Hardness Quotes

67 quotes by 59 authors

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 loosely.… — Saul Bellow
As Lent is the time for greater love, listen to Jesus' thirst...'Repen t and believe' Jesus tells us. What are we to repent? Our indifference,… — Mother Teresa
In the face of so many wounds that hurt us and could lead to a hardness of heart, we are called to dive into the… — Pope Francis
I knew instinctively that it was the very hardness of life in the desert which drew me back there - it was the same pull… — Wilfred Thesiger
To the average man, life presents itself, not as material malleable to his hand, but as a series of problems...which he has to solve...And he… — Dorothy L. Sayers
Was it hardness, was it selfishness, that she should ask me to risk my life for her own glorification? Such thoughts may come to middle… — Arthur Conan Doyle
Here (Jerusalem), tears do not weaken the eyes, they only polish and shine the hardness of faces like stone. — Yehuda Amichai
The realization of our soul has its moral and its spiritual side. The moral side represents training of unselfishness, control of desire; the spiritual side… — Rabindranath Tagore
Despots play their part in the works of thinkers. Fettered words are terrible words. The writer doubles and trebles the power of his writing when… — Victor Hugo
One must never have spared oneself, one must have acquired hardness as a habit to be cheerful and in good spirits in the midst of… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Sculptors are obliged to follow the manners of the painters, and to make many ample folds, which are unsufferable hardness, and more like a rock… — John Dryden
Now, my friend, I beg you to consider that this blindness and unyielding hardness is the very core of your iniquity, and to be convinced… — Archibald Alexander
Years hence, perhaps, may dawn an age, More fortunate, alas! than we, Which without hardness will be sage, And gay without frivolity. — Matthew Arnold
When men do wrong, it is out of hardness; when women do wrong, it is out of weakness. — Madame de Stael
Jazz vision is the fusion of music and art a real paradox of same-yet different. Here we play in exchanges, like the hardness of the… — Barbara Januszkiewicz
The work of art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning, seems to me devoid of value if it does… — Pope Paul VI
I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head. — Theodore Roosevelt
Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if… — Giorgos Seferis
Asian people have a unique way about them and a different sense of beauty. It's exotic to me. I like they way Asians project their… — Paz Vega
If only the scientific experts could come up with something to get it out of our minds. One cup of fixit fizzle that will lift… — Robert Fulghum

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