Cruel Quotations | Page 2

Deception is a cruel act... It often has many players on different stages that corrode the soul.

Days can't be cruel while the guitar is bleeding upon my arms

A true leader, a man of his word and an optimist, he traveled the journey of his life with dignity and faced courageously the cruel disease that darkened his final years. He has earned a place in history and in people's hearts.

You've rescued a nation, you've liberated a people, you've deposed a cruel dictator and you've ended his threat to free nations. You've braved death squads and dust storms racing across hundreds of miles to reach Baghdad in less than a month.

This is one of the most, if not the most, heinous, atrocious and cruel case that I've been involved with in my 24 years as a district attorney. We will be seeking the death penalty.

This drug could save the lives of 1,000 women a year. It is unfair and cruel for women like Ann Marie Rogers to know that it is money and their postcode that stands between them and this potentially life-saving treatment.

This is a cruel effort to inflict even more pain on the victims of the government's long-acknowledged misbehavior. I have never seen a more blatant and transparent attempt to politicize this case in order to divide and conquer Indian country.

It's kind of cruel for us to go out there and search these sites under bridges because if we find somebody we can't serve them.

It's a cruel way to go. We know the ecstasy of winning on penalties against Manchester City and now there's the dejection of losing tonight.

It's a cruel thing. The guy thinks love is in the air and the poor guy gets shot. It doesn't work any different for us men.

It's a cruel position. It's a hard one to master. There are so many intangibles, so many factors that come to bear.

It's a cruel fact of American business life,

It probably won't pass, but what we're most concerned with is that (Wal-Mart) shareholders hear about the cruel ways in which Wal-Mart chickens are treated and the humane alternative to that process.

For every cruel deed done to others only the innocent remain strong.

It sounds so cruel but some of these telethons - even though you're doing it completely for charity - are very important gigs for your career,

Donkey basketball is a very unnecessary fundraiser to have because it is cruel to the animals.

Taxing people for having a spare bedroom and forcing them into rent arrears or the possibility of losing homes they have lived in for years has always been a cruel and heartless measure, and so it is good that the Scottish Parliament has been able to step in.

It's a manipulative tool. I don't think it's fair to heap guilt on them because they feel they have to terminate a pregnancy. That's just the most cruel form of abuse that I can imagine.

It's cruel to the roosters, and we don't want that to be happening in our community.

It teaches that war is cruel and wasteful but sometimes necessary. That a blundering victory is more to be valued than a heroic defeat. That might and right sometimes come to the same end. All these things happened on June 6, 1944.

It will be hard to shoot the ibis because people will certainly say we are being cruel and try to stop us. It's bizarre but it makes a difference that they are white. If they were black, no one would care. It's utterly irrational but that's how people are.

They lowered it without any justification. Every time you build a house, you're subsidizing the development community by $2,200. This is a cruel hoax on taxpayers.

It was advantageous for the French and English to promote the idea that everything out of Spain was ugly, cruel and crude because of the Inquisition and blah, blah, blah. The legend persisted for years and years -- centuries -- with this belief that all the Spanish were barbarians.

It's really death by incarceration. You're really putting someone to a slow, psychological death, and I think that is really cruel and unusual punishment.

It's real difficult. You know how cruel little kids can be.

I love the word 'juxtapose,' ... I like balancing words together like cruel and gentle, sad and beautiful. Life is not all black and white -- it's shaded.

I never saw any of man's baser acts of inhumanity to man. I never saw screaming 'witches' burned at the stake, Christians tossed to starving lions, maidens pushed over the edge of active volcanoes. I never even saw a man going to the electric chair. But until I do, watching Ben Hogan walk up to a five-foot putt is my idea of cruel and inhuman punishment, only a Hitler would enjoy. You feel like saying 'Go home to your wife and kiddies and don't look upon this terrible thing!'

I must learn to walk this long unlovely wintry way, looking for spectacles, shunning the cruel looking-glass, laughing at my clumsiness before others mistakenly condole, not expecting gallantry yet disappointed to receive none, apprehending every ache of shaft of pain, alive to blinding flashes of mortality, unarmed, totally vulnerable.

If you ban smoking outside near a door or window, essentially you have no place to smoke except your own home - and maybe not even there. What's next? Smoking in a house with children will be considered child abuse. Smoking around pets will be cruel to animals.

I like to write stories where young people have a strong feeling about something being fair or unfair, right or wrong, cruel or kind, and they act on the basis of that - often in the face of the prevailing limits of behaviour.

I know I'm being judged, and anyone who works in the public eye will get some negativity at some point. It can be tough and it hurts. I can be very tough on myself. Occasionally, I hear or read something cruel and I'm shocked.

I played nicely today but 18 kicked me in the butt a little bit. It's a cruel game and to be honest I'm feeling pretty down right now. It's a really tough hole. I wouldn't say it was unfair but it's out of character with the rest of the golf course which is all laid out in front of you.

I just couldn't believe this could happen. I didn't think anyone could be that cruel to an animal.

If I could only weep,I think sweet help with my salt tears would come,To ease the cruel pain that is so dumb,And will not let me sleep.

I am opposed to the idea of a child growing up with two gay parents. A child needs a mother and a father. I could not imagine my childhood without my mother. I also believe that it is cruel to take a baby away from its mother.

I am not what I was when kindly Cinara was queen. Strive no more, cruel mother of sweet loves.

How much more cruel the pen may be than the sword

I can only assume that, when the vice president of the United States lobbies the Congress on behalf of cruel and unusual punishment and the need to be able to do that in order to get information out of potential terrorists... that it's still going on.

I call it cruel and maybe the root of all crueltyto know what occurs but not recognize the fact.

Heather and Paul's visit to the seal pups will shine a global media spotlight on this cruel and needless slaughter.

He realizes early on that this girl can fulfil all his wishes to transform the world. I often think, 'What if I had my wish to preserve the gorillas and clean the ocean and get the U.S. out of Iraq?' Maybe (the girl) could change the nature of man to not be selfish and cruel in relations with others. It goes back to the original Garden of Eden - should we be free to be cruel and selfish or should that be taken away? It's a fascinating question.

This is more cruel than the hurricane was.

The cruel realities of supply and demand are at work here. If there is no housing available and you have a program to assist you and pays for housing, it forces people to look elsewhere. Where's the available housing? There are probably few places in Louisiana.

The cruel ambush of 9/11 supposedly 'changed everything,' slapping us back to reality. Yet we are constantly shocked, shocked by the foreseeable.

The Cuban people are trapped between a cruel dictator in Cuba and nonsense policies ... on this side of the Straits of Florida.

The cry of the Little Peoples goes up to God in vain, / For the world is given over to the cruel sons of Cain.

All the kiss-and-tell stories I have been involved with - and remember they only account for about 25 per cent of my business - the accent has always been on the ridiculous, also on the complimentary. Always women will say, so-and-so was the most amazing lover, even if the man in question was absolutely hopeless. Even with old David Mellor, the girl said he was very good in bed. No, I don't think I have that cruel streak, John. It's not in my nature.

The invasion of Iraq, the displacement of a cruel dictator, and the attempt to impose a liberal democracy by force have, by themselves, been insufficient to bring peace and security to the civilian population. Democratic imperialism has led to more deaths, not fewer.

There is no such thing as an omen. Destiny does not send us heralds. She is too wise or too cruel for that.

We indicated to each and all of them that we stand with them; we want to learn more from them, ... Today isn't just one meeting but is going to be a continuum, until we are able to see justice and those who were a part of this cruel and murderous act are brought to justice.

I see the Fourfold Man; the Humanity in deadly sleep, / And its fallen Emanation, the Spectre and its cruel Shadow. / I see the Past, Present, and Future existing all at once / Before me.

The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side.

But to go to school in a summer morn, Oh, it drives all joy away! Under a cruel eye outworn, The little ones spend the day in sighing and dismay

A mermaid found a swimming lad,Picked him for her own,Pressed her body to his body,Laughed; and plunging downForgot in cruel happinessThat even lovers drown.

A mermaid found a swimming lad, Picked him for her own, Pressed her body to his body, Laughed; and plunging down Forgot in cruel happiness That even lovers drown.