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Quotes About Ruthless

After the film it was raining, a light steady rain. Ruthless neon on the wet streets like busted candy.
~ Denis Johnson
A trained surgeon is also a potential killer, and an important bit of the training lies in accepting the fact. Your intent is entirely benign - or at least you hope so - but your are laying violent hands on someone, and you must be ruthless in order to do it effectively. And sometimes the person under your hands will die, and knowing that . . . you do it anyway.
~ Diana Gabaldon
He wanted to laugh; the vision of her pounding that wee boy in a fury of berserk rage, hair flying in the wind and a look of blood in her eye, was one he would treasure.
~ Diana Gabaldon
A trained surgeon is also a potential killer, and an important bit of the training lies in accepting the fact. Your intent is entirely benign—or at least you hope so—but you are laying violent hands on someone, and you must be ruthless in order to do it effectively. And sometimes the person under your hands will die, and knowing that Ã¢â'¬Â¦ you do it anyway. I
~ Diana Gabaldon
The village I come from is the most ruthless, lawless land one can encounter.
~ Nawazuddin Siddiqui
A good villain exudes charisma and power. He has principles, though; that just gives him a level of dimension. It makes him seem to be a bit unpredictable, because he's usually deemed as some type of evil, ruthless person, and then he shows you his principles, and you don't know what to think of it.
~ Pusha T
Ruthless Villain' was supposed to be E's song. But it was too fast for him, so when I rapped it, they was like, 'Man, you might as well just get in the group.'
~ MC Ren
Here in Florida, we know plenty about the Castro brothers, and we hear stories of their ruthless and violent rule far too often. It is shameful that we would grant them any shred of legitimacy.
~ Rick Scott
So that over time, clever became cunning. Dynamic became obsessed. Ambitious became ruthless.
~ Louise Penny
They've been so bloody ruthless that you almost get no choice in the matter.
~ Unknown
Mao appears to be quite free from symptoms of megalomania, but he has a deep sense of personal dignity, and something about him suggests a power of ruthless decision when he deems it necessary.
~ Edgar Snow
She was remorseless, but she lacked method.
~ Diana Wynne Jones
This is how Hillary conducts government policy. She is ruthless, she is grasping, she appears to have little empathy or concern for people. She is old, and mean, and even her laugh is a witch's cackle. There is almost nothing appealing about her. How, then, could she be the first choice of progressive Democrats and the apparent frontrunner for winning the presidency in November 2016?
~ Dinesh D'Souza
Jackson was a ruthless con artist who became fabulously wealthy by trading on his political office. Sound familiar?
~ Dinesh D'Souza
Leonid Krasin, a factory director who became one of Lenin's most persuasive diplomats and ruthless requisitioners, recorded: Lenin has become quite insane and if anyone has influence over him it is only "Comrade Feliks" , an even greater fanatic and, in essence, a cunning piece of work who scares Lenin with counterrevolution and the idea that this will sweep us all away, him first. And Lenin, I am finally convinced, is very much a coward, trembling for his own skin.
~ Donald Rayfield
These people without Hitler are not abnormal, not pervert[s], not geniuses," Kelley said. "They were like any aggressive, smart, ambitious, ruthless businessman, and their business happened in the setting up of a world government.
~ Unknown
A Brief for the Defense 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
There were serious environmental problems left over from the Industrial Age, and the deterioration of the global climate seemed to coincide with political leaders who grew increasingly ruthless. The worst of these was Marko III, known to his American subjects as The Magnificent.
~ Jack McDevitt
For some people,being mean to others is the point of their lives.
~ Jacqueline Rayner
We're ruthless bastards and we always play dirty.
~ James Alan Gardner
After all, Sergios was not all bad. He was tough, ruthless, arrogant and selfish, but while he might have the morals of an alley cat, he had been remarkably kind to her mother.
~ Unknown
the Fascists were driving the Socialists out of cities and towns, especially in Italy's northern provinces. To advertise their identity, they wore makeshift uniforms—a black shirt, green-gray pants, and a dark fez-like cap with tassel. The Socialists had them outnumbered, but the Fascists were gaining quickly and were even more ruthless in applying force.
~ Madeleine K. Albright
but writers, Garp knew, were just observers - good and ruthless imitators of human behavior.
~ John Irving
DREAMS EDIT THEMSELVES; DREAMS are ruthless with details. Common sense does not dictate what remains, or is not included, in a dream. A two-minute dream can feel like forever.
~ John Irving