Hard Times Quotes - Page 14

• I was having such a hard time when I made Sylvia. I gave everything I had for that role. It's one or two or three things I'm most proud of in terms of my work. But it was very dark.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Dark, Two, Three

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• ...when we really get into hard times, where food is scarce or there is none at all, and so with clothing and shelter, money may be no good for there may be nothing to buy, and you cannot eat money, you cannot get enough of it together to burn to keep you warm, and you cannot wear it.

  J. Reuben Clark

  Religious, Self Reliance, Together

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• It's hard enough to get any movie made, and when you take on these tough genres - and I've done it a couple times - it just makes the whole struggle more.

  Lawrence Kasdan

  Couple, Struggle, Done

  Interview with Jim "Stax" Vejvoda, www.ign.com. March 21, 2003.

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• Sorrow comes in great waves...but rolls over us, and though it may almost smother us, it leaves us. And we know that if it is strong, we are stronger, inasmuch as it passes and we remain.

  Henry James

  Strong, Sorrow, May

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• Don't get hung up on the hard times, the challenges. Tell your story by highlighting the victories. Because it's your victories that will inspire, motivate, encourage other people to live their stories in grander ways.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  People, Challenges, Inspire

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• It's hard to compare. Different times, different players. The administration four years ago did not have 9/11. I could tell you this; this particular administration was better suited to handle that than the former.

  Montel Williams

  Player, Years, Different

  "Interview: Montel Williams". www.askmen.com.

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• You should work extra hard to be your best selves. True evil has a hard time operating in the face of strenuous manifestations of good. Especially if you act right away. The longer you let evil hang around and get a grip on you, the harder it is to get rid of it.

  Jean Ferris

  Self, True Evil, Faces

  Jean Ferris (2016). “The Tales of Marigold Three Books in One!: Once Upon a Marigold, Twice Upon a Marigold, Thrice Upon a Marigold”, p.543, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• One function of the income gap is that the people at the top of the heap have a hard time even seeing those at the bottom. They practically need a telescope. The pharaohs of ancient Egypt probably didn't was a lot of time thinking about the people who build their pyramids, either.

  Molly Ivins

  Thinking, Egypt, Pyramids

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• There would be hard times, but what did I care if we had hard times? The branches of my love were wide, and they caught the rain and the snow. We would be okay, the two of us together. We would be okay.

  Carolyn Parkhurst

  Rain, Two, Snow

  Carolyn Parkhurst (2003). “The Dogs of Babel”, Large Print Press

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• Cram your head with characters and stories. Abuse your library privileges. Never stop looking at the world, and never stop reading to find out what sense other people have made of it. If people give you a hard time and tell you to get your nose out of a book, tell them you're working. Tell them it's research. Tell them to pipe down and leave you alone.

  Jennifer Weiner

  Book, Reading, Writing

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• Why do I get the feeling that if you give me a hard time, I'll tell all of our year-mates your family nickname is Meathead?

  Tamora Pierce

  Years, Giving, Feelings

  Tamora Pierce (2007). “Lady Knight: Book 4 of the Protector of the Small Quartet”, p.45, Random House Books for Young Readers

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• And sometimes then he sat with us for an hour or so, sharing our limbo, listening while I read. Books from any shelf, opened at any page, in which I would start and finish anywhere, mid-sentence sometimes. Wuthering Heights ran into Emma, which gave way to The Eustace Diamonds, which faded into Hard Times, which ceded to The Woman in White. Fragments. It didn't matter. Art, its completeness, its formedness, its finishedness, had no power to console. Words, on the other hand, were a lifeline.

  Diane Setterfield

  Art, Book, Hands

  Diane Setterfield (2007). “The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel”, p.312, Simon and Schuster

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• At times the world may seem an unfriendly and sinister place, but believe that there is much more good in it than bad. All you have to do is look hard enough. and what might seem to be a series of unfortunate events may in fact be the first steps of a journey.

  Daniel Handler

  Believe, Journey, Events

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• So you drive as far as you can, even when you can clearly read the sign. You want to think you are exempt, that it doesn’t apply to you. But it does. Life is still a dead end. And we still have a hard time believing it

  Robert Fulghum

  Believe, Thinking, Doe

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• There was a long hard time when I kept far from me the remembrance of what I had thrown away when I was quite ignorant of its worth.

  Charles Dickens

  Regret, Long, Remembrance

  Charles Dickens (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)”, p.7501, Delphi Classics

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• People have a hard time accepting free-market economics for the same reason they have a hard time accepting evolution: it is counterintuitive. Life looks intelligently designed, so our natural inclination is to infer that there must be an intelligent designer--a God. Similarly, the economy looks designed, so our natural inclination is to infer that we need a designer--a government. In fact, emergence and complexity theory explains how the principles of self-organization and emergence cause complex systems to arise from simple systems without a top-down designer.

  Michael Shermer

  Intelligent, Simple, Self

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• I'm sorry, Gemma. But we can't live in the light all of the time. You have to take whatever light you can hold into the dark with you.

  Libba Bray

  Sorry, Dark, Light

  Libba Bray (2015). “The Gemma Doyle Trilogy”, p.299, Delacorte Press

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• No matter how bad things are, you can always make things worse.

  Randy Pausch

  Good Morning, Good Day, Optimistic

  Randy Pausch, Jeffrey Zaslow (2008). “The Last Lecture”, p.143, Hachette UK

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• These are hard times. The world hurts. We live in fear and forget to walk with hope. But hope has not forgotten you. So ask it to dinner. It's probably hungry and would appreciate the invitation.

  Libba Bray

  Hurt, Appreciate, Bovine

  Libba Bray (2009). “Going Bovine”, p.428, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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• It struck her how eating was a comfort during a hard time because it reminded you that there had been other days, good days, when you’d eaten the same thing. Reminded you there were good days in life, when precious little else did. (268)

  Ron Rash

  Good Day, Comfort, Littles

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• It is very easy to shun someone who is deliberately cruel, and everyone loathes a man who is brutal and vicious. Such people have a hard time winning followers. But an individual who is gracious, who is attractive, who smiles and flatters and praises - that is a person who can lead whole nations to disaster. Who would not want to follow such a man or woman? Everyone is drawn to beauty and wit.

  Sharon Shinn

  Winning, Men, People

  Sharon Shinn (2009). “Gateway”, p.71, Penguin

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• I think... girls have a hard time being interesting. It’s actually easier to be famous, or notorious, than it is to be interesting. In our world, girls climb very well until they hit puberty-sexual maturity-and then they begin to fall out of the tree. They start role-playing instead of thinking, flirting instead of learning. They start admiring how smart the boys are-or how athletic or how handsome-instead of concentrating on their own intelligence.

  Sheri S. Tepper

  Girl, Smart, Fall

  Sheri S. Tepper (1997). “The family tree”, HarperCollins

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• Count yourself lucky. I watched my entire family as they were eaten alive by the very pack of animals you have downstairs in your house with your child. The blood of my parents flowed from their bodies through the floorboards and drenched me while I lay in terror of being torn apart by them. I was only a year older than your child when it happened. My parents gave their lives for mine and I watched as they gave them. So you’ll have to excuse me if I have a hard time thinking good of any animal except those who are dead or caged. (Angelia)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Children, Animal, Thinking

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• When you sit face to face with someone who is pleasant, respectful, and polite, you have hard time reminding yourself that nothing he says is true/sincere.

  Milan Kundera

  Faces, Sincere, Respectful

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• You walk around with a negative attitude and you're just naturally going to bring trouble and hard times down on yourself.

  Charles de Lint

  Attitude, Negative, Trouble

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