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Brunt Quotes

Who bears the weight when things go wrong.

This collection is built around who ends up bearing the brunt of hardship, from a family absorbing a difficult time together to fiscal belt-tightening that falls unevenly on people. Related frustration appears in Anger quotes.

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.

Quotes by Tracey Gold

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.

Quotes by Toni Morrison

Trumpcare would be devastating for millions of American families, but perhaps no one will bear the brunt of its cruelty more than older Americans.

Quotes by Raja Krishnamoorthi

God bless those employees at United who somehow continue to be gracious and patient and generous with customers even while bearing the brunt of a broken company themselves.

Quotes by Patrick Lencioni

Able Quotes

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,...

Quotes by Nick Clegg

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

Quotes by Mindy McCready

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...

Quotes by Michael Richards

The people sometimes who are closest to us are the ones who bear the brunt of our frustration.

Quotes by Lynn Nottage

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

Quotes by Joey McIntyre

Additional Quotes

Whoever is sitting in the White House, especially in their second term, when gas goes up to $3 a gallon, and Katrina, and whenever we're at war, that person sitting in the White House gets the brunt of the accusations.

Quotes by Jerry Falwell

Even the best community organizations and faith-based initiatives and the extraordinary charity of Americans across the country can't carry the brunt of eliminating poverty.

Quotes by Irwin Redlener

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

Quotes by Ingrid Newkirk

The whole brunt of the media and the government is to encourage people to be highly competitive and totally selfish and uncaring of others.

Quotes by Harold Pinter

I'm a bit of an expert on anger, having suffered from it all through my youth, when I was both brunt and font. It's certainly the most miserable state to be in but it's also tremendously gratifying, really - rage...

Quotes by Deborah Eisenberg

American Quotes

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...

Quotes by Dave Eggers

I am often the brunt of my own humor.

Quotes by Charles R. Swindoll

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.

Quotes by Bobby Farrelly

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...

Quotes by Barry Eichengreen

This is the thing: I know I'm paving the way for the next generation of girls, and they're not going to have to do this. That's what I hope. I'll take the brunt work and just handle it, and then...

Quotes by Ashley Graham

Anger Quotes

Disgracefully, the arts have too often borne the brunt of short-sighted cuts to educational budgets.

Quotes by Andrew Lloyd Webber

Frequently Asked Questions

What does this Brunt quotes collection focus on?
It centers on who bears the weight of difficulty, spanning personal family hardship, unequal fiscal burdens, and becoming the target of others' contempt or jokes.
Why do people search for brunt quotes?
People search for brunt quotes when describing an unfair burden they or others are carrying, whether personal, financial, or social.
Is there a quote about a family bearing the brunt of hardship?
Yes, one quote describes a couple taking the brunt of a very difficult family time, expressing a level of sadness and desperation they hadn't known before.
Does any quote connect brunt to fiscal policy?
Yes, one quote rejects fiscal retrenchment that spares people at the top, arguing they should also make an Additional contribution rather than let others bear the brunt.
Is there a quote about a group unfairly bearing contempt?
Yes, one quote expresses frustration that black people are expected to bear the brunt of everyone else's contempt whenever they are not seen as endlessly understanding.

Other quotes point to brunt as something borne unfairly by a group facing contempt, or self-deprecatingly, as becoming the brunt of one's own public punch lines. For more on shouldering hardship, see Able quotes.