Harsh Quotes - Page 18

• Willy DeVille knows the truth of a city street and the courage in a ghetto love song. And the harsh reality in his voice and phrasing is yesterday, today, and tomorrow - timeless in the same way that loneliness, no money, and troubles find each other and never quit for a minute.

  Doc Pomus

  Song, Loneliness, Ghetto

  6 Copy quote

• Articulate words are a harsh clamor and dissonance. When man arrives at his highest perfection, he will again be dumb.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Book, Reading, Men

  Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Julian Hawthorne (2015). “Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne: Letters, Diaries, Reminiscences and Extensive Biographies: Autobiographical Writings of the Renowned American Novelist, Author of “The Scarlet Letter”, “The House of Seven Gables” and “Twice-Told Tales””, p.98, e-artnow

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

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

  Tertullian

  Usual, Way, Earning

  14 Copy quote

• I do have one very brutal writing ritual. If I'm working in the morning, I don't allow myself a cup of tea until I've written two paragraphs. It's harsh.

  Anthony Lane

  Morning, Writing, Two

  4 Copy quote

• One cannot escape the harsh fact that as a ministerial profession, the priesthood has very serious problems. They are not new. They did not develop yesterday or last year.

  Andrew Greeley

  Years, Yesterday, Lasts

  6 Copy quote

• Concerning the harsh treatment of the body for our Lord's sake, I would say, avoid anything that would cause the shedding even of a drop of blood.

  Ignatius of Loyola

  Blood, Body, Sake

  6 Copy quote

• At a turbulent public meeting once I lost my temper and said some harsh and sarcastic things. The proposal I was supporting was promptly defeated. My father who was there, said nothing, but that night, on my pillow I found a marked passage from Aristotle: Anybody can become angry--that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way -- that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.

  Arthur Gordon Webster

  Sarcastic, Father, Night

  10 Copy quote

• Every ruler is harsh whose laws is new.

  Aeschylus

  Leadership, Law, Society

  8 Copy quote

• It was beautiful in a harsh I'm-going-to-gut-you-like-a-fish kind of way.

  Rick Riordan

  Beautiful, Way, Kind

  Rick Riordan (2009). “Percy Jackson and the Last Olympian”, p.137, Penguin UK

  13 Copy quote

  Show source

• A sadhak (one who does spiritual practice) will not have time to indulge in gossip. They will not feel like talking to anyone in a harsh manner. Those who always indulge in faultfinding will never achieve spiritual progress. Do not harm anyone by thoughts, words or deeds. Be compassionate towards all beings. Ahimsa (nonviolence) is the highest dharma (duty).

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Spiritual, Talking, Practice

  16 Copy quote

• I am aware that many object to the severity of my language; but is there not cause for severity? I will be as harsh as truth, and as uncompromising as justice. On this subject, I do not wish to think, or to speak, or write, with moderation. ... I am in earnest - I will not equivocate - I will not excuse - I will not retreat a single inch - AND I WILL BE HEARD.

  John Paul Stevens

  Writing, Thinking, Justice

  20 Copy quote

• There are many harsh lessons to be learned from the gambling experience, but the harshest one of all is the difference between having Fun and being Smart.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Fun, Smart, Gambling

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness”, p.63, Pan Macmillan

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• And ye, who have met with Adversity's blast, And been bow'd to the earth by its fury; To whom the Twelve Months, that have recently pass'd Were as harsh as a prejudiced jury - Still, fill to the Future! and join in our chime, The regrets of remembrance to cozen, And having obtained a New Trial of Time, Shout in hopes of a kindlier dozen.

  Thomas Hood

  New Year, Regret, Holiday

  Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood (1842). “The New Monthly Magazine”, p.2

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Do not say anything harsh: what you have said will be said back to you.

  Gautama Buddha

  Say Anything, Said

  11 Copy quote

• If a man gives you a harsh winter, give him back something unexpected: The warm spring!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Spring, Winter, Men

  4 Copy quote

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

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Lonely, Autumn, Wind

  4 Copy quote

• 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.

  Mr. Lee

  Successful, The End Of The Day, Records

  4 Copy quote

• 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.

  Bran Ferren

  Reality, Ugly, Form

  "A Conversation About The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly" moderated by Chee Pearlman, www.wired.com. January 01, 2001.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Either the material order is the whole of being, wherein all transcendence is an illusion, or it is the phenomenal surface - mysterious, beautiful, terrible, harsh, and haunting - of a world of living spirits.... One should... be able to recognize that it is only the latter view that has ever had the power - over centuries and in every realm of human accomplishment - to summon desire beyond the boring limits marked by mortality, to endow the will with constancy and purpose, and to shape imagination towards ends that should not be possible within the narrow economies of the flesh.

  David Bentley Hart

  Beautiful, Views, Order

  12 Copy quote

• Failure is a teacher; a harsh one, but the best.

  Thomas J. Watson

  Teacher

  11 Copy quote

• There are those who believe that a new modernity demands a new morality. What they fail to consider is the harsh reality that there is no such thing as a new morality. There is only one morality . All else is immorality.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Believe, Reality, Demand

  7 Copy quote

• 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?

  Howard Gordon

  Village, Process, Interrogation

  Source: www.motherjones.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I believe the consequences of a war are so harsh that it should be always the last resort.

  Asne Seierstad

  War, Believe, Lasts

  Source: www.motherjones.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Life is gamble, It's harsh and painful most of the time, and it's not for the timid. Spoils go to the victor, not to the one who doesn't even show up for the battle." -Acheron

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Battle, Life Is, Painful

  4 Copy quote

• Richard Stark writes a harsh and frightening story of criminal warfare and vengeance with economy, understatement and a deadly amoral objectivity-a remarkable addition to the list of the shockers that the French call roman noirs.

  Anthony Boucher

  Writing, Objectivity, Criminals

  4 Copy quote