Belligerence Define Quotes & Sayings

He was born victor, as some are born vanquished. — Charlotte Bronte

I've always thought elephants walk as if they have music being piped into their heads that no one else can hear. And from the roll of their hips and their swagger, I'm going to guess that the artist is Barry White. — Jodi Picoult

There are no compasses for journeying in time. — Graham Swift

Choices are much more practical and small when you're dealing with a real story. It's about execution, it's not about content. — David Simon

I went seven years between 2002 and 2009 without winning. Then I did win in '09. — Matt Kuchar

Cultures define their gods when they're young and primitive, when their main concern is survival. They endow their gods with survival characteristics like omnipotence and authoritarianism, belligerence and suspicion, and that's what goes into all their myths or scriptures. Then, if they survive long enough, they begin to develop morality. They examine their own history, and they learn that authoritarianism doesn't accord with free will, that belligerence and suspicion are unhealthful, but this newly moral culture is stuck with its bigoted, interfering gods, plus it's stuck with people who prefer the old bloody gods and use them as their justification for doing all kinds of awful things. — Sheri S. Tepper