Cornered Quotes

• Beware of driving men to desperation. Even a cornered rat is dangerous.

  Winston Churchill

  Men, Rats, Driving

  Winston Churchill (2012). “Churchill: The Power of Words”, p.66, Da Capo Press

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• Who are you talking to right now? Who is it you think you see? Do you know how much I make a year? I mean, even if I told you, you wouldn't believe it. Do you know what would happen if I suddenly decided to stop going into work? A business big enough that it could be listed on the NASDAQ goes belly up. Disappears. It ceases to exist, without me.

  Walter White

  Believe, Mean, Thinking

  "Fictional character: Walter White". TV Series "Breaking Bad", www.imdb.com. 2008-2013.

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• Even the most innocent person, when cornered, is capable of a heartless crime.

  Yiyun Li

  Innocent Person, Heartless, Crime

  Yiyun Li (2014). “Kinder Than Solitude: A Novel”, p.308, Random House

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• A Rattlesnake, if Cornered will become so angry it will bite itself. That is exactly what the harboring of hate and resentment against others is -- a biting of oneself. We think we are harming others in holding these spites and hates, but the deeper harm is to ourselves.

  E. Stanley Jones

  Peace, Hate, Thinking

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• When you're cornered, there are two things you can do: move or fight.

  Josh Fox

  Moving, Fighting, Two

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Things get very clear when you're cornered.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Life, Clear

  Chogyam Trungpa (2010). “The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume Four: Journey without Goal; The Lion's Roar; The Dawn of Tantra; An Interview with Cho gyam Trungpa”, p.423, Shambhala Publications

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• The most ruthless of all humans are the ones cornered in by death.

  Yuu Watase

  Ruthless, Humans

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• A sound of cornered-animal fear and hate and surrender and defiance . . . like the last sound the treed and shot and falling animal makes as the dogs get him, when he finally doesn't care about anything but himself and his dying.

  Ken Kesey

  Dog, Fear, Hate

  Ken Kesey (2012). “One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest: 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.287, Penguin

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• Among wolves, no matter how sick, no matter how cornered, no matter how alone, afraid or weakened, the wolf will continue.She will lope even with a broken leg. She will strenuously outwait, outwit, outrun and outlast whatever is bedeviling her. She will put her all into taking breath after breath. The hallmark of the wild nature is that it goes on.

  Clarissa Pinkola Estes

  Broken, Sick, Goes On

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• I want my team to play like a cornered tiger...when it's said it's most dangerous

  Imran Khan

  Team, Play, Want

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• Heroes aren't born, they're cornered. Oh, I was cornered. And I found out that I was no hero.

  James Belushi

  Hero, Born, Found

  "Real Men Don't Apologize". Book by Jim Belushi, p. 10, 2006.

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• We must carry the war into every corner the enemy happens to carry it, to his home, to his centers of entertainment: a total war. It is necessary to prevent him from having a moment of peace, a quiet moment outside his barracks or even inside; we must attack him wherever he may be, make him feel like a cornered beast wherever he may move. Then his moral fiber shall begin to decline, but we shall notice how the signs of decadence begin to disappear.

  Che Guevara

  War, Moving, Home

  Che Guevara (2002). “Guerrilla Warfare”, p.174, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

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• I wanted to forget the past, but it refused to forget me; it waited for sleep, then cornered me.

  Margaret Atwood

  Sleep, Past, Forget

  Margaret Atwood (2012). “Lady Oracle”, p.228, Simon and Schuster

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• It was the kind of love that, sooner or later, cornered you into a choice: either you tore free or you stayed and withstood its rigor even as it squeezed you into something smaller than yourself.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Choices, Kind, Rigor

  Khaled Hosseini (2013). “And the Mountains Echoed”, p.367, A&C Black

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• I mean, you can't have sex until you're married if you're Mormon. The first time I had sex, my parents found out. They were listening in on the phone while I was talking about sex to my girlfriend. They freaked out, man. They both cornered me in my bedroom.

  Bert McCracken

  Girlfriend, Sex, Mean

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• Could be. I’m a pretty dangerous dude when I’m cornered.” “Yeah,” said the voice from under the table, “you go to pieces so fast people get hit by the shrapnel.

  Douglas Adams

  Voice, People, Pieces

  Douglas Adams (2010). “The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy”, p.291, Del Rey

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• There's no such thing as an animal too big too kill, AND we're cornered by such animals every day.

  Shane McCrae

  Animal, Bigs

  Source: therumpus.net

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• This national argument is usually interpreted as a battle between imperialists led by Roosevelt and Lodge and anti-imperialists led by William Jennings Bryan and Carl Schurz. It is far more accurate and illuminating however, to view it as a three-cornered fight. The third group was a coalition of businessmen, intellectuals, and politicians who opposed traditional colonialism and advocated instead a policy of an open door through which America's preponderant economic strength would enter and dominate all underdeveloped areas of the world.

  William Appleman Williams

  Fighting, Doors, Views

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• One of the producers, Wonjo, was an amazing interpreter. I don't think we really knew how it was going to work at the beginning. Yet it was something that a couple of days into it seemed so seamless and it wasn't something that we noticed or thought about. A couple of times I cornered him and forced him to speak English but we didn't speak much English at all. That said, I don't think anything was ever lost in translation. It was all very easy.

  Mia Wasikowska

  Couple, Thinking, Speak English

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Zoe readied her arrows. Grover lifted his pipes. Thalia raised her shield and I noticed a tear running down her cheek. Suddenly it occurred to me: this had happened to her before.She had been cornered on Half- Blood Hill. She'd willingly given her life for her friends. But this time she couldn't save us.

  Rick Riordan

  Running, Blood, Arrows

  Rick Riordan (2007). “The Titan's curse”

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• I don't think closeted homosexual morticians have the market cornered on self-loathing or sense of shame.

  Michael C. Hall

  Thinking, Self, Loathing

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• Reading Stephen King's book, On Writing, was like being cornered and forced to have a long, drawn out mental enema.

  Mary Garden

  Kings, Book, Reading

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• But you can't kill humans It's-- Evil? The world is evil Risika. Wolves hunt the stragglers in a group of deer. Vultures devour the fallen.Hyenas destroy the weak. Humans kill that which they fear. Survive and be strong, or die, cornered by your prey, trembling because the night is dark.

  Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

  Strong, Dark, Night

  Amelia Atwater-Rhodes (2009). “In the Forests of the Night”, p.75, Laurel Leaf

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• You..." The centaur's eyes flared like a cornered animal's. "You should be dead.

  Rick Riordan

  Eye, Animal, Centaurs

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• [The Doctor, Capt. Jack and Rose are cornered by the empty children.] The Doctor: Go to your room! Go to your room! I mean it. I'm very, very angry with you. I'm very, very cross! GO! TO! YOUR! ROOM! [The children lurch away and obey him.] I'm really glad that worked. Those would have been terrible last words.

  Steven Moffat

  Children, Mean, Doctors

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