Bully Quotes - Page 9

• The first question she was asked was What do you do? as if that were enough to define you. Nobody ever asked you who you really were, because that changed. You might be a judge or a mother or a dreamer. You might be a loner or a visionary or a pessimist. You might be the victim, and you might be the bully. You could be the parent, and also the child. You might wond one day and heal the next.

  Jodi Picoult

  Mother, Children, Judging

  Jodi Picoult (2008). “Nineteen Minutes”, p.447, Simon and Schuster

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• I do think that when we're looking at Putin's actions, we really need to look further into what his point is. Because I think there is a misconception that this is kind of reigniting the Cold War and Putin's a bully. And he's just, you know, sort of lashing out at Ukraine when actually I think that this goes much deeper to that.

  Clarissa Ward

  War, Thinking, Action

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• If there ever was a time for a cool, rational and unemotional series of responses on the part of people in Europe, it is now. One reason is that Russia's President Vladimir Putin and Trump are very similar: They are macho types, they are bullies - and they want the same thing: to weaken the EU, albeit for different reasons. Trump, for his part, is a protectionist of the first order, and he wants to make his vision work. He shows no interest in competition with others, but aims to go back to the 1930s.

  Anthony Glees

  People, Competition, Vision

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• People who need to bully you are the easiest to push around.

  Douglas Adams

  People, Needs, Appearance

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• People are legitimately worried about Donald Trump, almost like a schoolyard bully, if I step up, am I going to be targeted, too?

  Reid Hoffman

  People, Worried, Step Up

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I think culture is where things change in us deeply. But right now, I think that people are very traumatised. They are very scared. Having grown up in a house with a perpetrator who was violent every day and terrorising every day, I feel like that this country is suddenly very much like the house and the family I grew up in. Every day we are glued to our phones, glued to our television; "What is this psychopath going to do next? How will he embarrass us? Who will he bully or hurt or humiliate today? It's so easy to get locked into a syndrome where the perpetrator is ruling your life.

  Eve Ensler

  Country, Hurt, Thinking

  Source: www.fanpop.com

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• I am a strong advocate for Marco Rubio. I think he is the kind of individual and leader who can expand our party. I heard him in Virginia Beach, and he talked about loving those with whom he disagrees and those who didn't vote for him. I don't think that's in Donald Trump. He is nothing more than a bully.

  Scott Rigell

  Beach, Strong, Party

  "Rep. Scott Rigell Urges Republicans To Stand Against Donald Trump". "All Things Considered" with Audie Cornish, www.npr.org. March 2, 2016.

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• Greg starts a middle school and asks: Why is "bullies" such a big PROBLEM? And says people need to shave twice a day.

  Jeff Kinney

  School, People, Needs

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• You have deep-seated survival anxieties. And you don't like bigots, bullies, snobs or hypocrites. Subconsciously there are many people you hate." "Consciously, sir, consciously," Yossarian corrected in an effort to help. "I hate them consciously.

  Joseph Heller

  Hate, Hypocrite, People

  Joseph Heller (2010). “Catch-22: 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.395, Simon and Schuster

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• Then why can’t I bully you into procreating? (Wulf) See! I’m the only human in history to have Viking yenta of his very own. God, how I wish my father had been a fertile man. (Chris)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Father, Men, Wish

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• When they kissed she immediately felt his tongue, tensed and strong, pushing past her teeth, like some bully shouldering his way into a room. Entering her.

  Ian Mcewan

  Strong, Past, Teeth

  "On Chesil Beach" by Ian Mcewan, December 25, 2006.

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• Go and don't come back, you can take the catmint. I have no quarrel with ThunderClan; I don't want to see cats suffer, whatever you might think. Just be careful you don't end up like a bully like your kin, Tigerstar.

  Erin Hunter

  Cat, Thinking, Suffering

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• He lunged again. This time I stood my ground and he checked his leap at the last second....and toppled sideways. I didn't hide my laugh that time. His face twisted fast, grabbed my pajama leg and wrenched, and down I went. "Bully

  Kelley Armstrong

  Laughing, Legs, Lasts

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• Certitude leads to violence. This is a proposition that has an easy application and a difficult one. The easy application is to ideoologues, dogmatists, and bullies--people who think that their rigtness justifies them in imposing on anyone who does not happen to suscribe to their particular ideology, dogma or notion of turf. If the conviction of rightness is powerful enough, resistance to it will be met, sooner or later by force. There are people like this in every sphere of life, and it is natural to feel that the world would be a better place without them!

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Powerful, Thinking, People

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• I think America is a really interesting place. In New Zealand, we don't sue each other really commonly. There's a really specific reason, like someone's arguing over a fence that's been put up that's too high. Sort of practical things. And journalists are rarely sued for things. Whereas in America, you have a culture where that's the first thing you do. There's an ongoing pattern here where if you've got money, you can bully other people into doing what you want them to do. You don't need to be in it to win, you just need to be in it to be a pest.

  David Farrier

  Thinking, Winning, People

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• Donald Trump hasn't been specific, but if you go back over some of the campaign rhetoric, well, obviously, there's the bully pulpit, just publicly shaming out-sourcing companies. And that again is not new to Trump. If you remember, back in 2004, John Kerry was making noises about Benedict Arnold CEOs in a similar context. So, that's got a long and gloried tradition.

  Greg Ip

  Long, Remember, Tradition

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I think Trump's affinity for Netanyahu is part of the fact that he is most comfortable with fellow bullies. He is setting up a worldwide club of ruling bullies.

  Lawrence Davidson

  Thinking, Clubs, Facts

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• If [the Conservatives] lose, we say, "Okay, we gotta change. We gotta improve, come back and win the next election." They [leftists] don't. When they lose and even when they win, because they know that they're in a numerical minority. But that numerical minority is a vast majority of pop culture and education environments. And so they just bully their way.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Winning, Majority, Culture

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I don't consider Americans bullies, but I do consider the American government bullying.

  George Michael

  Bullying, Government, American Government

  "George Michael video rages at US policy in Middle East and attacks 'poodle' Blair" by Tania Branigan, www.theguardian.com. July 2, 2002.

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• The worst bullies you will ever encounter in your life are your own thoughts.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Encounters, Worst

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• I was of the type who gets bullied rather than the one who does the bullying, which I'm glad about. I'd rather be that than a bully.

  Lily Cole

  Bullying, Doe, Bullied

  Biography/Personal, www.imdb.com.

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• I find it's usually the bullies who are the most insecure.

  Tom Felton

  Insecure

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• My dad always told me to stand up to bullies, and Bill O'Reilly is kind of a bully, and he's the kind of kid who hits other kids on the playground. And when you hit him, he runs to the teacher and says, 'Teacher, sue him.'

  Al Franken

  Running, Teacher, Dad

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• Law and order is a social service. Crime and the fear which the threat of crime induces can paralyse whole communities, keep lonely and vulnerable elderly people shut up in their homes, scar young lives and raise to cult status the swaggering violent bully who achieves predatory control over the streets. I suspect that there would be more support and less criticism than today's political leaders imagine for a large shift of resources from Social Security benefits to law and order - as long as rhetoric about getting tough on crime was matched by practice.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Lonely, Home, Practice

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• I was very fortunate and didn't personally encounter any bullies in school, however bullies exist in many ways in life.

  Josh Hutcherson

  School, Way In Life, Encounters

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