Richard Preston Quotes

The blade itself incites to deeds of violence.

Mrs Bawden yanked me away from the table and dragged me across the food hall. I tried to twist away from her, but she had a grip like a python on steroids.

Wild groups of chimpanzees attack their enemies like gangs. What they completely lack, precisely because of their strong territorial behavior, is a friendly relationship with their neighbors.

That's the kinda dude I was lookin fo & yes you'll get slapped if you lookin hoe

There is something I call social intelligence. You can do a lot in life on your own and you can do all kinds of stuff, but if you're really bad with people, if you're really naive or aggressive and push people away, if you don't know the political environment you're in, it invalidates all the things you know. You're not going to get anywhere.

I'll have your heart, if not by gift my knife Shall carve it out. I'll have your heart, your life.

Rocket had that mean look on, every game we played. He was 100 percent hockey. He could hate with the best of them.

Our age has need of violence," he writes. And he is violence.

Wayde yelled, and I hit him again, adrenaline pulling a scream of outrage from me. He went quiet, and I held my breath to make sure I could hear him breathing. I suppose I could have used my magic on him, but this was a lot more satisfying.

If I even imagined someone talking to my husband too close, I would beat the crap out of them.

Violence represents the worst kind of conformism.

Bullies do whatever they can get away with and keep pushing boundaries until they meet resistance.

Come, therefore, and let us fling mud at them!

I think if you have the opportunity to bully your opponent then you have to take that chance.

I told you, sir, they were red-hot with drinking; so full of valor that they smote the air, for breathing in their faces, beat the ground for kissing of their feet.

That's pretty hot," he said. "Punching me in the eye?" "Well, no. Of course not. I meant the idea of getting rough with you is hot. I'm a big fan of full-contact sports." "I'm sure you are.

If you see a good fight, get in it and fight to win it!

I comfort myself with the reflection that your wife will possibly be able to curb your desire--I admit, a natural one for the most part--to exterminate your fellows.

There is a report that says that kids who watch violent TV programs tend to be more violent when they grow up. But did the TV cause the violence, or do violent children preferentially enjoy watching violent programs?

Something I don't like seeing in other people is naked ambition, when somebody is really pushing hard to get to where they want to be. That's the way I look at that word - like you must be stepping on someone to get there. And I've never been comfortable with that.

If only all our conflicts could be resolved with a few grunts and a smack in the ass.

She’s not much of a team player, more of a team yeller.

A bully is fighting out of a need to dominate. And is usually unwilling to take the consequences.

It was right after 9/11 and I decided to walk around the grounds of the Pentagon, because I had never been there. Out of nowhere comes this speeding camouflaged golf cart and this guy starts yelling at me, 'What do you think you're doing!' The guy wrote my name down and began to follow me before I got really scared and took off as fast as I could.

The world looks as if it has been left in the custody of trolls.