Truculence Quotes

#1. He smiled and bent forward, a hand on each knee, his truculence gleaming through his smile like a stone under water.

Paula Fox

#2. I particularly scorn my fondness for paradox. I despise pessimism, narcissism, solipsism, truculence, word-play, and pusillanimity, my chiefer inclinations; loathe self-loathers ergo me; have no pity for self-pity and so am free of that sweet baseness. I doubt I am. Being me's no joke.

John Barth

#3. Mabel stops looking murderous and assumes an expression of severe truculence. How the hell, I imagine her thinking, am I supposed to catch things with this idiot in tow?

Helen Macdonald

#4. Adams's proclivity for truculence and curtness probably emerged early. Uncertain of his abilities and laboring under an exaggerated sense of inadequacy, he probably fashioned such an aggressive manner as a defense mechanism.

John Ferling

#5. An institution that suffers from a plethora of leaders is surely in a bad way.

Mahatma Gandhi

#6. A prayerless Christian is a powerless Christian.

Billy Graham

#7. A coach is someone who can give correction without causing resentment.

John Wooden

#8. If we don't find what we seek what happen then? Nothing? Everything? Are we set free by our failure, or are we doomed because we failed to find the answer that would have saved us? And how are we supposed to know the difference?

Anne Bishop

#9. I was always interested in baseball. In fact, in my younger years, I played it in an amateur way. But up to the time when I became identified with the Yankees, I was a strong National League rooter.

Jacob Ruppert

#10. Writing it all down is like taking a good shit, if done right you probably feel empty afterwards.

Solange Nicole