"'Is that really the best you can say?……" — Trenton Lee Stewart
"'Is that really the best you can say? An average-looking boy? An awful lot of boys are average-looking, S.Q.!' And poor S.Q., he just kept arguing that 'this boy was especially average-looking.' " ~ Kate Wetherall, The Mysterious Benedict Society"
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55 Quotes by Trenton Lee Stewart
Trenton Lee Stewart has 55 quotes on this site.
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If you like to tell stories and compose sentences, and if you work hard at being good at these things,…
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No one seems to realize how much we are driven by FEAR, the essential component of human personality. Everything else…
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Rules and school are tools for fools! I don't give two mules for rules.
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Children are capable of such open rudeness.
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You must remember, family is often born of blood, but it doesn't depend on blood. Nor is it exclusive of…
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Every great thinker keeps a journal, you know.
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Is this what family is like: the feeling that everyone’s connected, that with one piece missing, the whole thing’s broken?
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The missing aren't missing, they're only departed, All minds keep all thoughts - so like gold - closely guarded,
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Grow the lawn and mow the lawn always keep the TV on, brush your teeth and kill the germs, poison…
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Oh, here's a clever one. Do you remember this question from the first test?It reads, 'What wrong with this statement?'…
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Why, then, do you think the white player might have done it?" Reynie considered. He imagined himself moving out his…
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Poor Kate,"said Constance,"she's lost her marbles.
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Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.
— Marcus Aurelius
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Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
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You don't argue with a four-year old about why he shouldn't eat candy for dinner. You don't punch a mentally…
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It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
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The idea that there is one kind of African is, of course, ridiculous. Sometimes African entrepreneurs want to kill you…
— Bono
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Sometimes, if you really don't know how you feel about a topic, reading how both sides argue it can help.
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I consider myself sort of like a pseudo lawyer. Like, I'm convinced I can solve every case and argue my…
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I don't like guys who will lie down and take it. I want someone who'll fight back. I like people…
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The day-to-day making of policy is arguing all the time. You're trying to get the right approach and the right…
— Madeleine Albright
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The personal things should be left out of platforms at conventions. You can argue yourself blue in the face, and…
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Well, as I said, you know the issue of Greek debt, they've grasped the principle of debt reduction. I think…
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Simon drives me crazy. We are still arguing.
— Paula Abdul
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