Hardy Quotes - Page 3

• The cruelty of the effeminate is more dreadful than that or the hardy.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Cruelty

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• It was a feature peculiar to the colonial wars of North America, that the toils and dangers of the wilderness were to be encountered, before the adverse hosts could meet. A wide, and, apparently, an impervious boundary of forests, severed the possessions of the hostile provinces of France and England. The hardy colonist, and the trained European who fought at his side, frequently expended months in struggling against the rapids of the streams, or in effecting the rugged passes of the mountains, in quest of an opportunity to exhibit their courage in a more martial conflict.

  James F. Cooper

  War, Struggle, Book

  "The Last of the Mohicans". Book by James F. Cooper, 1826.

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• Parents are used to being made to feel guilty about...their contribution to the population problem, the school tax burden, and declining test scores. They expect to be blamed by teachers and psychologists, if not by police. And they will be blamed by the children themselves. It is hardy a wonder, then, that they withdraw into what used to be called "permissiveness" but is really neglect.

  C. Sommerville

  Teacher, Children, School

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• Can anything compare to the sight of the first yellow violets blooming along a woodland path? These most fragile of plants are yet hardy enough to bloom when nights are still frosty and snow still lingers in the ravines.

  Howard Evans

  Night, Sight, Yellow

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• Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles is a novel that I have read over and over and over again. Tess is a pure child who has an inner glow none of the others in the book possess. They reject her because she is different, and they try in every possible manner to destroy her, because they are jealous. It is an extraordinary love story.

  Laetitia Casta

  Children, Book, Jealous

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• This horrible decade where all of us men tried to be individual rebels... by wearing the exact same flaming skull on a bedazzled Ed Hardy thermal. I have three of them, I'm not laughing at you I'm laughing with you.

  Christopher Titus

  Men, Skulls, Laughing

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I learned this one growing up in Texas and, subsequently, living in Los Angeles: always use the 'usted' form when speaking to a Spanish official. Mexican border patrol cops don't like it when you call them 'amigo,' give them a hardy pat on the back, slip a $20 in their pocket. No bueno, it doesn't fly. By the way, those of you not laughing at that obviously took French in high school, and that was a gay choice.

  Iliza Shlesinger

  Growing Up, School, Gay

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• Were our spirits hardy we would be able to meet the most disturbing situation with peace and rest.

  Watchman Nee

  Would Be, Able, Spirit

  Watchman Nee (2009). “The Spiritual Man”, p.356, Christian Fellowship Publishers

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• I carry in my datebook a piece of paper that my mother copied out for me, from the 1840 Census. Hardy Callaway Culver of Hancock County, Georgia, had 42 slaves, 31 "employed in agriculture." Culver was my great-great-great grandfather. I carry this piece of paper with me every day because I don't want to forget. I don't know what to do with the information, but I don't want to forget it.

  Laura Lippman

  Mother, Agriculture, Grandfather

  Interview with Jon Jordan, www.bookbrowse.com.

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• I love Françoise Hardy. She's my dream, she's just amazing.

  Gabrielle Aplin

  Dream

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• The purists are small in number but, you know hardy of voice.

  Chris Thile

  Voice, Numbers, Knows

  "Chris Thile Looks Back To Bach". "Weekend Edition" with Rachel Martin, digital.vpr.net. August 11, 2013.

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• Although I had good hand-eye coordination, I was so tall and skinny and muscularly weak that I just was not well coordinated. But what I started to do quite early on was watch some of the great old silent comedians, like Laurel and Hardy and Chaplin, and then later on Harold Lloyd and Buster Keaton.

  John Cleese

  Eye, Hands, Comedian

  "Early On, Comedian John Cleese Says, He Had Good Timing But Little Else". "Fresh Air" with Dave Davies, www.npr.org. October 16, 2015.

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• I was introducing [director and producer] Hal Roach - Mr. Roach was 100 years old, he was one of the fathers of early days in films, he put Laurel with Hardy, he created the Our Gang kids, and all these silent movies he did - he was a giant.

  Billy Crystal

  Father, Kids, Years

  "Billy Crystal Finds Fun In Growing Old (But Still Can't Find His Keys)". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. November 29, 2013.

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• The silicone we use is the hardest, most UV stable we can get, and we have done enormous amounts of testing and research to get a paint solution that is extremely hardy and repairable.

  Patricia Piccinini

  Use, Done, Research

  The Condition report Interview, www.patriciapiccinini.net. 2014.

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• Since I was a kid, every Thanksgiving growing up in New York, we always watched 'The March of the Wooden Soldiers' by Laurel and Hardy. Never miss it.

  Billy Crystal

  New York, Growing Up, Kids

  Source: www.scene-stealers.com

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• What happened was I was invited to meet Tom [Hardy] to discuss a project that he had in his mind about an adventurer who returns to England from Africa with secrets and with a history, and the original idea was set some 80 years later than it is now. But in the conversation I really took to the idea and I'd wanted for a while to set something in 1830 and 1840 in London, so it struck a chord.

  Steven Knight

  Years, Ideas, Secret

  Source: deadline.com

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• Between my music, my art, and my wrestling - and having the Hardy girls and a great wife - my life is complete.

  Jeff Hardy

  Girl, Art, Wrestling

  Source: www.si.com

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• I think it was W.H. Auden who said he was lucky that his first favorite poet was Thomas Hardy, who was a good but not a great poet, because if you are exposed to the greats too soon it can just squash you as a writer.

  David Duchovny

  Thinking, Squash, Lucky

  Source: www.bostonglobe.com

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• I would not have majored in English and gone on to teach literature had I not been able to construct a counterargument about the truthfulness of fiction; still, as writers turn away from the industrious villages of George Eliot and Thomas Hardy, I learn less and less from them that helps me to ponder my life. In time, I found myself agreeing with the course evaluations written by my testier freshman students:'All the literature we read this term was depressing.' How naive. How sane.

  Mary Rose O'Reilley

  Depressing, Gone, Fiction

  Mary Rose O'Reilley (2014). “The Barn at the End of the World: The Apprenticeship of a Quaker, Buddhist Shepherd”, p.14, Milkweed Editions

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• Discussing the attempts of Augustus' generals to add to the extent of the Roman Empire early in his reign:
  The northern countries of Europe scarcely deserved the expense and labour of conquest. The forests and morasses of Germany were filled with a hardy race of barbarians, who despised life when it was separated from freedom; and though, on the first attack, they seemed to yield to the weight of the Roman power, they soon, by a signal act of despair, regained their independence, and reminded Augustus of the vicissitude of fortune.

  Edward Gibbon

  Country, Yield, Race

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• No hardy perennial has the enduring quality of hope. Cut it to the roots, stamp it underfoot, let frost and fire work their will, and still some valiant shoot will push, to grow again on such scanty fare as it can find. Only time and the cruel quicklime of fact can destroy that stubborn urgency.

  Rachel Field

  Hope, Cutting, Fire

  Rachel Field (1946). “And Now Tomorrow”

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• I loved Laurel and Hardy and TV shows like 'Robin Hood' and 'Rama of the Jungle'.

  Stephen Lang

  Tv Shows, Robins, Rama

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• I would love to work with Tom Hardy. Maybe do something crazy or dramatic that is different for me.

  Ryan Guzman

  Crazy, Different, Dramatic

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I really want to work with Tom Hardy. Christian Bale and Russell Crowe are also on my list. Those are my top three actors. As far as actresses go, Kate Beckinsale, because she's so smokin' hot.

  Ryan Guzman

  Christian, Hot, Three

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Darren Hardy has written a new bible for the self-improvement space. If you are looking for the real deal-a real program, with real tools that can change your life and make your dreams a reality-The Compound Effect is it! I plan to use this book to go back and look at what I need to again work on in my own life! Buy ten copies, one for yourself and nine more for those you love, and pass them out now-those who get it will thank you!

  David Bach

  Dream, Real, Book

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