Uriah's Quotes

#1. I just spoke to one of the doctors," she says, breathless. "The doctor says Uriah's not going to wake up. Something about . . . no brain waves.

Veronica Roth

#2. Dedication to one's work in the world is the only possible sanctifica-tion. Religion in all its forms is dedication to Someone Else's work, not yours.

Cynthia Ozick

#3. Many venture capitalists say they're looking for the next big idea. But they aren't, really; they're looking for something derivative, because derivative is safe.

Jose Ferreira

#4. You win a fight, you learn from it. You lose a fight, you learn from it.

Uriah Hall

#5. I'm going to shoot a muffin off Marlene's head.

Veronica Roth

#6. No matter how much you want to say you've got all these plans ahead. The moment is all you got.

Uriah Hall

#7. Christ did not make the atonement when he shed his blood upon the cross. Let this fact be fixed forever in the mind.

Uriah Smith

#8. Losing sucks but I look at more what I gained as an individual, as an athlete..sometimes in losing you learn a lot.

Uriah Hall

#9. When we teach our children to be good, to be gentle, to be forgiving (all these are attributes of God), to be generous, to love their follow men, to regard this present age as nothing, we instill virtue in their souls, and reveal the image of God within them.

Saint John Chrysostom

#10. I don't like to trash talk ... I don't know how to do that, it's not me. In the martial arts world that I was brought up it was all about respect.

Uriah Hall

#11. Lynn smacks Uriah hard in the back of the head, Christina says, "Hey Tris!" and Uriah cries, "Ow! How on earth do you make a pillow hurt, Lynn?"
"My exceptional strength," she says.

Veronica Roth

#12. Christina and I don't speak, but I know our thoughts are the same, fixed on Uriah, on his last breaths.

Veronica Roth

#13. It is my belief ... that the talents every child has, regardless of his official 'I.Q,' could stay with him through life, to enrich him and everybody else, if these talents were not regarded as commodities with a value in the success-stakes.

Doris Lessing

#14. Really? I thought the transfers will go through Four's landscape," says Uriah.
"Like he would let anyone do that," she says, snorting.
Something inside me gets warm and soft. He let me go through it.

Veronica Roth

#15. It seems to me that the testimonies, practically, have come into that shape, that it is not of any use to try to defend the erroneous claims that are now put forth for them.

Uriah Smith

#16. Don't chase your dreams, but turn them into reality

Yancey-Uriah

#17. I found Uriah reading a great fat book, with such demonstrative attention, that his lank forefinger followed up every line as he read, and made clammy tracks along the page (or so I fully believed) like a snail.

Charles Dickens

#18. The Dauthless have the wierdest slang. Pansycake, Nose ... is there a term for The Candor?"
"Of course."Uriah grins."Jerks

Veronica Roth

#19. We are at an inflection point in history.

Joel Garreau

#20. And I provide much- needed eye candy.

Veronica Roth

#21. We have to edge them out of the rankings. That will damage their futures. Permanently.

Veronica Roth

#22. My Uriah,' said Mrs. Heep, 'has looked forward to this, sir, a long while. He had his fears that our umbleness stood in the way, and I joined in them myself. Umble we are, umble we have been, umble we shall ever be,' said Mrs. Heep.

Charles Dickens

#23. You live. And you throw yourself into everything and try not to think of the bruises.

Jojo Moyes

#24. He still smiles all the time, but now his smiles look like they're made out of water, about to drip down his face.

Veronica Roth

#25. Do the elevators work?" I ask Uriah, as quietly as I can. "Sure they do." says Zeke, rolling his eyes, "You think I'm stupid enough not to come here early and turn on the emergency generator?" "Yeah," says Uriah. "I kinda do.

Veronica Roth

#26. Desire is a teacher: When we immerse ourselves in it without guilt, shame, or clinging, it can show us something special about our own minds that allows us to embrace life fully.

Mark Epstein

#27. Uriah gave a kind of snivel. I think to express sympathy.

Charles Dickens

#28. Marlene picks up the muffin from the ground and bites into it. Uriah shouts, Gross!

Veronica Roth

#29. A weight settles on my shoulders. I knew, of course, that Uriah might never wake up. But the hope that kept the grief at bay is dwindling, slipping away with each word she speaks.

Veronica Roth

#30. You don't want to just exist, you want to get the most out of life.

Uriah Hall

#31. Don't just exist, be a part of life.

Uriah Hall

#32. The Lucy Dawn was slowly drifting away as flames engulfed it. Longarm gestured behind him at the blazing ship and called, 'It's over, Uriah. You won't be shanghaiing any more poor bastards on that flaming hellhole.

Tabor Evans

#33. We will empower patients as well as health professionals. We will disempower the hierarchy and bureaucracy.

Andrew Lansley

#34. After I broke the Australian record in 2014, Audi Centre in Canberra gave me a beautiful black A1 with the number plates AI 1111, because the record I broke was 11.11 in the 100.

Melissa Breen

#35. My favorite bands were Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Jethro Tull, Uriah Heep, Grand Funk Railroad. If you listen to some of my early music, you can hear it.

John Tesh

#36. Once you step out of your comfort zone your life begins.

Uriah Hall

#37. I look at it this way: I got to do better than yesterday.

Uriah Hall

#38. I find my anger ebbing away, and I'm lost in muffled grief again, this time not just for Tris, but for Uriah, whose smile is burned into my memory. My friend's brother, and then my friend, too, though not for long enough to let his humor work its way into me, not for long enough.

Veronica Roth

#39. There's truly a story on every corner. But still might be a shock, to realize you are just one story walking among millions

David Levithan