Shrug Off Quotes

#1. Nobody can be all smiley all the time, but having a good positive attitude isn't something to shrug off.

Yogi Berra

#2. This one incident I will not allow you to shrug off!"
"I wasn't planning to," Jace said. "I can't shrug anything off. My shoulder's dislocated."
-Hodge & Jace, pg.296-

Cassandra Clare

#3. Who are Bella and Edward?" I shrug off the question and don't turn around as I ask, "What?" "Or Mac and Jericho? How about Jamie and Claire?

Rachel Hollis

#4. Most women will shrug off what a man would kill you for, and kill you for what a man would shrug off.

Robert Jordan

#5. 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

#6. A man was defined, in my father's circles, by what he could bear, the pain he could shrug off, the warmth or comfort he could deny himself.

John Burnside

#7. The whole secret to mastering the game of golf - and this applies to the beginner as well as the pro - is to cultivate a mental approach to the game that will enable you to shrug off the bad days, keep patient and know in your heart that sooner or later you will be back on top.

Arnold Palmer

#8. Careless and not particularly biting, it was easier to shrug off than anything in the first book which depicted me as an inarticulate zombie confused by the irony of Randy Newman's I Love L.A.

Bret Easton Ellis

#9. Her heart was heavy because it was open, and so things filled it, and so things rushed out of it, but still the heart kept beating, tough and frighteningly powerful and meaning to shrug off the rest of her and continue on its own.

Helen Oyeyemi

#10. But the day I can't shrug off a twinge of self-pity, is the day I'm washed up for keeps.

Jonathan Lethem

#11. I wanted a pseudonym partly because I'm quite shy and private. I know that sounds ludicrous, but if I should be lucky enough to make a hit, I wanted to be able to shrug off the mantel of Nick Harkaway when I got home.

Nick Harkaway

#12. He seemed to shrug off the sun's rays.

Ilona Andrews

#13. Blaming society makes it awfully easy for a person of weak character to shrug off his own responsibility for his actions.

Stanley Schmidt

#14. If we shrug our shoulders at the avoidable suffering of the weak and the poor, of those who are getting exploited and ripped off, we are not the left.

Peter Singer

#15. Jordan, the shy Runner with the copper braids, asks me twice if I'm okay. I just shrug her off. Yeah, something's wrong. Isn't that the understatement of the year.

Marie Lu

#16. You won't see a picture of me rolling around in a gutter, but I sometimes have a photo taken when I'm leaving a club looking tired, and there'll be headlines saying, 'She's out of control'. You can't prepare yourself for those things; you just have to shrug them off.

Pixie Lott

#17. I shrug him off. 'Can't you just go away?
There's a moment. It has a sound in it, as if something very small got broken.

Jenny Downham

#18. Rape culture is a funny thing. People gloss over some pretty shitty, creepy, wrong behavior, little brother, when they know the person in question. But you raise the reality of what they're doing, and it's a whole lot harder to shrug it off.

Wildbow

#19. The best directors I've worked with, they all have the same thing in common. They're the first to say, 'I don't know.' If you ask them, 'How are we actually pulling off this movie?', they'll just shrug and go, 'I have absolutely no idea.'

Ryan Reynolds

#20. People frequently ask me if adverse criticism bothers me. I've had a lot of it, and I have been able to shrug most of it off.

Warren Giles

#21. The enduring is something which must be accounted for. One cannot simply shrug it off.

Walker Percy

#22. In my game, you get brokenhearted a bit. You do a play, get a bad review in the papers ... actors are sensitive; you think of all the work you've done, and it breaks your heart, but you learn to shrug it off and to carry on.

Phil Daniels

#23. I feel like you come in under a cloak of someone else's skin for a while, but then you can shrug it off - you have to find your own voice, if you want to keep doing it. That became a really conscious thing for me.

Bill Callahan

#24. Do I know what people say? Sure. I shrug it off. what else can you do? Stop people from talking? You might as well try to stop the wind from blowing.

Stephen King

#25. You certainly do heal fast. But you'll still have some impressive bruises, so if I were you I'd avoid your father for the rest of the night."
"I'll just tell him you abuse me," Helen said with a shrug. She jumped off the examining table.
"And I'll tell him you like it," he teased back.

Josephine Angelini

#26. I started shedding friends like layers of winter clothing and found that even if I got cold, I would rather build my own damn fire. I was better off without them." I shrug, letting him know that's all there was to it.

Claire Contreras

#27. The body has been made so problematic for women that it has often seemed easier to shrug it off and travel as a disembodied spirit.

Adrienne Rich

#28. I try to shrug it off as a minor annoyance that whenever I do something successful, every capitalist out there wants a piece of the action.

Mark Zuckerberg

#29. All I need is the opportunity,' I said confidently. He smiled. 'Seventeen's very young, and you look even younger.' I shrugged off-handedly. 'That's a question of make-up.' Karno laughed. That shrug, he told Sydney later, got me the job.

Charlie Chaplin

#30. You can bear your troubles or shrug them off. They're your shoulders.

Robert Breault

#31. You have to want the haunted house to scare you. It completely steals your money to go through with one of those people who shrug it all off, who touch the monsters' faces to show they're fake.

Stephen Graham Jones

#32. People just don't laugh when their family is violated, and you don't shrug it off. You band together and you defend together. It's a funny, primitive instinct.

Phillip Noyce

#33. How did you survive?" I asked. My question caught him off guard, and his hand curled around the dice. He gave a cautious shrug. "The grace of God, I suppose.

Megan Shepherd

#34. She dances in a ring of fire and throws off the challenge with a shrug.

Jim Morrison

#35. Reviews are for readers, not writers. If I get a bad one, I shrug it off. If I get a good one, I don't believe it

William Meikle

#36. I've never ditched. I don't understand how he can just shrug everything off.

Stephanie Perkins

#37. Half condemn him and write him off as useless like him dad. The other half just shrug and indulge him and say, 'Well, that's Adrian.

Richelle Mead

#38. The tricky thing about songwriting is that, more often than not, what you consider to be your best work generates a collective shrug, and something you've simply tossed off bowls people over.

Dan Hill

#39. In a period of less than 150 years, to progress from slavery to Pennsylvania Avenue speaks volumes about this family and our nation. Distracted by the rush of our everyday life, we might shrug it off today, but 100 years from now, historians will be discussing this precedent.

Megan Smolenyak