Top 194 Hardened Quotes & Sayings

Do you believe your heart to be, indeed, so hardened, that you can look without emotion on the suffering, to which you would condemn me?

I am skilled now, at casting iron To make a hardened bed for my heavy world

When it comes to accepting emotional support or affection, I'm a little guarded and hardened to that.

Government has hardened into a tyrannical monopoly, and the human race in general becomes as absolutely property as beasts in the plow.

Resentments are hardened chunks of anger. They loosen up and dissolve with forgiveness and letting go.

Those people that have hardened to rejection or hardened to life in general, it's pretty hard to feel them. You know, to look at their eyes on screen and feel them. I guess that's specifically talking about actors, but I think that's probably [true] in general. You want to keep your skin thin.

I'm hardened over many years. You toughen yourself for whatever job. You either take the good with the bad or don't bother.

A people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood.

As we're bombarded with the imagery that we are and now, post 9-11, it's hard not to get hardened by the world and the amount of violence that's allowed to be shown to kids these days.

And the west, encumbered by crippling alliances, and hardened with a morality too rigid to accommodate itself to the swing of events, must ..... eventually ..... fall.

The glassblower knows: while in the heat of beginning, any shape is possible. Once hardened, the only way to change is to break.

I always loved skating but you can get hardened by it and it's discouraging and disheartening.

Manners are the happy ways of doing things; each once a stroke of genius or of love, now repeated and hardened into usage.

If your vulnerability has become hardened, it's very, very difficult to be creative.

I think that there's a tendency for actors who play strong women to have them take on all the worst characteristics of men, to become cold and detached and hardened.

Bioethics has hardened into an activist ideology that pervades the medical world, the schools, and government.

The long years of fighting Napoleon's ambitions for a world empire had hardened the British into an 'us-against-them' mentality.

No man will say, "There is no God" 'till he is so hardened in sin that it has become his interest that there should be none to call him to account.

Day after day, throughout the winter, We hardened ourselves to live by bluest reason In a world of wind and frost.

Sin leads to wickedness and to hearts that become hardened to things of the Spirit.

It is not only the prisoners who grow coarse and hardened from corporal punishment, but those as well who perpetrate the act or are present to witness it.

Any sensibility which can be crammed into the mold of a system, or handled with the rough tools of proof, is no longer sensibility at all. It has hardened into an idea.

Not all the labour of the earth Is done by hardened hands.

Better a broken heart than a hardened one.

Not yet hardened, many young die good.

As a journalist, it is so easy to get hardened when you see so many stories that are disturbing. Sometimes it's just your survival mechanism that makes you hardened to some of it.

Young bodies are like tender plants, which grow and become hardened to whatever shape you've trained them.

The strongest iron, hardened in the fire, most often ends in scraps and shatterings.

Soften my hard self-opinionatedness, which time has hardened so exceedingly!

If the heart becomes hardened, the eye becomes dry.

I don't think there's a more battle-hardened veteran anywhere than Larry Summers.

Does love always form, like a pearl, around the hardened bits of life?

We must refuse to lean upon the broken staff of human wisdom & cling to the gospel alone as the power of God to save a hardened humanity.

One good thing about teaching calculus is that you develop a hardened attitude towards repeating yourself.

The grim frost is at hand, when apples will fall thick, almost thunderous, on the hardened earth.

When we recognize the rod of a father, should we not show ourselves docile children rather than rebelliously desperate men who have been hardened in their evil doings?

Hardened round us, encasing wholly every notion we form is a wrapping of traditions, hearsay's, and mere words.

Truth is undoubtedly the sort of error that cannot be refuted because it was hardened into an unalterable form in the long baking process of history

I begin to regard the death and mangling of a couple thousand men as a small affair, a kind of morning dash-and it may be well that we become so hardened.

Don’t be afraid to speak from personal experience; in many ways, those vulnerable moments will be the key that unlocks a hardened heart.

We live in a world populated by structures - a complex mixture of geological, biological, social, and linguistic constructions that are nothing but accumulations of materials shaped and hardened by history

The days hardened with cold and boredom like last year's loaves of bread. One began to cut them with blunt knives without appetite, with a lazy indifference.

A gritty grain of truth lay at the heart of most legends, she had told me, and the slow accretion of fiction hardened in layers around it.

No person is too hardened.

If the heart is hardened, the intellect is darkened.

I'm no hardened criminal who the authorities need to hunt.

ISIS is a battle-hardened, highly trained organization that is well-funded. They're one of the strongest armies in the world for their size.

If you talk to any cop, however hardened, and say, "Has anything that's ever bothered you", they'll tell you about the death of a child that they had to deal with.

Hardened terrorists are coming here to hit us hard if we don't hit them first.

Lovesick, bitter and hardened heart. Aching, waiting for life to start

Those who have hardened, have a covenant with Death. Those who remain gentle are conjoined with Life.

There is something so beautiful in trust that even the most hardened liar need feel a certain respect for those who confide in him.

A cement mixer collided with a prison van on the Kingston Pass. Motorists are asked to be on the lookout for 16 hardened criminals.

Tragedy can break the heart but not the dam of the tearducts while schmaltz can dissolve the most hardened sophisticate.

I'm not going to be hardened by these people, to these things, I'm not going to let them destroy my feelings or my emotions.

You can get numbed. People can get hardened. It's not their fault; they just get hardened. News media get hardened. Proprietors get even harder.

It is in the thick of calamity that one gets hardened to the truth - in other words, to silence.

Broadway is a main artery of New York life - the hardened artery.

People in high life are hardened to the wants and distresses of mankind as surgeons are to their bodily pains.

Publishers are humane men, and rarely commit crimes. Authors, however, are a hardened set, who usually perpertrate a felony every time they issue a book.