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Quotes About Brutal

To reach the biggest club in the world where there are millions of fans and a lot of pressure was a brutal change.
~ Marco Asensio
I watch a lot of old-school wrestling, and one of my favourite matches is my dad vs my step-dad at Starrcade '85, Magnum TA vs Tully Blanchard. In that match everything looked so aggressive, everything was so real, and it looked like a brutal fight.
~ Tessa Blanchard
This sport is brutal. This sport is a hard sport.
~ Glover Teixeira
At the second Mae Young Classic, I came out sporting my new look, everything that I wanted to do. I had the new aggression that I knew I always had, because I've always been, like, a brutal child.
~ Rhea Ripley
Trump has shown that there are limits to how brutal the maximalists can afford to be.
~ Crispin Blunt
The fans want to see a conclusive finish. It's quite a brutal, barbaric sport and the people who watch it want to see someone out. That's what I do for a living.
~ Carl Froch
As an elite athlete, I trained to win. Training was at times brutal - it has to be when you want to represent your country and to be the world's best.
~ Chris Hoy
I'll answer anything... I'm brutally honest, actually, which gets me in trouble.
~ Sarah McLachlan
Vikings were pretty brutal, but also very educated people. They were salesmen, businessmen who started raiding when business wasn't good. That's why they had such great boats.
~ Baltasar Kormakur
Losing sucks. I don't care how much money you make or what stats you put up. If you're competitive enough to make it to the NBA, losing is absolutely brutal.
~ Michael Carter-Williams
It is because I know how brutal sex can be that I insist on reminding women that they also live in a world of sexual possibilities and pleasures. Sex is too important to surrender.
~ Wendy McElroy
This is the battle of impulsiveness against spontaneity. Impulsiveness is brutal and destructive, because it is unconscious of the other and of the world. Spontaneity is full of grace, for it is granted immediately through consciousness to the reality of the environment.
~ Daniel Odier
many problems of the Arab world. The lack of education and jobs, the brutal dictators, the repression of women.
~ Daniel Silva
The difference between our decadence and the Russians' is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic.
~ James Grover Thurber
But now was not the time for second-guessing, nor was it the time for compassion. Now was the time for death, quick and brutal and terrible.
~ James Hunter
We had fed the heart on fantasies. / The heart's grown brutal from the fare." From "Meditations in Time of Civil War," 1923.W.B.Yeats
~ James Thompson
There is to me about this place a smell of rot, the smell of rot that ripe fruit makes. Nowhere, ever, have the hideous mechanics of birth and copulation and death—those monstrous upheavals of life that the Greeks call miasma, defilement—been so brutal or been painted up to look so pretty; have so many people put so much faith in lies and mutability and death death death.
~ Donna Tartt
themselves to remember the truth, and not the sentimentalities with which we all shield ourselves from the horrors of which we are capable … in times of war we revert, as a species, to the past, and are permitted to be brutal and cruel. It is for this reason, and of course others, that a great many people enjoy war. But this is one of the facts about war that is not often talked about.
~ Doris Lessing
To save our friends' nerves, I suggest we meet on a plane of brutal courtesy. It need not interfere with our mutual distrust." -Francis Crawford of Lymond
~ Dorothy Dunnett
I heard them saying something about a razor—Miss Vane! What killed him?' There were no kindly words for this—not even a long, scientific, Latin name. 'His throat was cut, Mrs Weldon.' (Brutal Saxon monosyllables.)
~ Dorothy L. Sayers
Victory is freedom of mind and body.' I believe that is true. I would go further and say that victory is freedom of mind from body. Separation from the thing that imprisons us. Flight. Perhaps freedom from life itself. That is victory. Life is brutal. It is like this whip and these ropes. It hurts. It scars. But we must take it.
~ Douglas Clegg
Society's crude, you know . . . it's a brutal piece of work!
~ Alan Hunter
The Sermon on the Mount is a very nice piece about being good, but most of the Bible is a very revengeful, childish, brutal God.
~ Stellan Skarsgard
Many Japanese families moved to Taiwan during the occupation. Then, when the war ended, they were forced to move back. And at the macro level, the Taiwanese had every reason to cheer when the Japanese left. The Japanese military could often be incredibly brutal. The Taiwanese lived as second-class citizens on their own land.
~ Gene Luen Yang