Harsh Quotes

Harsh Quote of the day

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

I will be as harsh as truth, and uncompromising as justice... I am in earnest, I will not equivocate, I will not excuse, I will not retreat a single inch, and I will be heard.

Cherish the friend who tells you a harsh truth, wanting ten times more to tell you a loving lie.

A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.

Hurricane Katrina exposed the harsh reality that we have been skating on thin ice when it comes to this country's energy concentrations on the Gulf Coast.

Assumptions are unopened windows that foolish birds fly into, and their broken bodies are evidence gathered too late.

Be a harsh critic of your own wins.

Fox News is nothing if not impressive. No matter how harsh the criticism it endures, the network somehow always manages to prove itself even worse than we had previously imagined.

Speak softly. It is far better to rule by love than fear.Speak softly. Let no harsh words mar the good we may do here.

The minimum wage has not kept pace with rising costs. This legislation is overdue and will help families that are struggling in this harsh economy.

Unfortunately this earth is not a fairy-land, but a struggle for life, perfectly natural and therefore extremely harsh.

"Things have a life of their own," the gypsy proclaimed with a harsh accent. "It's simply a matter of waking up their souls."

Player haters be givin' me harsh looks, But I'm tryin to sell records like Garth Brooks.

Don't think being 'religious' means becoming harsh or hard. When Allah enters a heart, He softens it--He doesn't harden it.

Verily, God is Compassionate and is fond of compassion, and He gives to the compassionate what He does not give to the harsh.

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

I don't want to live in real life. It's too harsh, too brutal.

The words of Mercury are harsh after the songs of Apollo.

The novelist must be his own most harsh critic and also his own most loving admirer and about both he must say nothing.

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

Frankly, you need to get over yourself. It might sound harsh, but that's seriously what it means [1 Corinthians 10:31].

I will be as harsh as truth and as uncompromising as justice.

I want to know if you are prepared to live in the world with its harsh need to change you. If you can look back with firm eyes saying this is where I stand.

There's a harsh reality - nothing lasts forever. You have to be ready to grow, and grow fast.

Wit will shine Through the harsh cadence of a rugged line.

Neither smiles nor frowns, neither good intentions nor harsh words, are a substitute for strength.

Justice is sweet and musical; but injustice is harsh and discordant.

Abuse is abuse; Be nice.. Harsh words don't break bones but they often break hearts.

When I was a kid, I thought my dad was a little bit harsh with me at times. Sometimes I needed an arm around me instead of my dad telling me what I did wrong, but it obviously worked.

Don't be too harsh to these poems until they're typed. I always think typescript lends some sort of certainty: at least, if the things are bad then, they appear to be bad with conviction.

After all, a district judge who gives harsh sentences to Yankees fans and lenient sentences to Red Sox fans would not be acting reasonably even if her procedural rulings were impeccable.

Harsh counsels have no effect; they are like hammers which are always repulsed by the anvil.

Only the most saintly and delusional among us welcomes all pain as challenge, perceives all loss as harsh blessing.

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

Work is born in us. We take to it kindly or unkindly. The terms may be easy or harsh, but the contract is binding.

He is indeed the 'Lamb.' There is nothing harsh or haughty or retaliative about Him.

How charming is divine philosophy! Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feast of nectar'd sweets Where no crude surfeit reigns

Whoever is new to power is always harsh.

Harshness to me is giving somebody false hopes and not following through. That's harsh. Telling some guy or some girl who've got zero talent that they have zero talent actually is a kindness.

My mother was harsh and constantly told me I had jug ears and heaven knows what else. But she was devoted and a hard worker.

On a sudden open fly With impetuous recoil and jarring sound Th' infernal doors, and on their hinges grate Harsh thunder.

Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness - a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster children into strength and athletic proportion.

How charming is divine philosophy! Not harsh and crabb

Reality is harsh to the feet of shadows. But will you come?

My will for you is not harsh or unpleasant. It is gentle and perfectly tailored to your unique needs. Do not fear my direction. I am your heart's happiest guide.

You have to like everything that you're painting. Maybe on a narrative level it seems harsh... but I like everything in all my paintings. It's as if you need to be less intelligent at that level.

I have made a contract with my body. It has promised to accept harsh treatment from me on earth, and I have promised that it shall receive eternal rest in heaven.

The usual complaint is, 'I have no other way of earning a living.' The harsh reply can be, 'Do you have to live?'

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.

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