Comedy is brutal. It's powerful, though.

“Some wars are about bombing. For the people of the Baltics, this war was about believing. In 1991, after fifty years of brutal occupation,…

— Ruta Sepetys

Watercolour could have been used more by the modernists. It is so direct, and when the white paper convention is accepted, so powerful, even…

— David Milne

Stand-up comedy is a very hard thing on the spirit. There are people who transcend it, like Jack Benny and Steve Martin, but in…

— Mike Nichols

In terms of humor, it's a really powerful coping mechanism, and it gets you through really dark days.

— Eva Victor

I really enjoy making people laugh; I've discovered that's a great technique. That's as powerful as stirring their sorrow, stirring their compassion, because that…

— Max Lucado

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

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

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

— Don DeLillo

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

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 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

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

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