Hard Quotes - page 14

For my constituents, owning a home is the culmination of many years of hard work and the realization of the American Dream. At no time should a local entity take those years of hard work solely to increase their tax revenue. (Solomon Ortiz)
We have been working hard to think about what our combined needs are going to be in the way of intelligence capabilities, not today but 15 to 20 years in the future. View quote
Stephen Cambone
Gossip is easy, politics is hard. View quote
Tabitha Soren
The ability to take pleasure in one's life is a skill and is a kind of intelligence. So intelligence is a hard thing to evaluate and it manifests itself in so many different ways. I do think the ability to know how to live a life and not be miserable is a sign of that. View quote
Todd Solondz
I know that to write you have to have stories you want to tell. You have to keep your mind alive, and you have to work hard. View quote
Tracy Kidder
It's too hard for me to comment on the sorry state of our culture. View quote
Trevor Dunn
Reading a novel in which all characters illustrate patience, hard work, chastity, and delayed gratification could be a pretty dull experience. View quote
Thomas Perry
I'm a product of good nutrition, cutting edge supplementation and hard training, and I'm an old guy. View quote
Warren Cuccurullo
Now both my films have been number one at the Australian box office and it took about two years just to get the finance for this film, so if it's hard for me then God help everyone else. View quote
Yahoo Serious
Truth is as hard as adamant and tender as a blossom. View quote
Mahatma Gandhi
If you find it hard to laugh at yourself, I would be happy to do it for you. (Groucho Marx)
Directing television is really hard - it's so fast. You shoot an hour show in seven days. View quote
Steve Buscemi
I don't want to get so lost in thinking about me and talking about me all the time in interviews. It's so nice to unwind and just look at other things and get out of yourself. It's hard to detach myself from myself without neglecting myself. You know what I mean? I don't want to get in to the habit of thinking about my career because when it comes down to it, it's not really that important. I could die tomorrow and the world would go on. View quote
River Phoenix
The experimenter dealing with nature faces an outside and often hard world. Natures' curriculum cannot be changed. View quote
Martin Lewis Perl
Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were. View quote
David Rockefeller
Death comes black and hard, rushing down on me from the future, with no possible chance of escape. View quote
David Gerrold
To constrain the brute force of the people, the European governments deem it necessary to keep them down by hard labor, poverty and ignorance, and to take from them, as from bees, so much of their earnings, as that unremitting labor shall be necessary to obtain a sufficient surplus to sustain a scanty and miserable life. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
It's hard to be a No. 1 when you're not even No. 1 on your team. View quote
Adam Wainwright
The life in Italy is the life of a wealthy country, consumptions haven't diminished, it's hard to find seats on planes, our restaurants are full of people. View quote
Silvio Berlusconi
Imagine there's no countries, It isn't hard to do, Nothing to kill or die for, And no religion, too, Imagine all the people Living life in peace... View quote
John Lennon
Do not imagine that mathematics is hard and crabbed, and repulsive to common sense. It is merely the etherealization of common sense. (William Thomson)
But goodness alone is never enough. A hard cold wisdom is required, too, for goodness to accomplish good. Goodness without wisdom invariably accomplishes evil. View quote
Robert A. Heinlein
Old-fashioned determinism was what we may call hard determinism. It did not shrink from such words as fatality, bondage of the will, necessitation, and the like. Nowadays, we have a soft determinism which abhors harsh words, and, repudiating fatality, necessity, and even predetermination, says that its real name is freedom; for freedom is only necessity understood, and bondage to the highest is identical with true freedom. View quote
William James
That makes my nipples hard! View quote
Jean-Louis Gassée
All people are paradoxical. No one is easily reducible, so I like characters who have contradictory impulses or shades of ambiguity. It's fun, and it's fun because it's hard. View quote
Edward Norton