Cruel', O'Kelly laughed, 'it's cruel to tell children the truth. If anything convinces me of God's mercy, then it's his gift of making us unable to lie.
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Related The gods are cruel not because they make us work. They are cruel because they allow us to hope. ROBERT JACKSON BENNETT all that was left to me was certain images and all of them spoke to me of the collapse of a cruel wo... CARLOS FUENTES Idleness is sweet, and its consequences are cruel JOHN QUINCY ADAMS Cowards are cruel, but the brave Love mercy, and delight to save. JOHN GAY Cowards are cruel, but the brave
Love mercy, and delight to save. JOHN GAY If I lie about the truth which you will know somehow later,
then you would tell me a liar.
If you di... TOBA BETA Cowards are cruel, but the brave Love mercy, and delight to save. JOHN GAY Madame d'Aulnoy is the true mother of the modern fairy tale. She invented the modern Court of Fairyl... ANDREW LANG It would be cruel to break that hope before it fades on its own. N.K. JEMISIN He that is cruel to his own will not be cruel to others. VIKRANT PARSAI -"You won't like me if I'm cruel." -"I don't like you now." -"We don't lie." -"I'm mo... MELISSA MARR The greater the state, the more wrong and cruel its patriotism, and the greater is the sum of suffer... LEO TOLSTOY I'll tell you one thing, it's a cruel, cruel world. DANNY DEVITO Cruel persecutions and intolerance are not accidents, but grow out of the very essence of religion, ... MORRIS COHEN Fate has a cruel sense of humor, don't you think? CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI Each has its lesson; for our dreams in sooth, come they in shape of demons, gods, or elves, are alle... HENRY TIMROD Tell your friend a lie. If he keeps it secret, then tell him the truth. PROVERB Tell your friend a lie. If he keeps it secret, then tell him the truth. PORTUGUESE PROVERB There is something in age that ever, even in its own despite, must be venerable, must create respect... FRANCES BURNEY It's not our job to toughen our children up to face a cruel and heartless world. It's our job to rai... L.R. KNOST Human beings are not condemned, because of their biological constitution, to annihilate each other... ALBERT EINSTEIN I am a fact, unable to accept its truth – a commotional existence. MARIANA FULGER Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion. EDWARD ABBEY Often I think bullying - especially in its adult, verbal forms - is the sort of thing you don't ... LIANE MORIARTY Capitalism is not wicked or cruel when the commodity is the whore; profit is not wicked or cruel whe... ANDREA DWORKIN And that's when she put her book down. And looked at me. And said it: "Life isn't fair, Bill. we tel... WILLIAM GOLDMAN I see the Fourfold Man; the Humanity in deadly sleep, / And its fallen Emanation, the Spectre and it... WILLIAM BLAKE A mermaid found a swimming lad,Picked him for her own,Pressed her body to his body,Laughed; and plun... WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Let the warriors clamor after gods of blood and thunder; love is hard, harder than steel and thrice ... JACQUELINE CAREY Often, I think bullying - especially in its adult, verbal forms - is the sort of thing you don't... LIANE MORIARTY Silver and gold the Gods have denied them, whether in mercy or in wrath, I am unable to determine. GERMANICUS If its a lie, Then let me live, Between the interconnected fabric of truths, Offer me... TRUTH DEVOUR Children can have a cruel, absolute sense of justice. Children can kill monsters and feel quite prou... HOLLY BLACK War is wretched beyond description, and only a fool or a fraud could sentimentalize its cruel realit... JOHN MCCAIN If God is good, then why did he create man, the most cruel thing known to date? PETER MIDTGARD You wish you had not come. If there were not so many around, you would reach out your arms, with the... ERIK LARSON The ways of fate are indeed hard to understand. If there is not some compensation hereafter, then th... ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Terror made me cruel . . . EMILY BRONTë Terror made me cruel . . . EMILY BRONTE Terror made me cruel. EMILY BRONTE People are cruel, and they will do anything. SYLVIA BROWNRIGG Of all the bright cruel lies they tell you, the cruelest is the one called love. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN I do know that the slickest way to lie is to tell the right amount of truth--then shut up. ROBERT A. HEINLEIN It is the honey which makes us cruel enough to ignore the death of a bee MUNIA KHAN to seek the truth, you
must lie to a liar,
& if they believe in your lie,
they will tell you the tru... DAVID J. MARTINEZ If you can develop this ability to see what you look at, to understand its meaning, to readjust your... ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Oh, youth is a wicked, cruel thing - eating miracles with its breakfast and not knowing they are not... ELIZABETH BIBESCO Cruel leaders are replaced only to have new leaders turn cruel. CHE GUEVARA Cruel leaders are replaced only to have new leaders turn cruel! ERNESTO 'CHE' GUEVARA The director's task is to recreate life, its movement, its contradictions, its dynamic and confl... ANDREI TARKOVSKY Kids can be cruel. They definitely made fun of me. DYLAN BALL I hope I'm retired by 2012. If force-feeding a duck is cruel, then packing chickens in a cage is cru... THOMAS KELLER It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel. ANATOLE FRANCE IF" - I lie I am going to add the best features... the peoplea around = features will be taken to bu... DEYTH BANGER Cannons and fire-arms are cruel and damnable machines; I believe them to have been the direct sugges... MARTIN LUTHER How should I know?" said Alice, surprised at her own courage. "It's no business of mine." The Q... LEWIS CARROLL Sane people played by the rules. They looked for rational explanations and solutions in an insane un... SHERRILYN KENYON It keeps on coming back to us - how cruel it was. GERT RAUL This cruel boy tells me to dream one more time. NAOSHI ARAKAWA Be cruel to me , cause I'm a fool for you. ALEX TURNER The truth is not a weapon it is a necessity. Show those ears of hearts no mercy in its telling. IAN IJH HOWELL It is hard to tell if a man is telling the truth when you know you would lie if you were in his plac... H.L. MENCKEN You’re one cruel bastard,” she managed to get out. He tsked with his tongue. “Every... DIANNA HARDY Any kind of death sentence is cruel. It doesn't matter what kind of death, I think the psychological... DOUG HOWARD If you believe, as the Greeks did, that man is at the mercy of the gods, then you write tragedy. The... LILLIAN HELLMAN If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The l... JOSEPH GOEBBELS "Truth has nothing to do with the number of people it convinces. PAUL CLAUDEL Local 802 continues to lie to the public and its members. Despite our repeated efforts, we have been... RADIO CITY ENTERTAINMENT The slickest way in the world to lie is to tell the right amount of truth at the right time-and then... ROBERT A. HEINLEIN A mermaid found a swimming lad, Picked him for her own, Pressed her body to his body, La... WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Cruel is the strife of brothers. ARISTOTLE Oh no, she was never elitist. She said that far too many women are the accomplices of cruel, indiffe... NINA GEORGE Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man. THOMAS PAINE So who is cruel? You, cruel reader, you are. JOHNNY RICH I'm as cruel as life. As cruel as love. L.J. SMITH Please don´t drown into his fears, his concrete fists don´t let him again, break the bridge of you... ANTHONY LICCIONE O give thanks unto the God of gods: for his mercy endureth for ever. BIBLE If one speaks or acts with a cruel mind, misery follows, as the cart follows the horse... If one spe... THE DHAMMAPADA It's kind of cruel for us to go out there and search these sites under bridges because if we find so... ALAN BELCHER While the truth is putting on its shoes, the lie becomes a president! LJUPKA CVETANOVA Since it is so likely that (children) will meet cruel enemies, let them at least have heard of brave... C.S. LEWIS A mermaid found a swimming lad, Picked him up for her own, Pressed her body to his body,<... W.B. YEATS Cruel, Cruel World, how are we letting it Dwell, Dwell... JAI SINGH God cannot honor anything, no matter its degree of sincerity, if it is contrary to His Word. LESLIE LUDY The gift of the moments and its lessons prepares us for a better tomorrow. LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Two children of same cruel parent look at one another and see in each other the image of the cruel p... AMOS OZ You said 'God is cruel' the way a person who's lived his whole life on Tahiti might say 'Snow is col... STEPHEN KING I dunno,” Mercy said, putting a little more pressure on the frail sternum beneath his boot sole. �... LAUREN GILLEY When you kill a man, you steal a life. You steal his wife's right to a husband, rob his children of ... KHALED HOSSEINI After a cruel childhood, one must reinvent oneself. Then reimagine the world. MARY OLIVER Have you ever seen a child sitting on its mother’s knee listening to fairy stories? As long as the... SELMA LAGERLöF A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on. SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on. ANONYMOUS A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on. WINSTON CHURCHILL If Congress is unable to do its job and pass a federal budget, then I do not believe we should recei... DAVID VALADAO Tell me a truth, Senna." "I don't know how," I breath. "Then tell me a lie." "I don't... TARRYN FISHER Pray God in the bowels of his mercy to send you his Holy Spirit; for he hath given you his great gif... JANE GREY God is too kind to do anything cruel; too wise to make a mistake; too deep to explain Himself. UNKNOWN If a man is cruel, he destroy himself. LAILAH GIFTY AKITA It’s all right to tell a man to lift himself by his own bootstraps, but it is cruel jest to say to... MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.
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