Quote by Steve Toltz Download Open image ““It made no sense to me that people would hate the very thing they aspired to become.”” — Steve Toltz ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“I didn’t understand how someone could possibly hate everything and everybody.” — Joyce Tremel Copy Share Image
“There is no reason to hate anybody, because we came into existence, not by hate-making, but through love-making.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
“It may even be that some of us know what it is like to be actually hated—hated for things we have no control over… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“And I'd be willing to bet that you were great at it, if only because you have to love something before you can hate… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
“(disliking people rarely being a sufficient reason for not wanting them to like us).” — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“Once you understand what people really want, you can't hate them anymore. You can fear them, but you can't hate them, because you can… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“If there was one thing I hated in this world, it was folks who told you that you couldn't do something.” — Jennifer Niven Copy Share Image
“I hate incompetence. I think it’s probably the only thing I do hate. But it didn’t make me want to rule people. Nor to… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“It felt really good to do something that made no sense at all.” — Emily M. Danforth Copy Share Image
“I didn't despise myself for being who I was, and I never would. I wouldn't allow anyone to make me feel bad about that.… — Z.A. Maxfield Copy Share Image
“To my horror principles have wormed their way into [the] fabric of my being.” — Steve Toltz Copy Share Image
I'm not sure if I always wanted to be a writer, but I was always writing. — Steve Toltz Copy Share Image
“The problem is most of the time when God’s supposed to be the hero, he comes across as the villain. I mean, look at what he did to Lot’s wife. What kind of divine being turns a man’s wife into a pillar of salt? What was her crime? Turning her head? You have to admit this is a God hopelessly… — Steve Toltz Copy Share
[I'll teach you] how not to leave the windows of your heart open when it looks like rain and how everyone has a stump… — Steve Toltz Copy Share Image
...I thought how I hate any kind of mob - I hate mobs of sports fans, mobs of environmental demonstrators, I even hate mobs… — Steve Toltz Copy Share Image
I was in the hospital and I was paralyzed and I went through all of these things. I've had all of these crazy experiences and jobs in my life, but I never really write about them because I've already told them as stories to friends. For me, the process of writing is the process of invention. But the hospital story… — Steve Toltz Copy Share
Let’s not mince words: the inside of the Sydney casino looks as if Vegas had an illegitimate child with Liberace’s underpants, and that child… — Steve Toltz Copy Share Image
Optimism isn't funny unless you are laughing at the person, whereas extreme pessimism is extremely funny. It's exaggeration. — Steve Toltz Copy Share Image
There's nothing perplexing to me about a leafy shrub evolving out of the big bang, but that the post office exists because carbon exploded… — Steve Toltz Copy Share Image
The game is an analogy for life: there are not enough chairs or good times to go around, not enough food, not enough joy,… — Steve Toltz Copy Share Image
Raymond Chandler I love a lot, and the Austrian writer Thomas Bernhard. I really love his voice. — Steve Toltz Copy Share Image