Scandal Quotes - Page 17

• In the land of bleating sheep and braying jackasses, one brave and honest man is bound to create a scandal.

  Edward Abbey

  Men, Sheep, Land

  Edward Abbey (2006). “Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast”

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• If there is anything material and we're not reporting it, we'll be breaking the law. We don't break the law.

  Kenneth Lay

  Law, Corruption, Break

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• He banged on the side of the carriage. "Thomas! We must away at once to the nearest brothel. I seek scandal and low companionship.

  Cassandra Clare

  Sides, Companionship, Lows

  Cassandra Clare (2010). “Clockwork Angel”, p.268, Simon and Schuster

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• Everything's a scandal. Dying's a scandal. But we all do it.

  Don DeLillo

  Dying

  Don DeLillo (2011). “Cosmopolis”, p.108, Pan Macmillan

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• Happy is he who causes a scandal

  Salvador Dali

  Causes

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• Please understand what the IRS scandal is about: Using the government to shut down opponents

  Dennis Prager

  Government, Irs, Opponents

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• Is it that they think it a duty to be continually talking,' pursued she: 'and so never pause to think, but fill up with aimless trifles and vain repetitions when subjects of real interest fail to present themselves? - or do they really take a pleasure in such discourse?' 'Very likely they do,' said I; 'their shallow minds can hold no great ideas, and their light heads are carried away by trivialities that would not move a better-furnished skull; - and their only alternative to such discourse is to plunge over head and ears into the slough of scandal - which is their chief delight.

  Anne Bronte

  Real, Moving, Thinking

  Anne Bronte (2016). “The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (Diversion Illustrated Classics)”, p.98, Diversion Books

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• Breasts are a scandal because they shatter the border between motherhood and sexuality

  Iris Marion Young

  Parenting, Motherhood, Borders

  Iris Marion Young (2005). “On Female Body Experience: "Throwing Like a Girl" and Other Essays”, p.88, Oxford University Press

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• Abortion is a worse moral scandal than priests sexually abusing young people.

  George Pell

  People, Abortion, Abuse

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• There are two parties involved in every corrupt transaction, typically a government official and a business person. Yet those who pay bribes are often depicted as innocent victims ... The reality is that both parties conspire to defraud the public.

  Lynda Chalker, Baroness Chalker of Wallasey

  Party, Reality, Government

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• I've been left alone, even by the paparazzi, because what sells is sex and scandal. Absent that, they really don't have much interest in you. I'm still married, still working, still happy.

  Matt Damon

  Sex, Married, Interest

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• The problem with making an extrinsic reward the only destination that matters is that some people will choose the quickest route there, even if it means taking the low road. Indeed, most of the scandals and misbehavior that have seemed endemic to modern life involve shortcuts.

  Daniel H. Pink

  Mean, People, Modern Life

  Daniel H. Pink (2010). “Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us”, p.51, Canongate Books

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• I too was a little embarrassed by my recent topless 'scandal' and the subsequent parodies.

  Jamie Lee Curtis

  Littles, Parody, Embarrassed

  "Miley Cyrus photo Uproar: Heidi Montag, Lauren Conrad, Hilary Duff, Nick Cannon Weigh In" by Chris Harris, www.mtv.com. April 29, 2008.

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• Tea! The panacea for everything from weariness to a cold to a murder Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.

  Henry Fielding

  Tea, Cold, Murder

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• London, black as crows and noisy as ducks, prudish with all the vices in evidence, everlastingly drunk, in spite of ridiculous laws about drunkenness, immense, though it is really basically only a collection of scandal-mongering boroughs, vying with each other, ugly and dull, without any monuments except interminable docks.

  Paul Verlaine

  Law, Ducks, Drunk

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• It's time to save the U.N. from its own scandals and mismanagement. It's time for U.N. Reform with teeth.

  Mike Pence

  Teeth, Reform, Mismanagement

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

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• This can never become popular, and, indeed, has no occasion to be so; for fine-spun arguments in favour of useful truths make just as little impression on the public mind as the equally subtle objections brought against these truths. On the other hand, since both inevitably force themselves on every man who rises to the height of speculation, it becomes the manifest duty of the schools to enter upon a thorough investigation of the rights of speculative reason, and thus to prevent the scandal which metaphysical controversies are sure, sooner or later, to cause even to the masses.

  Immanuel Kant

  School, Men, Hands

  Immanuel Kant (1855). “Critique of pure reason, tr. by J.M.D. Meiklejohn”, p.37

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• Unfortunately, WorldCom is not the only company caught up in this kind of accounting scandal. The impact this will have on the general public is yet to be seen.

  Bennie Thompson

  Business, Impact, Kind

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• The media is Obama's scandal condom.

  Greg Gutfeld

  Media, Politics, Condom

  Greg Gutfeld (2015). “How To Be Right: The Art of Being Persuasively Correct”, p.123, Crown Forum

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• Are we witnessing an Obama 'Wag the Dog' moment with Boko Haram in Nigeria? I say yes.

  Allen West

  Dog, Boko Haram, Wags

  "The Boko Haram-Benghazi Lin" by Michael Hirsh, www.politico.com. May 12, 2014.

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• I think it might be harder for a young comic because there's so much more competition. There's more people trying to do it and there are less rooms. Seriously. The way people do anything now is by getting press - some scandal. It's awful. Somebody has to go on a rooftop with a rifle and they get their own sitcom. It's disgusting.

  Judy Tenuta

  Thinking, People, Competition

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• The reality is that it is mainly a Republican scandal for several reasons.

  Larry Noble

  Reality, Republican, Reason

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• Bush is smart. I don't think that Bush will ever be impeached, 'cause unlike Clinton, Reagan, or even his father, George W. is immune from scandal. Because, if George W. testifies that he had no idea what was going on, wouldn't you believe him?

  Jay Leno

  Father, Smart, Believe

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• People who don't like scandals shouldn't be in finance.

  Christina Stead

  People, Finance

  Christina Stead (2012). “House of All Nations”, p.540, Open Road Media

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• Scandal, it bears repeating, undermines monarchies, but rarely ends them. It may be true that, according to a recent editorial in the New York Times, the British monarchy now exists primarily 'for our amusement'. But as long as people find it amusing, and want to be amused by it, they will be happy to see it undermined but uneager to kill it off.

  David Cannadine

  New York, Long, People

  David Cannadine (1998). “History in Our Time”, Penguin Group USA

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