I`ll never harden my heart, but I`ve toughened the muscles around it.
- Dolly PartonOver the years you encounter just about every kind of crime. It doesn`t harden you, but you become capable of reporting on just about anything human beings can do. However, any time we`re dealing with the murder of a child it is always difficult.
- Catherine CrierWe must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.
- Adam AconeAs the game enters its glorious final weeks, the chill of fall signals the reality of defeat for all but one team. The fields of play will turn brown and harden, the snow will fall, but in the heart of the fan sprouts a sprig of green.
- Allan GurganusA man is as old as his arteries and his interests. If he permits his economic, religious, or social arteries to harden, or loses interest in whatever concerns mankind... he will need only six feet of earth.
- Allan WrightSpoon the sauce over the ice cream. It will harden. This is what you have been working for.
- Aminuddin Taib(OAKLAND: Top starters Rich Harden and Barry Zito will get an extra day of rest next week. Dan Haren will pitch Tuesday at Detroit and Kirk Saarloos on Wednesday. ... DH-1B Scott Hatteberg has a strained right stomach muscle, though he played Saturday. Manager Ken Macha is considering keeping Hatteberg out of the lineup Sunday and Tuesday, giving him a total of three days to rest with Monday`s off day. ... Macha would like to get LHP Ricardo Rincon into a game soon. He hasn`t pitched since Monday. ... OF Jay Payton is feeling the best he has at the plate in a long time. He has five homers in his last 11 games, and he homered in consecutive games for the third time since joining the A`s on July 13 in a trade with Boston.) Right now I feel as good as I ever have, ... A couple of minor things make a world of difference.
- Armstrong WilliamsMany people, ... base their thinking about boys on the myth that `testosterone = aggressiveness = boys,` but nothing in the research, mine included, proves that equation to be true '¦ . So why do men behave so much more violently than women do, if there is no male `violence chromosome`? When boys feel disconnected (from adequate love and support) and afraid of being shamed, when they harden themselves and then put on the macho mask, the one emotion they feel it`s acceptable to show, and thus the only emotion they will show, is anger.
- Barry Carpenter