Furious Quotes - Page 2

• I felt deeply tricked. Stunned. And furious. I also felt my default emotion: numbness.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Numbness, Emotion, Default

  Augusten Burroughs (2010). “Running with Scissors: A Memoir”, p.312, Macmillan

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• How furious she must be, now that she's been taken at her word.

  Margaret Atwood

  Taken, Handmaids Tale, Handmaids

  Margaret Atwood (1986). “The Handmaid's Tale”, p.46, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• furious flutter awakened hummingbird heart hello hello love

  Megan McCafferty

  Heart, Hello, Hummingbirds

  Megan McCafferty (2007). “Second Helpings: A Jessica Darling Novel”, p.354, Broadway Books

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• If you get killed. I'm going to be furious." "I love you too. Come On.

  Melissa Marr

  Love You, I Love You Too, Ifs

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• I remember a group therapy session when one of the patients was reluctantly turning his corner. He would accept it, he said, but he wouldn't like the idea of having to solve problems every day for the rest of his life. My co-therapist told him that it was not required that he like it. She shared her own displeasure, saying: 'I remember that when I first discovered what life was like, I was furious. I guess I'm still kind of mad sometimes.' (135)

  Sheldon B. Kopp

  Ideas, Mad, Groups

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• When Benedict dies, he will have the pleasure of standing before whatever furious God he believes in, to answer for how it was that he knew for undeniable fact that one -- if not dozens -- of his priests repeatedly molested, abused and/or raped young children for decades, and he did nothing to stop it. How much does God believe the pope's argument that Vatican PR trumps pedophilia? Joe Ratzinger, 82, will soon find out.

  Mark Morford

  Children, Believe, Doe

  "The end of the wicked old Mormons". www.sfgate.com. May 7, 2010.

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• And that wreched creature without hands or feet, who had to be put to bed and fed like a child, that pitiable remnant of a man, whose almost vanished life was nothing more than one scream of pain, cried out in furious indignation: 'What a fool one must be to go and kill oneself!' " - 'Joy of Life

  Emile Zola

  Pain, Children, Men

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• How do our lives ravel out into the no-wind, no-sound, the weary gestures wearily recapitulant: echoes of old compulsions with no-hand on no-string: in sunset we fall into furious attitudes, dead gestures of dolls.

  William Faulkner

  Attitude, Fall, Sunset

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• If you want to be a real human being - a real woman, a real man - you cannot tolerate things which put you to indignation, to outrage. You must stand up. I always say to people, 'Look around; look at what makes you unhappy, what makes you furious, and then engage yourself in some action.'

  Stephane Hessel

  Real, Men, People

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• The Queen is most anxious to enlist everyone in checking this mad, wicked folly of 'Women's Rights'. It is a subject which makes the Queen so furious that she cannot contain herself.

  Queen Victoria

  Queens, Women, Rights

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• In the early days I had a very black-and-white view of everything. I think that's kind of natural for anyone who's just embraced Islam - or any religion - as a convert. It was important for me to duck out of the fast and furious life I'd been living as a pop star. I was in a different mood.

  Cat Stevens

  Stars, Black And White, Thinking

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• It was important for me to duck out of the fast and furious life I'd been living as a pop star. I was in a different mood.

  Cat Stevens

  Stars, Ducks, Important

  "Feline groovy". Interview with Molloy Woodcraft, www.theguardian.com. July 18, 2004.

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• It is no good getting furious if you get stuck. What I do is keep thinking about the problem but work on something else. Sometimes it is years before I see the way forward. In the case of information loss and black holes, it was 29 years.

  Stephen Hawking

  Loss, Thinking, Years

  "Return of the time lord". Interview with Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. September 27, 2005.

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• All of youth culture is packaged and sold back to us at this furious rate these days. I think it's part and parcel to this corporate encroachment on our lives in general.

  Ani DiFranco

  Thinking, Culture, Youth

  "Interview: Righteous Babe Ani DiFranco". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. September 8, 1999.

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• He looks trapped, helpless and furious, and that’s a feeling I know too well. Know how much it hurts. Know how it holds you down, how every day there are a thousand little ways to see there is nothing you can do to change who or what you are.

  Elizabeth Scott

  Hurt, Feelings, Looks

  Elizabeth Scott (2011). “Between Here and Forever”, p.173, Simon and Schuster

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• Later, her first intense, serious love affair, yes then she'd lost something more tangible, if undefinable: her heart? her independence? her control of, definition of, self? That first true loss, the furious bafflement of it. And never again quite so assured, confident.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Heart, Loss, Self

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• I know the anger lies inside of me like I know the beat of my heart and the taste of my spit. It is easier to be furious than to be yearning. Easier to crucify myself in you than to take on the threatening universe of whiteness by admitting that we are worth wanting each other.

  Audre Lorde

  Lying, Heart, Admitting

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• If you like I'll be furious flesh elemental, or- changing to tones that the sunset arouses- if you like- I'll be extraordinary gentle, not a man but - a cloud in trousers.

  Vladimir Mayakovsky

  Sunset, Men, Clouds

  Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky, “A Cloud In Trousers - Epilogue”

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• There is a latent fairy in all women, but look how carefully we have to secrete her in order to be taken seriously. And fairies come in all shapes, colours, sizes and types, they don't have to be fluffy. They can be demanding and furious if hey like. They do, however, have to wear a tiara. That much is compulsory.

  Dawn French

  Taken, Order, Hey

  "A Tiny Bit Marvellous". Book by Dawn French, 2010.

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• There is nothing everyone is so afraid of as being told how vastly much he is capable of. You are capable of - do you want to know? - you are capable of living in poverty; you are capable of standing almost any kind of maltreatment, abuse, etc. But you do not wish to know about it, isn't that so? You would be furious with him who told you so, and only call that person your friend who bolsters you in saying: 'No, this I cannot bear, this is beyond my strength, etc.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Abuse, Wish, Bears

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• Thou art the Lord who slept upon the pillow, Thou art the Lord who soothed the furious sea, What matters beating wind and tossing billow If only we are in the boat with Thee? Hold us quiet through the age-long minute While Thou art silent and the wind is shrill : Can the boat sink while Thou, dear Lord, are in it; Can the heart faint that waiteth on Thy will?

  Amy Carmichael

  Art, What Matters, Wind

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• Your aunt and uncle will be proud, though, won't they?" said Hermione as they got off the train and joined the crowd thronging toward the enchanted barrier. "When they hear what you did this year?" "Proud?" said Harry. "Are you crazy? All those times I could've died, and I didn't manage it? They'll be furious.

  J. K. Rowling

  Uncles, Crazy, Aunt

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• He smiled at that, and then his gaze shifted to a spot over my shoulder and it faded. 'These doubts wouldn’t have anything to do with the company you’re keeping of late, would they?' I didn’t get a chance to answer before the shop door was thrown open and a furious war mage stomped in. Pritkin spotted me and his eyes narrowed. 'You shaved my legs?!' Mircea looked at me and folded his arms across his chest. I looked from one unhappy face to the other and suddenly remembered that I had somewhere else to be.

  Karen Chance

  War, Eye, Doors

  Karen Chance (2011). “Cassie Palmer Novels 1-5”, p.1507, Penguin

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• SITTING TIGHT? Holing up? Waiting for answers? Those are things I'm not good at. Planning a massive attack against mechanical geeky-like things when i was already furious and itching to kill something? Piece o'cake

  James Patterson

  Cake, Waiting, Sitting

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• Scandal is an importunate wasp, against which we must make no movement unless we are quite sure that we can kill it; otherwise it will return to the attack more furious than ever.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Scandal, Return, Movement

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