Top 100 Lawless Quotes
#1. I have empathy towards bullying. Not about punishing the bully but empowering the victim. We have a tendency to use the word "bully" and other words in the wrong situations, thus desensitizing and lessening the impact of the true situation.
Renee Lawless
#2. We live at the edge of the world, so we live on the edge. Kiwis will always sacrifice money and security for adventure and challenge.
Lucy Lawless
#3. At first, being a female role model really terrified me. But it hasn't turned out to be an awful burden. I get a lot of letters from women who tell me that, after watching Xena, they have bought the Harley-Davidson they always wanted or left an abusive relationship.
Lucy Lawless
#4. No one ever tells you that: that there's no method. Writing's a lawless place.
Naomi Wood
#6. Good horror offers a sense of an upended, lawless world and that's appealing to anyone who grew up feeling like an outsider.
Christopher Rice
#7. The necessity of war, which among human actions is the most lawless, hath some kind of affinity with the necessity of law.
Walter Raleigh
#8. I am of this mind, that might and malice, deceit and treachery perjury and impiety may lawfully be committed in love; which is lawless.
John Lyly
#9. War is honorable
In those who do their native rights maintain;
In those whose swords an iron barrier are
Between the lawless spoiler and the weak;
But is, in those who draw th' offensive blade
For added power or gain, sordid and despicable
As meanest office of the worldly churl.
Joanna Baillie
#10. Marriages performed within,' read the sign next to the coffeehouse door, underneath in small letters a verse that combined warning with a sales pitch: 'When lawless lust hath conceived it bringeth forth sin.
Toni Morrison
#11. Do you always curse in Danish?" he asked.
She shook her head and flashed him a smile. "No," she replied. "I can curse in seventeen languages - and I can tell you to fuck me in twenty-four.
M.J. Lawless
#12. He looked like a walking, talking billboard for deliciously irresponsible behavior and a treasure trove of regrettable decisions.
Alexi Lawless
#13. I am going to die someday and I know where I am going.
Renee Lawless
#14. Beware of license to the flesh, under the coat of liberty of the Spirit; and let none thinke that law-curses, looseth us from all law-obedience; or that Christ hath cryed down the tenne commandments; and that Gospel-liberty is a dispensation for law-loosenesse; or that free grace is a lawless Pope.
Samuel Rutherford
#15. I was black and blue for about two years, but it's paid off tremendously. You know, if you get enough whacks, your reflexes pick up, and I've become quite good - if somebody throws keys or something, I can catch them.
Lucy Lawless
#16. Storms of every sort, torrents, earthquakes, cataclysms, 'convulsions of nature,' etc., however mysterious and lawless at first sight they may seem, are only harmonious notes in the song of creation, varied expressions of God's love.
John Muir
#17. No bill of sexual rights can hold its own against the lawless, untamable landscape of the erotic imagination.
Daphne Merkin
#18. Treat everyone the same until you find out they're an idiot.
Lucy Lawless
#19. I'm not someone who ever enjoys violence against women or children.
Lucy Lawless
#21. The brash unbridled tongue, the lawless folly of fools, will end in pain. But the life of wise content is blest with quietness, escapes the storm and keeps its house secure.
Euripides
#22. Up until I came here this week, and I met so many women and young girls who feel, to use their word - and I'm a bit embarrassed, but it's a good word - empowered, by watching. I realized this isn't a burden, this is an honor.
Lucy Lawless
#23. But to this Orc-work such a life as we lead has brought us. Lawless and fruitless all our deeds have been, serving only ourselves, and feeding hate in our hearts.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#24. For then only will you be strong, when you cherish the laws, and when the revolutionary attempts of lawless men shall have ceased.
Aeschines
#25. What has commonly been called rebellion has more often been nothing but a manly and glorious struggle in opposition to the lawless power of rebellious kings and princes.
Samuel Adams
#26. When you have a gutless Congress a lawless president can do pretty much what he chooses.
Lyn Nofziger
#27. I get to do all these really nice, little culty things. It seems to be the world that keeps inviting me back.
Lucy Lawless
#28. A kick-ass heroine to inspire us all, mixed with a fabulous cast of secondary characters and a plot that just won't quit. Day has hit a home run. [on Eve of Darkness ]
Kathleen Lawless
#29. Because, deep down, I know how pointless and helpless I am, and it scares me. I am an animal trapped in a horrifying, lawless environment, and I have no idea what it's going to do to me. It just DOES it to me.
Allie Brosh
#30. I think the people running climate change denial campaigns are sociopaths.
Lucy Lawless
#31. I've often wanted to play the victim, or somebody who makes terrible choices. I would love to play the alcoholic mother who horribly lets down her children. That's a great morally imperiled role.
Lucy Lawless
#32. Vigilantes who executed some of the most vicious and ignoble acts of lawless brutality in U.S. history nevertheless considered those very acts to be the work of citizenship and in many cases elicited wide popular approval.
Linda Gordon
#33. An English speaker who has never studied French already knows around 15,000 French words!
Laura K. Lawless
#34. The Prohibition era is so vividly depicted in 'Lawless.' John Hillcoat does a remarkable job of rooting his film in such a tangible reality.
Dane DeHaan
#35. Breasts were one thing: they were in front, where you could have some control over them. Then there were bums, which were behind, and out of sight, and thus more lawless. Apart from loosely gathered skirts, nothing much could be done about them.
Margaret Atwood
#36. One of my missions is to get people to go, "Oh, she's really nice and I really like her, but what were the words she just said?!" I want your instincts to be at odds with your mind.
Lucy Lawless
#37. Government has become ungovernable; that is, it cannot leave off governing. Law has become lawless; that is, it cannot see where laws should stop. The chief feature of our time is the meekness of the mob and the madness of the government.
G.K. Chesterton
#38. the future wasn't something you planned for; it was something that just happened, like your car spinning out on some black ice and hitting a snowbank, or the telephone ringing with bad news in the middle of the night.
Wendy Lawless
#39. Xena and Gabrielle were a couple ... in the end, it was if not explicitly said, it was implicit that ... yeah, they totally were.
Lucy Lawless
#40. It is because I recognize the brutality with which my own multi-branched ancestors have been treated that I can identify the despicable, lawless, cruel, and sadistic behavior that has characterized Israel's attempts to erase a people, the Palestinians, from their own land.
Alice Walker
#41. If economies collapse and lawlessness rules and resources are scarce, many people who claim with their mouths that they follow Jesus ... will abandon him with their lives.
Brandon Andress
#42. Growing up, I looked up to real women. I didn't go in for hero worship and I still don't. Everybody has feet of clay.
Lucy Lawless
#43. As far back as I can remember myself - and I remember myself with lawless lucidity, I have been my own accomplice, who knows too much, and therefore is dangerous.
Vladimir Nabokov
#44. Assassins take no pride in fighting fairly. We take pride in winning.
Robin Hobb
#45. Alex rolled his eyes. "It's just a house party, Ror. I didn't promise you ... whatever the opposite of a sausage fest is."
Rory grinned unashamedly. "An All-You-Can-Eat Buffet?
Erin Lawless
#46. As is often the case with lawless natures, Ricardo's faith in any given individual was of a simple, unquestioning character. For man must have some support in life.
Joseph Conrad
#47. For the first time in my life, I put my body and reputation on the line to stand up for my beliefs and do the right thing. I hope I've encouraged other people to do the same.
Lucy Lawless
#48. Although every pain has different degrees of importance, I go through all of the emotions - from crying, anger, bitterness, anxiety, etc. Feel it all. But by the end of the day, I am on my knees in prayer. The next day, I get up refreshed and begin to let it go.
Renee Lawless
#49. Clanless, lawless, homeless is he who is in love with civil war, that brutal ferocious thing.
Homer
#50. We actually did quite a lot of comedy on 'Xena'. The whole show was very tongue-in-cheek.
Lucy Lawless
#51. Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state has become lawless or corrupt. And a citizen who barters with such a state shares in its corruption and lawlessness.
Mahatma Gandhi
#52. Very often, I'm part of the deception because the way I play things is that I want you to be able to look back and go, "Oh, my god, I didn't see that at the time, but now it all makes sense," and you want to watch it a second time with the benefit of hindsight.
Lucy Lawless
#53. He's that guy: the lawless, solitary, hurricane-hearted one who wreaks havoc, blowing through towns, through girls, through his own tragic misunderstood life.
Jandy Nelson
#54. I wondered over again for the hundredth time what could be the principle which, in the wildest, most lawless, fantastically chaotic, apparently capricious work of Nature, always kept it beautiful.
George MacDonald
#55. The laws governed people's happiness. To be lawless was to be happy.
Jess C. Scott
#56. If the chaos is overwhelming, I start making lists. To write it down puts it in perspective.
Renee Lawless
#57. You can make laws against weapons but they will be observed only by those who don't intend to use them anyway. The lawless can always smuggle or steal or even make a gun. By refusing to wear a gun you allow the criminal to operate with impunity.
Louis L'Amour
#58. There is in every one of us, even those who seem to be most moderate, a type of desire that is terrible, wild, and lawless.
Plato
#59. Corporate "confession of guilt." "The church," he declared, "confesses that she has witnessed the lawless application of brutal force, the physical and spiritual suffering of countless innocent people, oppression, hatred and murder, and that she has not raised her voice on behalf of the
Richard J. Foster
#60. It's not compromise if it doesn't sting just a little bit on both sides, now is it?
Alexi Lawless
#61. His new neighbor made James Bond look like an alcoholic slacker.
Alexi Lawless
#62. See this Swiss army knife, Lawless! It's gotta magnifying glass and a million blades but I only need one, so step right the fuck back!
Jonathan Dunne
#63. Nothing sexier than a woman who knows how to hurt you.
Alexi Lawless
#65. These, then, will be some of the features of democracy ... it will be, in all likelihood, an agreeable, lawless, parti-colored commonwealth, dealing with all alike on a footing of equality, whether they be really equal or not.
Plato
#66. Lucy Lawless presented a couple of the awards. And, when I walked off the stage with her after one of them, she said "Oh, I want to introduce you to my friend Madeleine," and that's how I met Madeleine. I realize that's a ridiculous story.
Ladyhawke
#67. The Church of Rome ... has become the most lawless den of thieves, the most shameless of all brothels, the very kingdom of sin, death and hell; so that not even antichrist ,if he were to come, could devise any addition to its wickedness.
Martin Luther
#68. Mastering the lawless science of our law,- that codeless myriad of precedent, that wilderness of single instances.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
#69. As she walked along she dramatized the night. There was about it a wild, lawless charm that appealed to a certain wild, lawless strain hidden deep in Emily's nature - the strain of the gypsy and the poet, the genius and the fool.
L.M. Montgomery
#70. A good conscience is never lawless in the worst regulated state, and will provide those laws for itself, which the neglect of legislators hath forgotten to supply.
Henry Fielding
#71. People aren't stupid. They saw what was happening at the Cologne central station. A lawless space was created in the middle of a city of over a million. That has to be addressed and it has to be done so in a sober-minded way.
Alice Schwarzer
#72. Happiness is a choice. You grieve, you stomp your feet, you pick yourself up and choose to be happy.
Lucy Lawless
#73. Things have become devalued to the point where people don't realize the repercussions, that they're devaluing themselves. It could end up bringing about chaos, a lawless situation.
Marilyn Manson
#74. The fear of the violent and the lawless is no less a tyranny than the edicts that come from the Emperor's throne.
Timothy Zahn
#75. I am not intimidating. I am a woman's woman. I love hanging out with women. And people are really inspired by this show.
Lucy Lawless
#76. There will be hoards of vampire bats descending on Beverly Hills ... We'll see if they can find any real flesh to puncture. I don't know.
Lucy Lawless
#77. He had little sympathy...for Mirabel, and little for what I have called the New Sensibility of the early 'twenties, for its flat bleakness, its lawless versification, its unheroic tone, its unintelligible images, its 'modernity' in short.
Jocelyn Gibb
#78. One glance at the way he looked at her, and Sam knew exactly what he was. A lethal habit, she thought. The accelerator on a race car. A halo jump on a crystal clear day. The best possible rush with the worst possible consequences.
Alexi Lawless
#79. Tis ever thus: indulgence spoils the base;
Raising up pride, and lawless turbulence,
Like noxious vapors from the fulsome marsh
When morning shines upon it.
Joanna Baillie
#80. Chaos is lawless behavior governed entirely by law.
Ian Stewart
#81. Lady?" he echoed, with a nasty laugh. "Just because she looks like a fat Pippa Middleton and talks like she's got a cock shoved in her mouth doesn't make her a lady.
Erin Lawless
#82. I just think you need showing that the world outside is much bigger than the world inside your Playstation," Nadia insisted.
Alex scoffed. "Coming from someone who has clearly never played Skyrim.
Erin Lawless
#83. I was born the son of a lawless man, always spoke my mind with a gun in my hand.
Christopher Cross
#84. B," Holly continued to list, ignoring her. "The way he's always angled to where you are. Like he's a big arrow, pointing at you all the time. And I mean that in a metaphoric, romantic way, not like, you know, a penis.
Erin Lawless
#85. If we suffer tamely a lawless attack upon our liberty, we encourage it, and involve others in our doom.
Samuel Adams
#86. So yes, the roles are getting more and more like me. But that's because Xena was so entirely unlike me. Most people aren't really aware of that.
Lucy Lawless
#87. If this work can contribute in any way toward proving this, and at the same time arouse the conscience of the American people to a demand for justice to every citizen, and punishment by law for the lawless, I shall feel I have done my race a service.
Ida B. Wells
#88. The true, prescriptive artist strives after artistic truth; the lawless artist, following blind instinct, after an appearance of naturalness. The one leads to the highest peaks of art, the other to its lowest depths.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#89. You can't fool me, comrade. You want to put on a cowboy hat and keep lawless bank robbers in line.'
No time. I have enough trouble keeping you in line.
Richelle Mead
#90. And without fear the lawless roads Ran wrong through all the land.
Edwin Muir
#91. Decades of corporate government deregulation and reduced funding of important government departments has the country well along the path to a lawless society.
Steven Magee
#92. Ian reached under his jacket. "I'm afraid the rest of this is a firefight. You remember what I taught you?" "I remember you punched me every time I got it wrong." Lawless replied.
Lexi Blake
#93. It's finding a best friend who you sleep with, right?
Erin Lawless
#94. In common with all Protestant or Jewish cultures, America was developed on the idea that your word is your bond. Otherwise, the frontier could never have been opened, 'cause it was lawless. A man's word had to mean something.
Orson Welles
#95. You don't let someone hurt you so you can name the pain.
Alexi Lawless
#96. We all have alleys and gardens and secret rooftops and places where daisies sprout between the sidewalk cracks, but most of the time all we let each other see is a postcard glimpse of a skyline or a polished square.
Erin Lawless
#98. It's never very useful to see your character as a villain. You have to play them the way they see themselves.
Lucy Lawless
#99. Vodka was evil; pure liquid evil. She needed to learn to keep her mouth shut. She needed to learn that vodka was not her friend. Much like Alex wasn't likely to be if she couldn't extricate herself from this.
Erin Lawless
#100. My voice likes rock music. My problem is, I can do a lot of things, but I have to find my own voice.
Lucy Lawless
