Placated Quotes

#1. A placated bully is a hand-fed bully.

Edna Ferber

#2. I say "illusion" of choice because, in many cases, the nature of their choices hardly reaches the level of will, but of merely perfunctory activity. For the most part, their desires are not too strong, they are too weak, apathetic and easily placated. They often can be tempted into doing Nothing.

Geoffrey Wood

#3. The gods, after all, are only human, and once their rage has been placated they are perfectly capable of acts of mercy and grace.

Thomas M. Disch

#4. Not easily placated
by outdated
platitudes
used to soothe
or mask
the obtuse.
Take your nonsenses-
leave.

Cheri Bauer

#5. Thea was still under the belief that public opinion could be placated; that if you clucked often enough, the hens would mistake you for one of themselves.

Willa Cather

#6. The real questions refuse to be placated. They are the questions asked most frequently and answered most inadequately, the ones that reveal their true natures slowly, reluctantly, most often against your will.

Ingrid Bengis

#7. I don't like desperate people. They tend to do desperate things. Desperate people should be placated until you can get as far away from them as humanly possible, because desperate people had a bad tendency of blowing up and taking you with them. I

Donna Augustine

#8. They have perfected the art of giving us just enough freedom; just enough that when we are ready to snap, a little bone is offered and we roll over, belly up, comfortable and placated like a dog.

Ally Condie

#9. A tingling in her spine warned her the path that lay ahead was dangerous, but her curiosity placated her, driving her onward against her instincts.

Kayla Krantz

#10. They are giving us pieces of a real life instead of the whole thing. They have perfected the art of giving us just enought freedom; just enough that when we are ready to snap, a little bone is offered and we roll over, belly up, comfortable and placated like a dog ... - Cassia

Ally Condie

#11. there were gods who needed to be worshipped and placated, and the currency for that was blood.

Jo Nesbo

#12. Desperate people should be placated until you can get as far away from them as humanly possible, because desperate people had a bad tendency of blowing up and taking you with them.

Donna Augustine

#13. Your grand daughter may not be looking for trouble, but trouble is looking for her.

Alice Hoffman

#14. If you listen to 'The Revolution Will Not Be Televised,' by Gil Scott-Heron, that album is dripping with rage.

Henry Rollins

#15. I'm very comfortable with my sexuality, my body, my face - well, sometimes I'm not comfortable with my face, but it's stuck there and there's nothing I can do about it.

Scarlett Johansson

#16. One of my strict, strict rules is a no auto-tune policy.

Yukimi Nagano

#17. I like the rain before it falls. of course there is no such thing, she said. That's why it's my favorite. Something can still make you happy, can't it, even if it isn't real.

Jonathan Coe

#18. no matter how far you travelled, you couldn't leave behind the fears and regrets and grievances that cluttered up the cargo hold of your mind.

Terry Pratchett

#19. Freedom of navigation through international waterways is critical to the international community and to nations in the region, including Iran.

John C. Stennis

#20. Indie rock is very healthy, there's a lot of diversity and a lot of creativity, but it does not have the revolutionary spirit of the late-70s punk scene in regards to design and politics and fashion and stuff like that.

Bruce Pavitt

#21. It amazes me how many people love being unhappy.

James Rhodes

#22. I want to see a world where people are in chains and you can ride them like ponies.

Willow

#23. I came to the place of my birth and cried: "The friends of my youth, where are they?"
and an echo answered, "Where are they?

Samuel Rogers

#24. We compromise our career goals to make room for partners and children who may not even exist yet

Sheryl Sandberg

#25. As good as I was at wrestling, I never thought I was any good.

Jake Roberts

#26. It's not really that much of a big deal - you brush it off and you come back. Defeat is the secret ingredient to success.

Conor McGregor