Hard Times Quotes - Page 9

• Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise.

  Samuel Lover

  Wise, Glitter, Weak

  Samuel Lover (1839). “Rory O'More. Revised”, p.151

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• Even though there is rampant unemployment in many parts of the world, there are still large numbers of jobs that are going unfilled because employers are having a hard time identifying people with the right set of skills.

  Daphne Koller

  Jobs, Skills, Numbers

  "Online Education Grows Up, And For Now, It's Free". "All Things Considered" with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. September 30, 2012.

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• I have a really, really hard time sitting down and watching a TV show, except I'm apparently willing to watch the same episode of 'It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia,' like, seven times.

  Shane Carruth

  Tv Shows, Philadelphia, Sitting Down

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• You need to be able to manage stress because hard times will come, and a positive outlook is what gets you through.

  Marie Osmond

  Stress, Needs, Able

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• Judged by the stark, sure-footed portrait in Hard Time, Brian Azzarello and Richard Corben clearly have John Constantine down, cold and to the life. Azzarellos grasp of pacing, character and situation resonates through every scene with a black crystal clarity thats short of masterful, while Corben contributes what is, perhaps, one of the most darkly expressive pieces in a long, already-legendary career.

  Alan Moore

  Character, Careers, Long

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• As they say, when a man begins to have bad luck, even clabber can break his head.

  Jacques Roumain

  Men, Broken, Luck

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• I've always thought what was I before I was this and then what will I be when I leave here. I really had a hard time always accepting that at some point I'm just going to turn to dust and ashes and never be again and that the journey would stop. I believe that we are souls, kind of like a version of what our movie presents, and we come here again and again until we arrive at our highest evolution, and what happens after that I don't know.

  Halle Berry

  Believe, Journey, Dust

  "Tom Hanks, Halle Berry Interview Cloud Atlas". "MoviesOnline" Interview, www.moviesonline.ca. October 18, 2017.

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• And we'd had this stupid scene on the street, and even that was kind of cool, because sometimes it's moments like that, real complicated moments, absorbing moments, that make you realize that even hard times have things in them that make you feel alive.

  Nick Hornby

  Real, Stupid, Alive

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• I'm having a hard time finding a date. I don't trust any women I meet. I'm very skeptical.

  Alex Rodriguez

  Don't Trust, Skeptical, Having A Hard Time

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• God seemed to be having a hard time killing him, and he'd be damned if he was going to make the job easy for mere mortals

  Mario Puzo

  Jobs, Killing, Easy

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• A travel book is about someone who goes somewhere, travels on the ground, sees something and spends quite a lot of time doing it, and has a hard time, and then comes back and writes about it. It's not about inventing.

  Paul Theroux

  Travel, Book, Writing

  Interview with Michael Shapiro, www.sfgate.com. May 28, 2011.

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• Today, however, we are having a hard time living because we are so bent on outwitting death.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Today, Existentialism, Bent

  Martin Heidegger, Simone de Beauvoir, Jean-Paul Sartre (2016). “The Philosophical Library Existentialism Collection: Essays in Metaphysics, The Ethics of Ambiguity, and The Philosophy of Existentialism”, p.116, Open Road Media

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• Try it on." "It's probably a little snug. Marcie tends to buy down when it comes to sizing." He merely smiled. "It has a slit up the thigh." His smile depened. "Zip it up?" Patch's eyes made a slow assessment of me, sharpening to vivid black. "I'm going to have a hard time sending you off with Scott in that dress. Just a heads-up: If you come home and the dress looks even slightly tampered with, i will track Scott down, and when i find him, it won't be pretty.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Home, Eye, Assessment

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• I think I have a tendency to overwork things. I have a hard time finding that sweet spot that most actors seem to be able to hit where they're doing the exact right amount of work, not overthinking, not underdoing it. I seem to either overdo it or underdo it.

  Paul Giamatti

  Sweet, Thinking, Actors

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I opine-I think you're a woman of your world,' he said from the far end of the couch. 'I would have a hard time seeing you pressed and powdered, dreading a life of servitude under the name of marriage. You'd die in that mold. I like you as you are, fiery and ill tempered.

  Kim Harrison

  I Like You, Thinking, Names

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• Now let me be clear; millions of women around the world nurse their children beautifully for years without giving anybody else a hard time about it. Teat Nazis are a solely western upper-middle-class phenomenon occurring when highly ambitious women experience deprivation from outside modes of achievement.

  Tina Fey

  Children, Years, Class

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• Early on, he'd learned to enjoy simple things, things that couldn't be bought, and he had a hard time understanding people who felt otherwise.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Simple, People, Understanding

  Nicholas Sparks (2014). “The Notebook: Student edition”, p.10, Hachette UK

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• I knew many Marines had done brave deeds that no one saw and for which they got no medals at all. I was having a very hard time carrying those medals and didnt have the insight or maturity to know what to do with my combination of guilt and pride.

  Karl Marlantes

  Pride, Marine, Maturity

  Karl Marlantes (2011). “What It Is Like To Go To War”, p.115, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• I think my parents had a hard time dealing with me.

  Chris Lilley

  Thinking, Parent, Hard

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Left to our own devices and passions, we human beings have a hard time seeing beyond what is immediately in front of us.

  Gene Robinson

  Passion, Devices, Humans

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• I have a hard time getting past the day without the nap, so the nap is a must.

  Mohnish Pabrai

  Past, Naps, Hard

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• All this hoping for something- or someone- that's maybe hopeless. I'm having a hard time processing what I am supposed to believe, or if I'm even supposed to. There is too much information, and I don't like a lot of it.

  David Levithan

  Believe, Hoping For Something, Too Much Information

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2010). “Dash & Lily's Book of Dares”, p.71, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• How many people can you claim truly care about you? I mean, not just the people in your life who are fun to hang out with, not just the people who you love and trust. But people who feel good when you are happy and successful, feel bad when you are hurt or going through a hard time, people who would walk away from their lives for a little while to help you with yours?

  Lisa Unger

  Hurt, Fun, Mean

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• I have a very hard time picturing myself in a room with some type of goo oozing out of an air vent and killing me; that doesn't really scare me because I don't think that's going to happen to me.

  Katie Aselton

  Thinking, Air, Scare

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

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• A majority of the successful women on the pop scene conform to what a woman is supposed to be. Some have tried to get things moving. They have tried to modify the image. But sometimes the image has a hard time changing the eye - to change the relationship between the image and the eye takes longer.

  Orlan

  Moving, Eye, Successful

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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