Hard Quotes

Spare time is like spare change. It's hard to quantify, the definition of that phrase. What do I do when I'm not onstage singing, or sleeping, with or without someone else? I watch movies.

I had to think really hard about how to choose between job offers.

Hit it hard. It will land somewhere.

I'm always afraid of failing. It's great motivation to work harder.

At Chicago Hope they have a technical staff that works real hard to make that O.R. as realistic as possible.

Take it from me because I learned the hard way: circumcisions are best left to professionals.

I try not to have expectations because they can tend to tear you apart. I expect to work as hard as I can possibly work and I expect to give every ounce of a hundred percent.

It's easy to be hard on ourselves, but the important thing is to turn a mistake into a learning experience.

Debates require a lot of hard work and preparation. If you try to wing it, it shows.

It's a book that makes me laugh and think - it would be very hard to like someone who didn't enjoy Candide!

Epitaphs are cheap, and they do a poor chap a world of good after he is dead, especially if he had hard luck while he was alive. I wish they were used more.

All say, ‘how hard it is that we have to die’ -- a strange complaint to come from the mouths of those who have had to live.

It's fascinating for us women to begin looking at our lives in five-year plans. It really does help you keep on track. If that's too hard, start with a two-year plan.

I was 160lbs when I started and I went up to 195lbs. There were no steroids. But it was hard work, dedication, hitting the gym. You kind of see it.

It's hard to hate up close. The more you get to know each other, the more common ground you can find and the more you can disagree without being disagreeable.

It's hard to make progress with grief.

Although Lewis Carroll thought of The Hunting of the Snark as a nonsense ballad for children, it is hard to imagine - in fact one shudders to imagine - a child of today reading and enjoying it.

The remoteness of my parents from the schools, so unfashionable today, was often painful for me, but I learned early to deal with an outside and sometimes hard world.

The road to freedom is a difficult, hard road. It always makes for temporary setbacks.

I cannot forget that the Nobel Prize for Peace was also a commission - a commission to work harder than I had ever worked before for "the brotherhood of man".

What if we just acted like everything was easy?

I am trying for nothing so hard in my own personal life as how not to be respectable when married.

We can never catch up with life ... we shall always be eating the soft part of our melting ice and meanwhile the nice hard part is rapidly melting too.

I place flowers in the very first rank of simple pleasures; and I have no very good opinion of the hard worldly people who take no delight in them.

People try much less hard to make a marriage work than they used to fifty years ago. Divorce is easier.

Lovers remain in the dark, working hard to keep out daylight.

I had a philosophy, which may have been proven right, that directing isn't as hard as everyone says it is.

You know, it's kind of hard because I really - I see kids on their Rollerblades and their bikes, and just running around, climbing trees, and I used to do that. And I loved doing that.

Singing beautiful melodies is one thing, but to deliver the text so that the people understand it, even in a foreign language, has to be worked at very hard.

Judge Roberts has assured me personally that he has a healthy respect for precedent and the hard-won rights of Americans.

It always comes back to the same necessity: go deep enough and there is a bedrock of truth, however hard.

It's hard because people think they have something to lose and the truth is they have everything to gain in trying to love somebody.

It's hard to make it one piece of advice. For me, what's most important is you kind of choose your point of view.

One of the ideas I've clung to most of my life is that if I just try hard enough it will work out.

Be as soft as possible, if something good and wise wants to shape you; be as hard as possible, if something bad and foolish wants to shape you!

Hard work and education will take you farther than any government program can ever promise.

Growing up, I had a front row seat to seeing two people work really hard. My dad scrubbed toilets at a private Catholic school for a while and that was to help me get through school.

It's hard to tell what people realize. Everybody's different and has a different understanding of the difference in times.

She placed her palm over his wound, pressing as hard as she dared. She would stop the blood. She would hold him and stop his life from escaping. She would hold life inside him and he wouldn’t die

I look at directing as a sporting event. It's a race, a marathon. It's great when it clicks, which is why I push my crews so hard so we can excel.

It's a hard, lonely feeling, to be completely yourself in front of strangers.

I worked very hard on those movies but there was some creative connection that wasn't being made.

If you don't back it up with performance and hard work, talking doesn't mean a thing.

I'll always stand by the first [Batman]. Even for its imperfections, people will never know how hard that movie was to do. A lot of that still holds up.

The Red Sox are the local scapegoats. It's hard enough to play baseball without being the local scapegoat too.

Speak Peace sums up decades of healing and peacework. It would be hard to list all the kinds of people who can benefit from reading this book, because it's really any and all of us.

People are still crazy about Python after twenty-five years, which I find hard to believe.

Acting is really scary, but it's also challenging, fun, hard work. There's always an element of improvisation with every actor, even when something is really scripted.

It's hard to learn about your parents' courtship.

All camps are hard, that's what they're intended to be. They make you focus when you're tired, when you don't feel like doing things, and to see how long you can retain and pay attention.