Rotten Quotes

300 Rotten quotes by 239 unique authors

The Old Testament is a chronicle of horrors, describing an egocentric collection of supernatural beings who were always doing rotten things to gentle souls like… — John A. Keel
Ironically, the universities have trained hundreds of thousands of graduates for jobs that soon will not exist. They have trained people to maintain a structure… — Chris Hedges
What the young writer is looking for is not a critic who will slap him on the back and say, 'Greatest thing since O. Henry,'… — Unknown Author
We will hire someone with less experience, less education, and less expertise, than someone who has more of those things and has a rotten attitude.… — Herb Kelleher
Since when has Finland been a rotten place to live in? — David Attenborough
Man is/the symbol-using (symbol making, symbol-misusing) animal/inventor of the negative (or moralized by the negative)/separated from his natural condition by instruments of his own making/goaded… — Kenneth Burke
I've never been in a band where someone goes, 'Ah, I've got the perfect name! And it's because I climbed Mount Fuji, and at the… — Wes Borland
New York is not even a city, it's a congerie of rotten villages. — James M. Cain
Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few. The manna of popular liberty must be gathered… — Wendell Phillips
You've got to bear it in mind that nobody that ever lived is specially privileged; the axe can fall at any moment, on any neck,… — James Agee
Helplessness is such a rotten feeling. There's nothing you can do about it. Being helpless is like being paralyzed. It's sickness. The cure calls for… — Chuck Barris
I pretty much grew up when punk was big in the UK. The Sex Pistols were heroes for me. I used to run around like… — Gavin Rossdale
Anger is the fruit of rotten roots. — Joyce Meyer
I know I can get to the stage where I'm drinking a lot. I tend to be rotten and groggy all day and hanging out… — Trisha Goddard
All successful revolutions are the kicking in of a rotten door. The violence of revolutions is the violence of men who charge into a vacuum. — John Kenneth Galbraith
Delusions, errors and lies are like huge, gaudy vessels, the rafters of which are rotten and worm-eaten, and those who embark in them are fated… — Gautama Buddha
They're a rotten crowd', I shouted across the lawn. 'You're worth the whole damn bunch put together. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
You can feel as brave as Columbus starting for the unknown the first time you enter a Chinese lane full of boys laughing at you,… — Ella Maillart
I'm beginning to think I've got rotten luck with women. — Dante Alighieri
This is a nasty, rotten business. — Robert Crandall
We've had enough of exhortations to be silent! Cry out with a hundred thousand tongues. I see that the world is rotten because of silence. — St. Catherine of Siena
Well, there's just some universal truths in a way that I've just observed to be true. You read Voltaire. You read modern literature. Anywhere you… — Feist
[T]omorrow is a new day. You shall begin it well & serenely, & with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Between the covers of the books that no one had ever read again, in the old parchments damaged by dampness, a livid flower had prospered,… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
How often has not the parallel been drawn and the golden age of the Roman Empire, when the external brilliancy of life likewise dazzled the… — Abraham Kuyper

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