Noticeably Unsentimental Or Tough Quotes & Sayings

Livvy noted there seemed some communal feeling between the married: any wife could be faintly rude to anyone else's husband. — Elizabeth Bowen

If a wicked man seems to have peace at death, it is not from the knowledge of his happiness, but from the ignorance of his danger. — Thomas Watson

Conceit is the finest armour a man can wear. — Jerome K. Jerome

She had the conviction of the newly converted, which wouldn't last forever, but would for the moment brook no discouragement or allow for second-guessing. — Joshua Ferris

Graduate study is an intensive education. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The mob that hails the man on horseback, the Caesars and conquering heroes, does not retain its freedoms for long. — Sidney Hook

I was the Marlon Brando of my generation. — Bette Davis

When you give your weakness permission to be because you understand that it is simply an expression of your strength, it tends to no longer be a weakness. — Chris Matakas

It is one thing to read scandalous verse, quite another to disguise it behind lofty pretension. — Maggie Fenton

We're in this together, and if we united and we inter-culturally cooperated, then that might be the key to humanity's survival. — Jeremy Gilley

Abstract love of humanity is nearly always love of self. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

If America has the right to target Osama bin Laden, or terrorists, of course Israel has the right to defend itself from terrorism. — Alan Dershowitz

It is when we go beyond instinct that we seem most idiosyncratically human. Perhaps, as Darwin suggested, the difference is one of degree rather than kind; it is quantitative, not qualitative. — Matt Ridley

By the craggy hill-side,
Through the mosses bare,
They have planted thorn-trees
For pleasure here and there.
If any man so daring
As dig them up in spite,
He shall find their sharpest thorns
In his bed at night. — William Allingham

No matter the severity of suffering we experience in this life, it will always be less that what we have deserved for our sins — C.J. Mahaney