Hard Quotes

I dream of land, cut only where streams glistened with birdsong wander through quiet hills burnt hard by the scrape of wind, and of a porch from which a single road leads only homeward.

There is no class of people so hard to manage in a state, as those whose intentions are honest, but whose consciences are bewitched.

We are creatures of imitation. We find it hard to resist the temptation to do that which we see others doing.

Cutting PBS support (0.012% of budget) to help balance the Federal budget is like deleting text files to make room on your 500Gig hard drive

Any suggestion that the most open and diverse society on the planet is likely to in any way resemble Russia requires a suspension of common sense that is pretty hard to deal with.

It's hard for people to see you one way, but you're really the other way, so it's kind of like, 'Who am I, who are you?' Sometimes, I confuse even myself.

I love a confident guy and a guy that makes me laugh and who is a little hard to get. Don't be too easy.

My mother was a good recreational cook, but what she basically believed about cooking was that if you worked hard and prospered, someone else would do it for you.

What I love about cooking is that after a hard day, there is something comforting about the fact that if you melt butter and add flour and then hot stock, it will get thick!

How hard it is, sometimes, to trust the evidence of one's senses! How reluctantly the mind consents to reality.

Nothing of great value in this life comes easily. The things of highest value sometimes come hard. The gold that has the greatest value lies deepest in the earth, as do the diamonds.

The heart hid still in the dark, hard as the Philosophers Stone.

When you really have the preparation time and things start taking the shape that they need, you have a beautiful feeling that comes from the hard work.

Sin has made us stupid, so that we can only learn the hard way.

I wish there were more young people in the big houses, but sometimes it's really hard for them to believe in the youth because they go for what's the most expected.

It is awfully hard work doing nothing.

I have always been of the opinion that hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing whatever to do.

God's will is hard only when it comes up against our stubbornness, then it is as cruel as a ploughshare and as devastating as an earthquake.

Only the Lord knows how many children lose heart because their fathers have hard days.

It was all about flying round the world, working hard, being on the cover of Vogue, making money. It wasn't fun. It was exhausting, but I was young and convinced I knew best.

Now unless you have billions of dollars, it's impossible to reach tens of millions of American people no matter how hard you campaign.

You don't become great by trying to be great. You become great by wanting to do something, and then doing it so hard that you become great in the process.

If I go as hard as I can in practice, make sure it's a lot harder than than a fight, then the fight's going to be easy.

Well, it's simple to love someone," she said. "But it's hard to know when you need to say it out loud.

Being faced with too many options. I mean, it makes me feel as though I'm overwhelmed by too many possibilities; that can be a very vulnerable feeling because it's hard to make a decision.

Anubis frowned. He locked his very nice eyes with mine. “You’re not dead.” “No,” I said. “Though we’re trying awfully hard.

I do not believe in loving enemies; I have pretty hard work to love my friends.

Attempt the end and never stand to doubt; Nothing's so hard, but search will find it out.

No matter how hard you try it is impossible to be grateful and depressed.

(What makes his world so hard to see clearly is not its strangeness but its usualness).Familiarity can blind you too.

As long as experiencing your optimal level of good stress doesn't damage others, it's hard to objectively define where normal enjoyment of stimulation becomes adrenaline junkiehood.

I didn't want to chase movies. It's too hard. You've got to work at it - opening nights, photo shoots, publicity people, managers. I never wanted to do that. I'm too lazy.

One must, however, not just work hard. One must work smart. As the saying goes, the efficient person gets the job done right; the effective person gets the right job done.

It's hard to determine where lies culpability.

There is a magic in some books / That sucks a man into connections / With the spirits hard to touch / That join him to his kind.

Capital isn't hard to find; intuition, yes.

A hard word follows us and later falls upon him who pronounced it, like a ray of vengeance.

I think that what my parents taught me about hard work, optimism and education still holds true.

It's hard to have little children and a job and career at the same time. There is no time left for you as a woman.

Becoming an actor? If it's not a calling, don't do it. It's too hard.

I think I'm way too much of a control freak to co-author anything with anyone. I have a hard enough time writing with myself! I admire people that can do it, but it's not for me.

I mean, I love being with friends and I love kissing and loving someone to pieces. But it's hard to find someone who doesn't ultimately start judging you and your choices.

I believe both the mind and the body need to be strong. We practise so hard that even if we hit a saturation point, we can't stop because that is the kind of dedication the sport requires.

Hard work is rewarding. Taking credit for other people's hard work is rewarding and faster.

There are 6 billion people in the world. It's hard to find the one person who's right for you.

The hard part about playing 'chicken' is knowing when to flinch.

I don't know if I've had my share of drama, but I've definitely had my share of hard times.

Positive thinking is hard. Worth it, though.

Forgiveness is the best part of valor...Discretion is easy. It's finding the courage to forgive yourself and others that is hard. [Acheron]

I'm really just tryna bring it home for my city, I'm trying so hard to be the best I can be on every record I do, every feature I do and every different city I go to.