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i found out that a close friend had just experienced a terrible tragedy. her fiancé, not yet 40, had keeled over dead on the spot, no warning. i called her and she asked, if i am doing badly, can i call you to talk? i assured her that she could and she said, i might be hyperventilating or something. i told her that’s ok. i'll probably think it’s an obscene phone call and i'll have a good time with it! – Scott C. Holstad	added by scottholstad 1 year ago
angry, violent, bizarre, we’re obscene in our lust, oblivious in our pain. i’m a man driven by my passions. sometimes I desire normalcy but then my brain wakes up and i return to reality. – Scott C. Holstad	added by scottholstad 1 year ago
I don't know that I could have conceptualized what $ 3 million looks like in three weeks. I think that sort of spending is obscene ; it's intentional. – Summer Lee	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I find it very dishonest of Brabrand to state that there is ‘no pedophilia’ and that the images are ‘not obscene’ when the images are objectively so, by any measure, and his counterpart in the next county agrees they are ‘inappropriate,’. – Stacy Langton	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I have threats upon my life, harassment of my family, and my children, with obscene phone calls because people are lying about me. – Anthony Fauci	Found on CNN 2 years ago
This ad is vile and obscene, the exact opposite of the truth. – Aryeh Spero	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
These incidents of vandalism have ranged from the tragic to the obscene, from the transparent to the inexplicable, there remains much we do not know about this phenomenon, but at a minimum, they underscore that our society is in sore need of God’s grace. – New York	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
This strike should send a message to corporate CEOs across the country, it is absolutely unacceptable for profitable corporations to provide obscene compensation packages to executives, while ripping off workers and their families. – Bernie Sanders	Found on CNN 4 years ago
They know that with our reports and exposing the poverty and the failure of policies that all these Democrat cities have been doing to many people that look like me... they believe that all black people need to think the same way. They want us to stay on the welfare system so we cant progress in life and Im going to expose it every single day, if they think Im going to stand down because they yelled obscene things to me, they gotanother think coming. – Lawrence Jones	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
Director Mulvaney should turn his calls for spending restraint toward the Trump Administration’s mounting spending scandals involving the obscene waste of taxpayer money, i didn’t hear any calls for restraint from Director Mulvaney when the Administration used taxpayer dollars to buy a $43,000 phone booth or a $31,000 dining room table. Where is Director Mulvaney while the Administration is piling-up private jet costs and taking $120,000 Italian vacations — all on the government dime? – Tim Ryan	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
I am beside myself with frustration that our tax dollars go to promote a drag queen show and safe sex events with carnival games that are obscene and graphic, yet when it comes to something like debating Darwinian evolution or talking about the literal Creation account of Genesis – well that kind of speech must be censored. – Pastor Blair	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
In all honesty ‘The People Garden’ is a beautiful and artistic film, and yes defining what is obscene in pornography is indeed up to each individual, but I really don’t think there is any comparison between her stance on porn and her role in the film, there was no degradation involved with the making of this film. – Ann Gurrola	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
War Dogs, there are a lot of movies that have been made about war, there are a lot of movies that have been made about soldiers and how patriotic they are, there haven't been a lot of movies that shine a light on the obscene amount of money that a small group of people make on war. – Todd Phillips	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
We had some protesters last night when we pulled up in San Francisco and they're right to protest. They're absolutely right. It is an obscene amount of money. – George Clooney	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
It is an offence ... to upload any comment, request, suggestion or other communication which is obscene, indecent, false, menacing or offensive in character with intent to annoy, abuse, threaten or harass another person. – Communications Salleh Said Keruak	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
To suggest that there is any reason to settle prior to the adjudication of the pending criminal cases is obscene and without regard to the fiduciary responsibility owed to (taxpayers), there has been no civil litigation filed, nor has there been any guilt determined that would require such a ridiculous reaction. – Gene Ryan	Found on CNN 8 years ago
The defendant comes into court to be formally charged with murdering a little boy, murdering two women and a police officer, he has had months to reflect on the pain and suffering that he has caused. But when he's put in that holding cell, you cannot see a trace of remorse on his face. He paces, he fluffs his hair, and he makes obscene gestures at the marshals watching over him. – Steve Mellin	Found on CNN 8 years ago
The numbers can be obscene, particularly when you look at the general challenges we face as an economy and society. – Matthew Benkendorf	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
In the NUDE, all that is not beautiful is obscene. – Robert Bresson	added by anonymous 9 years ago
For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything else) as natural, death is the obscene mystery, the ultimate affront, the thing that cannot be controlled. It can only be denied. – Susan Sontag	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Bankruptcy is a sacred state, a condition beyond conditions, as theologians might say, and attempts to investigate it are necessarily obscene, like spiritualism. One knows only that he has passed into it and lives beyond us, in a condition not ours. – John Updike	added by anonymous 10 years ago
But how is one to make a scientist understand that there is something unalterably deranged about differential calculus, quantum theory, or the obscene and so inanely liturgical ordeals of the precession of the equinoxes. – Antonin Artaud	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and torturous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness, with which more than half the bible is filled, it would seem more consistent that we called it the word of a demon than the Word of God. It is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize mankind. – Thomas Paine, "The Age of Reason"	added by anonymous 13 years ago
One watches them on the seashore, all the people, and there is something pathetic, almost wistful in them, as if they wished their lives did not add up to this scaly nullity of possession, but as if they could not escape. It is a dragon that has devoured us all: these obscene, scaly houses, this insatiable struggle and desire to possess, to possess always and in spite of everything, this need to be an owner, lest one be owned. It is too hideous and nauseating. Owners and owned, they are like the two sides of a ghastly disease. One feels a sort of madness come over one, as if the world had become hell. But it is only superimposed: it is only a temporary disease. It can be cleaned away. – D. H. Lawrence	added by anonymous 13 years ago

i found out that a close friend had just experienced a terrible tragedy. her fiancé, not yet 40, had keeled over dead on the spot, no warning. i called her and she asked, if i am doing badly, can i call you to talk? i assured her that she could and she said, i might be hyperventilating or something. i told her that’s ok. i'll probably think it’s an obscene phone call and i'll have a good time with it!

– Scott C. Holstad

added by scottholstad
1 year ago

angry, violent, bizarre, we’re obscene in our lust, oblivious in our pain. i’m a man driven by my passions. sometimes I desire normalcy but then my brain wakes up and i return to reality.

– Scott C. Holstad

added by scottholstad
1 year ago

I don't know that I could have conceptualized what $ 3 million looks like in three weeks. I think that sort of spending is obscene ; it's intentional.

– Summer Lee

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I find it very dishonest of Brabrand to state that there is ‘no pedophilia’ and that the images are ‘not obscene’ when the images are objectively so, by any measure, and his counterpart in the next county agrees they are ‘inappropriate,’.

– Stacy Langton

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I have threats upon my life, harassment of my family, and my children, with obscene phone calls because people are lying about me.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on CNN
2 years ago

This ad is vile and obscene, the exact opposite of the truth.

– Aryeh Spero

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

These incidents of vandalism have ranged from the tragic to the obscene, from the transparent to the inexplicable, there remains much we do not know about this phenomenon, but at a minimum, they underscore that our society is in sore need of God’s grace.

– New York

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

This strike should send a message to corporate CEOs across the country, it is absolutely unacceptable for profitable corporations to provide obscene compensation packages to executives, while ripping off workers and their families.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN
4 years ago

They know that with our reports and exposing the poverty and the failure of policies that all these Democrat cities have been doing to many people that look like me... they believe that all black people need to think the same way. They want us to stay on the welfare system so we cant progress in life and Im going to expose it every single day, if they think Im going to stand down because they yelled obscene things to me, they gotanother think coming.

– Lawrence Jones

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

Director Mulvaney should turn his calls for spending restraint toward the Trump Administration’s mounting spending scandals involving the obscene waste of taxpayer money, i didn’t hear any calls for restraint from Director Mulvaney when the Administration used taxpayer dollars to buy a $43,000 phone booth or a $31,000 dining room table. Where is Director Mulvaney while the Administration is piling-up private jet costs and taking $120,000 Italian vacations — all on the government dime?

– Tim Ryan

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

I am beside myself with frustration that our tax dollars go to promote a drag queen show and safe sex events with carnival games that are obscene and graphic, yet when it comes to something like debating Darwinian evolution or talking about the literal Creation account of Genesis – well that kind of speech must be censored.

– Pastor Blair

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

In all honesty ‘The People Garden’ is a beautiful and artistic film, and yes defining what is obscene in pornography is indeed up to each individual, but I really don’t think there is any comparison between her stance on porn and her role in the film, there was no degradation involved with the making of this film.

– Ann Gurrola

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

War Dogs, there are a lot of movies that have been made about war, there are a lot of movies that have been made about soldiers and how patriotic they are, there haven't been a lot of movies that shine a light on the obscene amount of money that a small group of people make on war.

– Todd Phillips

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

We had some protesters last night when we pulled up in San Francisco and they're right to protest. They're absolutely right. It is an obscene amount of money.

– George Clooney

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

It is an offence ... to upload any comment, request, suggestion or other communication which is obscene, indecent, false, menacing or offensive in character with intent to annoy, abuse, threaten or harass another person.

– Communications Salleh Said Keruak

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

To suggest that there is any reason to settle prior to the adjudication of the pending criminal cases is obscene and without regard to the fiduciary responsibility owed to (taxpayers), there has been no civil litigation filed, nor has there been any guilt determined that would require such a ridiculous reaction.

– Gene Ryan

Found on CNN
8 years ago

The defendant comes into court to be formally charged with murdering a little boy, murdering two women and a police officer, he has had months to reflect on the pain and suffering that he has caused. But when he's put in that holding cell, you cannot see a trace of remorse on his face. He paces, he fluffs his hair, and he makes obscene gestures at the marshals watching over him.

– Steve Mellin

Found on CNN
8 years ago

The numbers can be obscene, particularly when you look at the general challenges we face as an economy and society.

– Matthew Benkendorf

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

In the NUDE, all that is not beautiful is obscene.

– Robert Bresson

added by anonymous
9 years ago

For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything else) as natural, death is the obscene mystery, the ultimate affront, the thing that cannot be controlled. It can only be denied.

– Susan Sontag

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Bankruptcy is a sacred state, a condition beyond conditions, as theologians might say, and attempts to investigate it are necessarily obscene, like spiritualism. One knows only that he has passed into it and lives beyond us, in a condition not ours.

– John Updike

added by anonymous
10 years ago

But how is one to make a scientist understand that there is something unalterably deranged about differential calculus, quantum theory, or the obscene and so inanely liturgical ordeals of the precession of the equinoxes.

– Antonin Artaud

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and torturous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness, with which more than half the bible is filled, it would seem more consistent that we called it the word of a demon than the Word of God. It is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize mankind.

– Thomas Paine, "The Age of Reason"

added by anonymous
13 years ago

One watches them on the seashore, all the people, and there is something pathetic, almost wistful in them, as if they wished their lives did not add up to this scaly nullity of possession, but as if they could not escape. It is a dragon that has devoured us all: these obscene, scaly houses, this insatiable struggle and desire to possess, to possess always and in spite of everything, this need to be an owner, lest one be owned. It is too hideous and nauseating. Owners and owned, they are like the two sides of a ghastly disease. One feels a sort of madness come over one, as if the world had become hell. But it is only superimposed: it is only a temporary disease. It can be cleaned away.

– D. H. Lawrence

added by anonymous
13 years ago

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