What the real world of 1941 needed most was the release and relief provided by laughter.
Travelling, one accepts everything; indignation stays at home. One looks, one listens, one is roused to enthusiasm by the most dreadful things because they are new. Good travellers are heartless.
Science is not a heartless pursuit of objective information; it is a creative human activity.
The worship of the golden calf of old (cf. Ex 32:15-34) has found a new and heartless image in the cult of money and the dictatorship of an economy which is faceless and lacking any truly humane goal.
But insensate Time is nothing if not cruel and heartless. It corrodes then destroys, so that the man you literally and figuratively looked up to with your chubby face, who scooped you up to cross the street and patted you on the head to laughter, will later look through you from a crooked hospital bed then blindly up at you while wearing makeup in a bargain casket. The people who now surround you generating warmth will disappear leaving only an empty chill; the body you own and the brain it houses will malfunction.
For a brief, weird minute I felt like Dorothy in Oz, walking down the street with Terric the doubtful, Shame the brainless, and heartless Zay.
Show me a frigid woman and, nine times out of ten, I'll show you a little man.
The family is a haven in a heartless world.
You may not be able to change the world, but at least you can embarrass the guilty.
A sneer is often the sign of heartless malignity.
Every time I say something they find hard to hear, they chalk it up to my anger, and never to their own fear.
Did you hear that! Yuki, the heartless Yuki! Heartless Yuki has begged me with tears to let him visit my shop!
Adolescence is that time when I think, it can be- it's the cruelest place on Earth. It can really be heartless.
I hear the birds singing. Listen. I hear them in their cage. The others-all our kind who know of her-they think of her as heartless, but she wasn't heartless. She was only aware of things which I didn't learn till so many decades had passed. She knew secrets that only suffering can teach.
Perhaps this is just punishment for those who have been heartless, to understand only when nothing can be undone.
You have the effrontery to be squeamish, it thought at him. But we were dragons. We were supposed to be cruel, cunning, heartless and terrible. But this much I can tell you, you ape – the great face pressed even closer, so that Wonse was staring into the pitiless depths of his eyes – we never burned and tortured and ripped one another apart and called it morality.
I never justify, sustain, or in any way or to any extent uphold this cruel, heartless, aimless unnecessary war.
Women have been trained to speak softly and carry a lipstick. Those days are over.
On the silver screen, capitalists are usually vilified as greedy and heartless, while statists of every stripe are depicted as selfless, romantic idealists who only want to help people.
People can be so heartless and dirty.