment of bravado. The poet grinned at me. "I'm in it for the pain," he said. It ended sadly. The kind of ending where you wait together, holding hands and weeping, while off in another room, love slowly dies.

Abigail Thomas

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#72. If you're going to exude naivete, you can't really ... walk out there like it's a Sting show. You can't be that well put together and then have this kind of innocent bravado.

Frank Black

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#73. Anyone who takes on my sister," he had postured once, all puffed-out bravado, "will have to deal with ... my sister." And then he'd dived behind her and cowered.

Laini Taylor

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#74. Bravado may stir the crowd, but courage needs no audience.

T.F. Hodge

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#75. The male, for all his bravado and exploration, is the loyal one, the one who generally feels love. The female is skilled at betrayal and torture and damnation.

Charles Bukowski

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#76. Any fool knows that bravado is always a cover-up for insecurity. That's the truth. And on that note, I'll say goodnight. God love you.

Bobby Darin

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#77. The final key to the way I promote is bravado. I play to people's fantasies. People may not always think big themselves, but theycan still get very excited by those who do. That's why a little hyperbole never hurts.

Donald Trump

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#78. Nothing is more dastardly than to act with bravado toward God.

Blaise Pascal

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#79. aplomb. Sometimes the sheer bravado of her actions astonished

Debbie Macomber

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#80. I don't like going into this with a half-baked plan." "It's not half-baked," I said. "It's mostly baked. Just a little soft in the middle." Actually, that was bravado.

Carrie Vaughn

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#81. As a longtime fashion enthusiast and the architect of the YMCMB lifestyle, it makes perfect sense to partner with the esteemed Bravado and move into fashion and launch my apparel brands.

Birdman

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#82. This isn't the time for bravado, Mr. Orsini,' he said.
Brentford couldn't help himself. 'No, it isn't,' he said. 'Perhaps you could come back later?

Jean-Christophe Valtat

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#83. They placed their bets with such self righteous bravado, but I'm the one who lost.

Chuck Palahniuk

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#84. The New Coach. Did she look at us that first week and see past the glossed hair and shiny legs, our glittered brow bones and girl bravado? See past all that to everything beneath, all our miseries, the way we all hated ourselves but much more everyone else?

Megan Abbott

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#85. He'd gotten this far on bravado and the time honored tradition of ignoring any inconvenient nagging thoughts, but it wasn't working so well now.

Michael Langlois

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#86. Mr. Obama would be a disheartening president even during a super boom, with his grim demeanor and empty rhetoric, as well as his obvious hatred of business bravado.

Paul Johnson

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#87. Fire power and bravado does not a gangster make.
Glazov--Deadly

Suzanne Steele

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#88. Christopher Reeve did such an amazing job that to give him some kind of accent or more bravado would have been wrong. Audiences wouldn't have responded to that either.

Brandon Routh

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#89. If you are the leader, you don't have the right to say things like "Ugh, didn't eat this week I was so busy." "Haven't slept." I look sideways at those signs of bravado, which are intended to make one feel that the person is working so hard. I don't think that way.

Scott Raab

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#90. It's one thing for my parents to behave all secular humanist and gamble with their own eternal souls; however it's altogether not all right that they also gambled with mine: They placed their bets with such self-rightous bravado, but I'm the one who lost.

Chuck Palahniuk

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#91. Though you thrust a knife at my eyes, I will not flinch.

Lynn Flewelling

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#92. I'll beat him so bad he'll need a shoehorn to put his hat on.

Muhammad Ali

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#93. Rogue Squadron doesn't run. Unless we really, really have to."
"No, this will be Wraith Squadron's mission."
"We don't mind running. Even when we don't have to.

Aaron Allston

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#94. Zaphod marched quickly down the passageway, nervous as hell, but trying to hide it by striding purposefully.

Douglas Adams

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#95. When the mouse laughs at the cat, there's a hole nearby.

Nigerian Proverb

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#96. I never trust a man who tucks in his shirt by choice or neglects coffee in favor of tea.

Brian D'Ambrosio

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#97. Verily, a man without fear is either dead or happy to die.

Wayne Gerard Trotman

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#98. I should imagine that space-time as we now know it will hold no meaning for me at that stage of evolution. I'll be a chick magnet.

Brian Clevinger

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#99. Ideas are never original," Kelsier said. "Only one thing is."
"And what is that?
"Style," Kelsier said.
Then he punched Ruin across the face.

Brandon Sanderson

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