Famous Quotes & Sayings

This was a brutal killing that someone ordered ... He and his entourage, their hands tied, were driven out of town and gunned down in cold blood.

Ed Markey

Throughout United States history we have encountered and defeated brutal enemies, inhumane and monstrous dictators and met with hideous violence.

Arthur Smith

This time it was much more intense. Last year, the contestants were kind of 'us versus Gordon' right up until the end - this was brutally competitive right from the beginning.

We were discussing a brutal murder, ... She didn't deserve that.

While we are in name part of the same region, it can be brutal to get from place to place. This community provides a window into a wider national problem.

As tough as this process is, this is what has to be done when a franchise gets to this fork in the road. It's a brutal period we're going through, but the perspective from the potential buyers is very much forward-looking one.

Crude is up today and that contributes, but the undertone of this earnings release are a reminder that maybe in the long term things aren't going to turn great again. It's still a brutal industry to work in.

Nikki Sixx

And, you know, there's a brutality to us when we're together,

I tried to use words that were dealing with the emotional quality that any human being could recognize in the way that they felt about their country. It's to do with the world we live in. That world is a brutal one and full of war. It's also full of many wonderful things and love and hope.

Warfare in the 21st century is far less deadly than it was half a century ago. The wars that dominated the headlines of the 1990s were real -- and brutal -- enough. But the global media have largely ignored the 100-odd conflicts that have quietly ended since 1988. During this period, more wars stopped than started.

Jacob Lew

The transition from tyranny to democracy is very hard. The Syrian people have to handle this in a way that works in Syria. And the brutality of the Assad regime is unacceptable.

I've been pretty brutally honest with him this past week about the way I think he's been playing, especially relative to what he's capable of doing. It's good to see him respond the way he did.

Alan Furst

Poland is a wildly dramatic and tragic story. It's just unbelievable what went on with those people. How they survive, I don't really know. The Germans had a particular hatred for the Poles; they really considered them subhuman Slavs, and they were very brutal to them.

Al Sharpton

The real loser is Rudy Giuliani, ... We proved how out of touch he is with the voters of New York. The issues of unemployment, police brutality and the schools not working are on the front burner. You can run, Rudy, but you can't hide.

Ruth Rendell

Why do we have to have violence, torture, brutality in crime dramas every time we turn on television? Any new crime drama is going to have, sooner or later, a lot of torture and nasty things that make people flinch. Lots of young people I know shrink and flinch from that kind of thing on television, so I think showing it is a mistake.

This summer's energy shock will cascade through the economy. A brutal winter heating season can't be ruled out. Detroit is losing steam,

Chris Mooney

We haven't a won a game in this brutal month. It's been very difficult for us. You have to try to steal a win here or there, and we haven't done that.

Quentin Tarantino

I wasn't familiar with him, and I thought the scene was too brutal for the song. So what do I know?

Edward Olmos

It is brutal - brutal - when you see what happened to them, ... You simply go, 'Wait a minute - this was not shown to anyone?'

We had a lot of intensity. The thing I liked about it was the conditions were brutal and we played through it.

William Butler Yeats

We had fed the heart on fantasies,The heart's grown brutal from the fare.

Steve Sampson

We're used to the low 60s by now, ... This is brutal and this course doesn't have any shade either.

Bethany Dillon

God's unearthly grace and immeasurable love for us is the heartbeat of this whole record. This is a story of hope and redemption, one that paints a brutally and beautifully honest picture of what it is to really live by faith.

Julie Brown

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.

This case is not aimed at individual citizens of Serbia and Montenegro. This is about state responsibility, and seeks to establish responsibility of a state which, through its leadership, and through its organs, committed the most brutal violations of the most sacred instruments of international law.

Judy Parfitt

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.

George H. W. Bush

as brutal an enemy as we have ever faced, unconstrained by any notion of common humanity and by the rules of warfare.

Thomas Jane

As a kid, I fell in love with the EC Comics from the '50s. It was illegal to produce horror and science fiction in the state of New York because of EC Comics. They just went over the line. Their covers were hangings and brutal stabbings.

I'm hoping he gets life for the brutal way he murdered my daughter. He needs to do the time for the crime and then he can be rehabilitated after that in the next life.

Steven Cojocaru

I'm brutally honest. I don't sugar-coat. But I don't come on as a fashion expert. I feel like I come on as the water cooler. That's my perspective.

I'm a season-ticket holder and I've been rooting for the Bruins since I was in diapers. I tell you what, it was a brutal start to the game. I was actually depressed. But it turned out to be a great game.

Catherine Hardwicke

I'll literally pay three Hollywood readers who don't know me to read my scripts under the radar and give cold comments. And at the early screenings of my movies, I'll hand out questionnaires that can be filled out anonymously so people can be brutally honest because, to your face, they won't be.

I know it's important to Abner so we can end police brutality in this city and in this state. I know that when he gets better it will lift his spirits.