Famous Quotes & Sayings

Adolf Hitler

I do not see why man should not be just as cruel as nature.

Salman Rushdie

Cruelty is not a literary value.

Jonathan Harris

The cruelest thing was to do this on tax weekend. We can all work it out (individually). We don't need a law.

The cruelest joke in the history of the world was man being given so much reason and women were made unreasonable, while women were given so much tolerance and men were made intolerable.

The cry of the Little Peoples goes up to God in vain, / For the world is given over to the cruel sons of Cain.

It teaches that war is cruel and wasteful but sometimes necessary. That a blundering victory is more to be valued than a heroic defeat. That might and right sometimes come to the same end. All these things happened on June 6, 1944.

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

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.

Isabelle Huppert

The story is very cruel and very sharp,

Sometimes we all work so hard to overcome various things, and we are very cruel as a society and tough on people who we think aren't trying hard enough.

Chris Latham

Rugby's a cruel game. We didn't play to our full potential and we've come within a point, so we just have to try to stay positive.

William Blake

I see the Fourfold Man; the Humanity in deadly sleep, / And its fallen Emanation, the Spectre and its cruel Shadow. / I see the Past, Present, and Future existing all at once / Before me.

This drug could save the lives of 1,000 women a year. It is unfair and cruel for women like Ann Marie Rogers to know that it is money and their postcode that stands between them and this potentially life-saving treatment.

Bond was how Fleming saw himself; the sardonic, cruel mouth, the hard, tight skinned face.

Kara Swisher

My father died when I was only five years old, and that was the moment when I learned a cruel lesson that tomorrow, in fact, might not be another day.

Bob Bradley

We're a different team. We are making progress. That doesn't mean it's always going to happen all at once. The game can be cruel sometimes. I still remind the players that that's true on all levels. I mentioned Bayern Munich-Manchester United to them today because that is one of the most obvious examples.

You hate to see anything like that happen to anybody. It's such a cruel game. I was in shock.

You hate to see anything like that happen. First, you don't want to win a tournament like that, but you hate to see that happen to anyone. It's such a cruel game, but it's happened to all of us. That's golf.

E. B. White

Very often the real world is a nasty, cruel and unjust place. It's more fun to make up a proper world for oneself.

Michael Collins

Lost Souls ... a dark, violent mystery spiked with some cruel humor and plenty of social criticism.

Kate Forsyth

It has always seemed a cruel joke to me that the very word 'stutter' is difficult for many stutterers to pronounce. It is onomatopoeic, an imitation of the halting, repetitive sound made by people with this speech dysfunction.

Abraham Foxman

Pontius Pilate comes out as a sweet young guy, when history recalls him as one of the cruelest proconsuls, who had to be recalled to Rome because of his cruelty,

On kissing Cruel Intentions co star Selma Blair: It was a great kiss. It even had a saliva trail.

I always heard that kids are cruel ... but these kids treat her like a sister. They look out for her.

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

William Blake

But to go to school in a summer morn, Oh, it drives all joy away! Under a cruel eye outworn, The little ones spend the day in sighing and dismay

One of the things that we have wanted to have is the establishment of such a dialogue, ... Obviously, we will have to see where it leads, and whether it is a genuine dialogue, rather than the kinds of patronizing and cruel conversations that were evident when I was there.

Heather and Paul's visit to the seal pups will shine a global media spotlight on this cruel and needless slaughter.

Ella Wilcox

If I could only weep,I think sweet help with my salt tears would come,To ease the cruel pain that is so dumb,And will not let me sleep.

Horace

I am not what I was when kindly Cinara was queen. Strive no more, cruel mother of sweet loves.

Robert Burton

How much more cruel the pen may be than the sword

Lori Foster

I definitely could not write a character that was cruel or unconcerned with animal welfare. For me, not just as a writer but for the person I am, I love animals.

Lauren Beukes

I did a lot of research on real serial killers, and they're not Hannibal Lecters. They're cruel men who are given the opportunity to do something terrible, and a lot of the time it's about impotence. They feel powerless in the real world.