Hardness Quotes - Page 4

• Words have a universe of qualities other than those of descriptive relation: Hardness, Density, Sound-Shape, Vector-Force, & Degrees of Transparency/Opacity.

  Clark Coolidge

  Quality, Sound, Degrees

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• I've noticed that about your people, Doctor. You find it easier to understand the death of one than the death of a million. You speak about the objective hardness of the Vulcan heart, yet how little room there seems to be in yours.

  Leonard Nimoy

  Sympathy, Heart, Doctors

  "Star Trek: The Immunity Syndrome". TV Series, www.imdb.com. 1968.

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• The noble man honours in himself the powerful one, him also who has power over himself, who knows how to speak and how to keep silence, who takes pleasure in subjecting himself to severity and hardness, and has reverence for all that is severe and hard.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Powerful, Men, Noble Man

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2013). “The Selected Writings of Friedrich Nietzsche”, p.664, Simon and Schuster

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• Asanas bring perfection in body, beauty in form, grace, strength, compactness, and the hardness and brilliance of a diamond.

  Patanjali

  Yoga, Perfection, Grace

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• When men do wrong, it is out of hardness; when women do wrong, it is out of weakness.

  Madame de Stael

  Men, Weakness

  "Corinne, or Italy". Book by Madame de Stael, 1807.

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• America could carry on a two years' war by the confiscation of the property of disaffected persons, and be made happy by their expulsion. Say not that this is revenge, call it rather the soft resentment of a suffering people, who, having no object in view but the good of all, have staked their own all upon a seemingly doubtful event. Yet it is folly to argue against determined hardness; eloquence may strike the ear, and the language of sorrow draw forth the tear of compassion, but nothing can reach the heart that is steeled with prejudice.

  Thomas Paine

  Revenge, War, Heart

  Thomas Paine (2016). “THE AMERICAN CRISIS – Revolutionary Work Which Inspired the American People to Fight for Their Independence: Including “The Life of Thomas Paine” – Extensive Biography of the Author”, p.8, e-artnow

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• It is ever thus that the things which we do wrong - although they may seem little at the time, and though from the hardness of our hearts we pass them lightly by - come back to us with bitterness.

  Bram Stoker

  Heart, May, Littles

  Bram Stoker (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Bram Stoker (Illustrated)”, p.2491, Delphi Classics

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• The most striking features of the correctly bred German Shepherds are firmness of nerves, attentiveness, unshockability, tractability, watchfulness, reliability and incorruptibility together with courage, fighting tenacity and hardness.

  Max von Stephanitz

  Dog, Courage, Fighting

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• There are no friends more inseparable than pride and hardness of heart, humility and love, falsehood and impudence.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Heart, Humility, Pride

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• The older I grow the more sharply I mistrust words. So few of them have any meaning left. It is impossible to write one sentence in which every word has the bareness and hardness of bones, the reality of the skeleton.

  Storm Jameson

  Writing, Reality, Skeletons

  Storm Jameson (1933). “No time like the present”

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• It can take years of tears to melt the hardness that develops in this world, covering our tender, gentler inner selves. Tears for every devastating loss, tears for every humiliating failure, tears for every repeated mistake. Those who honor those tears, and even honor them, are not failures at love but rather its true initiates. First the pain and then the power. First the heart breaks and then it soars.

  Marianne Williamson

  Pain, Mistake, Heart

  "Enchanted Love". www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Marked by a virulent notion of hardness and aggressive masculinity, a culture of violence has become commonplace in a society in which pain, humiliation and abuse are condensed into digestible spectacles endlessly circulated through extreme sports, reality TV, video games, YouTube postings, and proliferating forms of the new and old media.

  Henry Giroux

  Sports, Pain, Reality

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I would rather make mistakes in kindness and compassion than work miracles in unkindness and hardness.

  Mother Teresa

  Inspirational, Kindness, Work

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• To want and not to have, sent all up her body a hardness, a hollowness, a strain. And then to want and not to have- to want and want- how that wrung the heart, and wrung it again and again!

  Virginia Woolf

  Heart, Body, Want

  Virginia Woolf (2016). “To the Lighthouse”, p.175, Virginia Woolf

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• The hardness of God is kinder than the softness of men, and His compulsion is our liberation.

  C. S. Lewis

  Men, Liberation, Divine Mercy

  C. S. Lewis (1966). “Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life”, p.239, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Lord, give me firmness without hardness, steadfastness without dogmatism, love without weakness.

  Jim Elliot

  Giving, Weakness, Lord

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• Humor is the great thing, the saving thing after all. The minute it crops up, all our hardnesses yield, all our irritations, and resentments flit away, and a sunny spirit takes their place.

  Mark Twain

  Humor, Yield, Irritation

  Mark Twain (1994). “Tales, Speeches, Essays, and Sketches”, p.376, Penguin

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• A Dionysian life task needs the hardness of the hammer and one of its first essentials is without doubt the joy to be found even in destruction.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  War, Joy, Doubt

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Ecce Homo”, p.77, Courier Corporation

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• Children are born true scientists. They spontaneously experiment and experience and reexperience again. They select, combine, and test, seeking to find order in their experiences - "which is the mostest? which is the leastest?" They smell, taste, bite, and touch-test for hardness, softness, springiness, roughness, smoothness, coldness, warmness: they heft, shake, punch, squeeze, push, crush, rub, and try to pull things apart.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Crush, Children, Order

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• 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, our hardness of heart. What are we to believe? Jesus thirsts even now, in your heart and in the poor -- He knows your weakness. He wants only your love, wants only the chance to love you.

  Mother Teresa

  Jesus, Believe, Love You

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