Slap Quotes - Page 8

• Sin thrives in the dungeon, but slap it on the table for all to see, and it withers rather quickly.

  Ted Dekker

  Dungeons, Tables, Sin

  Ted Dekker (2008). “Dekker 2 in 1 (Obsessed & Three)”, p.305, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• These are clothes my friends and I could wear. This ain't Prada. I don't want to be one of those celebrities that slaps their name on a label and collects royalty checks. Everything on that runway reflects me.

  Nicky Hilton

  Names, Clothes, Labels

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• Basketball players want contact to get a foul called. Slaps on the wrist and bumps on the shoulder are big time to them, and they don't like that. In football, you get that all the time. The whole mental makeup is different.

  Warren Moon

  Basketball, Football, Makeup

  "Sorry, Charles, but NBA stars couldn't cut it". Interview with Mike Sando, www.espn.com. May 29, 2013.

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• However , it’s over, and I’ll take no revenge on his folly – I can afford to suffer anything, hereafter! Should the meanest thing alive slap me on the cheek, I’d not only turn the other, but I’d ask pardon for provoking it – and, as proof, I’ll go make my peace with Edgar instantly – Good night – I’m an angel!

  Emily Bronte

  Good Night, Revenge, Angel

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• Genet raised his hand, and I squeezed my eyes shut, sure I would be receiving the worst backhanded slap of my life. Genet froze and whimpered, but didn't back away. "Oh, ho," said a familiar voice. "That was close !" I opened my eyes as North's free hand - the one that hadn't caught Genet's wrist - gently pulled my arm free. I pushed myself away from both of them. "You interrupt my business ?" Genet sputtered. "Do you know what this wench just accused me of being ?" "A filthy pig," North said good-naturedly. "But there's only one filthy pig allowed in her life, and the position's been filled.

  Alexandra Bracken

  Eye, Pigs, Hands

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• I'm 40 years old, and I still love watching Bugs Bunny slap the bull on the nose. I still watch those cartoons, and yet I also enjoy reading books about science, or the current fiction.

  Jeff Smith

  Book, Reading, Years

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• Most people go to college to get a job, and here I am sitting in class with a job, making exponentially more than whoever's teaching me, you know what I'm saying? At the end of the day, I wanted to finish what I started, and make my mom proud. A lot of people put a lot of hard work and investment to allow me to go to school, and for me not to finish would have been like a slap in the face to my family and those people.

  Mike Posner

  Mom, Jobs, Teaching

  Source: ca.complex.com

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• Everybody understands a slap in the face. In Japan, Belgium, or America, a punch is a punch. Comedy will be different in Europe or America or Japan, so my movies are very international.

  Jean-Claude Van Damme

  Japan, Europe, America

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. March 10, 2008.

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• The jarring change going from an urban environment to an extremely remote natural environment is extremely inspiring. It's constantly stimulating, it's like a slap in the face.

  Carter Burwell

  Inspiring, Environmental, Faces

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• Research has convincingly demonstrated that using the "rod" creates children who are not more obedient but who are instead simplymore angry and aggressive than other kids. Parents who routinely slap or strike their children are actually handing them a model of violence to imitate--and many do indeed grow to be abusive, some even murderously so.

  Julius Segal

  Children, Kids, Discipline

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• Why don't I just pretend I'm on camera, Plutarch?" I say. "Yes! Perfect. One is always much braver with an audience," he says. "Look at the courage Peeta just displayed!" It's all I can do not to slap him.

  Suzanne Collins

  Perfect One, Cameras, Looks

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.141, Scholastic Inc.

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• Without question, the true goal of some in Congress is to create a system of socialized medicine. It's politically expedient to slap a "patients’ rights" label on legislation that simply leads us closer to a complete government takeover of medicine.

  Ron Paul

  Rights, Government, Medicine

  "Bill Of Rights . . . Or Federal Takeover Of Medicine?". www.heartland.org. August 1, 2001.

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• My father used to always say to me that, you know, if a guy goes out to steal a loaf of bread to feed his family, they'll give him 10 years, but a guy can do white-collar crime and steal the money of thousands and he'll get probation and a slap on the wrist.

  Jesse Ventura

  Father, Years, White

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• 'Revenge' is a shameless soap in the style of Eighties shoulder-pad slap-offs like 'Dallas,' 'Dynasty' and 'Falcon Crest.' Yet there's no wink-wink camp.

  Rob Sheffield

  Revenge, Style, Dallas

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• I had this fantasy that in a democracy the government was the population. So I came to America and got a big slap in my face... Americans were not what I thought. I thought I was going to see bastards and I saw nice people, very friendly to me.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Nice, Government, America

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• If I wanted your opinion, I'd slap it outta ya.

  Paul O'Grady

  Opinion, Wanted, Ifs

  "The New Paul O'Grady Show". Comedy, Talk-Show, 2004–2015.

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• The critics slap labels on you and then expect you to talk inside their terms.

  Doris Lessing

  Labels, Term, Critics

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• I'm probably my biggest critic. I worry that if you spend any quality time reveling in good things then karma will slap you upside the head, so I try to stay as even keel as I'm able.

  Neil Patrick Harris

  Karma, Worry, Trying

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• I'll tell you what I did need to learn was tolerance, and I think I've been actually given a daily opportunity to practice that, and it's - it's - and I know that that sounds almost like a backhanded slap, and it is in a way because I haven't been successful at it every day.

  Mel Gibson

  Successful, Thinking, Opportunity

  "Gibson on 'The Passion'". "The O'Reilly Factor" with Bill O'Reilly, www.foxnews.com. February 24, 2004.

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• Jeff Smith was the Julia Child of my generation. When his television show, 'The Frugal Gourmet,' made its debut on PBS in the 1980s, it conveyed such genuine enthusiasm for cooking that I was moved for the first time to slap down cold cash for a collection of recipes.

  Alton Brown

  Children, Pbs, Cooking

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• I know that. I'm having a ball. I'm not slap happy. I'm just filled up with joy and with peace and with all kinds of things that have eluded me for quite a few years. And they're back and they're thriving.

  Liza Minnelli

  Years, Filled Up, Joy

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• Snape is vindictive, he's cruel. He's not a big man. But he loves. I like him, but I'd also like to slap him hard.

  J. K. Rowling

  Men, Vindictive, Bigs

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• Embrace change, even when the change slaps you in the face.

  Walter Breuning

  Faces, Embrace, Embrace Change

  "World's oldest man dies at 114" by Elizabeth Flock, www.washingtonpost.com. April 15, 2011.

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• How could anyone not want to live when there were so many things to live for? There were rainy nights and wind and the slap of the sea and the moon. There were books to read and pictures to paint and music.

  Michelle Magorian

  Book, Night, Moon

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• The last time I threw a punch was in primary school, and that was probably a slap.

  Martin Compston

  School, Lasts, Last Time

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

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