Outrageous Quotes - Page 9

Isn't it possible, he wondered, for one person to love another without trying to own each other? Or is that buried so deep in our genes that we can never get it out? Territoriality. My wife. My friend. My lover. My outrageous and annoying computer personality who's about to be shut off at the behest of a half-crazy girl with OCD on a planet that I never heard of and how will I live without [her] when she's gone?

Orson Scott Card

Love, Girl, Crazy

Orson Scott Card (2011). “Xenocide: Book 3 of the Ender Saga”, p.228, Hachette UK

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But mostly, I remembered what I’ve always believed. What my mom taught me. That while some things are just plain awful, most things in life can be seen either tragic or comic. And it’s your choice. Is life a big, long, tiresome slog from sadness to regret to guilt to resentment to self-pity? Or is life weird, outrageous, bizarre, ironic, and just stupid? Gotta go with stupid. It’s not the easy way out. Self pity is the easiest thing in the world. Finding the humor, the irony, the slight justification for a skewed, skeptical optimism. That’s tough. - Marco, Animorphs #35: The Proposal

Katherine Applegate

Mom, Regret, Stupid

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Free speech is intended to protect the controversial and even outrageous word; and not just comforting platitudes too mundane to need protection.

Colin Powell

Justice, Comforting, Needs

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As women glide from their twenties to thirties, Shazzer argues, the balance of power subtly shifts. Even the most outrageous minxes lose their nerve, wrestling with the first twinges of existential angst: fears of dying alone and being found three weeks later half-eaten by an Alsatian.

Helen Fielding

Wrestling, Dying Alone, Balance

Helen Fielding (2013). “The Bridget Jones Omnibus: The Singleton Years: Bridget Jones's Diary & The Edge of Reason”, p.17, Pan Macmillan

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House-training, I must tell you, is a formality that can elude young dachshunds for some time; this is particularly true in climates that affront their sensibilities with outrageous meteorological insults. Rain, for example, or a startling gust of wind.

Mary Doria Russell

Rain, Wind, House

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Hey, what are you doing, little one? You want more? You are just too much . . . you . . . oh, no . . . not the quivering lip . . . oh, no.” Nalla let out a giggle. “Outrageous! You want more, and you know you’re going to get what you want because of The Lip. Jeez, you’ve got your father wrapped around your little finger, don’t you.

J.R. Ward

Father, Hey, Want

J.R. Ward (2008). “Father Mine: Zsadist and Bella's Story: A Black Dagger Brotherhood Novella”, p.94, Penguin

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It is dull enough to confuse the eye in following, pronounced enough to constantly irritate and provoke study, and when you follow the lame uncertain curves for a little distance they suddenly commit suicide—plunge off at outrageous angles, destroy themselves in unheard of contradictions.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Suicide, Distance, Eye

Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1999). “The Charlotte Perkins Gilman Reader”, p.5, University of Virginia Press

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Oh, yes, she's unusual!' he said bitterly. 'She blurts our whatever may come into her head;she tumbles from one outrageous escapade into another;she's happier gromming horses and hobnobbing with stable-hands than going to parties; she's impertinent; you daren't catch her eye for fear she should start to giggle; she hasn't any accomplishments; I never saw anyone with less diginity; she's abominable, and damnably hot at hand, frank to a fault, and-a darling!

Georgette Heyer

Horse, Party, Eye

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I think it's outrageous if a historian has a 'leading thought' because it means they will select their material according to their thesis

Antony Beevor

Mean, Thinking, Select

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To take estrogen or not to take estrogen:
That is the question.
Whether 'tis nobler to abstain and suffer
The sweat and puddles of outrageous flashes
Or to take arms against a sea of mood swings,
And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep;
No more; at first the studies say 'twill end
The heart attacks and thousand bouts of bloat
That flesh is heir to, 'tis a true confusion -
For then they say 'twill cause us all to die
Perchance from breast cancer; ay, there's the rub;
For who can dream or even sleep while worrying about
What doctors might be saying come next week?

Sonya Sones

Dream, Cancer, Heart

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It is disingenuous to imply that my father was a Republican. He never endorsed any presidential candidate, and there is certainly no evidence that he ever even voted for a Republican. It is even more outrageous to suggest that he would support the Republican Party of today, which has spent so much time and effort trying to suppress African American votes in Florida and many other states.

Martin Luther King III

Father, Party, Florida

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The actors are in control, getting outrageous amounts of money. The reason they're getting this kind of money is because the studios don't know what else to do. They don't have a clue about what to do except to pay an actor a lot of money.

Peter Bogdanovich

Actors, Pay, Kind

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As we celebrate the 100th birthday of Margaret Sanger, our outrageous and our courageous leader, we will probably find a number of areas in which we may find more about Margaret Sanger than we thought we wanted to know.

Faye Wattleton

Eugenics, Numbers, Leader

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Outrageous generosity is a character quality of people who win with money.

Dave Ramsey

Character, Winning, People

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Suppose the hellfire of the orthodox really existed! We have no assurance that it does not! It seems incredible, but many incredible things are true. We do not know that God is not as cruel as a Spanish inquisitor. Suppose, then, He is! If, after Death, we wicked ones were shovelled into a furnace of fire- we should have to burn. There would be no redress. It would simply be the Divine Order of things. It is outrageous that we should be so helpless and so dependent on any one- even God.

W.N.P. Barbellion

Fire, Divine Order, Should Have

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My point is, God's still up there. The arrogance of people to think that we, human beings, would be able to change what He is doing in the climate is to me outrageous.

James Inhofe

Thinking, People, Arrogance

"James Inhofe Says the Bible Refutes Climate Change" by Brian Tashman, www.rightwingwatch.org. March 8, 2012.

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Judy Miller is the most innocent person in this case. I really thought that was outrageous that she was jailed and we needed as journalists to draw a line in the sand in a strong but thoughtful way.

Tom Brokaw

Strong, Thoughtful, Innocent Person

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Often it is hard. So hard, in fact, that Jesus' decree to love and pray for our opponents is regarded as one of the most breathtaking and gut-wrenching challenges of his entire Sermon on the Mount, a speech renowned for its outrageous claims. There was no record of any other spiritual leader ever having articulated such a clear-cut, unambiguous command for people to express compassion to those who are actively working against their best interests.

Lee Strobel

Spiritual, Jesus, Prayer

Lee Strobel (2005). “God's Outrageous Claims: Discover What They Mean for You”, p.10, Harper Collins

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It's really beneath the office of a member of Congress to say something that outrageous. The fact that she was once the Speaker is mind-numbing, honestly... mind-numbingly stupid.

Trey Gowdy

Stupid, Bad Ass, Office

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In masks outrageous and austere The years go by in single file; But none has merited my fear, And none has quite escaped my smile.

Elinor Wylie

Life, Smile, Philosophical

Elinor Wylie, Evelyn Helmick Hively (2005). “Selected Works of Elinor Wylie”, p.42, Kent State University Press

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Out of some little thing, too free a tongue can make an outrageous wrangle.

Euripides

Gossip, Littles, Tongue

Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides (1959). “Euripides”

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I don't consider my own clothing to be outrageous. The truth is that people just don't have the same references that I do. To me it's very beautiful and it's art, and to them it's outrageous and crazy.

Lady Gaga

Beautiful, Fashion, Art

"Lady Gaga Interviewed by V Magazine About Fashion, Music, Fame, and Her Hair Bow". www.wonderwall.com. September 01, 2009.

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I called to buy some meth, but I threw it away.

Ted Haggard

Crazy, Conservative

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A lot of manuscripts that come in, you wonder by what outrageous fantasy the author believes that this should be pressed into print.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Believe, Fantasy, Wonder

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Holly, do you trust me?” Holly groaned. “Artemis, don’t ask me that. I just know one of your outrageous plans is coming.” “Do you trust me?” “Yes,” Holly sighed. “I do. More than anyone.

Eoin Colfer

Hollies, Trust Me, Ask Me

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