#violently

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In setting out the walls of a city the choice of a healthy situation is of the first importance: it should be on high ground, neither subject to fogs nor rains; its aspects should be neither violently hot nor intensely cold, but temperate in both respects.


Marcus V. Pollio


#both #choice #city #cold #first

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.


Arthur Schopenhauer


#being #first #opposed #passes #ridiculed

There’s nothing worse than being violently jerked away from creativity.


Aaron B. Powell


#creativity #inspiration #jerked #muse #sex

As a result of the asthma I was sent to school in the country, and only visited Sydney for brief, violently asthmatic sojourns on my way to a house we owned in the Blue Mountains.


Patrick White


#asthmatic #blue #brief #country #house

You don't sit down and write a wish list about the person you are going to fall violently in love with. It just doesn't work like that.


Stephen Fry


#down #fall #going #just #like

A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.


George S. Patton


#executed #good #good plan #next #now

People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it's safer to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs.


Alexei Sayle


#fur #gangs #harass #leather #more

We've got to deal with the fact that the church has been violently prejudiced against gay people. We've murdered them; we've burned them at the stake; we've run them out of town for something over which they have no control. And that's immoral.


John Shelby Spong


#been #burned #church #control #deal

There is no longer a way out of our present situation except by forging a road toward our objective, violently and by force, over a sea of blood and under a horizon blazing with fire.


Gamal Abdel Nasser


#blood #except #fire #force #forging

Men who have been raised violently have every reason to believe it is appropriate for them to control others through violence; they feel no compunction over being violent to women, children, and one another.


Frank Pittman


#appropriate #been #being #believe #children