Harsher Quotes

#1. There is not one harsher, more sure-fire way to fail than that of the man who tries to be like Jesus without submitting to Jesus.

Criss Jami

#2. 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.

Edward Snowden

#3. As it grows ever more complicated today, musical art seeks out combinations more dissonant, stranger, and harsher for the ear. Thus, it comes ever closer to the noise-sound.

Luigi Russolo

#4. I regret not getting brutally forthright with human beings a hell of a lot sooner than I did. Civility and obliquity are wasted on people who will not make the effort to be harsher or stricter on their own gooey egos than they are on other people.

Kenny Smith

#5. If harsher laws are put in place, less will dare to break them.

Jane Goodall

#6. Conditions in Chinese factories are harsh. They're much harsher than they are in, for instance, the United States or any Western nation.

Charles Duhigg

#7. Love is not temporary. It endures everything even if it changes form. Even when it must be put away to handle harsher things, it's always there, ready to be called.

Joey W. Hill

#8. You can't be good to others if you're not strict with yourself. The more shallow you are with yourself, the harsher you are with others. The more profound you are with yourself, the more generous you are with others

Tariq Ramadan

#9. There is a beauty in the world, though it's harsher than we expect it to be.

Michael Cunningham

#10. Anyone who speaks Latin (gets egged by the populace for being a nerd) must have wondered from the start if Panem was a reference to the Roman people's reported liking for bread and circuses - for instant gratification that would distract them from the harsher realities of life.

Leah Wilson

#11. There are harsher things I could say, things I've compiled and archived, each with a catalog card.

Erika Swyler

#12. Cultivated men and women who do not skim the cream of life, and are attached to the duties, yet escape the harsher blows, make acute and balanced observers.

George Meredith

#13. She needed to stand, but her body felt strangely heavy, as if invisible weights were tugging on her limbs. Gravity here felt different, harsher - or was she injured? Glass placed her hand on her shin and gasped. Her legs were wet.

Kass Morgan

#14. It's very difficult once you've been on telly because people know what you do. They give you a little bit of grace but then they're harsher if you're not funny, so you have to be funny.

Noel Fielding

#15. Success is for those who are persistent in the face of reality. The harsher the truth, the stronger they hold on to their dreams.

Pooja Ruprell

#16. Sadly, semi-consciousness, along with daydreaming, is a capacity that is actively discouraged among children in schools, and our society is much poorer and harsher as a consequence. The value of liminal space and transitional imagination remain personally and culturally undeveloped.

Michael Leunig

#17. I will need to root out these insurgents before they can become a real threat. I will need to make a harsher example of their deaths. I will need to be more ruthless.
This is my life now.

Marie Lu

#18. I'm kind of harsher than most people.

Jennifer Coolidge

#19. Politics is the enemy of a sound economic entity, he mused. New laws, harsher tax rates, meddling . . . and now this.

Philip K. Dick

#20. Al was cruel, vindictive, angry, elegant, powerful. He gave me strength, he gave me wisdom, not only about magic, but about myself. He was a lot like Trent, only harsher around the edges.

Kim Harrison

#21. A crown is a pitiless master, harsher than the staff of a pig-keeper; while a staff bears up, a crown weighs down, beyond the strength of any man to wear it lightly.

Lloyd Alexander

#22. We are often harsher judges than God himself.

Judah Smith

#23. We have been so successful in the past century at the art of living longer and staying alive that we have forgotten how to die. Too often we learn the hard way. As soon as the baby boomers pass pensionable age, their lesson will be harsher still.

Terry Pratchett

#24. Long ago she'd learned that facing reality was inevitable. She could skulk about, trying to avoid it or pretending it wasn't there. But in the end, reality always found her. And its finding her seemed a
harsher blow than if she'd faced the situation straight on from the very start.

Tamera Alexander

#25. The lake i had grown up on was protected by thousands of acres of private forests. It kept out the reality of a harsher world and surrounded me with fun and privilege

Michael Gates Gill

#26. Like it or not, i was already learning that in the worst and darkest time, I would find specks of light, moments of joy. What I didn't want to learn was the other, harsher lesson - that in life's brightest moments there would also be unbearable pain. p 87

Melody Beattie

#27. Why should sports men and women get punished harsher than people in the normal world?

David Millar

#28. Spencer repeats, a little harsher now. I want kissing, I want mad fucking passionate kissing. The kind of kissing I've seen in all those other photos of you, the kissing that is so filled with emotion and longing and lust, I'm instantly hard. Kiss me like that, Blackbird.

J.A. Huss

#29. I feel like the world is super different now than it was in 2009. And to get at something that's somewhat darker, harsher, rougher, and a bit more challenging feels right.

David Longstreth

#30. There is no harsher means of punishment, than to answer malice with kindness.

Nikos Kazantzakis

#31. Well rounded forms gives smooth sounds; sharper or angular forms give harder and harsher sounds.

Norman McLaren

#32. Written words were so much harsher than spoken.

A. Lynden Rolland

#33. The world of shabby gentility is like no other; its sacrifices have less logic, its standards are harsher, its relation to reality is dimmer than comfortable property or plain poverty can understand.

Murray Kempton

#34. life is unexpected, and back during World War II it was harsher

Nick Golodoff

#35. I'm not really worried what people think about me. Because I judge myself harsher, and on more strict terms, than they ever could probably.

Richey Edwards

#36. People are often frightened of Parisians, but an American in Paris will find no harsher critic than another American.

David Sedaris

#37. I set my standards so high, no one could be harsher on me than I was.

Jim Brown

#38. As might be expected, he was given to bouts of very purposeful ignorance, and tended to pass over the harsher truths of human nature in favor of those that could be romanticized by whimsy and imagination.

Eleanor Catton