Ruthless Quotes - Page 11

• In the end we all come to be cured of our sentiments. Those whom life does not cure death will. The world is quite ruthless in selecting between the dream and reality, even where we will not. Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting. I've thought a great deal about my life and my country. I think there is little that can be truly known. My family has been fortunate. Others were less so. As they are often quick to point out.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Dream, Country, Lying

  Cormac McCarthy (2012). “All the Pretty Horses”, p.244, Pan Macmillan

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• My ruthless desire to win at all costs served me well on the bike but the level it went to, for whatever reason, is a flaw. That desire, that attitude, that arrogance.

  Lance Armstrong

  Attitude, Winning, Arrogance

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.telegraph.co.uk. January 18, 2013.

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• A man is called a traitor, or liberator. A rich man is a thief or philanthropist. Is one a crusader or ruthless invader? It's all in which label is able to persist.

  Gregory Maguire

  Men, Labels, Able

  "Fictional character: The Wizard". "Wicked", Broadway musical, 2003.

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• Love is a handful of seeds, marriage the garden, and like your gardens, Paula, marriage requires total commitment, hard work, and a great deal of love and care. Be ruthless with the weeds. Pull them out before they take hold. Bring the same dedication to your marriage that you do to your gardens and everything will be all right. Remember that a marriage has to be constantly replenished too, if you want it to flourish.

  Barbara Taylor Bradford

  Love, Weed, Hard Work

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• Most of the heroes we remember we remember only because they won. To win you must be ruthless. Single-minded ... which was why he had no friends just admirers.

  David Gemmell

  Hero, Winning, No Friends

  "The King Beyond the Gate". Book by David Gemmell, Ch. 14, 1985.

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• Scorpions are quite ruthless, you know. That is why Artemis bid one of them to kill her foe Orion. And as a reward she set the scorpion on up in the sky. I'm not ruthless. I merely do whatever it takes to achive my goals That's not ruthless?

  Lisa Kleypas

  Sky, Goal, Scorpions

  Lisa Kleypas (2009). “Tempt Me at Twilight”, p.21, Macmillan

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• I was tough. I used everything to my advantage. I could be very ruthless.

  Leon Uris

  Tough, Used, Advantage

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The only force more ruthless and cynical than the business of big politics is the politics of big business.

  Gregory David Roberts

  Cynical, Shantaram, Bigs

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.50, Macmillan

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• Capitalism is based on ruthless exploitation and competition, and leads inevitably to the development of mega monopolies.

  Kshama Sawant

  Competition, Development, Monopoly

  Source: www.socialistalternative.org

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• Fidel Castro was a charismatic revolutionary and a ruthless leader who allowed no dissent.

  Scott Simon

  Leader, Revolutionary, Castro

  Source: www.npr.org

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• The history of warfare has not yet enabled any army, any civilized army, the army of a democracy like Israel, to be able to deal with a ruthless terrorist enemy that uses civilians as a human shield without having some incidental civilian casualties.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Army, Israel, Enemy

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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• Where once stood the steadfast pines, great, beautiful, sweet, my hand touched raw, moist stumps. All about lay broken branches, like the antlers of stricken deer. The fragrant, piled-up sawdust swirled and tumbled about me. An unreasoning resentment flashed through me at the ruthless destruction of the beauty that I love.

  Helen Keller

  Beautiful, Sweet, Hands

  Helen Keller (2012). “The World I Live In and Optimism: A Collection of Essays”, p.28, Courier Corporation

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• Winter is ruthless and sometimes sullen and murderous. The wild winter North has gulped ten thousand summers down nor left a froth of sunshine on its lips.

  William Alfred Quayle

  Summer, Sunshine, Winter

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• An ideal day starts with putting on a good, smart, fun show where I learn something and ends with me fending off atomic knee drops from my two kids in our no-holds-barred pillow fight/steel cage matches. They are a ruthless tag team.

  Willie Geist

  Fun, Smart, Team

  "10 questions for new third hour TODAY co-anchor Willie Geist". Interview with Danika Fears, www.today.com. November 12, 2012.

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• I've never heard of soft war.There's no soft war. War is war. Any war is ruthless. When you fight terrorists, you fight them like any other war.

  Bashar al-Assad

  War, Fighting, Terrorist

  Source: legrandsoir.info

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• The awakening an artist must be ruthless, not only with herself but with others.

  Steven Pressfield

  Artist, Awakening

  Steven Pressfield (2002). “The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles”, p.20, Black Irish Entertainment LLC

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• Ruthless concern with story is what I learned in television.

  Maria Semple

  Stories, Television, Concern

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• There was a brief moment of weightlesssness: a balancing point between air and earth, dirt and heaven. How strange, I thought, how like the moment between sleeping and falling when everything is beautifully surreal and nothing is corporeal. How like floating towards completion. But as often happens in that time between existing in the world and fading into dreams, this moment over the edge ended with the ruthless jerk back to awareness.

  Andrew Davidson

  Dream, Fall, Sleep

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• Ruthless and arrogant though power can appear, it is only ever held by mere mammals who excrete and yearn, and who suffer from insomnia and insecurity. These mammals are also necessarily vain in the ­extreme, and often wish to be liked almost as much as they desire to be feared.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Power, Insomnia, Insecurity

  Christopher Hitchens (2001). “Letters to a Young Contrarian”, Basic Books (AZ)

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• At least three time per day at scheduled times, he had to ask himself the following question: Am I being productive or just active? Charney captured the essence of this with less-abstract wording: Am I inventing things to do to avoid the important? He eliminated all of the activities he used as crutches and began to focus on demonstrating results instead of showing dedication. Dedication is often just meaningless work in disguise. Be ruthless and cut the fat.

  Tim Ferriss

  Inspirational, Cutting, Dedication

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• In the procession I should feel the crushing feet, the clashing discords, the ruthless hands and stifling breath. I could not hear the rhythm of the march.

  Kate Chopin

  Crush, Hands, Gnarly

  Kate Chopin (2016). “The Awakening”, p.187, Xist Publishing

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• People forgot that industry is not an end in itself, but should be only a means to insure to man his material subsistence and to make accessible to him the blessings of a higher intellectual culture. Where industry is everything and man is nothing begins the realm of a ruthless economic despotism whose workings are no less disastrous than those of any political despotism.

  Rudolf Rocker

  Mean, Blessing, Men

  Rudolf Rocker (2004). “Anarcho-Syndicalism: Theory and Practice”, p.2, AK Press

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• Ruthless man: you begin by slaying the animal and then you devour it, as if to slay it twice. It is not enough. You turn against the dead flesh, it revolts you, it must be transformed by fire, boiled and roasted, seasoned and disguised with drugs; you must have butchers, cooks, turnspits, men who will rid the murder of its horrors, who will dress the dead bodies so that the taste decieved by these disguises will not reject what is strange to it, and will feast on corpses, the very sight of which would sicken you.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Men, Animal, Fire

  Jean Jacques Rousseau (2015). “Emile”, p.239, eKitap Projesi

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• The BIBLE - banned, burned, beloved.  More widely read, more frequently attacked than any other book in history. Generations of intellectuals have attempted to discredit it,  dictators of every age have outlawed it and executed those who read it.  Yet soldiers carry it into battle believing it more powerful than their weapons.  Fragments of it smuggled into solitary prison cells have transformed ruthless killers into gentle saints

  Charles Colson

  Powerful, Believe, Book

  Charles Colson (1997). “Loving God”, p.55, Zondervan

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• The overwhelming pressure of mechanization evident in the newspaper and the magazine, has led to the creation of vast monopolies of communication. Their entrenched positions involve a continuous, systematic, ruthless destruction of elements of permanence essential to cultural activity.

  Harold Innis

  Communication, Essentials, Elements

  "Changing Concepts of Time". Book by Harold Innis, p. 15, 1952.

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