Bloody Mindedness Quotes

#1. Because sometimes, you have to fight for someone even when they're not in the game.

Libby Kirsch

#2. And if the government was stone-deaf, the press was mute. The media are convinced in 1987 that they're doing a great job reporting the AIDS story, and there's no denying they've grasped the horror. But for four years they let the bureaucracies get away with passive genocide,

Paul Monette

#3. Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.

Hannah Arendt

#4. Panegyrics of a man they had never understood,

Richard Flanagan

#5. And so, out of bloody-mindedness, I had said the word, and we went for the first time, into those Bombay Central alleys that have no name. Lamba introduced me simply as 'The Moor', and because I came with him there was less contempt than I had expected.

Salman Rushdie

#6. An athlete may run ten thousand miles in order to prepare for one hundred yards. Quantity gives experience.

Ray Bradbury

#7. I don't miss film projecting. I always hated it.

Emmanuel Lubezki

#8. If you see, in the spectrum of a planet host star, strange chemical elements, it can be a signal from a civilization which is there.

Garik Israelian

#9. Sadness is a feeling of loss. There is something one wanted, and one doesn't have it - or there is a way one wanted things to be, and things aren't that way. That is sadness. Instead, you feel rootlessness.

Jesse Ball

#10. If it'll make you feel better, I won't let him touch me. I won't even let him get one in for his fans.

Jamie McGuire

#11. I am an American. I love this country.

Paul Tsongas

#12. It's like describing music. He cannot bring it to life.

Khaled Hosseini

#13. The universe, they say, depended for its operation on the balance of four forces which they identified as charm, persuasion, uncertainty, and bloody-mindedness.

Terry Pratchett