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Broadway is a main artery of New York life - the hardened artery. -- Walter Winchell
When it comes to accepting emotional support or affection, I'm a little guarded and hardened to that. -- Patricia Heaton
The hardened mass of liquid stones had much stronger qualities than those which had simply torn. The skin remained a recognisable part of the molten stone. -- Andy Goldsworthy
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. -- Linda Vester
Solitary confinement is too terrible a punishment to inflict on any human being, no matter what his crime. Hardened criminals in the men's prisons, it is said, often beg for the lash instead. -- Emmeline Pankhurst
I like Scottish people because they feel very true. They're always level and straight. They get a reputation for being hardened because of it, but I find them to be scrupulously honest people. -- Rupert Friend
Christians well know that the much-decorated statue of the Church, as it now stands, is not of pure chiseled marble, but of clay, cemented together by blood and tears and hardened in the fires of hatred and persecution. -- Virchand Gandhi
At birth, we are like cartilage - soft, flexible tissue. By the same natural process by which cartilage becomes hard bone, the soft, tender heart of an innocent child can become hardened by the circumstances into which she is born. -- Iyanla Vanzant
Likewise today, some Christians are content to merely exist until they die. They don't want to risk anything, to believe God, to grow or mature. They refuse to believe his Word, and have become hardened in their unbelief. Now they're living just to die. -- David Wilkerson
I was very careful to send Mr. Roosevelt every few days a statement of our casualties. I tried to keep before him all the time the casualty results because you get hardened to these things and you have to be very careful to keep them always in the forefront of your mind. -- George C. Marshall
Hardened terrorists are coming here to hit us hard if we don't hit them first. -- Rand Paul
Hardened round us, encasing wholly every notion we form is a wrapping of traditions, hearsay's, and mere words. -- Thomas Carlyle
If the heart becomes hardened, the eye becomes dry. -- Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya
Sin leads to wickedness and to hearts that become hardened to things of the Spirit. -- Joseph B. Wirthlin
Bioethics has hardened into an activist ideology that pervades the medical world, the schools, and government. -- John Leo
People in high life are hardened to the wants and distresses of mankind as surgeons are to their bodily pains. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
A people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood. -- Edmund Burke
Manners are the happy ways of doing things; each once a stroke of genius or of love, now repeated and hardened into usage. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A cement mixer collided with a prison van on the Kingston Pass. Motorists are asked to be on the lookout for 16 hardened criminals. -- Ronnie Corbett
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. -- Anton Chekhov
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. -- Carla Gugino
The sciences are being held back by assumptions that have hardened into dogmas, maintained by powerful taboos. I believe that the sciences will be regenerated when they are set free. -- Rupert Sheldrake
Chaga is one of the weirdest mushrooms you may ever see. A fungal parasite found on birch trees, Chaga is a hardened, blackened, crusty formation that looks like a bursting tumor. -- Paul Stamets
Learning what all you can overcome as a person, as a human being, is very important. It's very important to understand your strength. Which is not to say you become hardened or bitter. -- Katrina Kaif
Therefore, don't let sinners take courage to think they will be favoured like the thief on the cross; for we see on the other side, they may be like the hardened one, and reproach death itself. -- Elias Hicks
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. -- Mark Ruffalo
Seek ye counsel of the aged for their eyes have looked on the faces of the years and their ears have hardened to the voices of Life. Even if their counsel is displeasing to you, pay heed to them. -- Khalil Gibran
Organizational structures that allow divisions and departments to own their turf and people with long tenure to take root creates the same hardened group distinctions as Congressional redistricting to produce homogeneous voting blocs - all of which makes it easier to resist compromise, let alone collaboration. -- Rosabeth Moss Kanter
I found myself at dusk in the bewitching Roman city of Jerash with H.M. Queen Rania of Jordan one year, and scrambling with hardened paparazzi to get an image of the Princess of Wales in a tiny Nepalese clinic in the foothills of the Himalayas another. -- Hamish Bowles
The country has sorted itself ideologically into the two political parties, and those partisan attachments have hardened in recent years. It will take an extraordinary event and act of leadership to break this partisan divide. I thought 9/11 might provide such an opportunity, but it was not seized. -- Thomas E. Mann
Your anger will cool into hardened passionate insight if you wait a day. Most of the things that make me angry I let them sit. The heat that remains will be sufficient. The stuff that evaporates is the stuff that would have simply offended or made it histrionic. -- Keith Olbermann
If we bought everything on the Internet, our eyes and mouths and nostrils would probably begin to film over with a tegument - one initially tissue-thin and capable of being removed each morning, but which gradually thickened and hardened until we were imprisoned in our own tiny minds. -- Will Self
Let all the 'free-will' in the world do all it can with all its strength; it will never give rise to a single instance of ability to avoid being hardened if God does not give the Spirit, or of meriting mercy if it is left to its own strength. -- Martin Luther
Most of the kids that I meet in the street are serious hardened criminals that I meet in the street, never had a mother and a father to love them, to protect them, to teach them right from wrong and lead them out of crime and gangs and stuff like that. -- Steven Seagal
This nation has been through hard times. But those hard times have hardened our resolve. I'm ready to do the difficult work ahead. But I want to do that work with Barack Obama, and not a Tea Party ideologue. We can move America forward, but we can only do it together. -- Harry Reid
To the extent that I had come to understand that despair does not necessarily result in annihilation, that one can go on as usual in spite of it, I had become hardened. Was this what it means to be an adult, to live with ugly ambiguities? I didn't like it, but it made it easier to go on. -- Banana Yoshimoto
But the Jews are so hardened that they listen to nothing; though overcome by testimonies they yield not an inch. It is a pernicious race, oppressing all men by their usury and rapine. If they give a prince or magistrate a thousand florins, they extort twenty thousand from the subjects in payment. We must ever keep on guard against them. -- Martin Luther
If you bend a branch until it's horizontal, the sap will slow to a stopping point: a comma or colon, made of leaves grown into one another and over one another and hardened. Out of this pause comes a flower, which unfolds itself in spirals, as if the leaf form, unable to keep to its line, had begun to pivot. -- Alice Oswald
Only unconditional grace can transform a hardened heart into a grateful heart. Only a free gift can demolish any notion of quid pro quo. Only an utterly merciful act of love can fashion a new creation capable of love. As theologian Karl Barth puts it, 'As the beloved of God, we have no alternative but to love him in return. -- Mark Galli
I was a daughterless mother. I had nowhere to put the things a mother places on her daughter. The nail polish I used to paint our toenails hardened. Our favorite videos gathered dust. Her small apron was in a box in the attic. Her shoes - the sparkly ones, the leopard rain boots, the ballet slippers - stood in a corner. -- Ann Hood
I've seen many men die right in front of me - so many in fact that I've become almost hardened to it. Having seen the worst that human beings can do to each other, the results of torture, mutilation and seeing someone blown to pieces by a bomb, you develop a kind of shell. But you had to. You had to. Otherwise we would never have won. -- Christopher Lee
No person is too hardened. -- Max Lucado
Not yet hardened, many young die good. -- Nathaniel Hawthorne
Better a broken heart than a hardened one. -- Dalia Mogahed
If the heart is hardened, the intellect is darkened. -- Mark Hart
Soften my hard self-opinionatedness, which time has hardened so exceedingly! -- Gertrude the Great
Lovesick, bitter and hardened heart. Aching, waiting for life to start -- Bil Keane
Not all the labour of the earth Is done by hardened hands. -- Will Carleton
I hardened my heart against all the Bennets. - Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy. -- Mary Street
Does love always form, like a pearl, around the hardened bits of life? -- Andrew Sean Greer
The strongest iron, hardened in the fire, most often ends in scraps and shatterings. -- Sophocles
Resentments are hardened chunks of anger. They loosen up and dissolve with forgiveness and letting go. -- Melody Beattie
I am skilled now, at casting iron To make a hardened bed for my heavy world -- Happy Rhodes
One good thing about teaching calculus is that you develop a hardened attitude towards repeating yourself. -- Philip J. Hanlon
The grim frost is at hand, when apples will fall thick, almost thunderous, on the hardened earth. -- D. H. Lawrence
Those who have hardened, have a covenant with Death. Those who remain gentle are conjoined with Life. -- Laozi
Young bodies are like tender plants, which grow and become hardened to whatever shape you've trained them. -- Desiderius Erasmus
Your task will not be an easy one. Your enemy is well-trained, well-equipped and battle-hardened. He will fight savagely -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
The world was a tough and unfair place, but even the most hardened soul likes to chew on fruit. -- Paul Adam Levy
It is in the thick of a calamity that one gets hardened to the truth, in other words to silence. -- Albert Camus
It is in the thick of calamity that one gets hardened to the truth - in other words, to silence. -- Albert Camus
Tragedy can break the heart but not the dam of the tearducts while schmaltz can dissolve the most hardened sophisticate. -- Cornelia Otis Skinner
Day after day, throughout the winter, We hardened ourselves to live by bluest reason In a world of wind and frost.... -- Wallace Stevens
Government has hardened into a tyrannical monopoly, and the human race in general becomes as absolutely property as beasts in the plow. -- John Dickinson
They say compassion is the only voice; a gift which can help mend the broken, lift the fallen and soften the hardened. -- Aisha Mirza
It was true; always had been. Friendships were like marriages in that way. Routines and patterns were poured early and hardened like cement. -- Kristin Hannah
The glassblower knows: while in the heat of beginning, any shape is possible. Once hardened, the only way to change is to break. -- Mark Nepo
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. -- Pete Doherty
There is something so beautiful in trust that even the most hardened liar need feel a certain respect for those who confide in him. -- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
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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. -- Robert Barr
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. -- Edward Albee
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? -- Ann Radcliffe
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 -- Michel Foucault
It behooves those who take the young to task to leave them room for excuse, lest they drive them to be hardened by too much rebuke. -- Plato
Healing is embracing what is most feared; healing is opening what has been closed, softening what has hardened into obstruction, healing is learning to trust life. -- Jeanne Achterberg
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. -- Caroline Llewellyn
No place is too common. No person is too hardened. No distance is too far. There's no person God cannot reach. There's no limit to his love. -- Max Lucado
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. -- Paul Washer
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. -- Bruno Schulz
I've always said even the most hardened pro-choice people would be just devastated to watch an actual birth and then watch a baby be killed before their eyes. -- Kevin Sorbo
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? -- John Calvin
Gretchen shrugged. "After seeing how he acted when she almost died, I'm starting to get why she's with him." Then her voice hardened. "And really, Leila. That's twice now. -- Jeaniene Frost
A sturdy, hardened sinner shall advance to the utmost pitch of impiety, with less reluctance than he took the first step while his conscience was yet vigilant and tender. -- Francis Atterbury
Pure Spirit, one hundred degrees proof - that's a drink that only the most hardened contemplation-guzzlers indulge in. Bodhisattvas dilute their Nirvana with equal parts of love and work. -- Aldous Huxley
That which seems most feeble and bewildered in you is the strongest and most determined. Is it not your breath that has erected and hardened the structure of your bones? -- Khalil Gibran
Will you come with me to the mountains? It will hurt at first, until your feet are hardened. Reality is harsh to the feet of shadows. But will you come? -- C. S. Lewis
As so often happens in marriage, roles that had begun almost playfully, to give line and shape to our lives, had hardened like suits of armor and taken us prisoner. -- Molly Haskell
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. -- William Tecumseh Sherman
Harden our hearts to the innocents in the womb, and we have hardened our hearts to the need for compassion, and mercy, and fellow-feeling, and charity, and decency in this world. -- Alan Keyes
We're releasing hardened criminals from jails all over California. They don't have the money. They don't have the room anymore. The jails are overflowing so we gotta get rid of somebody. -- Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood
We're releasing hardened criminals from jails all over California. They don't have the money. They don't have the room anymore. The jails are overflowing so we gotta get rid of somebody. -- Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood
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. -- Matthew Henry
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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 -- Manuel De Landa
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. -- Susan Sontag
I have been writing in spurts, bit by bit. It is incredibly difficult. Everything is corroded, broken, dismantled; everything is covered with hardened layers of accumulated insensitivity, deafness, entrenched routine. It is disgusting. -- Boris Pasternak
God Lord, give me strength. Please keep the local firefighters away from me. Keep me out of the path of hardened abs and tall men in uniform, for they are bastards, one and all. Amen -- Rosanna Leo
I am told that the proximity of punishment arouses real repentance in the criminal and sometimes awakens a feeling of genuine remorse in the most hardened heart; I am told this is due to fear. -- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
I am told that the proximity of punishment arouses real repentance in the criminal and sometimes awakens a feeling of genuine remorse in the most hardened heart; I am told this is due to fear. -- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
I am told that the proximity of punishment arouses real repentance in the criminal and sometimes awakens a feeling of genuine remorse in the most hardened heart; I am told this is due to fear." -- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Our universities should produce good criticism; they do not or, at best, they do so only as federal prisons produce counterfeit money: a few hardened prisoners are more or less surreptitiously continuing their real vocations. -- Randall Jarrell
Year after year, an ideological and economic barrier hardened between our two countries, meanwhile, the Cuban exile community in the United States made enormous contributions to our country, in politics, in business, culture and sports. -- Barack Obama

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