Violent Quotes

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I like autumn. The drama of it; the golden lion roaring through the back door of the year, shaking its mane of leaves. A dangerous… — Joanne Harris
Weapons may be carried by creatures who are evil, dishonest, violent or lazy. The true warrior is good, gentle and honest. His bravery comes from… — Brian Jacques
A new sickness invaded Jerry, the sickness of knowing what he had become, another animal, another beast, another violent person in a violent world, inflicting… — Robert Cormier
Looking at suicideâ€”the sheer numbers, the pain leading up to it, and the suffering left behindâ€”is harrowing. For every moment of exuberance in the science,… — Kay Redfield Jamison
Is it wrong, wanting to be at home with your record collection? It's not like collecting records is like collecting stamps, or beermats, or antique… — Nick Hornby
A REASSURING ANNOUNCEMENT Please, be calm, despite that previous threat. I am all bluster - I am not violent. I am not malicious. I am… — Markus Zusak
Time, which grays hair and wrinkles faces, also withers violent affections, and much more quickly. — Fernando Pessoa
The city was asleep on its right side and shaking with violent nightmares. Long puffs of snoring came out of the chimneys. Its feet were… — Anais Nin
For it was Saturday night, the best and bingiest glad-time of the week, one of the fifty-two holidays in the slow-turning Big Wheel of the… — Alan Sillitoe
In sum, U.S. history is no more violent and oppressive than the history of England, Russia, Indonesia, or Burundi - but neither is it exceptionally… — James W. Loewen
What is stronger in us â€” passion or habit? Or are all the violent impulses, all the whirl of our desires and turbulent passions, only… — Nikolai Gogol
And I said to myself that unless you conceive Death to be a violent guerrilla and kidnaper who snatches those you love, and if you… — Saul Bellow
For someone so violent, he has a gentle face, doesn't he? — Fuyumi Soryo
He knew her now. She was the weird girl in the class above him, who dyed her hair pink and always wore a lot of… — Sarah Rees Brennan
At the age of twelve I had an attitude toward life that was to endure, that was to make me seek those areas of living… — Richard Wright
...When our thoughts revolve we are so often deceived into supposing that their violent movement is an indication of their vigorous originality, the upheaval of… — Janet Frame
I tried to picture a young, insecure Edward and couldn't, but it was nice to know that once he'd been a boy. Sometimes it felt… — Laurell K. Hamilton
And the distinction between violent and non-violent action is that the former is exclusively bent upon the destruction of the old, and the latter is… — Hannah Arendt
We have certain demons who are motivated by the smell of food. They tend to get rather violent whenever they smell it. I personally wouldnâ€™t… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
I hadn't seen my dad get violent since the Great Spatula Incident, and I wasn't anxious to see a repeat of that. — Rick Riordan

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