Brutal Quotes - Page 23

• Those who fail to learn from the brutal stompings visited on them in the past are doomed to be brutally stomped in the future.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Past, Failing, Stomping

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• Human nature will find itself only when it fully realizes that to be human it has to cease to be beastly or brutal.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Nature, Animal, Realizing

  Mahatma Gandhi (1962). “The Essential Gandhi: His Life, Work, and Ideas : an Anthology”, Vintage

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• I review all I know, but can synthesize no meaning. When I doze, the Fact, the certain accomplished calamity, wakes me roughly like a brutal nurse. I see it crouching inflexibly in a corner of the ceiling. It comes down in geometrical diagonal like lightning.It says, I remain, I AM, I shall never cease to be: your memory will grow a deathly glaze: you will forget, you will fade out, but I cannot be undone.Thus every quarter hour it puts the taste of death in my mouth, and shows me, but not gently, how I go whoring after oblivion.

  Elizabeth Smart

  Memories, Nurse, Facts

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• We do this in order to slow down aggression. We do this to increase the confidence of the brave people of South Vietnam who have bravely born this brutal battle for so many years with so many casualties. And we do this to convince the leaders of North Vietnam-and all who seek to share their conquest-of a simple fact: We will not be defeated. We will not grow tired. We will not withdraw either openly or under the cloak of a meaningless agreement.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  War, Tired, Simple

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• He knows I'm brutal. He's knows I can punch hard. He knows if I connect on his chin, at any one moment, 12 three minute rounds, he's going to be in serious trouble. If he's not on the floor, his legs will do a funny dance.

  Carl Froch

  Motivation, Three, Legs

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• T.S Elliot was wrong. My world ended with a bang the minute we entered the Compound and the silver door closed behind us. The sound was brutal. Final.

  S.A. Bodeen

  Doors, Bangs, Sound

  S. A. Bodeen (2008). “The Compound”, p.1, Feiwel & Friends

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• Whether I'm traveling or at home in Seattle, my days rarely play out as it looks on my Outlook calendar - there's almost always something unexpected that comes up. But when I'm in town, my day usually starts at about 6 a.m., which is brutal for me because I'm really a night owl at heart.

  Jane Park

  Home, Heart, Night

  Source: www.elle.com

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• If you were [Vladimir] Putin right now, you would say, hey, we're back to the old games with the United States. There's no way Trump can ever do a deal with us because the - you've got to understand, if I was just brutal on Russia right now, just brutal, you would say, oh, isn't that wonderful?

  Donald Trump

  Russia, Games, United States

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I read "The Conquest of New Spain" by Bernal Diz Del Castillo, which I recommend to a lot of people. He was an eyewitness of [Hernando] Cortez's conquest of Mexico. It's at once very brutal and at times very plodding. It tells what they did everyday, so days can go by and nothing happens. Then all of the sudden they are torturing and doing all these dark things.

  Laila Lalami

  Dark, People, Everyday

  Source: www.bostonglobe.com

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• Now obviously popularity isn't everything when it comes to stand up comedy, but the art form itself is better today than it ever has before. I think there are more great comics. I think the standard is higher. The critical analysis is a little harsher, but that is also good. Maybe people have a higher standard than before, maybe they are a little more judgmental, a little more brutal, that makes people work harder. It makes the stand up better.

  Joe Rogan

  Art, Hard Work, Thinking

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• Something that comes to us, some gym shoe that comes to us as a result of child labor from a brutal dictatorship, where people do not have basic freedoms, it wouldn't bug me to tax the living Dickens out of that thing or even to forbid its importation whatsoever. But that's a moral question, not an economic question.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Children, Shoes, People

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• When the time came to say, "Mom, I want to do this as a job," it was brutal. She was really against it. There were screaming matches. Some people are shut down by that and get defeated by it, and other people are empowered by the negativity. My father kind of encouraged me through that.

  David Copperfield

  Mom, Jobs, Father

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I don't trust any white man who teaches Negroes to turn the other cheek or to be nonviolent, which means to be defenseless in the face of a very brutal, criminal enemy. No. That's my yardstick for measuring whites.

  Malcolm X

  Mean, Men, White Man

  Interview with Robert Penn Warren, whospeaks.library.vanderbilt.edu. June 2, 1964.

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• It's a brutal regime, in the Assad regime, that is willing to take any measure, no matter how immoral or war criminal acts, to persecute its goals.

  Derek Chollet

  War, Goal, Matter

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Acting is kind of brutal.

  Michelle Pfeiffer

  Acting, Kind

  "New Again: Michelle Pfeiffer". Interview With Colleen Kelsey, Peter Stone, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 9, 2012.

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• I think all actors have a sadomasochistic streak, because acting is kind of brutal, you know.

  Michelle Pfeiffer

  Thinking, Acting, Actors

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I see that within each human being there are two extremes: there's the loving, the passionate, altruistic side that has evolved with us, and then there's the violent, brutal side that has evolved with us. The question for each individual is: which side is going to come out on top?

  Jane Goodall

  Two, Sides, Passionate

  Source: www.egonzehnder.com

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• Chimps are brutal, and it is so deliberate. The males go out and get near the boundary of their territory. And they walk very silently trying hard not to make any noise. They will climb into a tree and stare out over hostile territory for hours. They are waiting for the right opportunity. And then they attack.

  Jane Goodall

  Opportunity, Tree, Waiting

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The chimps' way of aggression is quick and brutal. I compare them to gang attacks.

  Jane Goodall

  Way, Gang, Compare

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• [Fairy tales] are like a journey to the woods and the many ways you can get lost. Some people say it's not a good idea to read fairy tales to anyone under the age of eight because they are brutal and raw. When I was a kid I often felt that kids's books were speaking down to me, but I never felt that way about fairy tales. They are bloody and scary, but so is life.

  Alice Hoffman

  Book, Kids, Journey

  Source: www.bostonglobe.com

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• You're so brutal to those who love you, Scarlett. You take their love and hold it over their heads like a whip.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Love You, Whips

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.671, Hamilton Books

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• Coming to the end of a long shot is brutal so when it's just me, if I mess up I can be like "Sorry. I'm an idiot. Let's go again".

  Emma Stone

  Sorry, Long, Idiot

  Source: www.kidzworld.com

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• We have to be realistic about the brutal demands a money culture puts on the psyche, and there is a great cost to this in terms of creativity. Look at the state of people at 65. How many of them become creative after having to survive in the money culture?

  Michael Ventura

  Creativity, People, Creative

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• As far as the he Taliban goes, it is not one unified organization Some of them are brutal to the population, some are less aggressive. But the key is that none of them pose an immediate threat to the U.S.

  Robert Greenwald

  Keys, Organization, Population

  Source: www.salon.com

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• Be brutal with the past, especially your own, and have no respect for the philosophies that are foisted on you from outside.

  Robert Greene

  Philosophy, Past, No Respect

  Twitter post from Sep 02, 2015

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