Unforgiving Quotes - Page 4

• Women are so unforgiving of themselves. We don't recognize our own beauty because we're too busy comparing ourselves to other people.

  Kelly Osbourne

  People, Busy, Compare

  "Kelly Osbourne's DOs and DON'Ts of Body Confidence" by Amy Spencer, www.glamour.com. April 2, 2012.

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• Radio is a wonderful medium, but the clock is very unforgiving, and the discussion of this matter included in the interview as originally recorded had to be cut to fit the allotted time. I am happy to provide this elaboration to correct the record.

  Jack Miles

  Cutting, Records, Radio

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• An unforgiving nature reflects in your face. Holding negative energy drags down the facial muscles, puckers one's frown and causes lines around the mouth. Working daily on forgiveness (forgiving oneself as well as one's enemies) is the cheapest, most effective facelift in the whole wide world. All it requires is love and discipline.

  Sarah Miles

  Discipline, Forgiving, Enemy

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• Summer nearly does me in every year. It's too hot and the light is unforgiving and the days go on way too long.

  Anne Lamott

  Summer, Light, Years

  Anne Lamott (2006). “Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith”, p.217, Penguin

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• Before digital, I spent thirty years shooting color transparencies, which are very unforgiving of exposure. A half stop can make or break a good photo on slide film.

  Peter Menzel

  Color, Years, Make Or Break

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• Watching myself still makes me uneasy - and when you're younger, you're even more unforgiving.

  Kim Basinger

  Uneasy, Stills

  Interview with Elvis Mitchell, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 22, 2014.

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• Space is very unforgiving business

  Leroy Chiao

  Space

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• Alaska has long been a magnet for dreamers and misfits, people who think the unsullied enormity of the Last Frontier will patch all the holes in their loves. The bush is an unforgiving place, however, that care nothing for hope or longing.

  Jon Krakauer

  Thinking, Alaska, Long

  "Into the Wild". Book by Jon Krakauer, 1996.

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• It takes a certain kind of mind to narrate, to work through character motivation, to be unforgiving to one's writer-self when it comes down to creating the minutiae of detail. Writing fiction requires stamina, a sense of how people's lives work, how people work toward and against one another and, above all, precision.

  Cate Marvin

  Motivation, Writing, Character

  Source: www.redividerjournal.org

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• Science casts a long black shadow back over who we think we are, and where it falls the temperature falls with it. Its touch is chilly and unforgiving.

  Richard K. Morgan

  Fall, Thinking, Long

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• Getting to the top of any given mountain was considered much less important than how one got there: prestige was earned by tackling the most unforgiving routes with minimal equipment, in the boldest style imaginable.

  Jon Krakauer

  Style, Important, Mountain

  FaceBook post by Jon Krakauer from Nov 14, 2012

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