Outraging Quotes

#1. The impossibility of outraging nature is the greatest anguish man can know.

Marquis De Sade

#2. It's impossible to do something cool without outraging someone. In fact, I usually judge how cool I'm being by how many angry people are following me with signs.

Seanbaby

#3. Happiness lies in conquering one's enemies, in driving them in front of oneself, in taking their property, in savoring their despair, in outraging their wives and daughters.

Genghis Khan

#4. From ... the age of five or six, I knew that when I grew up I should be a writer ... I tried to abandon this idea, but I did so with the consciousness that I was outraging my true nature and that sooner or later I should have to settle down and write books.

George Orwell

#5. Here were we wretched creatures of men making for each other's throats, and outraging the good earth which God had made so fair a habitation.

John Buchan

#6. There is not much mental distance between a feeling of having been screwed and the ethic of total retaliation, or at least the kind of random revenge that comes with outraging the public decency.

Hunter S. Thompson

#7. There are more ways of outraging speech than contradiction merely.

J.L. Austin

#8. I don't think most of my opinions, political or social, are so far outside of the mainstream that they'd cause massive outrage on a scale liable to provoke death threats or referrals to prosecutors for outraging public decency, so why worry?

Charles Stross

#9. You might argue that the history of contemporary art is a series of avant-garde movements, each new wave outraging the last.

Michael Scott

#10. Honest Winter, snow-clad, and with the frosted beard, I can welcome not uncordially; But that long deferment of the calendar's promise, that weeping gloom of March and April, that bitter blast outraging the honour of May how often has it robbed me of heart and hope?

George Gissing

#11. She was always like this, only moves when her mind and heart tells her to move, not doing what everyone demanded her to do.

Basma Salem

#12. Regardless of their reciprocity styles, people love to be asked for advice.

Adam M. Grant

#13. A vampire is like a Rose. They are beautiful, yet harmful.

Sweet Tart Smile Child

#14. Every moment nature is serving fresh dishes with the items of happiness. It is our choice to recognize and taste it.

Amit Ray

#15. Memories and loneliness look backward, fear looks around, but faith always looks forward.

E. Lynn Harris

#16. The test of beauty is whether it can survive close knowledge.

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

#17. I put off writing the first Left Behind book for a year because I got invited to assist Billy Graham in his memoirs, and had we known what we were putting off for a year, we might not have put it off.

Jerry B. Jenkins

#18. People want things to be real. If you give them an excuse, they'll believe you.

Robin Sloan

#19. But now I was tired of having desired too much. I suddenly felt old. I should never recover from the wound in my breast. The dream of peace that I had had a moment before attracted and tempted me only because it was far away. Had I realised it, I should simply have dreamed another dream.

Henri Barbusse

#20. As a kid, I often figured it was good to be patient to a fault.

Aimee Bender

#21. Why read on? Why pick up their book from the far wall where it has been thrown away in disgust and pain, and read on? Why submit to such cruelty, such bad karma, such bad plotting? The reason is simple: these things happened.

Kim Stanley Robinson