Violently Quotes

123 Violently quotes by 111 unique authors

When inspiration comes life is lived in the moment and peace descends. When inspiration leaves thoughts turn to violently killing time — Dean Cavanagh
Beware of turning into the enemy you most fear. All it takes is to lash out violently at someone who has done you some grievous… — Ariel Dorfman
Accidents ambush the unsuspecting, often violently, just like love. — Andrew Davidson
It is natural that people should differ most, and most violently, about the unknowable . . . There is all the room in the world… — E. Haldeman-Julius
If we want to know what's most sacred in this world, all we need to do is look for what is most violently profaned. — Christopher West
In the classic old business cycle, there would be a diminution in sales; it would take a little while for this information to reach corporate… — Alan Blinder
A common denominator in every single nuclear accident - a nuclear plant or on a nuclear submarine - is that before the specialists even know… — Jacques Yves Cousteau
Men who have been raised violently have every reason to believe it is appropriate for them to control others through violence; they feel no compunction… — Frank Pittman
Terror collided violently with reason. — Anita Moorjani
A timid dog barks more violently than it bites. Curtius Canis timidus vehementius latrat quam mordet — Quintus Curtius Rufus
In setting out the walls of a city the choice of a healthy situation is of the first importance: it should be on high ground,… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
I have been repeating over and over again that he who cannot protect himself or his nearest and dearest or their honour by non-violently facing… — Mahatma Gandhi
For the devil may tempt the good, but he cannot find rest in them; for he is shaken violently, and upset, and driven out, now… — Bruno of Cologne
Curator Shantrelle P. Lewis left for Amsterdam an Andy Warhol fellow, and came back with a film in her pocket. Please support this confrontation of… — dream hampton
Have a good plan, execute it violently, and do it today. — Douglas MacArthur
This world of the imagination is fancy-free and violently opposed to common sense. — Mark Rothko
For every woman and girl violently attacked, we reduce our humanity. For every woman forced into unprotected sex because men demand this, we destroy dignity… — Nelson Mandela
People will not bear it when advice is violently given, even if it is well founded. Hearts are flowers; they remain open to the softly… — Jean Paul
The trouble with life is its amorphousness, its ridiculous fluidity. Look at it: thinly plotted, largely themeless, sentimental and ineluctably trite. The dialogue is poor,… — Martin Amis
I am a patriot. I have always sought to serve my country, in theory a Republic. Learning that secrecy was evil rather than good was… — Robert David Steele
More progress results from the violent execution of an imperfect plan than the perfection of a plan to violently execute. — Hubert H. Humphrey
We do not suffer by accident. It does not often happen that the interference of friends will persuade a young man of independent fortune to… — Elizabeth Bennett
The Americans are violently oral. That's why in America the mother is all-important and the father has no position at all -- isn't respected in… — Wystan Hugh Auden
Whilst our Hearts are violently set upon any thing, there is no convincing us that we shall ever be of another Mind. — Mary Astell
I'm grateful that, after an early life of being silenced, sometimes violently, I grew up to have a voice, circumstances that will always bind me… — Rebecca Solnit

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