Swear Quotes - Page 17

• My problem is with the warped value system our culture has. Why is it that if you knife a woman in a movie it's PG, but if you swear at her it's rated R and if you make love to her it's rated X?

  Tim Dorsey

  Knives, Making Love, Culture

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• Do solemnly swear to love, honor and obey my soul, my path to realization and relationship with a higher, deeper creative power, for better or worse, for richer or poorer, in sickness and in health, from now and forever more.

  Alex Grey

  Forever, Creative, Soul

  Alex Grey (2008). “Art Psalms”, p.23, North Atlantic Books

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• To anyone who has followed the practice of using profanity or vulgarity and would like to correct the habit, could I offer this suggestion? First, make the commitment to erase such words from your vocabulary. Next, if you slip and say a swear word or a substitute word, mentally reconstruct the sentence without the vulgarity or substitute word and repeat the new sentence aloud. Eventually you will develop a non-vulgar speech habit.

  L. Tom Perry

  Commitment, Vocabulary, Practice

  "Thy Speech Reveals Thee". L. Tom Perry's speech at the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Salt Lake City, Utah, www.lds.org. August 1986.

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• Some women blush when they are kissed, some call for the police, some swear, some bite. But the worst are those who laugh.

  Helen Rowland

  Laughter, Kissing, Laughing

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• When we affect to condemn savages, we should remember that by doing so we asperse our own progenitors; for they were savages also.Who can swear that among the naked British barbarians sent to Rome to be stared at more than 1500 years ago, the ancestor of Bacon might not have been found?--Why, among the very Thugs of India, or the bloody Dyaks of Borneo, exists the germ of all that is intellectually elevated and grand. We are all of us--Anglo-Saxons, Dyaks and Indians--sprung from one head and made in one image.

  Herman Melville

  Thug, Rome, Years

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• Protecting the human race should really come with a per diem, I swear.

  Mira Grant

  Race, Should, Humans

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• One day when a linesman starts to laugh I swear I will hit the guy over the head with my racket. I think it will be the end of my career, but I will be happy.

  Ilie Nastase

  Thinking, Careers, Laughing

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• I swear fearfully at the conventions of the stage.

  Anton Chekhov

  Theatre, Conventions, Stage

  Anton Chekhov (2015). “The Life and Genius of Anton Chekhov: Letters, Diary, Reminiscences and Biography: Assorted Collection of Autobiographical Writings of the Renowned Russian Author and Playwright of Uncle Vanya, The Cherry Orchard, The Three Sisters and The Seagull”, p.250, e-artnow

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• There are three things that are not to be credited: a woman when she weeps, a merchant when he swears, nor a drunkard when he prays.

  Barnabe Rich

  Alcohol, Three, Praying

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• I went walking around the city some more, people watching with a cold, blank stare. And I saw your face in everyone, I swear.

  Elliott Smith

  Cities, People, Faces

  Song: High Times, Album: New Moon, 2007

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• Had my first son this morning... well, actually, my wife had him. I just caught him. Wo. Heart expanding way faster than my brain...

  James Van Der Beek

  Morning, Dad, War

  James Van Der Beek @vanderjames, twitter.com. March 14, 2012.

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• Girls can be so petty and jealous. I swear they're worse than guys sometimes. Except they're all quiet about it. They sugarcoat it or else they talk behind each other's backs. It's seriously twisted.

  Melody Carlson

  Girl, Jealous, Guy

  Melody Carlson (2012). “The Jerk Magnet”, p.134, Revell

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• I will say yes to every favor, request, suggestion and invitation. I will swear to say yes where once I would say no.

  Danny Wallace

  Suggestions, Favors, Request

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• We all in real life put on these masks - we don't swear when we're around certain people When we come home, when you're on your own I'm sure you're really different than when you're with your boss.

  Malin Akerman

  Real, Home, People

  "Malin Akerman, The Awkward Girl Next Door". Interview with Gillian Monhey, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 15, 2011.

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• The first time I ate organic whole-grain bread I swear it tasted like roofing material.

  Robin Williams

  Food, Cooking, Bread

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• You thought I was that type: that you could forget me, and that I'd plead and weep and throw myself under the hooves of a bay mare, or that I'd ask the sorcerers for some magic potion made from roots and send you a terrible gift: my precious perfumed handkerchief. Damn you! I will not grant your cursed soul vicarious tears or a single glance. And I swear to you by the garden of the angels, I swear by the miracle-working ikon, and by the fire and smoke of our nights: I will never come back to you.

  Anna Akhmatova

  Broken Heart, Angel, Night

  Anna Akhmatova, “You Thought I Was That Type”

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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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• But when everyone tells you you're crazy and no one believes you when you swear you aren't, a small part of you will always wonder if they're right.

  Michelle Hodkin

  Crazy, Believe, Wonder

  Michelle Hodkin (2013). “The Evolution of Mara Dyer”, p.429, Simon and Schuster

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• I never got into Linux. I swear to God, it's only lack of time. I'm past the years of my life where I can really dig into something like running a Linux system. I'm very sympathetic to the whole idea; Linux people always think the way I want to think.

  Steve Wozniak

  Running, Past, Thinking

  "How Apple Co-Founder Steve Wozniak Gets Things Done". Interview with Kevin Purdy, lifehacker.com. April 22, 2009.

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• I love being in an arena that has like 10,000 people and huge crowds. I want to do a show at like the Viper room so badly. Like go up on stage and thrash myself around, go jump into the crowd. You can effing swear, get drunk on stage and do whatever you want basically.

  Avril Lavigne

  Love Is, People, Drunk

  Source: www.justjared.com

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• Real destiny takes everything-the last drop of blood, and strip out your veins to be sure-and gives it back doubled. Quadrupled. A thousand-fold! But you can't give halves. You have to give it all. I know. I swear. I've come back from the dead to speak the truth to you. Real destiny gives you a mountain of life, and puts you on top of it.

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Real, Destiny, Blood

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• I had a love affair with books, with characters and their words. Books kept me company. When the voices of the book faded, as with the last long chord of a record, the back cover crinkling closed, I could swear I heard a door click shut.

  Marya Hornbacher

  Book, Character, Voice

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• As you sometimes swear by him that made you, I conclude your sentiments do not correspond with his, in that which is the basis of the doctrine you both agree in: and this makes it impossible to imagine whence this congruity between you arises. "To grant that there is a supreme intelligence who rules the world and has established laws to regulate the actions of his creatures; and still to assert that man, in a state of nature, may be considered as perfectly free from all restraints of law and government, appears to a common understanding altogether irreconcilable.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Men, Law, Voting

  Alexander Hamilton, John Church Hamilton (1850). “The Works of Alexander Hamilton: Miscellanies, 1774-1789: A full vindication; The farmer refuted; Quebec bill; Resolutions in Congress; Letters from Phocion; New-York Legislature, etc”, p.43

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• I swear to much for this to be a television special. Did you guys ever have your mouth washed out with soap? My mom did that to me a lot. I think I swear more because of it. I started liking the taste of soap, I would eat it just to spite her. (pause) I'd bite off bars of soap.

  Andrew McMahon

  Mom, Thinking, Guy

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• I think happiness is a choice. If you feel yourself being happy and can settle in to the life choices you make, then it's great. It's really, really great. I swear to God, happiness is the best makeup.

  Drew Barrymore

  Makeup, Thinking, Swear To God

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