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I have often caught sight of myself, my spine humped over, defining my hollowness, my head too heavy for my body, swinging like the oversized… — Maureen Howard
Add to this cruelly delicate organism the overpowering necessity to create, create, create - so that without the creating of music or poetry or books… — Pearl S. Buck
Truth can be outraged by silence quite as cruelly as by speech. — Amelia Barr
Nonviolence is a powerful as well as a just weapon. If you confront a man who has long been cruelly misusing you, and say, "Punish… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Bush is almost always clear when he's speaking cruelly. For example, when the subject is the punitive infliction of great pain, there is no problem… — Mark Crispin Miller
Under the desert sun, in the dogmatic clarity, the fables of theology and the myths of classical philosophy dissolve like mist. The air is clean,… — Edward Abbey
One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but cannot be taken away unless it is surrendered. — Michael J. Fox
It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the… — Margaret Mead
The idea that I have to be on the same side of the fence as Dan Quayle is cruelly depressing to me, but the truth… — Harold Prince
I think that if people are instructed about anything, it should be about the nature of cruelty. And about why people behave so cruelly to… — Richard Russo
Yom HaShoah is a vital day in the Jewish calendar, providing us with a focal point for our remembrance. We cannot bring the dead back… — Jonathan Sacks
Justice can sleep for years and awaken when it is least expected. A miracle is nothing more than dormant justice from another time arriving to… — Mark Helprin
The wise thing is for us diligently to train ourselves to lie thoughtfully, judiciously; to lie with a good object, and not an evil one;… — Mark Twain
Loyalty and obedience to wisdom and justice are fine; but it is still finer to defy arbitrary power, unjustly and cruelly used--not on behalf of… — Elizabeth Gaskell
I offer Emily half of my hit of acid- Love Saves the Day. It's my second or third time tripping, Emily's first, and she's understandably… — Nick Flynn
Here's my advice to you: don't marry until you can tell yourself that you've done all you could, and until you've stopped loving the women… — Leo Tolstoy
She had been given a wonderful gift: life. Sometimes it was cruelly taken away too soon, but it's what you did with it that counted,… — Cecelia Ahern
It seemed cruelly unfair to me, even then, how fast your life can change before you have an opportunity to rethink your choices. We should… — Tiffanie DeBartolo
Once I no longer exist as I am, out of what consideration then should I forgo anything? Should I belong to a man I don't… — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
If a guest in your lair annoys you, treat him cruelly and without mercy. — Anton Szandor LaVey
The great trains howling from track to track all night. The taut and telegraphic murmur of ten thousand city wires, drawn most cruelly against a… — Nelson Algren
Narrow minds can develop as well through persecution as through benevolence; they can assure themselves of their power by tyrannizing cruelly or beneficially over others. — Honore de Balzac
how hard you worked for what you wanted. how cruelly fate betrayed you in the end. — Lauren Kate
We are very cruelly trapped between what we would like to be and what we actually are. And we cannot possibly become what we would… — James A. Baldwin
Sometimes a woman's love of being loved gets the better of her conscience, and though she is agonized at the thought of treating a man… — Thomas Hardy

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