Top 219 Violently Quotes & Sayings

That's one of the things I resent the most violently. To have to take your own life and give it away to the public, in pieces.

I feel like I have to move violently once a day, or I'll lose my mind.

Technology is a wonderful thing, but I think it's violently misused.

Anybody can act violently - there is nothing to it; but not every person is able to destroy his enemy with words.

I started violently, as if some unseen hand had goosed me.

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 death may and ought to do so by violently dealing with the oppressor. He who can do neither of the two is a burden. He has no business to be the head of a family. He must either hide himself, or must rest content to live for ever in helplessness and be prepared to crawl like a worm at the bidding of a bully.

It's always fascinating - and sometimes a little disquieting - when two first-rate critics violently disagree.

If you’re a part of my family, I will love you violently.

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.

Do you ever see a right-wing kid violently jumping lefty speakers? On campus, you either have silent appeasement or a bruise.

Whilst our Hearts are violently set upon any thing, there is no convincing us that we shall ever be of another Mind.

Have a good plan, execute it violently, and do it today.

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.

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.

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

People defend nothing more violently than the pretenses they live by.

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.

A timid dog barks more violently than it bites. Curtius Canis timidus vehementius latrat quam mordet

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.

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

How on earth did it come about that all the things denounced in the Gospels are violently defended by the Christian sects?

...an imperfect plan implemented immediately and violently will always succeed better than a perfect plan.

One never paints violently enough.

There's no privacy for the violently dead.

Terror collided violently with reason.

I've always criticised American policy when I've disagreed with it. Just as I've criticised British policy. I was violently anti-Suez and pro-American in 1956, just as I was violently anti-Soviet on the invasion of Hungary which took place at the same time.

I'd been hurt, and in response I had acted violently, destroying a little of myself each time I did so.

I want to die violently instead of fading out sentimentally.

It's just becoming more acceptable for girls to react violently.

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.

This world of the imagination is fancy-free and violently opposed to common sense.

When you move a border, suddenly life changes violently. I write about nationality.

Most people live in a myth and grow violently angry if anyone dares to tell them the truth about themselves.

A rowdy bunch on the whole, they were most of them so violently individualistic as to be practically interchangeable.

Language casts sheaves of reality upon the social body, stamping it and violently shaping it.

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.

I have tried to maintain civil relationships with everyone I meet - and, even if I violently disagree with them, try to be respectful.

My passion stems from seeking world peace and finding how we can live together creatively rather than violently.

Where self-interest is violently suppressed, it is replaced by a burdensome system of bureaucratic control which dries up the wellsprings of initiative and creativity.

You hit me the instant I saw you." he said, gruffly. "I couldn't look away. I wanted you immediately. Excessively. Almost violently.

Diplomats make it their business to conceal the facts, and politicians violently denounce the politicians of other countries.

France, because it was attacked cowardly, shamelessly, violently, France will be merciless against the barbarians of Daesh.

In nature things move violently to their place, and calmly in their place.

A dash derives from "to dash," to shatter, strike violently, to throw suddenly or violently, hence to throw carelessly in or on, hence to write carelessly or suddenly, to add or insert suddenly or carelessly to or in the page. "To dash" comes from Middle English daschen, itself probably from Scandinavian-compare Danish daske, to beat, to strike. Ultimately the word is-rather obviously-echoic.

Hatred is like a long, dark shadow. Not even the person it falls upon knows where it comes from, in most cases. It is like a two-edged sword. When you cut the other person, you cut yourself. The more violently you hack at the other person, the more violently you hack at yourself. It can often be fatal. But it is not easy to dispose of. Please be careful, Mr.Okada. It is very dangerous. Once it has taken root in your heart, hatred is the most difficult think in the world to shake off.

And I fell violently on my face.

If you win non-violently, then you have a double victory, you have not only won your fight, but you remain free.

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.

We all want the same thing, love and acceptance. That's pretty much it. And what I've learned is that unless I'm happy with my side of the nickel, it can change violently - quickly.

The only thing that I react really violently to is being misquoted.

Atheists do not seek to violently impose their non-belief onto others. They simply reject all gods inherent to the 10,000 religions known to mankind.

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.

When conflicts end non-violently, it's more likely that the result will be longer-lasting, democratic societies.

I love it when my books cause controversy, when people argue violently about the ending.

The measures and acts which show us violently disposed towards the outer world can never stay without a violent reaction on ourselves.

My first tic was to shake my head violently. I was in karate class, and I was shaking violently. All of a sudden, I just started to notice that the teacher was looking at me, and all the kids were wondering what I was doing. I suddenly felt really strange.

Should I act violently in defense of my religion, absolutely.

Women are just as violently minded as men are, but with men, it's taken for granted.

Accidents ambush the unsuspecting, often violently, just like love.

In the moments before a game starts my stomach turns around as if I had to vomit. Then I have to choke so violently until my eyes tear.