Quotes About Scorched Earth

#1. Recently in Washington, unfortunately, we have seen examples of the wrong kind of leadership
when politicians choose scorched earth over common ground, when they operate in what I call the 'evidence-free zone,' with ideology trumping everything else.

Hillary Clinton

#2. You may have won, Cenaria was saying, but your victory is no triumph. You can force me from my home, but you will not live in it. I will leave you nothing but scorched earth.

Brent Weeks

#3. I only understand friendship or scorched earth.

Roger Ailes

#4. Contract law is essentially a defensive scorched-earth battleground where the constant question is, if my business partner was possessed by a brain-eating monster from beyond spacetime tomorrow, what is the worst thing they could do to me?

Charles Stross

#5. Evil had a scent, bitter and pungent, like the scorched earth after a forest fire. I'd been living with the stench long enough to recognize it anywhere.

Lisa Kessler

#6. If you want to go the scorched-earth, Obamacare-is-like-slavery route and choose to stay uninsured, you will have the Palinesque guts, the Cruzian fortitude to wave off the ambulance that will appear to scoop you up should something bad happen to you, right?

Henry Rollins

#7. If you are scorched earth, I will be warm rain.

Murasaki Shikibu

#8. Sighing, I turn to the girls. "Rain check?"

Neither of them puts up much of a fight. Apparently Miss Allie didn't just kill the mood, she scorched the fuckin' earth and covered it with salt to prevent horniness from ever growing back.

Elle Kennedy

#9. I lost some of my friends because I got so famous, people who just assumed that I would be different now. I felt like everyone hated me. That is the most unhappy time of my life.

Haruki Murakami

#10. Use your intuition. Just trust yourself and keep true to that.

Christina Maharaj

#11. Seth Meyers is highly overrated as a comedian.

Donald Trump

#12. The ground was scorched, the streets teemed with refugees, and these Americans were playing at fleeing! As if they had something to resent, to despise, to scorn, to run away from! As if they weren't the lords of the earth.

Cynthia Ozick

#13. Well, our children do know what this industry is about, but they have a good grip on who they are.

Morgan Brittany

#14. I think it's important to show a husband and a wife together, in a room, raising children, because you don't see that anymore.

Tyler Perry

#15. I don't lie; I improve on my life.

Edith Piaf

#16. When I was like 12 or 13,Muhammad Ali gave me a pair of his trunks that were white satin with gold stripes. They were full of blood, and my mother threw them away. I think it's the first time I ever cursed at my mother.

Mickey Rourke

#17. I always found it weird when the Phantom would call Raoul insolent boy and the Raoul was obviously older than him.

Hugh Panaro

#18. Standing in this glittering room with the music in the background and the press and hum of scores of people, the clink of glasses, the faint smells of warmth, champagne, stiff material and sometimes of flowers and perfume,

Anne Perry