Harsh Quotes

Blind Willie Johnson is a pretty big vocal influence. He can be very harsh, like gargly, gruff vocals, but also just slip into some very delicate, vulnerable soft stuff. I like that combination.

Without a doubt. It's woven into our DNA in a very deep way and so to kind of be smacked in the face with the hypocrisy of the America that we were sold was a liberating and harsh experience.

I think we're all experiencing climate change. Experience is an effective teacher. It's sometimes a very harsh teacher. So we will be taught about climate change.

Most products are ugly. The harsh reality is that in many of these markets, form follows funding. And that products go where the market takes them.

Hollywood has more than its share of harsh and crewel stories. In fact, it's probably more the norm than the exception.

Exploitation is a harsh word, I know that, but on a certain level, to me that is the central Hollywood story.

How you look has become ridiculously disproportionate to what you do. Critics are more harsh on female presenters.

khalepa ta kala, greek. It means 'beauty is harsh'.

I encounter really tough men and women who are just so harsh, you can't bend them. You do come across these kinds of people in every profession-just unyielding.

"Why, I don't exactly know about perjury, my dear sir," replied the little gentleman. "Harsh word, my dear sir, very harsh word indeed. It's a legal fiction, my dear sir, nothing more."

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.

Most people, I've noticed, are instinctively harsh to strangers. They expect every approach to be an attack, every question to be an interruption.

Be still,” he said, voice harsh. “I might not be able to control myself if you step away.

There are no judgments so harsh as those of the erring, the inexperienced, and the young.

We're going to make America wealthy again, because if you don’t do that, it just - it sounds harsh to say, but we have to build up the wealth of our nation.

I've never deprived myself of anything. I've always thought if you need to lose weight, carry on eating what you like, just eat less. I don't agree with doing without pasta or bread, it's too harsh.

Both of my marriages have taught me the same lesson twice over really harsh: listen to your instincts. Don't be a people pleaser.

If the Obama administration responds with an even harsher hand against me, they can be assured that they'll soon find themselves facing an equally harsh public response.

Growing up in an Italian family, you use a harsh tone and 10 minutes later everybody forgets about it.

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.

The clans began to bombard the outer force field with rockets, missiles, nukes, and harsh language.

The pathway to enlightenment is joyful. It may sound harsh. I suggest just the opposite. It is rather easy compared to the possibilities of staying in pain and illusion.

Some people like a harsh teacher. They feel the demands make them learn more quickly. Some like a gentle teacher because they feel that makes them learn more quickly.

Without enlightenment, everything in life is harsh. Sooner or later you see everyone you love die, unless you die first, of course. This causes you to suffer.

It is one thing to impose drastic measures and harsh economic penalties when an environmental problem is clear-cut and severe...

Why were we put here, so inclined to love, when end of our story = death? That harsh. That cruel. Do not like.

The moon rose, an opalescent goddess tipping light from her harsh maternal scimitar.

As a boy,I was extremely shy, certainly as a result of my upbringing. I was an expert blusher,and some of my harsh actions may echo this shyness by way of compensation.

In Cuba I have always understood harsh treatment of dissenting voices as stemming from a "siege situation" imposed upon it from outside. And I believe that to a certain extent that is true.

People are very harsh critics of animated humans.

We're not allowed to carry out harsh interrogations anymore, but we're allowed to fly over somebody's village, without due process, and kill them all?

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.

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

[Bob] Dylan, like Johnny Cash and only a handful of others, simultaneously embodies the American dream and the harsh wake-up call that comes after it.

I try not to read blogs. The comments are extremely harsh.

In the national security establishment, it is somewhat frowned upon for people to take extremely harsh partisan roles in campaigns.

You can be harsh on your players and still coach, but it is easier when you are kind to them.

When persons manifest the least kindness and love to me, O what power it has over my mind, while the opposite course has a tendency to harrow up all the harsh feelings and depress the human mind.

In my stories for children, I sometimes show a hard, harsh, dangerous world. I'm going to show you the way it is, but I'm going to also tell you that there's every reason to hope.

I didn't know at the time I was writing Because of Winn-Dixie where the story came from, but in retrospect I can see that it was a response to a terribly harsh winter here in Minnesota.

No. Harsh truth was better than comfortable lies. It had to be.

One of your biggest lessons so far in life has been to learn to forgive myself over and over again and not to be so harsh with myself.

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

It is harsh enough for each man to bear his own wound. But he who leads bears the wounds of all who follow him.

And what's wrong with dimming the harsh reality of life a little, anyway? In essence, being alive is a bloody long and hard walk to death. Why not make it as pleasant along the way as you can?

Maybe I was a bit harsh on some people. But I was harshest on myself, really.

All observations of life are harsh, because life is. I lament that fact, but I cannot change it.

A lonely Autumn leaf on the road by sticking to another one becomes more resistant to harsh winds. Unity is the midwife of security!

I'm a pretty harsh critic when it comes to my own stuff or things that come from my work.

I stand by my record. I did some sharp things to get things right - too harsh - but a lot was at stake. But at the end of the day, what have I got? Just a successful Singapore.