Harsh Quotes

475 quotes by 419 authors

My child,you are broken. Unless you know that you are broken yourself,it will be severely laborious to love the broken people around you. You will… — Bo Sanchez
I have made a contract with my body. It has promised to accept harsh treatment from me on earth, and I have promised that it… — Peter of Alcantara
No cause has he to say his doom is harsh, who's made the master of his destiny. — Friedrich Schiller
Any demanding high technology tends to develop influential and dedicated constituencies of those who link its commercial success with both the public welfare and their… — Amory Lovins
Students may feel the criticism is harsh, but I think it's possible they haven't had criticism before. It's my job to point out when something… — Louise Wilson
You cannot be too gentle, too kind. Shun even to appear harsh in your treatment of each other. Joy, radiant joy, streams from the face… — Seraphim of Sarov
It is wrong to be harsh with the New York critics, unless one admits in the same breath that it is a condition of their… — Raymond Chandler
Harshness to me is giving somebody false hopes and not following through. That's harsh. Telling some guy or some girl who've got zero talent that… — Simon Cowell
Harsh counsels have no effect; they are like hammers which are always repulsed by the anvil. — Claude Adrien Helvetius
In much of today's popular culture, the virtues of forgiveness and kindness are belittled, while ridicule, anger, and harsh criticism are encouraged. Let us not… — David E. Sorensen
According to the dictionary, knock has two definitions: "to strike something with a sharp blow," and "to find fault with, a harsh and often petty… — Marvin J. Ashton
When your commitment is to be loving regardless of the circumstances, there is no room for harsh words. You assert yourself not from a desire… — Rhonda Britten
Scientists are also unnerved by the summer's implications for the future...proof that human activities are propelling a slide toward climate calamity...humans may have tipped the… — Andrew Revkin
What a difference! Under the esthetic sky, everything is buoyant, beautiful, transient! when ethics arrives on the scene, everything becomes harsh, angular and infinitely boring — Soren Kierkegaard
Prune what is turgid, elevate what is commonplace, arrange what is disorderly, introduce rhythm where the language is harsh, modify where it is too absolute. — Quintilian
The novelist must be his own most harsh critic and also his own most loving admirer and about both he must say nothing. — Angus Wilson
It is one thing to impose drastic measures and harsh economic penalties when an environmental problem is clear-cut and severe....It is foolish to do so… — Frederick Seitz
It is one thing to impose drastic measures and harsh economic penalties when an environmental problem is clear-cut and severe.... — Frederick Seitz
Paul Ryan, who teamed up with Akin in the House to sponsor harsh anti-abortion bills, may look young and hip and new generation, with his… — Maureen Dowd
Hearing often-times the still, sad music of humanity, nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power to chasten and subdue. — William Wordsworth

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