Quotes having the keyword Cruel
So long as the laws remain such as they are today, employ some discretion: loud opinion forces us to do so; but in privacy and silence let us compensate ourselves for that cruel chastity we are obliged to display in public.
by Marquis de Sade (Novelist, French , born in 1740) keywords: chastity, compensate, cruel, discretion, display, employ, forces, laws, long, loud, obliged, opinion, ourselves, privacy, public, remain, silence, some, such, today , us People are constantly clamoring for the joy of life. As for me, I find the joy of life in the hard and cruel battle of life - to learn something is a joy to me.
by August Strindberg (Dramatist, Swedish , born in 1849) keywords: battle, constantly, cruel, find, hard, joy, learn, life , something You have within you many strong and cruel enemies to overcome. You must know that there are still a thousand ties which you must break. No one can tell you what they are; only you can tell by looking at yourself and into your heart.
by Johannes Tauler (Theologian, German , born in 1300) keywords: break, cruel, enemies, heart, into, know, looking, many, must, only, overcome, still, strong, tell, thousand, ties, which, within, your , yourself Every conceivable cruel method of blackmail was used against me to obtain by force and at all costs confessions and statements both about comrades who had been arrested, and about political activities.
by Ernst Thalmann (Politician, German , born in 1886) keywords: activities, against, arrested, been, blackmail, both, comrades, conceivable, confessions, costs, cruel, every, force, had, method, obtain, political, statements , used The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journalism industry, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs, for no good reason.
by Hunter S. Thompson (Journalist, American , born in 1937) keywords: business, cruel, die, dogs, free, good, hallway, heart, industry, journalism, kind, long, men, money, most, normally, perceived, pimps, plastic, reason, run, shallow, some, than, thieves, things, through, trench, tv, uglier , where The greater the state, the more wrong and cruel its patriotism, and the greater is the sum of suffering upon which its power is founded.
by Leo Tolstoy (Novelist, Russian , born in 1828) topics: Patriotism keywords: cruel, founded, greater, more, patriotism, power, state, suffering, sum, upon, which , wrong It is possible that the contemplation of cruelty will not make us humane but cruel; that the reiteration of the badness of our spiritual condition will make us consent to it.
by Lionel Trilling (Critic, American , born in 1905) keywords: badness, condition, consent, contemplation, cruel, cruelty, humane, make, our, possible, spiritual, us , will When I wasn't as attractive as I am now, I suffered at the hands of cruel children and their taunts until I realised that confidence and a bit of aesthetic care can overcome that.
by Johnny Vegas (Comedian, British , born in 1971) keywords: aesthetic, am, attractive, bit, care, children, confidence, cruel, hands, now, overcome, realised, suffered, taunts, their , until The foolish and cruel notion that a wife is to obey her husband has sent more women to the grave than to the courts for a divorce.
by Lemuel K. Washburnkeywords: courts, cruel, divorce, foolish, grave, her, husband, more, notion, obey, sent, than, wife , women In a cruel and evil world, being cynical can allow you to get some entertainment out of it.
by Daniel Waters (Soldier, American , born in 1731) keywords: allow, being, cruel, cynical, entertainment, evil, get, out, some , world It's a cruel, heartless world out there in commercial rock 'n' roll, and when you take as much time off as we did, eight years, booking agents don't know if you'll draw.
by Tina Weymouth (Musician, American , born in 1950) keywords: agents, booking, commercial, cruel, did, draw, eight, heartless, know, much, off, out, rock, roll, take, time, world , years I don't come to tournaments to make friends, to go to parties, to hold conversations. I come to be the best, and I'm not mean and cruel and dirty.
by Venus Williams (Athlete, American , born in 1980) keywords: best, come, conversations, cruel, dirty, friends, go, hold, make, mean, parties , tournaments There were also some cruel reviews by women, but the tone of the male reviewers, sometimes hysterical, was different. I have suffered, but I don't want to name names-but there have been men who have seemed to want to destroy me or my writing, men I don't even know.
by Marguerite Young (Author, American , born in 1908) keywords: also, been, cruel, destroy, different, even, hysterical, know, male, men, name, reviewers, reviews, seemed, some, sometimes, suffered, tone, want, were, women , writing Bond was how Fleming saw himself; the sardonic, cruel mouth, the hard, tight skinned face.
by Terence Young (Director, British , born in 1915) keywords: bond, cruel, face, fleming, hard, himself, how, mouth, saw, skinned , tight The true reason of Ms. Rice's attack against Russia is very simple. Condoleezza Rice is a very cruel, offended woman who lacks men's attention.
by Vladimir Zhirinovsky (Politician, Russian , born in 1946) keywords: against, attack, attention, condoleezza, cruel, lacks, men, ms, offended, reason, rice, russia, simple, true, very , woman
