Brute Quotes
190 quotes by 153 authors
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Snow, get behind me!" Charming shouted as he leaped to his feet. "I'll handle this brute." "Billy", the teacher cried. "This is the twenty-first century,…
— Michael Buckley
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The first couple of times, he simply stayed - a stranger to kill the aloneness. A few nights after that, he whispered “Shhh, I’m here,…
— Markus Zusak
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You're thinking that people don't keep up old jealousies for twenty years or so. Perhaps not. Not just primitive, brute jealousy. That means a word…
— Dorothy L. Sayers
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Astriola. That IS demon pox. You had evidence that demon pox existed and you didnt mention it to me! Et tu, Brute!' He rolled up…
— Cassandra Clare
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Blue is for cruel bargains; green is for daring what you oughtn’t; violet is for brute force. I will say to you: Coral coaxes; pink…
— Catherynne M. Valente
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How shall Integrity face Oppression? What shall Honesty do in the face of Deception, Decency in the face of Insult, Self-Defense before Blows? How shall…
— W. E. B. Du Bois
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I have one thing you don't,' he murmured against her neck, turning his head and nipping her earlobe. 'What?' His tongue teased her ear. 'Brute…
— Christine Feehan
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But where, says some, is the King of America? I'll tell you. Friend, he reigns above, and doth not make havoc of mankind like the…
— Thomas Paine
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A war doesn’t merely kill off a few thousand or a few hundred thousand young men. It kills off something in a people that can…
— John Edward Williams
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To be honest, I thought it was similar to animal husbandry." Sally's tone turned dry. "Sometimes, my lady I'm afraid it isn't that different." Pippa…
— Sarah MacLean
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If brute force doesn't work, you aren't using enough
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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Never whine. Whining lets a brute know that a victim is in the neighborhood.
— Maya Angelou
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It is evil things that we will be fighting against-brute force, bad faith, injustice, oppression and persecution-and against them I am certain that the right…
— Neville Chamberlain
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Brute force, no matter how strongly applied, can never subdue the basic human desire for freedom.
— Dalai Lama
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I know no study which is so unutterably saddening as that of the evolution of humanity, as it is set forth in the annals of…
— Thomas Huxley
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You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder a man…
— D. H. Lawrence
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To bathe a cat takes brute force, perseverance, courage of conviction - and a cat. The last ingredient is usually hardest to come by.
— Stephen Baker
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The man that blushes is not quite a brute.
— Edward Young
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The philosophic spirit of inquiry may be traced to brute curiosity, and that to the habit of examining all things in search of food.
— William Winwood Reade
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When in doubt, use brute force.
— Ken Thompson
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