#ruthless

He'd been given an assignment to write about teen beauty pageants [...], which he'd accepted because he enjoyed blood sports as much as the next person. ↗

— David Baldacci

#ambition #beauty-pageants #ruthlessness #sarcasm #satire

Elizabeth was counting on Marco to keep cousin Mary occupied until after the board meeting was over. A piece of cheese might catch a mouse, but an afternoon alone with a muscular masseur would ensnare her cousin far more effectively. And afterwards, while Mary lay sated and sleeping upon a massage table, wiser heads could determine the company's future. There were times, Elizabeth thought, when success in business demanded utter ruthlessness. ↗

— Barbara Taylor Bradford

#success-strategies #women-s-strength #business

There are probably several hundred thousand if we narrow the definition to include only those who in their search for money and power are ruthless and deceitful. ↗

— Henry A. Wallace

#definition #hundred #include #money #narrow

But we wish to give the Jews a Homeland. Not by dragging them ruthlessly out of their sustaining soil, but rather by removing them carefully, roots and all, to a better terrain. ↗

— Theodor Herzl

#carefully #dragging #give #homeland #jews

Let there be no mistake, Hamas is a ruthless terrorist organization. ↗

— Lois Capps

#mistake #organization #ruthless #terrorist

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

#clashing #could #crushing #discords #feel

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

— Marlo Thomas

#hold #joe #man #mccarthy #put

Everybody has a cartoon of themselves. Mine is: I write very fast, and I'm ruthlessly efficient with my time. ↗

— David Remnick

#efficient #everybody #fast #i #i write

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

#calling #destroy #find #him #i

Now I can go back to being ruthless again. ↗