Ruthless Quotes

Now I can go back to being ruthless again.

The true ethical test is not only the readiness to save the victims, but also - even more, perhaps - the ruthless dedication to annihilating those who made them victims.

I've learned ruthless concentration. I can write under any circumstances...street noises, loud talk, music, you name it.

Recovery proceeding excellently. Am sure that the crushing of the Kazan Czechs and whiteguards, as well as of the kulak extortioners supporting them, will be exemplarily ruthless.

It's best to be ruthless with the past.

Chess is ruthless: you've got to be prepared to kill people.

Governments are not running the show anymore. Scumbag Entrepreneurs are, and they have a harsh and ruthless agenda.

If the mortality rate seems high we must realize that Nature is a ruthless teacher. There are no second chances in Mother Nature's Survival Course.

I'm certainly driven, I hate losing, I can be ruthless and short-tempered and terribly competitive.

People kill for money or for power. But the most ruthless murderers are those who kill for their ideas.

I've never heard of soft war.There's no soft war. War is war. Any war is ruthless. When you fight terrorists, you fight them like any other war.

A ruthless man extends his ruthlessness from those he does not love to those he loves.

Be rigorous about your HR decisions. There is a difference between rigorous and ruthless.

One must be ruthless with one's own writing or someone else will be.

but writers, Garp knew, were just observers - good and ruthless imitators of human behavior.

The war is relentless: it puts the alternative in a ruthless relief: either to perish, or to catch up with the advanced countries and outdistance them, too, in economic matters.

That Scarface movie is just ruthless! His state of mind was like, "Yo, we're gonna get it - we're gonna get this money, we're gonna get this, get that."

The world is quite ruthless in selecting between the dream and the reality, even where we will not.

It's fun playing two roles. The roles provide a wonderful range of emotions. Stuart is childlike and sensitive. Adam is ruthless, outrageous. He's flamboyant. He does the unexpected.

In our hearts there is a ruthless dictator, ready to contemplate the misery of a thousand strangers if it will ensure the happiness of the few we love.

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

I never bring a role home with me. The moment they say, 'It's a wrap,' it's gone completely. I'm a totally ruthless professional, and life is my family, not my work.

I try to be as ruthless as possible. I ask myself of each sentence, "Is it clear? Is it true? Does it feel good?" And if it's not, then I rewrite it.

All human plans [are] subject to ruthless revision by Nature, or Fate, or whatever one preferred to call the powers behind the Universe.

We will be just as ruthless as any of our targets. We will go for the throat.

Cosmology is serious business and in our hearts we are nothing if not cosmologists, hanging in a cold cage sifting the ruthless jewels of existence.

Competition-ruthless, unforgiving, to-the-death competition-is a crucial feature of capitalism.

A vain man can never be utterly ruthless: he wants to win applause and therefore he accommodates himself to others

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.

I've been chased through airports with a screaming baby because the photographers are ruthless, and they want the picture.

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

The reaction that a ruthless dictator sets up in us either that of awe or pity according respectively as we react to him violently on nonviolently.

One-day cricket is a very important part of our play. We've got a long way to go until the next World Cup and for us it's one ruthless game after another where we can play well.

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.

We must be ruthless with ideas, but gentle with people.

You have to be a ruthless editor of your own prose. Over the years, I've learned that the best way to incorporate research into the narrative is to turn it into action.

I paint with a language I can call my own... it takes a ruthless honesty with oneself. If one admires or is influenced by anyone else, one is not being true to oneself.

Absolute discretion is a ruthless master. It is more destructive of freedom than any of man's other inventions.

Most of the heroes we remember we remember only because they won. To win you must be ruthless. Single-minded ... which was why he had no friends just admirers.

Be ruthless about protecting writing days.

They've been so bloody ruthless that you almost get no choice in the matter.

My ruthless desire to win at all costs served me well on the bike but the level it went to, for whatever reason, is a flaw. That desire, that attitude, that arrogance.

I'm the most brutal and ruthless conquerer there has ever been.

This is the pain-pleasure of having newly adult children; they're innocent and ruthless in forgetting their sweet old dependence.

Leave the dishes unwashed and the demands on your time unanswered. Be ruthless and refuse to do what people ask of you.

I'm still learning so much with every play I write. So I wrestle with word choice, rhythm in final drafts. I think you have to be ruthless.

Making out an invitation list for a party brings out the worst in everyone. It is then that our most ruthless estimates of the people we know come into play.

Truthfulness so often goes with ruthlessness.

The awakening an artist must be ruthless, not only with herself but with others.

Richelieu was a great statesman, and like all great statesman, he was a very ruthless man. He's not cruel. He just does what he has to do. And in his own mind, he's absolutely right.