[Bill] Clinton said [on ordering the bombing of civilian targets in Somalia], "When people kill us, they should be killed in greater numbers." Then, with his face reddening, his voice rising, and his fist pounding his thigh, he . . . [said], "I believe in killing people who try to hurt you. And I can't believe we're being pushed around by these two-bit pricks. —George Stephanopoulos More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Violence stinks no matter which side of it you're on. But now and then there's nothing left to do but hit the other person over the head with a frying pan. —Tom Robbins More about this quote Tags: argument violence anger Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Why are sex and violence always linked? I'm afraid they'll blur together in people's minds — sexandviolence — until we can't tell them apart. I expect to hear a newscaster say, "The mob became unruly and the police were forced to resort to sex. —Dick Cavett More about this quote Tags: sex violence Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
When people say there is too much violence in [my books], what they are saying is there is too much reality in life. —Joyce Carol Oates More about this quote Tags: life reality violence Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If you have a gun, you can go out and shoot one, two, three, five people. But if you have an ideology and stick to it, thinking it is the absolute truth, you can kill millions. —Thích Nhất Hạnh More about this quote Tags: truth thinking Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Man's destructive hand spares nothing that lives: he kills to feed himself, he kills to clothe himself, he kills to adorn himself, he kills to attack, he kills to defend himself, he kills to instruct himself, he kills to amuse himself, he kills for the sake of killing. —Joseph de Maistre More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We saw the lightning and that was the guns; and then we heard the thunder and that was the big guns; and then we heard the rain falling and that was the blood falling; and when we came to get in the crops, it was dead men that we reaped. —Harriet Tubman More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I'm used to talking to him all the time, about the most meaningless stuff. To have him gone feels like a loss, an absence haunting me every day. Without him, there's just the empty space that used to be filled with laughter and friendship and comfort. Can you really blame me for finding it so hard to let go? —Abby McDonald in Getting Over Garrett Delaney More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Life isn't always about logic and reasons—sometimes you just have to close your eyes and jump. Particularly when it comes to relationships. —Julie James in Just the Sexiest Man Alive More about this quote Tags: life relationships logic Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Don't go wishing for what you know nothing about. —Marthe Jocelyn in Folly More about this quote Tags: knowledge wishing Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The things that go wrong often make the best memories. —Gretchen Rubin in The Happiness Project More about this quote Tags: planning surprise memories Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Trouble is just like love, after all; it comes in unannounced and takes over before you've had a chance to reconsider, or even to think. —Alice Hoffman in Practical Magic More about this quote Tags: love trouble Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts agree, is by accident. That's where we come in; we're computer professionals. We cause accidents. —Nathaniel Borenstein More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible. —Arthur C. Clarke More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
To be poor and dependent is very nearly an impossibility. —William Cobbett More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email