The hammer shatters glass but hardens steel.
Soft words butter no parsnips, but they won't harden the heart of the cabbage either.
As a journalist, it is so easy to get hardened when you see so many stories that are disturbing. Sometimes it's just your survival mechanism that makes you hardened to some of it.
Ridiculous stuff happens when I travel.
No attempt should be made to "reconcile" Yahweh's hardening of Pharaoh's heart (plagues 6,8,9,10) with statements in the other plagues that Pharaoh hardened his own heart. The tension cannot be resolved in a facile manner by suggesting, for example, ...
People underestimate my speed. I'm pretty fast.
Broadway is a main artery of New York life - the hardened artery.
Don't let hard lessons harden your heart.
With the way everything's going now and the way that technology is going, you can do a lot of things with a lot of different new materials.
But perhaps a heart takes experience and time to harden.
Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness; anger concealed often hardens into revenge.
Affliction hardens those whom it does not soften.
Charity degrades those who receive it and hardens those who dispense it.
What fire does not destroy, it hardens
When it comes to accepting emotional support or affection, I'm a little guarded and hardened to that.
Bioethics has hardened into an activist ideology that pervades the medical world, the schools, and government.
The most tremendous judgment of God in this world is the hardening of the hearts of men.
The fragile nature of youth is at last hardened by the agony of experience.
Wealth and want equally harden the human heart.
Sin leads to wickedness and to hearts that become hardened to things of the Spirit.
Gold like the sun, which melts wax, but hardens clay, expands great souls.
