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He lived violently and he apparently died violently. – Dick Lehr	Found on CNN 5 years ago
We were violently shaken side to side, thrust back into our seats as the launch escape system ripped us away from the rocket, as all of that's happening, you're being shaken around, vision is blurry. I hear the alarm sounding and see the red light where the engine has had an emergency. I had the vivid realization we aren't making it to orbit today, we've been pulled off rocket and we have to land. – Nick Hague	Found on CNN 5 years ago
Non-violently, peacefully, while the eyes of this country are watching these games, they take a knee to bring our attention and our focus to this problem to ensure that we fix it, that is why they are doing it. And I can think of nothing more American than to peacefully stand up, or take a knee, for your rights, any time, anywhere, in any place. – Beto O'Rourke	added by rainbow_n 5 years ago
This November 6 election is very much a referendum on not only me, This November 6 election's a referendum on your religion, This November 6 election's a referendum on free speech and the First Amendment. It's a referendum on so much, it's not a question of like or dislike, it's a question that they will overturn everything that we've done and they will do it quickly and violently. And violently. There is violence. When you look at Antifa -- these are violent people. – Donald Trump	Found on CNN 5 years ago
It's not a question of like or dislike, it's a question that they will overturn everything that we've done and they will do it quickly and violently. And violently. There is violence. When you look at Antifa -- these are violent people. – Donald Trump	Found on CNN 5 years ago
This attack shocked the conscience of our nation and filled our hearts with grief. Journalists, like all Americans, should be free from the fear of being violently attacked while doing their job. – Donald Trump	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Journalists, like all Americans, should be free from the fear of being violently attacked while doing their job. – Melania Trump	Found on CNN 5 years ago
Those occur when lava flows encounter vegetated areas and vegetation burns and releases methane gas, methane pockets can get trapped underground and explode violently, throwing rocks and debris in many directions. – Wendy Stovall	Found on CNN 6 years ago
While I was on the phone, Zayaan was violently sick everywhere and when the paramedics arrived his oxygen levels were really low, it actually got worse as we got to the hospital. There were talks of him having to be resuscitated. – Zayaan Hussain	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
I ended up giving in to him. [I let him] kiss me, to touch me in ways I did not want him to touch me and in one of those instances, he attacked me violently and yes, he raped me. – Karla Souza	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
These things can burn very quickly and violently ; it would not be unusual for them to explode, we believe it has n’t been a massive explosion ; it’s just been these vapor release valves that popped. – Richard Rennard	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
They're a ragtag collection of untrained, unqualified staff with zero authority to investigate crimes, no idea how to preserve evidence for a trial, and no expertise toquestionany victims of rape, never mind women and children who've been violently sexually abused by the integrated team's fellow U.N. workers. – Paula Donovan	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
In France, we always have the right to write and draw. And if some people are not happy with this, they can sue us and we can defend ourselves. That's democracy, you don't throw bombs -- you discuss, you debate. But you don't act violently. We have to stand and resist pressure from extremism. – Charlie Hebdo journalist Laurent Leger	Found on CNN 8 years ago
I'm pretty sure it happened very quickly and very violently, if it was enough to rip the bridge right off El Faro, it was a very violent end. – Larry Legere	Found on CNN 8 years ago
After that it got worse I would say, his seizure seemed to get worse, he was actually on the ground shaking violently. – John Leonard	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
Oil is technically exhausted after being whipsawed violently over the past few weeks, bulls have little to hang their hat on and shorts have just been taken to the cleaners. Both bears and bulls have gone to their respective corners for a breather. – Chris Jarvis	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
This is very difficult for any father or mother to see their son or daughter in that way, being violently attacked. – Bassem Tamimi	Found on CNN 8 years ago
We didn't expect the city's government to react so violently towards us. – Ruben Alcantara	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Dissent is very violently and swiftly repressed by the government, therefore the likelihood of protests as we saw in Burundi and Burkina Faso or even Senegal a few years ago is quite unlikely. – Yolande Bouka	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
I told you so to the community who had so violently refused his novel...which turned out to be prophetic. – Larry Kramer	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
When Christians act violently they are acting in opposition to the teachings of their founder, Jesus Christ, they cannot cite a single verse in the New Testament that calls for violence against unbelievers. On the other hand, radical Islamists can point to a number of verses in the Koran calling for Muslims to ‘crucify the infidels.’. – Robert Jeffress	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
He who joyfully marches to music rank and file, has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action. It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder. – Albert Einstein	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Dogs feel very strongly that they should always go with you in the car, in case the need should arise for them to bark violently at nothing right in your ear. – Dave Barry	added by anonymous 13 years ago
It is by no means self-evident that human beings are most real when most violently excited; violent physical passions do not in themselves differentiate men from each other, but rather tend to reduce them to the same state. – Thomas Elliot	added by anonymous 13 years ago

He lived violently and he apparently died violently.

– Dick Lehr

Found on CNN
5 years ago

We were violently shaken side to side, thrust back into our seats as the launch escape system ripped us away from the rocket, as all of that's happening, you're being shaken around, vision is blurry. I hear the alarm sounding and see the red light where the engine has had an emergency. I had the vivid realization we aren't making it to orbit today, we've been pulled off rocket and we have to land.

– Nick Hague

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Non-violently, peacefully, while the eyes of this country are watching these games, they take a knee to bring our attention and our focus to this problem to ensure that we fix it, that is why they are doing it. And I can think of nothing more American than to peacefully stand up, or take a knee, for your rights, any time, anywhere, in any place.

– Beto O'Rourke

added by rainbow_n
5 years ago

This November 6 election is very much a referendum on not only me, This November 6 election's a referendum on your religion, This November 6 election's a referendum on free speech and the First Amendment. It's a referendum on so much, it's not a question of like or dislike, it's a question that they will overturn everything that we've done and they will do it quickly and violently. And violently. There is violence. When you look at Antifa -- these are violent people.

– Donald Trump

Found on CNN
5 years ago

It's not a question of like or dislike, it's a question that they will overturn everything that we've done and they will do it quickly and violently. And violently. There is violence. When you look at Antifa -- these are violent people.

– Donald Trump

Found on CNN
5 years ago

This attack shocked the conscience of our nation and filled our hearts with grief. Journalists, like all Americans, should be free from the fear of being violently attacked while doing their job.

– Donald Trump

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Journalists, like all Americans, should be free from the fear of being violently attacked while doing their job.

– Melania Trump

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Those occur when lava flows encounter vegetated areas and vegetation burns and releases methane gas, methane pockets can get trapped underground and explode violently, throwing rocks and debris in many directions.

– Wendy Stovall

Found on CNN
6 years ago

While I was on the phone, Zayaan was violently sick everywhere and when the paramedics arrived his oxygen levels were really low, it actually got worse as we got to the hospital. There were talks of him having to be resuscitated.

– Zayaan Hussain

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

I ended up giving in to him. [I let him] kiss me, to touch me in ways I did not want him to touch me and in one of those instances, he attacked me violently and yes, he raped me.

– Karla Souza

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

These things can burn very quickly and violently ; it would not be unusual for them to explode, we believe it has n’t been a massive explosion ; it’s just been these vapor release valves that popped.

– Richard Rennard

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

They're a ragtag collection of untrained, unqualified staff with zero authority to investigate crimes, no idea how to preserve evidence for a trial, and no expertise toquestionany victims of rape, never mind women and children who've been violently sexually abused by the integrated team's fellow U.N. workers.

– Paula Donovan

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

In France, we always have the right to write and draw. And if some people are not happy with this, they can sue us and we can defend ourselves. That's democracy, you don't throw bombs -- you discuss, you debate. But you don't act violently. We have to stand and resist pressure from extremism.

– Charlie Hebdo journalist Laurent Leger

Found on CNN
8 years ago

I'm pretty sure it happened very quickly and very violently, if it was enough to rip the bridge right off El Faro, it was a very violent end.

– Larry Legere

Found on CNN
8 years ago

After that it got worse I would say, his seizure seemed to get worse, he was actually on the ground shaking violently.

– John Leonard

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

Oil is technically exhausted after being whipsawed violently over the past few weeks, bulls have little to hang their hat on and shorts have just been taken to the cleaners. Both bears and bulls have gone to their respective corners for a breather.

– Chris Jarvis

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

This is very difficult for any father or mother to see their son or daughter in that way, being violently attacked.

– Bassem Tamimi

Found on CNN
8 years ago

We didn't expect the city's government to react so violently towards us.

– Ruben Alcantara

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Dissent is very violently and swiftly repressed by the government, therefore the likelihood of protests as we saw in Burundi and Burkina Faso or even Senegal a few years ago is quite unlikely.

– Yolande Bouka

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I told you so to the community who had so violently refused his novel...which turned out to be prophetic.

– Larry Kramer

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

When Christians act violently they are acting in opposition to the teachings of their founder, Jesus Christ, they cannot cite a single verse in the New Testament that calls for violence against unbelievers. On the other hand, radical Islamists can point to a number of verses in the Koran calling for Muslims to ‘crucify the infidels.’.

– Robert Jeffress

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

He who joyfully marches to music rank and file, has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action. It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.

– Albert Einstein

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Dogs feel very strongly that they should always go with you in the car, in case the need should arise for them to bark violently at nothing right in your ear.

– Dave Barry

added by anonymous
13 years ago

It is by no means self-evident that human beings are most real when most violently excited; violent physical passions do not in themselves differentiate men from each other, but rather tend to reduce them to the same state.

– Thomas Elliot

added by anonymous
13 years ago

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