Damn Quotes - Page 4

• Excuse me, guess I've mistaken you for somebody else, somebody who gave a damn, somebody more like myself.

  Jewel

  Love, Excuse, Mistaken

  Song: Foolish Games, Album: Pieces Of You, 1995

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• Nothing's perfect, the world's not perfect. But it's there for us, trying the best it can; that's what makes it so damn beautiful.

  Hiromu Arakawa

  Beautiful, Anime, Perfect

  "Fullmetal Alchemist". Anime by Hiromu Arakawa, 2001 - 2010.

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• Damn it, there are so many idiots whose asses I have to kick! I'll have to start carrying a list just to keep track of 'em all!

  Hiromu Arakawa

  Track, Ems, Lists

  "Fullmetal Alchemist". Anime by Hiromu Arakawa, 2001 - 2010.

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• Intelligence and education that hasn't been tempered by human affection isn't worth a damn.

  Daniel Keyes

  Affection, Intelligence And Education, Humans

  Daniel Keyes (2012). “Flowers For Algernon”, p.154, Hachette UK

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• There are no whys in a person's life, and very few hows. In the end, in search of useful wisdom, you could only come back to the most hackneyed concepts, like kindness, forbearance, infinite patience. Solomon and Lincoln: This too shall pass. Damn right it will. Or Chekhov: Nothing passes. Equally true.

  Chad Harbach

  Kindness, Infinite, Chekhov

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• Making the best of things is a damn poor way of dealing with them. My life has been a series of escapes from that quicksand.

  Rose Wilder Lane

  Way, Poor, Quicksand

  Letters to Guy Moyston, August 25, 1924 and July 11, 1925.

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• It doesn't matter what one reveals or what one keeps to oneself. Everything we do, everything we are, rests on our personal power. If we don't have enough personal power the most magnificent piece of wisdom can be revealed to us and it won't make a damn bit of difference.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Differences, Words Of Wisdom, Pieces

  Carlos Castaneda (2013). “Tales of Power”, p.8, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm all for ERA. I want to see women equal to men - not so damn superior like they've been.

  Nipsey Russell

  Work, Men, Want

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• Damn, Claire. Warn a guy before you do a face-plant on the floor next time. I could have looked all heroic and caught you or something -Shane

  Rachel Caine

  Funny, Guy, Next

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• The cultural insistence that parenting is the 'most important' job in the world is a smart way to satiate unappreciated women without doing a damn thing for them.

  Jessica Valenti

  Jobs, Smart, Important

  Jessica Valenti (2012). “Why Have Kids?: A New Mom Explores the Truth about Parenting and Happiness”, p.71, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It is not unknown for fathers with a brace of daughters to reel off their names in order of birth when summoning the youngest, and I had long ago become accustomed to being called 'Ophelia Daphne Flavia, damn it.

  Alan Bradley

  Daughter, Father, Long Ago

  Alan Bradley (2016). “The Flavia de Luce Series 7-Book Bundle”, p.193, Delacorte Press

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• I don't mind their having a lot of money, and I don't care how they employ it, but I do think that they damn well ought to admit they enjoy it.

  Ogden Nash

  Money, Thinking, Mind

  Ogden Nash (1945). “The Selected Verse of Ogden Nash”, New York : Modern Library

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• Basically, what happened was, I had moved out to Los Angeles, I was pretty damn lazy and I put on some pounds.

  Jason Biggs

  Umpires, Lazy, Pounds

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• Damn it, how will I ever get out of this labyrinth?

  Simon Bolivar

  Alaska, Labyrinth, Bedtime

  Simon Bolivar's statement made in the last months of his life, occasionally said to be his last words; quoted in Gabriel Garcia Marquez "The General in His Labyrinth" (p. 267), 1990.

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• Carrying those double tanks around all the time got to be a little rough on me. I had to put that damn wetsuit on and take it off, sometimes three or four times a day.

  Lloyd Bridges

  Tanks, Three, Double Standard

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• God will not damn a lunatic's soul. He knows that the powers of evil are too great for those of us with weak minds.

  Garrett Fort

  Evil, Soul, Mind

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• I have stood your meanness as long as I intend to. You have played the part of a damn scoundrel, and if you were any part of a man I would slap your jaws and force you to resent it.

  Nathan Bedford Forrest

  War, Men, Long

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• We don't give a damn what you or anybody else on this planet thinks. We didn't sink those ships for you. We did it for the whales.

  Paul Watson

  Animal, Thinking, Whales

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• Go on, try weasel, try squirrel; it tastes like chicken, it tastes just like chicken! If it tastes just like chicken, why don't you gimme some damn chicken?

  Bobcat Goldthwait

  Funny, Animal, Squirrels

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• The thing that I think was very brave of my younger self was that he decided he would be an idiot. Just persevere. That feels brave to me: deciding that I'm going to damn well be this person that I've set my heart on being.

  Salman Rushdie

  Heart, Thinking, Self

  What I've Learned: Salman Rushdie" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. December 31, 2005.

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• I've met them down in the Cost and Accounting Department, clean-shaven and in white collars. They can't see a damn thing ridiculous about themselves... only about you.

  Jean Shepherd

  White, Cost, Ridiculous

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• It may be a brief interruption - just a few seconds - but what if someone sitting near you is trying to make a decent bootleg? Did you ever think of that? Now all those street-corner copies are permanently defiled by your so-called 'emergency.' Don't be so damn selfish.

  Brad Pitt

  Selfish, Thinking, What If

  "Ask a Basterd: Can I Answer my cell at a movie if it seems urgent?". www.wired.com. July 15, 2009.

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• There isn't a damn thing wrong with prayer. During the war I served with a guy who prayed all the time, carried a Bible with him everywhere. We all mocked him to no end. One day, that Bible stopped a bullet, my hand to God, that Bible stopped a bullet. If only he'd had another Bible in front of his face, he'd be alive today.

  Delroy Lindo

  Prayer, War, Hands

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• Why don't those damn oil companies fly their own flags on their personal property-maybe a flag with a gas pump on it.

  Smedley Butler

  Oil, Flags, Pumps

  Smedley D. Butler (2003). “War is a Racket: The Antiwar Classic by America's Most Decorated Soldier”, Feral House

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• I am a God, so hurry up with my damn massage; in a French-ass restaurant, hurry up with my damn croissants.

  Kanye West

  Inspirational, Massage, Restaurants

  Song: I Am A God, Album: Yeezus, 2013

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