Top 100 Hard To Know Quotes
#1. Yes, you are under surveillance. Yes, it is odious. Yes, it should bother you. And yes, it's hard to know how to avoid it.
Nick Harkaway
#2. The strange days of summer. There is no here, no there, the days are incredibly still, the light is brightly muted--it's hard to know if that's the passing of the season or poor air quality.
A.M. Homes
#3. It's not easy being young. It's hard to know what to do.
Dolly Parton
#5. Once you have hundreds of millions of dollars, it's hard to know where to put it all. Art is transportable, unregulated, glamorous, arcane, beautiful, difficult. It is easier to store than oil, more esoteric than diamonds, more durable than political influence.
Nick Paumgarten
#6. I'm a B-boy at heart. I still like rhyming. It's just the radio game is like Chinese arithmetic. It's hard to know what nuts to crack. But I still love music, been dropping music. Never stopped, really.
Ice Cube
#7. It's hard to know what's right when everyone thinks you're wrong.
Iris Johansen
#8. Mom's smiles were so full of feeling that people leaned back a little when she greeted them. It was hard to know just how much was being offered.
Aimee Bender
#9. It seems lies come very easily to your race. They lie to those they lead, to their mates and fellows no matter how close- drawn, even to themselves if it will make the world around them more bearable. It is hard to know what to believe in this place." Something
Richard K. Morgan
#10. What do you want me to do? he whispers into the empty air.
It's hard to know.
Oh Jimmy, you were so funny.
Don't let me down.
From habit he lifts his watch; it shows him its blank face.
Zero hour, Snowman thinks. Time to go.
Margaret Atwood
#11. It's hard to know someone so well and then meet them for the first time in their new life.
Sarah Noffke
#12. It's sometimes hard to know who's choosing whom - the poem, the song, or the writer.
Cornelius Eady
#13. It is hard to know if what you are going to do in life is up to you, or a sum of the contribution of others, plus the circumstances you are born into.
Carlos Machado
#14. I've had trouble with criticism, I guess. It's hard to know what role criticism plays in either encouraging poets or in getting other people to read them.
Kenneth Koch
#15. Pity is like lust ... both like to masquerade as love and it's powerfully hard to know the difference when you're in the throes of it.
Michelle Black
#16. Some dreams matter. Most don't. Often it can be hard to know which might be which.
Dean Koontz
#17. Since spies must survive by telling lies, it can be hard to know when they are telling the truth.
Stephen Grey
#18. [She] was easy to enjoy but hard to know."
...
"It's unbearable, the not knowing.
Emma Donoghue
#19. In the Internet age, with the screaming on the radio, etc., it is hard to know what to believe and who is informed and who is not.
Michael Specter
#20. When you don't know what you're talking about, it's hard to know when you're finished.
Tommy Smothers
#21. It's hard to know everything about people close to you, even the people you love the most.
Kiera Cass
#22. I want to believe your love is only for me. That your lips are mine. That your kisses are meant for me. That your body belongs to me." His arms move to my waist and tighten around me and he presses his hard body against mine. "But when you leave me to see him, it's hard to know for sure.
Kim Karr
#23. It's like we each have a wall that separates our dreams from reality, but mine has cracks in it. The dreams can wriggle and squeeze their way through, until it's hard to know the difference.
Nathan Filer
#24. I do get very involved in making a scene work without giving too much thought about how it affects the overall, which I think is hard to know in any case.
Tom Drury
#25. It's hard to know exactly how people develop the characters they do. There could be people from humble beginnings that turn into jerks. Some characteristics are just part of that special soul of that human being.
David Maraniss
#26. It was hard to know what direction to take when you suddenly found yourself in a future different from the one you'd expected to be in the day before.
Dexter Palmer
#27. I hope that one day, my life will be different and richer, too, but from this vantage point, sitting here in this little room, it's so hard to know
Sara Shepard
#28. It's really hard to know what's a good idea when you're growing and these ideas don't hold still and neither do you.
Catherine Ryan Hyde
#29. In some situations, if you say nothing, you are called dull; if you talk, you are thought impertinent and arrogant. It is hard to know what to do in this case. The question seems to be, whether your vanity or your prudence predominates.
William Hazlitt
#30. I suppose it's the way we are, humans that we are. Always finding it easier to make ourselves the victim in someone else's tragedy.
Though it is true, too, that sometimes it is hard to know to whom the tragedy really belongs.
Chinelo Okparanta
#31. We have come to an age where it is very hard to know which is truth and which is deceit
Bangambiki Habyarimana
#33. It's extremely hard to know what the economic consequences of any decision will be. And I'm not a, a, a financial analyst, so I, I generally don't try to make some kind of prediction about that.
Naomi Oreskes
#34. It was hard to know what was worse: him being with her and all her sisters, or him being with none of them because his heart was held by another.
-Cormia
J.R. Ward
#35. Sometimes life is irreverent, and you accidentally discover you are a party to irreverence, and it's hard to know what to do.
Hilary Thayer Hamann
#36. I'm a fantasy writer. I don't do SF. This is important to me. If you're not clear on what genre you're in, everything gets muddled, and it's hard to know which rules you're breaking.
Lev Grossman
#37. People are really emotionally affected by actors. And it's hard to know how to behave in a way that doesn't impose or withdraw. Because everybody wants your attention.
Sharon Stone
#38. It is a mistake, too, to say that the face is the mirror of the soul. The truth is, men are very hard to know, and yet, not to be deceived, we must judge them by their present actions, but for the present only.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#39. In Japan, sometimes it's hard to know what you are looking at.
Simon McBurney
#40. I think sometimes it's hard to know what you feel, or to know what's real and what's not, because love or hate or any feeling is a belief. You can say you hate someone, but you don't truly know them.
Charlyne Yi
#42. What I've always found about going to a tailor is that it's a little bit daunting. You don't know exactly what it's going to look like, it's hard to know who to go to, and it's still a very expensive proposition.
Aslaug Magnusdottir
#43. A river, though, has so many things to say that it is hard to know what it says to each of us.
Norman Maclean
#44. It's hard to know what's right in this life,' she said. 'We do what we can, but what we really need is mercy. Do you know who taught me that?' A grin. 'You.'"
P459
Veronica Roth
#45. Without TV, it's hard to know when one day ends and another begins.
Homer
#46. But it is hard to know them from friends, they are so obsequious and full of protestations; for a wolf resembles a dog, so doth a flatterer a friend.
Walter Raleigh
#47. The problem with State of the Union speeches is that they are, by their nature and design, alphabet soup. It's hard to know what a president really cares about when they run down a laundry list and check every issue box under the sun for fear they will offend some constituency if they don't.
Mark McKinnon
#48. Bad men are never all bad, and good men are never all good, and it makes it hard to know up from down.
Rae Carson
#49. Buying's easier, selling's hard - [it's] hard to know when to get out.
Seth Klarman
#50. I think the opportunities are all over the place - around your corner or in more exotic locales. But everyone finding their own interest - sometimes it's hard to know what you're interested in, I think.
Natalie Portman
#51. So green this summer and so fresh. There are white and gold daisies among the grass in front of an old wire fence, a meadow with some cows and far in the distance a low rising of the land with something golden on it. Hard to know what it is. No need to know.
Robert M. Pirsig
#52. It's hard to know whether certain characters come to life or not, they either come to have their own life or they don't. I've written many things in which the characters just remain inert.
Neil Jordan
#53. A German goldsmith covered a bit of metal with cloth in the 14th century and gave mankind its first button. It was hard to know this as politics, because it plays like the work of one person, but nothing is isolated in history
certain humans are situations.
Lyn Hejinian
#54. It's a heavy responsibility, having saved someone's life. You feel an allegiance because you saved them, but it's hard to know if you did the right thing.
Victor Robert Lee
#55. It's hard to know exactly what it sounds like to me. I'm in the studio and I write it. and that's it.
Nuno Bettencourt
#56. It is hard to know what Sarah Palin means in Republican politics anymore.
Rachel Maddow
#57. With no bottom line, it's hard to know wrong from right. But I ain't ever satisfied.
John Mellencamp
#58. It is hard to know which is the more remarkable- that it took 600 million years for the Earth to make its oil, or that it took 300 years to use it up.
M. King Hubbert
#59. It's hard to know a truth when you've never encountered one.
Aleksandr Voinov
#60. It's hard to know what to say about somebody like that, except there are people who look for trouble. And trouble is very easy to find when you go looking for it.
Patty Hearst
#62. It's hard to know what's in a person's heart when she never says good-bye.
Kate Mulgrew
#63. Our best performances are so stained with sin, that it is hard to know whether they are good works or bad works.
Charles Spurgeon
#64. It was hard to know which of Billy's qualities was most important to his team's success: his energy, his resourcefulness, his intelligence, or his ability to scare the living shit out of even very large professional baseball players.
Michael Lewis
#65. My inbox [showed me] how much pain there is in the world. I appreciated hearing from people, but it was hard to know I couldn't do anything.
Emily Yoffe
#66. It's hard to know now who, if anyone, in the media has any credibility.
Howard Fineman
#67. Sometimes it feels like I'm all that they've got. It's so hard to know I'm not what they want.
Sara Quin
#68. I think it's hard to know. Feeling fulfilled, because actors face periods of unemployment, there is nothing worse than being at the top of your game; you have so much to give but do not have the platform to do this.
Michael York
#69. Sometimes it's hard to know why networks will stick with something. Sometimes the ratings won't happen, but there's excitement at the network, so they'll stay with the show.
Beau Bridges
#71. I want to get involved in causes I believe in, and I know so many others that want to also get involved, but it's hard to know how. Often, it's through big organisations, and you don't know exactly where your money is going or what effect you are having.
Blake Lively
#72. Writers aren't born properly labeled so it is hard to know one when one appears.
Julianna Baggott
#73. It's hard to know you'll never be enough just because you're not someone else.
Stacey Kade
#74. It's hard to know which made me more aware of the impossibility of protecting children - having a child die or having had two live.
Elizabeth McCracken
#75. The exaggerated dramatic force employed by Umfraville in presenting his narrative made it hard to know what demeanour best to adopt in listening to the story. Tragedy might at any moment give way to farce, so that the listener had always to keep his wits about him.
Anthony Powell
#76. Now that he has disavowed as outright lies many of the stories he told himself, it's hard to know what to make of those who still insist that David Brock had it right the first time.
Jane Mayer
#77. We put forth a very strong number. It's always hard to know, it's impossible to know what numbers are out there.
Tim Purpura
#78. That spin became so violent, it was hard to know how to get out of it. I was able to get it under control and break the speed of sound ... I could feel myself break the speed of sound. I could feel the air building up and then I hit it.
Felix Baumgartner
#79. We are taught to reinvent ourselves all the time. And nature is teaching us. What is necessary for us to do to create sustainability? There's a shift that has to take hold in our thinking, and it's hard to know when it's going to click for the larger percentage of us.
Horst Rechelbacher
#80. 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].
Lucrecia Martel
#81. I'm suddenly finding it hard to know the difference between nightmares and consciousness.
Lauren DeStefano
#82. 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.
Louis Menand
#83. Insanity's so personal. It's hard to know who shares our secrets.
Don DeLillo
#84. Sometimes it was hard to know where you stood with Lana. She was too busy protecting herself. If you weren't persistent, she never let you in.
Jen Frederick
#85. It's so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right.
George Bernard Shaw
#86. I still work hard to know my business. I'm continuously looking for ways to improve all my companies, and I'm always selling. Always.
Mark Cuban
#87. It's hard to know more about a person's life than what that person wants you to know.
Russell Banks
#88. You're not going to win by automatically going out there. It's hard to know what people really expect of you, and I've never tried to live up to expectations anyway. That's no way to play baseball.
Greg Maddux
#89. In software, it's easy to understand what people want, and it's hard to build. Internet stuff is super easy to build, but it's hard to know what people want.
Nick Hanauer
#90. It's hard to know what's gay in life. Boxing. That's two men fighting over a belt.
Demetri Martin
#91. Something will eventually replace the Internet. But it's hard to know what and when it will happen.
Reed Hastings
#92. It's hard to know what happy is if you're not sure if you've felt it before.
Kelly Thompson
#93. It's so funny castle, you know, at first I loved that he was so busy. It just, it just gave me the opportunity to keep one foot out the door just on case.
But with one foot out the door, it's hard to know where you stand.
And even if I did what does it mean?
Richard Castle
#94. It's hard to know another person. It's like everyone fades and glows in ever - changing light. Like we're each a playing card in a deck, random only to a certain point. Yet still random enough to keep us guessing which card will be played next.
E.M. Crane
#95. Stanley Kubrick, I had been told, hates interviews. It's hard to know what to expect of the man if you've only seen his films. One senses in those films painstaking craftsmanship, a furious intellect at work, a single-minded devotion.
Tim Cahill
#96. I tell people: 'Do what you love, but it can also be hard to know what you love early on. But when you think about it and you describe the options, which one gets you a little more excited?'
Brad D. Smith
#97. Well, it's simple to love someone," she said. "But it's hard to know when you need to say it out loud.
Rebecca Stead
#98. There is something embarrassing about someone else's grief. It is hard to know what to do around it. The right answer, always, is hugs.
Adam Gidwitz
#99. It is hard, said Mme Landau, when I told her about those railway lessons, in the end it is hard to know what it is that someone dies of. Yes, it is very hard, said Mme Landau, one really doesn't know.
W.G. Sebald
#100. They had stumbled either upon a serious flaw in modern financial markets or into a great gambling run. Characteristically, they were not sure which it was. As Charlie pointed out, It's really hard to know when you're lucky and when you're smart.
Michael Lewis
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