Violent Quotes

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..it's awful not to be loved. It's the worst thing in the world...It makes you mean, and violent, and cruel. — John Steinbeck
I am simultaneously and contradictorily both happy and unhappy: 'to succeed' or 'to fail' have for me only ephemeral, contingent meanings (this does not stop… — Roland Barthes
Times have not become more violent. They have just become more televised. — Marilyn Manson
I used to think--and given the way we ended up, maybe I still do--that all relationships need the kind of violent shove that a crush… — Nick Hornby
The truth is, laughter always sounds more perfect than weeping. Laughter flows in a violent riff and is effortlessly melodic. Weeping is often fought, choked,… — Anne Rice
Or so we don't think about how we're just vulnerable specks trying to survive on a violent, tumultuous planet, at the mercy of hurricanes and… — Deb Caletti
If I were asked to define the Hindu creed, I should simply say: Search after truth through non-violent means. A man may not believe in… — Mahatma Gandhi
There is a legitimate argument over whether the death penalty effectively deters violent crime, although my personal observation is that not one of the criminals… — Dinesh D'Souza
Even if I had expected it, even if I had known what I was going to do with my life, it would have knocked the… — Amy Tan
History records that the money changers have used every form of abuse, intrigue, deceit, and violent means possible to maintain their control over governments by… — James Madison
This country was filled with violent children orphaned by war. — Cormac McCarthy
I see you brought along your violent little girlfriend. What a nice surprise!" - Saint Dane (The Reality Bug) — D. J. MacHale
Some Westerners [â€¦] have argued that the West does not have problems with Islam but only with violent Islamist extremists. Fourteen hundred years of history… — Samuel P. Huntington
The Photograph is violent: not because it shows violent tings, but because on each occasion (i)it fills the sight by force(i), and because in it… — Roland Barthes
It Wasn't Hard To Follow The Scent Of Blood To The Living Room Where The Fae Had Been Killed. It Had Been A Violent Death,… — Patricia Briggs
Afterward, I curl around her. We lie in silence until darkness falls, and then, haltingly, she begins to talk...She speaks without need or even room… — Sara Gruen
It's another sin. Worse than all the other ones, which are immediate, violent and hot...It's the eighth deadly sin. The one God left out, Hope. — Jennifer Donnelly
Men and women, they were beautiful and wild, all a little violent under their pleasant ways and only a little tamed. — Margaret Mitchell
To such men the desperate and horrible thought has come that perhaps the whole of human life is but a bad joke, a violent and… — Hermann Hesse
Would you like to watch TV or get between the sheets and contemplate this violent freeway, would you like something to eat would you like… — Roger Waters

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