Harshness Quotes

45 quotes by 40 authors

Indeed, among the lesser auxiliaries to success in love, an absence, the declining of an invitation to dinner, an unintentional, unconscious harshness are of more… — Marcel Proust
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
Intolerance, discourtesy and harshness..... are taboo in all good society and are surely contrary to the spirit of democracy. — Mahatma Gandhi
Childrenâ€™s literature must build a bridge between the colorful dream world full of fantasy and illusion, and a tougher real world full of twists and… — Samad Behrangi
A great swindle of our time is the assumption that science has made religion obsolete. All science has damaged is the story of Adam and… — Kurt Vonnegut
Do not train children to learning by force and harshness, but direct them to it by what amuses their minds. — Plato
Arrogance is a mixture of impertinence, disobedience, indiscipline, rudeness, harshness, and a self-assertive nature. — Sivananda
How many women are there ... who because of their husbands' harshness spend their weary lives in the bond of marriage in greater suffering than… — Christine de Pizan
The trouble with steeling yourself against the harshness of reality is that the same steel that secures your life against being destroyed secures your life… — Frederick Buechner
Harshness towards individuals who flout the laws and commands of the state is for the public good; no greater crime against the public interest is… — Cardinal Richelieu
Music needs the juxtaposition of opposites to achieve its drama, so harshness and dissonance are simply part of the material a musician can use to… — Chuck Israels
Love of goodness without love of learning degenerates into simple-mindedness. Love of knowledge without love of learning degenerates into utter lack of principle. Love of… — Confucius
The painful thing is that when we buy into disapproval,we are practicing disapproval. When we buy into harshness,we are practicing harshness. — Pema Chodron
The painful thing is that when we buy into disapproval, we are practicing disapproval. When we buy into harshness, we are practicing harshness. The more… — Pema Chodron
His very chains helped to deceive him about the harshness of his service. — Bruno Bauer
Along the way, I've had different advice from different music producers. I've been told to tone it down, that the quiet parts of my voice… — Patty Griffin
What quarrel, what harshness, what unbelief in each other can subsist in the presence of a great calamity, when all the artificial vesture of our… — George Eliot
Nietzsche was personally more philosophical than his philosophy. His talk about power, harshness, and superb immorality was the hobby of a harmless young scholar and… — George Santayana
Sadistic excess attempts to reach roughly and by harshness what art reaches by fineness. — Wyndham Lewis
Love is a feeling that comes into our hearts of our own choice for neither force nor harshness can limit the heart's freedom. — Pietro Metastasio

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