Vicious Quotations

The great champions were always vicious competitors. You never lose respect for a man who is a vicious competitor, and you never hate a man you respect. I don't like Rod Laver because he's such a vicious competitor, but I don't dislike him.

Nelson Mandela went to jail believing in violence, and 27 years later he and his colleagues had slowly and carefully honed the skills, the incredible skills, that they needed to turn one of the most vicious governments the world has known into a democracy. And they did it in a total devotion to non-violence.

I do not need any cheerleaders at my moot court. And I cannot imagine walking into that Court without the preparation of a few vicious moot courts; it is critical to the development of my thinking.

If we are surrounded by the trivial and the vicious, it is all too easy to make our peace with it.

To be trained in karate is something because karate is a vicious thing. If you are any good at it, you can kill somebody with it. It is a vicious way to fight.

But if you know that something has been really vicious, you don't read it, you don't let it into your head. What's damaging is when sentences go through your head and you burn with the injustice of it.

I'm not vicious really. I consider myself to be kindhearted. I love my mum.

Is Mitt Romney a bully? And the answer is, no... He does not have a vicious bone in his body.

The British Empire passed quickly and with less humiliation than its French and Dutch counterparts, but decades later, the vicious politics of partition still seems to define India and Pakistan.

Okay, well, I guess I'm still a kid. Because when I get really angry and fired up and I feel like my back is up against the wall, I will say vicious things.

'Ulysses' is the greatest anti-racist text in the English language, and it challenges right from the beginning the vicious racism which lies near the foundations of the Irish Free State and of the Irish republic.

There is a triangular relationship between poverty, child labour and illiteracy who have a cause and consequence relationship. We will have to break this vicious circle.

What did our nation ever do to provoke these madly vicious enemies? What is seen as injustice in one place is seen as just requital in the other.

The vicious circle has been shattered. Canadians now enjoy the benefits of the virtuous circle.

I can't do comedy that is cutting and vicious. If I knew I'd said something that was going to make someone feel bad, well, that supersedes everything.

Party leads to vicious, corrupt and unprofitable legislation, for the sole purpose of defeating party.

The 'niche' effect of charter schools guarantees a swift and vicious deepening of class and racial separation.

Why can't women get along? Because we're afraid. We're afraid to be vulnerable. We're afraid to be soft. We're afraid to be hurt. But most of all, we're afraid of our power. So we become controlling and aggressive and vicious.

Those whose character is mean and vicious will rouse others to animosity against them.

I have forgotten my rave reviews and memorized my vicious ones - like most writers.

The poets who have written the best poems about war seem to be the poets whose countries have experienced an invasion or vicious dictatorships.

Dressing rooms can be vicious places, in the best possible way, from a slagging point of view.

I had called her up a couple of weeks before then, because I had heard this vicious rumour that she did not like the movie. It was very upsetting for me. I am very sensitive to that, because I am portraying her life and did not want her to be unhappy.

Gadhafi's vicious regime has left Libya far worse than he found it on the day of his coup in 1969.

The part that always shocked me was the inter-community violence among the chimps: the patrols and the vicious attacks on strangers that lead to death. It's an unfortunate parallel to human behavior - they have a dark side just as we do. We have less excuse, because we can deliberate, so I believe only we are capable of true calculated evil.

Those who invest in South Africa should not think they are doing us a favor; they are here for what they get out of our cheap and abundant labor, and they should know that they are buttressing one of the most vicious systems.

Politics is so personal, vicious and immediate, how are you going to get anything done? Even the local politics where I live have gotten so ugly.

Every day confirms my opinion on the superiority of a vicious life - and if Virtue is not its own reward I don't know any other stipend annexed to it.

Lesbian feminists, for all their ideals of sisterhood and solidarity, can treat each other with a fickleness, a parasitic exploitativeness, and vicious spite that have to be seen to be believed.

I'm like a Sid Vicious for a new generation

We have reached the point of saturation a vicious revolving door of never-ending seasons. Children can't even take a couple of months' hiatus from a sport for fear of falling behind their peers and being excluded from teams the following seasons. Those elite teams, all those trophies that's what the parents want.

We have reached the point of saturation - a vicious revolving door of never-ending seasons. Children can't even take a couple of months' hiatus from a sport for fear of falling behind their peers and being excluded from teams the following seasons. Those elite teams, all those trophies - that's what the parents want.

This rabbit is really a vicious monster. He doesn't eat people, but instead saves his dirty work for vegetables. In many ways, we're the world's first vegetarian horror movie.

When I consider how little of a rarity children are / that every street and blind alley swarms with them / that the poorest people commonly have them in most abundance / that there are few marriages that are not blest with at least one of these bargains / how often they turn out ill, and defeat the fond hopes of their parents, taking to vicious courses, which end in poverty, disgrace, the gallows, etc. / I cannot for my life tell what cause for pride there can possibly be in having them.

She told me she still talks to him all the time and considers him one of her best friends. And it isn't nearly as vicious as the press made it out to be.

She has no plan for Australia and the divisive and vicious future that she is promulgating will be repudiated,

She genuinely was saintly. She hadn't got a vicious bone in her body. And if we had privacy law here, if we had a press law in this country like they had in France, she could be alive today.

No one is going to think going into this movie that they are going to come out loving Frankenstein, and not in a cheap of cheesy way at all - he's really an angry, vicious guy - a beast. But when you think of the originals, they were scary melodramas. The characters were so deep. I always felt as badly for Frankenstein as I did for his victims because, like Lenny in Steinbeck's 'Mice and Men,' he's a man-child. I've always found that fascinating.

My dog is vicious to the uninvited guest, lavishly affectionate to the invited one, and so freakishly acute that he has mastered the English language.

Right now it's very clay-like soil that holds a lot of water and gets real spongy. The clay soil holds the water so the fields stay wet. We can't mow it and then it's unsafe to play on. It's a vicious cycle.

Nicotine withdrawal was very much like trying to s*** a melon. The pressure was remarkable! Seemingly an impossible task. I would break out into sweats, cough, curse, yell, and wake up periodically throughout the night from vicious nightmares. Three full weeks of endless torment without relief. The incommodiousness of it all.

If they lose the election they blame the leader then they undermine the leader, then they lose again, it's a vicious circle. If they replace the leader now it confirms the party is in disarray.

If we can't learn to execute and tackle better, we're going to get into a vicious cycle.

I feel enormously blessed to be a successful black woman writer in this culture, but I have found my small fame, such as it is, to be very isolating... because I think that especially for black women, the more we rise from the bottom, the more we move and journey, the more we are the targets of the most brutal and vicious attacks.

Friends who drag one away into evil habits and vicious deeds, are prowling around in search of victims.

From the beginning, Phelps' group has been the single most vicious anti-gay group in America, bar none.

We're playing with a target on our back. This is a vicious, vicious league.

Here I am walking down the street with a target on my chest because my dog has a muzzle that says, 'this is a fierce vicious animal and you have to be afraid of this dog'.

His name was getting announced all the time over the loudspeaker. He was going sideline to sideline making plays, making vicious hits. Every time I watched the Ravens after that, I couldn't help but watch him.

He used the most vicious form of nationalism to try to create an ethnic empire in the heart of Europe. He wanted a greater Serbia, and he wound up with a lesser Serbia.

I take no pleasure in having to be here today, but it is the last recourse to counter the vicious lies that have been printed about me and my family,

It is a fabricated story and motivated by vicious intentions.

I think the IMF has done as much as it thought it understood it could do, ... I don't know what alternative policies could have been implemented which could have significantly altered the pattern that emerged once the vicious cycle began to accumulate to the degree that it did.

I think you have to be very careful you don't make the audience hate someone by giving him a retort that is not funny. Funny retorts work, but when you're vicious to someone, they do not work. My wife says I'm vicious all the time! Thank God she's supporting me, so I have to stop!

I think we're all our own worst enemies. We're all trying to one-up each other. It gets to be kind of a vicious spiral.

It has been difficult on my family -- my 8-year-old daughter, Sally. You know how vicious second-graders can be about the Daily News TV column.

It is my position that the incident that occurred on July 23, 2003, was a matter of the utmost seriousness, that it was a vicious assault that was entirely consistent with homicidal intent, and that such intent could be and should be proven against both Wayne and Cynthia Jensen,

I saw the replay. It could have been worse. It wasn't like a vicious play, but it was kneeing. He's not the type of guy who goes out and tries to hurt players.

Pension funds are caught in a vicious circle. The UK gilt market has now almost completely detached itself from economic fundamentals and has become a story of pension fund demand and Government supply.

Rock 'n Roll is the most brutal, ugly, desperate, vicious form of expression it has been my misfortune to hear.

Little, vicious minds abound with anger and revenge, and are incapable of feeling the pleasure of forgiving their enemies.

I think most offensive linemen are very and I don't mean this in a bad way mean, vicious people. They have to be because they play the most aggressive position on the field and we need to have that attitude and set the tempo of the game and get after the defense.

The amazing thing is that they have permitted their consultants to run a vicious and nasty race,

the appropriate punishment for ... these vicious acts ... will be available in the federal system.

That was all a lie -- and not a little lie. That's a big lie. That's the kind of lie that God looks down and says, 'Hey, wait a minute. Wait a minute.' That's a big, awful, mean, vicious lie. They don't get any worse than that. They don't get any worse than that.

I was never a vicious person, but I was indifferent, ... I wanted the immediate approval of the people I was with and I didn't care what they did.

Well, what happened is that I had been the subject of vicious attacks by Bill O'Reilly and Rush Limbaugh.

We have to have awareness for the soap opera. It's a vicious circle, the way it works.

Using tax dollars to lobby for more tax dollars constitutes a vicious cycle, and it is fiscally, morally and ethically wrong.

We are competing against ourselves, ... It's a vicious competition.

Those irresponsible owners are not going to be the ones to take out the additional insurance, that are going to put up a vicious dog sign that can be read from 100 feet away. They're not going to buy a muzzle to be put on the dog.

Where do we go with this vicious cycle?

To be accused of burning the American flag when I have done nothing of the sort is the kind of low, vicious and untrue attack that turns many voters away from politics entirely. It's not just negative campaigning; it's lying.

It was a vicious cycle, though. The more gratification we found in our own geniuses, the more isolated we grew.

There is no pleasure in life equal to that of the conquest of a vicious habit.

I'm a very vicious critic of myself.

We should worship lord Shiva so that we are freed from our worldly attachments just like a fruit falls from a tree after ripening. Once we are successful in doing this we are liberated from this vicious cycles of life and death.

to a vicious circle of violence that harms the interests of the region's countries, Israel at the top.

To me, Sid Vicious is cool. Super chill.

This shows our big reliance on imports and foreign capital. As the dollar weakens, that becomes a more and more expensive habit. It makes our imports more expensive, makes the trade deficit wider, makes us even more dependent on foreign capital, weakening the dollar, on and on -- it's a vicious cycle.

But the Joint Committee is not meeting, so we are in a vicious circle at the moment.

You cannot reduce to dollars and cents the losses New Yorkers have suffered from the vicious World Trade Center attack, just as there is no way to put a dollar value on the heroism and determination of our response, ... But to obtain the resources we will need to rebuild and create a better and stronger New York City, we must try to understand in dollar terms, what the attack cost our economy.

The other candidates were kind of vicious on Jos coming from the school district.

This was a vicious attack on a clearly marked UNHCR bus carrying civilians.

What the current deficit does is make the dollar vulnerable. It means we could see a vicious cycle, where a declining dollar makes U.S. assets less attractive to foreign investors, which weakens our assets further, which puts further pressure on the dollar.

What's very important is our thoughts and prayers are with the Dana family. It's a sad day. Just a very, very sad day. It's difficult under such difficult circumstances. It's a job that can be pretty vicious at times. Hopefully we put on a good race.

What's happening is that consumers are worried about losing their jobs, and if consumers worry about losing their jobs, they spend less money -- so the economy slows down, so they lose their jobs -- it's a vicious circle.

To vie for a market share, these companies have to try very means to cut the price of their products, which brought about the vicious competition among them.

Everybody experiences stress. The key is how effectively people deal with and manage stress. People who turn to comfort food or smoking are starting a vicious cycle. Their attempts to reduce stress can actually lead to health problems that result in increased stress.

Every day confirms my opinion on the superiority of a vicious life -- and if Virtue is not its own reward I don't know any other stipend annexed to it.

As the rest of the world begins to recover and capital finds a better home overseas because U.S. bond yields don't look attractive and the U.S. stock markets looks like it fully valued or overvalued, ... (then) money doesn't flow here. And when money doesn't flow here, it starts to push bond yields up, and that starts to slow our growth and make the stock market look worse, and you start to get into this vicious circle instead of this wonderful circle you're in now.

As is so often the case in the precious metals, corrections tend to be vicious and quick. With the major move higher over the past several sessions, the gold market is working off some of the excesses.

Divorce is born of perverted morals and leads to vicious habits

There's no state in the union where the bishop has been as hard- nosed and vicious as in Colorado. None. I wouldn't even be able to name the second-worst.

I've been interested in Japan since the 1930s, when I read about Japan's vicious crimes in Manchuria and China.

Think about it - just getting rid of the fat doesn't get rid of the toxins, which are reabsorbed into your body. This creates a vicious cycle. Losing weight without learning to eliminate chemicals is like a merry-go-round. And it's why dieting doesn't work.

The same Bill Welch who ran a vicious smear campaign against Susan Combs in 1992 . . . is once again resorting to last-minute desperate attacks by casting stones at a husband and father of seven over debt . . . pathetic.

It was very difficult to race under these circumstances. It's a job, and it can be pretty vicious at times.

It was very difficult to race under circumstances like this. This is a job that can be pretty vicious at times with a lot of highs mixed in.

The subject of a vicious and false attack. Those are the kinds of things people should be looking for and be very careful and concerned about.