#harden

Charity degrades those who receive it and hardens those who dispense it. ↗

— George Sand

#degrades #dispense #hardens #receive #those

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

#criminals #father #gangs #had #hardened

It's good for you to see your friends arrested. It hardens you. There's no place in our New Order for sentimentalists. ↗

— Curt Siodmak

#friends #good #hardens #new #new order

I think men, growing up, you have to go through some form of hardship. You've got to harden the metal. ↗

— Ice T

#go #got #growing #growing up #harden

A man is as old as his arteries and his interests. If he permits his economic, religious, or social arteries to harden, or loses interest in whatever concerns mankind... he will need only six feet of earth. ↗

— Josephus Daniels

#concerns #earth #economic #feet #harden

Corporal punishment is as humiliating for him who gives it as for him who receives it; it is ineffective besides. Neither shame nor physical pain have any other effect than a hardening one. ↗

— Ellen Key

#besides #corporal #effect #gives #hardening

And though I was currently living a fairy tale, some part of my soul knew that happiness couldn't last forever. I didn't deserve a happily ever after, and there weren't many other cards to play when that was the truth. ↗

— Alysha Speer

#happiness #happy #love #sharden #soul

So many thoughts ran through my head. Most of them contained the same, simply three words so often strung together that it was too much a classic cheese or cliche to say it, but they still had meaning, no matter how many times they had been repeated. ↗

— Alysha Speer

#alysha-speer #i-love-you #love #sharden #speer

He leaned down and kissed my forehead. The soft melody of his lips was calming. I closed my eyes. I could smell his human skin, his human breath, his human hair, and for the first time, I would give anything to be human too. ↗

— Alysha Speer

#human #love #sharden #speer #love

There's a hardening of the culture. Reality TV has lowered the standards of entertainment. You're left wondering about the legitimacy of relationships. It's probably harder to entertain the same people with a more classic form of writing, and romantic comedies are a classic genre. ↗

— Nancy Meyers

#classic #comedies #culture #entertain #entertainment