Ruthless Quotes

248 quotes by 220 authors

There are things about ourselves that we need to get rid of; there are things we need to change. But at the same time, we… — Benjamin Hoff
One thought alone preoccupies the submerged mind of Empire: how not to end, how not to die, how to prolong its era. By day it… — J M Coetzee
We have doomed the wolf not for what it is, but for what we deliberately and mistakenly perceive it to be â€“the mythologized epitome of… — Farley Mowat
Be ruthless about protecting writing days, i.e., do not cave in to endless requests to have "essential" and "long overdue" meetings on those days. The… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Jason settled back on the bench. 'I hate to break this to you, but as a rule, wizards are nasty people. They're powerful, capricious, ruthless,… — Cinda Williams Chima
To knot a sentence up properly, it has to be thought out carefully, and revised. New phrases have to be put in; sudden changes of… — Aleister Crowley
You can write any time people will leave you alone and not interrupt you. Or rather you can if you will be ruthless enough about… — Ernest Hemingway
It is only through literature that one can put oneself in someone elseâ€™s shoes and understand the otherâ€™s different and contradictory sides and refrain from… — Azar Nafisi
Writing isn't just a job that stops at six thirty... It's a mad, sexy, sad, scary, ruthless, joyful, and utterly, utterly personal thing. There's not… — Russell T Davies
Sooner or later, fate puts us together with all the people, one by one, who show us what we could, and shouldnâ€™t, let ourselves become.… — Gregory David Roberts
All human plans [are] subject to ruthless revision by Nature, or Fate, or whatever one preferred to call the powers behind the Universe. — Arthur C. Clarke
I've been taught that love is beautiful and kind, but it isn't like that at all. It is beautiful, but it's a terrible beauty, a… — Elizabeth Scott
The writer's only responsibility is to his art. He will be completely ruthless if he is a good one. He has a dream. It anguishes… — William Faulkner
No. You know this is wrong and you want to feel better about it. You don't want to admit your as ruthless and monstrous as… — Darren Shan
In our hearts there is a ruthless dictator, ready to contemplate the misery of a thousand strangers if it will ensure the happiness of the… — Graham Greene
Do you know," he said, "there are men who would like very much to see me dead. Powerful men. Obscenely wealthy me. Men who can… — Tessa Dare
So if you're not Artemis Fowl, then who are you?" The boy extended a dripping hand straight up. "My name is Orion. I am so… — Eoin Colfer
My husband is my most ruthless critic... sometimes he will say, 'It's been said better before.' Of course it has. It's all been said better… — Madeleine L'Engle
[Jesus] matters because of what he brought and what he still brings to ordinary human beings, living their ordinary lives and coping daily with their… — Brennan Manning
A community where everyone is a ruthless murderer, with handy access to death-dealing devices, is a very polite community. — Robert A. Heinlein

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