Quotes About Harshness

People can be so heartless and dirty.

What she lacks in poetry she makes up for in venom

Nature's a pure, heartless bitch.

È impeccabile il modo in cui la verità può essere brutale, a volte. Non si può che ammirarla.

My friend, who loved above all things precision and concentration of thought, resented anything which distracted his attention from the matter in hand. And yet, without a harshness which was foreign to his nature, it was impossible to refuse to listen to the story of the young and beautiful woman

Traim intr-o societate de porci spinosi surprinsa de iarna raului universal; vrem sa ne incalzim unii de altii, dar tepii de pe spatele fiecaruia nu ne lasa.

E aveva imparato per esperienza che il Bisogno è un magazzino in cui si possono accumulare considerevoli scorte di crudeltà.

The Long Earth is bountiful but not forgiving.

The low bird is not picked tenderly out of the dust by its fellows; rather, it is dispatched quickly and without mercy.

Most beautiful place on earth, and the most brutal. Sometimes I think God wanted to show us all His ways at once.

Black trees against an orange sky, Trees that the wind shook terribly, Like a harsh spume along the road, Quavering up like withered arms, Writhing like streams, like twisted charms Of hot lead flung in snow. Below The iron ice stung like a goad, Slashing the torn shoes from my feet, And all the air was bitter sleet.

Because I expected so little, Gaines's painting is startlingly powerul. A lank-haired blond woman with a hard face sits at akitchen table in the harsh light of a bare bulb. She's surrounded by dirty cereal bowls and fast-food bags, and her shirt is open to the waist, revealing small sagging breasts. Her hollow eyes look out from the canvas with the sullen resignation of an animal that has helped build its own cage.

Along the way, I've had different advice from different music producers. I've been told to tone it down, that the quiet parts of my voice are appealing and there's harshness to the loud part of my voice.

feliz de haber encontrado un refugio ante las inclemencias de la estación y, sobre todo, ante la barbarie del hombre.

El lugar fue mi retiro, y descansé feliz de haber hallado un refugio, por miserable que fuese, para protegerme de la inclemencia de la estación, y aún más de la barbarie del hombre.

Love is a feeling that comes into our hearts of our own choice for neither force nor harshness can limit the heart's freedom.

What a difference! Under the esthetic sky, everything is buoyant, beautiful, transient! when ethics arrives on the scene, everything becomes harsh, angular and infinitely boring

The calendrical harshness of nature is nothing to the boundless cruelty of history.

If by years of patient suffering, God can manage to take the harshness out of my voice, then the time has been well-spent.

When my need to appear right is greater than my desire to display God's love, I will inevitably treat people with judgment, disrespect and harshness.

You know, sometimes the world seems like a pretty mean place.' 'That's why animals are so soft and huggy.

Republicanul îi guverna cu asprime. Om al teoriilor, nu preÈ›uia decît masele È™i se ar?ta f?r? mil? fa?? de indivizi./ Le républicain les gouvernait durement. Homme de théories, il ne considérait que les masses et se montrait impitoyable pour les individus. (©BeQ)

It was one of those bitter mornings when the whole of nature is shiny, brittle, and hard, like crystal. The trees, decked out in frost, seem to have sweated ice; the earth resounds beneath one's feet; the tiniest sounds carry a long way in the dry air; the blue sky is bright as a mirror, and the sun moves through space in icy brilliance, casting on the frozen world rays which bestow no warmth upon anything.

An effective tsar could be harsh provided he was consistently harsh. Rulers are often killed not for brutality but for inconsistency. And tsars had to inspire trust and respect among their courtiers but sacred reverence among the peasantry, 90 per cent of their subjects, who saw them as "Little Fathers." They were expected to be severe to their officials but benign to their peasant "children": "the tsar is good," peasants said, "the nobles are wicked.