Damn Quotes - Page 9

• You learn to cope with whatever you have to cope with. I spent my childhood in New York, riding on subways and buses. And you know what you learn if you're a New Yorker? The world doesn't owe you a damn thing.

  Lauren Bacall

  New York, Childhood, Riding

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

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• Praise or damn as you please, but do so rather flatly, pragmatically, with cunning attention to annoying or gratifying details. Be yourself. Be unique. Be a good editor. The Universe needs more good editors, God knows.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Being Yourself, Unique, Editors

  Kurt Vonnegut (2012). “Kurt Vonnegut: Letters”, Random House

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• Big dreams are so damn tiring.

  Andre Agassi

  Dream, Tire, Bigs

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• Above all never forget that a marriage is in one way very much like a newspaper. It has to be made fresh every damn day of every damn year.

  Raymond Chandler

  Marriage, Years, Way

  Raymond Chandler, Tom Hiney, Frank MacShane (2002). “The Raymond Chandler Papers: Selected Letters and Nonfiction, 1909-1959”, p.217, Grove Press

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• I am not the biggest, I am not the strongest, but I am Damn sure the toughest!

  Daniel Bryan

  Wwe, Strongest, Bryan

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

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• I say the phone records of law abiding citizens are none of their damn business!

  Rand Paul

  Phones, Law, Abiding

  "Rand Paul Vows To 'Take Our Country Back' In Presidential Candidacy Speech". "All Things Considered", www.npr.org. April 7, 2015.

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• I am the best damn ass-kicker in the whole U.S. Army!

  George S. Patton

  Army, Kickers, Ass

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• Life... by Marshall Mathers... What is life ?
  Life is like a big obstacle put in front of your optical to slow you down...
  And everytime you think you gotten past it
  It's gonna come back around and tackle you to the damn ground

  Eminem

  Past, Thinking, Life Is Like

  Song: If I Had

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• And from a military school which taught me that to fit into society, you can't just do anything you damn well please because it will suit you. And that it's much better to be with the winners than it is with the losers.

  Sam Donaldson

  Military, School, Suits You

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• Dr. McDreamy, that's what I call Patrick's character. He's gorgeous, he's got a great body and he's got damn fine hair.

  Ellen Pompeo

  Character, Hair, Mcdreamy

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• I'm lucky. I don't know whether I'm deserving or not. All I know is that I work damn hard for everything. And God helps those who help themselves. Every day is like an exam. I believe destiny and hard work go hand in hand. I was studying to be an engineer when my mom and my brother sent my pictures for the Miss India contest. I didn't even know about it. If that isn't destiny, what is?

  Priyanka Chopra

  Mom, Brother, Believe

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

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• The only damn thing I ever learned in all my years in art school was a piece is never done, it is just finished. You have to trust your inner voice, your instincts, when they tell you pencils down. And you roll up your sleeves and you start over again.

  Brian Michael Bendis

  Art, School, Years

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• I don't give a damn about the civilians.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Giving, Politics, I Do Care

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• We don't all have to believe in the same feminism. Feminism can be pluralistic so long as we respect the different feminisms we carry with us, so long as we give enough of a damn to try to minimize the fractures among us. Feminism will better succeed with collective effort, but feminist success can also rise out of personal conduct.

  Roxane Gay

  Women, Believe, Collective Effort

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• You are not going to 'go forth.' You are going to take that damn hat off and you're going to get a job.

  Bill Cosby

  Jobs, Hats, Hats Off

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• Life is too god damn short and you can't waste a minute of it.

  Richard Jenkins

  Meaningful, Waste, Life Is

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• Elephants are living treasures. Nature's gardeners. Nature's great teachers. Tragically some people don't give a damn. They prefer the dead treasure to the living one. The ivory. We must challenge this so-called 'trade' with all our might and shame on those who would condone it.

  Virginia McKenna

  Teacher, Elephants, Ivory

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• Souls were the same. They, too, had useless baggage that impeded their proper performance, these annoying, holier-than-thou bits dangling like an appendix waiting for infection. Faith and hope and love...prudence, temperance, justice, and fortitude...all this useless clutter just packed too much damn morality into the heart, getting in the way of the soul's innate desire for malignancy.

  J.R. Ward

  Love, Heart, Justice

  J.R. Ward (2009). “Covet: A Novel of the Fallen Angels”, p.17, Penguin

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• We've got great flexibility and a certain discipline in terms of not doing some foolish thing just to be active - discipline in avoiding just doing any damn thing just because you can't stand inactivity.

  Charlie Munger

  What Matters, Discipline, Foolish

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• Once women are not excluded, I don't think any of us will give a damn what pronouns are used. That wasn't the point.

  Holly Near

  Thinking, Umpires, Giving

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• I don't give a damn about the stock market. But I do care about jobs.

  George Voinovich

  Jobs, Umpires, Giving

  "Bush's 'perfect storm'" by Robert Novak, www.cnn.com. September 11, 2003.

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• The mystery of that damn virus has been generated by the $2 billion a year they spend on it.

  Kary Mullis

  Years, Umpires, Viruses

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• I lived in an attached house. My father used to drive into the wrong driveway all the time. He'd say, Damn it, how do you tell one of these houses from another?

  Paul Simon

  Father, Umpires, House

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• Get over here and talk to her. She's a reporter, not a Dementor.Harry Potter nerd.Whatever. Take the damn phone.

  Robin Benway

  Phones, Nerd, Mentor

  Robin Benway (2009). “Audrey, Wait!”, p.71, Penguin

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• Miracles are great, but they're so damn unpredictable.

  Peter Drucker

  Sports, Miracle, Unpredictable

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