Riot Quotes - Page 13

• Mother of mercy,"said Tovar."And that caused the riot?" "It's the other way around,"said Kira sheepishly."We started the riot as a distraction for the jaibreak." Tovar whistled."You don't mess aroud." P303

  Dan Wells

  Mother, Kira, Way

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• If you’re listening to this, congratulations! You survived Doomsday. I’d like to apologize straightaway for any inconvenience the end of the world may have caused you. The earthquakes, rebellions, riots,tornadoes, floods, tsunamis, and of course the giant snake who swallowed the sun—I’m afraid most of that was our fault. Carter and I decided we should at least explain how it happened.

  Rick Riordan

  Congratulations, Earthquakes, Snakes

  Rick Riordan (2012). “The Serpent's Shadow (The Kane Chronicles Book 3)”, p.9, Penguin UK

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• Patriotism. I'm uncomfortable with any word that starts with a pat, ends in an ism and has a riot in the middle.

  Ashok K. Banker

  Isms, Ends, Middle

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• A minor fief had risen up against their cruel and avaricious lord, with hundreds of people surrounding his Manor house, threatening to burn it to the ground. The panicked nobleman's message for help was answered by the arrival of a single Ranger. Aghast, the nobleman confronted the solitary cowled figure. 'They sent one Ranger?' he said incredulously. 'One man?' 'How many riots do you have?' the Ranger replied.

  John Flanagan

  Men, People, House

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• To wipe off the froth of falsehood from the foaming lips of inebriated virtue, when fresh from the sexless orgies of morality and reeling from the delirious riot of religion, may doubtless be a charitable office.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Office, Religion, Wipe

  Algernon Charles Swinburne, Clyde Kenneth Hyder (1966). “Swinburne Replies: Notes on Poems and Reviews, Under the Microscope [and] Dedicatory Epistle”, p.51, Syracuse University Press

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• It's nice and quiet
  but soon again
  starts another big riot!

  Bjork

  Nice, Quiet, Bigs

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• I'd just turned 50, weighed 285, and my doctor had read me the riot act about my health.

  Daniel Baldwin

  Doctors

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

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• I may err in my measures, but never shall deflect from the intention to fortify the public liberty by every possible means, and to put it out of the power of the few to riot on the labors of the many.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Mean, Liberty, May

  Thomas Jefferson (1856). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence”, p.548

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• Certainly my inner world will never be a peaceful place of bloom; it will have some peace, and occasional riots of bloom, but always a little fight going on too. There is no way I can be peacefully happy in this society and in this skin. I am committed to Uneasy Street. I like it; it is my idea that this street leads to the future, and that I am being true to a way of life which is not here yet, but is more real than what is here.

  James Tiptree Jr.

  Real, Fighting, Ideas

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• Our problems started in Dallas, when the fire-breathing sheep destroyed the King Tut exhibit.

  Rick Riordan

  Kings, Fire, Sheep

  Rick Riordan (2012). “The Serpent's Shadow (The Kane Chronicles Book 3)”, p.9, Penguin UK

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• Catastrophe, riots, factories blowing up, armies in flight, flood - the ear can detect a whole apocalypse in the starry night of the human body.

  Jean Cocteau

  Army, Night, Ears

  Jean Cocteau (1990). “Opium: The Illustrated Diary of His Cure”, Peter Owen Publishers

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