Harsh Quotes - Page 15

• Where a harsh law rules, people yearn for lawlessness.

  Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

  Law, People, Lawlessness

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• When I compare life to a dream I do not mean to denigrate it as some sort of meaningless fantasy. Life is too wonderful to be called an "illusion" unless we whisper the word in amazement, as we might when witnessing the most astonishing magic trick. What could be more magnificent than this glorious universe, in all its multifarious extravagance? Its awesome vastness and delicate detail. Its impersonal precision and intimate intensity. Its harsh necessities and lush sensuality. This dream of life is truly marvelous.

  Timothy Freke

  Dream, Mean, Gnosis

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• It is too great comfort which turns a man against himself. Life is most readily renounced at the time and among the classes where it is least harsh.

  Emile Durkheim

  Men, Class, Luxury

  John A. Spaulding, George Simpson, Emile Durkheim (2010). “Suicide”, p.298, Simon and Schuster

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• Modern man has yielded to the harsh, the crude, the vulgar, the profane, the immoral.

  Robert L. Millet

  Men, Modern, Vulgar

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• It’s a song about first relationships and letting go. It’s very rare for a relationship to withstand the Earth’s gravitational pull and where it’s going to take people and how they’re going to grow. I’ve heard it said that you can’t really have a true love unless it was a love unrequited. It’s a harsh one, because then your truest one is the one you can’t have forever.

  Eddie Vedder

  Letting Go, Song, Unrequited Love

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• There is no hour that has not its births of gladness and despair, no morning brightness that does not bring new sickness to desolation as well as new forces to genius and love. There are so many of us, and our lots are so different, what wonder that Nature's mood is often in harsh contrast with the great crisis of our lives?

  George Eliot

  Morning, Balance, Despair

  George Eliot (2016). “Adam Bede”, p.316, George Eliot

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• It is harsh enough for each man to bear his own wound. But he who leads bears the wounds of all who follow him.

  Lloyd Alexander

  Men, Bears, Enough

  Lloyd Alexander (2014). “The High King: The Chronicles of Prydain”, p.74, Usborne Publishing Ltd

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• In assembling this group of portraits of women, I'm aware that I'm treading on dangerous ground. When I was in college, I learned to be distrustful of men's depictions of women. I remember seeing Garry Winogrand's book Women Are Beautiful in the school library and being shocked that it hadn't been defaced for its blatant objectification of women. But looking back, maybe I was too harsh. Whether one photographs men or women, it is always a form of objectification. Whatever you say about Winogrand, his depiction was honest.

  Alec Soth

  Beautiful, Book, School

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• You can be harsh on your players and still coach, but it is easier when you are kind to them.

  John Kessel

  Sports, Player, Kind

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• A pair of jaybirds came up from nowhere, whirled up on the blast like gaudy scraps of cloth or paper and lodged in the mulberries, where they swung in raucous tilt and recover, screaming into the wind that ripped their harsh cries onward and away like scraps of paper or of cloth in turn.

  William Faulkner

  Wind, Bird, Pairs

  William Faulkner (2011). “FAULKNER READER”, p.254, Modern Library

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• Come in, my dearFrom that harsh worldThat has rained elements of stoneUpon your tender face.Every soulShould receive a toast from usFor bravery!

  Hafez

  Bravery, Soul, Elements

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• In a world that has so largely engaged in a mad and often brutally harsh race for material gain by means of ruthless competition, it behooves the school to make ceaseless and intelligently organized effort to develop above all else the will for co-operation and the spirit which sees in every other individual one who has an equal right to share in the cultural and material fruits of collective human invention, industry, skill and knowledge

  John Dewey

  School, Mean, Race

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• When my parents first arrived there, North Dakota had just been admitted to the Union, and the country was still wild and harsh.

  Lawrence Welk

  Country, Parent, Unions

  Lawrence Welk, Bernice McGeehan (1973). “Wunnerful, Wunnerful: The Autobiography of Lawrence Welk”

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• The cats at the edge of the clearing were staring up at the sky, their eyes huge with fear. As he looked upward, Fireheart heard the beating of wings and saw a hawk circling above the trees, its harsh cry drifting on the air. At the same time he realized that one cat had not taken shelter; Snowkit was tumbling and playing in the middle of the open space. "Snowkit!" Speckletail yowled desperately.

  Erin Hunter

  Taken, Cat, Eye

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• The fool thinks he has won a battle when he bullies with harsh speech, but knowing how to be forbearing alone makes one victorious.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Character, Buddhism

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• There's something I want you to know,' said Cherryl, her voice taut and harsh, 'so that there won't be any pretending about it. I'm not going to put on the sweet relative act. I know what you've done to Jim and how you've made him miserable all his life. I'm going to protect him against you. I'll put you in your place. I'm Mrs. Taggart. I'm the woman in this family now.' 'That's quite all right,' said Dagny. 'I'm the man.

  Ayn Rand

  Sweet, Men, Voice

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.303, Hamilton Books

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• Let him who desires to be harsh in making demands upon his debtors consider that he is God’s debtor.

  Saint Augustine

  Desire, Debtors, Demand

  Saint Augustine (2010). “Sermons on the Liturgical Seasons (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 38)”, p.95, CUA Press

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• A great read; an exciting, frightening account of organized crime today. But like all important works of nonfiction, it goes further… This book is must reading for anyone with an interest in the enduring effects of the Vietnam War, the subject of crime in our streets, and the issue of personal responsibility in a harsh, chaotic world.

  Le Ly Hayslip

  War, Reading, Book

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• If you find yourself under lethal attack don't be kind. Be harsh. Be tough. Be ruthless.

  Jeff Cooper

  Finding Yourself, Be Kind, Tough

  Jeff Cooper (2006). “Principles of Personal Defense: Revised Edition”, p.45, Paladin Press

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• Who can calculate the wounds inflicted, their depth and pain, by harsh and mean words spoken in anger? How pitiful a sight is a man who is strong in many ways but who loses all control of himself when some little thing, usually of no significant consequence, disturbs his equanimity.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Strong, Pain, Anger

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• You wish, or rather, have decided, to remove a splinter from someone? Very well, but do not go after it with a stick instead of a lancet for you will only drive it deeper. Rough speech and harsh gestures are the stick, while even-tempered instruction and patient reprimand are the lancet. 'Reprove, rebuke, exhort,' says the Apostle (II Tim. 4:2), not 'batter'.

  John Climacus

  Christian, Wish, Splinters

  Saint John (Climacus) (1982). “John Climacus (CWS)”, p.149, Paulist Press

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• Reality is harsh. It can be cruel and ugly. Yet no matter how much we grieve over our environment and circumstances nothing will change. What is important is not to be defeated, to forge ahead bravely. If we do this, a path will open before us.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Buddhist, Reality, Grieving

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• We’d met at a carefree time, a moment full of promise, in its place now were the harsh lessons of the real world.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Real, Promise, World

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• We fly, but we have not 'conquered' the air. Nature presides in all her dignity, permitting us the study and the use of such of her forces as we may understand. It is when we presume to intimacy, having been granted only tolerance, that the harsh stick fall across our impudent knuckles and we rub the pain, staring upward, startled by our ignorance.

  Beryl Markham

  Nature, Pain, Fall

  Beryl Markham (1994). “The Illustrated West with the Night”, Stewart, Tabori, & Chang

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• ... active love is a harsh and fearful thing compared with the love in dreams. Love in dreams thirsts for immediate action, quickly performed, and with everyone watching. Indeed, it will go as far as the giving even of one's life, provided it does not take long but is soon over, as on stage, and eveyone is looking on and praising. Whereas active love is labor and persistence, and for some people, perhaps, a whole science.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Love, Dream, Persistence

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