Harsh quotes
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Whoever is new to power is always harsh.
-- Aeschylus -
Kids can be harsh, especially when they get jealous.
-- Alia Shawkat -
I'm a harsh critic of the status quo.
-- Andrew Cuomo -
I can't edit the materials I work with. My remit is to work with nature as a whole. I find nature as a whole disturbing. Nature can be harsh – difficult and brutal, as well as beautiful. You couldn't walk five minutes from here without coming across something that is dead or decaying.
-- Andy Goldsworthy -
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All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome
-- Ben Jonson -
How you look has become ridiculously disproportionate to what you do. Critics are more harsh on female presenters.
-- Carol Vorderman -
Most people, I've noticed, are instinctively harsh to strangers. They expect every approach to be an attack, every question to be an interruption.
-- David Levithan -
I checked out all types of tobacco trying to find one that would be easiest to live with, I ended up using pipe tobacco. It burned slower, and it wasn't as harsh on my throat... It also smelled better.
-- David Strathairn -
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Necessity is harsh. Fate has no reprieve.
-- Euripides -
No country. is as harsh as the world.
-- Fernando Meirelles -
My parents are going to kill me!" "That seems rather harsh...
-- Garth Nix -
If content with himself and mankind, a man is never harsh or curt.
-- Giacomo Leopardi -
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Like all harsh, cold men, he was easily tipped over into sentiment.
-- Ian Fleming -
He is indeed the 'Lamb.' There is nothing harsh or haughty or retaliative about Him.
-- J. Sidlow Baxter -
I'm a harsh critic, you know? I am.
-- Jake Gyllenhaal -
I am not being overly harsh. Overtly hostile, yes, but exactly the right amount of harsh.
-- Jennifer Harrison -
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Nietzsche ... combines, in effect, Christ's harsh sayings: 'let the dead bury their dead' and 'narrow is the way which leadeth unto life'.
-- John Carroll -
Despite very harsh living conditions and the trauma of what they went through, they [Sudanese refugees] had a lot of dignity
-- Julien Clerc -
No. Harsh truth was better than comfortable lies. It had to be.
-- Kelley Armstrong -
Have you noticed in your past experience that your kind interpretations were almost always truer than you harsh one?
-- Lawrence G. Lovasik -
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And woven into the fabric of this harsh existence was music.
-- Lesley Garrett -
It's the intent, not the word, that makes something harsh.
-- Lisa McMann -
All observations of life are harsh, because life is. I lament that fact, but I cannot change it.
-- Margaret Atwood -
In my own life, I have noticed when I have been meeting directors, that the same sentence with the same inflection can be said by a man, like: "Get me this." But if the same thing is said by a woman, it's seen as harsh and unacceptable. That always fascinates me.
-- Meryl Streep -
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I love Trinidad and I love living there, but it's quite harsh.
-- Peter Doig -
Injustice wears ever the same harsh face wherever it shows itself.
-- Ralph Ellison -
What condemnation could possibly be more harsh than one’s own, when self-pretense is no longer possible?
-- Richard Matheson -
Modern man has yielded to the harsh, the crude, the vulgar, the profane, the immoral.
-- Robert L. Millet -
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Free curiosity is of more value than harsh discipline.
-- Saint Augustine -
A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.
-- Solomon -
Work is born in us. We take to it kindly or unkindly. The terms may be easy or harsh, but the contract is binding.
-- Studs Terkel -
If there is a God, then he was particularly harsh to me
-- Taylor Caldwell -
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For those who practise tyranny and deprive others of their rights, I will be harsh and stern, but for those who follow the law, I will be most soft and tender.
-- Umar -
You are very harsh.' 'I have seen the world.
-- Voltaire -
I will be as harsh as truth and as uncompromising as justice.
-- William Lloyd Garrison -
At a certain point, you have to stop being precious with your material and be cruel and harsh and judgmental.
-- Marshall Curry -
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Business is cold and harsh. Business doesn't consider your personal needs or the ends of your family. Business doesn't allow you to keep to your job after you slaved at a place for 20+ years. Rather than increase your benefits, business cuts you out of the job situation so that you're job-hunting, off to find a far less prestigious position.
-- Mr. Lif -
Life is not easy. Life is very harsh. We have to be strong. Otherwise, life will destroy us.
-- Osama Alomar -
Most products are ugly. The harsh reality is that in many of these markets, form follows funding. And that products go where the market takes them.
-- Bran Ferren -
People are very harsh critics of animated humans.
-- Henry Selick -
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We're not allowed to carry out harsh interrogations anymore, but we're allowed to fly over somebody's village, without due process, and kill them all?
-- Howard Gordon -
You can't go fighting everyone that's harsh towards you.
-- Jake Lloyd -
Seek to mingle gentleness in all your rebukes; bear with the infirmities of others; make allowance for constitutional frailties; never say harsh things, if kind things will do as well.
-- John Ross Macduff
