When the first emperor wanted to unify the country, one of the major policies was to create one system of written signs.… — Ha Jin Copy Share Image
Hollywood can be brutal, inhuman, the opposite of what the theatre is, and I had little desire to be part of it. — Joyce DeWitt Copy Share Image
Change can be beautiful when we are brave enough to evolve with it, and change can be brutal when we fearfully resist. — Bryant H. McGill Copy Share Image
We will respond with a heavy hand to the brutal murder of Jews who came to pray and were killed by lowly… — Benjamin Netanyahu Copy Share Image
At all costs the true world of childhood must prevail, must be restored; that world whose momentous, heroic, mysterious quality is fed… — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
There is an old joke about socialism as the synthesis of the highest achievements of the whole human history to date: from… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
For all their current prestige, Osama bin Laden and the suicide bombers are still regarded in all but the most desperate districts… — James Buchan Copy Share Image
People are terrible. They can bear anything. Anything! People are hard and brutal. And everyone is disposable. Everyone! That's the lesson. — Rainer Werner Fassbinder Copy Share Image
The center of every man's existence is a dream. Death, disease, insanity, are merely material accidents, like a toothache or a twisted… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Look at The Iliad, there's all this stuff about men loving children. The King of Sparta was the most brutal warrior of… — Stephen Marche Copy Share Image
You cannot allow any of your people to avoid the brutal facts. If they start living in a dream world, it's going… — James Mattis Copy Share Image
You're going to learn that one of the most brutal things in the world is your average nineteen-year-old American boy. — Philip Caputo Copy Share Image
Delirious as it can be, sex is only one kind of intimacy, and yet has become the cultural catchment area for all… — Antonella Gambotto-Burke Copy Share Image
Whether I'm traveling or at home in Seattle, my days rarely play out as it looks on my Outlook calendar - there's… — Jane Park Copy Share Image
Bland writing - timid, antiseptic, vanilla writing - is nearly as unhealthy as the brutal and dark. Instead of sipping, say, elixir,… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
The economic class struggle is a struggle against inessanlty intensified exploitation: not only against the brutal material form of exploitation, capitalism's tendency… — Louis Althusser Copy Share Image
True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Gay sexuality inevitably involves brutal physical abusiveness and the unnatural imposition of alien substances into internal organs, orally and anally, that inevitably… — Rod Parsley Copy Share Image
Divorce is brutal and horrible and... you have to actively work to get your life back on track. — Jane Kaczmarek Copy Share Image
Sometimes to speak as a woman is to cry, and to speak from our emotional, intuitive knowing, as opposed to graphs and… — Elizabeth Lesser Copy Share Image
On his homesickness during the Barcelona Olympics -I miss America. I miss crime and murder. I miss Philadelphia. There hasn't been a… — Charles Barkley Copy Share Image
We all have such stories. It is a brutal arithmetic. But I - I am alive. You are alive. As long as… — Jane Yolen Copy Share Image
[Macbeth] is historically set in a place depicted by Shakespeare as brutal and violent, incredibly superstitious, and that's something that I do… — James McAvoy Copy Share Image
Throughout history, religious wars have always been the most brutal and cruel and merciless. — Al Gore Copy Share Image
I have such respect for women who go through pregnancy multiple times. I thought it was beautiful being pregnant. The aftermath is… — Christina Applegate Copy Share Image
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