Quotes About Ornery

#1. The world is just as concrete, ornery, vile, and sublimely wonderful as before, only now I better understand my relation to it and it to me.

Ralph Ellison

#2. I asked my doctor how many more years I have left and he said, 'You're too ornery to die.'

Jimmy Piersall

#3. Why couldn't my heart have picked him? Life would have been so much easier."
"Because hearts are ornery, sneaky little bastards, designed to cause misery. They want what they want, and they don't give a damn about what would make life easier or harder for the heart's owner." Della snapped.

C.C. Hunter

#4. I've been ridiculed by silk-suited lawyers, jailed by ornery judges, and occasionally paid for services rendered. I never intended to be a hero, and I succeeded.

Paul Levine

#5. The paleoclimate record shouts to us that, far from being self-stabilizing, the Earth's climate system is an ornery beast which overreacts even to small nudges.

Wallace Smith Broecker

#6. She can be ornery now and then, vain for sure, petulant and impetuous, silly at times, ill disposed toward the help, even malicious and malevolent when angry, but, still, she has always been the one for me.

Rabih Alameddine

#7. I suppose she's right. It's like a metaphor for life: No one wants an ornery old goat, but we can't resist opening the door ayway. We can't keep from hoping.

Lauren Myracle

#8. A girl," Red whispered. "She'll be as beautiful and ornery as her mama.

Mary Connealy

#9. Day blame ornery youngins.

L.Douglas Muncy

#10. I said, Well, looks like he's pretty ornery. I wonder where he gets it?
Jack just shrugged and kissed my cheek, and then whispered in my ear, He gets it from his mother.

Nancy E. Turner

#11. The more we love, and the more unlikely people we love, the more we resemble God - who, after all, loves ornery creatures like us.

Philip Yancey

#12. Well, you never can tell with a twister. They are as mean, as ornery, and as unpredictable as an unhappy woman.

John Joseph Adams

#13. [I am] just a common everyday man whose instincts are to be ornery, who's anxious to be right.

Harry Truman

#14. Nothing seems to me more tragic than the pressures we put on artists to do what we think we'll like, and our refusal to prize what is most ornery and special about them.

Marcia B. Siegel

#15. Don't make a feller wait too long. A feller waiting on a gal can get ornery'er than a huntin' dog that's tree'd it's squirrel.

Colleen Houck

#16. Ain't you been listening? I'm YUSUKE URAMESHI... the same ornery dawg you've always known and loved. So I have a DEMON ANCESTOR! Big Deal! I'm still going To KICK Sensui's sorry butt! -Yusuke

Yoshihiro Togashi

#17. Low down dirty ornery rotten skunk of a cussed mule-headed soldier! What's he want with my book anyway? And what kind of a way is that to write a congratulations? I am so mad I could walk clear to that fort and take him on single handed.

Nancy E. Turner

#18. Where are the drug cartels getting their weapons? They are being provided by the United States. Cut off that flow of arms.

Noam Chomsky

#19. Look, I play all these tough guys and thugs and strong, complex characters. In real life, I am a cringing, neurotic Jewish mess. Can't I for once play that on stage?

Jason Isaacs

#20. Politics are always involved, even in my love songs.

Lydia Lunch

#21. With so many amazing artists on one bill, we expect this concert to be incredibly powerful in its ability to raise both money and awareness for the long-term rebuilding effort we must all support.

Brad Delson

#22. Be patient. Do the best with what you know. When you know more, adjust the trajectory.

Jen Hatmaker

#23. To be able to do art, it was a luxury to me.

Anchee Min

#24. Nothing should be overlooked in fighting for better education.

Roy Wilkins

#25. Fuck the weather forecasters and their predictions. With magic, he'd just turned their Doppler radar upside down.
Sapphire Phelan (Being Familiar With a Witch)

Sapphire Phelan

#26. Unless we have that moment of chaos, followed by the emotional release of realization, nothing will be remembered.

Chuck Palahniuk

#27. Do you remember that old song? 'She wore an itsy bitsy, teeny weeny, yellow polka dot bikini ...

Linda Weaver Clarke

#28. There's a line in the Bible about perfect love casting out fear. That I don't know about, but orneriness will do it every time.

Peter S. Beagle

#29. Let every action aim solely at the common good.

Marcus Aurelius

#30. If you want to live within the definition of your own truth, you have to choose to go through the initially painful and ultimately comforting process of finding it.

David Levithan

#31. You tell me that yes, I can do it. I know.
And I may do it, if I so choose.
You tell me that no, I cannot. I say, Oh?
I shall do it, since you refuse!

Richelle E. Goodrich

#32. If one can judge from the letters that I receive, it would seem that there are many thousands of children who would like me to speak or to read to them.

Enid Blyton

#33. We were made to be lovers bold in broken places, pouring ourselves out again and again

Jamie Tworkowski