#harsh

Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does he turn himself against the harsh and fitful hand that reared him. ↗

— H. G. Wells

#animal #child #does #hand #harsh

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

#did #difference #grandparents #had #hard

Filmmakers and critics wrote about each other and sometimes very harshly. This no longer exists. ↗

— Wim Wenders

#critics #each #exists #filmmakers #harshly

Whoever is new to power is always harsh. ↗

— Aeschylus

#always #harsh #new #whoever

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

#brethren #children #difficulty #foster #greatness

The young boys I speak with say to me: Why would I want to live in this world - where they rely on charity, dry pieces of bread and water, where they are subjected to harsh treatment, when they can be free and be the envy of their colleagues in the afterlife. They are only too eager to sign on the dotted line and join the ranks of the Taliban. ↗

— Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

#bread #charity #colleagues #dotted #dry

I have heard show business characterized as a refuge for childlike persons in flight from all things harsh and real. ↗

— Carroll O'Connor

#business #characterized #childlike #flight #harsh

Conviction without experience makes for harshness. ↗

— Flannery O'Connor

#conviction #harshness #makes #without

I think I've always been interested in playing people who are judged very harshly. ↗

— Christina Ricci

#been #harshly #i #i think #interested

The thing that you're faulted on today is not that you are too tough, or not that you aren't careful. It's that you might have been too soft. People want that red meat now because you have to keep up with the mood and the mood today is harsh. It really is. ↗

— Mark Russell

#been #careful #harsh #keep #meat