Hard Not Quotes

#1. I did start wrestling after I moved to Iowa, I think in the seventh grade. It's really a part of the Iowa culture so it's hard not to do it if you like sports.

Robbie Lawler

#2. It's hard not to stand in awe and enchantment with the beauty in which nature expresses herself.

Steve Maraboli

#3. Audrey Griffin's eyes were wild, and she had a big smile as usual, and she was shaking a piece of paper at us. Her gray hair was coming out of its ponytail, and she was wearing clogs, and under her down vest you could see the pleats on her jeans bulging out. It was hard not to watch.

Maria Semple

#4. There's no way I can compete with someone who can write rap or rock and roll. Nor do I wish to. But I've always kept up to date with music changes. I worked very hard not to type myself.

Elmer Bernstein

#5. This is why everyone thinks villains are evil. Because when superheroes start spouting off crap about how much better they are than us, it makes it really hard not to kill them.

Chelsea M. Campbell

#6. I've been trying so hard not to think his name, not to even breathe the idea of him

Lauren Oliver

#7. The smile that creased his thickish lips reminded me of Baby Bear's bed: not too hard, not too soft, just right.

Stephen King

#8. But in the meantime, you must be content, I say, to be misunderstood for a while. We are all very anxious to be understood, and it is very hard not to be. But there is one thing much more necessary."
"What is that, grandmother?"
"To understand other people.

George MacDonald

#9. Mr Gray didn't care much for Jonesy's body (or so he told himself; in truth it was hard not to feel at least some affection for something capable of providing such unexpected pleasures as 'bacon' and 'murder'), but it did have to take him another couple of hundred miles.

Stephen King

#10. It's hard not to be impressed by my older relatives.

Gia Coppola

#11. Besides," Shea continued, ignoring his words and trying hard not to feel what he was making her feel, "you don't want me either. Not really. You're just intrigued because I'm the only set of ovaries in town that doesn't flutter my eyelashes at you and giggle incessantly." ~ Shea

Sibylla Matilde

#12. To men like that, time was a surfeit, a barrel they watched slowly drain. When really, he thinks, it's a glowing puddle you carry in your hands; you should spend all your energy protecting it. Fighting for it. Working so hard not to spill one single drop.

Anthony Doerr

#13. Caine:
Sheep. So long as they had a shepherd to ward off the wolves, they were happy. Spineless, indifferent, weak, stupid: it was hard not to have complete contempt for them.

Michael Grant

#14. It's hard not to feel guilty when starving people bring you food.

Liesl Shurtliff

#15. When things are fantastic, it's hard not to expect that the worst is waiting to pounce on you from a dark corner.

Penny Reid

#16. It's hard not to get depressed when you pay attention to the world and how strangely and corrupt the people in it sometimes behave.

Viggo Mortensen

#17. Sometimes it is hard not to say, 'God forgive God.' Sometimes it is hard to say so much. But if our faith is true, He didn't. He crucified Him.

C.S. Lewis

#18. I love the Internet, but it's hard not to get lost in it. It's not like a book where you start and get to the end. It's like we've found a way to encapsulate all of human knowledge within one thing only to learn that you can't do that. It's an overabundance of information.

Jarvis Cocker

#19. You're enjoying this,' said Amy. 'My whole world has been taken over by a mysterious voice. All the people are extinct. Rory's gone. And you're enjoying this.'
'No, I'm not,' said the Doctor, trying hard not to show how much he was enjoying it.

Neil Gaiman

#20. It's hard not to like Asimov; he's a really likable guy.

Cory Doctorow

#21. It's hard not to be happy when you're eating a big steak.

Laurel Snyder

#22. You were spying on us?"
"It was kind of hard not to. You were right there by the workshop with Will. it looked like he was practically squishing you to death."
"He wasn't," Ronnie assured him.
"I'm just saying how it looked."
She smiled. You'll understand when you're a little older.

Nicholas Sparks

#23. He was staring hard, not at his wife and me but at his daughter watching us. In his cold pupil, in the firm twist of his lips, was reflected Madame Miyagi's orgasm reflected in her daughter's gaze.

Italo Calvino

#24. It's hard not to root for Henrik Lundqvist, he's practically perfect.

Mike Milbury

#25. When moral superiority combines with billowing ignorance, they fill up a hot-air balloon that's awfully hard not to poke.

Barbara Kingsolver

#26. Gwen was fighting really hard not to get caught up in Blayne's excitement. She'd done it before, gotten caught up. And that way laid madness ... and jail time.

Shelly Laurenston

#27. Hundreds had come to the castle gates to bear witness to the burning of the Seven. The smell in the air was ugly. Even for soldiers, it was hard not to feel uneasy at such an affront to the gods most had worshiped all their lives.

George R R Martin

#28. It's hard not to be excited when you're going to find a way to land on the moon.

Alan Bean

#29. I'm sorry. I know you loved her. It was hard not to.

John Green

#30. Write as much as you can.
As fast as you can.
Finish your shit.
Hit your deadlines.
Try very hard not to suck.

Chuck Wendig

#31. Difficile est satiram non scribere
[It is hard not to write a satire]

Juvenal

#32. This earth is seventy percent water. Hard not to walk into it.

Jacqueline Woodson

#33. You always need to work hard. You always need to be willing to work hard. Not everything will be hard, but you should, at the very least, be willing to work hard.

Tom Giaquinto

#34. It's hard not
to jump out
instead of
waiting to be
found. It's
hard to be
alone so long
and then hear
someone come
around. It's
like some form
of skin's developed
in the air
that, rather
than have torn,
you tear.
Hide and Seek

Kay Ryan

#35. I had to fight so hard not to cry.

Julie Anne Peters

#36. It was hard not to realize what kind of kid his parents wished they'd had, and when he thought about that kind of kid it was tempting for Paul to want to track, hunt, and eat the little thing.

Ben Marcus

#37. Teen angst is so boring, isn't it? I try so hard not to be a cliche, but it's like written in my DNA to hate my parents and be totally unsatisfied with everything. I wonder if there's anyone our age who actually likes their life.

Amy Reed

#38. That penetrating gaze, that intelligence; it's hard not to be anthropomorphic when you're looking at a great ape - at any primate - but especially with gorillas. They're just so magnificent.

K.A. Applegate

#39. He made it so hard not to love him. When he was sweet like this, I remembered why I did. Used to love him, I mean. I remembered everything.

Jenny Han

#40. I try very hard not to take work home, but it can be tricky. Sometimes it feels as if you are wearing your costume underneath your own clothes! I suppose things are always ticking away in the back of your mind.

Anne-Marie Duff

#41. When I look back, I don't have regrets. In the moment I am really, really hard on myself, I'm definitely my own worst critic and can be my own worst enemy, and I'm trying very hard not to be that.

Emma Stone

#42. I got famous in my 30s. I already had a real life and kids and responsibilities, like laundry and cleaning bathrooms. It's hard not be grounded when you have that. I think, if you get super-famous and everyone tells you you're wonderful when you're 12, it's probably a lot harder.

Stephenie Meyer

#43. It's true that cilantro has a strange, strong flavor. People seem to love it or not like it at all. Even I didn't like it at first when I had it in Peru. But I got used to it - it's hard not to in South America - and now I can't live without it.

Nobu Matsuhisa

#44. Levi is one of the best authors I've ever read. It's hard not to have an immediate personal response to his work. He has such a quiet tone.

John Turturro

#45. Why do you need to see him? (Remi)
Wolf business, and the last time I sniffed, which I'm trying real hard not to do 'cause the stench of you assholes is rough on my heightened sense of smell, you're a bear. Grab his hide and send it over. (Fury)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#46. I've forgotten lines all the time. Sometimes I switch verses in a song. It's just hard not to when you're doing the same thing all the time.

Josh Young

#47. When everyone thinks they know you, it's hard not to be guarded.

Erica Jong

#48. It's hard not to think of Jack Ford when you're making a Western. Hard not to think of him when you're making any picture.

Howard Hawks

#49. It's hard not to admire you when you're standing so perfectly.

H.M. Ward

#50. It's so hard not to smile.

Zoe Sugg

#51. But there's no way round it-commercial success is a mark of failure for a graffiti artist. We're not supposed to be embraced in that way. When you look at how society rewards so many of the wrong people, it's hard not to view financial reimbursement as a badge of self-serving mediocrity.

Banksy

#52. Writing is about allowing yourself to become a vessel of creativity. Writers are avatars of creation. We have tender hearts, and strong emotions. It's hard not to when you have a million different people's personalities playing out in your head.

Sai Marie Johnson

#53. It's very hard not to be condescending when you're explaining something to an idiot.

Bill Maher

#54. It is very hard not to see extensive and basic similarities between these (Pagan) religions and the Christian Religion. But somehow Christian scholars have managed not to see it, and this, one must suspect, for dogmatic reasons.

Robert M. Price

#55. Nurse Angela, with her love of cats and orphans, once remarked of Homer Wells that the boy must adore the name she gave him because he fought so hard not to lose it.

John Irving

#56. I think topical songwriting is a real gift, and it's hard not to be pedantic and show up with the sledgehammer message.

Mary Chapin Carpenter

#57. I always believe that every one of us is working hard not only for our own performance but also to give something significant back to the societies we live in.

Yani Tseng

#58. It's hard to measure up to 'Battlestar' - it's hard not to measure things against it.

Jamie Bamber

#59. When you've got a Chautauqua in your head, it's extremely hard not to inflict it on innocent people.

Robert M. Pirsig

#60. We are not made to view things as independent from each other. When viewing two events A and B, it is hard not to assume that A causes B, B causes A, or both cause each other. Our bias is immediately to establish a causal link.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#61. When you're dependent, it's very hard not to be worried about the approval of whoever and whatever you're dependent on. For

Gloria Steinem

#62. It's hard not to love Roomba. Roomba had such an amazing impact on the field. When we launched, we asked people, 'Is it a robot?' and got an overwhelming no - 'robots' have arms and legs; they command data. There was a very strong perception that robots had to look like people.

Colin Angle

#63. Nothing is more powerful than the black church experience. A good choir and a good sermon in the black church, it's pretty hard not to be move and be transported.

Barack Obama

#64. I know in the heat of battle, it's hard not to get angry, especially in the 19th inning.

Joe Torre

#65. Walking the stacks in a library, dragging your fingers across the spines
it's hard not to feel the presence of sleeping spirits.

Robin Sloan

#66. After watching too many scary movies it was hard not to have an overactive imagination, along with an inherent distrust of seemingly benevolent (and sometimes inanimate) things, like lawn gnomes.

Kat Stiles

#67. The deaths, well, they did stack up, one after another. Kind of hard not to take them personally. Did I blame myself? Hell to the no. Did it piss me off and make me want to douse the entire compound in gasoline and start throwing matches? Hell yes.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#68. When you're rich and famous you are the dominant force in a relationship, even if you try hard not to be. I've talked of sacrificing everything for Fleetwood Mac, but I realize now that it is simply the only thing I've ever wanted to do.

Stevie Nicks

#69. This is why we all fight so hard. Not just for the vote, but for an equal opportunity in the world. A vote is a voice. I think you underestimate yourself, Queenie. This is your fight, same as it is mine.

Sharon Biggs Waller

#70. Only now have I finally realized that my life has been an unending field trip. And I have tried hard not to be a tourist. But to be an adventurer, a traveler, an explorer, a learner, and a pilgrim.

Robert Fulghum

#71. Eluned had to work very hard not to stare impolitely, for Princess Celestine was reputedly the daughter of a dragon, and thus naturally the most interesting person who could possibly interrupt afternoon tea.

Andrea K. Host

#72. I'm going to be the nominee. It's very hard not to look at the recent polls and think that the odds are very high I'm going to be the nominee.

Newt Gingrich

#73. I wouldn't think I would coach again, because it would just be hard not being in the Cowboys' blue.

Tom Landry

#74. I don't want to be married anymore. I was trying so hard not to know this, but the truth kept insisting itself to me.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#75. The secret is just to not give up hope. It's very hard not to, because if you're really doing something worthwhile I think you will be pushed to the brink of hopelessness before you come through the other side. And you just have to hang in through that." ~ George Lucas

Vanessa Moore

#76. Right now, I needed to be the man I tried so hard not to be in order to be someone worthy of the girl I was trying to save. I

Jay Crownover

#77. Kissing booth? - Stella
Keeping tabs on me? - Chet
Hard not to. when they wrote your name on the roster, girls within a ten mile radius swooned and fainted flat on their backs. -Stella
But not you? - Chet
I don't kiss friends - Stella

Becca Fitzpatrick

#78. Losing is only temporary and not encompassing. You must simply study it, learn from it, and try hard not to lose the same way again. Then you must have the self-control to forget about it.

John Wooden

#79. I try really hard not to be attached to success.

Andie MacDowell

#80. It's hard not to act like you know it all when you do.

Nancy Crocker

#81. I'm trying hard not to use a specific reference, but you'll probably know it's you after the first sentence.

Donald Glover

#82. Sometimes you'll see people give performances in comedy with an ironic detachment where they'll sort of be remarking on the character from outside of it. They're sort of commenting as they're playing the character. I think it's hard not to do that. I've certainly done that.

Zach Woods

#83. I try hard not to make the same mistake more than 3 or 4 times in a row.

Janet Evanovich

#84. I work really hard not to have a kitsch tone to any of my work, particularly radio stuff, which sometimes goes in that direction on certain programs.

Meghan Daum

#85. You know I don't listen to market gossip," she began,
"but it is hard not to hear it when my daughter's name is mentioned.

Tracy Chevalier

#86. It is hard not to see into the future, faced with today's blind architecture - a thousand times more stupid and more revolting than that of other ages. How bored we shall be inside!

Andre Breton

#87. We have to fight twice as hard, three times as hard - not only as conservatives, but frankly, as women - to have our voices heard.

Ann Wagner

#88. It's hard not to be romantic about baseball

Billy Beane

#89. The secret is not to give up hope. It's very hard not to because if you're really doing something worthwhile I think you will be pushed to the brink of hopelessness before you come through the other side. - GEORGE LUCAS

George Lucas

#90. I feel that I have such an abundance in my life, and once you've seen how many people suffer and how little it takes for you to actually change their lives for the better, it's hard not to do something.

Wendie Malick

#91. There are a lot of eating disorders in our sport, so I try very hard not to get consumed by all that.

Laura Wilkinson

#92. It's hard not to smile when you're going eyeball to eyeball with a frosted chocolate cupcake.

Shannon Wiersbitzky

#93. I'm not really caught up in the whole commercial thing of Christmas. I'm probably more of a pagan than a Christian, but it's hard not to get caught up in it.

Ian Astbury

#94. When you're young, it's hard not to get together with your costar.

Amanda Seyfried

#95. When you bump into your own mom at an orgy, it's hard not to get her to read into certain things.

Russell Brand

#96. I think everyone is always measuring themselves against other people to a certain degree; it happens automatically, and it's hard not to be this way at least some of the time.

Meg Wolitzer

#97. This is going to hurt, isn't it?"
"Yes it is."
"Am I allowed to call you names?"
It was very very hard not to laugh. Impertinent little brat.

Bianca Sommerland

#98. Occasionally, I'll be on the Internet and see something about me and give in to the urge to click on it. It's hard not to. Usually, I wish I didn't.

Carrie Underwood

#99. To its credit, hip-hop is my favorite genre, to this day, and it's hard not to be influenced by the culture and by the movement of it and by the soul of it.

Miguel

#100. When everything in your life is right on track, it's easy to believe that things happen for a reason. It's easy to have faith. But when things start to go wrong, then it's very hard to hold on to that faith. It's hard not to wonder who's reasons these things are happening for.

Dakota Fanning