Best Merciless Sayings
88 Merciless quotes by 78 unique authors
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Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.
— Thomas Huxley
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Beauty is merciless. You do not look at it, it looks at you and does not forgive.
— Nikos Kazantzakis
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For years Don Imus was just - boy, he was merciless in his criticism of me. Maybe it was justified, but that didn't mean it…
— Dan Rather
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Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, Thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought is great and swift and free.
— Bertrand Russell
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While President Obama shirks his responsibility to advance solutions to our fiscal challenges, he can no longer hide from the merciless math of the balance…
— Paul Ryan
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Not the torturer will scare me, nor the body's final fall, nor the barrels of death's rifles, nor the shadows on the wall, nor the…
— Roger Waters
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There was no manifestation of contemporary culture that did not indicate to my grandmother how steadfast was the nation's decline, how merciless our mental and…
— John Irving
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The landscape was snow and green ice on broken mountains. These weren't old mountains, worn down by time and weather and full of gentle ski…
— Terry Pratchett
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Actions are the first tragedy in life, words are the second. Words are perhaps the worst. Words are merciless. . .
— Oscar Wilde
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But, when the chips are down, its better to be furious with someone you love, or frightened for someone you love, than be put through…
— James A. Baldwin
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Droll thing life is -- that mysterious arrangement of merciless logic for a futile purpose. The most you can hope from it is some knowledge…
— Joseph Conrad
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A hurt body and mind aren't just like a dictatorship; they are a dictatorship. There is no tyrant as merciless as pain, no despot so…
— Stephen King
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My principle anguish and the source of all my joys and sorrows from my youth onward has been the incessant, merciless battle between the spirit…
— Nikos Kazantzakis
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Farewells can be shattering, but returns are surely worse. Solid flesh can never live up to the bright shadow cast by its absence. Time and…
— Margaret Atwood
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Love's merciless, the way it travels in and keeps emitting light.
— Kim Addonizio
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The other exception to the rule regards dealings with masochists. A masochist derives pleasure from being hurt; so denying the masochist his pleasure through-pain hurts…
— Anton Szandor LaVey
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It is difficult at times to repress the thought that history is about as instructive as an abattoir; that Tacitus was right and that peace…
— Seamus Heaney
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You have now reached infatuation’s final destination—the complete and merciless devaluation of self.
— Elizabeth Gilbert
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Schoolboys are a merciless race, individually they are angels, but together, especially in schools, they are often merciless.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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May I never, I say, become that abnormal, merciless animal, that deformed monstrosity - a virtuous woman.
— Mary MacLane
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Had the cub thought in man-fashion, he might have epitomized life as a voracious appetite, and the world as a place wherein ranged a multitude…
— Jack London
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Sneaky, manipulating, merciless bloodsucker . . .” A chuckle drifted up to me. “Pillow talk already? You’ll have me hard before we’re even back in…
— Jeaniene Frost
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But she did not take her eyes from the wheels of the second car. And exactly at the moment when the midpoint between the wheels…
— Leo Tolstoy
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As though she had entered a fable, as though she were no more than words crawling along a dry page, or as though she were…
— Salman Rushdie
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I watch life trickle from the bullet wound of a sixteen-year-old "example" and marvel how things weak, even words, will turn vicious and merciless to…
— Susan Abulhawa
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