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Destruction is like a snow-ball rolled down a Hill, for its Bulk encreases by its own swiftness and thus Disorder spreads. — Peter Ackroyd

Just say anything without even caring if it is true. That is how riots start. — Colin Flaherty

Hey, I'm not judging. I'm familiar with IT-relations. Just wait until you meet our spaceship. She's a riot. — Marissa Meyer

I thank Pussy Riot for standing firmly in their belief for Freedom of Expression, and making all women of the world proud to be women. — Yoko Ono

Again and again, when Westerners are perceived as denigrating Muhammad, the Koran, or Islam, Islamists demonstrate, riot or kill. — Daniel Pipes

Read, learn, apply... — Irene Riot

It is always the savage lads, with their love of excitement, who head the riot - reckless to what bloodshed it may lead. — Elizabeth Gaskell

We shouldn't need riot police at schools. — Noel Gallagher

(Broad daylight; breakfast; return of cheerfulness and bons sens; Plato blushes for shame; all free spirits run riot.) — Friedrich Nietzsche

If you love a flower which happens to be on a star, it is sweet at night to gaze at the sky. All the stars are a riot of flowers. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

Michael Ralph brilliantly plays the street prophet, a West Indian who foreshadows the Harlem riot. — Debbie Allen

Baseball is very big with my people. It figures. It's the only way we can get to shake a bat at a white man without starting a riot. — Dick Gregory

October proved a riot a riot to the senses and climaxed those giddy last weeks before Halloween. — Keith Donohue

America. Where property damage is a greater offense than genocide. — Darnell Lamont Walker

The only riot I'm okay with is a zoot suit riot. — Julie Klausner

In Detroit, in July of 1967, what happened was no less than a guerrilla uprising.
The Second American Revolution. — Jeffrey Eugenides

But his heart was in a constant, turbulent riot. — F Scott Fitzgerald

Rigidity is always the opposite of the search for truth. — Masha Gessen

There's only two things you can start without a plan: a riot and a family, for everything else you need a plan. — Groucho Marx

The lo-fi scene and the riot grrrl thing had a huge influence on me. As a teenager I went to see Bikini Kill and all those bands. — Kieran Hebden

Burn, Hollywood, burn, I smell a riot goin' on,
First they're guilty, now they're gone! — Chuck D

The party had all the best qualities of a riot and a night on the barricades. — John Steinbeck

They tell me to be quiet
When I'd rather cause a riot
And have everyone screaming
Out their eccentric meaning. — Initially NO

The terror is strong because we don't act like the riot." Pigpen spits likes he's a viper showing his fangs full of venom. "My old man--he's Riot. — Katie McGarry

I'd like to cause a little riot in skating. — Sasha Cohen

A word could cause a riot, ink could spell a man's death, and the Sidhe knew those weapons like the backs of their hands. Oh yes, they knew. — Stefan Bachmann

All his thoughts were running riot, like rowdy children, and he wanted them to stop and leave him alone. He — Phaedra Patrick

Riot is the voice of the unheard. — Maxine Waters

I knew such a woman once,
She gave me everything.
Her love like a soft riot singing,
She knew how to shine. — Scott Hastie

The whole world turned into an all-you-can-eat buffet ... — Jonathan Maberry

On the plus side, there were no rioters in sight but on the minus side this was probably because everywhere I looked was on fire. — Ben Aaronovitch

No one wants to see self-destructive riots because there's no future in riots. — Jesse Jackson

I'd just turned 50, weighed 285, and my doctor had read me the riot act about my health. — Daniel Baldwin

I love the opportunity to just let my imagination run riot! Non-fiction can be very restrictive. — Raymond Buckland

Nobody cared about the riot until they thought it might spill into their nice neighborhoods. Then they got scared and called the National Guard. — Snoop Dogg

We need only two persons in our life - just you and me; and I think we can make a good story together. — Raj Singh

Passion is the mob of the man, that commits a riot upon his reason. — William Penn

Riots are the voices of the unheard. — Martin Luther King Jr.

Who's responsible for the riots? The rioters! — Dan Quayle

Love can be eternal but you are immortal. — Raj Singh

Those who are quiet will always cause riots. — Dr. Dre

You can't just lecture the poor that they shouldn't riot or go to extremes. You have to make the means of legal redress available. — Harold H. Greene

I want to scream because no matter how much I scream, no one will listen. — Sara Marcus

His old riot of black hair was now a translucent scrim of white, but his blue eyes still threw sparks. — Laura Hillenbrand

The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot. — Audre Lorde

Riot is the language of the unheard. — Martin Luther King Jr.

You know, the guys there were so beautiful - they've lost that wounded look that fags all had 10 years ago. — Allen Ginsberg

When is the army getting here?" "Never," he said. "Well . . . One riot, one Ranger." "Sure. Unless you're the one Ranger. — Philipp Meyer

Withhold a smile only when the smile can hurt someone. Otherwise, let it bloom forth in a riot. — Vera Nazarian

No, one couldn't make a revolution, one couldn't even start a riot, with sheep that asked only for better browsing. — Ellen Glasgow

I loved Riot Grrl. Not only was it a punk rock revolution, but it meant you could get dressed for a night out for less than two pounds! — Caitlin Moran

Why is there a riot in the heart when we love? — Benjamin Alire Saenz

Legislation won't necessarily start a riot. But the right song can make someone pick up a chair. — Saul Williams

Only in Cali where we riot not rally to live and die
In L.A. we wearin Chucks not Ballies (that's right) — Tupac Shakur

I grew up in the 30s with an unemployed father. He didn't riot; he got on his bike and looked for work and he kept looking 'til he found it. — Norman Tebbit

He almost caused a riot among the ladies; he filled all the empty space, as if someone had let a tiger loose in this world of female longing. Even — Isabel Allende

I was perfectly happy where I was, deliquescing, atom by atom, amid a riot of luxury. — Lev Grossman

It also means I could dump what I learned about the Riot onto Pigpen and he'd once again shut me out. — Katie McGarry

The riot, then, was an exercise in science and theology - a seeking after clues by the living as to what life was all about. — Kurt Vonnegut

People should riot for their freedom but first they have to understand who they are and how they are ruled. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

I love telling myself jokes. I think I'm a riot. — Scott Stevens

Well, the clown suit is a riot, too. — Michael Chiklis

The studio are making a lot of good noises about 'Bunker Hill;' so it would be great if that goes ahead. We had a riot filming it. — Tony Curran

On the correctly formed pubescent girl, a Speedo looked wonderful. When it was wet, it was an incitement to riot. — Clive James

Naomi Isabelle Knox. Lead guitarist for Amatory Riot. Twenty-three years old. Hot as hell. Mean as sin. — C.M. Stunich

Patriotism. I'm uncomfortable with any word that starts with a pat, ends in an ism and has a riot in the middle. — Ashok K. Banker

Wherever St. Paul went, there was a riot. Wherever I go, they serve tea. — N. T. Wright

He never did get right all the way again. And every once in a while he'd come down all bitey. — Jonathan Maberry

This is ridiculous, Maggie. I'm going to tell him to put his shirt back on." She gives me an evil eye. "Don't you dare. You'll cause a riot. — Jillian Dodd

I think Pussy Riot is amazing. I'm honored that they were inspired by riot grrl, and obviously they're making history around the world. — Corin Tucker

A riot is a spontaneous outburst. A war is subject to advance planning. — Richard M. Nixon

My soul is dark with stormy riot: directly traced over to diet. — Samuel Hoffenstein

Leo,you are a riot of color in my grey world". Shade Lewis to Leo Cutler (Drift) — Michael Dean

A fantastic Riot Boy, Trash the Senses..
-Thurston Moore — David Rat

A small proportion to be spent on production, the rest for wine and senseless riot. — Stephen Fry

It's nice and quiet
but soon again
starts another big riot! — Bjork

Democracy is a fine thing. But that doesn't mean citizens have a right to run riot whenever they disagree with something.
#Page: 120 — Kazuo Ishiguro

The NAACP should have riot rehearsal. They should get a liquor store and practice robberies. — Rush Limbaugh

The barometer of his emotional nature was set for a spell of riot. — James Joyce

In order that knowledge may not run riot, the author of the Gita has insisted on devotion accompanying it and has given it the first place. — Mahatma Gandhi

When the city burns down and people are shot dead, people think of a riot. — Allan Dare Pearce

An ambassador should study the welfare of his country, and not spend his time in feasting and riot. — Xenocrates

People don't riot for no reason. — Ann Leckie

When you lived in the funhouse, the laff riot just never stopped. — Stephen King

It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour; riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work. — Virginia Woolf

The cause of the riots were the rioters — Dan Quayle

All the stars are a riot of flowers. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

Causing a riot is what I do best. — Melina Marchetta

We hoped against hope that what we had been doing was enough to prevent a riot. It was not enough. — Jerome Cavanagh

I got kicked out in grade school because I staged a riot because I wanted more library time. — Bitsie Tulloch

I became chairman of the inmates committee. Got into a lot of trouble. Was accused of fomenting a riot. Was accused of plotting to kill the warden. — Clifford Irving

Shutting down governments on your computer is just as much as fun as going to a riot at Yale. — John Waters

Then I realized that for eighteen hundred years the Church Militant had not been a pageant, but a riot - and a suppressed riot. There, — G.K. Chesterton

We have the riots we deserve. — Alain Badiou

I can't believe that OMON [Russia's riot police] would hit a girl. I simply can't imagine it. — Vladimir Putin

The Stonewall riot may have been the start of a civil rights movement, but it was not the beginning of our history. — Tom Cardamone

The more we try to please others, the more we become unhappy. — Raj Singh

Left to itself, a heart will run riot with sin. But if a heart responds to the ministry of the Word, there can be fruit and beauty. — Warren W. Wiersbe

The spirits run riot in youth. — Ovid

He didn't riot. He got on his bike and looked for work. — Norman Tebbit