#cruel

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My father was a deeply sentimental man. And like all sentimental men, he was also very cruel.


Ernest Hemingway


#hemingway #sentimentality-cruelty-ideology #men

When this boy was brought to Dr. Young, his name being William, the same as mine, my mother was ordered to change mine to something else. This, at the time, I thought to be one of the most cruel acts that could be committed upon my rights.


William Wells Brown


#being #boy #brought #change #committed

How cruelly sweet are the echoes that start, When memory plays an old tune on the heart.


Eliza Cook


#echoes #heart #how #memory #old

Africa is a cruel country; it takes your heart and grinds it into powdered stone - and no one minds.


Elspeth Huxley


#country #cruel #grinds #heart #into

Cruelty is a part of nature, at least of human nature, but it is the one thing that seems unnatural to us.


Robinson Jeffers


#human #human nature #least #nature #one thing

What Bill Clinton did to us was cruel. The White House gave my attorneys indications that there was a good chance for my clemency to be granted. I had to prepare myself for being released because there was no sign that my petition would be denied.


Leonard Peltier


#because #being #bill #bill clinton #chance

Gay kids need to stop killing themselves because they are made to feel worthless by cruel and relentless bullying.


Zachary Quinto


#bullying #cruel #feel #gay #kids

A child's hope is that your father comes riding in on that white stallion and saves them. You can't make somebody love you the way you want them to love you, it's not a Leave it to Beaver type world. This isn't television. Life's a lot more cruel than that.


Jake Roberts


#child #comes #cruel #father #hope

In America, they are paranoid about ruining the reputations of people once they are dead and cannot answer back. They have this fascination which to me seems cruel and morbid. I do not want any part of it.


Isabella Rossellini


#america #answer #any #back #cannot

Stupidity, outrage, vanity, cruelty, iniquity, bad faith, falsehood - we fail to see the whole array when it is facing in the same direction as we.


Jean Rostand


#bad #cruelty #direction #facing #fail