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  • Zanpano~: What are your buddies in central Scheming?!Mini-Enzy: SNUB I don't know...Zanpano: *Shaking jar Violently* TALK YOU INSECT SCUM!! TALK!!Frog man: YOU GO, ZANPANO! SHOW IT WHOSE BOSS! -- Hiromu Arakawa
  • No one should be allowed to violently trample on the law. -- Vladimir Putin
  • When you move a border, suddenly life changes violently. I write about nationality. -- Alan Furst
  • A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week. -- George S. Patton
  • I love it when my books cause controversy, when people argue violently about the ending. -- Joanne Harris
  • My passion stems from seeking world peace and finding how we can live together creatively rather than violently. -- Mimi Kennedy
  • Diplomats make it their business to conceal the facts, and politicians violently denounce the politicians of other countries. -- Margaret Sanger
  • People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it's safer to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs. -- Alexei Sayle
  • Most people live in a myth and grow violently angry if anyone dares to tell them the truth about themselves. -- Robert Anton Wilson
  • All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
  • 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 have tried to maintain civil relationships with everyone I meet - and, even if I violently disagree with them, try to be respectful. -- Robert M. Gates
  • It is difficult to violently suppress people in the long run, as the example of the Soviet Union and the Eastern European countries has shown. -- Dalai Lama
  • You don't sit down and write a wish list about the person you are going to fall violently in love with. It just doesn't work like that. -- Stephen Fry
  • Dogs feel very strongly that they should always go with you in the car, in case the need should arise for them to bark violently at nothing right in your ear. -- Dave Barry
  • 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 to the rights of the voiceless. -- Rebecca Solnit
  • There is no longer a way out of our present situation except by forging a road toward our objective, violently and by force, over a sea of blood and under a horizon blazing with fire. -- Gamal Abdel Nasser
  • I am violently untidy. My desk is overcrowded. I write my first drafts in longhand in a long notebook using a plastic throwaway fountain pen. Then I work on a word processor using a different desk and a different room. -- Colm Toibin
  • We've got to deal with the fact that the church has been violently prejudiced against gay people. We've murdered them; we've burned them at the stake; we've run them out of town for something over which they have no control. And that's immoral. -- John Shelby Spong
  • No religion makes more use of color than Hinduism, with its blue-skinned gods and peony-lipped goddesses, and even the spring festival of Holi is focused on color: Boys squirt arcs of dyed water on passersby or dump powder, all violently hued, on their marks. -- Hanya Yanagihara
  • 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, neither subject to fogs nor rains; its aspects should be neither violently hot nor intensely cold, but temperate in both respects. -- Vitruvius
  • I hope to one day co-sign a lease with another person but, well, it doesn't plague me that I have yet to do so. Put it this way: I've never had to violently tug at my own pillow at 2 A.M. to get myself to stop snoring. -- Sloane Crosley
  • When you loot or behave violently, you give grounds to those that try to justify illegal police abuse. You become the poster child for them to say, 'See, we have no choice but to shoot and kill, or use a chokehold, because just look at the way they behave.' -- Al Sharpton
  • Melissa Barak, an ex-City Ballet dancer and sometime choreographer, has put together an unspeakably dopey and incompetent mess called 'Call Me Ben,' combining ultra-generic dance, terrible dialogue and disastrous storytelling, about the founding of Las Vegas by the gangster Bugsy Siegel, who insists, violently, on being addressed as 'Ben.' -- Robert Gottlieb
  • The relentless invisible storm of radio signals and electronic particles, the hustle and bustle, and the billions of petrol explosions in the engine blocks of trucks and cars seem to churn up the molecules of life and heaven so violently that the beautiful fogs are unable to hold together like they once did. -- Michael Leunig
  • I cannot believe that violence depicted onscreen actually causes people to act out violently. That's oversimplifying the issue. If somebody commits a violent act after seeing violence in a movie, I think the question that needs to be asked is: would that person still have committed the act if he had not seen a violent film? -- Park Chan-wook
  • I planted my self in the middle of a great many Glasses full of Dew, tied fast about me, upon which the Sun so violently darted his Rays, that the Heat, which attracted them, as it does the thickest Clouds, carried me up so high, that at length I found my self above the middle Region of the Air. -- Cyrano de Bergerac
  • Terror collided violently with reason. -- Anita Moorjani
  • One never paints violently enough. -- Eugene Delacroix
  • And I fell violently on my face. -- Edgar Allan Poe
  • There's no privacy for the violently dead. -- Zelda Popkin
  • Accidents ambush the unsuspecting, often violently, just like love. -- Andrew Davidson
  • Golf is a non-violent game played violently from within. -- Bob Toski
  • I want to die violently instead of fading out sentimentally. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Should I act violently in defense of my religion, absolutely. -- Reza Aslan
  • Have a good plan, execute it violently, and do it today. -- Douglas MacArthur
  • I started violently, as if some unseen hand had goosed me. -- P. G. Wodehouse
  • Technology is a wonderful thing, but I think it's violently misused. -- Iris Apfel
  • People defend nothing more violently than the pretenses they live by. -- Allen Drury
  • The only thing that I react really violently to is being misquoted. -- Gore Vidal
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  • In nature things move violently to their place, and calmly in their place. -- Francis Bacon
  • This world of the imagination is fancy-free and violently opposed to common sense. -- Mark Rothko
  • When conflicts end non-violently, it's more likely that the result will be longer-lasting, democratic societies. -- Julia Bacha
  • ...an imperfect plan implemented immediately and violently will always succeed better than a perfect plan. -- George S. Patton
  • Language casts sheaves of reality upon the social body, stamping it and violently shaping it. -- Monique Wittig
  • It's always fascinating - and sometimes a little disquieting - when two first-rate critics violently disagree. -- Robert Gottlieb
  • ...being alone with him was like being in a room which someone had just violently left -- John Banville
  • A timid dog barks more violently than it bites. Curtius Canis timidus vehementius latrat quam mordet -- Quintus Curtius Rufus
  • I feel like I have to move violently once a day, or I'll lose my mind. -- Adam Driver
  • Through our expectations, we violently expand and try to fill the world with our proofs of worth. -- Bryant McGill
  • A rowdy bunch on the whole, they were most of them so violently individualistic as to be practically interchangeable. -- Elaine Dundy
  • I'd been hurt, and in response I had acted violently, destroying a little of myself each time I did so. -- John Connolly
  • A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed at some indefinite time in the future. -- George S. Patton Jr.
  • More progress results from the violent execution of an imperfect plan than the perfection of a plan to violently execute. -- Hubert H. Humphrey
  • If you win non-violently, then you have a double victory, you have not only won your fight, but you remain free. -- Cesar Chavez
  • I do not blame himfor not knowing the gentleness of my soul.When I only showed him,how violently I loved. -- Saiber
  • When inspiration comes life is lived in the moment and peace descends. When inspiration leaves thoughts turn to violently killing time -- Dean Cavanagh
  • All truth passes through three stages: First, it is ridiculed; Second, it is violently opposed; Third, it is accepted as self-evident. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Anybody can act violently - there is nothing to it; but not every person is able to destroy his enemy with words. -- Leslie Marmon Silko
  • How on earth did it come about that all the things denounced in the Gospels are violently defended by the Christian sects? -- Richard Aldington
  • You hit me the instant I saw you." he said, gruffly. "I couldn't look away. I wanted you immediately. Excessively. Almost violently. -- Sylvia Day
  • Gelsey Kirkland has had more than her share of demons, as her two distressing memoirs - and her violently checkered career - attest. -- Robert Gottlieb
  • The US is headed for ruin and revolution. The revolution will almost certainly be put down, violently. But the ruin cannot be stopped. -- Bill Bonner
  • I violently dislike you,' she said, and then she was gone, slamming the door and leaving a sort of shocked silence behind. -- Kate Johnson
  • He told us that most of us would die violently, and those who did not would be brought down to the level of beasts. -- Ernest Gaines
  • 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
  • I have high hopes of smashing my name into history so violently that it will take a legendary form even if all books are destroyed. -- L. Ron Hubbard
  • It is a surprising fact that those who object most violently to the manipulation of behaviour nevertheless make the most vigorous effort to manipulate minds. -- B. F. Skinner
  • I had only planned to strike the gong violently in order to somehow shake people up and make them more aware. I think I succeeded. -- Balthus
  • How violently do rumors blow the sails of popular judgments! How few there be that can discern between truth and truth-likeness, between shows and substance! -- Philip Sidney
  • Men and women who are used of GOD, if I had only a few words to describe them, they are the passionate-weak, they are the violently-desperate. -- Paul Washer
  • The reaction that a ruthless dictator sets up in us either that of awe or pity according respectively as we react to him violently on nonviolently. -- Mahatma Gandhi
  • The perfection of moral character consists in this, in passing every day as the last, and in being neither violently excited nor torpid nor playing the hypocrite. -- Marcus Aurelius
  • One good thing about TV is, if you die violently, God forbid, on camera, you will not have died in vain because you will be great entertainment. -- Kurt Vonnegut
  • The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth. -- H. L. Mencken
  • When you see a person acting violently, ask yourself whether he knows how powerful he is. If he knew his power, would he feel the need to assert it? -- Vironika Tugaleva
  • People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it's safer to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs. People are very inclined to set moral standards for others. -- Elizabeth Drew
  • ...people don't respect the morning. An alarm clock violently wakes them up, shatters their sleep like the blow of an ax, and they immediately surrender themselves to deadly haste. -- Milan Kundera
  • Most people think everybody feels about them much more violently than they actually do; they think other people's opinions of them swing through great arcs of approval or disapproval. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Thus Mr. Lawrence, Mr. Douglas and Mr. Joyce partly spoil their books for women readers by their display of self-conscious virility; and Mr. Hemingway, but much less violently, follows suit. -- Virginia Woolf
  • The familiar mood that awaits the sensitive young who are poor and dispossessed is a mood of sharp and painful inferiority, of violently angry tensions, of desperate and overwhelming longings. -- Peter Abrahams
  • Meanwhile, some people are dying of sad laughter at the absurdity of man, who kills so easily and so violently, and once a year sends out cards praying for "Peace on Earth." -- David C. Coates
  • Gentle souls! You play your love on the violin. The crude ones play it on the drums violently. But can you turn yourselves inside out, like me And become just two lips entirely? -- Vladimir Mayakovsky
  • It's no good pretending that any relationship has a future if your record collections disagree violently or if your favorite films wouldn't even speak to each other if they met at a party. -- Nick Hornby
  • When the Left agitates over government policies, it's considered righteous anger. When the Right - and much of the center - agitate, it's painted as the rantings of the criminally and violently insane. -- Monica Crowley
  • 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 over being violent to women, children, and one another. -- Frank Pittman
  • As a result of the asthma I was sent to school in the country, and only visited Sydney for brief, violently asthmatic sojourns on my way to a house we owned in the Blue Mountains. -- Patrick White
  • When Minutemen leader Jim Gilchrist and his black colleague Marvin Stewart were invited by the College Republicans to speak at Columbia last year, the tolerant, free-speech-loving Columbia students violently attacked them, shutting down the speech. -- Ann Coulter
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