Harsh Quotes - Page 7

• As sure as water's wet and days are long and a friend will always disappoint you in the end.

  Neil Gaiman

  Life, Long, Water

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• Even as a child, she had preferred night to day, had enjoyed sitting out in the yard after sunset, under the star-speckled sky listening to frogs and crickets. Darkness soothed. It softened the sharp edges of the world, toned down the too-harsh colors. With the coming of twilight, the sky seemed to recede; the universe expanded. The night was bigger than the day, and in its realm, life seemed to have more possibilities.

  Dean Koontz

  Stars, Children, Twilight

  Dean Koontz (2004). “Midnight”, p.15, Penguin

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• I saw a new world coming rapidly. More scientific, efficient, yes. More cures for the old sicknesses. Very good. But a harsh, cruel, world. And I saw a little girl, her eyes tightly closed, holding to her breast the old kind world, one that she knew in her heart could not remain, and she was holding it and pleading, never to let her go.

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  Girl, Heart, Eye

  FaceBook post by Kazuo Ishiguro from Dec 31, 2013

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• It's the intent, not the word, that makes something harsh.

  Lisa McMann

  Lisa McMann (2011). “Cryer's Cross (Multimedia eBook Edition with Video)”, p.72, Simon and Schuster

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• Do you know where Jason is?” she asked Dmitri when they exited the morgue. Dmitri pressed the car remote to unlock the flame red Ferrari parked in the employees-only lot. “Tired of your Bluebell already?” A tendril of champagne circled around her senses, cut with something far harder. Never had she felt that harsh edge in Dmitri’s scent. She pitied the woman he took to his bed today. “Yeah, that’s it. I’m building a harem.

  Nalini Singh

  Tired, Cutting, Flames

  Nalini Singh (2012). “Nalini Singh: Guild Hunters Novels 1-4”, p.727, Penguin

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• This time is difficult. Wait for me. We will live it out vividly. Give me your small hand: we will rise and suffer, we will feel, we will rejoice. We are once more the pair who lived in bristling places, in harsh nests in the rock. This time is difficult. Wait for me with a basket, with a shovel, with your shoes and your clothes. Now we need each other, not only for the carnations' sake, not only to look for honey — we need our hands to wash with, to make fire.

  Pablo Neruda

  Eye, Fire, Small Hands

  "The Poetry of Pablo Neruda".

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• My soul is wrapped in harsh repose, Midnight descends in raven-colored clothes, But soft... behold! A sunlight beam Butting a swath of glimmering gleam. My heart expands, 'tis grown a bulge in it, Inspired by your beauty... Effulgent.

  Joss Whedon

  Heart, Ravens, Clothes

  "Angel". www.imdb.com. 1999–2004.

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• Dear me. Such harsh truths so early in the morning cannot be good for the digestion.

  Cassandra Clare

  Morning, Digestion, Clockwork Angel

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.115, Simon and Schuster

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• Life is not easy. Life is very harsh. We have to be strong. Otherwise, life will destroy us.

  Osama Alomar

  Strong, Easy, Easy Life

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I'm not going to engage in that kind of hateful rhetoric anymore. I just can't use those harsh terms. I cannot and I will not and I encourage even my friends slash enemy on the left in the Democrat, liberal world that we have got to be civil to each other.

  Ted Nugent

  Enemy, World, Hateful

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• There's no doubt that cable news hosts can say things that the president of the United States shouldn't say, and people can be harsh at you. That doesn't mean you benefit by being harsh back.

  Roy Blunt

  Mean, People, Doubt

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The harsh truth is, most red-haired men look like blondes who've spoiled from lack of refrigeration. They look like brown-haired men who've been composted out behind the barn. Yet that same pigmentation that on a man can resemble leaf mold or junkyard rust, a woman wears like a tiara of rubies.

  Tom Robbins

  Men, Mold, Barns

  Tom Robbins (2006). “Wild Ducks Flying Backward”, p.75, Bantam

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• Don't let negativity affect your vision. A lot of people have said harsh things, but I don't let it affect me. If anything it gives me more enthusiasm and pushes me to do better in my career so I can prove them wrong.

  Nicole Polizzi

  Careers, People, Giving

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• High Romanticism shows you nature in all its harsh and lovely metamorphoses. Flood, fire and quake fling us back to the primal struggle for survival and reveal our gross dependency on mammoth, still mysterious forces.

  Camille Paglia

  Struggle, Fire, Lovely

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• Have you not noticed in your past experience that your kind interpretations were almost always truer than your harsh ones?

  Lawrence G. Lovasik

  Kindness, Past, Interpretation

  "The Hidden Power of Kindness: A Practical Handbook for Souls who Dare to Transform the World, One Deed at a Time".

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• I do not want to admit to the world that I can be a bad person. It is just that I don't want anyone to have false expectations. Moviemaking is a harsh, volatile business, and unless you can be ruthless, too, there's a good chance that you are going to disappear off the scene pretty quickly.

  Tom Hanks

  Expectations, World, Want

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Buying phosphate-free soap allows you to say, 'My detergent doesn't have the harsh chemicals others do.' The question is, how are you washing with it? The very worst thing for the Earth about detergent is that we heat water to use it.

  Daniel Goleman

  Water, Use, Earth

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• German accents and Hassidic accents aren't that romantic. They're more harsh. Although Hebrew, when spoken by certain people, sounds beautiful. There's this beautiful woman I know who speaks Hebrew, and when she speaks, it's so attractive. Maybe it's who's speaking it.

  Janeane Garofalo

  Beautiful, People, Sound

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• In these times, in this harsh, rude, warring world that we live in, where most of the bloodshed is 'My god is greater than your god,' and we're fighting in the name of our god, we have to find a way to peaceably coexist, spiritually.

  Vera Farmiga

  Fighting, Names, Rude

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• For humans, the Arctic is a harshly inhospitable place, but the conditions there are precisely what polar bears require to survive - and thrive. 'Harsh' to us is 'home' for them. Take away the ice and snow, increase the temperature by even a little, and the realm that makes their lives possible literally melts away.

  Sylvia Earle

  Home, Ice And Snow, Temperature

  "Save the Polar Bears, Save Ourselves" by Sylvia Earle, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 20, 2012.

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• Civility is not not saying negative or harsh things. It is not the absence of critical analysis. It is the manner in which we are sharing this territorial freedom of political discussion. If our discourse is yelled and screamed and interrupted and patronized, that's uncivil.

  Richard Dreyfuss

  Critical Analysis, Political, Negative

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• My thing is, I'm just way too harsh. It's an enormous impediment, and that's just the truth of it. It doesn't make me any better, make me any worse, it certainly isn't more valorous. I have a character defect, man.

  Junot Diaz

  Character, Men, Way

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• Football is made up of all kinds of conflict. In a dressing room, between players, between us and the manager, between us and loads of people who don't seem to matter. It's constant and harsh sometimes.

  Wayne Rooney

  Inspirational, Football, Player

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• Well, I'm not afraid to say something if I think it's funny, even if it's harsh or racist.

  Sarah Silverman

  Thinking, Racist, Comedy

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

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• Weapons are allowed. Dirty tricks are expected. But try not to kill anybody!” Tantalus smiled at us like we were all naughty children. “Any killing will result in harsh punishment. No s’mores at the campfire for a week! Now ready your chariots!

  Rick Riordan

  Children, Dirty, Naughty

  Rick Riordan (2007). “The Sea of Monsters”, Disney-Hyperion

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