Famous Quotes & Sayings

Aaron Spelling

But, I don't know, the violence, I can't even talk about. We don't do a lot of violent shows. When I started in television, breaking a pencil was a violent act.

Nancy Grace

I was in the courtroom prosecuting violent felonies for well over a decade.

Mahatma Gandhi

Force that the performance of duty naturally generates is the non-violent and invincible force that satyagraha brings into being.

Mahatma Gandhi

Centralization as a system is inconsistent with a non-violent structure of society.

Vladimir Putin

No one should be allowed to violently trample on the law.

Jasmine Guy

Anything that is non-violent is OK with me.

Donald Ray Pollock

I would like to write a book that wasn't so violent and weird, but I just don't think I can do that with my talent. I don't think it would come off.

Jack Straw

The English are potentially very aggressive, very violent

You'd think if he was a violent offender, they wouldn't let him be out.

Theodore Zeldin

The violent have been victorious for most of history because they kindled the fear with which everyone is born.

Margaret Drabble

Scenery can be a violent stimulant.

Melinda Gates

In places like India with smartphones, there's an app now for women if they're in a violent situation, they can press one button. They've given their cell-phone number to five trusted friends, and right away their GPS location goes out: "Here I am."

Hannah More

Anger is a violent act, envy a constant habit - no one can be always angry, but he may be always envious ...

Patrick O'Brian

We are always the most violent against those whom we have injured.

Mason Cooley

A sense of righteousness is even more dangerous than a violent temper.

Shaun Alexander

It is what it is. We play a violent sport.

It's a violent game, a violent place to play.

Noam Chomsky

States are violent to the extent that they have the power to act in the interests of those with domestic power

Don Wilson

He's not a violent person, you know? That's not him.

This is not a violent offense. It was a consensual relationship.

Steven Pinker

Pre-state societies were far more violent than our own.

Daniel Craig

I guess you could say I've been in my share of violent movies.

Adrienne Rich

An honorable human relationship ... is a process, delicate, violent, often terrifying to both persons involved, a process of refining the truths they can tell each other.

Stephenie Meyer

Happiness expanded like an explosion inside me – so extreme, so violent that I wasn’t sure I’d survive it.

Rick Riordan

Coach Hedge grumbled as he tended their wounds. “How come I never get invited on these violent trips?

Chelsea Cain

Of the paperbacks that you see at the airport, I am the most violent woman writer.

Jackson Katz

When media coverage sets up a binary opposition between 'the accuser' and 'the accused,' there is no longer a victim or even an alleged victim - a flesh and blood person who was harmed by the violent act of another.

Woody Allen

[The universe is] haphazard, morally neutral, and unimaginably violent.