Brunt Quotes

I'm always annoyed about why black people have to bear the brunt of everybody else's contempt. If we are not totally understanding and smiling, suddenly we're demons.
Toni Morrison

Black, Why, Else

I am often the brunt of my own humor.
Charles R. Swindoll

And that's actually the brunt of what we do is, people going straight from their workplace, straight from home, straight into the classroom and working directly with the students. So then we're able to work with thousands and thousands more students.
Dave Eggers

Work, Home, Working

I will not accept a new wave of fiscal retrenchment, of belt-tightening, without asking people at the top to make their contribution, to make an additional contribution. I don't think you can ask people on middle and low incomes, who, after all, are the vast majority of the British population, to bear the brunt of this adjustment.
Nick Clegg

After, Accept, Ask

To me, it is one world, and the non-human animals bear the brunt of oppression and suffering.
Ingrid Newkirk

Suffering, Oppression, Bear

Our family has gone through a very difficult time. My husband and I have taken the brunt of it. I've never known what it truly felt like to be so sad and desperate inside.
Tracey Gold

Family, Time, Sad

Through the harsh design of fate, Florida was dealt the unfortunate circumstances of bearing the brunt of not one but two hurricanes, and it appears more dark clouds are poised to visit the Sunshine State.
Ginny Brown-Waite

Design, Sunshine, Through

Well, there are conjoined twins in real life and we can tell a story about them so long as they're not the brunt of the jokes. In this, they're the heroes of this story; we love these guys.
Bobby Farrelly

Life, Love, Long

I've spent my fortune, tarnished my public view and made myself the brunt of punch line after punch line.
Mindy McCready

Made, After, Public

I'm really busted up over this and I'm very, very sorry to those people in the audience, the blacks, the Hispanics, whites - everyone that was there that took the brunt of that anger and hate and rage and how it came through.
Michael Richards

Anger, Hate, Sorry

I don't mind being the brunt of a joke, so long as it's a good one.
Joey McIntyre

Good, Mind, Long

This crisis of long-term unemployment is having a profoundly damaging impact on the lives of those bearing the brunt of it. We know this thanks to a series of careful studies of the problem conducted in the depths of the 1930s Great Depression.
Barry Eichengreen

Great, Crisis, Depression

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