Shunted Quotes

#1. Didn't know one another's names or ages or reasons for being there, and that was fine, because silence isn't the same when it's shared. Its sad and lonely sides are shunted off.

Dinaw Mengestu

#2. (Ah, lovely adolescence - when the "talented" are officially shunted off from the herd, thus putting the total burden of society's creative dreams on the thin shoulders of a few select souls, while condemning everyone else to live a more commonplace, inspiration-free existence! What a system . . . )

Elizabeth Gilbert

#3. The cause is everything. Those even who are dearest to us must be shunted for the sake of the cause.

Mahatma Gandhi

#4. Too often the great decisions are originated and given form in bodies made up wholly of men, or so completely dominated by them that whatever of special value women have to offer is shunted aside without expression.

Eleanor Roosevelt

#5. You made good time from Portland." In seconds, she shunted away the brief flicker of remembered heat from her gaze and became as coolly polite as her downstairs neighbor. "I was afraid you'd be ready to string me up if I didn't hurry." "I

RaeAnne Thayne

#6. We have reached a situation where a theory has been accepted as fact by some, and possible contrary evidence is shunted aside. [This is] mythology rather than science.

Robert Shapiro

#7. It almost hurt to look at that far-off sky.

Haruki Murakami

#8. No society is so precious as that of one's own family.

Thomas Jefferson

#9. I don't belong. Not here. Not now. I have to get back there. The bet was rigged, he made me believe. Now there's darkness in my soul. I want to die ... again. But I choose to come back, why?

Todd McFarlane

#10. A man who loses his money gains, at the least, experience, and sometimes, something better.

George Bernard Shaw

#11. You don't preach to hear yourself, you preach to heal the church.

Darrin Patrick

#12. It's hard to feel alive when you've been obliterated inside, hard to feel real when you no longer remember how to dream.

J.M. Darhower

#13. You're jealous!" I am so surprised I scarce remember to keep my voice low. He flinches at the word, then looks sorely affronted. "Jealous? Of that old man? Nay, it is just that if anyone is to hunt you, it should be me.

Robin LaFevers

#14. She's different."
"Everyone is different."
"Then let's say I like the ways in which she's different. A wise man once told me no man can escape death, but it's how we run that defines us. And if I have to run, I think I'd like to go where she's going.

Michael J. Sullivan