Hard Quotes

Why was love so easy for some people and so hard for others?

He was unbelievably hard. Everywhere. He was in control, infinitely stronger, and he wanted me to know it. -Ella

It's really hard to balance work and being a mother.

Because when all you have is the past, it's hard to let it go.

How can we not create a fantasy in our minds when the reality is so hard?

When you want something so badly, you just do it. You don't think about how hard it's going to be.

It's hard to have a friend when your name's a household word.

I've been spending this last month trying to find four outfits to wear to the different premieres of The Two Towers. It's hard work.

Friends and family matter most during hard times.

I want to be the person whose art is accessible, who someone could look at and say "That's doesn't look so hard, I could do that."

I think it's hard for everyone to find their way as an adult and to match up their expectations from their youth to what their adult life looks like.

One thing that was inspiring to me in my research about [Georgia] O'Keeffe was to learn that in addition to her success she had very hard times, and times when she was frustrated and uninspired.

people with romantic illusions find it hard to make a living.

What I'm saying is that I tried very hard to give them my reality and my reality is kind of interesting.

North Carolina is an amazing place. It has the best food, and also has folks fighting really hard for what's right.

I usually don't know how to fight hard for roles. I've certainly sent a passionate letter or two... which always leads nowhere.

He's up there. But (Marat) Safin, on his game, is as hard to beat.

And they are beginning to realize that the world they live in is a place where the right thing is often hard, sometimes dangerous, and frequently unpopular.

When women smoke, it is hard for them to quit because they are so worried about their weight; it's a vanity issue and a mindset.

A judicious reticence is hard to learn, but it is one of the great lessons of life.

It's really hard as a screenwriter, you feel like you have a vision and then you turn it over to a director and you have to let it go.

I think, as a woman, you do sort of have to work twice as hard, but I don't feel as if I wasn't given opportunities.

It's so hard to find a director who, when you look at their body of work, you like everything.

It's hard to keep a play alive moment-to-moment, you know? But there's another part of it that I really love, which is that you never know.

It's hard to start from the bottom.

For the first month, I listened, and I tried very hard not to draw conclusions

My parents worked enormously hard to put four children through college. We didn't have a lot of money.

If you want to get a deal, negotiate with the teams yourself. Say, "I want this much, and no less, but I'll show up to camp on time." It doesn't seem that hard to me.

One thing I've often thought is that I never want to tell anybody else what to do. It's hard enough to figure out what I want to do.

The injuries we do in kind are visited upon us often. In the science of the mind, trying hard to move a shadow.

I've tried to do away with lying in my life in the last few years, but it's hard.

It's hard to know where your thoughts come from, especially when you have a thirst for material because you need it professionally.

I find that when people laugh really hard, it's usually because they're connecting and identifying in a way that they hadn't considered. That's my payoff.

If you will just start with the idea that this is a hard world, it will all be much simpler.

Prig and philistine, Ph.D. and C.P.A., despot of English 218c and big shot of the Kiwanis Club-how much, at bottom, they both hate Art, and how hard it is to know which of them hates it the more.

There have always been hard times. There have always been wars and troubles

It's very hard to know who your readers are, but that's who I'm... if I have somebody in my head, that's probably who it is.

When you stop to examine the way in which our words are formed and uttered, our sentences are hard-put to it to survive the disaster of their slobbery origins.

So she doesn't call desertion, poverty, and hard work troubles? She's a brave little girl, and I shall be proud to know her.

It is as hard to take success as it is failure.

It is said that the offender never forgives. Certainly it is quite explicitly hard for the one in the wrong to do so. And it takes more spiritual asset than continued alcohol often leaves.

A good special education teacher is hard to find and even harder to hang on to.

All the hard work means something. That's all you can really ask for, as an actor.

And what's wrong with dimming the harsh reality of life a little, anyway? In essence, being alive is a bloody long and hard walk to death. Why not make it as pleasant along the way as you can?

It's always been hard for me to do without sounding precious or too corny or whatever.

The consumption of information, films, music has been changing in recent decades. It's hard to know what will become the film that can not easily reach [audiences].

It's so hard to get up again—although of course the harder it is the more satisfaction you have when you do get up, haven't you?

There is no use in loving things if you have to be torn from them, is there? And it's so hard to keep from loving things, isn't it?

It's good advice, but I expect it will be hard to follow; good advice is apt to be, I think.

There's a strange thing goes on inside a bubble. It's hard to describe. People who are in it can't see outside of it, don't believe there is an outside.