Hard Times Quotes - Page 19

• Western ears have a hard time hearing anything that isn't in four-four time. A lot of cultures experience music in five-eight, for example, five-four.

  Jerry Garcia

  Eight, Example, Culture

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• The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.

  Seneca the Younger

  Motivational, Positive, Cheer

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

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• Some of the smartest men have a hard time comprehending the obvious.

  Kristin Cashore

  Men, Obvious, Comprehending

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• 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. And then there's music, and girls, and drugs, and homeless people who've read Pauline Kael, and wah-wah pedals, and English potato chip flavors, and I haven't even read Martin Chuzzlewit yet... There's plenty out there.

  Nick Hornby

  Girl, Real, People

  "A Long Way Down". Book by Nick Hornby, May 7, 2005.

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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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• somebody/ anybody sing a black girl's song bring her out to know herself to know you but sing her rhythms carin/ struggle/ hard times sing her song of life she's been dead so long closed in silence so long she doesn't know the sound of her own voice her infinite beauty she's half-notes scattered without rhythm/ no tune sing her sighs sing the song of her possibilities sing a righteous gospel let her be born let her be born & handled warmly.

  Ntozake Shange

  Girl, Song, Struggle

  Ntozake Shange (2010). “For colored girls who have considered suicide/When the rainbow is enuf”, p.4, Simon and Schuster

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• Even the hard times are part of your life story. If you acknowledge them and move past them, they eventually add up to the experience that makes you wise.

  Miley Cyrus

  Wise, Moving, Past

  "22 Words of Wisdom from Voice of Reason, Miley Cyrus". www.hollywoodreporter.com.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Your past is just a story. And once you realize this it has no power over you.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Life, Past, Over You

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• Considering Adrian had once gotten bored while reading while reading a particularly long menu, I had a hard time imagining he'd read the Hugo book in any language.

  Richelle Mead

  Book, Reading, Long

  Richelle Mead (2012). “The Golden Lily: A Bloodlines Novel”, p.23, Penguin

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• Hard times and funky living can season the soul, true enough, but joy is the yeast that makes it rise.

  Tom Robbins

  Joy, Soul, Yeast

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