Brutal Quotes · Page 5

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

— Quentin Tarantino

“There is something brutal and wonderful about not having a clue who you are.”

— Kristen Chandler

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

— Ned Vizzini

Brutal men with unlimited power are the same all over the world

— Mary Boykin Chesnut

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

— Vladimir Nabokov

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

— Silvio Berlusconi

People are brutal. They forget that people on telly are actually real people.

— Scarlett Moffatt

“Ignorance is always brutal when it is backed by power.”

— Various

I know politics is emotionally brutal; I've already had experience with the reality of smear campaigns, so I understand there will not…

— Marianne Williamson

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

— Minnie Driver

Men write many fine and plausible arguments in support of monarchy, but the fact remains that where every man has a voice,…

— Mark Twain

Nonfiction ties your hands a bit, and just like writing poetry in rhyme, it can force you to make more brutal decisions…

— Emily Susan Rapp

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

— Minka Kelly

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

— Homer

I can always make things longer than I intend for them to be, but cutting things down is just brutal. It's like…

— Stephenie Meyer

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

— Nenia Campbell

I'm somewhat shy about the brutal facts of being a carnivore. I don't like meat to look like animals. I prefer it…

— John Updike

It rasped her, though, to have stirring about in her this brutal monster! to hear twigs cracking and feel hooves planted down…

— Virginia Woolf

I think that the tendency for most people is to fall back on a comic interpretation of things because things are so…

— Woody Allen

I must say...that more unmanly, brutal treatment of a little pony it was never my painful lot to witness; and by giving…

— Anna Sewell

Capturing Saddam Hussein and ensuring that this brutal dictator will never return to power is an important step toward stabilizing Iraq for…

— John F. Kerry

I believe that the United States has a moral obligation to stand up for those citizens of the world who cannot stand…

— Joseph Crowley

But here too it should be noted that the President's approach was to first ask the repressive and brutal Taliban to surrender…

— Barney Frank

Pictures and reminders fill my office. Samuel Cochran, B. H. Hodges, my parents, my wife, my brother and sisters, my fellow Marines…

— Jim Webb

I believe no satirist could breathe this air. If another Juvenal or Swift could rise up among us tomorrow, he would be…

— Charles Dickens

As a doc, though, I've seen what happens when people are under a lot of stress. Doesn't always bring out their best.…

— Ilsa J. Bick

I'm the best ever. I'm the most brutal and vicious, the most ruthless champion there has ever been. No one can stop…

— Mike Tyson

In 2001, we were told that the war in Afghanistan was a feminist mission. The marines were liberating Afghan women from the…

— Arundhati Roy

Generally speaking, our prisoners were capable of loving animals, and if they had been allowed they would have delighted to rear large…

— Anonymous

These are things that only dogs and women understand because we tap into the pain directly, we connect to pain directly from…

— Garth Stein

The phrase "It's absolutely the same with me, I..." seems to be an approving echo, a way of continuing the other's thought,…

— Milan Kundera

I'm inspired by strong, courageous women. My mother is the definition of a self-sufficient, independent woman whom I have always looked up…

— Nazanin Boniadi

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

— Lori Palatnik

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

— Yann Martel

“It goes on, this world, stupid and brutal. But I do not. I do not.”

— Jennifer Donnelly

“humanity has changed into something new and it is brutal. It is ugly”

— Claire North

I've discovered that I love to be honest with people, that's it's brutal.

— KevinTerribly

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

— Anonymous

“It was a time of beautiful brutal illusions.”

— Mick Karabegovic

X-Force was made like a brutal X-Men club - they're doing special forces, R-rated things.

— Stefan Kapicic