Ruthless Quotes - Page 4

• Some people only speak of freedom of speech while they're out of power. Once they're in power, they're ruthless in suppressing the rights of others.

  Barack Obama

  Rights, People, Freedom Of Speech

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• Leave the dishes unwashed and the demands on your time unanswered. Be ruthless and refuse to do what people ask of you.

  Lynne Sharon Schwartz

  People, Demand, Dishes

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• It didn't happen every time for every movie. Ruthless People was a good movie, but we didn't get a good release or marketing. They completely blew the opening.

  David Zucker

  People, Marketing, Good Movie

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

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• If people decide thin is out, the fashion industry won't have thin models anymore. Have you spent time with fashion people? They are ruthless. They want money. And the one thing they know is people want clothes to cover their bodies. Unfortunately, most people aren't comfortable with their bodies.

  Kelly Cutrone

  Fashion, Clothes, People

  "Do thin models warp girls' body image?" by Nanci Hellmich, usatoday30.usatoday.com. September 26, 2006.

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• John Kerry can be absolutely ruthless. I would not want to be on his enemies list when he's ready to go after you.

  Douglas Brinkley

  Enemy, Want, Lists

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• I'm pretty ruthless about that; I think when you sign over your story, you sign over your story.

  Rachel Griffiths

  Thinking, Over You, Stories

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Sometimes we see the Civil War in movies and imagine these neatly aligned rows of men with muskets, walking in line to shoot each other. In reality the things that fascinated me were how absolutely ruthless and violent so many engagements were, how much suffering and how men were not prepared.

  Seth Grahame-Smith

  War, Reality, Men

  "Modern Gothic Master Seth Grahame-Smith Talks ‘Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter,’ ‘Pride and Prejudice and Zombies,’ ‘Dark Shadows’". Interview with Maggie Lange, www.indiewire.com. June 12, 2012.

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• There is no end and there is no beginning. There is only eternity. Eternity can be warm. eternity can be cold and ruthless.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Buddhism, Cold

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• This is the pain-pleasure of having newly adult children; they're innocent and ruthless in forgetting their sweet old dependence.

  Ian Mcewan

  Sweet, Children, Pain

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• The evil in the world is all of our own making, and it proceeds entirely from our ruthless, senseless, wasteful, destructive, and suicidal neglect of our own being.

  Thomas Merton

  Suicidal, Evil, World

  Thomas Merton (2009). “Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander”, p.222, Image

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• If we define an American fascist as one who in case of conflict puts money and power ahead of human beings, then there are undoubtedly several million fascists in the United States. There are probably several hundred thousand if we narrow the definition to include only those who in their search for money and power are ruthless and deceitful.

  Henry A. Wallace

  War, Patriotic, May

  "The Danger of American Fascism". New York Times (April 9, 1944). Quoted in: "Democracy Reborn", p. 259, 1944.

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• How do you stop longing for what you absolutely know you can't get? Which really means: How do you absolutely know you can't-and won't-get it, not ever? How do you pinch out that wisp of feeble, ruthless hope?

  Leigh Newman

  Mean, Longing, Wisps

  Leigh Newman (2013). “Still Points North: One Alaskan Childhood, One Grown-up World, One Long Journey Home”, p.170, Dial Press

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• To fight tyranny and oppression by using tyrannical and oppressive means, to combat a single-minded and ruthless fanaticism by becoming equally fanatical and ruthless, will not further the cause of justice or bring about a meaningful democracy. It can only prolong the cycle of violence.

  Tariq Ali

  Meaningful, Fighting, Justice

  Tariq Ali (2003). “The Clash of Fundamentalisms: Crusades, Jihads and Modernity”, p.3, Verso

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• Too many people want the fruit of Paul's ministry without paying the price that Paul paid. He died. He died to everything. He died daily He was crucified with Christ ... I challenge you to pray this prayer: 'Lord, be ruthless with me in revealing my selfish ambition and my lack of willingness to die to myself.' I guarantee that He will answer your prayer - and quickly.

  Floyd McClung

  Prayer, Selfish, Ambition

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• The reaction that a ruthless dictator sets up in us either that of awe or pity according respectively as we react to him violently on nonviolently.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Violence, Dictator, Pity

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• You always have to be very aware that the audience is extremely ruthless in its demand for newness, novelty and freshness.

  Christopher Nolan

  Demand, Novelty, Audience

  Source: deadline.com

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• We must be ruthless with ideas, but gentle with people.

  Robert Sirico

  Ideas, People, Gentle

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• Donald Rumsfeld is the most ruthless man I have ever met? and I mean that as a compliment.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Mean, Men, Mets

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• I mean, you can't be less ruthless than the opposition simply because your government's policy is benevolent, can you now?

  John le Carre

  Mean, Government, Policy

  John le Carre (2001). “The Spy Who Came In from the Cold”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

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• There's definitely evidence that capitalism at its most ruthless rewards psychopathic behavior. When you look at the worst corners of the American health insurance industry or the sub-prime banking market, it really feels like the more psychopathically someone behaves, the more it's rewarded.

  Jon Ronson

  Looks, Banking, Rewards

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• I'm certainly driven, I hate losing, I can be ruthless and short-tempered and terribly competitive.

  Alastair Campbell

  Hate, Losing, Driven

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• Humor has been a fashioning instrument in America, cleaving its way through the national life, holding tenaciously to the spread elements of that life. Its mode has often been swift and coarse and ruthless, beyond art and beyond established civilization. It has engaged in warfare against the established heritage, against the bonds of pioneer existence. Its objective --the unconscious objective of a disunited people --has seemed to be that of creating fresh bonds, a new unity, the semblance of a society and the rounded completion of an American type.

  Constance Rourke

  Art, Humor, Civilization

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• ...it is curiosity, initiative, originality, and the ruthless application of honesty that count in research- much more than feats of logic and memory alone.

  Julian Huxley

  Honesty, Memories, Discovery

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• Chess is ruthless: you've got to be prepared to kill people.

  Nigel Short

  Chess Game, People, Be Prepared

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• The discipline of writing a memoir comes in the editing. This is where I cut, slash, and burn - where my creative mind is transformed into a ruthless one. No word escapes my scrutiny. It is here where I see what boundaries need to be set.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Writing, Cutting, Editing

  Source: therumpus.net

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