Famous Quotes & Sayings

Salman Rushdie

Cruelty is not a literary value.

Jennifer Campbell

The maliciousness, the intentional, deliberate cruelty that we see is incredibly frightening.

Georgia Witkin

To try for a perfect holiday is really an exercise in mental cruelty because there really is no such thing as perfect, so what you've got to do is make it your holiday.

Terry Jones

We think of medieval England as being a place of unbelievable cruelty and darkness and superstition. We think of it as all being about fair maidens in castles, and witch-burning, and a belief that the world was flat. Yet all these things are wrong.

William Blake

Cruelty has a Human Heart, And jealousy a Human Face; Terror the Human Form Divine, And secrecy the Human Dress. The Human Dress is forged Iron, The Human Form a Fiery Forge, The Human Face a Furnace seal d, The Human Heart its hungry gorge.

Patrick Stump

As far as criticism, I don't mind critics. I mean, I wrote for 'Rolling Stone' for a hot minute. I like criticism. I enjoy criticism. The thing I don't like is cruelty for cruelty's sake. You don't have to be a jerk to say something negative. You can say something in the negative sense and have class.

Matthew Scully

The only thing worse than cruelty is delegated cruelty.

Felix Frankfurter

Fragile as reason is and limited as law is as the institutionalized medium of reason, that's all we have standing between us and the tyranny of mere will and the cruelty of unbridled, undisciplined feeling

Thomas Buxton

One of the ill effects of cruelty is that it makes the bystanders cruel

Guillermo Coria

I was losing feeling on the hand, ... It has been happening for four days. I had a lot of treatment...but during the match, the more I serve, the more it gets tight -- the forearm, the shoulder. I knew it could happen. That's just the way it is.

Robbie Grinestaff

I wouldn't say I'm fully recovered. I'm still kind of feeling it.

Jerry Miller

Jordan was feeling a little flat out there. I'm not sure why. We'll sort that out. We've been working pretty hard.

Keith Jones

I talk to them the way I talk to them. Missy talks the way she talks to them. The way Sam talks ? 'You're going to be OK; this is what you're feeling; this is why you're feeling it.' ? is a little different. Then we send them to the pit bulls. They do what they need to do to get it done.

Steve Foley

Guys don't want to feel that feeling again, ... We just have to make sure it motivates us in a positive way.

Bruce Miller

He's a great one. He really is, ... Sorry. This is too good to be true. Here's a kid that lost everything. And we could accommodate, that we could provide him something that he wasn't going to have, it's just a good feeling that comes over you.

Torry Holt

He said he was feeling better. He has a pretty good spirit about things, and that's the most important thing. That helps us. If he's high-spirited, then we can go out and be high-spirited.

Mamadi Diane

He seemed like he was hitting it from everywhere. After he hit that 3 way off the line with the guy in his face, I knew he was feeling it.

David Towne

I think their feelings were that a deal's a deal. But I think they said they would think about it.

Nora Ephron

Joan is very funny. I'm always telling her she's a fraud: Everyone thinks she's fragile and humorless, when we all know she's wildly funny and the last surviving member of the Donner party.

Larry Robinson

I thought defensively we were in much better position. We're a little fragile in our own zone sometimes and guys will get running around a little bit. I thought our positioning was much better.

Dwane Casey

The first half was a carry-over from last night. ... We've got to get over that and regroup. We're fragile right now.

Mike Frauenheim

It's a matter of inches from us celebrating right now. That's what it all comes down to, a play here or there. That's how fragile the line of victory is.

Source Unknown

Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look at what they can do when they stick together.

Lon Anderson

This is not what we needed to start this travel day. This is a reminder of just how fragile our transportation system is.

Jim Gillette

There are a lot of fragile suppliers out there.

Edmond Pope

very weak and very fragile ... he wasn't the same person that left Pennsylvania in March.

Michael Douglas

Relationships are like bubbles – they’re fragile.

David Barron

he said. ''He significantly narrowed the scope of constitutional protection. It's an unfortunate turn in constitutional law.

Travis Xiong

It is a lot more complicated than it seems. Back in Laos, there is no law on when one can marry. Only reasonable ages.

Tom Angell

We've been trying to repeal this law ever since it was passed in 1998.

Carolyn Brown

I think the ACLU may be able to support the law here in Kansas. It is being written in a way that does not take away the right to assemble.

Cindy Sheehan

Lawyers in Washington (D.C.) are working on that right now. It should be filed next week.

Peter Andersen

Lawyers can't just get off a plane and walk with their briefcases into the courtroom.

Proverb Proverb

Lawyers and painters can soon make what's black, white.

Jason Young

Law of averages. We've played pretty well in some of them and had some not go our way.

Rev Musyimi

Law enforcement officers were also seen to be wanting by the public.

Joe Harsel

Historically, this sort of retirement living has been limited to the wealthiest in a community. The way that we do it makes it within the reach of that retired schoolteacher.

Wendell Perkins

I'm not worried about earnings, but there may be a limited upside for the market because of where valuations are.

Zach Duke

I just had an aggravated spot and it's kind of limited my mobility more than I expected,

Terrence Holt

That's a big loss. He's a Pro Bowler, ... I think that limited them.

Becky Richardson

It's been frustrating because there is limited play right now, which is when it starts warming up and people want to play.

Marc Ganis

They are limited in the means by which they can spend money.

Leon Krier

Human intelligence is a limited resource. It cannot solve problems caused by ignoring fundamentals of existence.

Bryan Pierce

It's typically not a 'no development' program, it's really a limited development program.

Rick Owens

It's not like I planned on producing it - but I would like it if someone wanted to do a limited edition,

Sophie Aldred

I loved the medium of TV from the first moment that I got into a studio.

Marshall McLuhan

The 'content' of any medium is always another medium.

Henri Matisse

I have been no more than a medium, as it were.

Sam Bhavnani

They're in a time of transition, and what they really need to do this year is sell products to small and medium businesses. Now, they don't really have products out there yet for that target market.

Alan Moore

I'm very distanced from the comics industry. I love the comics medium, but I have no time for the industry.

Daniel Clowes

Working on movies made me realize how fluid the medium of film was.

Krisda Watanasak

People say, 'I like medium,' but what does medium mean? We do more detail.

Lewis Gordon Pugh

Swimming has been a very effective medium for telling a story about the state of our planet.

Hasan M. Elahi

I'm an artist. And usually when I tell people I'm an artist, they just look at me and say, 'Do you paint?' or 'What kind of medium do you work in?'

Oscar Wilde

Insincerity is merely a method by which we can multiply our personalities

Jim Tracy

It's better than nice. Better than nice. That says a lot. The mere suggestion of it says a lot.

Jose Vistan

It merely compounded the problems that have been hounding the country,

Charles M. Schwab

For my own part I am more interested in my work than its mere money value.

Benjamin Franklin

A poet is the mere wastepaper of mankind.

C. S. Lewis

When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love them.

Eric Rasmussen

The problem with much of that thinking is that it's taking something from today, like movies, and merely putting it on the Web.

Adolf Hitler

All those who are not racially pure are mere chaff.

John Webster

We are merely the stars tennis-balls, struck and bandied which way please them.

Brian Sabean

I would say it has to be somebody who's a veteran, who's an innings-(eater) who's had reasonable success on a winning team.

Joanna Lumley

I switch off lights like a maniac. I drive at reasonable speeds so that I don't waste petrol.

Susanna Moore

Young writers reasonably say, 'I don't know what to write about,' so writing about yourself is a very literal way to begin.

Mohamed ElBaradei

If you have nothing to hide, there is no reason not to be transparent.

Terri Johnson

He's a big reason why we're having the success we are as a program.

Jeff Tarter

I think it's a reasonable model. It eliminates flakiness of patching and upgrading software.

Joel Fox

There is every reason to take it seriously when they are involved.

Sen Sears

I think we have come to a reasonable consensus. I think it will have strong support in the Senate.

Ron Ellis

It has been frustrating, but there is no reason why he can't come back at 100 percent.

Holly Derrick

We told her, just standing there, in the street. It was bad.

Wavy Gravy

The 90's are the 60's standing on their head.

Mike Lynch

I really didn't think we'd be able to be standing here. I never really thought I'd be able to do something like this.

Johnny Christ

If I ever wanted a gnome, I guess Id just stand out on my lawn for a while.

Paul Lambert

It's not comfortable to have me standing up here,

Christian Backman

It's tough . . . he was standing up for me. It's too bad. We need him.

Etan Thomas

Not everyone is comfortable with standing up. But I know it does get appreciated.

Myles Munroe

You are designed by God not to blend in, but to stand out

Lea Michele

Confidence is what makes you stand out.

Napoleon Bonaparte

The most insupportable of tyrannies is that of inferiors.

Albert Einstein

The tyranny of the ignoramuses is insurmountable and assured for all time.

John Paul Stevens

Anonymity is a shield from the tyranny of the majority.