Crudest Quotes

#1. One of the mitigating benefits of children is that they make a Lego habit more respectable.

Jonathan V. Last

#2. Ruthless is not necessarily the word I would use, but tough, resolute, understanding what the problems are, and understanding that the job of the president of the United States is to protect the people of this country and to do what is necessary in order to get it done.

Benjamin Carson

#3. Hardly one soldier in a hundred was inspired by religious feeling of even the crudest kind. It would have been difficult to remain religious in the trenches even if one had survived the irreligion of the training battalion at home.

Robert Graves

#4. It's not like being a professional basketball player where you're in a big house. Maybe three, four or five guys make a couple million bucks a year, but that's it. The rest of them have second jobs.

Frank Grillo

#5. Just using a checklist requires [doctors] to embrace different values from ones we've had, like humility, discipline, teamwork.

Atul Gawande

#6. If you wish the sympathy of the broad masses, you must tell them the crudest and most stupid things.

Adolf Hitler

#7. Somewhere in the archives of crudest instinct is recorded the truth that it is better to be endangered and free than captive and comfortable.

Tom Robbins

#8. I have theorized that you can locate most people on a spectrum of the crudest sort and that it may be their position on this scale with which their every other attribute correlates: exactly how much they like being here, just being alive.

Lionel Shriver

#9. For the kindest of them was as far out of touch, as unreachable, as the crudest.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#10. With more than thirty thousand suicides a year, the act is the tenth leading cause of death in the United States.

Craig Johnson

#11. Sleep is the most moronic fraternity in the world, with the heaviest dues and the crudest rituals. It is a mental torture I find debasing ... I simply cannot get used to the nightly betrayal of reason, humanity, genius.

Vladimir Nabokov

#12. The whole business is the crudest sort of stratagem, since we have no way of foreseeing it to the end. It is a mere paying out of rope on the chance that somewhere along the length of it will be a noose.

Isaac Asimov

#13. Look, taste is clearly the crudest of our senses: this is scientifically, objectively factual. It is less nuanced. Eyesight is extraordinary - hearing, touch. I find people who devote their whole lives to taste a little strange.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#14. Even the crudest, most derivative novel is an expression of the author's hopes and fears and ideas about good and evil.

Steven Saylor

#15. The media does not love Hillary Clinton left, right or center.

Jedediah Bila

#16. You never know, until it happens, what you will owe the dead.

Zadie Smith

#17. Opportunities don't knock at all. They don't have to, they're already all around us. It's up to us to see where they are and take advantage of them.

Dave Thomas

#18. How do men act on a sinking ship? Do they hold each other? Do they pass around the whisky? Do they cry?

Sebastian Junger

#19. Every thing new is fine.

George Herbert

#20. My family love living in London. It is a fantastic city and a city such as this deserves to host the Olympic Games.

Jose Mourinho

#21. Nature gropes and blunders and performs the crudest acts. There is no steady advance upward. There is no design.

Oliver Sacks

#22. A college of wit-crackers cannot flout me out of my humor. Dost thou think I care for a satire or an epigram?

William Shakespeare

#23. Race in America has always centered on our mutual agreement not to see each other. White or non-white. Black or non-black. Mongoloid, Hindoo. We've always bought into to the crudest, humanity-denying forms of sorting.

Eric Liu

#24. It would be advisable to think of progress in the crudest, most basic terms: that no one should go hungry anymore, that there should be no more torture, no more Auschwitz. Only then will the idea of progress be free from lies.

Theodor W. Adorno

#25. The crudest thing I've done as a teacher was to require students to write a national anthem for their country and sing it themselves.

Chris Van Allsburg

#26. Anger repressed can poison a relationship as surely as the crudest words.

Joyce Brothers

#27. Why is taste, the crudest of our senses, exempted from the ethical rules that govern our other senses?

Jonathan Safran Foer

#28. God has no greater controversy with His people today than this, that with boundless promises to believing prayer, there are so few who actually give themselves unto intercession.

Arthur Tappan Pierson

#29. It is wonderful what God can do with a broken heart, if He gets all the pieces.

Samuel Chadwick

#30. In contrast with the law, which imposed giving as a divine requirement, Christian giving is voluntary, and a test of sincerity and love.

C.I. Scofield

#31. Cynicism and skepticism are the crudest form of quasi-intellectualism ... Let the cynic become cynical of his cynicism and the skeptic skeptical of his skepticism and join the battle.

R.C. Sproul