Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Leunig

Like normal people, leftists now have to get up in the morning and earn a living, seeing as the fascists have come down so hard on social welfare fraud, and this is the cruel reality. The good old days are gone, and increasingly, leftists are to be found working in ordinary, proper jobs.

Robert Brustein

Laurence Olivier once made the rather cruel remark that when you've got the strength to play Lear you're too young, but when you're old enough, you haven't got the strength. Well, Alvin is well muscled and trained.

Peter Zumthor

If I look at history, it seems that most wars and most cruel things have been done by men and not by women.

Malala Yousafzai

If you hit a Talib with your shoe, then there would be no difference between you and the Talib. You must not treat others with cruelty and that much harshly, you must fight others but through peace and through dialogue and through education.

Raini Rodriguez

Bullying is never fun, it's a cruel and terrible thing to do to someone. If you are being bullied, it is not your fault. No one deserves to be bullied, ever.

Penn Jillette

I think it's pretty cruel to give a kid a name that others are going to have. I think it's very important to have a unique name within any group you're likely to be in.

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

Johann Kaspar Lavater

The cruelty of the effeminate is more dreadful than that or the hardy.

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

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.

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.

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

Andrea Yates

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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's really death by incarceration. You're really putting someone to a slow, psychological death, and I think that is really cruel and unusual punishment.

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

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

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

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

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