Desecration Quotes

#1. Actually 'bad' doesn't do justice to my handwriting. Neither does 'handwriting.' 'Desecration of paper' about covers it.

Mark Barrowcliffe

#2. The bourgeoisie of the whole world, which looks complacently upon the wholesale massacre after the battle, is convulsed by horror at the desecration of brick and mortar.

Chris Hedges

#3. My parents taught me to believe that through the creative act, we're able to transcend and give a response to desecration.

Atom Egoyan

#4. Is desecration teaching?
Is violence knowledge? Is haunting
a kind of life? I had no model
for rebirth. No second coming blueprint.

Amber Dawn

#5. I shall create! If not a note, a hole./If not an overture, a desecration.

Gwendolyn Brooks

#6. I have the idea that we grandmothers are meant to play the part of protective witches; we must watch over younger women, children, community and also, why not? this mistreated planet, the victim of such unrelenting desecration.

Isabel Allende

#7. In your present state, Chosen, Desecration lies ahead of you. It does not crowd at your back.

Stephen R. Donaldson

#8. Worrying that banning flag desecration would inhibit free speech reveals a misunderstanding of the flag's fundamental nature.

Adrian Cronauer

#9. How in any way does EQUALITY with other people equate to 'religious persecution'? Does the survival of a religion depend on the vilification and desecration of the humanity of others?

Christina Engela

#10. The Sphinx is missing a nose. Someone shot it off in a moment of idle desecration - some say it was Mameluke Turks, others, Napoleonic soldiers.

Carl Sagan

#11. Punishing desecration of the flag dilutes the very freedom that makes this emblem so revered.

William J. Brennan

#12. We know there are poets who are chosen: by what or whom, we no more know than what lies beyond our final breath, or what caused a certain action which resulted in the fulfillment or the desecration and collapse of what we most cared for in life.

Franz Wright

#13. What is desecration?" He spit again, eying him and Solomon realized he had tobacco in his lower lip. "You like playin with the dead, son?" "No sir," Solomon said. "Not at all." "Well you is.

Lucian Bane

#14. The desecration of women indicated the failure of human beings to honor and protect life and that this failing would, if we did not correct it, be the end of us all. p. xxxii

Eve Ensler

#15. Desecration is the smile on my face.

Anthony Kiedis

#16. We do not consecrate the flag by punishing its desecration, for in doing so, we dilute the freedom this cherished emblem represents.

William J. Brennan Jr.

#17. Blood sin and desecration of the race are the original sin in this world and the end of a humanity which surrenders to it.

Adolf Hitler

#18. There is no sense and no sanity in objecting to the desecration of the flag while tolerating and justifying and encouraging as a daily business the desecration of the country for which it stands.

Wendell Berry

#19. For me to make lasagna would be a desecration of a great Italian dish ... I don't mess with sacred things.

Mario Cuomo

#20. Flag desecration is not a constitutional issue for the courts. It is a political one that belongs to the people.

Larry Craig

#21. We are far more concerned about the desecration of the flag than we are about the desecration of our land.

Wendell Berry

#22. I always felt mean, jogging back over the logging road,As if I had broken the natural order of things in that swampland;Disturbed some rhythm, old and of vast importance,By pulling off flesh from the living planet;As if I had committed, against the whole scheme of life, a desecration.

Theodore Roethke

#23. Laws protecting the United States flag do not cut away at the freedom of speech guaranteed in the First Amendment ... Congress made this position clear upon passage of the Flag Protection Act of 1989, which prohibited desecration of the flag.

Larry Craig

#24. Unfortunately a Constitutional amendment that would have empowered Congress to make desecration of the United States flag illegal failed to pass by one vote.

Kenny Marchant

#25. What could he say? After the phone calls and the beating. After the desecration of his locker. The silent treatment. Pushed downstairs. What they did to Goober, to Brother Eugene. What guys like Archie and Janza did to the school. What they would do to the world when they left Trinity.

Robert Cormier

#26. An argument could be made that the ultimate desecration of the human body is to end its earthly usefulness, which would imply that all murderers share equally that specific charge.

Lyndsay Faye

#27. Slowly, it dawned on me that nothing was more important than stopping violence toward women - that the desecration of women indicated the failure of human beings to honor and protect life

Eve Ensler

#28. It was almost a desecration to put a building on the Boulder Turnpike, which is now U.S.-36 and is almost backyards and even junkyards all the way up. We didn't have to put development just cheek to jowl all the way up to Boulder. There's enough room in Colorado! But we did.

Richard Lamm

#29. There is a way of meeting error while on the road of truth.

Victor Hugo

#30. She was thirteen, the daughter of a bicycle mechanic, and she couldn't ride this bicycle. It fought her; it threw her; it hated her.

Kate Milford

#31. You can delegate authority, but you cannot delegate responsibility.

Byron Dorgan

#32. Happiness is free and available for anyone who wants it. You just have to decide that you deserve it and that you want to achieve it.

Bruce Poon Tip

#33. You really don't play nice when it comes to something you want, do you?" I breathed.
His eyes gleamed. "You have no idea.

Jeaniene Frost

#34. I don't think of Superman as being angsty, though."
"That's the problem. Most people don't. But really he's pure angst. He has a Fortress of Solitude, you know? What do you think he does there, throw parties? No. He broods.

Ben Monopoli

#35. A lot of rappers been putting out a lot of sub-par visuals. I feel like the visuals could be better.

ASAP Ferg

#36. I didn't realize we were playing a game, he says. I smile. That was the same line he had used during our second meeting.

Kasie West

#37. I'm not a hoarder, I'm a collector: if you have something you like, every time you see it, you have a little happy hit.

Douglas Coupland

#38. The mentality we have in India is not very sporting.

Mahesh Bhupathi

#39. I don't believe Rush Limbaugh has a racist bone in his body.

Mike Pence

#40. Every good thing that has happened in your life happened because something changed.

Andy Andrews

#41. Sometimes, I feel I am really blessed to be blind because I probably would not last a minute if I were able to see things.

Stevie Wonder

#42. People are screwed up in this world. I'd rather be with someone screwed up and open about it than somebody perfect and ready to explode.

Ned Vizzini

#43. Maybe that's some of the reason I feel so good today. Maybe I finally realised that it's just a game.

David Duval