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Last updated on April 17, 2025.
The sick mind can not bear anything harsh. [Lat., Mensque pati durum sustinet aegra nihil.]
The comparison to Willie Beamen - that was pretty harsh, but everything happens for a reason and like I said, you can't control it.
How you look has become ridiculously disproportionate to what you do. Critics are more harsh on female presenters. — © Carol Vorderman
How you look has become ridiculously disproportionate to what you do. Critics are more harsh on female presenters.
What condemnation could possibly be more harsh than one’s own, when self-pretense is no longer possible?
That deep silence has a melody of its own, a sweetness unknown amid the harsh discords of the world's sounds.
Well, I don't like shooting in bathrooms. They're small and cramped and you've got harsh surfaces and it's difficult.
I grew up in England, and people there are pretty difficult. They never say what they mean, and when they do it comes out harsh.
A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.
I think the firmness in one's stance can be conveyed in a different manner without being indecent or using harsh words.
In Singapore, Malcolm X type of activity would be extremely difficult because the government can be very harsh on lawbreakers.
Don't think being 'religious' means becoming harsh or hard. When Allah enters a heart, He softens it--He doesn't harden it.
Exploitation is a harsh word, I know that, but on a certain level, to me that is the central Hollywood story.
Player haters be givin' me harsh looks,
But I'm tryin to sell records like Garth Brooks. — © Big L
Player haters be givin' me harsh looks, But I'm tryin to sell records like Garth Brooks.
I am kind of an idealist but I became a DUP member because I believe politics should have a footing in harsh reality.
It is one thing to impose drastic measures and harsh economic penalties when an environmental problem is clear-cut and severe...
A harsh reality of newspaper editing is that the deadlines don't allow for the polish that you expect in books or even magazines
I was always harsh on myself as a player and I am the same as a coach, but it's the only way I know how to improve.
In the U.K., journalists are a little bit more ruthless than in Denmark. I have a feeling the tabloid press in the U.K. is pretty harsh.
At times anger will trigger harsh words. After a cooling the ability to speak from the heart with love and compassion.
I'm almost happy for Gary Neville's troubles at Valencia. I remember he was too harsh as a TV pundit.
There are some harsh realities about this business, and they've been beaten into my psyche. But I'm more of an optimist than a pessimist.
All of those Shield guys, who came in protected, have done nothing but deliver, in my opinion, and I am a harsh critic of everyone.
At a certain point, you have to stop being precious with your material and be cruel and harsh and judgmental.
Harsh necessity, and the newness of my kingdom, force me to do such things and to guard my frontiers everywhere.
J. makes me laugh. He's incredibly dry and has a pretty harsh sense of humor that I enjoy.
The moon rose, an opalescent goddess tipping light from her harsh maternal scimitar.
Nobody in our family's ever recalled seeing my mom and dad speak a harsh word to one another.
If a man gives you a harsh winter, give him back something unexpected: The warm spring!
I have heard show business characterized as a refuge for childlike persons in flight from all things harsh and real.
Prune what is turgid, elevate what is commonplace, arrange what is disorderly, introduce rhythm where the language is harsh, modify where it is too absolute.
The stones that critics hurl with harsh intent, a man may use to build his monument.
In the harsh and violent Middle East surrounding us, there is no mercy for the weak. Only the strong survive!
It is said the boundless steppes of Asia gave flight to tales of heroes and heroines because the conditions there are so harsh.
The clans began to bombard the outer force field with rockets, missiles, nukes, and harsh language.
Life being full of harsh realities, we seek relief from them in a variety of pleasing delusions.
God has administered to us of the present age, a bitter draught and a harsh physician, on account of our abounding infirmities.
I want to be a part of this organization, and I know the fans are a little harsh sometimes, but that's how it is here in New York, and I'm ready for it.
In the national security establishment, it is somewhat frowned upon for people to take extremely harsh partisan roles in campaigns. — © John Heilemann
In the national security establishment, it is somewhat frowned upon for people to take extremely harsh partisan roles in campaigns.
Whatever film I'm making, no matter how harsh or edgy it is, there has to be a core underneath the ebb and flow of it that is heartfelt.
Despite very harsh living conditions and the trauma of what they went through, they [Sudanese refugees] had a lot of dignity
Only the most saintly and delusional among us welcomes all pain as challenge, perceives all loss as harsh blessing.
It is splendid to be supportive when you see those around you doing well, but blind praise is easier than harsh facts.
We set up harsh and unkind rules against ourselves. No one is born without faults. That man is best who has fewest.
I had a harsh lesson in 1996, when I lost four times to Andres Gomez on clay.
This is kind of a dual existence where you are harsh but at the same time emotional. You are there because you have experienced trauma.
Be still,” he said, voice harsh. “I might not be able to control myself if you step away.
The act of self-denial seems to confer on us the right to be harsh and merciless toward others.
Work is born in us. We take to it kindly or unkindly. The terms may be easy or harsh, but the contract is binding. — © Studs Terkel
Work is born in us. We take to it kindly or unkindly. The terms may be easy or harsh, but the contract is binding.
The fool thinks he has won a battle when he bullies with harsh speech, but knowing how to be forbearing alone makes one victorious.
I don't want to be too harsh, but there's very little evidence for 'intelligent design' or any sort of creator.
Cherish the friend who tells you a harsh truth, wanting ten times more to tell you a loving lie.
Sometimes you've gotta hide the medicine in the food. You can't slap somebody in the face with facts, all the time. It's too harsh.
A harsh reality of newspaper editing is that the deadlines don't allow for the polish that you expect in books or even magazines.
Unfortunately this earth is not a fairy-land, but a struggle for life, perfectly natural and therefore extremely harsh.
Why were we put here, so inclined to love, when end of our story = death? That harsh. That cruel. Do not like.
You can equate our music to childbirth. It's brutal and harsh, but there's still a beautiful thing occurring.
Especially in this Internet age, routine practices are being exposed and rightly recognized as harsh and cruel.
Frankly, you need to get over yourself. It might sound harsh, but that's seriously what it means [1 Corinthians 10:31].
The blogosphere is real, and it can be really harsh on fakes... so, if you're a phoney, you're going to get your bell rung.
"Things have a life of their own," the gypsy proclaimed with a harsh accent. "It's simply a matter of waking up their souls."
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