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Law enforcement hardened you. It made you cynical about people. Even people you loved. The people who deserved your unconditional trust. — Josh Lanyon

I'm no hardened criminal who the authorities need to hunt. — Vijay Mallya

His expression hardened. It was unpleasant to have feelings that he had been at pains to check aroused to no purpose — Kobo Abe

All the angry, blood thirsty needs headed rapidly south. My cock tightened, thickened, hardened. Bare skin. Bare breasts. Bare everything. — Pepper Winters

Not yet hardened, many young die good. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

Those who have hardened, have a covenant with Death. Those who remain gentle are conjoined with Life. — Laozi

It behooves those who take the young to task to leave them room for excuse, lest they drive them to be hardened by too much rebuke. — Plato

It was true; always had been. Friendships were like marriages in that way. Routines and patterns were poured early and hardened like cement. — Kristin Hannah

This woman ... determination burned in her eyes. Fury hardened her muscles. She was the most beautiful thing he'd ever seen. — Cynthia Eden

When it comes to accepting emotional support or affection, I'm a little guarded and hardened to that. — Patricia Heaton

hurt inside her hardened. She — Joan G. Robinson

I was becoming a product of society, a hardened juvenile! Now I was becoming rebellious and hateful. — Stephen Richards

The strongest iron, hardened in the fire, most often ends in scraps and shatterings. — Sophocles

I'm not going to be hardened by these people, to these things, I'm not going to let them destroy my feelings or my emotions. — Pete Doherty

Truth is undoubtedly the sort of error that cannot be refuted because it was hardened into an unalterable form in the long baking process of history — Michel Foucault

It seemed that the years had softened her, or perhaps they'd hardened me — Cecilia Samartin

My nipples hardened (traitorous little bitches) and my eyes widened. — Joanna Wylde

Any place where we have hardened our hearts or refused to let truth touch and transform that part of us, there will be confusion. — Lysa TerKeurst

Hardened round us, encasing wholly every notion we form is a wrapping of traditions, hearsay's, and mere words. — Thomas Carlyle

Government has hardened into a tyrannical monopoly, and the human race in general becomes as absolutely property as beasts in the plow. — John Dickinson

Soften my hard self-opinionatedness, which time has hardened so exceedingly! — Gertrude The Great

No man will say, "There is no God" 'till he is so hardened in sin that it has
become his interest that there should be none to call him to account. — Matthew Henry

Bioethics has hardened into an activist ideology that pervades the medical world, the schools, and government. — John Leo

I had a choice: to quail, or to harden.

I hardened. — Jeanne Kalogridis

Not all the labour of the earth Is done by hardened hands. — Will Carleton

Young bodies are like tender plants, which grow and become hardened to whatever shape you've trained them. — Desiderius Erasmus

My heart is hardened against My heart Expectation is a crime that has robbed me many a time It is better to have nothing To turn and have nothing — Pam Rehm

When he finished, I tipped back my head and howled, my laughter like sunshine shattering age-hardened ice. — Sarah J. Maas

The hardened disobedience of men's hearts leads not to the frustration of God's plans, but to their fruition. — John Piper

We're both young Dominicans who represent North Brooklyn, but we're also hardened criminals," Reynoso said. "We're dance outlaws. — Emily Witt

Because he had hardened his soul and silenced his conscience with the excuse of progress — Isabel Allende

The grim frost is at hand, when apples will fall thick, almost thunderous, on the hardened earth. — D.H. Lawrence

I only take on hardened criminals," George said. "A woman on a rampage is way beyond my skills. — Anonymous

Jacey's eyes hardened. She did not appreciate reality coming along and snapping her thong. — Sarah-Kate Lynch

Never have I heard anything so unnerving as a hardened warrior praying to a god known for his merciless heart. — Robin Hobb

Don't be afraid to speak from personal experience; in many ways, those vulnerable moments will be the key that unlocks a hardened heart. — Luis Palau

Day after day, throughout the winter,
We hardened ourselves to live by bluest reason
In a world of wind and frost ... — Wallace Stevens

Better a broken heart than a hardened one. — Dalia Mogahed

Children are not born with their hearts hardened in this fashion, not even Irish-Catholic children. They have to be taught by professionals. — Joe Queenan

There is something so beautiful in trust that even the most hardened liar need feel a certain respect for those who confide in him. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

I'm not heartless - my heart is just hardened, while the rest of me is hollow. — J.M. Darhower

Lovesick, bitter and hardened heart. Aching, waiting for life to start — Bil Keane

I am skilled now, at casting iron To make a hardened bed for my heavy world — Happy Rhodes

I hardened my heart against all the Bennets. - Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy. — Mary Street

People in high life are hardened to the wants and distresses of mankind as surgeons are to their bodily pains. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

The immediate pressure of necessity has brightened their intellects, enlarged their powers, and hardened their hearts. — H.G.Wells

...their hearts had still not been hardened with the inevitable cynicism that familiarity and experience breed. — Moxie Mezcal

Now I was a for-real, hardened con. I felt infinitely better. Piper Kerman, Orange is the New Black, page 54 — Piper Kerman

Your task will not be an easy one. Your enemy is well-trained, well-equipped and battle-hardened. He will fight savagely — Dwight D. Eisenhower

The canons of literary taste as they have hardened in the twentieth century leave little place for Rabelais. — Roger Shattuck

Lack of potatoes left a person's stomach growling, but absence of beauty hardened the soul. — Kate Morton

Tragedy can break the heart but not the dam of the tearducts while schmaltz can dissolve the most hardened sophisticate. — Cornelia Otis Skinner

Does love always form, like a pearl, around the hardened bits of life? — Andrew Sean Greer

A gritty grain of truth lay at the heart of most legends, she had told me, and the slow accretion of fiction hardened in layers around it. — Caroline Llewellyn

Be merciful until you can't be.
Until you feel your heart begin to harden into a bullet.
Then use that bullet. — Clementine Von Radics

Every repetition of the choice only hardened the issue. — Barbara W. Tuchman

Do you believe your heart to be, indeed, so hardened, that you can look without emotion on the suffering, to which you would condemn me? — Ann Radcliffe

Sin leads to wickedness and to hearts that become hardened to things of the Spirit. — Joseph B. Wirthlin

The hearts of the rich are hardened. The existence of the poor is a reproach to them." But — Murray Leinster

Hardened terrorists are coming here to hit us hard if we don't hit them first. — Rand Paul

And there's a special place in shiva hell reserved for men in sandals, their cracked, hardened toenails, dark with fungus, proudly on display. — Jonathan Tropper

This year will take from me
the hardened person
who I longed to be.
I am healing by mistake.
Rome is also built on ruins. — Eliza Griswold

13 But encourage each other daily, while it is still called today, so that none of you is hardened by sin's deception. — Anonymous

We must refuse to lean upon the broken staff of human wisdom & cling to the gospel alone as the power of God to save a hardened humanity. — Paul Washer

They say compassion is the only voice; a gift which can help mend the broken, lift the fallen and soften the hardened. — Aisha Mirza

Resentments are hardened chunks of anger. They loosen up and dissolve with forgiveness and letting go. — Melody Beattie

Being repulsed continually hardened her, — Emily Bronte

The fragile nature of youth is at last hardened by the agony of experience. — Joel T. McGrath

spoke into the mirror with a hardened, demanding voice. "Where's my cell phone?" he barked. — Walt Disney Company

If the heart is hardened, the intellect is darkened. — Mark Hart

Separating her thighs. The scent of her arousal hardened every muscle in his body. He moved his hand down her hip and then to her hot, warm core. — Jayne Ann Krentz

I don't think there's a more battle-hardened veteran anywhere than Larry Summers. — Roger Altman

We still go where we want, even if we got to crawl for the right.' - Tom Joad (Jr.) — John Steinbeck

One good thing about teaching calculus is that you develop a hardened attitude towards repeating yourself. — Philip J. Hanlon

He felt like a green-as-grass PFC from Dubuque, Iowa, trading banter with the hardened South Vietnamese regular attached to his unit. "So, — Lev Grossman

What if her heart had hardened so much that she closed herself off in order to survive? — Penelope Douglas

Fear didn't paralyze [her], like it did some humans. Fear crystallized her reason, hardened her will, clarified her options. — Rick Yancey

It is in the thick of calamity that one gets hardened to the truth - in other words, to silence. — Albert Camus

A cement mixer collided with a prison van on the Kingston Pass. Motorists are asked to be on the lookout for 16 hardened criminals. — Ronnie Corbett

Like hatred, guilt can't be locked in the silence of forgetting, without taking part of your soul with it. — Shannon L. Alder

All have been blind to the light, deaf to admonitions, and hardened against the commandments. — John Calvin

He constructed a shell to hide his aloneness, and it hardened on his back. I know of no sadder story. — Peter Guralnick

I'm only sensitive in the area that counts, Sticks."
"The soft spot on your skull that never hardened? — Ashlan Thomas

Napoleon was criticized for giving "toys" to war-hardened veterans, and Napoleon replied, "Men are ruled by toys. — Dale Carnegie

Broadway is a main artery of New York life - the hardened artery. — Walter Winchell

If the heart becomes hardened, the eye becomes dry. — Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

The glassblower knows: while in the heat of beginning, any shape is possible. Once hardened, the only way to change is to break. — Mark Nepo

A people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood. — Edmund Burke

The world was a tough and unfair place, but even the most hardened soul likes to chew on fruit. — Paul Adam Levy

Iseult's nostrils twitched. Her face hardened. The defiance, the determination - they were back, and against his will, Aeduan's lips twitched upward. — Susan Dennard