Swear Quotes - Page 14

• I don't think people should be able to swear whenever they want. I just don't want the federal government making laws about swearing. We should trust people's own instincts about what is appropriate in any given situation.

  Richard Dooling

  Thinking, Government, Law

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• I made a terrible mistake last Christmas. My wife made me swear that I wouldn't give her a fancy gift. And I didn't.

  Milton Berle

  Christmas, Mistake, Giving

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• There ought to be a room in every house to swear in. It's dangerous to have to repress an emotion like that.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Humorous, House

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.380, Courier Corporation

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• We praise like frogs, Swear like frogs, Turn midgets into heroes, and heroes into scum: We never stop and think.

  Nizar Qabbani

  Hero, Thinking, Society

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• Every single night, I swear, EVERY NIGHT!! EVERY NIGHT!! I DELIVER! I deliver.

  Dolph Ziggler

  Night, Wwe, Every Night

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• When your laboratory explodes, lacing your body with a supercharged elixir, what do you do? You don't just lie there. You crawl out of the rubble, hideously scarred, and swear vengeance on the world. You keep going. You keep trying to take over the world.

  Austin Grossman

  Lying, Trying, World

  Austin Grossman (2007). “Soon I Will Be Invincible: A Novel”, p.261, Vintage

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• Better to bear than to swear, and to die than to lie.

  Thomas Brooks

  Lying, Bears, Dies

  Thomas Brooks (1866). “The Complete Works of Thomas Brooks. Ed”, p.58

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• When I came here, I put my hand on the Bible and swore to uphold the Constitution. I didn't put my hand on the Constitution and swear to uphold the Bible.

  Jesse Jackson

  Hands, Constitution

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• Gregariousness is always the refuge of mediocrities, whether they swear by Soloviev or Kant or Marx. Only individuals seek the truth, and they shun those whose sole concern is not the truth.

  Boris Pasternak

  Mediocrity, Individual, Sole

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• I swear the sparrows called us ten kinds of idiot when we did it.

  Tamora Pierce

  Sparrows, Idiot, Kind

  Tamora Pierce (2014). “Protector of the Small Quartet”, p.736, Random House Books for Young Readers

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• Nothing is worse and more hurtful than a happiness that comes too late. It can give no pleasure, yet it deprives you of that most precious of rights - the right to swear and curse at your fate!

  Ivan Turgenev

  Fate, Rights, Giving

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• My family suffered. My hair turned up in every corner, every drawer, every meal. Even in the rice puddings Tessie made, covering each little bowl with wax paper before putting it away in the fridge--even into these prophylactically secure desserts my hair found its way! Jet black hairs wound themselves around bars of soap. They lay pressed like flower stems between the pages of books. They turned up in eyeglass cases, birthday cards, once--I swear--inside an egg Tessie had just cracked. The next-door neighbor's cat coughed up a hairball one day and the hair was not the cat's.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Flower, Book, Cat

  Jeffrey Eugenides (2003). “Middlesex”, p.306, A&C Black

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• If you sat around there long enough and heard all the phonies applauding and all, you got to hate everybody in the world, I swear you did.

  J. D. Salinger

  Hate, Long, World

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• You never really learn to swear until you learn to drive.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Humor

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• If someone has a Muslim background and they're willing to reject those tenets and to accept the way of life that we have and clearly will swear to place our [American] Constitution above their religion, then, of course, they will be considered infidels and heretics, but at least I would then be quite willing to support them.

  Benjamin Carson

  Support, Way, Constitution

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• When I'm standing in the middle of the salt flats, where you swear that the pupils of your eyes have turned white because of the searing heat that is rising from the desert, I think of my childhood, I think of my mother, my father, my grandparents; I think of the history that we hold there and it is beautiful to me. But it is both a blessing and a burden to be rooted in place. It's recognizing the pattern of things, almost feeling a place before you even see it. In Southern Utah, on the Colorado plateau where canyon walls rise upward like praying hands, that is a holy place to me.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Beautiful, Mother, Wall

  Source: www.scottlondon.com

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• Men tend to lie when it comes to sexual conquests. You should hear some of the ego-driven lies my friends have told me: 'Swear to God, man - the hooker gave the money back.'

  Adam Ferrara

  Funny, Lying, Humor

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• The idea that no gentleman ever swears is all wrong. He can swear and still be a gentleman if he does it in a nice and benevolent and affectionate way.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Nice, Ideas

  Taxes and Morals, delivered 22 January 1906, New York

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• I believe with all my heart in delivering on my contract with my readers. They've got plenty of other things to do, so I had better give them a reason to turn every one of these 550 pages. This is my promise: I solemnly swear I'll make you laugh out loud at least once, cry a little in private, and burn whatever you left on the stove.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Believe, Heart, Giving

  "Author interview: Barbara Kingsolver". www.librarything.com. October 1, 2008.

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• ...to swear with a ferocity that can only be described as a talent.

  Markus Zusak

  Talent, Ferocity

  Markus Zusak (2014). “Markus Zusak: The Book Thief & I Am the Messenger”, p.59, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• I swear. Everyone here gets so worked up over the most minute details. ~Mayuri Kurotsuchi

  Tite Kubo

  Details, Minutes

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• There's a kind of love that has the power to save you, to get you through life. It's like breathing. You have to do it or you'll die. And when it's over, your soul starts to bleed. There's no pain in the world like it, I swear.

  Susan Wiggs

  Pain, Breathing, Over You

  Susan Wiggs (2016). “Summer at Willow Lake”, p.42, MIRA

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• A lot of people up North, they think everybody from the South is married to their sister and has seen a UFO. I told them, 'I'm just dating my sister and couldn't swear that it wasn't a weather balloon.'

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Thinking, Up North, Weather

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• I swear again, I would not be a queen
  For all the world.

  William Shakespeare

  Queens, World, Royalty

  'Henry VIII' (1613) act 2, sc. 2, l. 45

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• Downtown. Lights on buildings and everything that makes you wonder. And in that moment, I swear we were infinite.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Light, Downtown, Wonder

  Stephen Chbosky (2013). “The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition”, p.44, Simon and Schuster

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