Top 100 Quotes About Hard
#1. Don't be rude to the middle-agers," he says. "They didn't even have microwaves when they were young, and that's really, really sad." "Look, that's not my fault," I say, pointedly. "We lived without iPhone 6+. Sometimes life is hard.
Tarryn Fisher
#2. This was not the career she'd dreamed of as an ambitious seventeen-year-old, but now it was hard to remember ever feeling innocent and audacious enough to dream of a certain type of life, as if you got to choose how things turned out.
Liane Moriarty
#4. I left a church of kind, generous people because I couldn't pretend to believe things I didn't believe anymore, because I knew that no matter how hard I tried, I could never be the stick-figured woman in the Vote Yes On One sign standing guard in front of the doors. I didn't want to be.
Rachel Held Evans
#5. I come from a violent background. So I became hard. I realised that I had made myself that way to deal with a feeling of abandonment and shame.
Mickey Rourke
#6. Although I am good at enumerating my father's flaws, it's hard for me to sustain much anger at him. I expect this is partly because he's dead, and partly because the bar is lower for fathers than it is for mothers.
Alison Bechdel
#7. I'm typing so f-ing hard I might break my f-ing Mac book Air!!!!!!!!
Kanye West
#8. 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
#9. I now know why people break up in e-mails and text messages.
Doing it face-to-face is so hard because you have to stand in front of the person and
witness their reaction. Face their wrath.
Simone Elkeles
#10. Gratitude gets us through the hard stuff...Gratitude always leaves us looking at God and away from dread.
Max Lucado
#11. I'll call you. Take care." And he was gone. So the rain comes down hard outside my room, and like Eddie Cohen," I say, "... fifteen thousand years - - - of what? We're still nothing but animals.
Sylvia Plath
#12. We forget when we're all grown up. 16 was a long time ago. It's hard to remember how freakin' difficult it is as 16! Life is not easy, and you're trying to figure stuff out.
Greg Rucka
#14. It's hard to be strong and be weak at the same time. So I spent a lot of time sitting still. Sitting still for hours, not moving a muscle. Really concentrated work, so I'm ready. I'm ready for my performance.
Lady Gaga
#15. Courage is doing something despite the fear, and I've worked hard on being a courageous person.
Sara Blakely
#16. I probably love you," she said. I let out a surprised laugh. "Probably?" She laced our fingers together and tugged me toward the shuttle, glancing over her shoulder. "Probably. It's hard to tell with me, you know?" I laughed again. "I probably love you, too.
Amy Tintera
#17. It's so hard to express yourself, because swimmers are pretty much paying attention to a black line for hours out of a day.
Ryan Lochte
#18. It's not how hard of a punch you can throw, it's how hard of a punch you can take.
Seamus McGraw
#19. It is hard to read a newspaper or watch a television newscast without encountering someone who has come up with a new 'solution' to society's 'problems.'
Thomas Sowell
#20. True, he had chosen to live alone, but not unbearably alone. The worst of being unbearably alone was that you had to bear it - either that or you were sunk. You had to work hard to prevent your mind from sabotaging you by its looking hungrily back at the superabundant past.
Philip Roth
#21. In our opinion, Coke is great from a can, still good from a bottle, yet hard to get just right from the fountain. But oh, when they do get it right, it tastes good enough to be an eighth wonder of the world.
Alecia Whitaker
#22. It is not hard work, because all work together ... what one hand finds hard to lift is lighter than a feather when many lift together.
Joseph Bruchac
#23. I really like Blade. I wish people would make hard R-rated fantasy movies again. It's completely irrelevant, but people should do that more. I haven't seen that many vampire things.
Robert Pattinson
#24. he willingness to work-hard and indomitable willpower are vital for any accomplishment.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#25. I think that 'Halo' is a hard property because they don't need to make a film. They make far more money out of the games so why risk?
Rupert Sanders
#26. Some people look for a certain structure in their lives that they're comfortable with. People who work hard on the road as truckers, people who work hard using their hands. Then there are people who are fortunate enough to have my life, people who play these characters who embody these qualities.
Adam Beach
#27. I love playing a dad. It's hard to find family dramas that are genuinely funny.
Peter Gallagher
#28. Age has given me the gift of me, it just gave me what I was always longing for, which was to get to be the woman I've already dreamt of being. Which is somebody who can do rest and do hard work and be a really constant companion, a constant tender-hearted wife to myself.
Anne Lamott
#29. Sita was breathing hard, her eyes flitting like that of a cornered tigress, anger bursting through every pore.
Amish Tripathi
#30. The children had been using these spatulas as oars, but rowing a boat is very hard work, particularly if one's traveling companions are too busy bragging to help out, and Violet was trying to think of a way they might move the boat faster.
Lemony Snicket
#31. Even when you have skilled, motivated, hard-working people, the wrong team structure can undercut their efforts instead of catapulting them to success. A poor team structure can increase development time, reduce quality, damage morale, increase turnover, and ultimately lead to project cancellation.
Steve McConnell
#32. Maybe people could change - even the ones who made the wrong choices, if they tried hard enough to make them right.
Kami Garcia
#33. I think all of our guys work hard and want to improve. They want answers, and the film will be the answer. The coaches will collect it and get better. I do not think anybody wants a rebuilding year. That's not something that I have ever said.
Les Miles
#34. Study hard so that you can master technology, which allows us to master nature.
Che Guevara
#35. It's hard when you read an article saying bad things about you. It is as if someone is sticking a knife on your heart. But I am the harshest critic of my work.
Robin Williams
#36. Hard floorings such as marble, wood, terrazzo and linoleum, have become fashionable of late, but I believe they create a characterless "international" style that is as opposed to interpretation as it is repellent to the foot.
George Pendle
#37. Goes with the whole King of the Badasses. Kind of hard to lead an army of the damned if I'm the King of Nice
-Stryker
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#38. It's hard to accept that depression is an illness, that moping around from day to day with no will for so many years is not my fault.
Francisco X Stork
#39. Carmen prayed hard. She prayed while standing near the priest in hopes it would give her request extra credibility. What she prayed for was nothing. She prayed that God would look on them and see the beauty of their existence and leave them alone.
Ann Patchett
#40. I have this exercise where I force myself to look out from the flower's point of view at these great walloping humans coming down the path, and try, just try and feel it from their point of view because it's a different world to them, a fascinating hard one.
Alice Oswald
#42. I recommend her to you, not as a husband but as an enthusiastic admirer of her work, acid and tender, hard as steel and delicate and fine as a butterfly's wing, lovable as a beautiful smile, and as profound and cruel as the bitterness of life.
Diego Rivera
#43. I can jog, but I can't run. That's hard for me. I like the fact that I can jog for fitness, but to me there's a huge difference between jogging and running.
Mary Decker
#44. American human beings are a slippery and protean bunch in real life, hard as hell to get any kind of universal handle on.
David Foster Wallace
#45. I've fixed hard problems of all kinds, civil rights and business problems. It's the stuff I like to do, and I'm good at it, as a matter of fact ... and I never left my conscience at the door.
Deval Patrick
#46. The process of grief has a beginning a middle and an end. The hard part is holding on in the middle. You can hold on. There's transformation happening in these times bringing you to a new place. It's a place you can only get to through the pain.
Mary Gauthier
#47. I like to use the hard times in the past to motivate me today.
Dwayne Johnson
#48. I wipe my face with my sleeve, laughing so hard my stomach hurts. If my entire life is like this, loud laughter and bold action and the kind of exhaustion you feel after a hard but satisfying day, I will be content.
Veronica Roth
#49. We think being a Christian means to go to church on Sunday and trying to be good through the week. Now I see it means suffering, being willing to let the hard things happen to you, so that God can use us to do His work on this earth!
Kimberly L. Smith
#50. Safety Tip: Over the years I have learned that tackling the hard stuff in the morning is the most productive way to start your day. After the hard stuff is done, you get to do some fun stuff later, and this allows you to be more productive.
John Richard Pierce
#51. It's hard to get lost if you don't know where you're going.
Jim Jarmusch
#52. Pride, willfulness, and rebellion against what "is written" are the causes of the Bible being hard to understand. The hard part, then, is not understanding with the mind, but being willing to obey what he does not want to obey. If a person could not understand the truth, he could not reject it.
Finis Jennings Dake
#53. Be honest! You are not going to want to admit energy loss. Someone is making it hard for you to look.
Frederick Lenz
#54. The boardwalk was mobbed like downtown at Christmas, only with the roller coaster roaring overhead. The beach was even worse. It was like an obstacle course of blankets and people. It was hard for him to walk on sand and the cane didn't help at all.
Anita Diamant
#55. CIA officers aren't idiots. They knew they were heading into deep water - legally and morally - when they signed up for the interrogation program. That's part of the agency's ethos - doing the hard jobs that other departments prudently avoid.
David Ignatius
#56. Hardened terrorists are coming here to hit us hard if we don't hit them first.
Rand Paul
#57. The other danger is that apologists put so much effort into what they do that they may end up not so much defending the faith because they believe it is true as believing the faith is true because they have worked so hard and long to defend it.
Frederick Buechner
#58. President Obama's over in Indonesia when guys like me were at a paper route. President Obama, I don't know what experience he had at that same age when he was in Indonesia. So I think it's hard for him to grasp that America entrepreneurial spirit.
Foster Friess
#59. Everyone sort of feels alienated at that point, so it's hard to say whether I felt like that because everyone does or because I was so focused on acting [since the age of 8].
Alycia Debnam Carey
#60. I think it's very hard to be naked in a scene and not be upstaged by your nipples.
Susan Sarandon
#61. I'm a believer in what your record is. I am what my record is - some of it good, some of it bad, some of it hard to tell.
Dan Rather
#62. New York grabbed me too hard, as did adulthood.
Ira Sachs
#63. It's very useful to have a good grasp of all the big ideas in hard and soft science. A, it gives perspective. B, it gives a way for you to organize and file away experience in your head, so to speak.
Charlie Munger
#64. When I made 'Hard Boiled,' I had no idea that it would be released to an international audience. I just wanted to make a film to team up my two favorite actors, Tony Leung and Chow Yun-Fat.
John Woo
#65. You give me hope. Hope that even though life is really, really hard - even if it fucking sucks sometimes - that it's worth living
Jessica Sorensen
#66. Nice clothes fall apart. Nice clocks don't work. Bits fall off the nice cooker. It is hard to accept that pricing is unrelated to quality, but it's plainly true. Nowadays, we pay the price that satisfies our particular personality type; and then we live with the painful consequences.
Lynne Truss
#67. I am dating, but it is hard to find someone quick enough and funny enough. I am quite demanding.
Anne Robinson
#68. He felt him transfixed, captured, nailed by his vow to the hard wood of the impossible thing he had to do.
Elizabeth Goudge
#69. It's particularly hard to take being stabbed in the back close to home. There's always a feeling of betrayal when people of your own group oppose you.
Catharine MacKinnon
#71. It is hard to forgive, and to look at those eyes, and feel those wasted hands,' he answered. 'Kiss me again; and don't let me see your eyes! I forgive what you have done to me. I love my murderer - but yours! How can I?
Emily Bronte
#72. They call it mourning. And I think that was the reason he tried so hard to be someone who functioned. By holding on to how things had always been, he was mourning what was missing.
Milena Michiko Flasar
#73. Dreams have a hard time surviving when confronted with reality.
Mathias Malzieu
#74. Money gives you options,
Hard work gives you success,
Healthy relationships give you a long life,
But faith gives you everything!
Farshad Asl
#75. You need to work very hard, you have to spend a lot of time practicing your sport - six to seven hours daily.
Sergei Bubka
#77. She said people on hard times deserved to have beauty in their lives as much as anyone else, whether or not they could pay their rent or were walking to a breadline. Granny said that just because someone was poor didn't mean they were poor of heart.
Pam Munoz Ryan
#78. To deny oneself is to be aware only of Christ and no more of self, to see only him who goes before and no more the road which is too hard for us.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#79. And even if you do wear a maid outfit, it doesn't change the fact that you're strong or that you're smart or that you try really hard at everything you do. I think you'd still deserve to walk with your head held high.
Hiro Fujiwara
#80. I've worked hard my whole life, since I was a little kid. But now it's a point in my life now where I can just enjoy it, but at the same time I still need to work.
Pete Sampras
#81. It is very hard to shave an egge.
[It is very hard to shave an egg.]
George Herbert
#82. I mean it's - it is hard to find a voice on talk radio that is not a conservative voice.
Cokie Roberts
#83. When it's time for you to write how you want your life to go just write right before your pen run out of ink because i know the opportunity is jusT once and if u miss it, then you hustle very hard to get it
Efiba Progress
#84. 'Fail hard, fail fast, fail often. It's the key to success.' This one I learned from experience!
Reshma Saujani
#85. I'm really lucky in that I can do lots of different things. It must be really hard to just be a poet or just be a novelist - a constant cycle of effort and exhaustion and recuperation.
Mark Haddon
#86. A sign of a hard worker is one who works without complaint. God favors those who toil while others play.
Sarah Price
#87. Sometimes you have to play like it's a little bit warmer, which is hard when you can't feel your face. You just try and do the best you can and make sure that you become really good friends with wardrobe, so that they give you all sorts of hand warmers and body warmers.
Colin Hanks
#88. Hard to have faith and fear at the same time.
Toba Beta
#89. The trick [in comedy] is always to figure out how real you're playing it and how real it's supposed to feel. That's a hard thing to figure out.
Michael Cera
#90. Startups are very hard no matter what you do; you may as well go after a big opportunity.
Sam Altman
#91. It's funny. No matter how hard you try, you can't close your heart forever. And the minute you open it up, you never know what's going to come in. But when it does, you just have to go for it! Because if you don't, there's not point in being here.
Kirstie Alley
#92. And I think that after nearly 85 years upon this planet that I have a right after working so hard at showing the desolation and the poverty, to show something beautiful for somebody as well.
Gordon Parks
#93. For, besides what has been said, it should be borne in mind that the temper of the multitude is fickle, and that while it is easy to persuade them of a thing, it is hard to fix them in that persuasion
Niccolo Machiavelli
#94. I haven't got any special religion this morning. My God is the God of Walkers. If you walk hard enough, you probably don't need any other god.
Bruce Chatwin
#95. I still find it hard to push my own limits. I know where my limits are and that I always have to push myself.
Charlotte Gainsbourg
#96. I like hard work and I don't like pretending things are perfect.
Amy Poehler
#97. It's hard for me to generalize about kids and divorce. I think every family's experience is different; some kids are devastated by it, others relieved, and so forth, no matter what generation they're from.
Kate Christensen
#98. That's the thing- with that summer and hard times in general, you've gotta take the salty with the sweet. It's always a balance.
Mamrie Hart
#99. Anybody messes with the girls, we'll take care of him right smart," the elder Wurm assured Ian. "It's not that hard," the other said honestly. "Break just one of them bastards' noses with a hoe handle and the rest of 'em settle right down.
Diana Gabaldon
#100. But dying was no drama. Dying was cold and hard and painful, and dull. It went on too long. I was exhausted and growing bored with it. Now I had too much time to think about whether I was going to die from the tide
Tracy Chevalier
