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I am often the brunt of my own humor. -- Charles R. Swindoll
I don't mind being the brunt of a joke, so long as it's a good one. -- Joey McIntyre
To me, it is one world, and the non-human animals bear the brunt of oppression and suffering. -- Ingrid Newkirk
I've spent my fortune, tarnished my public view and made myself the brunt of punch line after punch line. -- Mindy McCready
Even the best community organizations and faith-based initiatives and the extraordinary charity of Americans across the country can't carry the brunt of eliminating poverty. -- Irwin Redlener
I'm always annoyed about why black people have to bear the brunt of everybody else's contempt. If we are not totally understanding and smiling, suddenly we're demons. -- Toni Morrison
My issue with the state of women became incredibly stimulated when I was visiting developing countries and it became obvious that women bore the brunt of so many things in society. -- Annie Lennox
Our family has gone through a very difficult time. My husband and I have taken the brunt of it. I've never known what it truly felt like to be so sad and desperate inside. -- Tracey Gold
If a person is a U.S. citizen, and he is on the battlefield in Afghanistan or Iraq trying to attack our troops, he will face the full brunt of the U.S. military response. -- John O. Brennan
Through the harsh design of fate, Florida was dealt the unfortunate circumstances of bearing the brunt of not one but two hurricanes, and it appears more dark clouds are poised to visit the Sunshine State. -- Ginny Brown-Waite
My position in the family turned out to be a lucky one; I bore neither the brunt of my mother's newness to parenthood nor the force of her middle-aged traumas, as my younger sister, Ruth, did. -- Katharine Graham
Well, there are conjoined twins in real life and we can tell a story about them so long as they're not the brunt of the jokes. In this, they're the heroes of this story; we love these guys. -- Bobby Farrelly
And that's actually the brunt of what we do is, people going straight from their workplace, straight from home, straight into the classroom and working directly with the students. So then we're able to work with thousands and thousands more students. -- Dave Eggers
I'm a bit of an expert on anger, having suffered from it all through my youth, when I was both brunt and font. It's certainly the most miserable state to be in but it's also tremendously gratifying, really - rage feels justified. -- Deborah Eisenberg
This crisis of long-term unemployment is having a profoundly damaging impact on the lives of those bearing the brunt of it. We know this thanks to a series of careful studies of the problem conducted in the depths of the 1930s Great Depression. -- Barry Eichengreen
I'm really busted up over this and I'm very, very sorry to those people in the audience, the blacks, the Hispanics, whites - everyone that was there that took the brunt of that anger and hate and rage and how it came through. -- Michael Richards
I will not accept a new wave of fiscal retrenchment, of belt-tightening, without asking people at the top to make their contribution, to make an additional contribution. I don't think you can ask people on middle and low incomes, who, after all, are the vast majority of the British population, to bear the brunt of this adjustment. -- Nick Clegg
When you're an older woman [in a movie], you are the brunt of the joke. -- Jane Fonda
There is one thing alone that stands the brunt of life throughout its course; a quiet conscience. -- Euripides
A leader must face danger. He must take the risk and the blame, and the brunt of the storm. -- Herbert Newton Casson
Rebukes are easy from our betters, From men of quality and letters; But when low dunces will affront, What man alive can stand the brunt? -- Jonathan Swift
We always feel the brunt of the blow dealt to us, but hardly ever do we feel the impact we have on others. Why is that? -- Richelle E. Goodrich
The trees down the boulevard stand naked in thought, Their abundant summery wordage silenced, caught In the grim undertow; naked the trees confront Implacable winter's long, cross-questioning brunt. -- D. H. Lawrence
No! let me taste the whole of it, fare like my peers, The heroes of old, Bear the brunt, in a minute pay glad life's arrears Of pain, darkness and cold. -- Robert Browning
For we cannot tarry here, We must march my darlings, we must bear the brunt of danger, We, the youthful sinewy races, all the rest on us depend, Pioneers! O pioneers! -- Walt Whitman
Luckily I am very, very privileged and feel very lucky to be getting work and my kiddies are not feeling the brunt of any kind of horror that's going on today. So I'm super lucky. -- Johnny Depp

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