Hard Facts Life Quotes

#1. Even to an outsider like myself, not only in the theatre was such disunity evident, but in much else in government Spain. Alvarez del Vayo, Socialist Minister of Foreign Affairs, once asked, Why is it Spain's people are so great, but her leaders so small?

Langston Hughes

#2. I think that if the novel's task is to describe where we find ourselves and how we live now, the novelist must take a good, hard look at the most central facts of contemporary life - technology and science.

Richard Powers

#3. Seriously. We were never like that were we?

Stephanie Perkins

#4. In fact, my main conclusion after spending ten years of my life working on the T E X project is that software is hard. It's harder than anything else I've ever had to do.

Donald Knuth

#5. The greater part of the suffering in the world is caused not by wicked intents and hard hearts, but by the careless desire to shirk unpleasant facts, and the soft-heartedness that will assuage momentary pain at the price of making a life-long cripple, either mentally, morally, or physically.

Marah Ellis Ryan

#6. I mean normally you have your agent call the other agent and all the agents talk and then finally you get a phone call and you hear some misrepresentation of what someone else had to say.

Radha Mitchell

#7. I don't mind ... the fun and games of being treated like a fragile flower. But as a physiologist working with the unromantic scientific facts of life, I find it hard to delude myself about feminine frailty.

Estelle Ramey

#8. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else.

Charles Dickens

#9. Mostly, we argued about who which of us was better at arguing, and particularly about who had won the previous argument.

Chuck Klosterman

#10. The empire of custom is most mighty.

Publilius Syrus

#11. Now, what I want is, Facts ... Facts alone are wanted in life.

Charles Dickens

#12. People who've been hurt like hurting others [..]

Alice Walsh

#13. The man who seeks to educate himself must first read and then travel in order to correct what he has learned.

Giacomo Casanova

#14. Ideally, what you would like to have eventually is such a unique and identifiable brand that when someone says 'Indiana State University,' they know exactly what that means. And that takes a long time coming.

Marc Edwards

#15. Life is cruel and unfair, my friends, and that is fact.

Stephan Jenkins

#16. A strong will deals with the hard facts of life as a sculptor with his marbles, making them facile and yielding to his purposes, and conquering their stubbornness by a greater stubbornness in himself.

Christian Nestell Bovee

#17. The fact that we die, that makes life important. It's hard to take, but it's the truth.

Alan Ball

#18. That's an incredibly depressing thought," I said "that if you're in a room and at one end lies madness and at the other end lies sanity it is human nature to veer towards the madness end.

Jon Ronson

#19. You should just go, go to work, work hard, be a perfectionist, be a workhorse. If you work 10 years straight, you'll be comfortable and set for life. That is a fact.

Greg Gutfeld

#20. When we don't like to face up to hard facts, we use soft words. We do not speak about killing a baby within the womb, but about "termination of potential life." Words are often multiplied to try to cover dark deeds.

Neal A. Maxwell

#21. It was a hard lesson to learn, but eventually I had to come to grips with the fact that I cannot solve everyone's problems and lead them to a happy, fulfilled life. They have to figure that out on their own.

Theo Rossi

#22. You have to live what you write, or you have to know it. There are exceptions, like story songs, where you just have to have your facts straight. But I think you don't have to live a hard life to be a good or interesting songwriter.

Justin Townes Earle

#23. Life wasn't all fucking sunshine and rainbows. Real life was hard.

Kendall Ryan