Truculent Quotes

#1. Earth's a howling wilderness,
Truculent with fraud and force.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#2. I don't know what truculent means, but if it's good, it's me

Muhammad Ali

#3. He passes, struck by the stare of truculent Wellington but in the convex mirror grin unstruck the bonham eyes and fatchuck cheekchops of Jollypoldy the rixdix doldy.

James Joyce

#4. sometimes decided to be truculent and unyielding, like a grouchy toddler -

Hanya Yanagihara

#5. Does everyone turn into a truculent thirteen-year-old when they go home, or is it just me?

Arabella Weir

#6. I think the true gardener is a lover of his flowers, not a critic of them. I think the true gardener is the reverent servant of Nature, not her truculent, wife-beating master. I think the true gardener, the older he grows, should more and more develop a humble, grateful and uncertain spirit.

Reginald Farrer

#7. There is
in world affairs
a steady course to be followed between an assertion of strength that is truculent and a confession of helplessness that is cowardly.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

#8. Religion is the natural reaction of the imagination when confronted by the difficulties in a truculent world.

George Santayana

#9. What's ka?" Eddie's voice was truculent. "I never heard of it. Except if you say it twice you come out with the baby word for shit.

Stephen King

#10. Carver was truculent: "What's a good part of it?

John Sandford

#11. They have entered the kingdom with them. We have a traitor amongst our group and it's getting more and more dangerous."
-Gannon-

Alicia Rivoli

#12. I was the youngest of the six kids, and to make my older siblings laugh, that was very important. I did a great impression of our dad that made them all laugh, so that gave me a lot of power within the family.

Jim Gaffigan

#13. We can only take it so far, because man can only take it so far, lower self can only take it so far, and you have to realize that the public is only at a certain place.

Alice Cooper

#14. The fate of millions of people - indeed the future of the black community itself - may depend on the willingness of those who care about racial justice to re-examine their basic assumptions about the role of the criminal justice system in our society.

Michelle Alexander

#15. The current coastline of Labrador, or Norway, or for that matter southern Chile. Elsewhere on the map, western Antarctica was an archipelago somewhat resembling the Philippines.

Kim Stanley Robinson