Harsh Quotes - Page 21

• 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

  Men, Directors, Said

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I think we reserve a special place in our hearts for women who dare to try and be powerful, or occupy a special elevated place in society or when they are 'the bosses'. I think we really don't like it as a society and we have a harsh view of them. We look much harder at them, than the millions of men who aspire to the same positions and I can't figure that out.

  Meryl Streep

  Powerful, Heart, Men

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I have received 16 Grammy nominations and I have no trophies, because I chose to write the harsh realities. I stayed true to myself and I've taken a little beating behind it.

  Curtis Jackson

  Taken, Writing, Reality

  Source: www.complex.com

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• The sick mind can not bear anything harsh.
  [Lat., Mensque pati durum sustinet aegra nihil.]

  Ovid

  Sick, Mind, Bears

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• Youth is the period of harsh judgments, and a man seldom learns until he reaches thirty that human nature is made up not of simples, but of compounds.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Men, Youth, Human Nature

  Ellen Glasgow (2016). “The Miller of Old Church”, p.277, The Floating Press

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• The confidence and security of a people can be measured by their attitude toward laxatives. At the high noon of the British sun, soldiers in far-flung outposts of the Empire doctored themselves with "a spoonful o' gunpowder in a cuppa 'ot tea." Purveyors and users of harsh laxatives were not afraid of being thought mean and unfriendly just because their laxatives were. But in America, the need to be nice is so consuming that nobody would dare take a laxative that makes you run up the stairs two at a time, pushing others aside and yelling, "Get out of the way!

  Florence King

  Running, Attitude, Nice

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• Cocooning: The need to protect oneself from the harsh, unpredictable realities of the outside world.

  Faith Popcorn

  Home, Reality, Popcorn

  Faith Popcorn (2001). “EVEolution: Understanding Women - 8 Essential Truths That Work In Your Business & Life”, p.12, BookBaby

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• Certain souls may seem harsh to others, but it is just a way, beknownst only to them, of caring and feeling more deeply.

  Marquis de Sade

  Caring, Soul, Feelings

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• What condemnation could possibly be more harsh than one’s own, when self-pretense is no longer possible?

  Richard Matheson

  Self, Condemnation, Pretense

  Richard Matheson (2007). “What Dreams May Come: A Novel”, p.84, Macmillan

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• 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

  Kindness, Bears, Allowance

  John Ross Macduff (1855). “The mind of Jesus”, p.59

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• At times anger will trigger harsh words. After a cooling the ability to speak from the heart with love and compassion.

  Ana Monnar

  Forgiveness, Heart, Compassion

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• The backlash against women's rights would be just one of several powerful forces creating a harsh and painful climate for women at work. Reagonomics, the recession, and the expansion of a minimum-wage service economy also helped, in no small measure, to slow and even undermine women's momentum in the job market. But the backlash did more than impede women's opportunities for employment, promotions, and better pay. Its spokesmen kept the news of many of these setbacks from women. Not only did the backlash do grievous damage to working women C it did on the sly.

  Susan Faludi

  Jobs, Powerful, Opportunity

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• Do we honestly believe that hopeless kids growing up under the harsh new rules will turn out to be chaste, studious, responsible adults? On the contrary, by limiting welfare, job training, education and nutritious food, won't we plant the seeds for another bumper crop of out-of-wedlock moms, deadbeat dads and worse?

  Richard Stolley

  Mom, Jobs, Dad

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• No president in history has been more vilified or was more vilivied during the time he was President than Lincoln. Those who knew him, his secretaries, have written that he was deeply hurt by what was said about him and drawn about him, but on the other hand, Lincoln had the great strength of character never to display it, always able to stand tall and strong and firm no matter how harsh or unfair the criticism might be. These elements of greatness, of course, inspire us all today.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Strength, Hurt, Strong

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• Man is not made better by being degraded; he is seldom restrained from crime by harsh measures, except the principle of fear predominates in his character; and then he is never made radically better for its influence.

  Dorothea Dix

  Character, Men, Principles

  Dorothea Lynde Dix (1845). “Remarks on Prisons and Prison Discipline in the United States”, p.25

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• Thoughts! what are they? They are my constant friends, who, when harsh fate its dull brow bends, uncloud me with a smiling ray, and in the depth of midnight force a day.

  Thomas Flatman

  Fate, Rays, Depth

  Thomas Flatman (1686). “Poems and songs”, p.66

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• Harsh necessity, and the newness of my kingdom, force me to do such things and to guard my frontiers everywhere.

  Virgil

  Kingdoms, Force, Frontiers

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• You can't go fighting everyone that's harsh towards you.

  Jake Lloyd

  Fighting

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Think'st thou there is no tyranny but that Of blood and chains? The despotism of vice-- The weakness and the wickedness of luxury-- The negligence--the apathy--the evils Of sensual sloth--produces ten thousand tyrants, Whose delegated cruelty surpasses The worst acts of one energetic master, However harsh and hard in his own bearing.

  Lord Byron

  Thinking, Tyrants, Luxury

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• Avoid the unhappy ending, the harsh, the brutal, the tragic, the horrible -- if you care to see in print things you write. (In this connection don't do as I do, but do as I say.

  Jack London

  Writing, Unhappy, Connections

  Jack London, Dale L. Walker, Jeanne Campbell Reesman (1999). “No Mentor But Myself: Jack London on Writers and Writing”, p.57, Stanford University Press

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• I think that what happened is that we grew up with the Holocaust within us. It turned us into harsh, emotionally incapable people who have become blind to what they are doing to other people. A lot of times, Holocaust abuse justifies terrible things done to the Palestinians. And you have to realize that what is going on is terrible, and that we are responsible, and we have to take responsibility - even if we are not completely responsible.

  Eytan Fox

  Responsibility, Thinking, People

  "Exploring Masculinity and Modern Views of Israeli’s, Eytan Fox Discusses 'Walk on Water'". IndieWire Interview, www.indiewire.com. March 3, 2005.

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• As I observe my daily life and that of others, I have come to the conclusion that genuine joy is a potent mixture of harsh reality, and the realization that life can be funny.

  Tone Bell

  Reality, Joy, Realization

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Sternly, remorselessly, fate guides each of us; only at the beginning, when we're absorbed in details, in all sorts of nonsense, in ourselves, are we unaware of its harsh hand.

  Ivan Turgenev

  Ignorance, Fate, Hands

  Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev, Elizabeth Cheresh Allen (1994). “The essential Turgenev”, Northwestern Univ Pr

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• Any one who is much talked of be much maligned. This seems to be a harsh conclusion; but when you consider how much more given men are to depreciate than to appreciate, you will acknowledge that there is some truth in the saying.

  Arthur Helps

  Men, Appreciate, Given

  Sir Arthur Helps (1871). “Brevia: Short Essays and Aphorisms”, p.6

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• An intemperate patient makes a harsh doctor.

  Publilius Syrus

  Doctors, Patient

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