Best 175 quotes in «violent quotes» category

As a viewed myself in a fragment of looking-glass..., I was so impressed with a sense of vague awe at my appearance ... that I was seized with a violent tremour.

A toothache, or a violent passion, is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its causes, its character, its importance or insignificance.

A truly nonviolent man would never live to tell the tale of atrocities. He would have laid down his life on the spot in non-violent resistance.

For a time during the early settlement of this country peace and goodwill prevailed, only to be followed later by violent and relentless warfare.

Divine souls suffer violent opposition from mediocre minds.

Excellent warriors are not violent.

Cryptography is the ultimate form of non-violent direct action.

[Donald] Trump has been saying that on, day one, the violent undocumented immigrants will be - will leave the country. But what about the rest? What happens to the other 11 or so million, however many there are?

Each of us, even the lowliest and most insignificant among us, was uprooted from his innermost existence by the almost constant volcanic upheavals visited upon our European soil and, as one of countless human beings, I can't claim any special place for myself except that, as an Austrian, a Jew, writer, humanist and pacifist, I have always been precisely in those places where the effects of the thrusts were most violent.

Existence is violent, I exist, therefore I'm violent. . . in that way.

Geologists have usually had recourse for the explanation of these changes to the supposition of sundry violent and extraordinary catastrophes, cataclysms, or general revolutions having occurred in the physical state of the earth's surface.

For violent people to make themselves vulnerable, and then to have that vulnerability be used against them, bad things can happen.

I am not a violent person. I actually don't like to hurt people.

Golf is a non-violent game played violently from within.

Humans. Violent but peace-loving. Passionate but cerebral. Humane but cruel. Impulsive but calculating. Generous but selfish. And yet, somehow I knew that they represented the best hope of the galaxy.

I am not a violent person. I am a product of the Flower Power '60s. I have actually worn bell-bottomed jeans.

Harsh reproof is like a violent storm, soon washed down the channel; but friendly admonitions, like a small shower, pierce deep, and bring forth better reformation.

I'd rather be on my own than be with a violent man.

I believe that the death penalty is the ultimate deterrent to violent crime...period.

I don't like poetry that just slaps violent words on a canvas, as it were.

I don't really consider myself a horror director or a violent director at all.

If left unchecked, global change will create violent conflict, torrential storms, shrinking coastlines, and irreversible catastrophe.

I enjoy total creative control right now. Nobody tells me to make it longer, shorter, better, sexier, more violent, whatever.

If a cause be good, the most violent attack of its enemies will not injure it so much as an injudicious defence of it by its friends.

I had a stalker who was extremely violent. He broke into the studio with knives and I was locked in a bathroom.

If... the motion of the earth were circular, it would be violent and contrary to nature, and could not be eternal, since ... nothing violent is eternal .... It follows, therefore, that the earth is not moved with a circular motion.

If you are driven by certainty you can't grow. If you are driven by certainty if somebody messes with you, you can get very intense, even violent, depending upon the person's personality.

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 less violent.

I'm a very great non-violent character. I would never resort to violence to change anything.

I'm not a violent person, never was, but I have this temperament that I've always displayed. I guess it has to do with my tradition and being Italian, we're very outgoing with our emotions.

I hate every violent overthrow, because as much is destroyed as is gained by it.

I'm nihilistic, antagonistic, violent, horrible - but not obliterated, yet. I just refuse to be beaten down. I think it's stubborness that keeps me going.

In other words, more violent tornadoes would, if anything, be a sign of 'global cooling', not 'global warming'.

I told myself I did not have to live as I once did. I did not have to re-create the violent moments that used to come aborning like a sulfurous match flaring off a thumbnail.

ISIS is the new jihad - violent jihadist vanguard in the Middle East and globally.

It has become a crusade of mine to demonstrate that TV need not be violent to be exciting.

I thought, how do you confuse violent Russian mobsters? Well, by being silly!

It is better to resist oppression by violent means than to submit, but it is best of all to resist by nonviolent means.

It's important to understand that violent Islam is only one face of violent religion.

It seems insane-so violent and loud. It's audacious that you would even think such a thing.

It was violent, it was brutal, and it got down right uglyyy!

I was a violent, bipolar, compulsive liar. I was a real American.

I was in the courtroom prosecuting violent felonies for well over a decade.

I was raised in Washington, DC, very violent place. I grew up with violence. My introduction to music was violent. The years I've spent on tours, some of that was extremely violent.

I was no assassin. I got out during the amnesty because I had not committed any violent crimes.

I was not afraid of the words of the violent, but of the silence of the honest.

Most people don't like to talk about violent historical death.

I was the biggest, most hopeless and most violent drunk in baseball.

I would, without any hesitation, shoot a violent criminal again.

Maybe violent wickedness can be decapitated, but stupidity has too many heads.