Harshness Quotes - Page 2

• The war against Russia will be such that it cannot be conducted in a knightly fashion. This struggle is one of ideologies and racial differences and will have to be conducted with unprecedented, unmerciful and unrelenting harshness.

  Adolf Hitler

  Fashion, Military, War

  "Operation Barbarossa: The Biggest Military Adventure in History" by Erik Sass, mentalfloss.com. June 21, 2011.

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• In the beginning, I was put off by the harshness of German. Someone would order a piece of cake, and it sounded as if it were an actual order, like, "Cut the cake and lie facedown in that ditch between the cobbler and the little girl."

  David Sedaris

  Girl, Lying, Cutting

  "Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls". Book by David Sedaris, April 23, 2013.

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• Those who have lost an infant are never, as it were, without an infant child. Their other children grow up to manhood and womanhood, and suffer all the changes of mortality; but this one alone is rendered an immortal child; for death has arrested it with his kindly harshness, and blessed it into an eternal image of youth and innocence.

  Leigh Hunt

  Growing Up, Children, Blessed

  Leigh Hunt (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Leigh Hunt (Illustrated)”, p.1782, Delphi Classics

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• Love without truth is sentimentality; it supports and affirms us but keeps us in denial about our flaws. Truth without love is harshness; it gives us information but in such a way that we cannot really hear it. God's saving love in Christ, however, is marked by both radical truthfulness about who we are and yet also radical, unconditional commitment to us. The merciful commitment strengthens us to see the truth about ourselves and repent. The conviction and repentance moves us to cling to and rest in God's mercy and grace.

  Timothy Keller

  Moving, Commitment, Love Is

  Timothy Keller (2013). “The Obedient Master”, p.34, Penguin

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• It is only when we begin to relax with ourselves that meditation becomes a transformative process. Only when we relate with ourselves without moralizing, without harshness, without deception, can we let go of harmful patterns. Without maitri (metta), renunciation of old habits becomes abusive. This is an important point.

  Pema Chodron

  Letting Go, Old Habits, Meditation

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• Music needs the juxtaposition of opposites to achieve its drama, so harshness and dissonance are simply part of the material a musician can use to create a musical work. All one thing is a bore - all dissonance, or all fatuous consonance. George Winston and Guns and Roses are two sides of the same worthless coin in my esthetic world.

  Chuck Israels

  Music, Drama, Gun

  "Chuck Israels: Evans, Education And Philosophy". Interview with Sean Dietrich, www.allaboutjazz.com. May 27, 2010.

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• Be an example to your men, in your duty and in private life. Never spare yourself, and let the troops see that you don't in your endurance of fatigue and privation. Always be tactful and well-mannered and teach your subordinates to do the same. Avoid excessive sharpness or harshness of voice, which usually indicates the man who has shortcomings of his own to hide.

  Erwin Rommel

  Military, Men, Voice

  "Quotations for Martial Artists: Hundreds of Inspirational Quotes to Motivate and Enlighten the Modern Warrior". Book by John Moore, p. 46, 2003.

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• How many women are there ... who because of their husbands' harshness spend their weary lives in the bond of marriage in greater suffering than if they were slaves among the Saracens?

  Christine de Pizan

  Husband, Suffering, Slave

  Christine De Pizan (1982). “The Book of the City of Ladies”, New York : Persea Books

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• The trouble with steeling yourself against the harshness of reality is that the same steel that secures your life against being destroyed secures your life also against being opened up and transformed by the holy power that life itself comes from. You can survive on your own. You can grow strong on your own. You can even prevail on your own. But you cannot become human on your own.

  Frederick Buechner

  Strong, Reality, Steel

  Frederick Buechner (2009). “Listening to Your Life: Daily Meditations with Frederick Buechne”, p.22, Harper Collins

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• Intolerance, discourtesy and harshness..... are taboo in all good society and are surely contrary to the spirit of democracy.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Democracy, Spirit, Intolerance

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• She could not ignore life. She had to live it and it was too brutal, too hostile, for her even to try to gloss over its harshness with a smile

  Margaret Mitchell

  Trying, Gloss, Brutal

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.391, Hamilton Books

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• Love of goodness without love of learning degenerates into simple-mindedness. Love of knowledge without love of learning degenerates into utter lack of principle. Love of faithfulness without love of learning degenerates into injurious disregard of consequences. Love of uprightness without love of learning degenerates into harshness. Love of courage without love of learning degenerates into insubordination. Love of strong character without love of learning degenerates into mere recklessness.

  Confucius

  Love, Strong, Learning

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• Where there is Love and Wisdom, there is neither Fear nor Ignorance.
  Where there is Patience and Humility, there is neither Anger nor Annoyance.
  Where there is Poverty and Joy, there is neither Cupidity nor Avarice.
  Where there is Peace and Contemplation, there is neither Care nor Restlessness.
  Where there is the Fear of God to guard the dwelling, there no enemy can enter.
  Where there is Mercy and Prudence, there is neither Excess nor Harshness.

  Francis of Assisi

  Ignorance, Humility, Dwelling

  Saint Francis (of Assisi) (1964). “Writings”

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• Indeed, among the lesser auxiliaries to success in love, an absence, the declining of an invitation to dinner, an unintentional, unconscious harshness are of more service than all the cosmetics and fine clothes in the world.

  Marcel Proust

  Fashion, Clothes, World

  Marcel Proust (2016). “The Guermantes Way”, p.461, Marcel Proust

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• Women are delicate creatures. Fragile. Gentle. Made by God to be sheltered from the harshness of this world.. Morgan MacDonnell

  Teresa Medeiros

  World, Made, Gentle

  Teresa Medeiros (2013). “A Whisper of Roses”, p.172, Amber House Books

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• I am a woman, and even if I could proceed with harshness and rigidity, it would disgust me nonetheless.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Women, Rigidity, Disgusting

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• [Comics is] one of the last havens for honesty when it comes to a reader's genuine response to art. Most of us, if we don't find any sympathy or pleasure, for example, in a modern painting, are likely to blame our own ignorance of the history and theory of painting. But nobody pretends to like a bad comic strip. Such harshness is necessary for any real truth to surface, I think, and for art to really contribute anything to life. Though I don't know. I could be wrong.

  Chris Ware

  Art, Honesty, Real

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• He that by harshness of nature rules his family with an iron hand is as truly a tyrant as he who misgoverns a nation.

  Seneca the Younger

  Hands, Tyrants, Iron

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• To friends and eke to foes true kindness show; No kindly heart unkindly deeds will do; Harshness will alienate a bosom friend. And kindness reconcile a deadly foe.

  Omar Khayyam

  Kindness, Heart, Deeds

  Omar Khayyam (1882). “The Quatrains of Omar Khayyám”

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• Harshness is conquered by gentleness, hatred by love, lethargy by zeal and darkness by light.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Hate, Light, Hatred

  Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

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• Since I have escaped the harshness of the economic bounds of poverty, I have stayed very connected to it spiritually. I reside and live and go and socialize and exist among those who suffer daily from the relationship that they have to poverty, Black men and women who are incarcerated. Actually, all people who are incarcerated, not just Black.

  Harry Belafonte

  Men, People, Black

  "Actor-activist Harry Belafonte, Part 1". "The Tavis Smiley Show" with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. November 30, 2011.

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• Leadership means firmness, not harshness or bullying; understanding, not weakness; justice, not irresponsible freedom; humaneness, not intolerance; generosity, not selfishness; pride, not egotism.

  Omar N. Bradley

  Bullying, Mean, Pride

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• The maxims of Christian life, which should draw upon the truths of the Gospel, are always partially symbolic of the mind and temperament of those who teach them to us. The former, by their natural sweetness, show us the quality of God's mercy; the latter, by their harshness, show us God's justice.

  Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

  Life, Christian, Justice

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• Meek's Cutoff by Kelly Reichardt. It's beautifully shot. It's a complex story. The filmmaker gave a very patient and feminine touch to a story that takes place during a period of history that's very masculine, without losing any of the unforgiving harshness of the reality where the characters found themselves in.

  Chloe Zhao

  Character, Reality, Stories

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• The best and simplest cosmetic for women is constant gentleness and sympathy for the noblest interests of her fellow-creatures. This preserves and gives to her features an indelibly gay, fresh, and agreeable expression. If women would but realize that harshness makes them ugly, it would prove the best means of conversion.

  Berthold Auerbach

  Mean, Gay, Expression

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