Harsh Quotes

• I will be as harsh as truth, and uncompromising as justice... I am in earnest, I will not equivocate, I will not excuse, I will not retreat a single inch, and I will be heard.

  William Lloyd Garrison

  Justice, Retreat, Excuse

  The Liberator, 1 Jan. 1831 (first issue)

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• A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.

  Solomon

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Kings

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• Don't be too harsh to these poems until they're typed. I always think typescript lends some sort of certainty: at least, if the things are bad then, they appear to be bad with conviction.

  Dylan Thomas

  Thinking, Conviction, Certainty

  Dylan Thomas, Paul Ferris (1985). “The collected letters”, Scribner

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• I will be as harsh as truth and as uncompromising as justice.

  William Lloyd Garrison

  Truth, Justice, Retreat

  The Liberator, 1 Jan. 1831 (first issue)

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• Whoever is new to power is always harsh.

  Aeschylus

  Power, Literature, Reconstruction

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• The words of Mercury are harsh after the songs of Apollo.

  William Shakespeare

  Song, Apollo, Mercury

  'Love's Labour's Lost' (1595) act 5, sc. 2, l. [938]

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• Speak softly. It is far better to rule by love than fear.Speak softly. Let no harsh words mar the good we may do here.

  Isaac Watts

  Mars, May, Speak

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• When to give grace? I'd rather stand before God knowing I loved others too much rather than regretting that I judged too harshly.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  God, Faith, Christian

  FaceBook post by Lysa TerKeurst from Nov 10, 2014

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• Purify your heart. Cleanse it. Make it a wake-up routine. Your environment may be harsh, difficult and tumultuous but if you work on your heart, you can be calm amidst all those challenges.

  Rita Zahara

  Heart, Challenges, Routine

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• I never hesitated to promote someone I didn't like. The comfortable assistant - the nice guy you like to go on fishing trips with - is a great pitfall. Instead I looked for those sharp, scratchy, harsh, almost unpleasant guys who see and tell you about things as they really are. If you can get enough of them around you, and have patience enough to hear them out, there is no limit to where you can go.

  Tom Watson

  Work, Nice, Fishing

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  Running is a road to self-awareness and reliance-you can push yourself to extremes and learn the harsh reality of your physical and mental limitations or coast quietly down a solitary path watching the earth spin beneath your feet.

  Doris Brown Heritage

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

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• Don't let negativity affect your vision. People say harsh things, but don't let them affect you.

  Nicole Polizzi

  People, Negativity, Vision

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• Necessity is harsh. Fate has no reprieve.

  Euripides

  Fate, Reprieve

  Euripides (2013). “Euripides II: Andromache, Hecuba, The Suppliant Women, Electra”, p.132, University of Chicago Press

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• Some may belittle politics, but we know - who are engaged in it - that it is where people stand tall. And, although I know it has its many harsh contentions, it is still the arena that sets the heart beating a little faster. And if it is, on occasions, the place of low skulduggery, it is more often the place for the pursuit of noble causes.

  Tony Blair

  Heart, People, May

  "Blair Steps Down, Takes Up Mideast Peace". Interview with Robert Siegel, www.npr.org. June 27, 2007.

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• Hearing often-times the still, sad music of humanity, nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power to chasten and subdue.

  William Wordsworth

  Humanity, Sad Music, Hearing

  'Lines composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey' (1798) l. 88

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• The harsh, unyielding reality of having to compromise your ideals bit by bit, day by day, just to achieve a few little victories in the face of the world’s malice, or indifference. Until sometimes you wonder if there’s nothing left of you but the shell of the man you intended to be, just going through the motions because you’ve nothing better to do.

  Simon R. Green

  Reality, Men, Victory

  Simon R. Green (2003). “Something from the Nightside”, p.124, Penguin

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• Space is a harsh, inhospitable frontier and we are explorers, not colonisers. The skills of our engineers and the technology surrounding us make things appear simple when they are not, and perhaps we forget this sometimes. Better not to forget.

  Luca Parmitano

  Technology, Simple, Skills

  "Astronaut recounts his near-drowning on spacewalk". www.theguardian.com. August 20, 2013.

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• The work of Jana Harris is unique in American writing. She has always had a voice of true grit—sometimes harsh, sometimes funny, always close to the bone, tart, and indomitable.

  Alicia Ostriker

  Writing, Unique, Voice

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• What really drives the battle against law enforcement and punishment is not a commitment to treatment, but the widely held view that, first, we are imprisoning too many people for merely possessing illegal drugs; second, drug and other criminal sentences are too long and harsh, and third, the criminal justice system is unjustly punishing young black men. These are among the great urban myths of our time.

  John P. Walters

  Commitment, Views, Law

  "Bush's drugs boss is unfit for office, say civil rights groups" Duncan Campbell, www.theguardian.com. September 7, 2001.

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• We both can be the most beautiful and benevolent creatures on the planet, but then there's another side that can be as harsh and as ugly as the darkest thing you could imagine seeing.

  Terrence Howard

  Beautiful, Ugly, Sides

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• Kids can be harsh, especially when they get jealous.

  Alia Shawkat

  Jealous, Kids, Get Jealous

  Interview with Steve Heisler, www.avclub.com. February 24, 2010.

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• Mixing humour and harsh reality is a very human behaviour, it's the way people stay sane in their daily lives.

  Jorge Garcia

  Reality, People, Mixing

  "Jorge Garcia, the one-man Greek chorus who helped explain Lost" by Rich Pelley, www.theguardian.com. March 24, 2012.

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• Believe it or not, fame is not as glamorous as it seems. I think it is much harder now with all of the media outlets, and people can be pretty nasty and harsh.

  Kim Kardashian

  Believe, Thinking, Media

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• 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

  Writing, Novelists, Admirer

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• 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 when the problem is largely hypothetical and not substantiated by observations....we do not currently have any convincing evidence or observations of significant climate change from other than natural causes.

  Frederick Seitz

  Cutting, Convincing Evidence, Environmental

  "2008 Climate Debate" by William F. Jasper, www.thenewamerican.com. March 31, 2008.

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