Harder Quotes - Page 23

• It is hard, I submit, to loathe bloodshed, including war, more than I do, but it is still harder to exceed my loathing of the very nature of totalitarian states in which massacre is only an administrative detail.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  War, Details, Loathing

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• Everything is a tradeoff. Everywhere you leave, you leave some good things. The more successful you are, the harder it is to make tradeoffs. That's why some people become successful and then become flat. Be willing to give up income for potential, for opportunity.

  John C. Maxwell

  Monday, Giving Up, Successful

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• It may be hard on some fathers not to have a son, but it is much harder on a boy not to have a father.

  Sara Gilbert

  Father, Son, Boys

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• This is so much harder than I ever thought it would be...because the thing is, even if you're just working part-time, your boss is going to expect a full week's worth of work, no matter how understanding she is. That's just the nature of the working world-things have to get done, babies or not. And if you're like me-if you're like any woman who ever did well in school and did well at her job-you don't want to disappoint a boss. And you want to do a good job raising your baby...It's not like you think it's going to be

  Jennifer Weiner

  Baby, Jobs, School

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• To write good SF today...you must push further and harder, reach deeper into your own mind until you break through into the strange and terrible country wherein live your own dreams.

  Gardner Dozois

  Dream, Country, Writing

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• Fantasy doesn't have to be fantastic. American writers in particular find this much harder to grasp. You need to have your feet on the ground as much as your head in the clouds. The cute dragon that sits on your shoulder also craps all down your back, but this makes it more interesting because it gives it an added dimension.

  Terry Pratchett

  Cute, Writing, Clouds

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• It was easy enough to kill yourself in a fit of despair. It was easy enough to play the martyr. It was harder to do nothing. To endure your life. To wait.

  Erica Jong

  Play, Waiting, Despair

  Erica Jong (2013). “Fear of Flying: 40th Anniversary Edition”, p.387, Open Road Media

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• Whether or not belive in Fate comes down to one thing: who you blame when something goes wrong. Do you think it's your fault - that if you'd tried better, worked harder, it wouldn't have happened? Or do you just chalk it up to circumstance? I know poeple who'll hear about the people who died, and will say that it was God's will. I know people who'll say it was bad luck. And then there's my personal favorite: They were just in the wrong place at hte wrong time. Then again, you could say the same thing about me, couldn't you?

  Jodi Picoult

  Fate, Thinking, People

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• You may look back on your life and accept it as good or evil. But it is far, far harder to admit that you have been completely unimportant; that in the great sum of things all a man's endless grapplings are no more significant than the scuttlings of a cockroach. The universe is neither friendly nor hostile. It is merely indifferent. This makes me ecstatic. I have reached a nirvana of negativity. I can look futility in the face and still see promise in the stars.

  Sebastian Horsley

  Stars, Men, Evil

  "Farewell Sebastian Horsley: a true bohemian" by Emily Hill, www.theguardian.com. June 17, 2010.

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• I hear you're supposed to be good at manipulating people. Try a little harder to make me like you, all right? I'm the queen. Your life will be nicer if I like you.

  Kristin Cashore

  I Like You, Queens, People

  Kristin Cashore (2012). “Bitterblue”, p.130, Penguin

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• Living without expectations is hard but, when you can do it, good. Living without hope is harder, and that is bad. You have got to have hope, and you must'nt shirk it. Love, after all, hopeth all things. But maybe you must learn, and it is hard learning, not to hope out loud, especially for other people. You must not let your hope turn into expectation.

  Wendell Berry

  People, Expectations, Loud

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• It is harder, usually, to find a person who wants to walk the streets of me, to taste the teas of my country, to... immigrate, you could say.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Country, Tea, Want

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• Things happen or they don't happen, that's all. Nothing is accomplished by sweat and struggle. Nearly everything which we call life is just insomnia, an agony because we've lost the habit of falling asleep. We don't know how to let go. We're like a Jack-in-the-box perched on top of a spring and the more we struggle the harder it is to get back in the box.

  Henry Miller

  Letting Go, Spring, Struggle

  Henry Miller (1964). “Henry Miller on Writing”, New Directions Publishing

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• Let me explain: there are dragons, and then there are drakons. Drakons are several millennia older than dragons, andmuch larger. They look like giant serpents. Most don't have wings. Most don't breathe fire (though some do). All are poisonous. All are immensely strong, with scales harder than titanium. Their eyes can paralyze you; not the turn-you~to-stone Medusa-type paralysis, buttheoh~my~gods-that~big~snake~is~going~to~eat~me type of paralysis, which is just as bad.

  Rick Riordan

  Strong, Eye, Fire

  Rick Riordan (2013). “Percy Jackson: The Complete Series”, p.1135, Penguin UK

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• Believe me, Being gay is not a choice. Noone would choose to make life harder than it has to be.

  Jodi Picoult

  Believe, Gay, Choices

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• You don't have to be 'adults'... but be someone who can take responsibility for their own words and actions. Believe it or not, that's actually harder.

  Natsuki Takaya

  Believe, Responsibility, Adults

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• As we live, our hearts turn colder. Cause pain is what we go through, as we become older. We get insulted by others, lose trust for those others. We get back stabbed by friends. It becomes harder for us to give others a hand. We get our heart broken by people we love, even that we give them all we have. Then we lose family over time. What else could rust the heart more over time? Blackgold.

  Kanye West

  Pain, Heart, Hands

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• I have a name,” I grumped, my stomach pinching me harder. “Yes, but it has no pizzazz. Ra-a-a-a-chel. Rach-e-e-e-eel,” he said, trying it out in different ways. “No one will tremble in terror at that. Oh my God!” he said in a high falsetto. “It’s Rachel! Run! Hide!

  Kim Harrison

  Running, Eels, Names

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• No one knows very much about the life of another. This ignorance becomes vivid, if you love another. Love sets the imagination on fire, and, also, eventually, chars the imagination into a harder element: imagination cannot match love, cannot plunge so deep, or range so wide.

  James A. Baldwin

  Ignorance, Fire, Imagination

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• What is dead may never die, but rises again, stronger and harder.

  George R. R. Martin

  Ice, Stronger, May

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• Sometimes I think you'll be fine by yourself Cause a dream is a wish you make all alone; It's easy to feel like you don't need help, But it's harder to walk on your own.

  Demi Lovato

  Dream, Thinking, Wish

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• You don't need to watch out for me, Clay." But I did, Hannah. And I wanted to. I could have helped you. But when I tried, you pushed me away. I can almost hear Hannah's voice speaking my nest thought for me. "Then why didn't you try harder?

  Jay Asher

  Voice, Trying, Clay

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• We’re all works in progress, honey. And believe me when I tell you that I’ve had to work harder than most.

  Susan Elizabeth Phillips

  Believe, Progress, Honey

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• I don't trust tragedies much. It's easy to make a person sad by showing him something tragic. We all recognize when sad things happen: someone dies, someone loses a loved one, young love is crushed. It's much harder to make a man laugh-what's funny to one person isn't funny to another.

  Ilona Andrews

  Love Is, Men, Laughing

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• Things that are easily done are often much harder to undo. Sometimes, impossible.

  Janette Rallison

  Done, Impossible, Sometimes

  Janette Rallison (2010). “My Fair Godmother”, p.18, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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