the extent of his callousness shook him.

“You’re unbelievable,” I snapped. “I’m yours.” That socked me in the gut too, so hard it winded me and all I could do was…

— Kristen Ashley

“Vayoo ansha.” I shook my head and whispered, “Never. For good and always, you have lost me. Na me lapay kah Lahn. Not anymore.”**”

— Kristen Ashley

An increasing number of people are growing uncomfortable with the gulf between the world's rich and the poor. Ostentatiously splashing your money around simply…

— Kalle Lasn

“Rabbits (says Mr. Lockley) are like human beings in many ways. One of these is certainly their staunch ability to withstand disaster and to…

— Richard Adams

If I am mad, it is mercy! May the gods pity the man who in his callousness can remain sane to the hideous end!

— Anonymous

One of the bitter ironies of the 20th century was that communism, which began as an egalitarian doctrine accusing capitalism of selfishness and calloused…

— Thomas Sowell

War paralyzes your courage and deadens the spirit of true manhood. It degrades and stupefies with the sense that you are not responsible, that…

— Alexander Berkman

“...when you look at the stars, you should tremble - only dullards have become callous to this frisson ...”

— John Geddes

It's despair at the lack of feeling, of love, of reason in the world. It's despair that anyone can even contemplate the idea of…

— John Fowles

Rabbits (says Mr. Lockley) are like human beings in many ways. One of these is certainly their staunch ability to withstand disaster and to…

— Richard Adams

An artist who is too self-centered is liable to exhibit faults he abhors: carelessness, callousness, and even downright cruelty.

— Eric Maisel

Ebola haunted Zaire because of corruption and political repression. The virus had no secret powers, nor was it unusually contagious. For centuries Ebola had…

— Laurie Garrett

“A nod at Beatrice who held absolutely still. "She said she would come with me. She insisted on it. She stamped her little foot…

— Mette Ivie Harrison

Perhaps the greatest rudenesses of our time come not from the callousness of strangers, but from the solicitousness of intimates who believe that their…

— Judith Martin

It is hard for me to imagine that I felt good about behaving like that. I also remember that the smallest gesture of affection…

— Bernhard Schlink