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

Bob Hartley

We're playing with passion. These guys never quit. We're seeing within our dressing room guys committed, playing sick, and hurt.

Laugh, clown, laugh. This is what I tell myself whenever I dress up like Bozo.

Eric Lindros

I can honestly say there isn't a guy in the dressing room who doesn't respect Pat.

Clint Stoerner

I am disappointed. It's tough competing, and it is tough to show out when you don't even dress out.

Rita Wilson

He was the first to dress stars - even before I married Tom, and that is 19 years ago.

Joe DiMuro

He may not dress like a surfboarder or skateboarder. But he can communicate like one.

Barry Hyman

Today is the next to last day of the quarter and window dressing gets more aggressive.

Richelle Mead

Day 24. Situation is growing worse. My captors continue to find new and horrific ways to torture me. When not working, Agent Scarlet spends her days examining fabric swatches for bridesmaid dresses and going on about how in love she is. This usually causes Agent Boring Borscht to regale us with stories of Russian weddings that are even more boring than his usual ones. My attempts at escape have been thwarted thus far. Also, I am out of cigarettes. Any assistance or tobacco products you can send will be greatly appreciated. -Prisoner 24601

Venus Williams

I wear a lot of tight dresses, so I'm like, 'I need to do my sit-ups!'

Martin Jacques

Just six years into the 21st century, one can say this is not shaping up to be anything like an American century. Rather, the U.S. seems much more likely to be faced with a very different kind of future: how to manage its own imperial decline.

Arthur Jr.

Journalists should not have to face the prospect of imprisonment for doing nothing more than aggressively seeking to report on the government's actions.

Rusty Hand

It actually was an important match. My senior year, probably the last time I'll face him unless I get him at districts, so yeah, it was an important match to me. I tried hard, but I didn't have the mental game today.

Dan Coughlin

He was a great boss. He liked to put a smile on the face of the sports page.

Kent Johnson

He leads a lot by example. (But) at times, he doesn't mind getting in somebody's face or saying what needs to be said.

Grant Achatz

Whenever people are faced with any sort of adversity... they tend to gravitate toward things that make them comfortable, and things that they feel are important.

Olivia Mellan

have it in your face all the time.

Antonio Tarver

I think it's a slap in the face to all the people that have pumped him up and glorified him over the years,

John Foley

It could be really difficult, ... My job was to make it trendy. It was to make it hip, to take the face of Nixon and turn it into a salable commodity.

Tony MacAulay

He wanted to pull himself. I was not going to him let him do that. He is a fiery guy, a passionate guy. Every one is going to get emotional. He can learn from it. We can't quit. We have to play these guys six more times.

Christian Bale

What I love about my wife is that she's a really strong-minded, stubborn, fiery woman. I find that sexier than anything else.

Walter Mondale

At least when Ronald Reagan rode off in the movies into the fiery sunset, he didn't take us with him

Margaret MacDonald

A fiery trial which is to try us.

John Milton

O'er many a frozen, many a fiery Alp, / Rocks, caves, lakes, fens, bogs, dens, and shades of death.

Eddie Montgomery

He forged that guy's name on the check, and cashed it,

Davis Drewiske

It's an even better feeling, because I think what we went through tonight is obviously something we haven't gone through before. Just the style of game it was and the quality of the team that we were playing, I think we really forged ourselves into a better team tonight.

Marguerite Gardiner

Prejudices are the chains forged by ignorance to keep men apart.

Bertrand Russel

There are no better friends than those forged through honest and often heated argument.

Ayman Nour

What happened was a continuation of the forged referendums that used to take place before.

Baba Kalyani

You cannot make an aircraft without forged components.

Matt McKay

He can shoot the ball. His form is better than Bryce's. He and Jake have a better pure shot.

Max Mosley

What we will do is publish the 2008 regulations and there will be a Formula One World Championship in 2008,

Robert Wiley

He's just fought his way, as he normally does through that, and his form in the WAFL has been exceptional, so it is a reward for his performances in the WAFL and (it's great for him) to just be able to get out there and play footy.

Alan Cropsey

He's a very formidable personality when it comes to Washington, D.C.

Harold Pinter

I think it's enough for me. I've found other forms now.

Ian Cameron

It is a less formal car, more streamlined, more about the individual.

Neil Stern

I think their strategy is to be as ubiquitous as Walgreen's. They're a very good operator, a formidable rival to Walgreen's.

Janne Darata

I was devastated. I had time to formulate a plan on how to make something positive out of this tragedy.

Tim Ruskell

There is a formula and there is a way to get to that point. You don't know how quickly it's going to happen.

Dick Bennett

You test gold in a furnace and silver with a crucible, but you test man with praise.

Phil Wold

If a person owns their home they can have their furnace repaired or replaced at no cost.

Marilu Henner

You just have to stoke that furnace throughout the day.

S. Hughes

He just went AWOL (absent without leave) on us. I think he just lost his heart for the battle. But he was a lovely lad. They all seem to be lovely lads from Trinidad.

Daniel Inouye

Henry was an acquaintance of presidents and kings, but his heart was always with the native people of Hawaii, who are still struggling for their moment in the sun,

Roberto Torres

Have the heart of a lion and the mind of an eagle.

Robert Richardson

Her lungs were fine. It was just her heart.

Sandra Ritchey

Her heart had just been working too hard.

Nanci Griffith

...here's to all the dreamers, may our open hearts find rest.

John Tortorella

He's been so much-maligned all year long but tonight his heart was as big as the building, especially in that third period he played.

Randy Rutledge

What do you tell the guys? All I can say is I'm proud of them. They got it done heart to win for each other.

Bryce Kaneshiro

I thought we had it. We had tons of opportunities, especially on the throw-ins. I thought we'd get two or three in. Right now, it's the worst feeling, but I'm proud of the guys. They left their hearts on the field.

Jeremy Jacobs

Jacques had done street theater in Paris. He'd always been interested in large architectural structures and how humans interact with them.

Milo Hamilton

He rode managers. He rode players. It didn't matter. He treated everyone the same way. In short, he was a miserable human being.

Paul Taylor

I think that's a Jewish trait, ... It's also a human trait.

Jenna Marbles

There is no cure for ugly, but you can make yourself into a human optical illusion.

C. Hughes

We are experiencing a human catastrophe of immense proportions, ... We pray today for those who have lost their lives ... and for those who are risking their lives to rescue others.

Jon Ronson

I was always out to paint them with human characteristics we could relate to. They really are, by and large, personable in the flesh.

Nick Cave

I'm not someone who's particularly in touch with the way they feel. I've heard it said that you should be a 'human being' not a 'human doing', but I'm a human doing, very much so.

John Ashcroft

Human trafficking victims are too often people like Got. Too young, too frightened, and too trapped in their circumstances to speak for themselves, ... This is a 4-year-old child. He's a shy, tender little boy.

Paul Martin

Humans are really expensive, and they're really slow.

Ramana Maharshi

Peace is the inner nature of humankind. If you find it within yourself, you will then find it everywhere.

Joseph Chilton Pearce

Play is the only way the highest intelligence of humankind can unfold.

Sandra Cisneros

My idea of a meal, if I was hungry, was to open a bag of potato chips.

Jon Bon Jovi

You have to be either naive or power-hungry to get into politics. I wouldn't consider it myself. I am too well-informed.

Dr. Alejos

They are very hungry to learn. They want to do cutting-edge things.

Rachel Nichols

I never pile a plate to the point where it overflows. I'd rather have a small plate with small portions and then get up for more if I'm still hungry.

Lil Wayne

I'm so greedy, I'm hungry, I'm young.

Ron Allice

The men have been pretty patient, because they weren't in the indoor competitions (like the women's team). They were hungry to show where they stand.

Christopher Burge

The market is hungry for spectacular impressionist works as the smashing results for paintings by Toulouse-Lautrec, Cezanne and Monet indicate.

Sarah McCabe

As much as it's frustrating, it's also motivating because every time you come closer, it makes you that much more hungry to put that next one in.

Dan Donegan

This is the payoff for us, to be on the road. To be on stage and see the kids hungry for the music, to see them excited. That's why we do this.

Richard Perle

The jealousy and resentment that animate the terrorists also affect many of our former cold war allies.

William Shenstone

Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it.

William James

Emotional occasions, especially violent ones, are extremely potent in precipitating mental rearrangements. The sudden and explosive ways in which love, jealousy, guilt, fear, remorse, or anger can seize upon one are known to everybody. . . . And emotions that come in this explosive way seldom leave things as they found them.

Sarah Brightman

Love sees sharply, hatred sees even more sharp, but Jealousy sees the sharpest for it is love and hate at the same time.

Richard Le Gallienne

There is something mean in human nature that prefers to think evil, that gives a willing ear and a ready welcome to calumny, a sort of jealousy of goodness and greatness and things of good report.

Sasha Azevedo

Jealousy is the result of one's lack of self-confidence, self-worth, and self-acceptance.

William Graham Sumner

It is remarkable that jealousy of individual property in land often goes along with very exaggerated doctrines of tribal or national property in land.

Francois VI Duc de La Rochefoucauld

In jealousy there is more of self-love than love.

Milan Kundera

Jealousy isn't a pleasant quality, but if it isn't overdone (and if it's combined with modesty), apart from its inconvenience there's even something touching about it.

Bible Bible

Of the tribe of Juda were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Reuben were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Gad were sealed twelve thousand.

Andy Palmer

Someone's going to have to take that big fullback and someone is going to have to seal off the perimeter for us to be successful.

Brian Griffin

Now everything has got a seal on it.

Steven Morrissey

I don't perform. Seals perform.

Ashton Kutcher

When I was on the '70s Show,' I had that and I had 'Punk'd' and I had my own production company. That pretty much sealed up all my time.

William Hazlitt

Keep your misfortunes to yourself.

Mahatma Gandhi

Nonviolence abhors fear and therefore, secrecy.

Kirby Dick

The most unfortunate thing about the system is the secrecy of the board.

Benjamin Disraeli

Be thine own privy counsellor.

Nick Cook

The time for its secrecy is past. It's time for it to come into the light.

D. H. Lawrence

there is no pornography without a secrecy.

Thales

Conceal thy domestic ills.

George P. Shultz

The higher the classification of secrecy, the quicker you will report it.

Harrison Salisbury

Life within the Kremlin was shrouded in impenetrable secrecy.

Sarah Palin

Waterboarding is how we baptize terrorists.

Vladimir Lenin

It is necessary - secretly and urgently to prepare the terror.

Mahatma Gandhi

There being no absolute and universal standard of right, terrorism must be held to be wrong in every case.

Bill Richardson

The war on terror is unlike any war we've ever faced,

Kellyanne Conway

The idea that Hillary Clinton's plan wants to increase Syrian refuges by 550 percent is very concerning to many Americans. They know what has happened. They know there's home-grown terrorism here.

Leon Panetta

If you're a terrorist, you're a terrorist.

Peter King

As a devastating series of attacks rock America's oldest ally, the nation that stood by us after 9/11 that gifted us the Statue of Liberty. France on November 13, 2015 fell victims to the worst terror attack in its history.

Malala Yousafzai

Education is the power terrorists fear most.

Mahatma Gandhi

Apparently, I've acted like a terrorist. But I'm not a terrorist.