Hard Quotes - page 31

Die Hard represents the class of modern action pictures and the standard by which they must be judged. Few films falling into the "mindless entertainment" genre have as much going for them as this movie. Not only is it a thrill-a-minute ride, but it has one of the best film villains in recent memory, a hero everyone can relate to, dialogue that crackles with wit, and a lot of very impressive pyrotechnics. (James Berardinelli)
Live Free or Die Hard may work better for an audience that doesn't know much about the series is than it will for Die Hard die hards, who will be wondering who that impersonator is and what he did with the real John McClane. The original Die Hard came out of nowhere to blitz the 1988 summer box office. The fourth installment arrives with a weight of expectations that Atlas would have trouble shouldering and, when the dust settles in September, it's unlikely that Live Free or Die Hard will be one of this year's big success stories. View quote
James Berardinelli
Failure concentrates the mind wonderfully. If you don't make mistakes, you're not trying hard enough. View quote
Jasper Fforde
New worlds are always hard on old ideas. View quote
Jack McDevitt
Politics aside, it will be hard for any new liberal radio network to outdo the professionalism of NPR. View quote
Paul Weyrich
Gold! Gold! Gold! Gold! Bright and yellow, hard and cold. View quote
Thomas Hood
I think women dwell quite a bit on the duress under which they work, on how hard it is just to do it at all. We are traditionally rather proud of ourselves for having slipped creative work in there between the domestic chores and obligations. I'm not sure we deserve such big A-pluses for all that. View quote
Toni Morrison
Not knowing it was hard; knowing it was harder. View quote
Toni Morrison
I thought that my invincible power would hold the world captive, leaving me in a freedom undisturbed. Thus night and day I worked at the chain with huge fires and cruel hard strokes. When at last the work was done and the links were complete and unbreakable, I found that it held me in its grip. View quote
Rabindranath Tagore
Every one who has a heart and eyes sees that you, working men, are obliged to pass your lives in want and in hard labor, which is useless to you, while other men, who do not work, enjoy the fruits of your labor that you are the slaves of these men, and that this ought not to exist. View quote
Leo Tolstoy
It's hard to love a woman and do anything. (Leo Tolstoy)
The history of our race, and each individual's experience, are sown thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill and that a lie told well is immortal. View quote
Mark Twain
How easy it is to make people believe a lie, and [how] hard it is to undo that work again! View quote
Mark Twain
Whatever hysteria exists is inflamed by mystery, suspicion and secrecy. Hard and exact facts will cool it. View quote
Elia Kazan
It's really fun and just to be with a friend while you're working really hard. It can sometimes be really stressful. Also it's just fun to have someone to laugh with and have a good time with. View quote
Rachel Trachtenburg
Graphology is another in a long list of quack substitutes for hard work. It is appealing to those who are impatient with such troublesome matters as research, evidence analysis, reasoning, logic, and hypothesis testing. View quote
Robert Todd Carroll
At one end of the spectrum are the terrorist gangs within our borders, and the terrorist states which finance and arm them. At the other are the hard left operating inside our system, conspiring to use union power and the apparatus of local government to break, defy and subvert the law. View quote
Margaret Thatcher
All corporatism – even when practised in societies where hard work, enterprise and cooperation are as highly valued as in Korea – encourages inflexibility, discourages individual accountability, and risks magnifying errors by concealing them. View quote
Margaret Thatcher
It is hard to write a simple definition of something as varied as hacking, but I think what these activities have in common is playfulness, cleverness, and exploration. Thus, hacking means exploring the limits of what is possible, in a spirit of playful cleverness. Activities that display playful cleverness have "hack value." View quote
Richard Stallman
It is hard to hate what one has loved, And a half-extinguished fire is soon relit. View quote
Pierre Corneille
Curiously, it is hard not to be a little optimistic about the future for Zimbabwe (as nobody at all calls it yet, except in political speeches). The fear is not that there will be mass slaughter of the whites, followed by their flight to South Africa and the collapse of the economy, but that the need to retain white confidence may mean that the blacks are badly disappointed. (Simon Hoggart)
I'm planning, you see, to try to confine myself to the truth. That's hard for an old, inveterate fantasy martyr and [illegible] liar who has never hesitated to give truth the form he felt the occasion demanded. View quote
Ingmar Bergman
It isn't right to be obedient only when things go well; it is much harder to be a good, obedient soldier when things go badly and times are hard. Obedience and faith at such time is a virtue. View quote
Wilhelm Keitel
When a manager asks for hard data, that's usually just his way of saying no. View quote
Ward Cunningham
When you get in situations where you cannot afford to make a mistake, it's very hard to do the right thing. So if you're trying to do the right thing, the right thing might be to eliminate the cost of making a mistake rather than try to guess what's right. View quote
Ward Cunningham