Quotes about nodded (16 Quotes)


    I nodded. A man's world. But what did it mean? That men whistled and stared and yelled things at you, and you had to take it, or you get raped or beat up? A man's world meant places men could go but not women. It meant they had more money,and didn't have kids, not the way women did, to look after every second. And it meant that women loved them more than they loved the women, that they could want something with all their hearts, and then not.

    He nodded and curled over his paper, writing quickly. As his words took form on the white page, she got to watch him...and realized she never wanted him to go. She wanted him here beside her forever.

    When he nodded, the physician disappeared into thin air, and then a moment later, Payne felt a warm palm encompass hers. It was Vishous's un-gloved hand against her own and the connection between them eased her in ways she couldn't name. Verily, she had lost her mother . . . but if she lived through this, she still had family. On this side.

    Little Montenegro! He lifted up the words and nodded at them-with his smile. The smile comprehended Montenegro's troubled history and sympathized with the brave struggles of the Montenegrin people. It appreciated fully the chain of national circumstances, which had elicited this tribute from Montenegro's warm little heart. My incredulity was submerged in fascination now; it was like skimming hastily through a dozen magazines.



    One day the President and Mrs. Coolidge were visiting a government farm. Soon after their arrival they were taken off on separate tours. When Mrs. Coolidge passed the chicken pens she paused to ask the man in charge if the rooster copulates more than once each day. 'Dozens of times, was the reply.' 'Please tell that to the President,' Mrs. Coolidge requested. When the President passed the pens and was told about the roosters, he asked 'Same hen every time' 'Oh no, Mr. President, a different one each time.' The President nodded slowly, then said, 'Tell that to Mrs. Coolidge.'

    'When you wake up in the morning, Pooh,' said Piglet at last, 'what's the first thing you say to yourself' 'What's for breakfast' said Pooh. 'What do you say, Piglet' 'I say, I wonder what's going to happen exciting today' said Piglet . Pooh nodded thoughtfully. 'It's the same thing,' he said. 'What's that' the Unbeliever asked. 'Wisdom from the Western Taoist,'I said. 'It sounds like something from Winnie-the-Pooh,' he said. 'It is,' I said. 'That's not about Taoism,' he said. 'Oh, yes it is,' I said.'

    Love in a shower safe shelter took, In a rosy bower beside a brook, And winked and nodded with conscious pride, To his votaries drenched on the other side. Come hither, sweet maids, there's a bridge below, The toll-keeper, Hymen, will let you through. Come over the stream to me.

    Fifty or sixty shooters had already arrived and managed to look studiously bored. I knew a few of them and nodded politely. No one asked me to sit next to them, nor would I have accepted if they had. It's better that way, in case you end up on opposite sides of a fight, and a whole lot safer. Friends can betray you. Strangers can't.

    While Dorothy was looking earnestly into the queer, painted face of the Scarecrow, she was surprised to see one of the eyes slowly wink at her. She thought she must have been mistaken at first, for none of the scarecrows in Kansas ever wink but presently the figure nodded its way down from the fence and walked up to it, while Toto ran around the pole and barked.


    My most distinct memory is that he played his cards close to the vest. I briefed him for his first two days there, and he nodded and smiled. He didn't talk much. John never kicked back and philosophized about his view of the law.

    I looked at him and said 'I suppose what would be good for the game would be for Australia to lose a series', ... He Love nodded and said 'yes'. And I said 'yes, but I don't want to be the coach when that happens'.


    I remember standing there on stage in my new Christmas dress, trying not to cry as the church members smiled, nodded and murmured encouragement from the front row. 'Go 'head, baby.' 'Say it now, Luc.' 'Come on now, baby' But I couldn't remember, and to hide my deep humiliation, my embarassment, I became sullen, angry. 'I don' wanna.' And I stood there with my mouth poked out. It was a scandal This fresh young nobody baby standing in front of the Lord in His own house talking about what she don't want I could feel the disapproval pouring over my new dress. Then, like a great tidal wave from the ocean of God, my sanctified mother poured down the Baptist aisle, huge as love, her hand outstretched toward mine. 'Come on, baby,' she smiled, then turned to address the church 'She don't have to do nothing she don't want to do.' And I was at the same time empowered and made free....

    I said, like, Jewish people, they don't believe in Jesus. Does that mean they're doomed Jon nodded, like, that's what it meant. My ex-girlfriend I was like, man, if they only knew. Other religions don't know any better. It's up to us to spread the word.



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