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Nor do they trust their tongue alone, but speak a language of their own; can read a nod, a shrug, a look, far better than… — Jonathan Swift
We must honor our dragons, encourage them to be worthy destroyers, expect they'll strive to cut us down. It is their duty to ridicule us,… — Richard Bach
Your discovery, as best as I can determine, is that there is an alternative which no one has hit upon. It is that one finding… — Walker Percy
You can bear your troubles or shrug them off. They're your shoulders. — Robert Breault
No phrase can convey the idea of surprise so vividly as opening the eyes and raising the eyebrows. A shrug of the shoulders would lose… — Herbert Spencer
Taste speaks through a turn of phrase, a curl of the lip, a shrug of the shoulder: it makes an atmosphere. — Irving Howe
It is puzzling to me that otherwise sensitive people develop a real docility about the obvious necessity of eating, at least once a day, in… — M.F.K. Fisher
Poor Englishwomen! When it comes to their clothes- well, the French reaction is a shrug, the Italian reaction a spreading of the hands and a… — James Laver
Blaming society makes it awfully easy for a person of weak character to shrug off his own responsibility for his actions. — Stanley Schmidt
The whole secret to mastering the game of golf - and this applies to the beginner as well as the pro - is to cultivate… — Arnold Palmer
A lot of people don't realize that depression is an illness. I don't wish it on anyone, but if they would know how it feels,… — Jonathan Davis
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,… — Phillip Noyce
If you saw Atlas, the giant who holds the world on his shoulders, if you saw that he stood, blood running down his chest, his… — Ayn Rand
In the opening to the Mary Tyler Moore Show Mary's in the supermarket, hurrying through the aisles. She pauses at the meat case, picks up… — Augusten Burroughs
It isn't the big troubles in life that require character. Anybody can rise to a crisis and face a crushing tragedy with courage, but to… — Jean Webster
Now they are empty, Ramon replied with a shrug of broad, muscled shoulders on his six-foot-three-inch frame....For the first time, a glint of humor touched… — Judith McNaught
Your hair looks funny," Lief said, as soon as the Ugloids left. "It stands straight up!" No," said Nick, intensely irritated, "It's hanging straight down."… — Neal Shusterman
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
I wanted to laugh. Or maybe get mad. Or maybe shrug at how strange everyone was, especially me. — Stephen Chbosky
I don't say anything and he casually leans against my desk, picking up the novel that's sitting there. "It's bullshit," he tells me, flicking through… — Melina Marchetta
You don't have to say I love you to say I love you," you said with a shrug. "All you have to do is say… — Jodi Picoult
When Maimonides says that the Messiah will come but that 'he may tarry,' we see the origin of every Jewish shrug from Spinoza to Woody… — Christopher Hitchens
And now my old dog is dead, and another I had after him, and my parents are dead, and that first world, that old house,… — Mary Oliver
A lot hinges on the fact that, in most circumstances, people are not allowed to hit you with a mallet. They put up all kinds… — Terry Pratchett
Choices are funny things-ask a native tribe that's eaten grubs and roots forever if they're unhappy, and they'll shrug. But give them filet mignon and… — Jodi Picoult

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