Rant Quotes - Page 2

• If ever Shakespeare rants, it is not when his imagination is hurrying him along, but when he is hurrying his imagination along.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Imagination, Ifs, Hurrying

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• I tend to sit around with my friends a lot and rant and rave about things I think are ridiculous in the world, and I tend to make fun of myself a lot.

  Tom Green

  Fun, Thinking, World

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Baseball is the only sport that lets the managers and coaches go out onto the field and rant and rave

  Durwood Merrill

  Sports, Baseball, Fields

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• Rant Casey used to say, "No matter what happens, it's always now..." Talk about cryptic. I think what Rant meant was, we live in the present moment of reality, and no matter what's come before, no matter how much we loved a person or a dog, when it attacks us we'll react to that moment of danger.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Dog, Thinking, Reality

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Rant: The Oral History of Buster Casey”, p.246, Random House

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• The most annoying thing I found was all the people pretending to be me on MySpace and Facebook. I'm not a member of either, but apparently there is an 'official' Nikki Sanderson MySpace page, complete with rants about how terrible identity fraud is, which is ironic.

  Nikki Sanderson

  People, Ironic, Identity

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• To rail and rant against tyranny is to manifest inferiority, for there is no tyranny but ignorance; to be conscious of one's powers is to lose consciousness of tyranny. Self government is not a remote aim. It is an intimate and inescapable fact. To govern oneself is a natural imperative, and all tyranny is the miscarriage of self government. The first requisite of freedom is to accept responsibility for the lack of it.

  E.C. Riegel

  Ignorance, Miscarriage, Responsibility

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• On tue un homme, on est un assassin. On tue des millions d'hommes, on est un conquérant. On les tue tous, on est un dieu.
  Kill a man, and you are an assassin. Kill millions of men and you are a conqueror. Kill everyone, and you are a god.

  Jean Rostand

  God, Men, Assassins

  Pensees d'un Biologiste ch. 5 (1939) See Porteus 1; Edward Young 3

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• Be patient with your boaters and let them rant. Most of them will get over it come December.

  Matt Goldman

  Inspirational, Funny, Sailing

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• Do you want my input or is this just an angry tirade you need to vent? (Acheron) Both! (Kat) Okay, you rant and I’ll add my comments at the end. (Acheron)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Add, Needs, Want

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• Rant would tell people: 'You're a different human being to everybody you meet.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  People, Different, Humans

  "Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, May 1, 2007.

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• For years and years I carried these notebooks around with me - I had hundreds of pages of notes, these fragments that consisted of biographical anecdotes, diary passages, critical rants, agitations, scenes of my marriage.

  Kate Zambreno

  Notebook, Years, Agitation

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Punk was a protest against work and against boredom. It was a sign of life, a rant, a scream, a rejection of bourgeois morals. But have things improved since then? Arguably, they've got worse.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Boredom, Rejection, Moral

  "Idle thoughts" by Tom Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. June 23, 2006.

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• My tolerance for crazy people is, I think, high a tolerance as you're ever going to find. I love being around David Allen Coe. I would have loved to hang out with Tiny Tim. I can listen to Sun Ra on a tape-recording rant.

  Penn Jillette

  Crazy, Thinking, People

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

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• Some write a narrative of wars and feats, Of heroes little known, and call the rant A history.

  William Cowper

  War, Hero, Writing

  William Cowper, Henry Stebbing (1839). “Poems with a Memoir of the Author by Henry Stebbing”, p.268

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• Americans who feel the most ignored these days are not the screamers. They are the solid citizens who are sick to death of pols who play to the rant.

  Joe Klein

  Play, Sick, Citizens

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• The free market allowed shock jocks to flourish, and millions of listeners apparently enjoyed the rant.

  Christine Pelosi

  Jocks, Shock, Free Market

  "Long Time Coming: Why Rush Limbaugh Must Go" by Christine Pelosi, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 6, 2012.

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• One thing I've learned about death threats is that they're great, actually. You should actually be grateful for death threats because those who are taking the time to threaten you that way are getting it out of their system. That's really what they rant to do, yell at you, and they want to threaten you.

  Michael Moore

  Grateful, Way, Want

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• Book critics or theatre critics can be derisively negative and gain delighted praise for the trenchant with of their review. But in criticisms of religion even clarity ceases to be a virtue and sounds like aggressive hostility. A politician may attack an opponent scathingly across the floor of the House and earn plaudits for his robust pugnacity. But let a soberly reasoning critic of religion employ what would in other contexts sound merely direct or forthright, and it will be described as a 'rant'.

  Richard Dawkins

  Book, House, Criticism

  Richard Dawkins (2008). “The God Delusion”, p.17, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Sometimes I rant, in a comical way, about how the gods give with one hand and take with the other.

  Sue Townsend

  Hands, Giving, Way

  "Sue Townsend: 'I hate it when people call me a national treasure'". Interview with Kate Kellaway, www.theguardian.com. July 31, 2010.

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• After a decade of profligacy, the American people are tired of politicians who talk the talk but don't walk the walk when it comes to fiscal responsibility. It's easy to get up in front of the cameras and rant against exploding deficits. What's hard is actually getting deficits under control. But that's what we must do. Like families across the country, we have to take responsibility for every dollar we spend.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Tired, Responsibility

  "Obama hails return to PAYGO" by Josh Gerstein, www.politico.com. February 13, 2010.

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• Most uncomfortable! Did we lose anyone? Head count! Lee Ark, Leetu, and Brunstetter. Three. Should we count the meech egg? No, I think not. Don't drop it, Brunstetter. I'm to take it home and raise it. Ridiculous. Being a parent at my age. Where were we? Oh, yes, three. One o'rant, two kimens, two minor dragons. Eight. A librarian and a diplomat. Ten.

  Donita K. Paul

  Home, Thinking, Eight

  Donita K. Paul (2008). “DragonSpell: A Novel”, p.304, WaterBrook

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• We're creating a TV show of Scrooge, starring Jamie Farr, with Buddy Hackett as Scrooge. We're shooting in this Victorian set for weeks, and Hackett is pissed all the time, angry that he's not the center of attention, and finally we get to the scene where we've gotta shoot him at the window, saying, "Go get my boots," or whatever. The set is stocked with Victorian extras and little children in Oliver kind of outfits, and the director says, "All right, Bud - just give it whatever you want." And Hackett goes off on a rant. Unbelievably obscene.

  Bill Murray

  Children, Tv Shows, Creating

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• For the first time in history, men and women are seriously exploring the possibilities of relationships based on separateness rather than togetherness. Instead of clinging to Yahweh, to a rigid set of laws established by a jealous Father-God who will rant in fury if he is disobeyed, they are simply ignoring that ranting, walking away from it, and attempting to put their trust in the irrational. In other words, they are trying to live by the spirit.

  Marion Woodman

  Father, Jealous, Men

  Marion Woodman (1982). “Addiction to Perfection: The Still Unravished Bride : a Psychological Study”

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• I have a lot to say about Mrs. [Hillary] Clinton that has not been said by others recently and that I think needs to be said. I mean I've known her for 40 years. I worked with her, I know her well professionally. I know her well personally. I know her to be a person of high moral character. A reliable person and an honest person, however Mr. [Donald] Trump may rant and rave to the contrary. So I'm happy to say that. People can make their own choices.

  William Weld

  Character, Mean, Thinking

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• An Icelandic mayor goes on an anti-elf rant which gets him in trouble.

  Peter Sagal

  Goes On, Trouble, Mayors

  Source: www.npr.org

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