Aggressive Quotes

A man who is not afraid is not aggressive, a man who has no sense of fear of any kind is really a free, a peaceful man.
Jiddu Krishnamurti

Fear, Free, Sense

Another term for preventive war is aggressive war - starting wars because someday somebody might do something to us. That is not part of the American tradition.
Ron Paul

War, Another, American

No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.
Simone de Beauvoir

Women, Toward, Arrogant

Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive and potentially orderly and constructive.
Margaret Mead

Nature, Human, Orderly

Aggressive, tough and defiant may describe me, but that leaves the impression I'm mean and I'm not. People expect me to have fangs.
Joan Jett

Mean, May, Tough

In known history, nobody has had such capacity for altering the universe than the people of the United States of America. And nobody has gone about it in such an aggressive way.
Alan Watts

History, America, Universe

Comedy can be, especially in a writer's room, really aggressive, kind of a very male-dominated room, and it would be hard for women. It's not a nurturing place. It's not like a lot of women are going to say, I can't wait to live that lifestyle and be in a writer's room until 2 or 3 a.m.
Ellen DeGeneres

Women, Live, Hard

There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man, beyond history, and beyond science. The moods and qualities of nature and the revelations of great art are equally difficult to define; we can grasp them only in the depths of our perceptive spirit.
Ansel Adams

Nature, Great, History

The world is so competitive, aggressive, consumive, selfish and during the time we spend here we must be all but that.
Jose Mourinho

Time, Selfish, Here

When I really love someone, I can only show it by making aggressive and bad-taste remarks.
Slavoj Zizek

Love, Someone, Show

I grew up around a lot of aggressive guys. My parents used to take me to AA meetings when I was very young. So I know aggression, I know insanity.
Shia LaBeouf

Parents, Young, Around

The car has become the carapace, the protective and aggressive shell, of urban and suburban man.
Marshall McLuhan

Car, Become, Urban

Everyone gets frustrated and aggressive, and I'd sooner take my aggression out on a guitar than on a person.
Paul Weller

Person, Guitar, Everyone

I avoid the public because the English public is too aggressive these days for me.
David Hockney

Days, Public, English

As a child, the family that I had and the love I had from my two parents allowed me to go ahead and be more aggressive, to search and to take risks knowing that, if I failed, I could always come home to a family of love and support.
Tiger Woods

Love, Family, Home

People think our music's very aggressive or angry or whatever, and it's just the opposite, really... I like laughing. And I like being really calm before a show, and smiley.
Serj Tankian

Music, Angry, Before

I think that we're foolhardy to not be engaging in federal funding of stem-cell research in the most aggressive way we possibly can.
Elizabeth Edwards

Research, Engaging, Federal

In the U.S., oddly, we have images of men as arrogant and aggressive.
David Duchovny

Men, Arrogant, Images

Chimps are very quick to have a sudden fight or aggressive episode, but they're equally as good at reconciliation.
Jane Goodall

Good, Fight, Quick

Under the guise of protecting us from ourselves, the right and the left are becoming ever more aggressive in regulating behavior.
George McGovern

Ourselves, Left, Behavior

Cooking is actually quite aggressive and controlling and sometimes, yes, there is an element of force-feeding going on.
Nigella Lawson

Sometimes, Actually, Quite

When you're thirteen and listening to punk, the aggressive nature of music can sway you to the dark side.
Dave Grohl

Music, Nature, Dark

The bashful are always aggressive at heart.
Charles Horton Cooley

I am laughably aggressive, and the rest of the band is very laid back, so we mix well.
Shirley Manson

Rest, Band, Laid

Boxing brings out my aggressive instinct, not necessarily a killer instinct.
Sugar Ray Leonard

Boxing, Instinct, Brings

I was a naturally aggressive left-back, a cut-throat tackler.
Gordon Ramsay

I think that London is very much like that. I find there's humour in the air and people are interesting. And I think that it's a place which is constantly surprising. The worst thing about it? I think it can be smug and aggressive.
Colin Firth

Find, Place, Worst

After Nixon resigned in 1974, he engaged in a very aggressive war with history, attempting to wipe out the Watergate stain and memory. Happily, history won, largely because of Nixon's tapes.
Bob Woodward

History, War, After

Certainly, if you look at human behavior around the world, you have to admit that we can be very aggressive.
Jane Goodall

Human, Around, Behavior

I was the kind of child who worked hard every day with the cows and sheep - I was a very aggressive boy.
Haile Gebrselassie

Hard, Child, Worked

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