Hard Quotes - page 17

"And besides; the problem of land, at its worst, is a bye one; distribute the earth as you will, the principal question remains inexorable, -Who is to dig it? Which of us, in brief word, is to do the hard and dirty work for the rest, and for what pay? (John Ruskin)
It is almost irresistible for humans to believe that we have some special relation to the universe, that human life is not just a more-or-less farcical outcome of a chain of accidents reaching back to the first three minutes, but that we were somehow built in from the beginning. ... It is very hard to realise that this is all just a tiny part of an overwhelmingly hostile universe. It is even harder to realise that this present universe has evolved from an unspeakably unfamiliar early condition, and faces a future extinction of endless cold or intolerable heat. The more the universe seems comprehensible, the more it also seems pointless. View quote
Steven Weinberg
If I wasn't hard, I wouldn't be alive. If I couldn't ever be gentle, I wouldn't deserve to be alive. View quote
Raymond Chandler
It is so hard for an evolutionary biologist to write about extinction caused by human stupidity. [...] Let me then float an unconventional plea, the inverse of the usual argument. [...] The extinction of Partula is unfair to Partula. That is the conventional argument, and I do not challenge its primacy. But we need a humanistic ecology as well, both for the practical reason that people will always touch people more than snails do or can, and for the moral reason that humans are legitimately the measure of all ethical questions-for these are our issues, not nature's. View quote
Stephen Jay Gould
The social sciences, I thought, needed the same kind of rigor and the same mathematical underpinnings that had made the "hard" sciences so brilliantly successful. View quote
Herbert Simon
The hunger of a dragon is slow to wake, but hard to sate. View quote
Ursula K. Le Guin
Atticus said that Jem was trying hard to forget something, but what he was really doing was storing it away for a while, until enough time passed. Then he would be able to think about it and sort things out. When he was able to think about it, Jem would be himself again. View quote
Harper Lee
Somewhere in the child, somewhere in the adult, there is a hard, irreducible, stubborn core of biological urgency, and biological necessity, and biological reason that culture cannot reach and that reserves the right, which sooner or later it will exercise, to judge the culture and resist and revise it. View quote
Lionel Trilling
A girl in a bikini is like having a loaded pistol on your coffee table - There's nothing wrong with them, but it's hard to stop thinking about it. View quote
Garrison Keillor
The highlight of my childhood was making my brother laugh so hard that food came out of his nose. View quote
Garrison Keillor
It is very pleasant to scratch an itching ring-worm, but the sensation one gets afterwards is very painful and intolerable. In the same way the pleasures of this world are very attractive in the beginning, but their consequences are terrible to contemplate and hard to endure. (Ramakrishna)
The vanities of all others may gradually die out, but the vanity of a saint regarding his sainthood is hard indeed to wear away. View quote
Ramakrishna
Odd, isn't it, that a thief and a vagabond should repent, when so many who are rich and secure remain hard and frivolous, and without fruit for God or man? View quote
G. K. Chesterton
It is easy to be heavy: hard to be light. View quote
G. K. Chesterton
Paradise Lost is a book that, once put down, is very hard to pick up again. View quote
Samuel Johnson
All you have to do, I tell myself, is keep your mouth shut and look stupid. It shouldn't be that hard. View quote
Margaret Atwood
I see that there will be no end to imperfection, or to doing things the wrong way. Even if you grow up, no matter how hard you scrub, whatever you do, there will always be some other stain or spot on your face or stupid act, somebody frowning. View quote
Margaret Atwood
Don't misunderstand me. I am not scoffing at goodness, which is far more difficult to explain than evil, and far more complicated. But sometimes it's hard to put up with. View quote
Margaret Atwood
I have a need to play intensely every day, to fight every match hard. View quote
Zinedine Zidane
It's hard to explain but I have a need to play intensely every day, to fight every match hard. And this desire never to stop fighting is something else I learnt in the place where I grew up. View quote
Zinedine Zidane
I am vegetarian, so I don't have clothes, shoes or bags made from leather or suede or any animal products. Shoes are hard to find. These are fake Uggs. And I've got a pair of vintage boots, which are PVC. (Leona Lewis)
[I would like to be] one of [the first pop singers to perform in a free Cuba]. I know the list is huge. And it would be hard to pull off -- I'd have a lump as big as a tostone [fried green plantain] in my throat. But oh my God, what a dream -- it would be the height of my personal and professional career. View quote
Gloria Estefan
Just remember--if you are really and truly determined to work with animals, somehow, either now or later, you will find a way to do it. But you have to want it desperately, work hard, take advantage of an opportunity--and never give up. View quote
Jane Goodall
I never wanted to go away, and the hard part now is the leaving you all. I'm not afraid, but it seems as if I should be homesick for you even in heaven. View quote
Louisa May Alcott
If life is often so hard as this, I don't see how we ever shall get through it... View quote
Louisa May Alcott