Cruelest Quotes
76 quotes by 69 authors
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Golf is the cruelest game, because eventually it will drag you out in front of the whole school, take your lunch money and slap you…
— Rick Reilly
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In running it is man against himself, the cruelest of opponents. The other runners are not the real enemies. His adversary lies within him, in…
— Glenn Cunningham
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No one is an unjust villain in his own mind. Even - perhaps even especially those who are the worst of us. Some of the…
— Jim Butcher
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Is Hollywood the cruelest city in the world? Well, it can be. New York can be that, too. You can be a Broadway star here…
— Buster Keaton
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Man is the cruelest animal. At tragedies, bullfights, and crucifixions he has so far felt best on earth; and when he invented hell for himself,…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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The cruelest lies are often told in silence. A man may have sat in a room for hours and not opened his mouth, and yet…
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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The grossest, the cruelest, the most selfish, the most easily pervertible and perverted thing in this world, is government.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Failing to differentiate among employees — and holding on to bottom-tier performers — is actually the cruelest form of management there is.
— Jack Welch
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The Holocaust teaches us that nature, even in its cruelest moments, is benign in comparison with man when he loses his moral compass and his…
— Samuel Pisar
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Adolescence is that time when I think, it can be- it's the cruelest place on Earth. It can really be heartless.
— Tori Amos
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The art of angling, the cruelest, the coldest and the stupidest of pretended sports.
— Lord Byron
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The cruelest thing anyone can do to Portnoy's Complaint is to read it twice.
— Irving Howe
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Fear, true fear, is a savage frenzy. Of all the insanities of which we are capable, it is surely the cruelest. There is naught to…
— Georges Bernanos
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The cruelest thing, hope, the way it strings you along, the way it makes you believe.
— Jackson Pearce
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The cruelest prison of all is the prison of the mind.
— Piri Thomas
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All cultures forged by nations—the noble indigenous past of America, the brilliant civilization of Europe, the wise history of Asian nations, and the ancestral wealth…
— Subcomandante Marcos
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Religious conflict can be the bloodiest and cruelest conflicts that turn people into fanatics.
— William J. Brennan
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People can be cruelest to those they love.
— Veronica Rossi
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The cruelest thing that has happened to Lincoln since he was shot by Booth was to fall into the hands of Carl Sandburg.
— Edmund Wilson
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You can see the cruelest part of the world, the cruelest part. But then on the other side, you see the most beautiful part. Do…
— Britney Spears
Who Wrote These Cruelest Quotes
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