Life is short and often stingy; feast the heart with what it craves, short of cruelty, and let the world wonder. — Reynolds Price Copy Share Image
The Earth is beautiful, and bright, and kindly, but that is not all. The Earth is also terrible, and dark, and cruel.… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
We are bound to lose Ireland in consequence of years of cruelty, stupidity and misgovernment and I would rather lose her as… — William E. Gladstone Copy Share Image
Women are hypocrites. Women are opportunists. Women are liars. They are abusers and bullies and manipulators. They are capable of cruelty, callousness,… — Bari Weiss Copy Share Image
Thinking about the fathomless cruelty with which man has treated his fellow man, but also ice cream. — Dov Davidoff Copy Share Image
The Orenda is a powerful story from history, folklore and the imagination, based on the universality of human cruelty, superstition and perseverance.… — Linden MacIntyre Copy Share Image
The steady pressure to consume, absorb, participate, receive, by eye, ear, mouth, and mail involves a cruelty to intestines, blood pressure, and… — Herbert Gold Copy Share Image
What hurts the victim most is not the cruelty of the oppressor, but the silence of the bystander. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
“The more capable people are of inflicting pain, the deeper, more buried they are in illusion and fear.” — Sonia Choquette Copy Share Image
“Don't kill me,' said the knight. 'I yield. I yield. You can't kill a man at mercy.' Lancelot put up his sword… — T.H. White Copy Share Image
Various species of animals react differently to the same drug. Not only do the variations in the metabolism of a drug make… — Bernard Brodie Copy Share Image
[Robinson Crusoe] is the true prototype of the British colonist. The whole Anglo-Saxon spirit is in Crusoe: the manly independence, the unconscious… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
“There is no brutality and cruelty in battles and wars; in reality only the outcome matters.” — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
If one of the arguments against eating meat is to do with cruelty and animal intelligence, then lab meat avoids that. There's… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
In plain terms, a child is a complicated creature who can drive you crazy. There's a cruelty to childhood, there's an anger. — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
Women? In order to realize how far these charming creatures we idealize can carry their cruelty, we must see them among themselves! — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
“Original sin and conscious awareness of human fallibility is the perpetual agent of transformation in human affairs. Humankind’s behavior is pathological; it… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“Why,' I said, quite surprised by my own eloquence in inventing all this stuff, 'it happens every day. The old old story.… — Joyce Cary Copy Share Image
Recently, I found out things about my friends which threw my life off balance. Though a self-proclaimed cynic, there are still some… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It is never cruel to want to save yourself from being swamped by fools.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
I don't believe that anyone connected with bullfighting would deny that what happens in the ring has an element of suffering and… — Bette Ford Copy Share Image
Take that, you scum-sucking snipes. Eat your words and your cruelty. May you drown in it and die. (Nick) — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
Julie Orringer is the real thing, a breathtaking chronicler of the secrets and cruelties underneath the surface of middle-class American life. These… — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
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