Quotes About Harsh

We'd met at a carefree time, a moment full of promise, in its place now were the harsh lessons of the real world.

Failure is the price we pay for standards and, because mediocrity has consequences both real and harsh, standards are necessary.

People who think such things view Being itself as inequitable and harsh to the point of corruption, and human Being, in particular, as contemptible. They appoint themselves supreme adjudicators of reality and find it wanting. They are the ultimate critics.

It is me. It's Ashfur." This stranger spoke with a voice harsher than Bramblestar's.

The clans began to bombard the outer force field with rockets, missiles, nukes, and harsh language.

Really, doesn´t everything make sense? There are, of course, things from which we more or less recover, although some of them are too harsh even for saints. But that is no reason to accuse God. Even if there are reasons to doubt him, the fact that he did not arrange the world like a well-ordered parlor is not one of them. It speaks rather in his favor. This used to be much better understood.

Really, doesn't everything make sense? There are, of course, things from which we more or less recover, although some of them are too harsh even for saints. But that is no reason to accuse God. Even if there are reasons to doubt him, the fact that he did not arrange the world like a well-ordered parlor is not one of them. It rather speaks in his favor. This used to be much better understood.

I am kind of an idealist but I became a DUP member because I believe politics should have a footing in harsh reality.

They're very harsh people, the British: hard to impress, very tough on each other, but I rather like that. It's not that the British are more honest - you're just under no illusion with them.

It is quick to over punish and uninterested in rewarding good behavior. What would we say about an individual who had these characteristics? Mean? Cruel? Heartless? Mindless? Hypocritical? Stupid?

Its a strange thing because the West is rooted in a very harsh reality of hard living and scratching out a life for yourself, but its also wrapped in this mythos. There are of these tall tales and crazy stories about the West that you hear and can never really be sure of whats true and whats not.

All tyrants were harsh, but fire was more ungovernable than most.

But what weight had the dreams of mystics against the harsh wisdom of the world?

There was no more grass, no flowers, not even any moss: dusty granite blocks covered the ice and an occasional grinding groan reminded us that we were on a slow-moving glacier.

Nothing the desert produces expresses it better than the unhappy growth of the tree yuccas

there was not a tree on the place, only the horrible prickly pear bushes thrusting out their distorted arms as if exulting in their own nakedness.

I will be as harsh as truth, and uncompromising as justice... I am in earnest, I will not equivocate, I will not excuse, I will not retreat a single inch, and I will be heard.

the world is just as harsh a taskmaster as any other lord, and in the end it's a lord without mercy.

Sacrifice of live, sacrifice for love. Fate is gentle and harsh; she gives and she takes.

I love Trinidad and I love living there, but it's quite harsh.

In most of his films, Upendra has a harsh and rough demeanor, and Sudeep also has a very massy commercial image. In 'Mukunda Murari,' though, their characters require them to be very different and near silent.

Simon Cowell is a pretty rough guy.

Let me first go and bury my father." Jesus gave him what seems like a harsh answer: "Follow me, and leave the dead to bury their own dead" (Matt. 8:21–22). But when you apply the answer to the process of inner transformation, it makes perfect sense. This is a call to separation. To "leave the dead." In order to follow the inner journey, we need to leave behind those things that are deadening, the loyalties that no longer have life for us.

Perhaps he was probing the enigma of why men fall in love with their dreams, which are then so destroyed by harsh realities that their dreamers become cuckolded by their own illusions. Perhaps...