Courage has a brutal core.

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

— Alfred North Whitehead

“I had brutal beginnings. I will not let the darkness in.”

— Melissa Jennings

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

— Elena Ferrante

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…

— Anthony Lane

In my experience sometimes the darker the material that you're doing, the more necessary it is to have some sort of levity around. I've…

— Nick Stahl

Something that comes to us, some gym shoe that comes to us as a result of child labor from a brutal dictatorship, where people…

— P. J. O'Rourke

When my friends have been heartbroken, I give them a shoulder to cry on and some brutal advice.

— Maura Higgins

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

— Minka Kelly

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…

— Adam Duritz

No matter how well-born, how intelligent, how highly educated, how virtuous, how rich, how refined, the women of to-day constitutea political class below that…

— Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi

We face a brutal enemy who will kill the innocent for one purpose and that is to gain control of the Middle East and…

— Karl Rove

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…

— Paul Henderson

Hitler recruited around him homosexuals to make up his Stormtroopers, they were his enforcers, they were his thugs. And Hitler discovered that he could…

— Bryan Fischer

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

— Don DeLillo

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

— Arundhati Roy