Rude Quotes - Page 5

• The art of sculpture is long ago perished to any real effect... it is the game of a rude and youthful people, and not the manly labour of a wise and spiritual nation.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wise, Spiritual, Art

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.163

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• By the rude bridge that arched the flood,
  Their flag to April's breeze unfurled,
  Here once the embattled farmers stood,
  And fired the shot heard round the world.
  The foe long since in silence slept;
  Alike the conqueror silent sleeps;
  And Time the ruined bridge has swept
  Down the dark stream which seaward creeps.
  On this green bank, by this soft stream,
  We set to-day a votive stone;
  That memory may their deed redeem,
  When, like our sires, our sons are gone.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Memories, Spring, Sleep

  "Concord Hymn" l. 1 (1837)

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• Except in streetcars one should never be unnecessarily rude to a lady.

  O. Henry

  Rudeness, Should

  O. Henry (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of O. Henry (Illustrated)”, p.1144, Delphi Classics

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• The doctrines of the Bible are often not clothed in the language of strict truth, but in that which was fittest to convey to a rude and ignorant people the practical essentials of the doctrine.

  Albert Pike

  People, Ignorant, Essentials

  Albert Pike (2013). “Morals and Dogma”, p.197, Simon and Schuster

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• I dont ever want to do anything mediocre. I hear the music in the charts and I dont mean to be rude, but those people have no soul. Learning from music is like eating a meal - you have to pace yourself. You cant take everything from it all at once. I want to be different, definitely. Im not a one trick pony. Im at least a five-trick pony.

  Amy Winehouse

  Mean, People, Soul

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• I ask but one thing of you, only one, That always you will be my dream of you; That never shall I wake to find untrue All this I have believed and rested on, Forever vanished, like a vision gone Out into the night. Alas, how few There are who strike in us a chord we knew Existed, but so seldom heard its tone We tremble at the half-forgotten sound. The world is full of rude awakenings And heaven-born castles shattered to the ground, Yet still our human longing vainly clings To a belief in beauty through all wrongs. O stay your hand, and leave my heart its songs!

  Amy Lowell

  Dream, Song, Heart

  Amy Lowell (2009). “A Dome of Many-Coloured Glass”, p.70, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• On the pavement
  of my trampled soul
  the steps of madmen
  weave the prints of rude crude words.

  Vladimir Mayakovsky

  Soul, Pavement, Steps

  Vladimir Mayakovsky (1975). “Klop, Stikhi, Poėmy”, p.53, Indiana University Press

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• Keep your children as much as may be from ill company, especially of ungodly playfellows. It is one of the greatest dangers for the undoing of children in the world; especially when they are sent to common schools: for there is scarce any of those schools so good, but hath many rude and ungodly ill-taught children in it.

  Richard Baxter

  Children, School, World

  Richard Baxter (1996). “The Christian directory”, Soli Deo Gloria Ministries

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• Blow, blow, thou winter wind, Thou art not so unkind As mans ingratitude Thy tooth is not so keen, Because thou art not seen, Although thy breath be rude. Heigh-ho sing, heigh-ho unto the green holly Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly. Then heigh-ho the holly This life is most jolly. Freeze, freeze, thou bitter sky, That dost not bite so nigh As benefits forgot Though thou the waters warp, Thy sting is not so sharp As friend rememberd not.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Art, Winter

  'As You Like It' (1599) act 2, sc. 7, l. 174

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• In any case, A New Kind of Science is a wonderful book, and I'm still absorbing its teachings.

  Rudy Rucker

  Book, Teaching, Kind

  Interview with Giulio Prisco, giulioprisco.blogspot.ru. November 2, 2002.

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• In choosing Governor Sarah Palin as his running mate, John McCain has chosen for the future.

  Rudy Giuliani

  Running, Mates, Palin

  Republican National Convention Speech, delivered 3 September 2008, Minneapolis-Saint Paul, Minnesota

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• Science fiction writers put characters into a world with arbitrary rules and work out what happens.

  Rudy Rucker

  Character, Work Out, Arbitrary

  "Adventures In Gnarly Computation". www.rudyrucker.com. October 2005.

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• So I think we're, we're, we're as broad a political party, if not broader than the Democratic Party, just in a different political spectrum.

  Rudy Giuliani

  Party, Thinking, Political

  "Meet the press" with David Gregory, www.nbcnews.com. September 12, 2010.

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• The Republican Party is a much bigger tent than people give it credit for. We have a lot of what I guess you all call moderate Republicans.

  Rudy Giuliani

  Party, People, Giving

  "Meet the Press" with David Gregory, www.nbcnews.com. March 7, 2004.

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• Now we understand much more clearly. why people from all over the world want to come to New York and to America. It's called freedom.

  Rudy Giuliani

  New York, America, People

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• With the spirit of my administration, New York City is poised for dramatic change. The era of fear has had a long enough reign.

  Rudy Giuliani

  New York, Cities, Long

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• Learning how to deal with people and their reactions to my life is one of the most challenging things... people staring at me, people asking rude questions, dealing with media, stuff like that.

  Bethany Hamilton

  Media, People, Challenges

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• Miss Manners herself, while never rude, is given to pulling a fast pinch in the way of a handshake on those who believe in kissing on, not even the first date, but the first sighting.

  Judith Martin

  Believe, Kissing, Missing

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• Whoever called snooker "chess with balls" was rude, but right.

  Clive James

  Sports, Balls, Chess

  Clive James (2013). “Snakecharmers In Texas”, p.231, Pan Macmillan

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• Many of the phenomena of Winter are suggestive of an inexpressible tenderness and fragile delicacy. We are accustomed to hear this king described as a rude and boisterous tyrant; but with the gentleness of a lover he adorns the tresses of Summer.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Summer, Kings, Winter

  Henry David Thoreau (2008). “Walden, Civil Disobedience, and Other Writings: Authoritative Texts, Journal, Reviews and Posthumous Assessments, Criticism”, W W Norton & Company Incorporated

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• The jamaat was an almost silly mish-mash of people: Rude Dawud’s pork-pie hat poking up here, a jalab-and-turban there, Jehangir’s big Mohawk rising from a sea of kufis, Amazing Ayyub still with no shirt, girls scattered throughout – some in hejab, some not and Rabeya in punk-patched burqa doing her thing. But in its randomness it was gorgeous, reflecting an Islam I felt could not happen anywhere else ... If Islam was to be saved, it would be saved by the crazy ones: Jehangir and Rabeya and Fasiq and Dawud and Ayyub and even Umar.

  Michael Muhammad Knight

  Girl, Crazy, Silly

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• I read with keen interest the words of a bumper sticker readily visible on the highly polished chrome bumper of a car which was weaving in and out of the traffic stream. The words were these: "Honk if you love Jesus." No one honked. Perhaps each was disturbed by the thoughtless and rude actions of the offending driver. Then, again, would honking be an appropriate manner in which to show one's love for the Son of God, the Savior of the world, the Redeemer of all mankind? Such was not the pattern provided by Jesus of Nazareth.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Jesus, Son, Offending

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• Because of their cuisine, Germans don't consider farting rude. They'd certainly be out of luck if they did.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Inspirational, Luck, Cuisine

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Modern Manners: An Etiquette Book for Rude People”, p.279, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• It is a rude feeling, because it is natural only to people standing on the lowest level of morality, and expecting from other nations such outrages as they themselves are ready to inflict.

  Leo Tolstoy

  People, Feelings, Levels

  graf Leo Tolstoy (1989). “I Cannot be Silent: Writings on Politics, Art and Religion by Leo Tolstoy”

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• The greatest dread of ordinary man is death, with its rude imposition interrupting fortuitous plans and fondest attachments with an unknown and unwelcome change. The yogi is a conqueror of the grief associated with death. By control of mind and life force and the development of wisdom, he makes friends with the change of consciousness called death-he becomes familiar with the state of inner calmness and aloofness from identification with the mortal body.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Death, Grief, Men

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