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World Quotes by Hunter S. Thompson
- It's a strange world. Some people get rich and others eat sh** and die.
- If we get chased out of Iraq with our tail between our legs, that will be the fifth consecutive Third-world country with no hint of…
- We are living in dangerously weird times now. Smart people just shrug and admit they're dazed and confused. The only ones left with any confidence…
- In the terms of our Great Society the Hell's Angels and their ilk are losers - dropouts, failures and malcontents. They are rejects looking for…
- My first feeling was a wild desire to drive a stake in the sand and claim the place for myself. The beach was white as…
- Ah, fortune and fame shall follow me ... and I shall dwell in the world of the chosen for a few moments of fleeting ecstasy;…
- I have never felt comfortable around people who talk about their feelings for Jesus, or any other deity for that matter, because they are usually…
- In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.
- America... just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing…
- The world is still a weird place, despite my efforts to make clear and perfect sense of it.
- Duke is an ugly word in Kentucky. Nothing in the world compares to the joy of beating those hateful swine from Duke.
- I am a generous man, by nature, and far more trusting than I should be. Indeed. The real world is risky territory for people with…
- Marathon running, like golf, is a game for players, not winners. That is why Callaway sells golf clubs and Nike sells running shoes. But running…
- Nixon represents that dark, venal and incurably violent side of the American character almost every other country in the world has learned to fear and…
- Fear is a healthy instinct, not a sign of weakness. It is a natural self-defense mechanism that is common to felines, wolves, hyenas, and most…
- Maybe it meant something. Maybe not, in the long run, but no explanation, no mix of words or music or memories can touch that sense…
- Journalism is "a low trade and a habit worse than heroin, a strange seedy world of misfits and drunkards and failures.
- We have become a Nazi monster in the eyes of the whole world - bullies and bastards who would rather kill than live peacefully. We…
- 1) Never trust a cop in a raincoat. 2) Beware of enthusiasm and of love, both are temporary and quick to sway. 3) If asked…
- The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man…
- Just the other day the AP wire had a story about a man from Arkansas who entered some kind of contest and won a two-week…
- It is Nixon himself who represents that dark, venal and incurably violent side of the American character that almost every country in the world has…
- In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.
More World Quotes
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- The Third World is not a reality but an ideology. — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello
- You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world. — Aristotle
- Actually I am very glad that people can buy Armani - even if it's a fake. I like the fact that I'm… — Giorgio Armani
- I mean there's enormous pressures to harmonize freedom of speech legislation and transparency legislation around the world - within the E.U., between… — Julian Assange
- I think the responsibility lies with the fashion world as a collective. We have to demand more variety. — Kevyn Aucoin
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- Live never to be ashamed if anything you say or do is published around the world, even if what is said is… — Richard Bach