Violent Delights Quotes

#1. Violent delights tend to have violent ends.

Richard Ramirez

#2. These violent delights have violent ends
And in their triump die, like fire and powder
Which, as they kiss, consume

William Shakespeare

#3. For every moment the sea is peace and relief, there is another when it shivers and stirs to become chaos. It's just as ready to claim as it is to offer.

Tim Winton

#4. Sin is still sin - no matter how you spell it.

Edwin Louis Cole

#5. What's so wrong with vanity? It's different from narcissism, you know? It's not about admiring yourself-it's about taking pride in your appearance.

Tom Ford

#6. If you wait, all that happens is that you get older.

Larry McMurtry

#7. The dilemma for society is how to preserve personal and family values in a nation of diverse tastes.

Tipper Gore

#8. When you hit a groove, it's not you; it's the spirit world. The spirits whisper the ideas in your brain and prod you along. They're the ones that are really happy.

Tommy Chong

#9. Trade is the natural enemy of all violent passions because it loves moderation, delights in compromise an is most careful to avoid anger.

Alexis De Tocqueville

#10. The purpose of the book is to break the silence and stigma surrounding sexual abuse and to educate the public on how they can be greater advocates for victims. As a people, a nation and a society, we all have a part to play in curbing this issue.

Michelle Alexander

#11. We build model ships in bottles, whispering life into the toothpicks and wire; we make plans and blueprints for the one we hope is coming. And come they do. Fleets of vessels. Battleships and barges. They arrive on the horizon, flags to the sky.

Sarah Kay

#12. I have a very strict regimen of showing up at my desk at a certain hour with my cup of green tea. It is very quiet. I don't like having a lot of atmosphere around.

Melissa Rosenberg

#13. I would be horrible at Twitter. I wouldn't know the answer to fans' questions half the time - and the patience involved! I couldn't imagine. I did have a Twitter account that I tried for a couple days, but found I had nothing to say.

Jim Parsons

#14. But a man with a machine and inadequate culture - such as I was when I made my pond - is a pestilence. He shakes more than he can hold.

Wendell Berry

#15. HOW CAME THE KING BY A POWER WHICH THE PEOPLE ARE AFRAID TO TRUST, AND ALWAYS OBLIGED TO CHECK? Such a power could not be the gift of a wise people, neither can any power, WHICH NEEDS CHECKING, be from God; yet the provision, which the constitution makes, supposes such a power to exist.

Thomas Paine

#16. When we age we shed many skins: ego, arrognace, dominance, self-opionated, unreliable, pessimism, rudeness, selfish, uncaring ... Wow, it's good to be old!

Stephen Richards

#17. Observe and gradually you will come to see that all existence is occurring in empty awareness.

Mooji

#18. Invite characters of surprising and moral character, or at least those who grapple with what is right or those who make decisions that shock.

David Bergen