I always looked forward to being an adult, because I thought the adult world was, well—adult. That adults weren’t cliquey or nasty,… — Peter Cameron Copy Share Image
Fear is the foundation of most governments; but it is so sordid and brutal a passion, and renders men in whose breasts… — John Adams Copy Share Image
“Morality was not relative, they claimed, nor even existing solely in the realm of the human condition. No, they proclaimed morality as… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
The movie industry is brutal. It is dangerous. It is, for most, soul destroying. Creating art (music, books, films, etc.) can be… — Ronnie Apteker Copy Share Image
The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
It's hard to smoke a pipe, and it's actually kind of brutal. It burns your mouth and your throat, and to keep… — Charlie Hunnam Copy Share Image
The reasons for legal intervention in favour of children apply not less strongly to the case of those unfortunate slaves and victims… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
I know that there is still a lot of bitterness and anger, and arguably justifiably so, when you think about how brutal… — David Oyelowo Copy Share Image
“Before you leave here, Sir, you’re going to learn that one of the most brutal things in the world is your average… — Philip Caputo Copy Share Image
LA is the loneliest and most brutal of American cities; NY gets god-awful cold in the winter but there's a feeling of… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
After 9/11, whatever the evidence of intelligence failures, many people still saw that attack as almost unimaginable, so brutal and brazen an assault. — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
[He] would drive his sculling boat through mile after mile, in a silent brutal programe of conditioning - he would work all… — Daniel Topolski Copy Share Image
Victory is freedom of mind and body.' I believe that is true. I would go further and say that victory is freedom… — Douglas Clegg Copy Share Image
The wise and good are outnumbered a thousand to one by the brutal and stupid. — Douglas Preston Copy Share Image
We've always lived in dark times. There has always been a range of human experience from the sublime to the brutal, and… — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
Certain things can't be approximated, so I'm always interested in getting in another way, one which makes the reader bend in closer… — Anne Michaels Copy Share Image
Abnegation produces deeply serious people. People who automatically see things like need,” he says. “I’ve noticed that when people switch to Dauntless,… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
Comedy clubs can be brutal. Those people are for real, and if you aren't funny, they aren't laughing. They don't care who… — Marlon Wayans Copy Share Image
He seemed to be at that most dangerous of ages, where strength, skill, and confidence met naïveté and idealism; when young men… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
The world goes on, stupid and brutal, but I do not. Can't you see? I do not. — Jennifer Donnelly Copy Share Image
On the whole, we're a murderous race. According to Genesis, it took as few as four people to make the planet too… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
The world goes on, as stupid and brutal as tomorrow as it was today. And though I am shuddering with pain, and… — Jennifer Donnelly Copy Share Image
The conviction of the justification of using even the most brutal weapons is always dependent on the presence of a fanatical belief… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
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