Swagger Quotes - Page 4

• Damn it's a shame you're the mighty queen of vials, With a wide-eyed look and a rotten-toothed smile. Used to walk with a swagger, now you simply stagger From one spot on, to the next spot on, to the next spot on, to the next.

  Sadat X

  Queens, Rap, Hip Hop

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• George Orwell's contention was that it is a sure sign of trouble when things can no longer be called by their right names and described in plain, forthright speech.

  Christopher Lasch

  Swag, Names, Speech

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• You gotta love Rick Perry's swagger. The Texas Governor is out there in the Iowa cornfields, unabashedly going to toe-to-toe with President Obama, doing his best to instantly cast himself as the big dog in the Republican pack.

  Jeff Goodell

  Dog, Iowa, Texas

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• If only media people would stop reaching for the low-hanging fruit, which is cynicism and pessimism, and stopped trying so hard to be hip and cool and have a swagger.

  Emilio Estevez

  Media, People, Trying

  "Emilio Estevez On ‘The Way’: Actor Discusses New Movie, Life, Love, Faith And Micro-Farms" by Lauren Rosenblum, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 14, 2011.

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• A man that loves to be peevish and paramount, and to play the sovereign at every turn, does but blast the blessings of life, and swagger away his own enjoyments; and not to enlarge upon not folly, not to mention the injustice of such a behavior, it is always the sign of a little, unbenevolent temper. It is disease and discredit all over, and there is no more greatness in it, than in the swelling of a dropsy.

  Jeremy Collier

  Blessing, Greatness, Men

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• When I was 15, what I wanted in a boyfriend was just that confidence and swagger. I wanted someone who knew what he was doing, because I was just faking it. What I want for my daughter is the exact opposite.

  Ayelet Waldman

  Daughter, Opposites, Want

  "Raped by Statute". www.salon.com. April 25, 2005.

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• Success Recipe: 2 cups faith, 2 cups love, 1 cup hard work, 1 cup persistence, 1 tbsp vision and a dash of swagger.

  Jim Rohn

  Hard Work, Persistence, Vision

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• Rocker dudes dont have swagger

  Demi Lovato

  Rockers

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• The only way to ever truly get your confidence and swagger back, I've learned, is to fight for them.

  Georges St-Pierre

  Fighting, Mma, Way

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• First, then, State Socialism, which may be described as the doctrine that all the affairs of men should be managed by the government, regardless of individual choice.

  Benjamin Tucker

  Men, Swag, Individual Choice

  Benjamin Ricketson Tucker (1972). “State Socialism and Anarchism and Other Essays”, Ralph Myles Pub

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• The landlady of a boarding-house is a parallelogram - that is, an oblong angular figure, which cannot be described, but which is equal to anything

  Stephen Leacock

  Science, Swag, House

  'Literary Lapses' (1910) 'Boarding-House Geometry'

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• I don't like people to feel completely described by the clothes they wear of mine. I want them to feel that they're describing themselves.

  Isaac Mizrahi

  Artist, Swag, Clothes

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• Most Kikuyu marriages were arranged on the basis of what is described by anthropologists as the bride price.

  Louis Leakey

  Swag, Brides, Bases

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• John Jones may be described as 'one of the has beens'.

  William Hone

  Swag, May, Has Beens

  'The Every-Day Book' (1826-27) vol. 2, pt. 1, col. 820

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• He described how, as a boy of 14, his dad had been down the mining pit, his uncle had been down the pit, his brother had been down the pit, and of course he would go down the pit.

  Barbara Castle, Baroness Castle of Blackburn

  Brother, Uncles, Dad

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• I do not wear my emotions on my sleeve. I was once described by my own son Stephen as an emotional ostrich.

  Pierre Salinger

  Son, Emotional, Ostriches

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• Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact. Every appearance in nature corresponds to some state of the mind, and that state of the mind can only be described by presenting that natural appearance as its picture.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Spiritual, Nature, Swag

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2001). “Nature, Addresses and Lectures”, p.32, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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• People have described me as a management bishop but I say to my critics, Jesus was a management expert too.

  George Carey

  Jesus, Swag, People

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• The provocation with Holmes is the fact that he's described by Doyle as a man without a heart - all brain... and that's very difficult to play, or even indicate.

  Jeremy Brett

  Heart, Men, Swag

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• From the described experiment it is clear that the mere act of eating, the food even not reaching the stomach, determines the stimulation of the gastric glands.

  Ivan Pavlov

  Ice Cream, Swag, Eating

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• I frequently hear our present period described as uncertain, confused, chaotic.

  George Crumb

  Confused, Swag, Periods

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• On one level, I am a total softie, sort of depressed and afraid of losing the people I love or failing them. To disguise that, there's all this harsh, poop-centric, external swagger, full of nastiness. I'm a cloaking device.

  George Saunders

  People, Levels, Poop

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• There is a certain swagger with vampires.

  Charles Michael Davis

  Vampire, Certain

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• But the thing about proving things? Your jaggedness just goads you on – it makes you sharper and harder. It gives you swagger.

  Molly Crabapple

  Giving, Harder, Prove

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• Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.

  Matthew Arnold

  Swag, Perfection, Culture

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