Mans Cruelty Quotes & Sayings

The only value of this world lay in its power - at certain times - to suggest another world. — Thomas Ligotti

Petroleum is the product of a distillation from great depth and issues from the primitive rocks beneath which the forces of all volcanic action lie. — Alexander Von Humboldt

It seems with progress you gain certain things and you lose certain things. The automobile replaced the horse and buggy but you lost all of that nice manure. — Carl Andre

Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible. — Mao Zedong

People usually compare themselves to their more fortunate contemporaries rather than to their ill-fated ancestors. If you tell a poor American in a Detroit slum that he has access to much better healthcare than his great-grandparents did a century ago, it is unlikely to cheer him up. Indeed, such talk will sound terribly smug and condescending. 'Why should I compare myself to nineteenth-century factory workers or peasants? — Yuval Noah Harari

Provoke your inner energy,Challenge yourself and you will achieve amazing things — Mohammed Sekouty

He who possesseth little is so much the less possessed. Blessed be moderate poverty! — Friedrich Nietzsche

When I was a kid and we played baseball we used to use that "eye black" stuff sometimes - that kind of grease you put under your eyes to reduce glare or something. We only used it, of course, to look cool; it's not like we were any better prepubescent athletes for reducing glare. — Ben Lerner

We did a variant of the intern thing. We hired people as consultants for a specific thing and then if they were good, offered them a job. — Joshua Schachter

Copy, not from your industry, from others. You have to go where there is no competition. — Seth Godin

It's those moments, those odd moments that you look for and sometimes by creating this kind of loose atmosphere you find those little moments that somehow mean a lot to an audience when they really register right. — Barry Levinson

Think of it. Fifteen whole years-no small part of a mans life.-taken from us-all the most energetic have fallen to the cruelty of the emperor. And the few that survive are no longer what we once were. Yet I find some small satisfaction in acknowledging the bondage we once suffered. Tacitus, The Agricola — Tacitus

Praying without gratitude is more like complaining. — Charles F. Glassman

Chess is a cure for headaches. — John Maynard Keynes

He liked fishing and seemed to take pride in being able to like such a stupid occupation. — Leo Tolstoy

Suddenly, it seemed there were about a million times he was supposed to have kissed her, even without the benefit of a script, even without any sort of direction. — Jennifer E. Smith

If I'm a monster, mademoiselle, it's because man's cruelty has made me so. — Rachel L. Demeter