Ruthless Quotes - Page 2

• It's so hard to actually get the money to make your movie. When you actually have the chance to do it, you have to be absolutely ruthless in order to make the best movie you can make.

  Jamie Babbit

  Order, Chance, Hard

  "‘Addicted to Fresno’ Director Jamie Babbit on Hiding Pregnancies and Embracing Diversity". Interview with Melissa Silverstein, www.indiewire.com. October 1, 2015.

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• Ruthless trust ultimately comes down to this: faith in the person of Jesus and hope in his promise.

  Brennan Manning

  Jesus, Promise, Persons

  Brennan Manning (2013). “NIV, Ragamuffin Bible, eBook: Meditations for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Brokenhearted”, p.2654, Harper Collins

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• I do not want to admit to the world that I can be a bad person. It is just that I don't want anyone to have false expectations. Moviemaking is a harsh, volatile business, and unless you can be ruthless, too, there's a good chance that you are going to disappear off the scene pretty quickly.

  Tom Hanks

  Expectations, World, Want

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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  As long as man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings he will never know health or peace. For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other.

  Pythagoras

  Health, Animal, Men

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• Popular revolt against a ruthless, experienced modern dictatorship, which enjoys a monopoly over weapons and communications, ... is simply not a possibility in the modern age.

  George F. Kennan

  Communication, America, Age

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• but writers, Garp knew, were just observers - good and ruthless imitators of human behavior.

  John Irving

  Behavior, Humans, Observers

  John Irving (1978). “The world according to Garp”, Pocket

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• It is not easy to be solitary unless you are also born ruthless. Every solitary repudiates someone.

  Jessamyn West

  Solitude, Easy, Born

  Jessamyn West (1973). “Hide and Seek: A Continuing Journey”, Harcourt

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• Hinduism comes closest to being a nature religion. Rivers, rocks, trees, plants, animals, and birds all play their part, both in mythology and everyday worship. This harmony is most evident in remote places like this, and I hope it does not loose its unique character in the ruthless urban advance.

  Ruskin Bond

  Character, Animal, Unique

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• The people's community must not be a mere phrase, but a revolutionary achievement following from the radical carrying out of the basic life needs of the working class. A ruthless battle against corruption! A war against exploitation, freedom for the workers! The elimination of all economic-capitalist influences on national policy...Maintaining a rotten economic system has nothing to do with nationalism, which is an affirmation of the Fatherland. I can love Germany and hate capitalism. Not only can I, I must.

  Joseph Goebbels

  War, Hate, Class

  "Those Damned Nazis" by Joseph Goebbels, Mjölnir, 1932.

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• Move over Lucifer, I'm more ruthless, leave you toothless.

  The Notorious B.I.G.

  Moving, Evil, Lucifer

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• 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, egotistical, used to getting their own way. That's being kind.

  Cinda Williams Chima

  Powerful, Hate, People

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• Recovery proceeding excellently. Am sure that the crushing of the Kazan Czechs and whiteguards, as well as of the kulak extortioners supporting them, will be exemplarily ruthless.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Crush, Recovery, Wells

  Telegram to Leon Trotsky on September 07, 1918. "The Cheka: Lenin's Political Police" by George Leggett, p. 119, 1981.

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• Universities should be safe havens where ruthless examination of realities will not be distorted by the aim to please or inhibited by the risk of displeasure.

  Kingman Brewster, Jr.

  Safe Haven, Reality, Risk

  Inaugural address as President of Yale University, April 11, 1964.

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• Mother Nature is a relentless ruthless killer. She don't give a damn if you get home to your family.

  Joe Teti

  Mother, Home, Giving

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• We have doomed the wolf not for what it is, but for what we deliberately and mistakenly perceive it to be –the mythologized epitome of a savage ruthless killer – which is, in reality, no more than a reflected image of ourself.

  Farley Mowat

  Motivational, Animal, Reality

  Farley Mowat (2015). “Never Cry Wolf”, p.6, Open Road Media

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• I try to be as ruthless as possible. I ask myself of each sentence, "Is it clear? Is it true? Does it feel good?" And if it's not, then I rewrite it.

  William Manchester

  Feel Good, Trying, Doe

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• What I wanted with that Ruthless state of mind,: just to show people who I am as a person and why I do what I do, and why I go as hard as I do go.

  Ace Hood

  Who I Am, People, Mind

  Source: djbooth.net

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• Are gods more ruthless than mortals? Have they no mercy for youth? no love for the souls who have loved them?

  Charles Kingsley

  Soul, Youth, Mercy

  Charles Kingsley (1858). “Andromeda: And Other Poems”, p.22

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• There is an efficiency inspired by love which goes far beyond and is much greater than the efficiency of ambition; and without love, which brings an integrated understanding of life, efficiency breeds ruthlessness.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  War, Ambition, Understanding

  "Education and the Significance of Life".

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• cowardice more than any other failing demands a ruthless paying of the price from those who give it hospitality.

  Elizabeth Goudge

  Giving, Demand, Hospitality

  Elizabeth Goudge (1944). “Green Dolphin Street”

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• They've been so bloody ruthless that you almost get no choice in the matter.

  Kenneth Grange

  Choices, Design, Matter

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• Arthur Rimbaud was a disreputable, mean, ruthless, perverse, hateful wretch. He was also one of the greatest poets who ever lived.

  Raymond Sokolov

  Mean, Hateful, Arthur

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• Of course I believe in free enterprise but in my system of free enterprise, the democratic principle is that there never was, never has been, never will be, room for the ruthless exploitation of the many for the benefit of the few.

  Harry S. Truman

  Believe, Political, Principles

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• War is simple, direct, and ruthless.

  George S. Patton

  War, Simple, Ruthlessness

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• No one expects the Spanish Inquisition! Our chief weapon is surprise, fear and surprise; two chief weapons, fear, surprise, and ruthless efficiency! Er, among our chief weapons are: fear, surprise, ruthless efficiency, and near fanatical devotion to the Pope! Um, I'll come in again.

  Graham Chapman

  Two, Weapons, Surprise

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