it was only much later that I found out hardness worked…

But I was an utterly hopeless politician and I worked out that I would be much better suited to making money and running businesses…

— Dido Harding

I have always worked better alone and from my own impressions.

— Claude Monet

Man at his birth is supple and tender, but in death, he is rigid and hard. Thus, suppleness and tenderness accompany life, but rigidity…

— Laozi

Hardness shatters; strength endures.

— Robert Jordan

I am deeply moved when I write. I get turned on by it. I've never used any drugs for stimulation. I don't use words…

— Saul Bellow

Weakness is a great thing, and strength is nothing. When a man is just born, he is weak and flexible. When he dies, he…

— Andrei Tarkovsky

She thought of the hardness and the coldness she had cultivated over those years and wondered if they were the mask she wore or…

— Megan Whalen Turner

Hardness ever of hardness is mother.

— William Shakespeare

In all things preserve integrity; and the consciousness of your own uprightness will alleviate the toil of business, soften the hardness of ill-success and…

— Babe Paley

We are the new "barbarians", forged in iron hardness in the fires of their hate and persecution. All over the world, we wait to…

— George Lincoln Rockwell

Every attainment, every step forward in knowledge, follows from courage, from hardness against oneself, from cleanliness in relation to oneself.

— Anonymous

“I place my trust in You, O adorable Blood, our Redemption, our regeneration. Fall, drop by drop, into the hearts that have wandered from…

— Agnes of Rome

I am down mentally. I can't understand how it happened and who is to blame? I don't know why the ground was rolled before…

— Yeasin Khan

“I’m a man of stone - and my hands are not soft enough to brush away, each stray wisp of hair”

— john j geddes

Asanas bring perfection in body, beauty in form, grace, strength, compactness, and the hardness and brilliance of a diamond.

— Patanjali