Quotation Explorer - 'Damned'

Have a courage to repulse those people who dare to affront you, because everyone has an Achilles' heel. Outshine them, and let your light hit on their damned faces, INTENSELY. - Maverick
His mother had often said, When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action. She had emphasized the corollary of this axiom even more vehemently: when you desired a consequence you had damned well better take the action that would create it. - Lois McMaster Bujold
Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned. - George Bernard Shaw
Egotism is the anesthetic given by a kindly nature to relieve the pain of being a damned fool.
poetry is the tombstone of experience,nothing i write is my own.~from "the damned - D.W.Metz
If at first you don't succeed, try, try, and try again. Then give up. There's no use being a damned fool about it.
Remember the generational battles twenty years ago? Remember all the screaming at the dinner table about haircuts, getting jobs and the American dream? Well, our parents won. They're out living the American dream on some damned golf course in Vero Beach, and we're stuck with the jobs and haircuts. - P. J. O'Rourke
Everyone wants to know how you can tell when it's true love, and the answer is this: when the pain doesn't fade and the scars don't heal, and it's too damned late. Jonathan Tropper, from The Book of Joe - Madelon Phillips
America is now wholly given over to a damned mob of scribbling women, and I should have no chance of success while the public taste is occupied with their trash. - Nathaniel Hawthorne
Would it upset men if they found out we weren't different? Are we? Aren't we? Damned if I know. - Rita Mae Brown
The only successful philosophies and religions are the ones that flatter us, whether in the name of progress or of hell. Damned or not, man experiences an absolute need to be at the heart of everything. - Emil Cioran
The only trouble with capitalism is capitalists; they're too damned greedy. - Herbert Hoover
There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics. - Benjamin Disraeli
I would love God even if he damned me, because he was so gracious to others. - Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Pursue your goal. Opinions be damned. - Stacy Verdick Case
it is all very well for you to write simply and the simpler the better. But do not start to think so damned simply. Know how complicated it is and then state it simply. - Ernest Hemingway
Experience is a great advantage. The problem is that when you get the experience, you're too damned old to do anything about it.
O villain, villain, smiling, damned villain!--Hamlet (I, v, 106) - William Shakespeare
The blessed in the kingdom of heaven will see the punishments of the damned, in order that their bliss be more delightful for them. - Thomas Aquinas
Now hast thou but one bare hour to live, And then thou must be damned perpetually. Stand still, you ever-moving spheres of heaven, That time may cease, and midnight never come. - Christopher Marlowe
Everything she does comes from within, from some dark impulse. I guess that’s what makes her so thrilling to watch. So dangerous. Even perfect at times. But also so damned destructive. - Black Swan Darren Aronofsky
You boys going to get somewhere, or just going?" We didn't understand his question, and it was a damned good question. - Jack Kerouac
Last week, I suggested the candidates take up mushrooms. I’ll be damned if Rick Perry didn’t take me up on that. - Bill Maher
If we are going to stick to this damned quantum-jumping, then I regret that I ever had anything to do with quantum theory.
God seemed to be having a hard time killing him, and he'd be damned if he was going to make the job easy for mere mortals - Mario Puzo
While there may not be a book in every one of us, there is so often a damned good short story. - Jeffrey Archer
And sometimes it doesn't matter how hard you try, how persuasive you can be, how much skill you have... you can't have everything. Sometimes you just can't win.""No. Sometimes you don't win." He gets to his feet, and Red stands beside him. "But I'll be damned if that's going to stop me from trying. - daystar721
Out, damned spot! out, I say! - William Shakespeare
I was planning a death, not a burglary, but in many ways that just made it easier. Taking a life was, in my experience, a damned sight less complicated than taking jewels from a hidden strongbox. - Michael McClung
You have told me, O God, to believe in hell. But you have forbidden me to think...of any man as damned - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Some say we’re already damned, Nathanial replied coolly, sitting back in his chair. So you’re too late to send him to Hell. -- BLOOD KNOT - Tracy Cooper-Posey
There is no force in Earth or Heaven above,No, not even the damned of Hell can stop relentless Love. ---Kari, The Valkyrie, Chapter Sixteen,Valley of the Damned Epic Martial Poem/Allegory - Douglas M. Laurent
I would forget it fain; But, O, it presses to my memory, like damned guilty deeds to a sinners mind. - William Shakespeare
I'm a chamaleon, ever-changing, always evolving, and eager for the next phase of metamorphosis. This is me, imperfections, inconsistencies, passion, and desires. I make myself happen, because if I didn't you can be damned sure nobody else would. - Sai Marie Johnson
Publish and be damned!
Her taste still teased my tongue, and her touch tipped my fingers. Her smile licked my lips, and her heart beat my own. So I tugged on her sheets, like it was a cape. To me, she was a God damned super hero, and underneath, was everything I need. Her super powers on top of me. - J. Raymond
REPROBATION, n. In theology, the state of a luckless mortal prenatally damned. The doctrine of reprobation was taught by Calvin, whose joy in it was somewhat marred by the sad sincerity of his conviction that although some are foredoomed to perdition, others are predestined to salvation. - Ambrose Bierce
Anything that keeps old words in circulation is to be treasured, the French revolution be damned. - Joseph Bottum
There is no force in Earth or Heaven above,No, not even the damned of Hell can stop relentless Love. ---Kari, The Valkyrie, Chapter Sixteen,Valley of the Damned Epic Martial Poem/Allegory - Douglas M. Laurent
He who hesitates is a damned fool. - Mae West
If a country can't save itself through the volunteer service of its own free people, then I say: Let the damned thing go down the drain! - Robert Heinlein
I drank to drown my pain, but the damned pain learned how to swim, and now I am overwhelmed by this decent and good behavior. - Frida Kahlo
I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned. - George Gordon Byron
It doesn't matter what Church you belong to. If you don't believe in yourself you're Already Damned - Stanley Victor Paskavich
They can stop a river by building a dam, but I will be damned if they can stop my river of blood flowing through my veins and heart. - Anthony Liccione
The Valkyrie’s heart was wrought of dazzling gold full of the most finest and firmest of loves, this being the secret of her many moods and akimbo inspirangular mercies. —On Kari, Ch. Fifteen Valley of the Damned - douglas m laurent
Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't. - Eleanor Roosevelt
Women and cats do as they damned well please, and men and dogs had best learn to live with it.
I may not be a king or a queen, but I'll be damned if I'm not treated like royalty. - Samuel Crone
My God had not spoken to me again. But neither had He forsaken me. I knew that. For damned sure, I knew that. - Marcus Luttrell
I love her so damned much." Manny heard himself say. That’s my heart right there. That’s my woman. - J.R. Ward
That's a damned lie! We must die anyway.
The eyes were damned, the staring, glaring eyes of one who sees but does not see, eyes ever turned inward to the sterile hell of dreams beyond control, dreams unleashed, risen out of the stinking swamps of the unconscious. - Stephen King
To be an effective criminal defense counsel, an attorney must be prepared to be demanding, outrageous, irreverent, blasphemous, a rogue, a renegade, and a hated, isolated, and lonely person - few love a spokesman for the despised and the damned. - Clarence Darrow
Life is just one damned thing after another. - Elbert Hubbard
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