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It would be stupid tameness, and unaccountable folly, for whole nations to suffer one unreasonable, ambitious and cruel man, to wanton and riot in their… — Jonathan Mayhew
A certain slightly cruel disregard for the feelings of living people is simply part of the package. I think a writer, if hes any good,… — Michael Cunningham
How cruel the Penal Laws are which exclude me from a fair trial with men whom I look upon as so much my inferiors... — Daniel O'Connell
It's not just that life is cruel, but that in the very process of our birth we submit to life's cruelty — Shashi Deshpande
Self-revelation is a cruel process. The real picture, the real you never emerges. Looking for it is as bewildering as trying to know how you… — Shashi Deshpande
Scotsmen are metaphisical and emotional, they are sceptical and mystical, they are romantic and ironic, they are cruel and tender, and full of mirth and… — William Dunbar
All of consciousness is shifted from the imagined, the revisive, to the effort to perceive simply the cruel radiance of what is — James Agee
Whenever encountering a troublesome person, do not identify him as being cruel or stupid or rude or anything else like that. Instead, see him as… — Vernon Howard
Without beauty a girl is unhappy because she has missed her chance to be loved. People do not jeer at her, they are not cruel… — Michel Houellebecq
Children are very cruel, yes. Of course. Children are extraordinarily cruel little creatures. — Dennis Potter
Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness. — Ouida
I'm glad some people have that faith. I don't have that faith. If there is a God, a caring God, then we have to figure… — Dave Matthews
Why, flowers are violent, cruel, terrible, splendid...like love. — Octave Mirbeau
As cruel as life might be at times, if you throw in the towel, which is what everyone will expect, then nothing good will happen… — Bill Courtney
No wild beasts are so cruel as the Christians in their dealings with each other — Ammianus Marcellinus
Colonialism is known in its primitive form, that is to say, by the permanent settling of repressive foreign powers, with an army, services, policies. This… — Ahmed Ben Bella
The terrorist attacks upon our country changed the way that we live forever and provided us with a cruel reminder that freedom and liberty have… — Jo Ann Davis
Come to think of it, maybe God is a He after all, because only a cruel force would create something this beautiful and make it… — Raquel Cepeda
It’s, it’s like I’m in the fourth dimension and somebody is asking me to describe it verbally and that’s what the fourth dimension is all… — John Frusciante
A child's hope is that your father comes riding in on that white stallion and saves them. You can't make somebody love you the way… — Jake Roberts
It is noble to pity a man who is cruel because he is weak, but it is idiotic and dangerous to allow him to have… — Kate Horsley
Suppose the hellfire of the orthodox really existed! We have no assurance that it does not! It seems incredible, but many incredible things are true.… — W.N.P. Barbellion
He that tears away a man's good name tears his flesh from his bones, and, by letting him live, gives him only a cruel opportunity… — Robert South
As Christians we know, in theory at least, that in the life of a child of God there are no second causes, that even the… — Hannah Hurnard
By the tons it is coming into this country - the deadly, dreadful poison that racks and tears not only the body, but the very… — Harry J. Anslinger

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