Quotes About Hardy

#1. The play is independent of the pages on which it is printed, and 'pure geometries' are independent of lecture rooms, or of any other detail of the physical world. - Author: G.H. Hardy

#2. I never talked about you much. I said to Hardy. My voice sounded odd to my own ears.
Hardy stared into my eyes and nodded, understanding that some things mean too
much to be expressed easily. - Author: Lisa Kleypas

#3. It's not getting to the wall that counts; it's what you do after you hit it. - Author: Darren Hardy

#4. Don't be sorry for the truth. A harsh truth is less damaging than a tender lie, and the worst lies are the ones we tell ourselves. - Author: Dianna Hardy

#5. I was rescued by librarians. It was librarians who said 'maybe you would like to read The Hardy Boys as well as Nancy Drew.' It is true for me, as for so many countless others, that librarians saved my life, my internal life. - Author: Gloria Steinem

#6. An Hour of Bliss and Many Hours of Sadness - Author: Thomas Hardy

#7. Northern Ireland is part of Ireland, not Britain, as can clearly be seen from aerial photographs. - Author: Jeremy Hardy

#8. By experience", says Roger Ascham, "we find out a short way by a long wandering." Not seldom that long wandering unfits us for further travel, and of what use is our experience to us then? - Author: Thomas Hardy

#9. I think ageing suits me because I was born old, like Spencer Tracy or Dolly the Sheep. - Author: Jeremy Hardy

#10. Tess and Clare unconsciously studied each other, ever balanced on the edge of a passion, yet apparently keeping out of it. All the while they were converging, under an irresistible law, as surely as two streams in one vale. - Author: Thomas Hardy

#11. She smiled into his mouth. "That was ... wow."
"It's always wow. You're wow. I'll never get enough of you, Lydia. Not after ten years in dreams; not after forever in real life. - Author: Dianna Hardy

#12. How unexpected [are] the attacks of destiny! - Author: Thomas Hardy

#13. Sometimes I do, sometimes I don't. The scales are balanced so nicely that a feather would turn them. - Author: Thomas Hardy

#14. She simply observed herself as a fair product of Nature in the feminine kind, her thoughts seeming to glide into far-off though likely dramas in which men would play a part - vistas of probable triumphs - the smiles being of a phase suggesting that hearts were imagined as lost and won. - Author: Thomas Hardy

#15. I first wanted to be a comedian when I was six or seven and my dad showed me Laurel and Hardy's "Perfect Day" on tv. - Author: Will Smith

#16. I consider every plant hardy until I have killed it myself. - Author: Peter Smithers

#17. Look, if you're going to get better, you have to push yourself. If you push yourself, you're going to fall. If you're not falling, you're not pushing. Falling is part of getting better. - Author: Darren Hardy

#18. Though when at home their countenances varied with the seasons, their market faces all the year round were glowing little fires. - Author: Thomas Hardy

#19. Bradman is a whole class above any batsman who has ever lived: if Archimedes, Newton and Gauss remain in the Hobbs class, I have to admit the possibility of a class above them, which I find difficult to imagine. They had better be moved from now on into the Bradman class. - Author: G.H. Hardy

#20. It's amazing how life will organize around the standards you set for yourself. - Author: Darren Hardy

#21. If I could prove by logic that you would die in five minutes, I should be sorry you were going to die, but my sorrow would be very much mitigated by pleasure in the proof. - Author: G.H. Hardy

#22. My heart is in the Church of England but not my mind. - Author: Alister Hardy

#23. Tracking is a simple exercise. It works because it brings moment-to-moment awareness to the actions you take in the area of your life you want to improve - Author: Darren Hardy

#24. Ah, a time of his life shall come when he will have to repent, and think wretchedly of the pain he has caused another man; and then may he ache, and wish, and curse, and yearn - as I do now! - Author: Thomas Hardy

#25. We might not get to choose who we're born as or where we come from, but only you can decide what becomes of you. - Author: Reilyn J. Hardy

#26. When it comes to breaking old habits and starting new ones, remember to be patient with yourself. If you've spent twenty, thirty, or forty years or more repeating the behaviors you're now trying to change, you've got to expect it's going to take time and effort before you see lasting results. - Author: Darren Hardy

#27. It is this kind of resourcefulness, I think, that explains how this hardy band of Vikings managed to survive more than one thousand years on an island that is about as hospitable to human habitation as the planet Pluto - if Pluto were a planet, that is, which it's not. - Author: Eric Weiner

#28. Such poor liquor do make a man's throat feel very melancholy
and is a disgrace to the name of stimmilent. - Author: Thomas Hardy

#29. I will take what is mine and keep it for as long as i want - Author: Jeff Hardy

#30. Rays of male vision seem to have a tickling effect upon virgin faces in rural districts; - Author: Thomas Hardy

#31. A daily routine built on good habits and disciplines separates the most successful among us from everyone else. The routine is exceptionally powerful. - Author: Darren Hardy

#32. When women are secret they are secret indeed; and more often then not they only begin to be secret with the advent of a second lover. - Author: Thomas Hardy

#33. Her one desire, so long resisted, to make herself his, to call him her lord, her own - then, - Author: Thomas Hardy

#34. And yet you take away the one little ewe-lamb of pleasure that I have in this dull life of mine. Well, perhaps generosity is not a woman's most marked characteristic. - Author: Thomas Hardy

#35. We ought to have lived in mental communion, and no more. - Author: Thomas Hardy

#36. I think it's important that you always transform if you can. That's what I was trained to do. You try and hide yourself as much as you can - that's the key to longevity. - Author: Tom Hardy

#37. The negative often meant nothing more than the preface to the affirmative - Author: Thomas Hardy

#38. The social moulds civilization fits us into have no more relation to our actual shapes than the conventional shapes of the constellations have to the real star-patterns. - Author: Thomas Hardy

#39. Beauty lay not in the thing, but in what the thing symbolized. - Author: Thomas Hardy

#40. She is never alone when she has Her Books. Books, to her, are Friends. Give her Shakespeare or Jane Austen, Meredith or Hardy, and she is Lost - lost in a world of her own. She sleeps so little that most of her nights are spent reading. - Author: E.M. Delafield

#41. Indifference to fate which, though it often makes a villain of a man, is the basis of his sublimity when it does not. - Author: Thomas Hardy

#42. My eyes were dazed by you for a little, and that was all. - Author: Thomas Hardy

#43. And from a quiet modesty that would have become a vestal, which seemed continually to impress upon him that he had no great claim on the world's room, Oak walked unassumingly and with a faintly perceptible bend, yet distinct from a bowing of the shoulders. - Author: Thomas Hardy

#44. A great statesman thinks several times, and acts; a young lady acts, and thinks several times. - Author: Thomas Hardy

#45. Texans have in common with Australians, in that they are quite strong, hardy people. - Author: Jerry Hall

#46. Cruelty is the law pervading all nature and society; and we can't get out of it if we would. - Author: Thomas Hardy

#47. Pull - don't push. Investigate - don't present. Probe - don't pitch. Ask - don't assume. How? Talk less - listen more. Make fewer statements - ask more questions. - Author: Darren Hardy

#48. She tried to argue, and tell him that he had mixed in his dull brain two matters, theology and morals, which in the primitive days of mankind had been quite distinct. - Author: Thomas Hardy

#49. Love, though added emotion, is substracted capacity - Author: Thomas Hardy

#50. The mathematician's patterns, like the painter's or the poet's must be beautiful; the ideas like the colours or the words, must fit together in a harmonious way. Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics. - Author: G.H. Hardy

#51. Hardy didn't care where they went, as long as he was with her. - Author: M. Leighton

#52. If I'd been four feet tall and fifteen stone, I would certainly not have followed the same career - Author: Francoise Hardy

#53. When I was a kid, I used to watch 'Laurel and Hardy' with my cousins all the time. I still think they're extremely funny and so surreal. - Author: David Chase

#54. If you just took everyone in the BNP and everyone who votes for them and shot them in the back of the head, there would be a brighter future for us all. - Author: Jeremy Hardy

#55. A woman would rather visit her own grave than the place where she has been young and beautiful after she is aged and ugly. - Author: Thomas Hardy

#56. Her suspense was terrible. - Author: Thomas Hardy

#57. It was absolutely thrilling to meet Laurel and Hardy, they were so nice. - Author: Norman Wisdom

#58. It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that. - Author: G.H. Hardy

#59. The best-dressed woman is one whose clothes wouldn't look too strange in the country. - Author: Edwin Hardy Amies

#60. My opinion is that a poet should express the emotion of all the ages and the thought of his own. - Author: Thomas Hardy

#61. Capitalism is a great idea in theory, but in practice it just doesn't work. - Author: Jeremy Hardy

#62. We have missed because we tried to miss, I suppose. - Author: Thomas Hardy

#63. A cloud that has gathered over us; though 'we have wronged no man, corrupted no man, defrauded no man!' Though perhaps we have 'done that which was right in our own eyes. - Author: Thomas Hardy

#64. Roy received my comments with a forced
smile. "Hardy, didn't I warn you not to date a woman who reads?"
Hardy seemed amused by my outspokenness. "Keeps the arguing to a minimum," he replied. "No point in trying when I know she's going to win. - Author: Lisa Kleypas

#65. In the cathedral of my heart a candle will always be lit for you. - Author: Hardy Kruger

#66. What are my books but one plea against "man's inhumanity to man" --to woman-- and to the lower animals? - Author: Thomas Hardy

#67. There's more for us to think about in that one little hungry heart than in all the stars of the sky ... - Author: Thomas Hardy

#68. Jeez, we haven't even slept together and already you don't trust me."
"I've known you all your life not to mention the fact that my idiot sister is in the next room and when you two get together it's like Laurel and Hardy do Denver. - Author: Kristen Ashley

#69. Imaginary' universes are so much more beautiful than this stupidly constructed 'real' one; and most of the finest products of an applied mathematician's fancy must be rejected, as soon as they have been created, for the brutal but sufficient reason that they do not fit the facts. - Author: G.H. Hardy

#70. I think you could probably thaw out a glacier, honey.
-Hardy Cates - Author: Lisa Kleypas

#71. I wish I could say courteous flatteries to you," the farmer continued in an easier tone, "and put my rugged feeling into a graceful shape: but I have neither power nor patience to learn such things. - Author: Thomas Hardy

#72. Vanity is normal in performers. Does it bother other people? All the time. But nine times out of 10, that says more about them than you. - Author: Tom Hardy

#73. Men thin away to insignificance and oblivion quite as often by not making the most of good spirits when they have them as by lacking good spirits when they are indispensable. - Author: Thomas Hardy

#74. Nobody had beheld the gravitation of the two into one - Author: Thomas Hardy

#75. I am an architect, first. - Author: Hugh Hardy

#76. That feels like the worst part: denying people hope. I don't know where I'd be if I couldn't even tell myself that any day now, five minutes, or an hour from now, everything will change. - Author: Nicole Hardy

#77. So much ice.
She thumbed a drying tear away.
How much water can the weight of ice carry? - Author: Dianna Hardy

#78. I really, really wanted to write. I loved language. I loved literature. I loved reading. I never read a foreign language, I'm afraid, but I loved Flaubert. I loved the 19th-century classics. I love Thomas Hardy. I wanted to be a goof on a bus, but I wanted to write more. - Author: Robert Stone

#79. Tess was awake before dawn - at the marginal minute of the dark when the grove is still mute, save for one prophetic bird who sings with a clear-voiced conviction that he at least knows the correct time of day, the rest preserving silence as if equally convinced that he is mistaken. - Author: Thomas Hardy

#80. Why, you make anyone think that loving is a thing that can be done and undone, and put on and put off at a mere whim. - Author: Thomas Hardy

#81. Do you connect to your customers by asking questions and genuinely listening to the answers? And if so, do you take the extra step to connect those customers to expertly personalized solutions? Do you take time to drastically adjust your message to meet each individual customer's needs? - Author: Darren Hardy

#82. Hope deferred maketh the heart sick. - Author: Thomas Hardy

#83. Away from courting me - " Gabriel expanded. "I'm sorry to have made you run so fast, my dear," he said, with a grateful sense of favours - Author: Thomas Hardy

#84. The ultimate success of a product or service is 10 percent product quality and 90 percent sales. Nine - Author: Darren Hardy

#85. The (Complete) Formula for Getting Lucky: Preparation (personal growth) + Attitude (belief/mindset) + Opportunity (a good thing coming your way) + Action (doing something about it) = Luck - Author: Darren Hardy

#86. The vast difference between starting a train of events, and directing into a particular groove a series already started, is rarely apparent to the person confounded by the issue. - Author: Thomas Hardy

#87. There are occasions when girls like Bathsheba will put up with a great deal of unconventional behavior. When they want to be praised, which is often; when they want to be mastered, which is sometimes; and when they want no nonsense, which is seldom. - Author: Thomas Hardy

#88. As Jim Lawrence, a black labor activist at a GM plant in Dayton, Ohio, describes it, during the 1960s 'the union gave foremen a blank check to mistreat blacks and keep them out of the high-rate machine jobs and the skilled trades.' - Author: David T. Hardy

#89. Idiosyncrasy and vicissitude had combined to stamp Sergeant Troy as an exceptional being. - Author: Thomas Hardy

#90. But it was also obvious that man could not live by work alone; that the particular man Jude, at any rate, wanted something to love. - Author: Thomas Hardy

#91. Gabriel's malignant star was assuredly setting fast. - Author: Thomas Hardy

#92. Lewd to the least drop in the tiniest vein, Our sex is fitly food for Tragic Poets, Our whole life's but a pile of kisses and babies. But, hardy Spartan, if you join with me All may be righted yet. O help me, help me. - Author: Aristophanes

#93. The day you graduate from childhood to adulthood is the day you take full responsibility for your life. - Author: Darren Hardy

#94. Love finds you, not the other way around, and you can't run from it. - Author: Dianna Hardy

#95. Did it never strike your mind that what every woman says, some women may feel? - Author: Thomas Hardy

#96. If an offense come out of the truth, better is it that the offense come than that the truth be concealed. - Author: Thomas Hardy

#97. You can inherit male-pattern baldness from your mother's father, but not a tendency to fight in the First World War. - Author: Jeremy Hardy

#98. Being in the latter stages of life means the morning is unkind to the reflection. It takes a few hours for the creases to fall out. By about 4 P.M., I look quite nice. - Author: Jeremy Hardy

#99. You, and those like you, take your fill of pleasure on earth by making the life of such as me bitter and black with sorrow; and then it is a fine thing, when you have had enough of that, to think of securing your pleasure in heaven by becoming converted! - Author: Thomas Hardy

#100. I propose to put forward an apology for mathematics; and I may be told that it needs none, since there are now few studies more generally recognized, for good reasons or bad, as profitable and praiseworthy. - Author: G.H. Hardy