Hard Quotes

What I ate for breakfast on school mornings was one buttered roll--a soft roll, not a hard roll--and one cup of cocoa; any attempt to alter this menu I regarded as a plot to poison me.

All those statistics that you are gathering about your own experiences and about others are only about how somebody has flowed Energy. It isn't about any hard fast reality.

If you write a page a day in couple months you have a good chunk of the book and then after a year you have almost a book. It's not that...hard.

It's so hard for every young person, trying to figure out the adult you want to be.

I always felt that a marriage works best at a farm... where you're together and everybody has clear-cut roles; they have chores, 'you take care of this' and you know. But it's hard.

It is very difficult for any couple who are married if both people are ambitious. I don't know if it's just too hard to be married to a woman that wants to be a movie star.

if you take passionate interest in a subject, it is hard not to believe yourself specially equipped for it.

I work very hard to achieve simplicity, which is never natural, never spontaneous. It's always obtained at the price of a great effort.

God helps him who strives hard.

Why do we make so much of knowledge, struggle so hard to get some little skill not worth the effort?

Most people don't need to work as hard as I do.

It's always hard when you've known a person a long time and then you have to recognise that you have nothing left in common but your memories.

Having taxed the economy so hard, it has created a big depression. So we have to create a tax system that could really help growth and investment that is the first thing.

All My Children taught me a great work ethic; you work so hard on a soap opera! It is a good way to start in the business, get success without getting a big head and learn your craft.

All My Children' taught me a great work ethic; you work so hard on a soap opera!

I've always been confident with who I was, but my twenties were hard. I had to learn a lot of life lessons and I think my thirties will be a little easier because of all the wrong turns I took.

When you have clay in your hands, it's hard to avoid making birds.

Well television is grueling. The hours are grueling, it's hard work, and there's a lot of pressure to get it done without a lot of rehearsal time.

For me there's a need for balance - fulfilling the sensitive side, letting my guard down, holding back the warrior in me. And I have to be vulnerable which is very hard for me to do.

I was a die-hard fan of these books [The Hobbit] before the films ever came out. And when I say die-hard, I wasn't the person who could speak Elvish, but I really loved them.

I grew up believing that the willingness and ability to work is the basic ingredient of successful farming. Hard, intelligent work is the key. Use it, and your chances for success are good.

Then came the war, old sport. It was a great relief, and I tried very hard to die, but I seemed to bear an enchanted life.

When someone holds a knife to your throat it's easy to be scared. It's not hard to imagine what it would be like.

There's so much stuff going on behind the cameras. Sometimes people think these things are done certain ways and when you watch that you see how hard and down and dirty it was.

It's very hard to admit that the choice of 3D technology can play an important role for the director while he's thinking about the movie. But it does play a big role.

I would work as hard as possible at school so I could keep acting alongside.

My mother was in advertising and worked incredibly hard when she was bringing us up. She was a working mother and a working single parent. That instills in you a sense of determination.

My mother [was in advertising and] worked incredibly hard when she was bringing us up. She was a working mother and a working single parent.

It's a hard slog doing promotion, but its nothing compared to working in a factory packing meat pies or whatever.

It’s very hard to be an innovator at the highest level in any discipline. For some chefs it’s merely about combining ingredients, but that’s something you can do with your eyes closed.

It's hard to dance with a devil on your back, So shake him off...

It did seem hard to be doing something heroic while everyone was too busy to notice.

Governments of all stripes want to deliver growth and rebalance their economies now that they have learned the hard way that, left to their own devices, markets pick expensive banking losers.

The simplest principles become difficult of practice, when habits, formed in error, have been fixed by time, and the simplest truths hard to receive when prejudice has warped the mind.

Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.

If there be fuel prepared, it is hard to tell whence the spark shall come that shall set it on fire.

I am not for any form of repression, but I sometimes think the desire for liberation masks the desire for oblivion. It's very hard to tell the difference sometimes.

Lovers, when they are no longer in love, find it very hard to break up.

I've tried very hard and I've never found any resemblance between the people I know and the people in my novels.

I never thought it would be easy to serve God," she said. "I just didn't think it would be this hard.

I think every player enjoys praise and I have to work extremely hard on the training ground to bring my game together.

...we still feel that color is hard on the eyes for so long a picture.

I don't like a lot of the stuff that goes on in the art world, but it's hard to be old and like what goes on around you.

Imagine a world without shadows. You cannot touch a shadow, but a world without them is a hard world, and flat.

I hope you don’t mind my joining you,” said Leanne. I minded. After all, she’d tried to kill me. A girl in a novel would say it was hard to believe, but it wasn’t.

Strength, strength alone, is honorable, the German nation clamors in its majesty. But since it is hard to muster strength so suddenly, they have to make do with boorishness.

Its hard for me to grasp that I might somehow be my fathers equal in any way.

Are you sick and tired of men sniveling and whining about how we women want to smother them? If you can still hear them whining you aren't holding the pillow down hard enough.

There's nothing hard about acting except the long hours.

Skyping with your spouse works well enough, but apparently it is hard to get the kids to hang out on Skype for long.