Quotes about Brutal

When somebody challenges you, fight back. Be brutal, be tough. Votes: 4

Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn. Votes: 4

True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason. Votes: 4

The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer. Votes: 4

Rock 'n Roll: The most brutal, ugly, desperate, vicious form of expression it has been my misfortune to hear. Votes: 4

I think I have a superior brain and an inferior stature, if you really want to get brutal about it. Votes: 4

You can either look at things in a brutal, truthful way that's depressing, or you can screw around and have fun. Votes: 4

For a man to strike any women is most brutal, and I, as well as everyone else, think this far worse than any attempt to shoot, which, wicked as it is, is at least more comprehensible and more courageous. Votes: 4

Experience is a brutal teacher, but you learn fast. Votes: 3

Brutal men with unlimited power are the same all over the world Votes: 3

Brutal men with unlimited power are the same all over the world. Votes: 3

Always, however brutal an age may actually have been, its style transmits its music only. Votes: 3

The difference between our decadence and the Russians is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic. Votes: 3

There are souls which fall from heaven like flowers, but ere they bloom are crushed under the foul tread of some brutal hoof. Votes: 3

Most middle-class whites have no idea what it feels like to be subjected to police who are routinely suspicious, rude, belligerent, and brutal. Votes: 3

Saddam Hussein has been brutal against his people, but when he was committing those crimes, the international community did not come to the rescue of the Iraqis. Votes: 3

We must now make clear to Lebanon that it will not benefit from U.S. assistance and support as long as it harbors this brutal terrorist and murder. Votes: 3

Yes, I am a Jew, and when the ancestors of the right honorable gentleman were brutal savages in an unknown island, mine were priests in the temple of Solomon. Votes: 3

This city can be kind of brutal, so you see your dreams from every different angle, but ultimately it's about acting and if you enjoy acting, you will always enjoy acting. Votes: 3

We imagined that the mildness of our government and the wishes of the people were so correspondent that we were not as other nations, requiring brutal force to support the laws. Votes: 3

I do not consider divorce an evil by any means. It is just as much a refuge for women married to brutal men as Canada was to the slaves of brutal masters. Votes: 3

All my stories are about the action of grace on a character who is not very willing to support it, but most people think of these stories as hard, hopeless and brutal. Votes: 3

More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginning of all wars - yes, an end to this brutal, inhuman and thoroughly impractical method of settling the differences between governments. Votes: 3

I mean it's the most objective industry in the world. If your numbers stink, you're out. If your numbers are good, you get more money. It's the most Darwinian, it's beautiful, it's brutal, it works. Votes: 3

When literature exists, perhaps we do not notice how important it is, but when it does not exist, our lives become coarsened and brutal. For this reason, I am proud of my profession, but also aware of its importance. Votes: 3

Men Wanted for Dangerous Expedition: Low Wages for Long Hours of Arduous Labour under Brutal Conditions; Months of Continual Darkness and Extreme Cold; Great Risk to Life and Limb from Disease, Accidents and Other Hazards; Small Chance of Fame in Case of Success. Votes: 3

India has indeed a great and free future before her, in which she can make her special contribution to the well-being of mankind. The first and indispensable part of that contribution is to work with the United Nations for the defeat of fascism and of brutal aggression. Votes: 3

Our parents were very strict. Not in a brutal or awful way, but there were definite rules, such as after six on a school night you didn't go out, and at weekends you had to be home by a certain time. It wasn't particularly sheltered, but we were well brought-up. Votes: 3

It's a pretty brutal process, having a baby. Votes: 1

Technology is making gestures precise and brutal, and with them men. Votes: 1

Profaneness is a brutal vice. He who indulges in it is no gentleman. Votes: 1

You've to celebrate the good days because there are brutal days that make the good ones sweet. Votes: 1

I think brutal honesty is extremely important. Don't be afraid of being up-front about your feelings and your life. Votes: 1

A guitar is a very personal extension of the person playing it. You have to be emotionally and spiritually connected to your instrument. I'm very brutal on my instruments, but not all the time. Votes: 1

If we do not voluntarily bring population growth under control in the next one or two decades, the nature will do it for us in the most brutal way, whether we like it or not. Votes: 1

Saddam's fate should be in the hands of his country men. They were the major victims of his brutal reign and should decide his life, death, or permanent imprisonment. Personally, I would lock him away forever. Votes: 1

Blue is the male principle, stern and spiritual. Yellow the female principle, gentle, cheerful and sensual. Red is matter, brutal and heavy and always the colour which must be fought and vanquished by the other two. Votes: 1

The Cuban people still live in constant fear of a brutal totalitarian regime that has demonstrated time and again its utter disregard for basic human dignity. The fight for a free Cuba has gone on for far too long. Votes: 1

Hatred is corrosive of a person's wisdom and conscience; the mentality of enmity can poison a nation's spirit, instigate brutal life and death struggles, destroy a society's tolerance and humanity, and block a nation's progress to freedom and democracy. Votes: 1

Over the years, the diamond industry has had a devastating impact in countries such as Sierra Leone, Angola and the Congo, where profits from the sale of diamonds have been used to fund brutal wars, with disastrous effects on local communities. Votes: 1

Before the military coup in Chile, we had the idea that military coups happen in Banana Republics, somewhere in Central America. It would never happen in Chile. Chile was such a solid democracy. And when it happened, it had brutal characteristics. Votes: 1

I belong to a nation which over the past centuries has experienced many hardships and reverses. The world reacted with silence or with mere sympathy when Polish frontiers were crossed by invading armies and the sovereign state had to succumb to brutal force. Votes: 1

We all make judgments on people, but some are much more brutal than others. It's easy to say, 'Ya know, I'm not crazy about what she's wearing,' but you don't have to be nasty about it, and you don't have to be public about it. Votes: 1

Animal abuse is rampant in the U.S., right under everyone's eyes, for the entertainment of the public. The brutal confinement and pain of training methods of wild animals in the circus, the aquatic and theatrical shows, leads to retaliation by the animals. Eventually they find the right time to strike out, and they will. Votes: 1

Joker' was a violent, dark, and brutal book, so I wanted to do something a little less heavy. I played around with the idea of a children's book, and that eventually became 'Noel.' And I just kept finding these parallels between things I could do with Batman and Charles Dickens' 'A Christmas Carol.' Votes: 1

What shocked me, and what I wasn't prepared for, was just how brutal and how unethical some people can be in the NFL. I mean, there were some great people, but there were some real snakes, too. I was like, 'Holy cow!' But it made me a better person, and it got me ready for other things. Votes: 1

Embrace nature's brutal perfection. Votes: 0

Kids are pretty brutal. Votes: 0

Acting is kind of brutal. Votes: 0

The restaurant industry is brutal. Votes: 0

Our century is a brutal thinker. Votes: 0

Capitalism is a pretty brutal place. Votes: 0

People are brutal. Just to each other. Votes: 0

The heart grows brutal feeding on fantasies. Votes: 0

Few things are as psychologically brutal as chess. Votes: 0

What was more brutal than loss of hope? Votes: 0

I found out I really love brutal fight scenes. Votes: 0

Comparison is a brutal assault upon one’s self. Votes: 0

Photography is 90% sheer, brutal drudgery! The other 10% is inspiration!! Votes: 0

Painful life is brutal and painless life is superficial. Votes: 0

We are territorial, power-hungry and even more brutal than chimpanzees. Votes: 0

People who are vigorous and brutal often find war enjoyable. Votes: 0

Outing is brutal and it should be reserved for brutes Votes: 0

LA is the loneliest and most brutal of American cities. Votes: 0

Russia is tough. The history, the land, the people - brutal. Votes: 0

There is always a way to be honest without being brutal. Votes: 0

The brutal reality of politics would be probably intolerable without drugs. Votes: 0

A brutal, relentless self-analysis lies at the heart of all despair. Votes: 0

I'm the most brutal and ruthless conquerer there has ever been. Votes: 0

I'm a strict materialist - but the police are brutal materialists. Votes: 0

Life was brutal and it made victims of everyone.' (Nykyrian) Votes: 0

These monstrous criminals have demonstrated a vile and brutal affront against humanity. Votes: 0

We are the most brutal with the people we love the most. Votes: 0

There is no opposing brutal force to the stratagems of human reason. Votes: 0

It was violent, it was brutal, and it got down right uglyyy! Votes: 0

Before verse can be human again it must learn to be brutal. Votes: 0

If you look at children's stories in fairy tales, they're pretty brutal. Votes: 0

All men are selfish, brutal and inconsiderate--and I wish I could find one. Votes: 0

Those who boast about being "brutally honest" are usually more brutal than honest. Votes: 0

It is the weak and confused who worship the pseudosimplicities of brutal directness. Votes: 0

I like metal because it's complicated, technical, brutal and I like the challenge. Votes: 0

Patriotism is a superstition, one far more injurious, brutal and inhumane than religion. Votes: 0

It is hard to speak of sex without being clinical, brutal, or romantic. Votes: 0

Where every man in a state has a vote, brutal laws are impossible. Votes: 0

I don't want to live in real life. It's too harsh, too brutal. Votes: 0

Spaghetti Westerns are really brutal and operatic with a surreal quality to the violence. Votes: 0

Life is brutal that way ... the loss of irrecoverable moments amid trivia and distraction. Votes: 0

Throughout history, religious wars have always been the most brutal and cruel and merciless. Votes: 0

Once a person was asked to step into this brutal century, anything could happen Votes: 0

The movie industry is brutal. It is dangerous. It is, for most, soul destroying. Votes: 0

The slowness of time, for a man who knows nothing will happen, is brutal. Votes: 0

I am not, and never was, and never could have been, a brutal scoundrel. Votes: 0

Judgment is easy: it is black and white, as brutal as a gavel strike. Votes: 0

World War II was just as dirty and brutal as Vietnam, just as confusing. Votes: 0

If the brutal facts are not faced by leaders, the brutal reality sets in. Votes: 0

Its called a playground, but its nearer to a battlefield. It can be brutal Votes: 0

They say I teach brutal football, but the only thing brutal about football is losing. Votes: 0

Fury...sexual, Oedipal, political, magical, brutal....drives us to our finest heights and coarsest depths Votes: 0

Given the chance to throw off a brutal dictator like Saddam Hussein, people will rejoice. Votes: 0

The wise and good are outnumbered a thousand to one by the brutal and stupid. Votes: 0

It is simple and brutal: a person can get used to anything, even to killing. Votes: 0

It's brutal to realize that someone might find a life with you in it unbearable. Votes: 0

The winters in Denver are brutal; it snows from the end of October to April. Votes: 0

The chimps' way of aggression is quick and brutal. I compare them to gang attacks. Votes: 0

American presidents always avoid shaking hands with brutal dictators, except when it's advantageous to do so. Votes: 0

You do brutal workouts to get used to suffering so suffering doesn't become a defining deal. Votes: 0

Origami Striptease reads like William S. Burroughs and Djuna Barnes howling at a brutal paper moon. Votes: 0

American presidents always avoid shaking hands with brutal dictators, except when it's advantageous to do so. Votes: 0

The work of John Lennon was marked by its exquisite beauty and by its brutal honesty. Votes: 0

If a brutal scene is shown for no reason except to shock, then it is bad. Votes: 0

Stripping toughened my hide, but exposing myself as a writer has been a lot more brutal. Votes: 0

Clanless, lawless, homeless is he who is in love with civil war, that brutal ferocious thing. Votes: 0

I think all actors have a sadomasochistic streak, because acting is kind of brutal, you know. Votes: 0

The difference between our decadence and the Russians is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic. Votes: 0

Chemotherapy is brutal. The goal is pretty much to kill everything in your body without killing you. Votes: 0

The difference between our decadence and the Russians' is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic. Votes: 0

I love the French detective series 'Spiral.' It's quite brutal to watch, but I'm already hooked. Votes: 0

Screw this. He'd blown his shot at nice-and-easy, which only left quick-and-brutal"”my favorite way to play. Votes: 0

The brutal, soul-shaking truth is that we are so earthly minded we are of no heavenly use. Votes: 0

We all know it's brutal up there at the front, especially those of us at the rear. Votes: 0

If you appeal to the crowd, either by being humorous or brutal or eccentric, you gain favor. Votes: 0

The world goes on, stupid and brutal, but I do not. Can't you see? I do not. Votes: 0

A lot of the books that I grew up reading were pretty brutal, like the Redwall books. Votes: 0

If you appeal to the crowd, either by being humorous or brutal or eccentric, you gain favor." Votes: 0

A lot of the books that I grew up reading were pretty brutal, like the 'Redwall' books. Votes: 0

Poles understand perhaps better than anyone the consequences of making toothless warnings to brutal tyrants and terrorist regimes. Votes: 0

Divorce is brutal and horrible and... you have to actively work to get your life back on track. Votes: 0

The hangover was brutal but he didn't mind. It told him he had been somewhere else, someplace good. Votes: 0

Inquiry is human; blind obedience brutal. Truth never loses by the one but often suffers by the other. Votes: 0

Sometimes overturning brutal regimes takes time and costs lives. I wish it weren't so. I really, really do. Votes: 0

The novel is the dream release, the suspension of reality that history needs to escape its own brutal confinements. Votes: 0

Nothing is so aggravating as calmness. There is something positively brutal about the good temper of most modern men. Votes: 0

I fall in love with Britain every day, with bridges, buses, blue skies... but it's a brutal world, man. Votes: 0

Master of Life is the person who is best at keeping the brutal scars of life to a minimum! Votes: 0

It's a great sacrifice to do what I'm doing. I'm not having fun at all...What a brutal job! Votes: 0

The circle of an empty day is brutal and at night it tightens around your neck like a noose Votes: 0

There is no sadder sight in the world than to see a beautiful theory killed by a brutal fact. Votes: 0

One of my gripes about movies is that people take them so seriously, and the moneymaking aspects are so brutal. Votes: 0

You're going to learn that one of the most brutal things in the world is your average nineteen-year-old American boy. Votes: 0

I want to change peoples' minds about music, I want to bring the really brutal experimental stuff to peoples' attention. Votes: 0

It was a brutal picture, a tug-of-war between two equal but opposing impulses. It had the ring of truth, however, Votes: 0

Virginius Pass, go across the Talus slope and pick up the route through the notch, it is steep, slippery, brutal. Votes: 0

A truth is what it is. A lie, a thought out deception more brutal than a truth could ever be. Votes: 0

One of the greatest tragedies of life is the murder of a beautiful theory by a gang of brutal facts. Votes: 0

The dream giver/vision giver will see you through the brutal storms and He'll bring the rainbow in your life." Votes: 0

I never weigh myself, but the brutal truth of television is that they don't employ old people or fat people. Votes: 0

I don't know if any of us are mature enough to handle the brutal honesty of what's inside other people's heads. Votes: 0

In England, the system is benign and the people are hostile. In America, the people are friendlyand the system is brutal! Votes: 0

It's all right to tell a wife the brutal truth, but you've got to go sort of easy with your lady-love. Votes: 0

People are terrible. They can bear anything. Anything! People are hard and brutal. And everyone is disposable. Everyone! That's the lesson. Votes: 0

A quick and brutal fuck from behind usually served as an effective reminder of where you stood in the pack hierarchy. Votes: 0

Ignorance is not bliss. Ignorance is brutal. The brutality of ignorance is such that it will make you dead while alive. Votes: 0

The scene was set. All that was required was an action, a cold start, instant and brutal as beginnings always are. Votes: 0

In football a man was asked to do a difficult and brutal job, and he either did it or got out. Votes: 0

After 9/11, whatever the evidence of intelligence failures, many people still saw that attack as almost unimaginable, so brutal and brazen an assault. Votes: 0

Be brutal with the past, especially your own, and have no respect for the philosophies that are foisted on you from outside. Votes: 0

Concerning non-violence: it is criminal to teach a man not to defend himself when he is the constant victim of brutal attacks. Votes: 0

You're so brutal to those who love you, Scarlett. You take their love and hold it over their heads like a whip. Votes: 0

State formation has been a brutal project, with many hideous consequences. But the results exist, and their pernicious aspects should be overcome. Votes: 0

Our world was brutal, immoral, smug and conventional. We had unbounded contempt for all those who did not sin as we sinned. Votes: 0

You can't fill your emails with crap, at least not with my friends, because they're brutal. If something sucks, they'll tell you. Votes: 0

I don't know how you would live in the world of Angelina Jolie or Jennifer Aniston and being stalked. It's just brutal. Votes: 0

Change can be beautiful when we are brave enough to evolve with it, and change can be brutal when we fearfully resist. Votes: 0

I study the Bible all week, pray to the Lord, and then I speak from my heart. It's all about brutal honesty. Votes: 0

For what is there more hideous than avarice, more brutal than lust, more contemptible than cowardice, more base than stupidity and folly? Votes: 0

There is at least one thing more brutal than the truth, and that is the consequence of saying less than the truth. Votes: 0

You come there and hang out and have a drink before the show and eat, so it's not that brutal. It's only $6. Votes: 0

Hollywood can be brutal, inhuman, the opposite of what the theatre is, and I had little desire to be part of it. Votes: 0

For this was the round of love: fear which leads on desire, tenderness and fury, and that brutal anguish which triumphantly follows pleasure. Votes: 0

We face an enemy that is brutal. There is no negotiation with these people. You can't try to talk reason into these totalitarians. Votes: 0

I have such respect for women who go through pregnancy multiple times. I thought it was beautiful being pregnant. The aftermath is brutal. Votes: 0

War is a brutal and fierce means of pacification; it means the suppression of resistance by the destruction or enslavement of the conquered. Votes: 0

To fight, you must be brutal and ruthless, and the spirit of ruthless brutality will enter into the very fibre of national life... Votes: 0

War is and always has been a brutal exercise that destroys lives, families and communities. It is never something for which we hope. Votes: 0

Relationship is a pervading and changing mystery... brutal or lovely, the mystery waits for people wherever they go, whatever extreme they run to. Votes: 0

Film industry is a pretty brutal business. If you fall too far behind, all of the perfectionism in the world won't save you. Votes: 0

We had fed the heart on fantasies, The heart's grown brutal from the fare, More substance in our enmities Than in our love Votes: 0

Competition is warfare. Mostly it is played by prescribed rules--there is a sort of Geneva Convention for competition--but it's thorough and often brutal. Votes: 0

I love what you might call brutal elegance. Where form and function are really obvious. There is nothing easily broken in this house. Votes: 0

We will respond with a heavy hand to the brutal murder of Jews who came to pray and were killed by lowly murderers. Votes: 0

Human nature will find itself only when it fully realizes that to be human it has to cease to be beastly or brutal. Votes: 0

The brutal regime of the dictator fell ... the regime that ruled Iraq for decades, the decades of darkness. The decades that were of tyranny. Votes: 0

Nature, by its very nature, is very brutal and unequal. However, Man has somehow managed to transform the nature of its brutality and inequality. Votes: 0

The future isn't just something that happens. It's a brutal force, with a great sense of humor, that'll steamroll you if you're not watching. Votes: 0

a woman who struggles to recover from a brutal attack and sets out on a dark, psychological and physical journey for revenge and justice. Votes: 0

Motherhood is nitty and gritty and brutal and wonderful, but everything I read is about the wonderful parts. Sometimes, you're really in the trenches! Votes: 0

It's hard to smoke a pipe, and it's actually kind of brutal. It burns your mouth and your throat, and to keep it lit. Votes: 0

Those who fail to learn from the brutal stompings visited on them in the past are doomed to be brutally stomped in the future. Votes: 0

The world of nature, at once a vision of exquisite beauty and an arena of brutal savagery, is a dynamic system of delicate balances. Votes: 0

The brutal reality about aging is that it has only an accelerator pedal. We have yet to discover whether a brake exists for people. Votes: 0

I personally will be overjoyed when the Canadian courts rule to return John Graham back to the US to answer for this brutal murder. Votes: 0

We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we can die without it. Votes: 0

Comedy clubs can be brutal. Those people are for real, and if you aren't funny, they aren't laughing. They don't care who you are. Votes: 0

The Cold War was waged in a particularly brutal and cynical way in Africa, and Africa seemed powerless to do anything to stop it. Votes: 0

Rock n' roll is the most disgusting form of expression, it's brutal, malefic, a pestilential aphrodisiac, the preferred music of the delinquents of the earth. Votes: 0

Going to Catholic school was what fueled me into comedy. The nuns were so brutal so I used to try to make my friends laugh. Votes: 0

[Macbeth] is historically set in a place depicted by Shakespeare as brutal and violent, incredibly superstitious, and that's something that I do believe is Scottish. Votes: 0

You cannot allow any of your people to avoid the brutal facts. If they start living in a dream world, it's going to be bad. Votes: 0

Because 'Call The Midwife' is a gentle drama, not a documentary, it's not appropriate to portray Sister Monica Joan's condition in all its brutal reality. Votes: 0

There's this brutal imperial power, that my passport says I represent. But it will never represent where my heart lives, only vaguely where it went. Votes: 0

For me, working is the ultimate vacation, for lack of a better word. Its being in-between jobs were it becomes emotional, and brutal, and draining. Votes: 0

There is no single field of activity, not a single institution, free of the most brutal sort of corruption. Russia has bred a world-class mafia. Votes: 0

When AIDS was at its most brutal, frightening, my-God-what-are-we-going-to-do era, that was when vampire stories and stories about blood and trust swept the literary world. Votes: 0

It (broadcast journalism) is a brutal arena where the knives are sharp and the toughest Kevlar vest in the world will not protect you forever. Votes: 0

Instead, in the absence of respect for human rights, science and its offspring technology have been used in this century as brutal instruments for oppression. Votes: 0

There is a lot of underground type of fighting going on and some of it is not safe, it's pretty brutal. But it's absolutely fascinating. Votes: 0

I grew up in a military family, and there's something about that military-style uniform, all cleaned up, a brutal control effort the military necessarily breeds. Votes: 0

I know that the vitriol and hyperbole that exists online, and the anonymity, can be deadly because it's cloaked in negativity and it's brutal sometimes. Votes: 0

I am the most ruthless, brutal champion ever. There is no one who can match me. I want your heart. I want to eat your children. Votes: 0

Silent is the ruined land. Man is brutal and the rain does not wash away the pain or rid the distant memory. It makes it glisten. Votes: 0

I loved you. I was a pentapod monster, but I loved you. I was despicable and brutal, and turpid, and everything, mais je t'aimais, je t'aimais! Votes: 0

Men write many fine and plausible arguments in support of monarchy, but the fact remains that where every man has a voice, brutal laws are impossible Votes: 0

Nature is a perfect example of the harmony between the beautiful and the brutal. You turn over a pretty rock and there are worms writhing underneath. Votes: 0

When I am in form, my style is a little bit stubborn, almost brutal. Sometimes I feel a great spirit of fight which drives me on. Votes: 0

I'm pretty brutal about getting rid of stuff. There wasn't anything where I was like, "Oh, I miss that," because usually it's for a good reason. Votes: 0

I believe that the next half century will determine if we will advance the cause of Christian civilization or revert to the horrors of brutal paganism. Votes: 0

Terror is trump. Common, brutal suppression methods are considered as sanctified laws. "Old Fighters" are holy ones. From the district leader upwards there are only Gods! Votes: 0

Probably in all history there is no instance of a society in which ecclesiastical power was dominant which was not at once stagnant, corrupt and brutal. Votes: 0

Only in the struggle between two philosophies can the weapon of brutal force, persistently and ruthlessly applied, lead to a decision for the side it supports. Votes: 0

It's brutal. I see friends when their shows don't work. Everything's riding on making money and all the pressure and how people scatter when fortunes turn downward. Votes: 0

The slender, swift Bruce Lee was the Fred Astaire of martial arts, and many of the fights that could be merely brutal come across as lightning-fast choreography. Votes: 0

What is necessary for the pubic realm is to shield it from the private interests which have intruded upon it in the most brutal and aggressive form. Votes: 0

He who denies his own vanity usually possesses it in so brutal a form that he instinctively shuts his eyes to avoid the necessity of despising himself. Votes: 0

The Lord expects us to enjoy our lives. He says there will be some brutal times, but we shouldn't get all bent out of shape about it. Votes: 0

Since 1996, the Feminist Majority Foundation has been immersed in a campaign to support Afghan women and girls in their fight against the brutal oppression of the Taliban. Votes: 0

In Dallas, in Houston, the local stuff is great. But the national media is really brutal. So you know, I'd love to see the media get honest. Votes: 0

Capricious, wanton, bold, and brutal Lust Is meanly selfish; when resisted, cruel; And, like the blast of Pestilential Winds, Taints the sweet bloom of Nature's fairest forms. Votes: 0

Over in the UK, the music press can be brutal. They can say wonderful things about you one week, and the next week, you're in the can. Votes: 0

I am not brutal or cruel to animals. My mission has always been to save dogs - especially troubled and abandoned dogs. I've dedicated my life to this. Votes: 0

Barack Obama has come closer than any figure in recent history to obeying a direct call of the people to the brutal and bloody fields of political mission. Votes: 0

Comparison is a brutal assault upon one's self. Once you compare yourself to someone else, what you're really saying is that what you're made of isn't good enough. Votes: 0

I think the brutality is important to convey as part of the story, to see how brutal it is to have these kids in battle with one another. Votes: 0

There is a close relationship between flowers and convicts. The fragility and delicacy of the former are of the same nature as the brutal insensitivity of the latter. Votes: 0

I think brutal honesty is extremely important. Don't be afraid of being up-front about your feelings and your life. I'd rather be an honest friend than a phony lover. Votes: 0

It sets its face rightfully against the doctrines of the Anarchist and the Communist, who seek to solve the social problems not by patient endeavor, but by brutal destruction. Votes: 0

I find that truly heartbreaking that, like, it's such a common, constant thing in people's lives - a brutal abuse of people by other people, and it's just accepted. Votes: 0

The story of your life is the story of the long and brutal assault on your heart by the one who knows what you could be and fears it. Votes: 0

The world is too brutal for me-I am glad there is such a thing as the grave-I am sure I shall never have any rest till I get there. Votes: 0

Mad Men' is the greatest example of a perfect cast uniting with a perfect group of writers and creators to create a show that is bold, brutal, and brilliant. Votes: 0

Nonfiction ties your hands a bit, and just like writing poetry in rhyme, it can force you to make more brutal decisions in terms of word choice, plot, etc. Votes: 0

I have no hatred for cops. I have hatred for racists and brutal people, but not necessarily the cops. The cops are just doing what they're told to do. Votes: 0

Men and women who know the brutal reality of war, who know that war strips people of their very humanity, must unite in a new global partnership for peace. Votes: 0

T.S Elliot was wrong. My world ended with a bang the minute we entered the Compound and the silver door closed behind us. The sound was brutal. Final. Votes: 0

I do have one very brutal writing ritual. If I'm working in the morning, I don't allow myself a cup of tea until I've written two paragraphs. It's harsh. Votes: 0

When crossing someone's borders you have to be prepared to engage in a war that is far more brutal than if it were to take place on neutral territory. Votes: 0

How fortunate it was for the world that when these great trials came upon it there was a generation that terror could not conquer and brutal violence could not enslave. Votes: 0

Coming to the end of a long shot is brutal so when it's just me, if I mess up I can be like "Sorry. I'm an idiot. Let's go again". Votes: 0

She could not ignore life. She had to live it and it was too brutal, too hostile, for her even to try to gloss over its harshness with a smile Votes: 0

The most brutal form of domestic violence is the violence against unborn children, and this particular bill would prohibit abortions after the fetus feels pain, which is 20 weeks and older. Votes: 0

I know politics is emotionally brutal; I've already had experience with the reality of smear campaigns, so I understand there will not be a path of roses laid before me. Votes: 0

How fortunate it was for the world that when these great trials came upon it there was a generation that terror could not conquer and brutal violence could not enslave. Votes: 0

The suppression of natural sexual gratification leads to various kinds of substitute gratifications. Natural aggression, for example, becomes brutal sadism which then is an essential mass-psychological factor in imperialistic wars. Votes: 0

Being at the mercy of the acting profession, in the early days of one's career, is really brutal and feels like you have no control over your life, at all. Votes: 0

If men had to do their vile work without the assistance of woman and the stimulant of strong drink they would be obliged to be more divine and less brutal. Votes: 0

I hope that schools have changed since I was a little girl. My memory of the teaching of the public schools is that it showed the brutal incomprehension of children. Votes: 0

I cried sobbingly until at last those visions reeking with blood came to comfort me. And then I surrendered myself to them, to those deplorably brutal visions, my most intimate friends. Votes: 0

I can't face losin' ya, Riley. Yer all I got left in this world." That brutal honesty again. He'd peeled away more armor, and this time he'd exposed his heart. Votes: 0

It's fiction's job to express how it feels to be living now, and it's a complex feeling, full of contradiction. To me it often feels like a brutal trivialization of reality. Votes: 0

Gay sexuality inevitably involves brutal physical abusiveness and the unnatural imposition of alien substances into internal organs, orally and anally, that inevitably suppress the immune system and heighten susceptibility to disease. Votes: 0

I know that there is still a lot of bitterness and anger, and arguably justifiably so, when you think about how brutal slavery was and what its brutal legacy still is. Votes: 0

Callie always said Luce was incapable of brutal honesty and that was why she got herself stuck in so many crappy situations with guys whom she should have just told no. Votes: 0

The lives of all people flow through time, and, regardless of how brutal one moment may be, how filled with grief or pain or fear, time flows through all lives equally. Votes: 0

I would do prosthetics again, but not on a schedule like that [in Gigi Does It]. It was grueling and brutal and it almost killed me. That show almost killed me. Votes: 0

With its brutal excesses and reliance on snitches and finks as informants, I don't think it's far off-kilter to describe the modern-day drug war as oddly similar to the Salem witch trials. Votes: 0

I hope my recordings of my own works won't inhibit other people's performances. The brutal fact is that one doesn't always get the exact tempo one wants, although one improves with experience. Votes: 0

When a culture is being dumbed down as effectively as ours is, its narrative arts (literature, film, theatre) seem to vacillate between the brutal and the bland, sometimes in the same work. Votes: 0

Watercolour could have been used more by the modernists. It is so direct, and when the white paper convention is accepted, so powerful, even brutal, that it would seem an ideal medium. Votes: 0

In this branch of utopian real estate, architecture is no longer the art of designing buildings so much as the brutal skyward extrusion of whatever site the developer has managed to assemble. Votes: 0

LA is the loneliest and most brutal of American cities; NY gets god-awful cold in the winter but there's a feeling of wacky comradeship somewhere in some streets. LA is a jungle. Votes: 0

Consider the idea that charisma can be as much a liability as an asset. Your strength of personality can sow the seeds of problems, when people filter the brutal facts from you. Votes: 0

The place smelled of fairgrounds, of lazy crowds, of nights when you stayed out because you couldn't go to bed, and it smelled like New York, of its calm and brutal indifference. Votes: 0

We all want to judge; it's an intrinsic part of our society and human nature. I'm not surprised that talent shows are hits, but I'm glad some of them aren't so brutal. Votes: 0

I want women writers to write boldly, wildly, deeply. I want them to feel really liberated to tell the brutal truth, however they see that truth and are moved to tell it. Votes: 0

I'm thinking of Mary Poppins, The Sound of Music... there are too many to name really. And all the old classic ones like Snow White & The Seven Dwarfs and Bambi. That's brutal! Votes: 0

True courage is cool and calm. The bravest of men have the least of a brutal, bullying insolence, and in the very time of danger are found the most serene and free. Votes: 0

I can always make things longer than I intend for them to be, but cutting things down is just brutal. It's like cutting off your fingers every time you lose a word. Votes: 0

Be careful what you wish for. I know that for a fact. Wishes are brutal, unforgiving things. They burn your tongue the moment they're spoken and you can never take them back. Votes: 0

Jawanisme dan kolonialisme Jawa sudah bertindak jauh lebih brutal terhadap penduduk yang tinggal di Negara kepulauan yang luas ini daripada yang dulu dilakukan oleh penguasa penjajah asing (Saya Terbakar Amarah Sendirian! h. xxvii) Votes: 0

Intellectuals ... advertise their superiority to political practice but are absolutely in its thrall. ... It is no accident that Marxist theory and practice use the intellectuals as tools and keep them in brutal subservience. Votes: 0

Palestinian terrorism has to be rejected and condemned, yes. But it should not be translated defacto into a policy of support for a really increasingly brutal repression, colonial settlements and a new wall. Votes: 0

At the heart of globalisation is a new kind of intolerance in the West towards other cultures, traditions and values, less brutal than in the era of colonialism, but more comprehensive and totalitarian. Votes: 0

On his homesickness during the Barcelona Olympics -I miss America. I miss crime and murder. I miss Philadelphia. There hasn't been a brutal stabbing or anything here the last 24 hours. I've missed it. Votes: 0

Sky is grey, vegetation is plastic, and mankind is pale, for we have spent our days conceiving unnecessary tools for our arousal, and so we hide the nakedness of nature with brutal machinnes. Votes: 0

The reasons for legal intervention in favour of children apply not less strongly to the case of those unfortunate slaves and victims of the most brutal part of mankind - the lower animals. Votes: 0

At the time, when you're being dissected and judged it's pretty brutal, but in hindsight it's great and - it sounds cliched - you do come out the other side better and stronger. Votes: 0

PRIMAL TEARS is a novel of tremendous power. Passionate and erotic, at times tenderly lyrical, it confronts head-on, without flinching, brutal environmental and feminist politics. Its protagonist, Sage, is unique, magical, and haunting. Votes: 0

It is founded on the worst instincts of mankind. At its best, it is intolerant and bigoted. At its worst, it is sadistic and brutal. Between these two poles it has its existence. Votes: 0

One of the things that happens in my house on the holidays is after dessert, we sit down to a very ambitious men-versus-women game of Trivial Pursuit. It's brutal. And there's a trophy. Votes: 0

Suddenly the whole imagination of writing and editorial and newspaper and all these presumptions about who am I reading this, and who else other people may be, and all that, it's so grimly brutal! Votes: 0

America's growth historically has been fueled mostly by investment, education, productivity, innovation and immigration. The one thing that doesn't seem to have anything to do with America's growth rate is a brutal work schedule. Votes: 0

I wasn't in a position to defend myself. Sometimes it's a brutal profession. The first thing I thought of at the time was revenge. I have a more levelheaded take on the issue today. Votes: 0

There is nothing more American than brutal violence. The country was built on it, revels in it and shows every evidence of clinging to it with the crazed, destructive strength of an obsessive lover. Votes: 0

In a brutal country like ours, where human life is 'cheap', it's stupid to destroy yourself for the sake of your beliefs. Beliefs? High ideas? Only people in rich countries can enjoy such luxuries. Votes: 0

To make fun of a person to his face is a brutal way of amusing one's self; be delicate and cunning, and keep your laugh in your sleeve, lest you frighten away your game. Votes: 0

I do my work as an actor, but another part of my work goes to the piece as a whole. I can be fairly detached looking at my work and be brutal on myself. Votes: 0

It is brutal. Only I never could see the sense in having folks look at your tombstone and say, 'He was a man who didn't believe in violence, He's a good man... and dead. Votes: 0

You, Celaena Sardothien, are charged with the deaths of the following people..." And then he began a long recitation of all those lives she'd taken. The brutal story of a girl who was now gone." Votes: 0

Looking back, I didn't have the patience to work in fashion. I like women so much, but I was never qualified to torture them in photo shoots. You have to be really tough and brutal. Votes: 0

Profaneness is a brutal vice. He who indulges in it is no gentleman, I care not what his stamp may be in society; I care not what clothes he wears, or what culture he boasts. Votes: 0

I thank thee, Mother Nature, that thou hast put ingenuity enough in the brain of a child, when attacked by a brutal parent, to throw up a little breastwork in the shape of a lie. Votes: 0

The worst injury I have ever suffered in the ring was a torn triceps; they had to take a piece of my hamstring to repair the tear. It was brutal; I was out for 6 months. Votes: 0

The system of Christian celebrity was not a good space for me, and it was brutal on my kids - my son in college was frequently confronted by people railing against me as a heretic. Votes: 0

There were almost 11,000 American soldiers killed in Germany in April of 1945, the last full month of the war. That's almost as many as died in June, 1944. Right to the very end, it was absolutely brutal. Votes: 0

I don't really get attached to anything. I'm pretty brutal about cutting stuff. With each successful movie, I've discovered anything that's not connected to the immediate story is going to be cut out of it. Votes: 0

Performing is about developing empathy, which leads us to a broader view of the world and encourages us to develop compassion; so we can comfort each other and not be so brutal with each other. Votes: 0

There were almost 11,000 American soldiers killed in Germany in April of 1945, the last full month of the war. Thats almost as many as died in June, 1944. Right to the very end, it was absolutely brutal. Votes: 0

The years rolled their brutal course down the hill of time. Still poor, my clothes still smelling of the horse barn, still writing those doubtful poems where too much emotion clashed with too many words. Votes: 0

We've always lived in dark times. There has always been a range of human experience from the sublime to the brutal, and stories reflect it. It's no less brutal now; each age has its horrors. Votes: 0

A satirist is someone who has a very skeptical view of human nature, but who still has the optimism to make some sort of a joke out of it. However brutal that joke might be. Votes: 0

The bloodiest, most brutal wars fought, all based on religious hatred. Which is fine with me! Any time a bunch of holy people want to go out and kill each other I'm a happy guy! Votes: 0

Initiating and going through a divorce with four kids can be a brutal experience, but also a tempering one. It gave me perspective and insight to be able to find the love of my life. Votes: 0