Quotes About Harsh

MOST PEOPLE have no knowledge or understanding of the psychological changes of captivity. Social judgment of chronically traumatized people therefore tends to be extremely harsh.

Stoicism often presented itself, particularly at first, in a deliberately harsh light, emphasizing doctrines that are so far from common sense as to be paradoxical. However, Stoicism as a philosophy is holistic – that is, its parts can be developed separately, but ultimately the aim is to understand them all in relation to the other parts.

The family I grew up in was very inflexible and harsh. It left me with the feeling that if you do let somebody down badly, then even if they tell you it's all right, it cannot be all right.

I don't want to be too harsh, but there's very little evidence for 'intelligent design' or any sort of creator.

Contrary to the belief of those outside it, the aristocratic upbringing of their generation was harsh and demanding of self discipline.

Our experiments are the means to map our life path we should respect them even they are so harsh, things are change and life goes on.

As we age we begin to grasp at youthful bliss like a life raft in a sea of harsh reality.

Fiction about mining has a long tradition - Emile Zola's 'Germinal' and Upton Sinclair's 'King Coal' come to mind - and most readers will be aware of the industry's harsh conditions.

I'm very harsh on real estate agents. I'm not sure why. Maybe it's because of how the call every small house 'charming' and every run-down house a 'great fixer-upper'. Just once, I'd like them to show me a house and declare, 'This one's a piece of crap'.

The truth is not beautiful - it stands on cloven hooves - it is covered in coagulated blood - but it is the truth.

Truth seldom is pleasant; it is almost invariably bitter.

In Singapore, Malcolm X type of activity would be extremely difficult because the government can be very harsh on lawbreakers.

That's right, Snowbébé. This world—it's cold and smelly.

The voice, scraping as harsh from the scented darkness as sharp sword from soft scabbard, not surprisingly halted the traveler.

A voice like boots stepping in gravel.

New York is appalling, fantastically charmless and elaborately dire.

For my tribe, the people I found years ago, we've found sanctuary in the irreverent, in the off-center, in the quirky... And that's how we stay entertained, and that's how we stay engaged in what would otherwise seem to be a really cruel world. A really harsh world.

The truth, as much as people acted like they wanted to hear it, was sometimes too cruel and harsh.

It was true—but it was harsh. And it feels like maybe a harsh truth can be as hurtful as a lie.

Steven Projan of Wyeth Research puts it, bacteria "are the oldest of living organisms and thus have been subject to three billion years of evolution in harsh environments and therefore have been selected to withstand chemical assault.

Or as Steven Projan of Wyeth Research puts it, bacteria "are the oldest of living organisms and thus have been subject to three billion years of evolution in harsh environments and therefore have been selected to withstand chemical assault."10

Life is harsh and it is relentless. You will choose in the end—one way or the other. No one escapes the choice.

He was a romantic in his own harsh way…yet he was also realist enough to know that some times love actually did conquer all.

Love is harsh, and it consumes. And more than anything, it demands sacrifice.