Badass Quotes

1. "Women hate each other in science. You know why? Because the few that are around were trained by men. They survived by being twice as good and twice as competitive and twice as badass as the guys."
Author: Allegra Goodman

2. "People withhold their forgiveness, thinking that it makes them badass. But really, the unwillingness to forgive is merely the wishing that things were better. You wish that you had better, you wish that someone else were better so they could have treated you better... it's you making wishes. And that's not badass. To forgive is to be able to look at the person and say "I accept that you weren't any better than what you were", "I accept what you were you and couldn't have been what I wished you to be", "I accept that things were the way they were and weren't any better." The ability to forgive is intertwined with the ability to accept the reality of the way things are/ the way a person is or was. You stop wishing things and you just accept. And hope is what says to you: "One day you'll have what's better."
Author: C. JoyBell C.

3. "I was not crying - eyes water. I think we all know I'm a badass and I don't cry. - Caleb"
Author: C.J. Roberts

4. "And if you can believe it…she slapped me again."What the hell is wrong with you? Stop hitting me!" I finally looked up at her, but she was a blur. She hit me so hard my damn eyes were watering (I was not crying – eyes water. I think we all know I'm a badass and I don't cry)."
Author: C.J. Roberts

5. "Iron Sisters also badass at recycling!"
Author: Cassandra Clare

6. "She thought she saw a muscle twitch in mis cheek. "'Hello' is girly," he informed her. "Real men are terse. Laconic." "So the more manly you are, the less you say?" "Right." Simon nodded. Past him she could see the humid fog lowering over the East River, shrouding the waterfront in feathery gray mist. The water itself was the color of lead, churned to a whipped cream consistency by the steady wind. "That's why when major badasses greet each other in movies, they don't say anything, they just nod. The nod means,'I am a badass, and I recognize that you, too, are a badass,' but they don't say anything because they're Wolverine and Magneto and it would mess up their vibe to explain."
Author: Cassandra Clare

7. "He auditioned with Lily, and he and Lily had incredible chemistry that sort of blazed off the scene. I'm just sitting here watching this on my computer, and you know, he was not the only person they've ever sent me to look at. I've gotten lots of headshots and this and that, and I'm watching the audition and I literally started crying because that was my Jace and Clary on the screen. And it's an incredible feeling to see that even as an audition. This is amazing. He was snarky funny where he needed to be snarky funny, and he was badass where he needed to be badass. And he and Lily were incredible together"
Author: Cassandra Clare

8. "I'm Charlotte Davidson: private investigator, police consultant, all -around badass. Or I could've been a badass, had I stuck with those lessons in mixed martial arts. I was only in that class to learn how to kill people with paper."
Author: Darynda Jones

9. "I am in love with girls that are bad and naughty and badass, and a little selfish, but I like to watch from a respectful distance!"
Author: Dreama Walker

10. "You are not Kaia the Disappointment. Do you hear me? That's what I was trying to tell you earlier. You are Kaia the Mighty. How many Harpies out there do you think could have brought down the most badass Lord of the Underworld? The same Lord who also happens to be the strongest, sexiest and smartest. And by the way, in case there's any doubt, I'm describing me."
Author: Gena Showalter

11. "Listening to Eminem makes me feel like a badass. Or at least as though I have the potential for badassery. I mean, the way he sings, it's like he'd probably punch out a puppy if it looked at him wrong. Obviously I'm not glorifying animal cruelty here, I'm just saying, I could use some of that attitude."
Author: Hannah Harrington

12. "It was one long emo-ish rant of false badassery."
Author: Hugh Howey

13. "Put your badass face on and follow me."
Author: Ilona Andrews

14. "I know the expression love bloomed is metaphorical, but in my heart in this moment, there is one badass flower, captured in time-lapse photography, going from bud to wild radiant blossom in ten seconds flat."
Author: Jandy Nelson

15. "What she means is, I might look like a pussy but I'm really a badass demon."
Author: Jaye Wells

16. "Ysolde: "You think so? Well maybe your precious Aisling just needs to watch out, because I'm not some pushover, you know. I'm a mage, and mated to the baddest ass in the dragon world." Brom looked speculatively at Baltic. "That's you?" Baltic: "Yes. If you were my son, as you should have been, you, too, would have a badass."
Author: Katie MacAlister

17. "I am ten different kinds of badass now![Alucard Hellsing]"
Author: Kohta Hirano

18. "My mom could be really fierce. A regular Frau Badass."
Author: Kresley Cole

19. "One, you're hiring Lee Nightingale and, girl, you know, that dude has had books written about him. They were fictionalized, but he's also in the paper all the time, so we both know whoever wrote that shit did not tone it down. He's the badass to end all badasses. He's such a badass, he's the freaking definition of badass, and his team of badasses only exist to define alternate nuances of the same thing. Badass."
Author: Kristen Ashley

20. "My man got close to my back and his mouth came to my ear where he said quietly, "Hurry this shit up, baby, ‘cause what you got last night after I watched you slide down a pole upside down while straddling it is gonna be nothin' to what I give you tonight watchin' you be badass." I turned and glared up at him. "Don't turn me on while I'm working, Zano." His lips quirked. "Jesus," Mace muttered."
Author: Kristen Ashley

21. "You're livin' in Badass World, baby," he whispered in my ear. "Fair warning, until I fix what I cut in you, you're there to stay."
Author: Kristen Ashley

22. "I'll take this. I'll take this every day and every day I'll know in the end I beat that bastard. He might not have been alive to see it, but I bet his goddamned, motherfucking ass."Seriously, he was hot when he was being all vengeful badass."
Author: Kristen Ashley

23. "Then, still smiling, he kissed me. When he lifted his head he didn't go far so I heard it when he whispered, "My reward." My eyes narrowed and I snapped, "You're not allowed to do that shit." His head jerked slightly and he asked, "Say again?" "Be sweet and make me all melty and want to jump you when I'm celebrating my heretofore unknown badassness with a bunch of bikers and their bitches. Not to mention, I'm hungry." Tack grinned as his arm snaked around me and he yanked me close. "You wanna jump me?" he asked."
Author: Kristen Ashley

24. "I'm not a big goof. I'm a badass, even with a squirt gun. I totally kicked both their asses."
Author: Kristen Ashley

25. "She's a badass motherf**keress. She'd kick your ass soon as look at you. You've clapped your eyes on The Law. Count yourself lucky, sucker. Now, what'll it f**kin'be?"
Author: Kristen Ashley

26. "Oh, hell, no. I saw you with the rifle." He glanced over at her, and his voice went a notch deeper. "It was fucking hot. I love a badass female."
Author: Larissa Ione

27. "Lukas grinned at me. "I didn't know how badass you are. That's kind of hot."
Author: Lee Nichols

28. "Don't be so concerned," he whispered. "We will get through this, I promise." "What makes you so certain?" I couldn't help my skepticism."We have no other choice," he replied matter-of-factly. "Is that really all you can come up with?" I scowled. "Couldn't you just lie and tell me you have some kind of secret badass weapon that is going to make this a piece of cake?"
Author: M.A. George

29. "Of the myriad impressive notables related to Dio's passing, perhaps foremost is the fact the man was 67 years old and was still making quality hard rock records, still touring with a new (old) version of Black Sabbath, still singing his absolute heart out about dragons and rainbows, making the infamous devil horns hand gesture he swiped from his Italian grandmother and which has since became the universal, undeniable, completely badass symbol for true metal across all galaxies everywhere, and for which Dio deserves to be ensconced in the heavens forevermore."
Author: Mark Morford

30. "Johnny Cash had all of the same talents and problems as Elvis - a poor upbringing in the rural South exposure to gospel music throughout his childhood a penchant for drug abuse...they had the same sort of influencing experiences but Johnny' Cash's problematic relationship was with his father not his mother. If he had had the mommy issues that Elvis had instead of a compelling need to prove himself to his father, he wouldn't have been the badass man in black, the guy in Folsom Prison watching the train roll by. Elvis was a lot of things but even with the karate and the gunplay he was more unstable than badass."
Author: Molly Harper

31. "IF YOU are a relatively small woman, and a man at least twice your size is bellowing at you in anger, and you're wearing a prisoner's uniform, and he has a pair of handcuffs on his belt, I don't care how much of a badass you think you are, you'll be fucking scared"
Author: Piper Kerman

32. "Who's Myrnin?"Claire controlled an urge to roll her eyes. "Badass crazy vampire scientist who's my boss.""You realize no part of that sentence made sense, right?"
Author: Rachel Caine

33. "Wow! I'm more of a badass than I thought."
Author: Rhiannon Frater

34. "I'd said it before and meant it: Alive or undead, the love of my life was a badass."
Author: Richelle Mead

35. "Dimitri was on a first name basis with one of the most badass guardians around. Of course, Dimitri was pretty badass himself, so I shouldn't have been surprised."
Author: Richelle Mead

36. "Adrian gave me a look that said I was wasting his time. "Because Jet sounds badass."
Author: Richelle Mead

37. "We can't do this without you," I managed at last. "Everyone talks about my powers, but you're the badass here."
Author: Richelle Mead

38. "Janine Hathaway offered to be my guardian, " said Lissa suddenly."Janine Hathaway?" Tatiana's eyebrows rose nearly to her hairline. "I'm sure she has other commitments. No, we've got much better choices." A better choice than Janine Hathaway? Not likely. Before Dimitri, my mother had been the gold standard by which I measured all badassedness."
Author: Richelle Mead

39. "Everyone all right?"Angela nodded. Holly looked up and smiled too, her smile shakier and thus more real than Ash's. "I'm okay," she said. "I see you are too. I also see you have a weapon that is on fire.""I'm badass like that," Kami said, putting the branch down on the cobblestones."
Author: Sarah Rees Brennan

40. "Holy Hell! That was totally badass"
Author: Shannon Delany

41. "There are girls who are so fierce that wearing pink makes them look that much cooler (especially when paired with black-and-white-striped tights or a skull choker). On those badass vixens, pink becomes an in-your-face dare that says "hey, world, even in the girliest of colors, I'm still cool as hell, so don't fuck with me."
Author: Shauna Cross

42. "You are the Energizer Bunny for badasses. -Ash"
Author: Sherrilyn Kenyon

43. "A what? (Fang)Badass demon with a superiority complex who picks his teeth with bones of infants. Let's just keep it simple and say he's a demon I want out of the human realm. ASAP. (Thorn)"
Author: Sherrilyn Kenyon

44. "Keep your voice down. And before you go all badass cop on me, I'm the one who saved your life outside. (Nathan)How do I know that? (Terri)Let's use some logic. You stuck your head in here. Someone tried to use it for target practice, but I yanked you away before you ended up headless. If I was the shooter, you'd be dead now and we wouldn't be having this conversation. (Nathan)"
Author: Sherrilyn Kenyon

45. "So you're a badass assassin, huh? You don't look like much to me. (Stranger)You have three seconds to evaporate or I'm going to spray your brain matter all over your crew behind you. (Adron)"
Author: Sherrilyn Kenyon

46. "Embracing your true self radiates a natural beauty that cannot be diluted or ignored. Confident, powerful, untamable, badass you!"
Author: Steve Maraboli

47. "I thought I was rescuing her... I thought I was the knight in shining armor... But it turns out; she was the badass princess that was rescuing me."
Author: Steve Maraboli

48. "We're not the Faster-than-the-Speed-of-Light Generation anymore. We're not even the Next-New-Thing Generation. We're the Soon-to-Be-Obsolete Kids, and we've crowded in here to hide from the future and the past. We know what's up – the future looms straight ahead like a black wrought-iron gate and the past is charging after us like a badass Doberman, only this one doesn't have any letup in him."
Author: Tim Tharp

49. "...chicks are naturally attracted to the scent of badass"
Author: Trish Doller

50. "You know what you need?""What?""You need to think about what a badass bald man would do in this situation""There are no badass bald men. By definition.""What about Dwight D. Eisenhower?" Carlos suggested."President Eisenhower?""Doesn't he qualify as a badass?" Carlos insisted."Look, he may have been president, but he doesn't exactly come to people's minds when you ask them to think of a badass.""All right. How about Kojak?" Carlos asked."That police detective show with Telly Savalas?" Sammy asked."Yeah, Kojak. He was a badass. Always cool under pressure.""All right," Sammy replied. "Let's just say, for the sake of argument, that Kojak was a bald badass. So what?'"So you have to imagine how Kojak would deal with this situation we have in front of us. He wouldn't be worried about whether this girl digs bald guys. He would just walk right up to her, knowing that he's a badass and just take care of business. You see, it's all in the delivery.""The delivery?""Yeah, the execution"
Author: Zack Love

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