Hard To Believe Quotes - Page 2

• Imagism was a reductio ad absurdum of one or two tendencies of romanticism, such a beautifully and finally absurd one that it is hard to believe it existed as anything but a logical construction; and what imagist found it possible to go on writing imagist poetry? A number of poets have stopped writing entirely; others, like recurring decimals, repeat the novelties they commeced with, each time less valuably than before. And there are surrealist poetry, and political poetry, and all the othe refuges of the indigent.

  Randall Jarrell

  Believe, Writing, Two

  "Kipling, Auden & Co: Essays and Reviews 1935-1964". Book by Randall Jarrell, "A Note on Poetry" (p. 50), 1980.

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• It's hard to believe, but anything can happen. Accidents do happen, unfortunately, it happened at the worst time.

  Tiger Woods

  Believe, Worst Times, Anything Can Happen

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• I hear pounding feet in the streets below
  And the women crying and the children know
  That there's something wrong
  And it's hard to believe that love will prevail
  Oh it won't rain all the time
  The sky won't fall forever
  And though the night seems long
  Your tears won't fall forever

  Jane Siberry

  Song, Children, Rain

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• As Olafsson showed me, White can win... It's hard to believe. I stayed up all night analysing, finally convicing myself, and, incidentally, learning a lot about Rook and Pawn endings in the process.

  Bobby Fischer

  Believe, Winning, Night

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• It's hard to believe that, in the 1970's, America was virtually hunger-free. During the past two decades, we have allowed hunger to attack our most precious resource, our children. We must reinstate and strengthen programs to eliminate this blight on our society.

  Kurtwood Smith

  Children, Believe, Past

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• In the nineteeth century, knitting was prescribed to women as a cure for nervousness and hysteria. Many new knitters find this sort of hard to believe because, until you get good at it, knitting seems to cause those ailments. The twitch above my right eye will disappear with knitting practice.

  Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

  Believe, Eye, Knitting

  Stephanie Pearl-McPhee (2012). “At Knit's End: Meditations for Women Who Knit Too Much”, p.51, Storey Publishing

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• Will you be my shoulder when I'm gray and older? Promise me tomorrow starts with you. Getting high, running wild among the stars above. Sometimes it's hard to believe you remember me.

  James Blunt

  Romantic, Running, Stars

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• In 1650 Bishop Ussher dated the creation from the genealogy given in the Bible at 4004 B.C.; for a long time (even for some people today) this was accepted as "gospel truth." However, if you accept a miracle such as this, what's wrong with creation 5 minutes ago? It would be scarcely more difficult for the Creator to create all of us sitting here, with our memories of events that never really happened, with our worn shoes that were never really new, with spots of soup that were never really spilled on our ties, and so on. Such a beginning is logically possible, but extremely hard to believe!

  Leigh Page

  Memories, Believe, Science

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• Though it is hard to believe, it is conservatively estimated that 25 to 50 million Americans carry trichinae larvae in their muscles and internal organs. ...If the (trichinosis) worms affect the heart, respiratory systems, or the nerves, severe symptoms or even death may result.

  Ruth Winter

  Believe, Heart, Dark

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• It's hard to believe the life that 'Someone Like You' has taken on. It's proof that people hunger for great songs - and they are open to different interpretations of songs they love.

  David Nail

  Song, Believe, Taken

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• A housing renaissance has begun. This may be hard to believe after the dizzying, six-year-long crash in home sales, construction and house prices. But housing turned the corner last year, and it will take off in 2013.

  Mark Zandi

  Believe, Home, Years

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• Evolution loves death more than it loves you or me. This is easy to write, easy to read, and hard to believe.

  Annie Dillard

  Believe, Love You, Writing

  Annie Dillard (2011). “Pilgrim at Tinker Creek”, p.178, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd

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• Richard A. Posner is an extraordinary person. If he did not exist, it would be hard to believe that he could. (...) He writes with a flair that puts most journalists to shame and a depth of knowledge that puts most professors to shame.

  Alan Ryan

  Believe, Writing, Extraordinary Person

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• I still feel like a kid sometimes myself so hard to believe that I'm a mom. Now I'm an adult! It only took 38 years!

  Ana Ortiz

  Mom, Believe, Kids

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• The fact that people are already reading and loving something I wrote is still hard to believe.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Believe, Reading, People

  "The Night Circus's dazzling, high-wire debut". Interview with Alison Flood, www.theguardian.com. September 4, 2011.

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• We find it hard to believe that other people's thoughts are as silly as our own, but they probably are.

  James Harvey Robinson

  Stupid, Believe, Silly

  James Harvey Robinson (1939). “The Mind in the Making”

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• Casually, unconsciously, but with deadly effectiveness, western man all round the globe destroyed the traditional gods and the ancient societies with his commerce and his science. ... Does it mean nothing to him if great areas of the world, where western influence has been predominant, emerge from this tutelage unable to return to the old life, yet unfitted for the new? It is hard to believe that the future could ever belong to men demonstrating irresponsibility on so vast a scale.

  Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth

  Believe, Mean, Men

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• Technology is at the forefront of everything these days - communication, work. Its amazing and scary at the same time how robots have evolved, but I find it hard to believe that robots will completely rule the world. Not in my lifetime anyway.

  Graham McTavish

  Believe, Communication, Technology

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• One hundred years from now, we'll all be dead. It's hard to believe. One hundred years from now, everyone we see every day will be gone.

  Bill Ayers

  Believe, Years, Gone

  "The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Bill Ayers". Interview with Rachel DeWoskin, therumpus.net. December 1, 2013.

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• Even the most loyal viewers of a show would only watch one out of three episodes. As someone who made television, I always found that hard to believe because you want to believe people who love your show are watching every episode, but statistically it was true that people who considered themselves the most loyal viewers were only watching one out of three.

  Tim Kring

  Believe, Love You, People

  Source: collider.com

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• I grew up in New York and I've always lived here, so I look at myself as a regular person. When somebody recognizes me from the film - and it can be a wide range of people, which shows the power of film - I feel like they're talking about someone else we both know. I just find it hard to believe that anyone would stop me to share how much they loved something that I was a part of.

  Adepero Oduye

  New York, Believe, Talking

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• It's also hard to believe, because people alive today, immigration's been a daily event and a daily topic for their whole lives. They can't conceive of a period of time where there was no immigration.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Believe, People, Live For Today

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• There are people who want to import the dregs of the world into this country in order to cut this country down to size. Do not doubt me on this. I know it sounds hard to believe. Those people will be found somewhere on the political spectrum, and they vote Democrat.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Country, Believe, Cutting

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Since the late 1970's, the main focus of prisons has been punishment, not rehabilitation. It's hard to believe, but you would be hard-pressed to find a meaningful violence-prevention class in a federal or state penitentiary. And 'we the people' are footing the bill to keep these folks imprisoned. It costs on average $46,000 a year to keep an adult incarcerated in California and about the same for New York State.

  James Fox

  Meaningful, New York, Believe

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• Even though it's hard to believe, but people who know me really well know I'm shy. I have to go past that fear.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Believe, Past, People

  "Talking in Our Pajamas: A Conversation with Sandra Cisneros on Finding Your Voice, Fear of Highways, Tacos, Travel, and the Need for Peace in the World". Interview with Ruth Behar, quod.lib.umich.edu. 2008.

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