Biting Quotes - Page 5

• So let us do real fighting, boring in and gouging, biting.

  George S. Patton

  Real, Fighting, Boring

  "Absolute War". Poem by George S. Patton, Stanza 5. "The Patton Papers 1940-1945". Book edited by Martin Blumenson, p. 492, 1996.

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• Youth is like spring, an over praised season more remarkable for biting winds than genial breezes. Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits.

  Samuel Butler

  Time, Spring, Fall

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• Clifford paints true-to-life characters with the same gritty touch as the best of Dennis Lehane. Straightforward and edgy, Lamentation gnaws with nail-biting tension on every page. A must-read for contemporary hardboiled mystery fans who appreciate the type of terse dialogue and real life conflicts and settings Elmore Leonard so richly brought to life.

  Robert Dugoni

  Real, Character, Appreciate

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• Everything here below beneath the sun is subject to continual change; and perhaps there is nothing which can be called more inconstant than opinion, which turns round in an everlasting circle like the wheel of fortune. He who reaps praise today is overwhelmed with biting censure tomorrow; today we trample under foot the man who tomorrow will be raised far above us.

  E. T. A. Hoffmann

  Men, Circles, Feet

  E. T. A. Hoffmann (2012). “The Best Tales of Hoffmann”, p.365, Courier Corporation

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• Happiness can seem like an abstract, transcendent notion, but in fact, I found that getting enough sleep (very important!!), getting exercise, not letting myself get too hungry, not letting myself get too cold (I'm a person who is always cold), made a big difference. Partly because I felt happier, partly because feeling physically comfortable makes it easier to keep other difficult happiness-boosting resolutions like biting my tongue.

  Gretchen Rubin

  Sleep, Exercise, Differences

  "Slate Discussion: The Happiness Project". Online Chat, www.washingtonpost.com. January 15, 2009.

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• If a dog is biting a black man, the black man should kill the dog, whether the dog is a police dog or a hound dog or any kind of dog. If a dog is fixed on a black man when that black man is doing nothing but trying to take advantage of what the government says is supposed to be his, then that black man should kill that dog or any two-legged dog who sets the dog on him.

  Malcolm X

  Dog, Men, Two

  "Malcolm X: Make It Plain". "The American Experience", PBS, season 6, episode 6, January 26, 1994.

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• The lesson this teaches and which every Afro-American should ponder well, is that a Winchester rifle should have a place of honor in every black home, and it should be used for that protection which the law refuses to give. When the white man who is always the aggressor knows he runs as great a risk of biting the dust every time his Afro-American victim does, he will have greater respect for Afro-American life. The more the Afro-American yields and cringes and begs, the more he has to do so, the more he is insulted, outraged and lynched.

  Ida B. Wells

  Running, Home, Men

  Ida B. Wells-Barnett (2014). “On Lynchings”, p.26, Courier Corporation

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• Thunderous action and nail-biting suspense

  Peter Travers

  Nails, Suspense, Action

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• If we had known there was biting in soccer, we would have started watching years ago.

  Peter Sagal

  Soccer, Years, Known

  "Who's Bill This Time". "Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!" with Bill Kurtis, www.npr.org. June 27, 2014.

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• Royce Westmoreland stared at him with biting scorn. "I despise hypocrisy, particularly when it is coated with holiness." "May I ask for a specific example?" "Fat priests," Royce replied, "with fat purses, who lecture staving peasants on the dangers of gluttony and the merits of poverty.

  Judith McNaught

  Hypocrisy, Example, Holiness

  Judith McNaught (2016). “A Kingdom of Dreams”, p.266, Simon and Schuster

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• I am the King of biting off more than I can chew.

  The Rocket Summer

  Kings, I Can

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• I will probably write an hour a day and spend eight hours a day biting my knuckle and worrying about not writing.

  David Foster Wallace

  Writing, Eight, Worry

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• With this information, in light of the increasing human demands on vegetation, it is my personal opinion that capping CO2 emissions or reducing them to some prior level would be akin to 'biting the hand that feeds us.

  Keith E. Idso

  Light, Personal Opinions, Hands

  "Co2: Villain Or Friend? An Exclusive Interview With Keith E. Idso". Interview with Bonner Cohen, www.heartland.org. January 1, 1999.

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• Is there a particular reason you keep biting vampires?" Will touched the dried blood on his wrists, and smiled. "They don't expect it." "Of course they don't. They know what happens when one of us consumes vampire blood. They probably expect you to have more sense." "That expectation never seems to serve them very well, does it?

  Cassandra Clare

  Blood, Expectations, Vampire

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.258, Simon and Schuster

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• You can measure the happiness of a marriage by the number of scars that each partner carries on their tongues, earned from years of biting back angry words.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Relationship, Family, Years

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.442, A&C Black

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• I'll show up at Fashion Week with a mink on with a lion head biting my shoulder. I would love that. Oh my God, with a jaguar tail on my shoes. Something crazy.

  Iman Shumpert

  Fashion, Crazy, Shoes

  Source: wwd.com

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• In many places around the world, all over the U.S. and Europe there are active nuclear power plants. And for many years during the Cold War the threat of nuclear war was a permanent fear. There's always the concern that human kind is biting off more than they can chew in harnessing nuclear power.

  Oren Peli

  War, Years, Europe

  "‘Chernobyl Diaries’ & ‘Paranormal Activity’ Writer/Producer Oren Peli". Interview with Roth Cornet, screenrant.com. May 25, 2012.

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• Comfortable means gradually more and more flattened down, more and more blunt - less and less sharp and biting into you.

  Anne Carson

  Mean, Blunt, Comfortable

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I'm one of those people with restless hands. I need to be doodling, or biting my nails, or making socks.

  Vera Brosgol

  Hands, People, Doodling

  Interview with Elissa Gershowitz and Katie Bircher, www.hbook.com. September 12, 2016.

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• My brother, are war and battle evil? Necessary, however, is the evil; necessary are the envy and the distrust and the back-biting among the virtues.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Brother, War, Evil

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2017). “THUS SPOKE ZARATHUSTRA (Modern Classics Series): The Magnum Opus of the World’s Most Influential Philosopher, Revolutionary Thinker and the Author of The Antichrist, The Birth of Tragedy & Beyond Good and Evil”, p.40, e-artnow

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• It's actually technically impossible for a woman to argue against feminism. Without feminism, you wouldn't be allowed to have a debate on a woman's place in society. You'd be too busy giving birth on the kitchen floor, biting down on a wooden spoon so as not to disturb the men's card game, before going back to hoeing the rutabaga field.

  Caitlin Moran

  Men, Games, Giving

  "Not A Feminist? Caitlin Moran Asks, Why Not?". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. July 29, 2016.

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• The nostalgic notion of the family orchards is lovely - all that wholesome fruit for our forebears to sit on the back steps biting into - but basically we were growing it to drink.

  Barbara Holland

  Lovely, Growing, Fruit

  Barbara Holland (2008). “The Joy of Drinking”, p.2, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• Democrats' desperate attempt to focus on campaign finance reform instead of laws that may have been broken by the Clinton-Gore campaign is like Mike Tyson demanding a reform in boxing regulations after biting off a piece of Evander Holyfield's ear.

  Cal Thomas

  Law, Broken, Boxing

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• I can fathom anything, man. I love biting off more than I can chew and figuring it out.

  Jordan Peele

  Men, Figuring It, Fathom

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• I bite my nails so bad. They're awful! My nails are so ugly. I need to stop biting them.

  Elle Fanning

  Nails, Needs, Ugly

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