Ada Hegerberg
Ada Hegerberg

Playing football can be damn harsh, but every day is a fight for equality.

Adrienne Mayor
Adrienne Mayor

It is said the boundless steppes of Asia gave flight to tales of heroes and heroines because the conditions there are so harsh.

Aeschylus
Aeschylus

Whoever is new to power is always harsh.

Aidan Gillen
Aidan Gillen

Everything's borne out of human experience, of course - rejection, humiliation, poverty, whatever. People aren't born bad, no matter how harsh the circumstances. There is a person in there, and that person is not made of ice.

Aishwarya Rai Bachchan
Aishwarya Rai Bachchan

Life will take its toll on all of us. We get injured, we get old. It's really sad to try to run away from these harsh realities of life. Looks are not everything. I am not going to look beautiful all the time.

Alanis Morissette
Alanis Morissette

Europe seems a little softer, but in America it's harsh. In L.A., where I live, it's all about perfectionism.

Alexandra Fuller
Alexandra Fuller

Until I read Anne Frank's diary, I had found books a literal escape from what could be the harsh reality around me. After I read the diary, I had a fresh way of viewing the both literature and the world. From then on, I found I was impatient with books that were not honest or that were trivial and frivolous.

Ali Shaheed Muhammad
Ali Shaheed Muhammad

Hip-hop has had this history where the predecessor just is so harsh and not nice to the next coming generation that it creates this separation and this gap.

Alia Shawkat
Alia Shawkat

Kids can be harsh, especially when they get jealous.

Chris Hardwick
Chris Hardwick

I don't know if I'm a Twitter addict. That seems kind of harsh. I would say it's more that I'm seriously involved. That it's a long-term relationship - like a girlfriend, which my actual girlfriend loves to hear.