Hard Quotes - Page 37

• It's hard to stay calm when you're terrified, helpless, alone, at the mercy of men with no mercy at all.

  Joe Abercrombie

  Men, Stay Calm, Mercy

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• Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die?... Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom.

  Alan Paton

  Life, Wise, Wisdom

  Alan Paton (2003). “Cry, the Beloved Country”, p.57, Simon and Schuster

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• Emotional appeals about working families trying to get by on $4.25 an hour are hard to resist.

  Tom DeLay

  Emotional, Trying, Minimum Wage

  Congressional Record, Volume 142, No.53, April 23, 1996.

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• Here's one from me: 'You have to be aware that everyone else is thinking far too hard about themselves to be thinking about you, whoever you are.' If you want it, you can have it. Once you know that, you can be free.

  Damien Hirst

  Thinking About You, Want, Knows

  Damien Hirst, Gordon Burn (2002). “On the Way to Work”, Universe Pub

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• Like friendship, hatred needed more than physical intimacy; it wanted creativity and hard work to sustain itself

  Toni Morrison

  Hard Work, Creativity, Hatred

  Toni Morrison (2008). “Love”, p.74, Random House

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• I work very hard to keep on an even keel as far as alcohol is concerned.

  Trisha Goddard

  Alcohol, Keel, Concerned

  "Secrets and lives" by Lynn Barber, www.theguardian.com. March 23, 2003.

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• I saw A Hard Day's Night 12 or 13 times.

  Pat Metheny

  Hard Times, Night, Saws

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• I don't feel like I have to please anyone. I feel free. I feel like I'm an adult. I'm grown. I can do what I want. I can say what I want. I can retire if I want. That's why I've worked hard.

  Beyonce Knowles

  Inspiring, Adults, Want

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• Well, I quit smoking three weeks ago and I had a hard day today not smoking.

  Eric Roberts

  Marijuana, Smoking, Three

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• It's hard not to empathize with the mayor's anger, given the injustices he'd suffered, but righteous anger rarely leads to wise policy.

  Edward Glaeser

  Wise, Anger, Injustice

  Edward Glaeser (2011). “Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier and Happier”, p.55, Pan Macmillan

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• The seed of God is in us. Given an intelligent and hard-working farmer, it will thrive and grow up to God, whose seed it is; and accordingly its fruits will be God-nature. Pear seeds grow into pear trees, nut seeds into nut trees, and God-seed into God.

  Meister Eckhart

  God, Growing Up, Hard Work

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• Who would you vote most likely to succeed? Bob Arum - White, Jewish, a graduate of Harvard, a Kennady Raider, United States Attorney. Don King - black, poor, out of the hard core getto of Cleveland, Ohio, numbers runner, a little confectionary dealer, ex-convict. Now who would you vote to succeed? It would be hands down........ Yet in this great land called America, I have out performed, outachieved, been more recognizable, did more, broke more records, and had more of a phenominal career, where Arum can't tie my shoe string. You understand?

  Don King

  Kings, Careers, Shoes

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• It's hard to get up at 6am when you're wearing silk pyjamas.

  Marvin Hagler

  Boxing, Get Up, Silk

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• Miracles sometimes occur, but one has to work terribly hard for them.

  Chaim Weizmann

  Miracle, Sometimes

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• Nothing brings families together faster than forgiveness. That should make it Step No. 1, but most of us find forgiving hard. We associate it with weakness and losing when, actually, the reverse is true. When you forgive, you gain strength and come out a winner. You break free of control by the other person's actions.

  Joyce Brothers

  Forgiveness, Forgiving, Together

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• People sometimes attribute my success to my genius; all the genius I know anything about is hard work.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Inspirational, Motivation, Hard Work

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• We too often let the material things serve as indicators that we're doing well, even though something inside us tells us that were not doing our best. That we are avoiding that which is hard, but also necessary. That we are shrinking from rather than rising to the challenges of the age.

  Barack Obama

  Inspirational, Challenges, Age

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• I know it's hard to blame the time, but there's a bit of an expectation for a summer movie. I think that 'Superman Returns' was a bit nostalgic and romantic, and I don't think that was what people were expecting, especially in the summer.

  Bryan Singer

  Summer, Thinking, People

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• O woman! in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou!

  Walter Scott

  Pain, Angel, Light

  Marmion canto 6, st. 30 (1808) See Shakespeare 228

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• Yoga's hard for me, but I know you can really feel the difference when you do it consistently. I'd rather be playing basketball.

  Chris Noth

  Inspirational, Basketball, Yoga

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• Each moment of my life I was dreaming of how great I could be, and continued working hard. Each time I closed my eyes I could see me shining bright like a sun.

  Kobe Bryant

  Inspirational, Basketball, Dream

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• Everyone over 50 should be issued every week with a wet fish in a plastic bag by the Post Office so that, whenever you see someone young and happy, you can hit them as hard as you can across the face.

  Richard Griffiths

  Birthday, Office, Age

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• It's hard for women at my age in Hollywood, but I'm not discouraged.

  Jane Fonda

  Birthday, Age, Hollywood

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• I had to fight hard against loneliness, abuse, and the knowledge that any mistakes I made would be magnified because I was the only black man out there... I never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect.

  Jackie Robinson

  Respect, Mistake, Loneliness

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• If I had admitted my guilt, it would have been the same as putting my head on the chopping block - lifetime ban. Death penalty. I spent my entire life on the baseball fields of America, and I was not going to give up my profession without first seeing some hard evidence ... right or wrong, the punishment didn't fit the crime, so I denied the crime.

  Pete Rose

  Baseball, Giving Up, Block

  Pete Rose, Rick Hill (2004). “My Prison Without Bars”, p.148, Rodale

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