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Tag Name "Harsh" (268)

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Who when examining in the cabinet of the entomologist the gay and exotic butterflies, and singular cicadas, will associate with these lifeless objects, the ceaseless harsh music of the latter, and the lazy flight of the former - the sure accompaniments of the still, glowing noonday of the tropics.
Charles Darwin
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In my own life, I have noticed when I have been meeting directors, that the same sentence with the same inflection can be said by a man, like: Get me this. But if the same thing is said by a woman, it's seen as harsh and unacceptable. That always fascinates me.
Meryl Streep
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That deep silence has a melody of its own, a sweetness unknown amid the harsh discords of the world's sounds.
Paul Brunton
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Be still,” he said, voice harsh. “I might not be able to control myself if you step away.
Deborah Harkness
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Difficulty is a nurse of greatness-a harsh nurse, who rocks her foster children roughly, but rocks them in strength and athletic proportion. The mind, grappling with great aims and wrestling with mighty impediments, grows by a certain necessity to the stature of greatness.
Kobe Bryant
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She was right that reality can be harsh and that you shut your eyes to it only at your peril because if you do not face up to the enemy in all his dark power, then the enemy will come up from behind some dark day and destoy you while you are facing the other way.
Frederick Buechner
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Reality is harsh to the feet of shadows. But will you come?
C. S. Lewis
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Neither smiles nor frowns, neither good intentions nor harsh words, are a substitute for strength.
John F. Kennedy
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Most products are ugly. The harsh reality is that in many of these markets, form follows funding. And that products go where the market takes them.
Bran Ferren
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I think about everyone in my life that was harsh with me or who gave me tough love and told me things that I didn't want to hear in that moment fortunately it ended up being really good for me and I have nothing but respect for them today and those are the people I return to when I need that real honest advice.
Charlamagne Tha God
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Richard Stark writes a harsh and frightening story of criminal warfare and vengeance with economy, understatement and a deadly amoral objectivity-a remarkable addition to the list of the shockers that the French call roman noirs.
Anthony Boucher
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You can be harsh on your players and still coach, but it is easier when you are kind to them.
John Kessel
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Nietzsche ... combines, in effect, Christ's harsh sayings: 'let the dead bury their dead' and 'narrow is the way which leadeth unto life'.
John Carroll
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Don't get angry. Try not to speak roughly or use harsh words.
Mata Amritanandamayi
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You are a 64-track recording - the tracks are always there, they're always with you. Sometimes the harsh tracks are cranked up and the rest are rolled down to zero. Other times the sweet tracks are high and the darkness is low. But it's all you.
RZA
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The fool thinks he has won a battle when he bullies with harsh speech, but knowing how to be forbearing alone makes one victorious.
Gautama Buddha
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People can pass thirty nights in dancing and no one complains about it, but if they watch through a single Christmas night they cough and claim their stomach is upset the next morning. Does anyone fail to see that the world is an unjust judge, gracious and well disposed to its own children but harsh and rigorous towards the children of God?
Saint Francis de Sales
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Nature-the sublime, the harsh, and the beautiful-offers something that the street or gated community or computer game cannot. Nature presents the young with something so much greater than they are it offers an environment where they can easily contemplate infinity and eternity.
Richard Louv
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I cannot, will not, withhold from my young readers the harsh realities of human hunger and suffering and loss, but neither will I neglect to plant that stubborn seed of hope that has enabled our race to outlast wars and famines and the destruction of death.
Katherine Paterson
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We're constantly re-evaluating the potential for life. We're finding it where we didn't think it could exist, such as volcanic vents and other extreme conditions like under arctic ice. We're finding life in these incredibly harsh and dynamic conditions, so we're having to re-evaluate our own ideas of what's possible on this planet alone.
Joe Rogan
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In the harsh face of life faith can read a bracing gospel.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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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
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I don't really pity any of my characters. I hold my characters under a harsh fluorescent lamp and ask Who are you? I'm not doing their makeup or giving them hairdos. They present themselves to me as they are and then I let them say what they want. Usually they're saying something too honest.
Ottessa Moshfegh
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I am apt to be harsh in my secret judgments of others, seeing them as defective because they are not enough like me.
Phillip Lopate
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