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Justice is sweet and musical; but injustice is harsh and discordant. -- Henry David Thoreau
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. -- William Lloyd Garrison
Harsh reality is always better than false hope. -- Julian Fellowes
Harsh words live in the dungeon of the heart -- Norman Mailer
Fearless people,Careless needle.Harsh words spoken,And lives are broken. -- Seal
No. Harsh truth was better than comfortable lies. It had to be. -- Kelley Armstrong
Abuse is abuse; Be nice.. Harsh words don't break bones but they often break hearts. -- Joseph Simmons
Harsh counsels have no effect; they are like hammers which are always repulsed by the anvil. -- Claude Adrien Helvetius
Harsh counsels have no effect; they are like hammers, which are always repulsed by the anvil. -- Claude Adrien Helvetius
We're only human." "One of us, anyway. The other's a reptile." "Harsh, Annabelle. Very harsh. -- Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Want to Think Big? Then get rid of the negative influences in your life. Harsh? Possibly. Healthy? Yes. -- Michael Port
There ain't no such thing as a free lunch." A Libertarian Movement slogan - The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress, 1907. -- Robert A. Heinlein
Harsh necessity, and the newness of my kingdom, force me to do such things and to guard my frontiers everywhere. -- Virgil
On a sudden open fly With impetuous recoil and jarring sound Th' infernal doors, and on their hinges grate Harsh thunder. -- John Milton
Harsh reproof is like a violent storm, soon washed down the channel; but friendly admonitions, like a small shower, pierce deep, and bring forth better reformation. -- Roger Chamberlain
Good communication has just a little to do with eloquence. It's character that makes it more successful. Harsh words nicely articulated are sharp enough to kill your brand! -- Israelmore Ayivor
"Why, I don't exactly know about perjury, my dear sir," replied the little gentleman. "Harsh word, my dear sir, very harsh word indeed. It's a legal fiction, my dear sir, nothing more." -- Charles Dickens
Harshness to me is giving somebody false hopes and not following through. That's harsh. Telling some guy or some girl who've got zero talent that they have zero talent actually is a kindness. -- Simon Cowell
'Villain' is such a harsh word. -- Ed Westwick
Whoever is new to power is always harsh. -- Aeschylus
The words of Mercury are harsh after the songs of Apollo. -- William Shakespeare
I will be as harsh as truth and as uncompromising as justice. -- William Lloyd Garrison
The cold harsh reality is that we have to balance the budget. -- Michael Bloomberg
It's a good harsh reality, because my family keeps me very grounded. -- Chloe Grace Moretz
A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger. -- Solomon
There's a harsh reality - nothing lasts forever. You have to be ready to grow, and grow fast. -- Pras Michel
Don't think being 'religious' means becoming harsh or hard. When Allah enters a heart, He softens it--He doesn't harden it. -- Yasmin Mogahed
The novelist must be his own most harsh critic and also his own most loving admirer and about both he must say nothing. -- Angus Wilson
Verily, God is Compassionate and is fond of compassion, and He gives to the compassionate what He does not give to the harsh. -- Muhammad
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
Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness - a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster - children into strength and athletic proportion. -- William C. Bryant
The usual complaint is, 'I have no other way of earning a living.' The harsh reply can be, 'Do you have to live?' -- Tertullian
The minimum wage has not kept pace with rising costs. This legislation is overdue and will help families that are struggling in this harsh economy. -- Jerry Brown
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. -- Quintilian
There are many harsh lessons to be learned from the gambling experience, but the harshest one of all is the difference between having Fun and being Smart. -- Hunter S. Thompson
New England has a harsh climate, a barren soil, a rough and stormy coast, and yet we love it, even with a love passing that of dwellers in more favored regions. -- Henry Cabot Lodge
There's a difference between someone who's 'harsh' and someone who is 'hard.' Life was hard. You lived in the South, as my grandparents did, and you had to survive. That is hard. -- Clarence Thomas
Don't be too harsh to these poems until they're typed. I always think typescript lends some sort of certainty: at least, if the things are bad then, they appear to be bad with conviction. -- Dylan Thomas
High Romanticism shows you nature in all its harsh and lovely metamorphoses. Flood, fire and quake fling us back to the primal struggle for survival and reveal our gross dependency on mammoth, still mysterious forces. -- Camille Paglia
Through the harsh design of fate, Florida was dealt the unfortunate circumstances of bearing the brunt of not one but two hurricanes, and it appears more dark clouds are poised to visit the Sunshine State. -- Ginny Brown-Waite
Running is a road to self-awareness and reliance-you can push yourself to extremes and learn the harsh reality of your physical and mental limitations or coast quietly down a solitary path watching the earth spin beneath your feet. -- Doris Brown Heritage
When the baby dies, On every side Rose stranger's voices, hard and harsh and loud. The baby was not wrapped in any shroud. The mother made no sound. Her head was bowed That men's eyes might not see Her misery. -- Helen Hunt Jackson
Objectivity cannot be equated with mental blankness; rather, objectivity resides in recognizing your preferences and then subjecting them to especially harsh scrutiny - and also in a willingness to revise or abandon your theories when the tests fail (as they usually do). -- Stephen Jay Gould
Life will take its toll on all of us. We get injured, we get old. It's really sad to try to run away from these harsh realities of life. Looks are not everything. I am not going to look beautiful all the time. -- Aishwarya Rai Bachchan
Don't let negativity affect your vision. A lot of people have said harsh things, but I don't let it affect me. If anything it gives me more enthusiasm and pushes me to do better in my career so I can prove them wrong. -- Nicole Polizzi
Even in the 1950s, President Eisenhower was concerned about what he called a campaign of hatred of the U.S. in the Arab world, because of the perception on the Arab street that it supported harsh and oppressive regimes to take their oil. -- Noam Chomsky
The harsh reality is that if you are middle-aged, write computer code for a living, and earn a six-figure salary, you're headed for the unemployment lines. Your market value declines as you age, and it becomes harder and harder to get a job. -- Vivek Wadhwa
Civility is not not saying negative or harsh things. It is not the absence of critical analysis. It is the manner in which we are sharing this territorial freedom of political discussion. If our discourse is yelled and screamed and interrupted and patronized, that's uncivil. -- Richard Dreyfuss
The poor ego has a still harder time of it; it has to serve three harsh masters, and it has to do its best to reconcile the claims and demands of all three...The three tyrants are the external world, the superego, and the id. -- Sigmund Freud
In these times, in this harsh, rude, warring world that we live in, where most of the bloodshed is 'My god is greater than your god,' and we're fighting in the name of our god, we have to find a way to peaceably coexist, spiritually. -- Vera Farmiga
Reality is harsh. It can be cruel and ugly. Yet no matter how much we grieve over our environment and circumstances nothing will change. What is important is not to be defeated, to forge ahead bravely. If we do this, a path will open before us. -- Daisaku Ikeda
I am very harsh on myself. I can point out a list. My nose is very strange. I have a very round face. I sound so ungrateful. Obviously I'm being hard on myself. Whether it's body dysmorphia, or whatever it is, I can always find something wrong. -- Emily Meade
Anyone who thinks they stand apart from society and defies all which govern its existence has less in common with the lone wolf patriot standing up to dystopic forces of oppression - a myth - and more in common with the disease known as cancer - a harsh reality. -- Steven Weber
The harsh truth is, most red-haired men look like blondes who've spoiled from lack of refrigeration. They look like brown-haired men who've been composted out behind the barn. Yet that same pigmentation that on a man can resemble leaf mold or junkyard rust, a woman wears like a tiara of rubies. -- Tom Robbins
For humans, the Arctic is a harshly inhospitable place, but the conditions there are precisely what polar bears require to survive - and thrive. 'Harsh' to us is 'home' for them. Take away the ice and snow, increase the temperature by even a little, and the realm that makes their lives possible literally melts away. -- Sylvia Earle
Exposed! shines a harsh light on the myriad horrors of modern society and reports back from the fearful frontlines with wicked wit and paranoid power. From the murky waters of New Orleans to the scarred psyches of our own image-obsessed existence, Exposed! is the last headline we get to read before reality comes tumbling down. -- Jeremy Robert Johnson
Parenting is the hardest thing I have ever done. I tried to find the balance between the strict, traditional Chinese way I was raised, which I think can be too harsh, and what I see as a tendency in the West to be too permissive and indulgent. If I could do it all again, I would, with some adjustments. -- Amy Chua
For some reason, we are truly convinced that if we criticize ourselves, the criticism will lead to change. If we are harsh, we believe we will end up being kind. If we shame ourselves, we believe we end up loving ourselves. It has never been true, not for a moment, that shame leads to love. Only love leads to love. -- Geneen Roth
There's a difference between someone who's 'harsh' and someone who is 'hard.' Life was hard. You lived in the South, as my grandparents did, and you had to survive. That is hard. In order to respond to that, he had to become a hard man, with very hard rules, very hard discipline for himself, very hard days, hard work, et cetera. -- Clarence Thomas
I saw a new world coming rapidly. More scientific, efficient, yes. More cures for the old sicknesses. Very good. But a harsh, cruel, world. And I saw a little girl, her eyes tightly closed, holding to her breast the old kind world, one that she knew in her heart could not remain, and she was holding it and pleading, never to let her go. -- Kazuo Ishiguro
Heard joke once: Man goes to doctor. Says he's depressed. Says life seems harsh and cruel. Says he feels all alone in a threatening world where what lies ahead is vague and uncertain. Doctor says, "Treatment is simple. Great clown Pagliacci is in town tonight. Go and see him. That should pick you up." Man bursts into tears. Says, "But doctor...I am Pagliacci. -- Alan Moore
Beauty is harsh. -- Cassandra Clare
Villain' is such a harsh word. -- Ed Westwick
Be harsh with yourself at times. -- Seneca the Younger
Necessity is harsh. Fate has no reprieve. -- Euripides
An intemperate patient makes a harsh doctor. -- Publilius Syrus
Be a harsh critic of your own wins. -- Vasilios Kotronias
No country. is as harsh as the world. -- Fernando Meirelles
Every ruler is harsh whose laws is new. -- Aeschylus
I'm a harsh critic, you know? I am. -- Jake Gyllenhaal
I'm a harsh critic of the status quo. -- Andrew Cuomo
People are very harsh critics of animated humans. -- Henry Selick
Where a harsh law rules, people yearn for lawlessness. -- Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
I DJ and I'm a harsh critic of DJs. -- Russell Peters
Plain and not honest is too harsh a style. -- William Shakespeare
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You can't go fighting everyone that's harsh towards you. -- Jake Lloyd
khalepa ta kala, greek. It means 'beauty is harsh'. -- Cassandra Clare
Evil is just . . . so harsh. I prefer ethically unfettered. -- Jessica Minyard
Kids can be harsh, especially when they get jealous. -- Alia Shawkat
How charming is divine philosophy! Not harsh and crabb -- John Milton
Free curiosity is of more value than harsh discipline. -- Saint Augustine
It was beautiful in a harsh I'm-going-to-gut-you-like-a-fish kind of way. -- Rick Riordan
It's the intent, not the word, that makes something harsh. -- Lisa McMann
A lot of independent films offer a harsh reality check. -- Aubrey Plaza
You are very harsh.' 'I have seen the world. -- Voltaire
Life is funny, at the same time being totally harsh. -- Isabel Gillies
Failure is a teacher; a harsh one, but the best. -- Thomas J. Watson
Wit will shine Through the harsh cadence of a rugged line. -- John Dryden
Kindness never use harsh words its touch warmth the needy person. -- Kishore Bansal
I try not to read blogs. The comments are extremely harsh. -- Jessica Simpson
touchKindness never use harsh words its touch warmth the needy person. -- Kishore Bansal
And woven into the fabric of this harsh existence was music. -- Lesley Garrett
My parents are going to kill me!""That seems rather harsh... -- Garth Nix
Injustice wears ever the same harsh face wherever it shows itself. -- Ralph Ellison
Blanching the cloves removes the harsh and bitter bite of raw garlic. -- Yotam Ottolenghi
Like all harsh, cold men, he was easily tipped over into sentiment. -- Ian Fleming
If there is a God, then he was particularly harsh to me -- Taylor Caldwell
Life teaches us to be less harsh with ourselves and with others. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I love Trinidad and I love living there, but it's quite harsh. -- Peter Doig
Don't get angry. Try not to speak roughly or use harsh words. -- Mata Amritanandamayi
Reality is harsh to the feet of shadows. But will you come? -- C. S. Lewis
In the harsh face of life faith can read a bracing gospel. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
Rules too soft are seldomly followed; rules too harsh are seldomly executed. -- Benjamin Franklin
Body and spirit, I surrendered whole, To harsh Instructors- and received a soul. -- Rudyard Kipling
All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome -- Ben Jonson
Love is harsh, and it consumes. And more than anything, it demands sacrifice. -- Tim Lebbon
If you don't have malice in our heart, it doesn't come across harsh. -- Will Rogers
The moon rose, an opalescent goddess tipping light from her harsh maternal scimitar. -- Gregory Maguire
Writers obviously have to bear witness to the harsh face of the age. -- Alexander McCall Smith
If content with himself and mankind, a man is never harsh or curt. -- Giacomo Leopardi
I don't want to live in real life. It's too harsh, too brutal. -- Marina and the Diamonds
Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared to love in dreams. -- Fyodor Dostoevsky
Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared to love in dreams. -- Fyodor Dostoevsky
Does it take the harsh light of disaster to show a person's true nature? -- Jean-Dominique Bauby
I am sure that music was never meant to sound this harsh, this painful. -- Tabitha Suzuma
The sea's only gifts are harsh blows and occasionally the chance to feel strong. -- Primo Levi
Cocooning: The need to protect oneself from the harsh, unpredictable realities of the outside world. -- Faith Popcorn
Neither smiles nor frowns, neither good intentions nor harsh words, are a substitute for strength. -- John F. Kennedy
The sick mind can not bear anything harsh. [Lat., Mensque pati durum sustinet aegra nihil.] -- Ovid

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