Quotes about hard-bitten (3 Quotes)

I was always playing the hard-bitten drunk.

But sooner or later, in a hard-bitten capital consumed in scandal, war and competition with rising powers like China, might the royal family ever be considered irrelevant and thus dropped from the dinner list That could happen, ... But I hope not in my lifetime. I was born dreaming of monarchies. I want to die that way.

I think there's a desire for results, a hard-bitten realism. The primary goal is not some sort of symbolic display, or some sort of posture or attitude, but results. If that's what it means, then I applaud the turn to practicality. Today the far right is in charge, and I don't think you can create the possibility of broad-based radicalism until you defeat the far right. Put the center in power and then you have the possibility--or the luxury--of radicalism.