Harsher Quotes
28 quotes by 27 authors
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Cultivated men and women who do not skim the cream of life, and are attached to the duties, yet escape the harsher blows, make acute…
— George Meredith
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You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will. War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it; and those who brought war into our…
— William Tecumseh Sherman
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You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will.
— William Tecumseh Sherman
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The backwoodsmen are muttering about making Britain's draconian union laws - already among the toughest in Europe - harsher still. And parts of the media…
— Frances O'Grady
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If the Obama administration responds with an even harsher hand against me, they can be assured that they'll soon find themselves facing an equally harsh…
— Edward Snowden
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I love the combination of smartness, pain, and what one might call conscious postmodern trashiness in this book: a version of the erotic full of…
— Alicia Ostriker
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I’m not really worried what people think about me. Because I judge myself harsher, and on more strict terms, than they ever could probably.
— Richey Edwards
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There is always a piano in an hotel drawing-room, on which, of course, some one of the forlorn ladies is generally employed. I do not…
— Anthony Trollope
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As it grows ever more complicated today, musical art seeks out combinations more dissonant, stranger, and harsher for the ear. Thus, it comes ever closer…
— Luigi Russolo
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There is no harsher means of punishment, than to answer malice with kindness.
— Nikos Kazantzakis
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I set my standards so high, no one could be harsher on me than I was.
— Jim Brown
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An author describing the methods of intensive farming, or the excesses of sport hunting, or even the harsher uses of animals in science writes with…
— Matthew Scully
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We are often harsher judges than God himself.
— Judah Smith
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I regret not getting brutally forthright with human beings a hell of a lot sooner than I did. Civility and obliquity are wasted on people…
— Kenny Smith
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The world of shabby gentility is like no other; its sacrifices have less logic, its standards are harsher, its relation to reality is dimmer than…
— Murray Kempton
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I'm kind of harsher than most people.
— Jennifer Coolidge
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God judges men from the inside out; men judge men from the outside in. Perhaps to God, an extreme mental patient is doing quite well…
— Criss Jami
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Like it or not, i was already learning that in the worst and darkest time, I would find specks of light, moments of joy. What…
— Melody Beattie
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There is a beauty in the world, though it's harsher than we expect it to be.
— Michael Cunningham
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You are suffering from an ailment that affects ladies of romantic imaginations. Symptoms include fainting, weariness, loss of appetite, low spirits. While on one level…
— Diane Setterfield
Who Wrote These Harsher Quotes
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