Cruel Summer Quotes

#1. Belgium's declared intention to fight was, the Germans believed, no more than the "rage of dreaming sheep" - in the words a Prussian statesman once applied to his domestic opponents.

Barbara W. Tuchman

#2. Celia
Celia, we know, is sixty-five,
Yet Celia's face is seventeen;
Thus winter in her breast must live,
While summer in her face is seen.
How cruel Celia's fate, who hence
Our heart's devotion cannot try;
Too pretty for our reverence,
Too ancient for our gallantry!

Alexander Pope

#3. The summer is cruel to its leaves, the fall to its colors, the winter to us.

Herta Muller

#4. A book is worth a few francs; we Germans can afford to destroy those. We all may not appreciate artistic merit, but cash value is another matter.

Paul Scofield

#5. Reconciliation is a step beyond the domain of conflict resolution, which, as traditionally defined and practiced, is coming to be viewed as inadequate for creating true healing, harmony, and effective community in arenas where they has been long-standing conflict.

William Keepin

#6. I've always been a stubble man; I don't do clean-shaven.

Jonas Armstrong

#7. But to go to school in a summer morn, O! It drives all joy away; Under a cruel eye outworn, The little ones spend the day In sighing and dismay.

William Blake

#8. When you make decisions, you deal with consequences. Don't expect anything in return.

Winna Efendi

#9. The woods decay, the woods decay and fall, The vapours weep their burthen to the ground, Man comes and tills the field and lies beneath, And after many summer dies the swan. Me only cruel immortality Consumes: I wither slowly in thine arms, Here at the quiet limit of the world.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

#10. It's a cruel season that makes you get ready for bed while it's light out.

Bill Watterson

#11. Denna is a wild thing," I explained. "Like a hind or a summer storm. If a storm blows down your house, or breaks a tree, you don't say the storm was mean. It was cruel. It acted according to its nature and something unfortunately was hurt. The same is true of Denna.

Patrick Rothfuss

#12. As I swim through the summer tide of vulgarity, I find that's what I'm looking for: Movies that at least feel affection for their characters. Raunchy is OK. Cruel is not.

Roger Ebert

#13. A lot of musicians put diamonds on things to show they had money. I on the other had felt that Daytona showed I had style and I didn't need to be flashy.

Brian McKnight

#14. There's no such thing as a normal life. Some lives are just more interesting than others, and we shouldn't judge people for being boring.

Seanan McGuire

#15. All of the significant art of today stems from Conceptual art. This includes the art of installation, political, feminist and socially directed art.

Sol LeWitt

#16. Hate gives identity. The nigger, the fag, the bitch illuminate the border, illuminate what we ostensibly are not, illuminate the Dream of being white, of being a Man. We name the hated strangers and are thus confirmed in the tribe.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#17. I don't have any particular plans in mind. What I see is that you can become so focused on the idea of running that winning becomes your motivation, as opposed to what you stand for being your motivation.

Zephyr Teachout

#18. I've always considered music stores to be the graveyards of musicians.

Gary Larson

#19. Blessed the man and woman who is able to serve cheerfully in the second rank - a big test.

Mary Slessor

#20. Concerns over what others may think are an unnecessary burden.

Steven Redhead

#21. We don't know the power that's within our own bodies.

Dave Brubeck

#22. If there's a 'Cruel Summer' then there's got to be a 'Cruel Winter,' right? That's all I'm saying.

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