Famous Quotes & Sayings

It's real difficult. You know how cruel little kids can be.

Josiah Royce

No baseness or cruelty of treason so deep or so tragic shall enter our human world, but that loyal love shall be able in due time to oppose to just that deed of treason its fitting deed of atonement.

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.

Bjork

Most Icelandic people are really proud to be from there, and we don't have embarrassments like World War II where we were cruel to other people. We don't even have an army. So it's sort of like an all-around good, innocent place.

Oscar Wilde

There is no such thing as an omen. Destiny does not send us heralds. She is too wise or too cruel for that.

Why does tragedy happen to good people who are going about doing good for others? ... We live in a world that is not always fair. To suggest it was Scott's time to leave Earth is some kind of cruel joke.

There is an increasingly pervasive sense not only of failure, but of futility. The legislative process has become a cruel shell game and the service system has become a bureaucratic maze, inefficient, incomprehensible, and inaccessible.

Elizabeth Bibesco

Oh, youth is a wicked, cruel thing - eating miracles with its breakfast and not knowing they are not porridge.

Alan Furst

I don't inflict horrors on readers. In my research, I've uncovered truly terrible documentations of cruelty and torture, but I leave that offstage. I always pull back and let the reader imagine the details. We all know to one degree or another the horrors of war.

Jane Birkin

I don't like getting older, but there's nothing I can do. Hitting 60 wasn't great, but I think I was lucky in not being that beautiful; it can be really cruel on people who have been stunning.

Scott Snyder

TV didn't show how cruel this was to them, ... It showed rescues, but not people with no homes, no families because they were gone. It was exhausting in every meaning of the word. You had to push to the limit and push past it. You can't think of yourself.

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.

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

Deception is a cruel act... It often has many players on different stages that corrode the soul.

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.

Isabelle Huppert

The story is very cruel and very sharp,

Mikhail Gorbachev

A true leader, a man of his word and an optimist, he traveled the journey of his life with dignity and faced courageously the cruel disease that darkened his final years. He has earned a place in history and in people's hearts.

There was feces at least 3 inches deep throughout house. ... This really moves to a cruelty situation.

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.

William Blake

Cruelty has a human heart, And jealousy a human face Terror, the human form divine, And secrecy, the human dress

James Forrestal

Cruel as death, and hungry as the grave.

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.

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.

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.

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

It's cruel to the roosters, and we don't want that to be happening in our community.

It's a cruel position. It's a hard one to master. There are so many intangibles, so many factors that come to bear.

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

Andrea Yates

a cruel dilemma which turned upside down her sense of right and wrong.

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.