Callous Quotes

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Pleasures may turn a heart to stone, riches may make it callous, but sorrows cannot break it. Hearts live by being wounded. — Oscar Wilde
The second item in the liberal creed, after self-righteousness, is unaccountability. Liberals have invented whole college majors--psychology, sociology, women's studies--to prove that nothing is anybody's… — P.J. O'Rourke
I suggest we depict penguins as callous and unfeeling creatures who insist on bringing up their children in what is little more than a large… — Jasper Fforde
Behind Joy and Laughter there may be a temperament, coarse, hard and callous. But behind Sorrow there is always Sorrow. Pain, unlike Pleasure, wears no… — Oscar Wilde
Evolution is, as well as smarter than we are, infinitely more callous and cruel, and also capricious. — Christopher Hitchens
I felt rather exhausted, and wondered, rather shocked at my callous thought, why old people were sometimes such a strain. Worse than young children or… — Daphne du Maurier
However brief our time in the sun, if we waste a second of it, or complain that it is dull or barren or (like a… — Richard Dawkins
Only people who have been discriminated against can really know how much it hurts. Each person feels the pain in his own way, each has… — Haruki Murakami
I believe that the place where an animal dies is a sacred one. There is a need to bring ritual into the conventional slaughter plants… — Temple Grandin
Every person you meet is waging his or her own war against a callous universe that is plotting against them. — Sherrilyn Kenyon
If the people around you are spiteful and callous and will not hear you, fall down before them and beg their forgiveness; for in truth… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Nothing can alter the character of God. In the course of a human life, tastes and outlook and temper may change radically: a kind, equable… — J I Packer
Among sportsmen are the noble, the diligent and the caring, as there are the callous, the cheats and the criminals. — Harsha Bhogle
I got down to business and started writing furiously. I wore my fingers down to a callous state writing with every Tom, Dick and Harry… — Gin Wigmore
Although it may seem callous to say so, millions of Americans are lucky that Magic Johnson was infected with H.I.V. There is no way of… — Michael Specter
I know that in the battle of ideas, Republican politicians are at a distinct disadvantage. Their fundamental philosophy - which I characterize as survival of… — John Yarmuth
All nations that throw their military weight around, occupying neighboring lands and treating the residents with callous and humiliating disregard, are already sliding towards the… — Michael Leunig
Nature is not cruel, pitilessly, indifferent. This is one of the hardest lessons for humans to learn. We cannot admit that things might be neither… — Horace
For in all the world there are no people so piteous and forlorn as those who are forced to eat the bitter bread of dependency… — Dorothy Dix
You'll continue to be a bitch no matter what, but I'm glad you aren't a callous, self-absorbed one. — Genna Rulon

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