Badass People Quotes

#1. Rick Grimes: [Jimmy reaches for a rifle; Rick takes it from him] You ever fire one before?
Jimmy: Well, if I'm going out I want one.
Daryl Dixon: Yeah, and people in hell want Slurpees.

The Walking Dead

#2. His grief at your leaving is also his fear of losing the power he has had for lifetimes. Those days are over for him, and he is in turmoil. But if you are to help him on his soul's quest, you will leave him. It is your job
your sacred contract
to free him, and to free yourself.

Elizabeth Lesser

#3. When I see people stand fully in their truth, or when I see someone fall down, get back up, and say, "Damn. That really hurt, but this is important to me and I'm going in again" - my gut reaction is, "What a badass.

Brene Brown

#4. I've been telling myself this was being alive. This here. This ... hiding. Wishing. Dreaming. Wanting. And all the while, what does anyone else see when they look at me?

Steven Erikson

#5. Experimental evidence is the final arbiter of right and wrong.

Brian Greene

#6. People were like, 'Oh, there are going to be people running up to you taking pictures' and I thought it was going to be a bunch of little kids. But it's grown-ups! And that's, like, creepy.

Mo'ne Davis

#7. The poets and artists and philosophers, resistance activists, secret scouts and troublemakers, had become, as they must, soldiers. Now,

China Mieville

#8. It was my experience the only people who didn't tread cautiously with badasses were kids. They adored badasses and had no qualms approaching or engaging them in conversation. Badasses were kid magnets, and if the badass was a true badass, he had no qualms about this either.

Kristen Ashley

#9. Than thirty years that I haven't thought of Jones. More specifically, I don't believe a

Andy Andrews

#10. The people who are going into music who hunger, they're going into pop music. There are some badass women who are ambitious and hungry and brave, and they're in pop.

Jeanine Tesori

#11. I was playing pretty boys and these angelic roles like Nicholas Nickleby and all that stuff. And I was like, 'What am I doing? This isn't who I am, as a man or an artist.' I had to overcome people's belief that I was too pretty to be a badass.

Charlie Hunnam

#12. Don't you think I would be a worthy replacement for you, Madam Prime Minister? You have a long nose. So have I. But I don't poke my nose into other people's affairs.

Sam Manekshaw

#13. If this keeps up, we're going to own Melengar," Hadrian mentioned.
"What's this we stuff?" Royce asked. "You're retired, remember?"
"Oh? So you'll be leading the Nationalist advance, will you?"
"Sixty-forty?" Royce proposed.

Michael J. Sullivan

#14. The "trickle-down" theory: the principle that the poor, who must subsist on table scraps dropped by the rich, can best be served by giving the rich bigger meals.

William Blum

#15. Because I have to admit: there's something really badass about truly, honestly not caring what people think about you.

Becky Albertalli

#16. Coming back to Karachi is like stepping into the sea again after months on land. How easily you float, how peaceful is the sense of being borne along, and how familiar the sound of the water lapping against your limbs.

Kamila Shamsie

#17. I'm Charlotte Davidson: private investigator, police consultant, all -around badass. Or I could've been a badass, had I stuck with those lessons in mixed martial arts. I was only in that class to learn how to kill people with paper.

Darynda Jones

#18. I don't like to start anything, ever, but if they're going to try to intimidate me, I like to just stand there and say, 'Sorry, it ain't gonna happen.' I'm shy but I'm badass. I'm not shy in a timid way, just shy in a way that I'm not comfortable with people.

Rosie Napravnik

#19. I'm a person who likes to develop. I like for people to see me grow.

Joey Badass

#20. Too touristy a move for such a sophisticate as moi? Of course. But there is a reason certain activities become touristy, no? My

Harlan Coben

#21. I am really inspired by strong, badass, female characters. I would start with a revenge film, then ease into stories of badass everyday woman who make a difference in their own life for the better of people and environment around them. Stories of self realization.

Alicia Sixtos

#22. Apparently Lo- badass lady boss of fucking Hailstorm who had just negotiated a deal that saved two people I cared about after neutralizing an entire gang and watching a man be murdered, without even a blink- was a fucking romantic.
Go fucking figure.

Jessica Gadziala

#23. When I try to achieve greatness, it spits on me the night before.

Monroe Ariel

#24. Most filmmakers' entire body of knowledge is of other movies. When they describe things, they describe them in relation to other movies. That's why we have so many cyclical movies that look like other movies. But I'm not cynical. I even go to some of those movies.

John Malkovich

#25. Simon-"From now on I will only adress people by nodding at them." Clary-"That's stupid why would you do that?" Simon-"Because it says that 'I am a badass, and I recognive that you too, are a badass

Cassandra Clare

#26. People should either be caressed or crushed. If you do them minor damage they will get their revenge; but if you cripple them there is nothing they can do. If you need to injure someone, do it in such a way that you do not have to fear their vengeance.

Niccolo Machiavelli

#27. I love writing. I'm not particularly comfortable in the actual world - I'm much more comfortable on the page. So if I could have a life where I could just slip the pages under the door and somebody would slip me a meal back, then that would be perfect for me.

Aaron Sorkin

#28. They focused a large amount of their wrath on people trying to add dialogue about feminism and diversity in gaming, condemning them as "Social Justice Warriors." (That label was always so weird to me, because how is that an insult? "Social Justice Warrior" actually sounds pretty badass.)

Felicia Day

#29. Over my career I played some badass characters. So, people sometimes think I should have a .44 magnum. But that's not true, I don't have that. But I do fire them and I do enjoy target shooting and all that sort of thing. I'm not much of a hunter. I don't like killing animals, but I love to shoot.

Clint Eastwood

#30. I'm glad people think I'm a badass. I'm a rock and roller, and I'm an R&B and a blueswoman. I don't do fairy music, although I love Celtic music and sensitive music. There's a balance between ballads and kick-ass songs.

Bonnie Raitt

#31. People always ask me if I wish I were bigger. I tell them no. I always wanted to be a miniature badass.

Dustin Pedroia

#32. We need to be willing to be uncomfortable, to be flawed, to be imperfect, to own our voice, to step into our light, so that we can continue to inspire other people and employ other people, and make room for more and more voices and presence.

Kerry Washington

#33. The only use she has for the word fun is to make the word funeral.

Rachel Cohn

#34. Maybe I was a pirate in my past life. I didn't kill people, though. I was just a badass

Dianna Agron

#35. 5Then God will establish a royal throne, in loyal love - the One who rules there will be utterly reliable, With absolute integrity under the auspices of David. With a passion for justice, He will be quick to decide and do what is right.

Anonymous

#36. If you take the approach of "earning" your customers' business every day and treating them well, they're less likely to try someone else.

Marilyn Suttle

#37. She refused to let him bury his guilt in her. She would not be a burying place for any man again.

Brit Bennett

#38. I want people to know that there is nothing more badass than being yourself.

Darren Criss