Hard Quotes

Excellence in any department can be attained only by the labor of a lifetime; it is not to be purchased at a lesser price.

Attack is the reaction. I never think I have hit hard unless it rebounds.

He that reads and grows no wiser seldom suspects his own deficiency, but complains of hard words and obscure sentences, and asks why books are written which cannot be understood.

Bricks are crumbling in places, and the front door is so swollen you have to push hard to get in

Memories, even hard memories, grew soft like peaches as they grow older.

It's hard to imagine that there are people in the country that have types of hateful, inexcusable, racist, white supremacist views.

Everybody who plays me plays me so hard because they always want to beat me.

The knee just isn't 100 percent. It's hard to be out there when you know that you can't play at your best and could potentially make it worse.

I wouldn't back away from what's right just because it's hard.

Natural villains are hard to come by, what with all the shrinks and social-scientist types threatening to understand everybody into the ground.

I'm sorry Finn. I'm a wooden-headed dummy.' Don't be so hard on yourself,' said Finn. 'You're just a straw-brained scarecrow.

Divorce is hard and painful and complicated, and something you have to grow through.

It's hard to find happiness after success if the goalposts of success keep changing.

After 13 years of hard landings in gymnastics, one ski run had delivered the biggest injury of my career.

There was not an awareness of pop culture in the household. There was a lot of respect for working hard, and for intellectual and professional achievement.

I've pretty much run the circle of labels and dealing with that whole kind of battle, because you're the one creating the music, but you're not the final say. That's always been hard.

I'm a real 'go, go' person... I'd make myself crazy by pushing too hard. It's important to pull pack the reins a little bit and get in touch with what's inside.

I like that Zarek. He quality people! He even gave me a can opener so I don’t have to use my fangs. I like that. Metal is hard on the teeth. Pork and beans popsicle. Yummy! My favorite! (Simi)

No one said it would be easy But no one said it'd be this hard

I think, my generation, it's hard to have hope when you got a $700-trillion derivatives debt to pay and a bubble about to explode and $500 trillion worth of GDP.

I don't go to a gym. I find that really hard to do.

Human nature is such that monogamy is a really hard thing to achieve.

When I rest, I rest and when I work, I work hard and sometimes for long hours. I always try to be rested when I work.

My life honestly isn't as weird as people think it is. I work longer hours, maybe I have a bit more money, but fundamentally, I'm not really that different.

To believe something strongly when it is clearly hard to define and prove, and has not been proven, is to be prejudiced.

There are two types of claims: those based on hard numbers and those based on slippery numbers.

It's so hard to retain what your purpose is - or to even realize what it is.

I'm a crap guitarist and I find it really hard writing on my own.

Ambiguity in directors is a hard thing to deal with.

My parents are good role models because they've worked hard and gave me a happy childhood.

When you're ambitious, it's really hard to be supportive of other people. But it's our job to try, even though one gets jealous.

Nothing is hard for lovers, no labor is difficult for those who wish it.

It is hard for the human soul not to love something, and our mind must of necessity be drawn to some kind of affection.

God has a hard-on for a Marine because we kill everything we see. He plays His game, we play ours.

There may be something to the suggestion about the pace of technological change intimidating writers, though - it's been awfully hard to keep ahead of real developments.

I think the rising and falling popularity of areas like hard SF and far-future SF is, to a considerable extent, the same as any other fashion.

Successes are always unique and hard to copy. The fact that easyJet became a success is due to a mixture of talent and luck.

We exhaust ourselves more from the tension and the consequences of internal disharmony than from hard, unremitting work.

Above, the stars shone hard and bright, sparks struck off the dark skin of the universe.

It's not so hard to be married, I've done it three or four times.

Hard to feel confident when you’re surrounded by horse-sized wolves. Emmett Cullen, Breaking Dawn, Chapter 39, p.745

One who works twice as hard will have four times as much accomplishment. If he works 3 times as hard he will have 9 times as much accomplishment and 9 times more fun in the process.

I threw all my pitches over the top which was important for me because my slider was hard to tell from my fastball at release.

The liberals are fighting so hard whenever President Bush appoints any federal judges.

It is hard to look back and talk about a set of disjointed experiences as though they were part of one smooth progression.

Recruiting is hard. It's just finding the needles in the haystack. You can't know enough in a one-hour interview.

It's hard, or you wouldn't like it. A lot of coaches really don't like what they're doing.

I think there are people out there writing original bluegrass songs, but it's hard to get them out on the air.

Hard disks have disappointed me more than most technologies.

We're one of the last handmade art forms. There's no fast way to make plays. It takes just as long and is just as hard as it was a thousand years ago.