Top 41 Trumped Quotes
#1. In the land of badass, you've just been trumped. If Dark-Hunters had inmates, these would be they. Known as the Dogs of War because that's what they thrive on, they're cold-blooded and intolerant. Congratulations, bud, these are your new protectors. (Acheron)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#2. Was it really called dry humping, if they did it underwater? Probably not. Crying shame that they both had their jeans on, because this was definitely one of those adrenaline-fuelled moments of passion with a total loss of inhibition, where need and desire trumped all reason.
Suzanne Brockmann
#3. I woke with a start. At first I assumed I'd trumped myself awake again .
Alan Partridge
#4. How was she going to do it? She didn't know. She had a hundred questions and just one answer. But the one answer she had trumped all the questions.
That answer? God.
Becky Wade
#5. But eventually, the Elixir of the Soul that had survived wars and the bloody birth of three new countries, was, like most things in the world, trumped by Coca-Cola.
Arundhati Roy
#6. I loathe all this blind rushing pell-mell into a struggle arranged by the mighty minority and paid for with the lives of young men who are drugged on trumped-up ideals.
Fannie Hurst
#7. It was hard to explain to students that there was a rule that trumped all of the others: Always trust your instincts.
Robert Jordan
#8. Your obvious need for attention and melodramatic acting sort of trumped my disfigurement.
Lindy Zart
#9. In our quest to tweet, like, and trend, we have forgotten that brands can be built through advertising. Ads can generate big ideas that can never be trumped by tactics. That is the magic of an ad, and that is what is missing from many ads today.
Jerry Della Femina
#10. My father had drawn number 3,004 in a death lottery in which German precision trumped Nazi brutality.
Leonard Mlodinow
#12. Love trumped principle. Paola tossed out these things
Donna Leon
#13. Talent equaled desirability. Talent trumped good looks or a halfway decent personality. Talent was a personality.
Meg Howrey
#14. Every political card played by Jeb Bush has been Trumped; every political note played by The Donald has been Trumpeted.
Michael R. Burch
#15. Caxton crawled into the back while Arkeley took the front passenger seat. His fused vertebrae trumped her sprained ribs, he announced.
David Wellington
#16. A soldier's life is all grinding routine. Who sold you the rosy notion of honour, trumped up in bright flags and glory? We're here to burn barley. Tossing a torch takes a damned sight less practice than trenching hard ground with a spade.
Janny Wurts
#17. For a writer, I'm not sure that feeling of knowing you've just written something good and strong can be trumped. Not because it means I did something right. But because it proves how many wrongs I pushed through to get there.
Cara Rosalie Olsen
#18. Wills are trumped by legal titles to real estate or beneficiary designations on financial accounts, retirement plans and insurance policies.
Jean Chatzky
#19. The trumped-up charges against kitsch and sentimentality should disturb us and make us suspicious.
Robert C. Solomon
#20. WINTER As the winter winds litter London with lonely hearts Oh the warmth in your eyes swept me into your arms Was it love or fear of the cold that led us through the night? For every kiss your beauty trumped my doubt Mumford & Sons ~Winter Winds
Raine Miller
#22. Cynics fooled themselves into thinking they had sussed out the worst-case scenarios and were invariably surprised by how life trumped them. Dreamers were often disappointed - but seldom in themselves.
Laura Lippman
#23. As usual in such matters, God's sense of humor trumped all imagination.
Diana Gabaldon
#24. She knew it wasn't right, but this was the second time in her life when hurting a man's feelings trumped assuaging her own.
Riley Murphy
#25. It's a funny thing, one day you're living and the next day you're not sometimes, whether you have plans or not. Wishes and wants get trumped by the reaper every time. I don't even know if I would want a warning if it was my time. I think I'd rather be surprised.
Dan Groat
#26. Thanks for the memory Of lingerie with lace, Pilsner by the case And how I jumped the day you trumped my one-and-only ace How lovely it was!
Leo Robin
#27. President Obama contends that charges he is "not really an American" have been trumped up by you-know-who.
Michael R. Burch
#28. The most enduring battle is between head and heart; what would be efficient and logical is nearly always trumped by what is messy and illogical.
Antonya Nelson
#29. The needs of the moment always trumped promises of the future, however enticing the latter.
Karl Ove Knausgard
#30. Even in these first days together, it is very clear that this feeling of mine for the stranger has trumped all the other adventures in my life. It has shuffled everything and everyone else I thought I was moving toward or away from.
Marlena De Blasi
#31. The easy assumption that we have remembered the most important people and events and have preserved the most valuable evidence is immediately trumped by our inability to know what we have forgotten.
Wendell Berry
#32. Science is trumped by ignorance when the ignorant are given a vote.
Chuck Wendig
#33. To an extent, his good looks would insulate him from suspicion, for in this new century, image trumped substance and appearance often mattered more than truth.
Dean Koontz
#34. L.A. has always had a ton of creative business people, but tech has always been trumped by Hollywood. Now Hollywood is realizing it needs to be smarter in tech. Hollywood is finally crossing over, and it's really going to charge L.A. to be the next tech center.
Paige Craig
#35. Maybe this is crazy, but I think the right to own a gun is trumped by the right not to be shot by one.
Andy Borowitz
#36. There it was. That fierce loyalty. He didn't have a clue how that was the most attractive thing about him. It trumped his face, his ink, his body, everything. Dex Locke was true. He was grounded.
Mariana Zapata
#37. But Milo had a shiny gold present to open, and presents trumped sad trees any day of the week.
Kate Milford
#38. Rules are rules, yet still
trumped always by kindness and human decency.
Sarah Ockler
#39. Free was harder to trace...safety always trumped guilt.
Stephenie Meyer
#40. Precisely because white denial has long trumped claims of racism, people of color tend to underreport their experiences with racial bias rather than exaggerate them.
Tim Wise
#41. You just don't in the 21st century behave in 19th century fashion by invading another country on completely trumped up pre-text,
John F. Kerry
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