Ruthless Quotes - Page 6

• However well I return, opportunities will probably be few and far and I need to be ruthless.

  Andy Murray

  Opportunity, Needs, Return

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• You can't be anything but who you are. I wouldn't love you the same if you stopped being you. How do I change enough to accept that ruthless streak in you.

  Christine Feehan

  Love You, Enough, Accepting

  Christine Feehan (2012). “Christine Feehan's Drake Sisters Series: Five Novels and a Novella”, p.510, Penguin

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• We must risk delight. We can do without pleasure, but not delight. Not enjoyment. We must have the stubbornness to accept our gladness in the ruthless furnace of this world. To make injustice the only measure of our attention is to praise the Devil.

  Jack Gilbert

  Risk, Devil, Attention

  Jack Gilbert, “A Brief For The Defense”

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• In explaining the growth of his faith, psychiatrist Gerald May writes, "I know that God is loving and that God’s loving is trustworthy. I know this directly, through the experience of my life. There have been plenty of times of doubt, especially when I used to believe that trusting God's goodness meant I would not be hurt. But having been hurt quite a bit, I know God's goodness goes deeper than all pleasure and pain it embraces them both." Ruthless Trust, pg 22

  Brennan Manning

  Hurt, Pain, Believe

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• His mane was like a crest, mounting, then falling low. His neck was long and slender, and arched to the small, savagely beautiful head. The head was that of the wildest of all wild creatures- a stallion born wild- and it was beautiful, savage, splendid. A stallion with a wonderful physical perfection that matched his savage, ruthless spirit.

  Walter Farley

  Beautiful, Fall, Perfection

  Walter Farley, Steven Farley (2011). “The Young Black Stallion”, p.136, Yearling

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• In this world are very few things made from logic alone. It is illogical for man to be too logical. Some things we must just let stand. The mystery is more important than any possible explanation. The searcher after truth must search with humanity. Ruthless logic is the sign of a limited mind. The truth can only add to the sum of what you know, while a harmless mystery left unexplored often adds to the meaning of life. When a truth is not so important, it is better left as a mystery.

  Bryce Courtenay

  Men, Humanity, Mind

  "The Power of One".

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• Ruthless. That’s my girl.

  Holly Black

  Girl, My Girl

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• Chinese president Jiang Zemin met with former Bill Clinton in Hong Kong Wednesday. What a contrast. One is a ruthless communist who gains popularity by damaging the United States, while the other guy runs China.

  Argus Hamilton

  Running, Guy, Chinese

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• Who then will dare to say I'm weak or timid? No, they'll say I'm loyal as a friend, ruthless as a foe, so much like a hero destined for glory.

  Euripides

  Hero, Loyal, Glory

  Euripides (2006). “Medea”, p.70, Oxford University Press

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• When it is established that government by right can take wealth from some and give it to others. When a society establishes criminals-by-right and looters-by-law, men will use force to seize the wealth of disarmed victims. Such looters believe it safe to rob defenseless men, once they have passed a law to disarm them. But their loot becomes the magnet for other looters, who get it from them as they got it. Then the race goes, not to the ablest at production, but to those most ruthless at brutality. When force is the standard, the murderer wins over the pickpocket.

  Ayn Rand

  Believe, Winning, Men

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• We're gonna keep on doin' what we're doin', and we're gonna get it by all means. That's just what "ruthless" means to me. Everybody's got their own definition, but I'm ruthless with this music.

  Ace Hood

  Mean, Definitions

  Source: djbooth.net

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• That Scarface movie is just ruthless! His state of mind was like, "Yo, we're gonna get it - we're gonna get this money, we're gonna get this, get that."

  Ace Hood

  Mind, States, Scarface

  Source: djbooth.net

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• It is only through literature that one can put oneself in someone else’s shoes and understand the other’s different and contradictory sides and refrain from becoming too ruthless. Outside the sphere of literature only one aspect of individuals is revealed. But if you understand their different dimensions you cannot easily murder them.

  Azar Nafisi

  Shoes, Different, Literature

  "Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books". Book by Azar Nafisi, www.sfgate.com. 2003.

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• You can write any time people will leave you alone and not interrupt you. Or rather you can if you will be ruthless enough about it. But the best writing is certainly when you are in love.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Writing, People, Enough

  Ernest Hemingway, Matthew Joseph Bruccoli (1986). “Conversations with Ernest Hemingway”, p.114, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I'm absolutely gonna win it, because I'm ruthless. I sit at the poker table and my job is to destroy people.

  James Woods

  Jobs, Winning, Gambling

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• If believing in yourself and going after what you want in life and realising your worth is ruthless and selfish, then I'm definitely ruthless and selfish.

  Nicole Scherzinger

  Selfish, Believe, Want

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• The Chinese are good at repression and can be pretty ruthless about it.

  Salman Rushdie

  Chinese, Repression

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• I've been chased through airports with a screaming baby because the photographers are ruthless, and they want the picture.

  Lisa Marie Presley

  Baby, Airports, Want

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• There's a misconception that survival of the fittest means survival of the most aggressive. The adjective 'Darwinian' used to refer to ruthless competition; you used to read that in business journals. But that's not what Darwinian means to a biologist; it's whatever leads to reproductive success.

  Steven Pinker

  Mean, Competition, Survival

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• I always like to reveal the fact that the emperor has no clothes. And children are best at that. They teach us how to see the world in that sense. They are without artifice; they see it for what it is. I am drawn to that ruthless honesty.

  Mira Nair

  Children, Honesty, Clothes

  Interview with Bonnie Greer, www.theguardian.com. June 12, 2002.

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• I will be ruthless in cutting out waste, streamlining structures and improving efficiency.

  Theresa May

  Cutting, Waste, Efficiency

  "Biography/Personal Quotes".

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• All great movements are popular movements. They are the volcanic eruptions of human passions and emotions, stirred into activity by the ruthless Goddess of Distress or by the torch of the spoken word cast into the midst of the people.

  Adolf Hitler

  Passion, People, Torches

  Adolf Hitler (2016). “Mein Kampf: My Struggle: (Vol. I & Vol. II) - (Complete & Illustrated Edition)”, p.129, eKitap Projesi

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• 'Dallas' hit a chord back in the late Seventies and Eighties because it was the age of greed: here you have this unapologetic character who is mean and nasty and ruthless and does it all with an evil grin. I think people related to JR back then because we all have someone we know exactly like him. Everyone in the world knows a JR.

  Larry Hagman

  Character, Mean, Thinking

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• I recognize in thieves, traitors and murderers, in the ruthless and the cunning, a deep beauty - a sunken beauty.

  Jean Genet

  Thieves, Traitor, Murderer

  Jean Genet (1965). “The thief's journal”

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• ...heroine: the artist, the premier mistress writhering in a garden graced w/highly polished blades of grass... release (ethiopium) is the drug...an animal howl says it all...notes pour into the caste of freedom...the freedom to be intense...to defy social order and break the slow kill monotony of censorship. to break from the long bonds of servitude-ruthless adoration of the celestial shepherd. let us celebrate our own flesh-to embrace not ones race mais the marathon-to never let go of the fiery sadness called desire.

  Patti Smith

  Letting Go, Sadness, Garden

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