Hard Quotes - page 43

This life's hard, but it's harder if you're stupid. (George V. Higgins)
You can browse to your heart's content but it's hard work and not easy on the feet unless you do it through catalogs or the Internet, and I like to touch and try on the things I buy. View quote
Judith Krantz
When you are desperate to get someone who isn't all that interested in you, you lay siege as hard as you can. View quote
Julian Fellowes
And oh I want so much to sing, I tell myself no. But it is so hard to keep from singing. View quote
Donna Jo Napoli
It's a very bad habit, but one I find hard to break. View quote
Douglas Preston
My first job was washing dishes in the basement of a nursing home for $2.10 an hour, and I learned as much about the value of hard work there as I ever did later. View quote
Douglas Preston
I don't know of any other form of life that gathers up all the food it needs in the first two-thirds of its life in order to do nothing in its last third of life. In a utopian presentist society, instead of working extra hard to put money in the bank, you'd be working to provide value for the people around you. View quote
Douglas Rushkoff
For Google, the problem with being a free, abundant, and rather infinite set of services is that it's hard to create much of a stir about anything. There are so many major software service options under the 'more' menu on the Gmail page that they've had to go and add a final item called 'even more.' View quote
Douglas Rushkoff
I think an inspirational quote can get you through hard times. View quote
E. Lockhart
I think it's very important to recognize talent in all facets of filmmaking. Making a movie is such a lengthy and intense experience, so it's wonderful to honour actors, directors, producers and all crew members who put so much hard work and passion into a project. View quote
Eva Green
If you are connected to your own internal being, it is very hard to be screwing and destroying and hurting another human being, because you'll be feeling what they're feeling. If you're separated, it's not a hard thing to do at all. (Eve Ensler)
It seemed that we loved each other better when there were large swaths of two continents between us. The daily work of love was often hard to perform at home. View quote
Aleksandar Hemon
It is not true that it is hard to govern Italy. It is useless. View quote
Edward Luttwak
Photography to the amateur is recreation, to the professional it is work, and hard work too, no matter how pleasurable it my be. View quote
Edward Weston
I grew up as a Mormon, and that had more of an impact on my values than my beliefs. I'm afraid I will always feel the weight of a lie. I'm very hard on myself anyway. Religious guilt carries over too. You can't really misbehave without feeling badly about it. At least, I can't. View quote
Amy Adams
Westerners often laud their children as 'talented' or 'gifted', while Asian parents highlight the importance of hard work. And in fact, research performed by Stanford psychologist Carol Dweck has found that the way parents offer approval affects the way children perform, even the way they feel about themselves. View quote
Amy Chua
I do believe that when your child does poorly on a test, your first step should not necessarily be to attack the teacher or the school's curriculum. It should be to look at the idea that, maybe, the child didn't work hard enough. View quote
Amy Chua
I think you can go from being not very funny to working really hard for 10 years and figuring out how to make a living on the road, but I don't think you can rise much above that. View quote
Amy Schumer
You have to always continue to strive no matter how hard things get, no matter how troubled you feel. No matter how tough things get, no matter how many times you lose, you keep trying to win. View quote
LL Cool J
I work hard, I work late, I have nothing on my conscience. When I go to bed, I sleep. View quote
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
Human nature is intractable stuff, hard jagged stuff, the kind of stuff that dreams are wrecked on. (Elizabeth Goudge)
It's very hard to get the dynamics where two people can stimulate each other and be happy. View quote
Elizabeth Hurley
When I was growing up, many of my relatives had never seen a black person before. Today, hundreds, maybe thousands of Africans live in Istanbul's old city alone. It's hard to imagine their lives in their human totality. View quote
Elif Batuman
Shame can kill the imagination. It's hard to keep writing in the face of cultural derision. View quote
Eloisa James
You work hard for your income, and that hard work is what fuels the economy. View quote
Emily Oster