Brute Quotations

To bathe a cat takes brute force, perseverance, courage of conviction - and a cat. The last ingredient is usually hardest to come by.

They are few in the midst of an overwhelming mass of brute force, and their submission is wisdom; but for a nation like England to submit to be robbed by any invader who chooses to visit her shores seemed to me to be nonsense.

It's as if inside the White House the belief in Obama's inspirational charisma is still such that every time the ugliness of brute politics intrudes, it's a startling revelation.

'The Sea Wolf' is the story of a man who believes only in brute force. He is so firm in belief in his own ideas that he despises all who disagree with him. He preaches the doctrine of intolerance. He flaunts the notion that democracy is anything but weakness.

Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been known to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.

The technocracy of professional sport has managed to impose a soccer of lightning speed and brute strength: a soccer that negates joy, kills fantasy and outlaws daring.

The notion that the 'leader' has the right to ask huge sacrifices of your generation for a notional future paradise - if you'd be good enough to lie down under the wheels of the juggernaut - that sentimental and self-aggrandising rationalisation for brute force and cowardice I felt from adolescence was wrong.

The mere brute pleasure of reading the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.

Speak the truth, and all things alive or brute are vouchers, and the very roots of the grass underground there, do seem to stir and move to bear you witness.

But these speak evil of those things which they know not: but what they know naturally, as brute beasts, in those things they corrupt themselves.

He is a tough, strong runner. He has to learn to run more with his eyes than his brute strength ... so he can avoid some of that contact because after you run over two or three guys, it can slow you down. He needs to use his eyes and make some people miss.

People act like you're some brute if you don't speak English when you come to this country, ... I've heard people in the media, coaches and other people in baseball say these things. It's just people stay quiet about it, but we all hear it.

We need more than brute enforcement, ... We need a temporary worker program as well.

We for a certainty are not the first have sat in taverns while the tempest hurled their hopeful plans to emptiness, and cursed whatever brute and blackguard made the world.

When I tried to figure out how computers worked, I was disgusted. I thought it was totally brute force. I felt there had to be a more elegant way to do this.

We realize that at the end of the day the majority can railroad this and use brute force, use the tyranny of numbers,

We're going to need more than just brute enforcement,

The scholar without good breeding is a nitpicker; the philosopher a cynic; the soldier a brute and everyone else disagreeable.

The way I would describe it is brute force. We just threw more people at the process.

They're well-coached, and they don't make a lot of mistakes. You don't see a lot of blown blocks. You don't see them on the ground a lot. And that's the mark of a good offensive line. ... You're going to have to beat 'em with good, sound technique and brute force.

People can help solve these problems, ... This is the power of our user base, rather than just using brute force and algorithmic search, although this is still important.

Right now, the techniques for gene therapy are kind of brute force. You put the gene in and hope it goes into the right place. There's no selection. What we would like to do is put the gene into stem cells, grow them and watch them to be as sure as one can be that we've got the right gene into the right cells and nothing untoward has happened.

I never saw a brute I hated so; / He must be wicked to deserve such pain.

It's not brute strength against brute strength. There's skill involved. You can learn to putt and be accurate. A lot of times women are more accurate.

It's brute power. Much of this is about who's the last in the room, and it reflects badly on the Congress.

It's impressive to see a freshman with the kind of brute strength that she has. She simply killed us.

And the brute crowd, whose envious zeal Huzzas each turn of fortune's wheel, And loudest shouts when lowest lie Exalted worth and station high

And overhanging all our difficulties is the simple, brute fact that our state's public finances are in ruin. We have outspent our income year after year.

There is no way this exercise makes us feel safer or happier about weapons of mass destruction travelling on our roads. However much you practice for eventualities the brute fact remains that transporting plutonium alongside high explosive is simply madness. This government is determined to take any risks to maintain its genocidal nuclear weapons.

We lost a couple of major sponsors this year, and that was a real let down. We are making this concert happen by brute force. Cancer doesn't care about hurricanes.

For thence - a paradox Which comforts while it mocks, - Shall life succeed in that it seems to fail: What I aspired to be, And was not, comforts me: A brute I might have been, but would not sink i' the scale

If brute force doesn't work, you aren't using enough

The mere brute pleasure of reading -the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.

Union may be strength, but it is mere blind brute strength unless wisely directed.

There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere man

Take long walks in stormy weather or through deep snows in the fields andwoods, if you would keep your spirits up. Deal with brute nature. Be coldand hungry and weary.

All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called ''facts.'' They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain. Who does not know fellows that always have an ill-conditioned fact or two that they lead after them into decent company like so many bull-dogs, ready to let them slip at every ingenious suggestion, or convenient generalization, or pleasant fancy? I allow no ''facts'' at this table.

They have answered the stirrings of liberty with brute force, killings, mass arrests, and the setting up of concentration camps.