Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kenneth Williams

People need to be peppered or even outraged occasionally. Our national comedy and drama is packed with earthy familiarity and honest vulgarity. Clean vulgarity can be very shocking and that, in my view, gives greater involvement.

Barney Frank

They appear to have become so attached to their outrage that they are even more outraged that they won't be able to be outraged anymore.

If this is correct, your shareholders should be outraged that such a transaction was not consummated.

Ellen DeGeneres

I absolutely think what Oprah did helps. For people to be honest and outraged and show what's going on ... I'm thrilled when people can get down there and paint a picture, tell the story, see a face.

My husband Wally and I are outraged to learn that yet another Army private has been the target of harassment and violence at the hands of a fellow soldier.

Bill Richardson

I will not tolerate security lapses and I'm outraged at what happened,

It has outraged the community. He should be ashamed.

Stephen Kinzer

Many Americans, and many more people around the world, have been outraged by what they see as President George W. Bush's radical reordering of American foreign policy.

Steny Hoyer

If a Democratic administration had pursued the fiscal policies and put the nation in the fiscal posture it's now in, the business community would be outraged and on the ramparts. They're getting benefits, but they're also very concerned that if they are perceived to be opposed to the administration's policies, there will be a cost to pay in terms of direct adverse impact on their corporate interests.

Wes Boyd

We have received thousands of e-mails, people outraged by the very idea a company like Sinclair would direct stations to air a partisan film.

James Surowiecki

The problem with venality in business is that getting outraged about it makes it easy to miss the systemic problems that venality often disguises.

My family is outraged because this person hasn't been arrested and is on paid vacation. No one ever deserves to be treated like that.

We want this officer criminally prosecuted. We saw an unarmed man be beaten on camera who seemed to be cooperating and not resisting arrest so we're outraged and shocked ... It's very unfortunate that after the Rodney King beating we still have rogue officers within the LAPD.

Tim Hetherington

The funny thing about war is that people feel you need to be morally outraged. I feel morally outraged about it, and I've been doing it for long enough to feel morally outraged, because I have been in massacre scenes in West Africa, and I've been doing this for a long time now.

Technique! The very word is like a shriek of outraged Art. It is the idiot name given to effort by those who are too weak, too weary, or too dull to play the game. The mighty have no theory of technique.

Stephane Hessel

I wish for you all, each of you, to have your own motive for indignation. This is precious. When something outrages you as I was outraged by Nazism, then people become militant, strong, and involved.

We didn't have a lot of resources and we didn't have a lot of time. But even our small sampling revealed thousands of voters who are shocked and outraged to find their name appears on this anti-gay, anti-family measure. If we were able, in our limited review, to identify this many people whose signatures were essentially stolen, we are quite sure there are tens of thousands more who we have not yet uncovered. That's why we are asking for this investigation.

This is back room politics at its worst. The public should be outraged because they're doing it all behind closed doors, and this is the person they're going to have to live with.

This is a once-in-a-generation chance to overhaul the system. The challenge is whether the American public is going to get outraged enough to turn that into action.

Lena Headey

Some 'Terminator' fans are outraged that I'm playing Sarah Connor. They think I'm not muscly enough. To be honest, I'm a little tired of the comparisons to Linda Hamilton. I know she will always be the original Sarah Connor, but when people see what I bring to the role, they will look at her with new eyes.

Kelly Sullivan

The more everyone reads about this, the more outraged and disgusted they are. You can't fathom people would do this.

Are we adequately prepared? ... No. We do not yet have a vaccine ready to go. If the pandemic happened next week, the public would be outraged that we waited and ignored the concerns and now people in every neighborhood were dying.

Americans should be outraged at how many western states are treating America's lion, ... South Dakota's actions are yet another egregious example of the blatant lack of regard for the survival of not only the mountain lion but also the landscapes we know and love.

Catherine Hardwicke

Every day I'm intrigued and sometimes outraged by things that no one talks about. Current is a chance to be heard, and send think-bombs out into the world.

Victor Hugo

Anger may be foolish and obsurd, and one may be irritated when in the wrong; but a man never feels outraged unless in some respect he is at bottom right.

Robert Klein

What the litigation has done is coalesced even further support from individuals who are outraged that the opposition would take to the court to try to defeat the will of the people.

We just want people to respect the law, no matter their ethnicity. This isnt about race. Its about defending citizens who are here. We want the people of Illinois to be outraged enough that they get off their couches and take back their state.

The United States is outraged and strongly condemns the Burmese authorities' treatment of Aung San Suu Kyi and her party members and the violations of their fundamental human rights,

We were outraged that no officials came ... when they carry responsibility for what happened. These body parts were also our children.

I've never heard so many people so outraged down at the Hall (of Justice). The Office of Citizens Complaints should be ashamed of themselves.

I've rarely seen a case or set of facts that has so outraged people over a long period of time. I've tried ax murderers and I've never found the public as upset as this.

Marcus Aurelius

Who persuaded you to cut off the nose of your wife's lover? Wretched husband, that was not the part which outraged you! Fool, what have you done? Your wife has lost nothing by the operation

Anita Roddick

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