Top 33 Dammed Up Quotes
#1. And finally - he was neither able nor willing to prevent it - the self-loathing dammed up inside him spilled over and gushed out, gushed out of glaring eyes that grew ever grimmer, angrier, beneath the rim of his cap, flooding the outside world as perfect, vulgar hate.
Patrick Suskind
#2. O serpent heart hid with a flowering face!
Did ever a dragon keep so fair a cave?
Beautiful tyrant, feind angelical, dove feather raven, wolvish-ravening lamb! Despised substance of devinest show, just opposite to what thou justly seemest - A dammed saint, an honourable villain!
William Shakespeare
#3. If I were dammed of body and soul, I know whose prayers would make me whole, mother o' mine o mother o' mine.
Rudyard Kipling
#5. I might be a great liar, but I am not sure I can lie to those striking eyes.
M.F. Moonzajer
#6. What the artist attempts to do is to try and tell a story. Attempting to give physical expression to a story that's internal.
Gregory Crewdson
#7. But this, too, wasn't true. Leaving was easy. It was everything else that was so dammed hard.
Sarah Dessen
#8. It started with feelings of jealousy and like a mental virus it spread.
Dermot Davis
#9. To be elected president, you have to do more than tear down your opponents. You have to give the American people a reason to vote for you - a reason to hope - a reason to believe that under your leadership, America will be better.
Mike DeWine
#10. She didn't understand, I hope to God she never understands what I do, what I am. To be dammed by the darkness that lives inside me.
To be saved by her love.
No more half-truths. No more omissions.
Linnea Sinclair
#11. The excuses we make to ourselves when we want to do something are excellent material for soliloquies, for they are rarely made except when we are alone, and are very often made aloud.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
#12. A house divided cannot stand for long. That goes for politicians and the rest of us.
Willie D
#13. Unfortunately ... I missed out on the California Gold Rush a century before ... I'll be dammed if I miss out on this one.
Timothy Pina
#14. Give him the ones in which the floods of venom and vindictiveness were dammed up behind thin walls of ineptitude and low-grade paranoia.
Terry Pratchett
#15. When the forest is destroyed, when the river is dammed, when the biodiversity is stolen, when fields are waterlogged or turned saline because of economic activities, it is a question of survival for these people. So our environmental movements have been justice movements.
Vandana Shiva
#16. I CAN SPEAK. I JUST LIKE TO SHOW OFF MY NICE PENMANSHIP.
Mia Sheridan
#17. telling the jokes - was the setups. Why were that priest, that rabbi, and that minister walking down that street? Where were they headed? How had they happened to come together? What odd chance had put ex-presidents Bush, Clinton, and Carter on that same plane?
Donald E. Westlake
#18. Winning isn't getting ahead of others. It's getting ahead of yourself.
Roger Staubach
#19. I'll be dammed if I sit around another year, Dreamin' dreams hopin' somehow that they just appear.
J. Cole
#20. What we call happiness in the strictest sense comes from the (preferably sudden) satisfaction of needs which have been dammed up to a high degree.
Sigmund Freud
#21. You're very passionate about your unhappiness aren't you, Chris?' I responded with, If it's worth doing, it's worth doing well.
Laura Buzo
#22. If I were investing in oil and gas stocks, there is one question I would ask CEO's: What portion of your capital is going to have to go in to stay even
Gwyn Morgan
#23. Bedevil the devil and devil be dammed. I fear no devil and bow to no man.
- Adam Black
Karen Marie Moning
#24. Most of the world's major waterways have been diverted or dammed or otherwise manipulated - in the United States, only two per cent of rivers run unimpeded - and people now use half the world's readily accessible freshwater runoff.
Elizabeth Kolbert
#25. Perhaps it is worse when love has flowed freely to find it one day dammed.
Jeanette Winterson
#26. But I am not tragically colored. There is no great sorrow dammed up in my soul, nor lurking behind my eyes. I do not mind at all.
Zora Neale Hurston
#28. He was in fact a poet without words, the more absorbed and endangered, that the springing waters were dammed back in his soul, where, finding no utterance, they grew, and swelled, and undermined.
George MacDonald
#30. Too often, governments are quick to use excessive force and even pervert the course of justice to keep oil and gas flowing, forests logged, wild rivers dammed and minerals extracted. As the Global Witness study reveals, citizens are often killed, too - especially if they're poor and indigenous.
David Suzuki
#31. Make your meditation a continuous state of mind. A great worship is going on all the time, so nothing should be neglected or excluded from your constant meditative awareness.
Ramakrishna
#32. Religion is either something we scorn because we are too rational or it's the realm of the fanatic who insists that their God and their religion is the only way and everyone else is dammed.
Frederick Lenz
#33. There is no question that chemical weapons attacks are a heinous abuse of humanity and power. But to assume that military strikes are an effective retribution for the crime committed is wrong.
Basmah Bint Saud
