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Tag Name "Cruel" (682)

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Cruel blows of fate call for extreme kindness in the family circle.
Dodie Smith
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Cruel men cry easily at the cinema.
Graham Greene
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Cruel leaders are replaced only to have new leaders turn cruel.
Che Guevara
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Cruel World has been my favourite track from Ultraviolence ever since I recorded it.
Lana Del Rey
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Cruel of heart, lay down my song. Your reading eyes have done me wrong. Not for you was the pen bitten, And the mind wrung, and the song written.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
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Cruel to be kind means that I love you.
Nick Lowe
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Cruel words erode the self-esteem like the ocean eats away the shore.
Abigail Van Buren
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Cruel children, crying babies, All grow up as geese and gabies, Hated, as their age increases, By their nephews and their nieces.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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Cruelty is the highest pleasure to the cruel man it is his love.
Walter Savage Landor
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Cruel is the strife of brothers.
Aristotle
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Cruel men believe in a cruel god and use their belief to excuse their cruelty. Only kindly men believe in a kindly god, and they would be kindly in any case.
Bertrand Russell
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Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.
Jonathan Swift
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Cruel impulses stir all about my kindly heart.
Mason Cooley
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Cruelty was the devil, and most people were, in one way or another, cruel. Tyranny, suppression, persecution, torture, slavery, war, neglect - all were cruel. The world was acid and sour with hate, fat with greed, yellow with the triumph of the strong and the rich.
Rose Macaulay
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Cruel with guilt, and daring with despair, the midnight murderer bursts the faithless bar invades the sacred hour of silent rest and leaves, unseen, a dagger in your breast.
Samuel Johnson
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Cruel irony, the poor man tormented with hunger feeds those who plead his case.
Albert Camus
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Perhaps it should only be added that the Gorean master, though often strict, is seldom cruel. The girl knows, if she pleases him, her lot will be an easy one.
John Norman
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Atheism is a cruel long term business, and I have gone through it to the end.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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We have to be faster in calming down a resentment than putting out a fire, because the consequences of the first are infinitely more dangerous than the results of the last fire ends burning down some houses at the most, while the resentment can cause cruel wars, with the ruin and total destruction of nations.
Heraclitus
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And, perhaps most importantly, regional conflicts will again and again confront us with a cruel choice between costly engagement and costly indifference.
George Robertson, Baron Robertson of Port Ellen
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They're all cruel,' he said. 'The world I come from, the world you come from, and this one, too. Maybe the people don't see the cruelty in your world right away, it's better hidden, but it's there all the same.
Cornelia Funke
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Idleness is sweet, and its consequences are cruel.
John Quincy Adams
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The individual attributes of warmth and competence are often perceived to be negatively correlated. That doesn't mean they actually are, but that's how people perceive the world. So, cruel people, those who gave negative book reviews, for instance, were seen as less likeable but as more intelligent.
Jeffrey Pfeffer
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It's a cruel and random world, but the chaos is all so beautiful.
Hiromu Arakawa
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