Top 100 Hard To Keep Quotes
#1. it is hard to keep your feet on the earth while your heart looks for the heavens.
Muriel Maufroy
#2. I stopped dropping acid for a while after my daughter was born. It's hard to keep an eye on the kid while you're hallucinating.
Grace Slick
#3. Her two worlds, two lives that she tried so hard to keep separate, were crashing together. And she felt helpless to stop it.
Aprilynne Pike
#4. Hell must be a pretty swell spot, because the guys that invented religion have sure been trying hard to keep everybody else out.
Al Capone
#5. It's very hard to keep your spirits up. You've got to keep selling yourself a bill of goods, and some people are better at lying to themselves than others. If you face reality too much, it kills you ... you've got to find an answer to the question: Why go on?
Woody Allen
#6. 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.
Lorraine Bracco
#7. Love is hard to find, hard to keep, and hard to forget.
Alysha Speer
#8. Shame can kill the imagination. It's hard to keep writing in the face of cultural derision.
Eloisa James
#9. Worried, I touched the jacket's sleeve. "You think it's too much?" I asked, working hard to keep my tone non-combative. I'd had this conversation with ex-roommates before.
Kim Harrison
#10. I try to be cynical, but it's so hard to keep up.
Lily Tomlin
#11. A novel is more a symphony, opera, oratorio. It exists in time, it goes by you a sound dying out as you write on, so that it is very hard to keep in touch with the whole thing ...
Dorothy Bryant
#12. The world was changing so fast it was hard to keep up. Grigori had never been inside
Ken Follett
#13. -there was something in her, something that was ... pure horror. Everything you were supposed to watch out for. Heights, fire, shards of glass, snakes, Everything that his mom tried so hard to keep him safe from.
John Ajvide Lindqvist
#14. It's hard to keep a secret when it's written all over your body ...
Julia Hoban
#15. I'm a big fan of the American Tapes label. But that's very hard to keep a grip on that because you blink your eyes and they've released three records, all of which are limited edition, all sold at one show. So you have to follow in drips and drops on eBay, which I do.
Henry Rollins
#16. With family dramas, it's hard to keep those stories alive.
Emily VanCamp
#17. I didn't expect it to come so quickly. It's been hard to keep up with. There's been articles in the papers that say I've got too big for my boots but people who know me say I'm just the same. Things have changed in my life but I haven't, too many people would knock me down if I did.
David Beckham
#18. Childhood love can endure but childhood promises are hard to keep.
Barry Walsh
#19. I, for one, am pretty exhausted since I started blogging almost a year ago. But I am blaming that on my two sons, aged 3 and 6, whose perpetual-motion-machine energy is hard to keep up with at my advanced age.
Kara Swisher
#20. Casual games are a great way to spend time when you get bored. It's hard to keep people off all their little games.
Lea Thompson
#21. She was swaying slightly from side to side, and he could see her shoulders rise and fall with each shuddering breath.
He knew that sort of breath. It was the one you drew when you were trying so hard to keep your feelings inside, but you just weren't strong enough.
Julia Quinn
#22. It's hard to keep a straight face when I just wanna smile- Fun.
Fun
#23. It's really not hard to keep your dignity and sign to a major label ... Most people don't have any dignity in the first place.
Kurt Cobain
#24. Ours was a hard love. We'd fallen hard into it, and we'd fought hard to keep it. Our kind of love didn't ask nicely. It took. It ravaged. It consumed the heart whole and asked questions later. The rewards were soul-deep and all-consuming, sweeping through like a wildfire.
Meredith Wild
#25. The people closest to you routinely catch the flak thrown off by the explosive stuff you normally work so hard to keep hidden.
Andy Stanley
#26. It's never fifty-fifty in a marriage. Someone falls in love first. Someone puts someone else up on a pedestal. Someone works hard to keep things rolling smoothly, someone else sails along for the ride. Someone who would do anything to keep it the way it was in the beginning.
Jodi Picoult
#27. When I look into your eyes I still get weak
And when Im this close to you I just cant speak
And its hard to keep my hands to myself
When I know I could never love anybody else
Gary Allan
#28. But it was hard to keep his hands still. He could almost feel them twitching emphatically with his strong desire to reach out and stroke the dog's head. He had such a terrible yearning to love something again, and the dog was such a beautiful ugly dog.
Richard Matheson
#29. It's kind of hard to keep going sometimes but you just have to believe in what you are and what you can do and that's the way to success.
Buddy Guy
#30. I'm making a record that's half stripped down acoustic which is the way I perform a lot and half of it is very produced. It's really hard to keep music simple but I was trying to keep it simple and focus on one or two instruments and vocals.
Lisa Loeb
#31. I also get that we women in particular must work very hard to keep our fantasies as clearly and cleanly delineated from our realities as possible, and that sometimes it can take years of effort to reach such a point of sober discernment.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#32. We go through our lives trying so hard to keep things black and white that we forget that the rainbow of love is actually colourful.
Minakhi Misra
#33. It's hard to keep track when you're looking into so many, isn't it?
Kasie West
#34. Life is like art. You have to work hard to keep it simple and still have meaning.
Charles De Lint
#35. Dolly Parton ... I love being around that woman! I worked really hard to keep up with her.
Dom DeLuise
#36. Degeneracy can be fun but it's hard to keep up as a serious lifetime occupation.
Robert M. Pirsig
#37. I feel a strong hand caress my inner elbow and his lips at my ear. "You look good dancing."
I turn and Alex and I share the same breathing space. It's hard to keep my eyes away from his mouth. "Really? I didn't realize you saw me."
He narrows his eyes briefly. "I see you.
Isabelle Joshua
#38. I have a conscience, man, and I've worked really hard to keep it where you would feel like you were talking to the same man at one of my shows or sitting down at my dinner table.
Cody Johnson
#39. The fact of the matter is, when I'm on tour, I'm juggling so hard to keep all the balls in the air that I don't often get to really enjoy what I'm out there doing.
Amy Grant
#40. Information is a lot like water; it's hard to hold on to, and hard to keep from leaking away.
Ruth Ozeki
#41. I try very hard to keep my eyes from darting to Sean because I'm quite certain that no one will be able to miss how I look at him and how I find him looking back.
Maggie Stiefvater
#42. It's very hard to keep personal prejudice out of a thing like this. And no matter where you run into it, prejudice obscures the truth.
Reginald Rose
#43. I want to keep working with people that care about what they're doing. It seems obvious, but it's not. It's sometimes hard to keep on that track.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
#45. I am never home, and it's hard to keep up with things that are good for you to have in life like relationships, whether they be romantic or friendship. I have to work twice as hard to make sure I don't just check out. That's what I mean by vulnerability.
Jen Kirkman
#46. Clover was on the verge of tears but fought hard to keep them back. Never let them see you cry. Any sign of weakness put them into a feeding frenzy.
Shaunta Grimes
#47. It's hard to keep something a secret when it's written all over you body.
Julia Hoban
#48. Too easy to lose the way.
Too hard to keep from unraveling when there's nothing to remind you of who you
are and where you should be.
Another eternity passes in the flick of an eyelash.
Diana Rowland
#49. Love yourself as yourself. Never work to be someone else. Its too hard to keep up. Life is easier when you love you just as you are.
Janae Marie
#50. I did parallel entrepreneurship, which was very hard to do. It was hard to keep your head straight and know which ideas were with which company.
Jonah Peretti
#51. If your work is going to draw from life, you'd better work very hard to keep up with reality.
Lawrence Kasdan
#52. If you only knew all the love that I found, it's hard to keep my soul on the ground.
Bradley Nowell
#53. Pledge Allegiance was a pretty generic name back in the day. In the 80's I was the promoter for all the punk rock shows and I'd book Black Flag, Dead Kennedy's, Minor Threat etc and I'd hook them up with places to stay if needed so it's hard to keep track of it all.
Reed Mullin
#54. The challenge is to keep it fresh. If you're talking about Britney Spears over and over, it's very hard to keep that interesting.
Chelsea Handler
#55. I casually listen to mixes, but I don't know all the names of the tunes and the producers and stuff. It's hard to keep up with.
Jamie Woon
#56. I think the inhabitants of the past are fighting hard to keep the rents they acquired in the 20th century.
Michael Bennet
#58. Everything's changing so fast that it's sometimes hard to keep up.
Gus Van Sant
#59. And oh I want so much to sing, I tell myself no. But it is so hard to keep from singing.
Donna Jo Napoli
#60. All athletes need three things: commitment, discipline and hard work. Without that it's hard to keep running.
Haile Gebrselassie
#61. I like ice hockey, but it's a frustrating game to watch. It's hard to keep your eyes on both the puck and the players and too much time passes between scoring in hockey. There are usually more fights than there are points.
Andy Rooney
#62. People ask me why it is so hard to trust and I ask them why is it so hard to keep a promise.
Wiz Khalifa
#63. It's so hard to keep perspective and keep things in context, and it's so easy to get distracted. This film [Shelter] reminded me how important it is to remain aware, and to keep seeing the things that are happening around the world.
Jennifer Connelly
#64. I have so many plans! Sometimes it's hard to keep up because at this point it's just been me and the little bit of help my label gives me.
Meredith Brooks
#65. People always fancy that we must become old to become wise; but, in truth, as years advance, it is hard to keep ourselves as wise as we were.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#66. (Personal Note: I'm trying really hard to keep a straight face at this point)
Kieran Scott
#68. Climate change is like that; it's hard to keep it in your head for very long. We engage in this odd form of on-again-off-again ecological amnesia for perfectly rational reasons. We deny because we fear that letting in the full reality of this crisis will change everything. And we are right.5
Naomi Klein
#69. Something gets lost when you translate. It's hard to keep straight. Perspective is every thing.
Aimee Mann
#70. Sometimes ... I think parents work so hard to keep us from making their mistakes, they won't allow us to make our own.
Charles Sheehan-Miles
#71. I'd faced a lot of rejection from labels and the industry, and it was getting hard to keep believing in myself. But something wouldn't let me - inside - I had this voice that was relentlessly hopeful, and honestly, I just loved performing and writing too much to ever really quit.
Rachel Platten
#72. Another day of waiting to lose everything she'd fought so hard to keep. You
Chris Patchell
#73. When I started Shutterstock, I tried to get people access to big events. It's very hard to keep up, to publish them quick, and to get the right photographers.
Jon Oringer
#74. It's main storytelling hell because it's really hard to keep a secret. It's really hard to not communicate. But I think that's what's great about this world is it's a world where he is off the grid, and for me, it's a way to step back.
Brian Wayne Peterson
#75. 'Dune' was like a giant machine, and it was hard to keep track of all the pieces, but 'Blue Velvet' was a very sleek, compact little experience.
Kyle MacLachlan
#76. At the end of the day, it's hard to keep relationships with people. I've got my family, my best friends and if a girl's gonna be a part of that then it's got to be good. If not, I'm out.
Miles Teller
#77. I've had several moments in my career where it seemed like I might not age out of the bracket the world wants to put you in. It's hard to keep growing up inside the performing arts. It's very difficult, and presents a lot of unique challenges.
Ethan Hawke
#78. The oil industry fought hard to keep Keystone alive, making wildly exaggerated claims that the pipeline - the country's largest infrastructure project - would create tens of thousands of jobs and decrease America's reliance on oil from the Middle East.
Jeff Goodell
#79. In modelling, it's very hard to keep in touch with the people you knew when you started.
Azzedine Alaia
#80. Gee, its lonesome in the outfield. It's hard to keep awake with nothing to do.
Babe Ruth
#81. As soon as you start feeling like you can't trust the person and you need to check his phone or have his Facebook password or look through his messages - as soon as that trust barrier is broken - it's hard to keep a relationship going after that.
Austin Butler
#82. It's very hard to keep an uncrackable encryption if you share it with the government.
John McAfee
#83. Excuses are leaks in a boat. When you cover one, another pops up, and it's even bigger. It's hard to keep the boat repaired and get safely to shore if you have an excuse mind-set.
James Altucher
#84. In a novel, it's hard to keep track of everybody.
Irwin Shaw
#85. People relations is hard business. Hard to keep that going.
Jamie Ford
#86. One of the greatest challenges in collecting child support is that deadbeat dads move from job to job and state to state. it's hard to keep track of them.
Rod Blagojevich
#87. I learned early in my career, where you get so wrapped up and so excited, that all of a sudden you don't think. So I worked very hard to keep myself suppressed. And that's one of the reasons I wasn't gregarious with the gallery.
Jack Nicklaus
#88. Lots of hurtful secrets are better off kept. The problem is that people find it so hard to keep them.
Liane Moriarty
#89. I always separate myself from reviews, but tweets and Instagram comments, they go directly to my phone. It's hard to keep up.
Skylar Astin
#90. There may be something to the suggestion about the pace of technological change intimidating writers, though - it's been awfully hard to keep ahead of real developments.
Stanley Schmidt
#91. This was a man who'd fought long and hard to keep me, even when I was bent on self-destructing us. This was a man who understood I could be difficult and stubborn and a little bit irrational (okay, maybe a freaking lot irrational), and still loved me.
Samantha Young
#92. When I was a kid, my parents gave me piano lessons and guitar lessons for a while, but I was never very good at it. I have big, sort of awkward hands. It's hard to keep going when you don't get any better.
Christopher Walken
#93. The lighthouse teaches me to work hard, to keep my room clean, to be honest and to be nice to people." Then, reflecting, looking down at her feet, "My room is a mess and I lie sometimes and I'm not always nice to people but that's the idea.
Jeff VanderMeer
#94. Girls always told me..."Don't complicate things." I did my best. It was so hard to keep things simple.
Leos Carax
#95. Maybe that's why the Westmores never allowed any pets. Hard to keep them off the menu.
Jazz Feylynn
#97. Los Angeles has no seasons, so it's kind of hard to keep track of time here. The lines between spring, summer, fall, and winter all blur like my vision. I get stuck on repeat for different measures of eternity.
Kris Kidd
#99. It's hard to keep the energy going sometimes, that's why I like to go with a group of people who are meditating. I love meditating in groups, it's fantastic.
Donna Karan
#100. Don't get seduced by your own stuff; work hard to keep a blank slate state of mind each time you watch your film.
James Cameron
