Hard Quotes - page 19

One time, when I was really little, I climbed a tree and ate these green, sour apples. My stomach swelled and became hard like a drum, it hurt a lot. Mother said that if I'd just waited for the apples to ripen, I wouldn't have become sick. So now, whenever I really want something, I try to remember what she said about the apples. (Khaled Hosseini)
The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods. View quote
Maxine Hong Kingston
The reaction against your own thought in itself lends life to thought. How this reaction is born is hard to describe, because it identifies with the very rare intellectual tragedies. - The tension, the degree and level of intensity of a thought proceeds from its internal antinomies, which in turn are derived from the unsolvable contradictions of a soul. Thought cannot solve the contradictions of the soul. As far as linear thinking is concerned, thoughts mirror themselves in other thoughts, instead of mirroring a destiny. View quote
Emil Cioran
I find it very hard not to be myself and maybe that does attract attention, but I'd be miserable if I wasn't. View quote
Sienna Miller
Look out how we use proud words. When you let proud words go, it is not easy to call them back. They wear long boots, hard boots. View quote
Carl Sandburg
It's hard to overemphasize how important Ford's deregulation was. True, most of the benefits took years to unfold-rail freight rates, for example hardly budged at first. Yet deregulation set the stage for an enormous wave of creative destruction in the 1980s:... View quote
Alan Greenspan
It is hard to see how one could begin to develop a quantum-theoretical description of brain action when one might well have to regard the brain as "observing itself" all the time! View quote
Roger Penrose
I pride myself on being incorrigible. I have a very hard time being told what to do. View quote
Joe Satriani
You're having a hard time and lately you don't feel so good; You're getting a bad reputation in your neighborhood. It's alright, it's alright; Sometimes that's what it takes. You're only human, you're allowed to make your share of mistakes. View quote
Billy Joel
Complexity is your enemy. Any fool can make something complicated. It is hard to make something simple. View quote
Richard Branson
John Lennon at his best despised cheap sentiment and had to learn the hard way that once you've made your mark on history those who can't will be so grateful they'll turn it into a cage for you. (Lester Bangs)
No matter how hard the loss, defeat might serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out. View quote
Al Gore
It is hard to think that a $2 billion company with 4,300-plus people couldn't compete with six people in blue jeans. View quote
Steve Jobs
This is what I've learned, in my life: Headbanging is crucial. Growing up is hard to do. There's nothing wrong with wearing a dress. View quote
Hayley Williams
What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember. View quote
Seneca
Sorrow is so easy to express and yet so hard to tell. View quote
Joni Mitchell
When Ralph Goodale tried to tax Income Trusts they showed us where they stood, they showed us their attitude towards raiding Seniors hard earned assets and a Conservative government will never allow either of these parties to get away with that. View quote
Stephen Harper
I started learning my lessons in Abbot Texas, where I was born in 1933. My sister Bobbie and I were raised by our grandparents [...] We never had enough money, and Bobbie and I started working at an early age to help the family get by. That hard work included picking cotton. [...] Picking cotton is hard and painful work, and the most lasting lesson I learned in the fields was that I didn't want to spend my life picking cotton. View quote
Willie Nelson
Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken. View quote
Abigail Adams
Unwind my riddle. Cruel as hawks the hours fly; Wounded men seldom come home to die; The hard waves see an arm flung high; Scorn hits strong because of a lie; Yet there exists a mystic tie. Unwind my riddle. View quote
Stephen Crane
If you're a single mother with two children-which is the toughest job in America, as far as I'm concerned-you're working hard to put food on your family. (George W. Bush)
How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard. View quote
A. A. Milne
It is hard to be brave," said Piglet, sniffing slightly, "when you're only a Very Small Animal. View quote
A. A. Milne
After I left Texas and went to California, I had a hard time getting anyone to play anything that I was writing, so I had to end up playing them myself. And that's how I ended up just being a saxophone player. View quote
Ornette Coleman
Happiness is hard to recall. Its just a glow. View quote
Frank McCourt