Slap In The Face Quotes

• Imagine smiling after a slap in the face. Then think of doing it twenty-four hours a day.

  Markus Zusak

  Sad, Pain, Thinking

  Markus Zusak (2013). “The Book Thief: Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition”, p.211, RH Childrens Books

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• A slap in the face is more effective than ten lectures. It makes you understand very quickly.

  Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

  Faces, Lectures, Venus In Furs

  Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch, Emil Marriot (1989). “Venus in Furs: A Novel ; Letters of Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch and Emilie Mataja”

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• Critical words to a child are as painful and damaging as being physically hit. They are verbal slaps in the face. Usually, critical words are accompanied by threats, name-calling, and yelling. This verbal abuse can be especially damaging. Insulting names echo in a child's mind over and over again until he comes to believe he is indeed stupid, selfish, lazy, or ugly and that in fact, that is all he is.

  Beverly Engel

  Children, Stupid, Selfish

  Beverly Engel (2002). “The Emotionally Abusive Relationship: How to Stop Being Abused and How to Stop Abusing”, p.71, John Wiley & Sons

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• Why slap them on the wrist with feather when you can belt them over the head with a sledgehammer.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Belts, Wrists, Fine Feathers

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• If you expect a kick in the balls and you get a slap in the face, it's a victory.

  Ardal O'Hanlon

  Victory, Balls, Faces

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• I deal with negative, nasty comments on a regular basis. It's difficult to digest because I've always been sensitive and it's a slap in the face to have someone respond cruely when you're trying to lift people up. It's been a huge lesson for me.

  Kathryn Budig

  People, Trying, Faces

  ORIGIN Interview, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• A correct answer is like an affectionate kiss, Goethe said; a correct answer, Gertrude would have said, is like a slap in the face.

  Randall Jarrell

  Kissing, Gertrude, Answers

  Randall Jarrell (2010). “Pictures from an Institution: A Comedy”, p.68, University of Chicago Press

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• A correct answer is like an affectionate kiss.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Kissing, Answers, Affectionate

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1948). “The permanent Goethe”

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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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• Some people are saying it's a slap in the face for me to go to a competitor, but it also was a slap in my face that they would go out and trade for Matt Williams, especially when my situation was unsure.

  Albert Belle

  People, Faces, Situation

  Albert Belle (1998). “Don't Call Me Joey: The Wit and Wisdom of Albert Belle”, p.23, ECW Press

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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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• Those who were so long imprisoned in ice and darkness seem to find the sunlight jarring, painful. The longer I walk around with this grief inside me, the more I understand that. It’s as if sunshine is a slap in the face that says, Look, the world’s all bright and shiny! Too bad you’re not.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Grief, Sunshine, Ice

  Karen Marie Moning (2011). “Shadowfever: Fever Series”, p.142, Delacorte Press

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• The beautiful thing about having grown up in Brooklyn is, because of the rich cultural and racial diversity there, no one seemed to give too much thought to where I fit on the racial spectrum. But there were times when I would run up against someone who was interested in figuring out what race was. That would come as a surprise, and in some cases, like a slap in the face.

  Wentworth Miller

  Beautiful, Running, Race

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I began imagining scenes in public which some drunk would come up to me and slap me in the face. Nothing like that ever happened, but I often wonder if I would have turned the other cheek

  Max von Sydow

  Drunk, Faces, Wonder

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• I'm sorry, to boycott the Academy Awards is a slap in Chris Rock's face. To host is such a prestigious honor. To boycott it is not the issue. I think it does a disservice to all the African Americans that have worked so hard this year that will be attending and looking at this as an opportunity of a lifetime. I think it's a slap in the face. I understand the sentiment, but I don't appreciate the tactic.

  Eva Marcille

  Sorry, Opportunity, Thinking

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• You want to know what I make? I make kids work harder than they ever thought they could. I can make a C+ feel like a Congressional Medal of Honor, and I can make a...

  Taylor Mali

  Hard Work, Kids, Honor

  "'Teachers Make' A Difference, What About You?". "All Things Considered" with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. May 6, 2012.

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• A lot of times, when young guys come up, you think you don't have to work as hard because the talent is going to get you as far as you need to go. But as you get older, it's not that way. An injury is really a wake-up call and a slap in the face that maybe you were slacking a bit, and don't let it happen again.

  Kerry Wood

  Thinking, Guy, Needs

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• When I was 11 years old and I was on a road trip with my family. I turned to my dad and said, "Do you believe in Adam and Eve?" And he said he didn't think so. I remember that felt like a slap in the face, because if my parents questioned Adam and Eve, then they potentially questioned everything within Catholicism. Eventually that idea led to my feeling liberated, but at that time it was very scary.

  Alanis Morissette

  Dad, Believe, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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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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• The film The Last Temptation of Christ, no matter what its defenders say, was a slap in the face to Christians everywhere.

  Mickey Rooney

  Christian, Religious, Temptation

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• And if you worry that not finishing the food on your plate is a slap in the face of all the hungry people everywhere, you are not living in reality. The truth is that you either throw the food out or you throw it in, but either way it turns to waste. World hunger will not be solved by finishing the garlic mashed potatoes on your plate.

  Geneen Roth

  Reality, People, Worry

  Geneen Roth (2011). “Women Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything”, p.153, Simon and Schuster

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• Snow in April is abominable," said Anne. "Like a slap in the face when you expect a kiss.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Kissing, Snow, Faces

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2013). “The Anne of Green Gables Chronicles (Annotated Edition)”, p.1372, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Braai Day is a slap in the face of our efforts to regain who we are. And should make any self respecting South African cringe.

  Simphiwe Dana

  Self, Effort, Who We Are

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