Explosive Quotes

116 quotes by 109 authors

Have you ever wondered, perhaps, why opinions which the majority of people quite naturally hold are, if anyone dares express them publicly, denounced as 'controversial,… — Enoch
I've tried to find a new elegance. It's not easy because people want to be shocked. They want explosive fashion. But explosions don't last, they… — Giorgio Armani
When truth is buried, it grows. It chokes. It gathers such an explosive force that on the day it bursts out, it blows up everything… — Emile Zola
For in a civilization which has lost the meaning of life, the most important thing a Christian can do is to live, and life, understood… — Jacques Ellul
No rocket will reach the moon save by a miraculous discovery of an explosive far more energetic than any known. And even if the requisite… — Nikola Tesla
To shatter even the largest stones on earth, it takes only a small quantity of explosive powder. — David Ben-Gurion
The best personal defense is an explosive counterattack. — Jeff Cooper
This is not just about talking or teaching a practice - this is about releasing an explosive energy of ecstasy. — Jaggi Vasudev
His pagan barbarity, his explosive and angrily defiant melancholy, his demoniacal instinct . . . these are all echoes . . . of the thousand-year-old… — Bela Bartok
There's a kind of tension that if I'm getting a story right I can feel right away, and I don't feel that when I try… — Alice Munro
Genius, as an explosive power, beats gunpowder hollow. — Thomas Huxley
But those dealing in the actual manufacture of mind are dealing in a very explosive material. The material is not merely the clay of which… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
On their own, each [character] is a victim of no importance. But when you bring them together, they become a dangerous weapon. Jeanne is the… — Claude Chabrol
The real is behind and beyond words, incommunicable, directly experienced, explosive in its effect on the mind. It is easily had when nothing else is… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
There is nothing more explosive than a skilled population condemned to inaction. Such a population is likely to become a hotbed of extremism and intolerance,… — Eric Hoffer
Ideas came with explosive immediacy, like an instant birth. Human thought is like a monstrous pendulum; it keeps swinging from one extreme to the other. — Eugene Field
You should see my house. It's sort of explosive. Like a crazy person lives there. — Sandra Oh
I happened to happened to land in a time, in the middle '60s, that without knowing it, and without being told by the history of… — James Earl Jones
I know it sounds trite but I wanted to make a difference. Political debates with my father had been fraught because he was uncompromising and… — Vince Cable
And every historic effort to forge a democratic project has been undermined by two fundamental realities: poverty and paranoia. The persistence of poverty generates levels… — Cornel West

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