You Have To Be Cruel To Be Kind Quotes

#1. Sometimes you have to be cruel to be kind.

Colette McBeth

#2. You can't expect to draw people into your life who are kind, confident, and generous if you're thinking and acting in cruel, weak, and selfish ways. You must be what it is that you're seeking- that is, you need to put forth what you want to attract.

Wayne Dyer

#3. I love you," he said. "I love you more than any other creature, because you are cruel, and kind, and alive. Nyx Triskelion, will you be my wife?

Rosamund Hodge

#4. There are parts of us that are miserable, that hate, that love, that are cruel, are kind, are reasonable, are unreasonable. You know, you live inside your own mind. Who are you kidding?

Frederick Lenz

#5. The worst kind of non-smokers are the ones that come up to you and cough. That's pretty fucking cruel isn't it? Do you go up to cripples and dance too?

Bill Hicks

#6. A man who writes a story is forced to put into it the best of his knowledge and the best of his feeling. The discipline of the written word punishes stupidity and dishonesty. A writer lives in awe of words for they can be cruel or kind, and they can change their meanings right in front of you.

John Steinbeck

#7. Death is the fairest thing in the world. No one's ever gotten out of it. The earth takes everyone - the kind, the cruel, the sinners. Aside from that, there's no fairness on earth.

Svetlana Alexievich

#8. It is much easier to be kind than cruel.

Debasish Mridha

#9. Choosing between your kind and another species wasn't cruel. It was necessary.

Rick Yancey

#10. PERFECTION, OF COURSE, is a cruel god. It requires the kind of absolute devotion and daily sacrifice that is the sworn enemy of personal emotion and intimacy with others, even - and maybe especially - one's loyal ladywife.

James Dodson

#11. I must be cruel only to be kind

William Shakespeare

#12. A writer lives in awe of words, for they can be cruel or kind, and they can change their meanings right in front of you. They pick up flavors and odors like butter in a refrigerator.

John Steinbeck

#13. She told him that he had survived by doing the opposite of all the others. Where they abandoned, he saved. Where they were cruel, he was kind. Where they betrayed, he was faithful.

Louise Erdrich

#14. [If] there is mercy in nature, it is accidental. Nature is neither kind nor cruel but indifferent.

Richard Dawkins

#15. Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.

Ouida

#16. So what if you're right? So what if you're wrong?
In the end you might be surprised to find that God doesn't care so much about whether you were right or wrong but whether, despite it all, you were kind or cruel.

Richelle E. Goodrich