Ruthless Quotes

However well I return, opportunities will probably be few and far and I need to be ruthless.

I played Tina Denmark in Ruthless the Musical when I was 9 at the Theatre on Broadway in Denver.

Some people only speak of freedom of speech while they're out of power. Once they're in power, they're ruthless in suppressing the rights of others.

The celebrity-making machine-photographers, paparazzi, press and stuff like that-can be ruthless.

Are gods more ruthless than mortals? Have they no mercy for youth? no love for the souls who have loved them?

The internet is ruthless. And people are very, very happy to let you know when they don't like something.

Maybe that, really, is as good a definition as any of an artist in the world: a ruthless person.

No. You know this is wrong and you want to feel better about it. You don't want to admit your as ruthless and monstrous as the demons you claim to hate.

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.

John Kerry can be absolutely ruthless. I would not want to be on his enemies list when he's ready to go after you.

We face a hostile ideology global in scope, atheistic in character, ruthless in purpose and insidious in method.

cowardice more than any other failing demands a ruthless paying of the price from those who give it hospitality.

Those who are in love with the present can be cruel and corrupt but not genuinely vicious. They cannot be methodically and consistently ruthless.

Who then will dare to say I'm weak or timid? No, they'll say I'm loyal as a friend, ruthless as a foe, so much like a hero destined for glory.

Hollywood no longer depicts reporters in ruthless pursuit of criminals, high and low. Now they are the criminals.

Heaven's blessing must attend all, and freedom must soon be given to the pining millions under a ruthless bondage.

There is no end and there is no beginning. There is only eternity. Eternity can be warm. eternity can be cold and ruthless.

We need to become more ruthless and critical in front of goal.

A man can be called ruthless if he bombs a country to oblivion. A woman can be called ruthless if she puts you on hold.

The only force more ruthless and cynical than the business of big politics is the politics of big business.

Really what Brutus and Cassius do by assassinating Caesar, is open up a vacuum into which much more ruthless people run. Julius Caesar is an amazingly contemporary, resonant, politically astute play.

A man is called a traitor, or liberator. A rich man is a thief or philanthropist. Is one a crusader or ruthless invader? It's all in which label is able to persist.

How ruthless and vile and hard and right the young are.

O ruthless, perilous, imperious hate, you can not thwart the promptings of my soul.

Ruthless. That’s my girl.

Be ruthless about protecting writing days, i.e., do not cave in to endless requests to have "essential" and "long overdue" meetings on those days.

Be ruthless about protecting writing days....althoug h writing has been my actual job for several years now, I still seem to have to fight for time in which to do it.

If you are writing children's books, you need to be a ruthless killer.

I get absolutely ruthless in my own way about not doing anything else when I am trying to concentrate on writing a book. I have to stick to it and concentrate.

It is not easy to be solitary unless you are also born ruthless. Every solitary repudiates someone.

I mean, you can't be less ruthless than the opposition simply because your government's policy is benevolent, can you now?

...it is curiosity, initiative, originality, and the ruthless application of honesty that count in research- much more than feats of logic and memory alone.

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.

Ruthless, greedy, tyrannical, disreputable... they have had one principle worth all the rest, the principle of delight!

Capitalism is based on ruthless exploitation and competition, and leads inevitably to the development of mega monopolies.

Heaven and earth are ruthless, and treat the various creatures as straw dogs; the sage is ruthless, and treats others as straw dogs.

I was tough. I used everything to my advantage. I could be very ruthless.

Ruthless concern with story is what I learned in television.

Fear is shiny. Ruthless in the eyes.

Elizabeth is smart, ruthless, and emotionally damaged ... [i]f Elizabeth's brain was a person, it would have scars, tattoos, and be missing one eye.

But at a certain point you've gotta be ruthless with the movie because you can have these great scenes, but they aren't specifically building the story that needs to be built at that moment.

Cancer is such a ruthless adversary because it behaves as if it has its own fiendishly cunning agenda.

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

Arthur Rimbaud was a disreputable, mean, ruthless, perverse, hateful wretch. He was also one of the greatest poets who ever lived.

In a lot of roles, strong women feel like they need to apologize. But men don't need to apologize for being ruthless and women somehow do?

The Chinese are good at repression and can be pretty ruthless about it.

Fidel Castro was a charismatic revolutionary and a ruthless leader who allowed no dissent.

[William] Klein has eyes like a knife. He is ruthless and outrageous but never mean - he is tender and funny and violent - and, I'm sure, really in love with our crazy Rome.

Always inflation comes gradually; is recognized too late; and can be cured only by ruthless political surgery, which, if delayed too long, proves futile.

The evil in the world is all of our own making, and it proceeds entirely from our ruthless, senseless, wasteful, destructive, and suicidal neglect of our own being.