Quotes About Ruthless

NOTHING COULD HAVE STOPPED the sweep of influenza through either the United States or the rest of the world—but ruthless intervention and quarantines might have interrupted its progress and created occasional firebreaks.

Behind the honeyed but patently absurd pleas for equality is a ruthless drive for placing themselves (the elites) at the top of a new hierarchy of power.

in reality Oswald must have been no less ruthless and bloodthirsty than any other bretwalda.

Rapacious great power is ruthless and vindictive; many of us can't imagine because we're not like that in our lives. John Pilger

Apparently a 'go-getter.'" "What does that mean?" "I think it means he was an asshole

The men were ruthless because the past had been spoiled, but the women knew how the past would cry to them in the coming days.

There is really only one way to do this. It takes a ruthless and, at the same time, kind and self-compassionate commitment to seeing your own impulses to go for the familiar, to fall into habitual patterns and confining mind-sets, and a willingness to let go of them in the very moments when they arise.

He was Instructor Reno Alberto, a five-foot-six man-mountain of fitness, discipline, and intelligence. He was ruthless, cruel, unrelenting taskmaster.

They call me, The Sharkalator

mean and ruthless. But she was still a mother. And the most dangerous creature on earth is a mother whose child has been threatened, insulted, harassed, or bullied.

Emotion had no place in the virtual world, where logical, ruthless intellect prevailed.

An ambitious judge is a dangerous animal.

A man has to be Joe McCarthy to be called ruthless. All a woman has to do is put you on hold.

This world is what we have made of it. If it is ruthless today it is because we have made it ruthless by our attitudes. If we change ourselves we can change the world, and changing ourselves begins with changing our language and methods of communication. I highly recommend reading this book and applying the Nonviolent Communication process it teaches. It is a significant first step toward changing our communication and creating a compassionate world. –Arun Gandhi

Everyone knew women were far more ruthless than men. Men got mad and women got even, there was a big difference.

a parade of reluctance has often provided a useful cover for ruthless ambition.

You think we're going to turn you over to the law?" he said. "Oh, no, we're much more dangerous than that.

Each day, a new crisis, a new massacre, a new threat of extinction, disease, internecine conflict, meteorological catastrophe... Behold man. Violent, self-serving and ruthless when in power; exploited, miserable and diseased when not.

Social pressure is the fascism of the democracies. Fascism is the democracy of the ruthless. Social engineering is the opiate of romantic intellectuals.

they immersed themselves paradoxically in vision-directed reality testing: no rose-colored glasses, no blind spots, no positive thinking. Ruthless attention to reality was the common path to attaining their visions.

Spirituality can go hand-in-hand with ruthless single-mindedness when the individual is convinced his cause is just

I think that Obama is very cool. And I think he's clever, and I think he can be witty. But I don't think he's funny in either the way that Reagan was funny - or John McCain and Dick Cheney are both funny in that ruthless, kind of mean way.

Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition! Our chief weapon is surprise... surprise and fear... fear and surprise... Our two weapons are fear and surprise... and ruthless efficiency.... Our three weapons are fear, and surprise, and ruthless efficiency... and an almost fanatical devotion to the Pope... Our four... no... Amongst our weapons... Amongst our weaponry... are such elements as fear, surprise... I'll come in again.

The Creator gave nature all known and unknown powers. Mother Nature, always benevolent and sometimes ruthless, nourishes us on a daily basis.