Quotes About Hardness

As if you have discovered a beach you have been visiting all your life is made not of sand but of diamonds, and they blind you with their beauty." Diamonds might be blinding in their beauty, but they were also the hardest and sharpest gems in the world. They could cut you or grind you down, smash and slice you apart. Malcolm, deranged with love, had not thought of that. But Julian could think of nothing else.

This is what it means to be a woman in this world. Every step is a bargain with pain. Make your black deals in the black wood and decide what you'll trade for power. For the opposite of weakness, which is not strength but hardness. I am a trap, but so is everything. Pick your price. I am a huckster with a hand in your pocket. I am freedom and I will eat your heart.

I burn, I freeze; I am never warm. I am rigid; I forgot softness because it did not serve me.

Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.

The hardness of truth is nothing compared to hardness as a result of falsehood.

she was disquietingly fluid—fluid without, however, being able to flow. I felt a hardness and a constriction in her, a grave mistrust, created already by too many men like me ever to be conquered now.

A heart consumed by bitterness turns to stone.

The hardness of God is kinder than the softness of men, and His compulsion is our liberation.

The decay of giving is today matched by a hardness towards receiving.

to possess one single thing (it is Louis now) must waver, like the light in and out of the beech leaves; and then words, moving darkly, in the depths of your mind will break up this knot of hardness, screwed in your pocket-handkerchief.

The perfection preached in the Gospels never yet built up an empire. Every man of action has a strong dose of egotism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be forgiven him, indeed, they will be regarded as high qualities, if he can make of them the means to achieve great ends.

A heart of stone is a sculpture? (Un cœur de pierre - Est une sculpture ?)

Su endurecimiento fue un mecanismo de defensa. Mientras más duro, menos heridas. Más duro, menos vulnerabilidad. Más duro, menos sumiso contigo.

People who have no children can be hard: Attain a mail of ice and insolence:

Asian people have a unique way about them and a different sense of beauty. It's exotic to me. I like they way Asians project their feelings. There's a hardness to the culture, but at the same time there's a delicateness.

Yet it is folly to argue against determined hardness; eloquence may strike the ear, and the language of sorrow draw forth the tear of compassion, but nothing can reach the heart that is steeled with prejudice.

When men have hearts of stone and foreheads of brass—it is a sign that the devil has taken full possession of them.

At night, he could sense the weight of the concrete, the hardness, and the horrors of the city around him.

Wrap me in the weathers of the earth, I will be hard and hard. My face will turn rain like the stones.

Se solo il mio cuore fosse pietra.

The tougher you are, the more fragile.

And from where I was sitting his ass looked like little Bear's bed...not too hard, and not too soft, but just right.

In the flesh rather than the work of the Spirit, it is easy to say we are showing holiness and it only be egotistic pride and hardness.

The heart hid still in the dark, hard as the Philosopher's Stone.