"Cruelty isn't a personality trait. Cruelty is a…" — Rick Yancey
"Cruelty isn't a personality trait. Cruelty is a habit."
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139 Quotes by Rick Yancey
Rick Yancey has 139 quotes on this site.
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There are times when fear is not our enemy. There are times when fear is our truest, sometimes only, friend.
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But if I'm it, the last of my kind, the last page of human history, like hell I'm going to…
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To show mercy is not naïve. To hold out against the end of hope is not stupidity or madness. It…
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A man lies upon the floor, spreads his arms, and transforms himself into a ship of a thousand sails.
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So often the monsters that crowd our minds are nothing more than the strange and thoroughly alien progeny of our…
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What boy my age didn’t dream of fleeing the well-tended lawn and lamp-lit street for the untamed wilderness, where grand…
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To hold on, you have to find something you’re willing to die for.
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You never know when the truth will come home. You can't choose the time. The time chooses you.
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Maybe you reach a certain point in evolution where boredom is the greatest threat to your survival. Maybe this isn't…
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When you look death in the eye and death blinks first, nothing seems impossible.
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A miscalculation is not negligence, nor prudence a crime. I am a scientist. I base my action or inaction upon…
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How oft do they rescue or ruin us, through whimsy or design or a combination of both, the adults to…
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More Cruelty Quotes
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To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.
— Isaac Asimov
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If one of the arguments against eating meat is to do with cruelty and animal intelligence, then lab meat avoids…
— Margaret Atwood
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Idle people are often bored and bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. It is not accident that…
— Renata Adler
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What is a wife and what is a harlot? What is a church and what is a theatre? are they…
— William Blake
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Fantasy is toxic: the private cruelty and the world war both have their start in the heated brain.
— Elizabeth Bowen
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The course of this conflict is not known, yet its outcome is certain. Freedom and fear, justice and cruelty, have…
— George W. Bush
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The terrorists are fighting freedom with all their cunning and cruelty because freedom is their greatest fear - and they…
— George W. Bush
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Christ and The Church: If he were to apply for a divorce on the grounds of cruelty, adultery and desertion,…
— Samuel Butler
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To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.
— Samuel Butler
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Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Cruelty is, perhaps, the worst kid of sin. Intellectual cruelty is certainly the worst kind of cruelty.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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There's a certain cruelty to being on a big screen as your eyelids start to sag and your hair falls…
— George Clooney
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