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Ruthless. That's my girl. -- Holly Black
Ruthless striving, overcomes everything. -- Petrarch
Fear is shiny. Ruthless in the eyes. -- Markus Zusak
Ruthless concern with story is what I learned in television. -- Maria Semple
To stop the terrorist, we need to give born to our own terrorist; Ruthless than the enemy. -- M.F. Moonzajer
Ruthless, greedy, tyrannical, disreputable... they have had one principle worth all the rest, the principle of delight! -- Kenneth Clark
I played Tina Denmark in Ruthless the Musical when I was 9 at the Theatre on Broadway in Denver. -- Annaleigh Ashford
Ruthless trust ultimately comes down to this: faith in the person of Jesus and hope in his promise. -- Brennan Manning
After the film it was raining, a light steady rain. Ruthless neon on the wet streets like busted candy. -- Denis Johnson
Cosmic love is absolutely Ruthless and Highly Indifferent: it teaches its lessons whether you like/ dislike them or not. -- John C. Lilly
It didn't happen every time for every movie. Ruthless People was a good movie, but we didn't get a good release or marketing. They completely blew the opening. -- David Zucker
What I wanted with that Ruthless state of mind,: just to show people who I am as a person and why I do what I do, and why I go as hard as I do go. -- Ace Hood
We think we are the victims of time. In reality, the way of the world isn't fixed anywhere. How could that be possible? We are our own journey. And therefore we are time as well. We are the same. Fugitive. Inscrutable. Ruthless. -- Cormac McCarthy
Ruthless is not necessarily the word I would use, but tough, resolute, understanding what the problems are, and understanding that the job of the president of the United States is to protect the people of this country and to do what is necessary in order to get it done. -- Benjamin Carson
Now I can go back to being ruthless again. -- Robert Kennedy
This is a ruthless world and one must be ruthless to cope with it. -- Charlie Chaplin
I'm certainly driven, I hate losing, I can be ruthless and short-tempered and terribly competitive. -- Alastair Campbell
The Internal Revenue Service is more ruthless than the Gestapo. Abolish the IRS! Stamp out organized crime! -- Evel Knievel
Cancer is such a ruthless adversary because it behaves as if it has its own fiendishly cunning agenda. -- Paul Davies
I'm absolutely gonna win it, because I'm ruthless. I sit at the poker table and my job is to destroy people. -- James Woods
The role of religions in the domination and destruction of African civilizations was ruthless... Islam was as guilty as all the rest. -- John Henrik Clarke
People say I am ruthless. I am not ruthless. And if I find the man who is calling me ruthless, I shall destroy him. -- Robert Kennedy
I guess I am ruthless too because that's what makes a great artist. But I also respect people, I don't go around stepping on their heads. -- Julian Schnabel
If believing in yourself and going after what you want in life and realising your worth is ruthless and selfish, then I'm definitely ruthless and selfish. -- Nicole Scherzinger
Universities should be safe havens where ruthless examination of realities will not be distorted by the aim to please or inhibited by the risk of displeasure. -- Kingman Brewster, Jr.
The insatiable need for heartless power and ruthless control is the telltale sign of an uninitiated man - the most irresponsible, incompetent and destructive force on earth. -- Michael Leunig
In the procession I should feel the crushing feet, the clashing discords, the ruthless hands and stifling breath. I could not hear the rhythm of the march. -- Kate Chopin
The Islamic terror threat is so fierce, unrelenting and barbaric that we tell ourselves fairy tales about how these ruthless acts are anything but what they are: acts of war. -- Monica Crowley
As long as man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings he will never know health or peace. For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other. -- Pythagoras
When I look at my daily schedule, I feel like a trout flopping about on a dock, drowning in the air. Some people are ruthless with their schedules. Not me. I wing it. -- Douglas Coupland
Guerrilla leaders win wars by being paranoid and ruthless. Once they take power, they are expected to abandon those qualities and embrace opposite ones: tolerance, compromise and humility. Almost none manages to do so. -- Stephen Kinzer
About 90 percent of the pieces in my home are vintage, and I'm a ruthless editor. I only live with things that I love. There is not one thing in my home that doesn't have meaning to me. -- Nate Berkus
You can write any time people will leave you alone and not interrupt you. Or, rather, you can if you will be ruthless enough about it. But the best writing is certainly when you are in love. -- Ernest Hemingway
It's funny how the ruthless, murderous gangster has really been romanticized by the media. I mean, I grew up watching the 'Godfathers' and 'Scarface,' and they were the coolest. They're just really interesting stories with great characters. They're rock stars. -- Elena Satine
A fascist is one whose lust for money or power is combined with such an intensity of intolerance toward those of other races, parties, classes, religions, cultures, regions or nations as to make him ruthless in his use of deceit or violence to attain his ends. -- Henry A. Wallace
There's a misconception that survival of the fittest means survival of the most aggressive. The adjective 'Darwinian' used to refer to ruthless competition; you used to read that in business journals. But that's not what Darwinian means to a biologist; it's whatever leads to reproductive success. -- Steven Pinker
The year 2100 will see eugenics universally established. In past ages, the law governing the survival of the fittest roughly weeded out the less desirable strains. Then man's new sense of pity began to interfere with the ruthless workings of nature. As a result, we continue to keep alive and to breed the unfit. -- Nikola Tesla
Some people who know me might say, 'He's not a great example of a nice person; he's a malicious, tough and ruthless guy.' But when the day is done, as long as I've held to my values and been true to my family and my God, it won't matter what anyone else thinks. -- Dave Checketts
My father never was and isn't a mean man. You know, he never was ruthless. And he succeeded in life without sticking it to anybody. And that's a great example for a man, a strong man, a man's man, to give to his children. You can succeed, you can be successful, without walking over somebody. -- Maria Shriver
Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the people of Palestine. We only aim to de-legitimize the settlement activities and the occupation and apartheid and the logic of ruthless force, and we believe that all the countries of the world stand with us in this regard. -- Mahmoud Abbas
Be ruthless about protecting writing days. -- J. K. Rowling
War is simple, direct, and ruthless. -- George S. Patton
It's best to be ruthless with the past. -- Stephen King
Move over Lucifer, I'm more ruthless, leave you toothless. -- The Notorious B.I.G.
Competition-ruthless, unforgiving, to-the-death competition-is a crucial feature of capitalism. -- Jim Stanford
We must be ruthless with ideas, but gentle with people. -- Robert Sirico
How ruthless and vile and hard and right the young are. -- Hal Porter
Chess is ruthless: you've got to be prepared to kill people. -- Nigel Short
I'm the most brutal and ruthless conquerer there has ever been. -- Mike Tyson
Those people are unabashedly ruthless as far as money is concerned. -- Giovanni Ribisi
Let there be no mistake, Hamas is a ruthless terrorist organization. -- Lois Capps
The celebrity-making machine-photographers, paparazzi, press and stuff like that-can be ruthless. -- Catherine Keener
Life is a ruthless game unless you play it good and right. -- Taylor Swift
We need to become more ruthless and critical in front of goal. -- Gary Neville
The war is relentless: it puts the alternative in a ruthless relief. -- Vladimir Lenin
Only women understand the sensitivity of the soul, men are ambitious and ruthless. -- Aporva Kala
I will be ruthless in cutting out waste, streamlining structures and improving efficiency. -- Theresa May
One must be ruthless with one's own writing or someone else will be. -- John Berryman
The Chinese are good at repression and can be pretty ruthless about it. -- Salman Rushdie
The most ruthless of all humans are the ones cornered in by death. -- Yuu Watase
Love sometimes makes people ruthless in a way that not even hatred can. -- Francesca Marciano
If you are writing children's books, you need to be a ruthless killer. -- J. K. Rowling
I was tough. I used everything to my advantage. I could be very ruthless. -- Leon Uris
The awakening an artist must be ruthless, not only with herself but with others. -- Steven Pressfield
O ruthless, perilous, imperious hate, you can not thwart the promptings of my soul. -- Hilda Doolittle
Be rigorous about your HR decisions. There is a difference between rigorous and ruthless. -- James C. Collins
Fidel Castro was a charismatic revolutionary and a ruthless leader who allowed no dissent. -- Scott Simon
They've been so bloody ruthless that you almost get no choice in the matter. -- Kenneth Grange
An ordinary man gets arrogant with beauty, conceited with knowledge and ruthless with power. -- Amit Kalantri
but writers, Garp knew, were just observers - good and ruthless imitators of human behavior. -- John Irving
I require only three things of a man. He must be handsome, ruthless and stupid. -- Dorothy Parker
Every nation has its war party... It is commercial, imperialistic, ruthless. It tolerates no opposition. -- Robert M. La Follette
Every nation has its war party... It is commercial, imperialistic, ruthless. It tolerates no opposition. -- Robert M. La Follette
Spirituality can go hand-in-hand with ruthless single-mindedness when the individual is convinced his cause is just -- Michela Wrong
Life as a therapist is ruthless; circumstances that are helpful to one neurotic may crush another. -- Karen Horney
A ruthless man extends his ruthlessness from those he does not love to those he loves. -- Confucius
If you find yourself under lethal attack don't be kind. Be harsh. Be tough. Be ruthless. -- Jeff Cooper
We must have the stubbornness to accept our gladness in the ruthless furnace of this world. -- Jack Gilbert
If George Washington crossing the Delaware matters, so must his ruthless pursuit of the runagate Oney Judge. -- Ta-Nehisi Coates
We will be just as ruthless as any of our targets. We will go for the throat. -- Dan Mathews
The necessary consequence of an egalitarian program is the decidedly inegalitarian creation of a ruthless power elite. -- Murray Rothbard
Leaders need to have a ruthless commitment to resolving relational conflict regardless of how bad it feels. -- Bill Hybels
However well I return, opportunities will probably be few and far and I need to be ruthless. -- Andy Murray
It is not easy to be solitary unless you are also born ruthless. Every solitary repudiates someone. -- Jessamyn West
Capitalism is based on ruthless exploitation and competition, and leads inevitably to the development of mega monopolies. -- Kshama Sawant
We face a hostile ideology global in scope, atheistic in character, ruthless in purpose and insidious in method. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
That faceless, nameless and ruthless demon you pretend to fight, is nothing but the bastard in your head. -- Mamur Mustapha
Governments are not running the show anymore. Scumbag Entrepreneurs are, and they have a harsh and ruthless agenda. -- Ralph Steadman
Donald Rumsfeld is the most ruthless man I have ever met? and I mean that as a compliment. -- Henry A. Kissinger
I've learned ruthless concentration. I can write under any circumstances...street noises, loud talk, music, you name it. -- Sylvia Porter
The world is quite ruthless in selecting between the dream and the reality, even where we will not. -- Cormac McCarthy
War is very simple, direct, and ruthless. It takes a simple, direct, and ruthless man to wage war. -- George S. Patton
Hollywood no longer depicts reporters in ruthless pursuit of criminals, high and low. Now they are the criminals. -- Frank Rich
I'm pretty ruthless about that; I think when you sign over your story, you sign over your story. -- Rachel Griffiths
Absolute discretion is a ruthless master. It is more destructive of freedom than any of man's other inventions. -- William O. Douglas
cowardice more than any other failing demands a ruthless paying of the price from those who give it hospitality. -- Elizabeth Goudge
This is the pain-pleasure of having newly adult children; they're innocent and ruthless in forgetting their sweet old dependence. -- Ian Mcewan
I've been chased through airports with a screaming baby because the photographers are ruthless, and they want the picture. -- Lisa Marie Presley
The only force more ruthless and cynical than the business of big politics is the politics of big business. -- Gregory David Roberts
People kill for money or for power. But the most ruthless murderers are those who kill for their ideas. -- Anthony de Mello
A community where everyone is a ruthless murderer, with handy access to death-dealing devices, is a very polite community. -- Robert A. Heinlein
Mother Nature is a relentless ruthless killer. She don't give a damn if you get home to your family. -- Joe Teti
Heaven's blessing must attend all, and freedom must soon be given to the pining millions under a ruthless bondage. -- Frederick Douglass
If you lose money for the firm, I will be forgiving. If you lose reputation, I will be ruthless. -- Warren Buffett
Maybe that, really, is as good a definition as any of an artist in the world: a ruthless person. -- Claire Messud
The internet is ruthless. And people are very, very happy to let you know when they don't like something. -- Charles M. Blow
I mean, you can't be less ruthless than the opposition simply because your government's policy is benevolent, can you now? -- John le Carre
I recognize in thieves, traitors and murderers, in the ruthless and the cunning, a deep beauty - a sunken beauty. -- Jean Genet
A vain man can never be utterly ruthless: he wants to win applause and therefore he accommodates himself to others -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Curse ruthless time! Curse our mortality. How cruelly short is the allotted span for all we must cram into it! -- Winston Churchill
I recognize in thieves, traitors and murderers, in the ruthless and the cunning, a deep beauty - a sunken beauty." -- Jean Genet
You have to be ruthless with yourself, in terms of being honest about what is working and what is not. -- Patton Oswalt
Arthur Rimbaud was a disreputable, mean, ruthless, perverse, hateful wretch. He was also one of the greatest poets who ever lived. -- Raymond Sokolov
Are gods more ruthless than mortals? Have they no mercy for youth? no love for the souls who have loved them? -- Charles Kingsley
You always have to be very aware that the audience is extremely ruthless in its demand for newness, novelty and freshness. -- Christopher Nolan
I find my joy of living in the fierce and ruthless battles of life, and my pleasure comes from learning something. -- August Strindberg
Leave the dishes unwashed and the demands on your time unanswered. Be ruthless and refuse to do what people ask of you. -- Lynne Sharon Schwartz
A president cannot sit on his hands and be seen as passive in the face of ruthless action by a foreign dictator. -- Robert Dallek
An unfinished book. left unattended, turns feral, and she would need all her focus, will and ruthless determination to tame it again. -- Ruth Ozeki
Our culture says that ruthless competition is the key to success. Jesus says that ruthless compassion is the purpose of our journey. -- Brennan Manning

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