#ruthless

I do not want to admit to the world that I can be a bad person. It is just that I don't want anyone to have false expectations. Moviemaking is a harsh, volatile business, and unless you can be ruthless, too, there's a good chance that you are going to disappear off the scene pretty quickly. ↗

— Tom Hanks

#anyone #bad #business #chance #disappear

All great movements are popular movements. They are the volcanic eruptions of human passions and emotions, stirred into activity by the ruthless Goddess of Distress or by the torch of the spoken word cast into the midst of the people. ↗

— Adolf Hitler

#cast #distress #emotions #goddess #great

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

#continues #destroyer #each #health #kill

I'm pretty ruthless about that; I think when you sign over your story, you sign over your story. ↗

— Rachel Griffiths

#i #i think #over #pretty #ruthless

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

#because #destroy #gonna #i #job

It took a deadly illness to put me eye to eye with that truth, but it is a truth that the country, caught up in its ruthless ambitions and moral decay, can learn on my dime. ↗

— Lee Atwater

#country #deadly #decay #dime #eye

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.

#displeasure #distorted #examination #havens #inhibited

I recognize in thieves, traitors and murderers, in the ruthless and the cunning, a deep beauty - a sunken beauty. ↗

— Jean Genet

#cunning #deep #i #recognize #ruthless

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