Damn Quotes - Page 40

• You are just in the middle of a struggle with words which are really very stubborn things, with a blank page, with the damn thing that you use to write with, a pen or a typewriter, and you forget all about the reader when you are doing that

  Guillermo Cabrera Infante

  Struggle, Writing, Typewriters

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• People want to recommend themselves to God by their sincerity; they think, 'If we do all we can, if we are but sincere, Jesus Christ will have mercy on us.' But pray what is there in our sincerity to recommend us to God? ... therefore, if you depend on your sincerity for your salvation, your sincerity will damn you.

  George Whitefield

  Jesus, Thinking, Damn You

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• We're so structured and micromanaged, this isn't a world anymore, it's a damn cruise ship.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  World, Ships, Cruise

  Chuck Palahniuk (2001). “Choke: A Novel”, Anchor Books

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• You would not believe how loose this car is for two laps after the green. Then, just like that, it's back to how it was before. But, those first few laps, damn, it's loose! JUNIOR NO LIKEY!

  Dale Earnhardt, Jr.

  Believe, Two, Car

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• I surrendered my youth to the people I feared when I could have been out there loving someone. Don't make that mistake yourself. Life's too damn short.

  Armistead Maupin

  Life, Mistake, People

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  If you let people into your life a little bit, they can be pretty damn amazing.

  Sherman Alexie

  Inspiring, People, Littles

  FaceBook post by Sherman Alexie from Sep 01, 2015

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• It got more exciting with each war. I mean the planes were going faster than hell when I was flying a Mustang, but by the time I got to Nam, it scared the piss out of a lot of guys just to fly the damn jets at full speed. Let alone do it in combat.

  Robin Olds

  War, Mean, Guy

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• I believe in destiny...what's going to be is going to be. If I'm going to win, I'm going to win...I don't give a damn what the other guy shoots. I'm going to win if it's my turn.

  Sam Snead

  Believe, Golf, Winning

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• Damn it all, it's the first duty of a soldier - it's the first duty of all Englishmen - to be able to tell a good lie in answer to a charge.

  Ford Madox Ford

  Lying, Soldier, Able

  Ford Madox Ford (2012). “Parade's End”, p.77, Vintage

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• So okay - there you are in your room with the shade down and the door shut and the plug pulled out of the base of the telephone. You've blown up your TV and committed yourself to a thousand words a day, come hell or high water. Now comes the big question: What are you going to write about? And the equally big answer: Anything you damn well want.

  Stephen King

  Writing, Doors, Water

  Stephen King (2002). “On Writing”, p.153, Simon and Schuster

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• All they get around here is stories. Stories don't make you bleed.  Stories don't make you go hungry, don't give you sore feet.  When you're young smelling of pigshit and convinced there ain't a weapon in all the damn world that's going to hurt you, all stories do is make you want to be part of them.

  Steven Erikson

  Hurt, Feet, Giving

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• Damn any man who sympathizes with Indians! [...] I have come to kill Indians, and believe it is right and honorable to use any means under God's heaven to kill Indians.

  John Chivington

  Sympathy, God, Believe

  "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West (War Comes to the Cheyenne)". Book by Dee Brown (pp. 86-87), 1970.

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• Everything in life has a price on it - there ain't a damn thing free in America, and football has got a price on it.

  Earl Campbell

  Football, America, Damn Things

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• If I were omnipotent and omnibenevolent I wouldn't be so damn ineffable.

  Jo Walton

  Omnipotence, Ineffable, Omnipotent

  Jo Walton (2011). “Among Others”, p.111, Macmillan

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• Being goal-oriented instead of self-oriented is crucial. I know so many people who want to be writers. But let me tell you, they really don't want to be writers. They want to have been writers. They wish they had a book in print. They don't want to go through the work of getting the damn book out. There is a huge difference.

  James A. Michener

  Book, Writing, Self

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• I can’t stand these damn shows on museum walls with neat little frames, where you look at the images as if they were pieces of art. I want them to be pieces of life!

  W. Eugene Smith

  Art, Wall, Museums

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• God decreed to save and damn certain particular persons. This decree has its foundation in the foreknowledge of God, by which he knew from all eternity those individuals who would, through his preventing [going before] grace, believe, and, through his subsequent grace would persevere by which foreknowledge, he likewise knew those who would not believe and persevere.

  Jacobus Arminius

  God, Religious, Believe

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• I might not have the ability to ever carry a child and I have this damn bag for the time being – but I'm alive.

  Diem Brown

  Children, Bags, Alive

  "Cancer Survivor Diem Brown After Hysterectomy: I'm Thankful To Be Alive" by Matthew Scott Donnelly, www.mtv.com. August 28, 2014.

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• I knew damn well I would never be a movie star. It's too hard; and if you are intelligent, it's too embarrassing. My complexes aren't inferior enough: being a movie star and having a big fat ego are supposed to go hand-in-hand; actually, it's essential not to have any ego at all. I don't mean I'd mind being rich and famous. That's very much on my schedule, and someday I'll try and get around to it; but if it happens, I'd like to have my ego, tagging along. I want to still be me when I wake up one fine morning and have breakfast at Tiffany's.

  Holly Golightly

  Morning, Stars, Mean

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• Just keep following your damn dreams, it just costs a lot of damn money. I'm broke, but I have a dream.

  Jo Koy

  Dream, Cost, Broke

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• The dead know everything but they don't give a damn.

  Joanne Harris

  Giving, Don't Give A Damn, Knows

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• It's a disease. Nobody thinks or feels or cares any more; nobody gets excited or believes in anything except their own comfortable little God damn mediocrity.

  Richard Yates

  Believe, Thinking, People

  Richard Yates (2010). “Revolutionary Road”, p.60, Random House

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• When you’re in love you don’t have to do a damn thing. You can just be. You can just stay quiet in the world. You don’t have to move an inch.

  Charles Baxter

  Moving, Love You, World

  Charles Baxter (2009). “The Feast of Love”, p.23, Vintage

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• They think democracy - I used to say "damn the democracy", because it's not a stable government.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  Thinking, Government, Democracy

  "Interview With Maharishi Mahesh Yogi". "Larry King Weekend", transcripts.cnn.com. May 12, 2002.

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• Superhuman effort isn't worth a damn unless it achieves results.

  Ernest Shackleton

  Umpires, Effort, Classic

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