Damn Quotes - Page 5

• Making the best of things is a damn poor way of dealing with them. My life has been a series of escapes from that quicksand.

  Rose Wilder Lane

  Way, Poor, Quicksand

  Letters to Guy Moyston, August 25, 1924 and July 11, 1925.

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• I'm all for ERA. I want to see women equal to men - not so damn superior like they've been.

  Nipsey Russell

  Work, Men, Want

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• Damn, Claire. Warn a guy before you do a face-plant on the floor next time. I could have looked all heroic and caught you or something -Shane

  Rachel Caine

  Funny, Guy, Next

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• I don't mind their having a lot of money, and I don't care how they employ it, but I do think that they damn well ought to admit they enjoy it.

  Ogden Nash

  Money, Thinking, Mind

  Ogden Nash (1945). “The Selected Verse of Ogden Nash”, New York : Modern Library

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• Basically, what happened was, I had moved out to Los Angeles, I was pretty damn lazy and I put on some pounds.

  Jason Biggs

  Umpires, Lazy, Pounds

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• Carrying those double tanks around all the time got to be a little rough on me. I had to put that damn wetsuit on and take it off, sometimes three or four times a day.

  Lloyd Bridges

  Tanks, Three, Double Standard

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• God will not damn a lunatic's soul. He knows that the powers of evil are too great for those of us with weak minds.

  Garrett Fort

  Evil, Soul, Mind

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• The thing that I think was very brave of my younger self was that he decided he would be an idiot. Just persevere. That feels brave to me: deciding that I'm going to damn well be this person that I've set my heart on being.

  Salman Rushdie

  Heart, Thinking, Self

  What I've Learned: Salman Rushdie" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. December 31, 2005.

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• I've met them down in the Cost and Accounting Department, clean-shaven and in white collars. They can't see a damn thing ridiculous about themselves... only about you.

  Jean Shepherd

  White, Cost, Ridiculous

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• There isn't a damn thing wrong with prayer. During the war I served with a guy who prayed all the time, carried a Bible with him everywhere. We all mocked him to no end. One day, that Bible stopped a bullet, my hand to God, that Bible stopped a bullet. If only he'd had another Bible in front of his face, he'd be alive today.

  Delroy Lindo

  Prayer, War, Hands

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• Why don't those damn oil companies fly their own flags on their personal property-maybe a flag with a gas pump on it.

  Smedley Butler

  Oil, Flags, Pumps

  Smedley D. Butler (2003). “War is a Racket: The Antiwar Classic by America's Most Decorated Soldier”, Feral House

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• All you really need to know for the moment is that the universe is a lot more complicated than you might think, even if you start from a position of thinking it's pretty damn complicated in the first place.

  Douglas Adams

  Positive, Thinking, Needs

  Douglas Adams (2009). “Mostly Harmless”, p.118, Pan Macmillan

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• They're a damn nuisance - I've got one in my bathroom and every time I run my bath the steam sets it off.

  Prince Philip

  Running, Nuisance, Baths

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• If I play badly I'll pick a fight in the third, just to get into a fight. I'll break a guy's leg to win, I don't care. Afterward I say, 'Yeah all right I played badly, but I won the fight so who gives a damn.

  Derek Sanderson

  Fighting, Winning, Nhl

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• You have to be damn certain you're putting something better in its place.

  Jonathan Dimbleby

  Umpires, Certain, Something Better

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• I think I prefer for the listener to decide for themselves what stuff means, because I always hate it when I think a song is about a horse, and then it turns out to be about a damn trip to France.

  Amanda Shires

  Song, Horse, Hate

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• The hunger will give you everything and it will take from you, everything. It will cost you your life, and there isn't a damn thing you can do about it. But knowing this, of course, is what ultimately sets you free.

  Hugh Jackman

  Knowing, Giving, Cost

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• If Michael Jordan was a damn plumber, he couldn't get a date. Any guy got $500 million looks good.

  Charles Barkley

  Guy, Looks, Jordan

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• You can go left, you can go right, I don't give a damn. Just make a decision.

  Aaron Eckhart

  Giving, Decision, Left

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• The toughest part of the whole damn sport is the X Factor. To me, the X factor is your soul. It's your courage. It's your unique driving force. Suppose for a moment that [you] and I were [running]. Suppose that in every possible way-physical and mental-we were identical. Which one of us would emerge as the champion?

  Brad Alan Lewis

  Sports, Running, Unique

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• I wouldn't go up on a stage now if you paid a thousand dollars for one minute of acting. It's a nasty experience. You're up there all by yourself. You're so damn exposed.

  Elia Kazan

  Acting, Dollars, Nasty

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• Cold, hungry, scared as hell inside, but too damn brave to admit it.

  Ronald Reagan

  Brave, Scared, Catchy

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• Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the road less traveled by and they CANCELLED MY FRIKKIN' SHOW. I totally shoulda took the road that had all those people on it. Damn.

  Joss Whedon

  Two, People, Ironic

  Bronze Beta web message board, www.cise.ufl.edu. February 14, 2004.

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• I feel guilty when people say I'm the greatest on the scene. What's good or bad doesn't matter to me; what does matter is feeling and not feeling. If only people would take more of a true view and think in terms of feelings. Your name doesn't mean a damn, it's your talents and feelings that matter. You've got to know much more than just the technicalities of notes; you've got to know what goes between the notes.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Mean, Thinking, Views

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• Here's to us, who's like us Damn few, and they're all dead.

  Robert Burns

  Military

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