Hard Times Quotes - Page 20

• His conviction that everything happened for a reason, and would come to good, gave him laughing equanimity even in hard times.

  Laura Hillenbrand

  Laughing, Unbroken, Reason

  Laura Hillenbrand (2010). “Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption”, p.384, Random House

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• The first movie I can remember ever seeing was Hard Times with Charles Bronson and James Coburn. My dad also introduced me to the likes of Jimmy Cagney... John Garfield... Robert Ryan... Steve McQueen... James Caan... Those are my fondest memories.

  Mark Wahlberg

  Memories, Dad, Likes

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• I mean they [ Bradley Cooper, Zach Galifianakis] are both just really good guys and also they're both extremely funny in very unique ways. We made each other laugh an awful lot, and that goes a long way. And we also went through some hard times. I mean it was hard to make this movie [The Hangover].

  Ed Helms

  Hangover, Mean, Unique

  Source: movies.about.com

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• If you look at Caterpillar now [in Japan] with what's going on. [Shinzō] Abe is a great leader. Who is our chief negotiator? Essentially it is Caroline Kennedy. I mean give me a break. She doesn't even know she's alive. It's Caroline Kennedy. So Caterpillar is having a hard time selling because Komatsu is under-cutting them.

  Donald Trump

  Mean, Cutting, Japan

  Source: www.economist.com

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• One night my son was downstairs studying, and he had been up so late all that week, and my husband said, "I feel so sorry for him." I said, "Look, if he's going to become a surgeon" - he is studying to be a doctor - "he's going to have his hard times. I feel sorry for him too, but if he lives in this world he's going to have more hard times. He's going to stay up some more nights." I think we can't shield them from the hard times, even though we'd like to. I say to the children that I teach and to my own - I can't test the ground for you and tell you that's a safe step there.

  Marva Collins

  Children, Sorry, Husband

  Source: reason.com

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• The Germans have an inhuman way of cutting up their verbs. Now a verb has a hard time enough of it in this world when it's all together. It's downright inhuman to split it up. But that's just what those Germans do. They take part of a verb and put it down here, like a stake, and they take the other part of it and put it away over yonder like another stake, and between these two limits they just shovel in German. from "Disappearance of Literature

  Mark Twain

  Cutting, Two, Together

  Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.7281, Delphi Classics

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• the way i see it, hard times aren't only about money, or drought, or dust. hard times are about losing spirit, and hope, and what happens when dreams dry up.

  Karen Hesse

  Dream, Dust, Dry Up

  Karen Hesse (1997). “Out of the Dust”, p.225, Scholastic Inc.

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• It is under the greatest adversity that there exists the greatest potential for doing good, both for oneself and others.

  Dalai Lama

  Love, Inspirational, Family

  His Holiness The Dalai Lama (1998). “Path To Tranquility”, p.17, Penguin Books India

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• There should be a science of discontent. People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

  Frank Herbert

  Psychics, People, Needs

  "Dune".

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• Never to suffer would have been never to have been blessed.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Spiritual, Blessed, Adversity

  "Edgar Allan Poe: Complete Tales & Poems".

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• A curtain of stars, miles of them, are scattered, glowing, across the sky and their multitude humbles me, which I have a hard time tolerating. She shrugs and nods after I say something about forms of anxiety. It's as if her mind is having a hard time communicating with her mouth, as if she is searching for a rational analysis of who I am, which is, of course, an impossibility: there... is... no... key.

  Bret Easton Ellis

  Stars, Keys, Glowing

  Bret Easton Ellis (2014). “American Psycho: Picador Classic”, p.213, Pan Macmillan

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• Though people see me in a good light all the time, I turn off my phone and take time to have a good conversation with myself while enjoying nature alone when I'm having a hard time.

  Yunho

  Phones, Light, People

  Source: omonatheydidnt.livejournal.com

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• The hard times make a true friend afraid to ask.

  Tupac Shakur

  True Friend, Thug, Asks

  Song: Until the End of Time, Album: Until the End of Time, 2001

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• I have a hard time with morals. All I know is what feels right, what's more important to me is being honest about who you are. Morals I get a little hung up on.

  Brad Pitt

  Important, Littles, Moral

  "Meet Brad Pitt: Actor talks traps, perfection, and honesty". "Showbiz Today" with Laurin Sydney, www.cnn.com. November 13, 1998.

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• More than illness or death, the American journalist fears standing alone against the whim of his owners or the prejudices of his audience. Deprive William Safire of the insignia of the New York Times, and he would have a hard time selling his truths to a weekly broadsheet in suburban Duluth.

  Lewis H. Lapham

  Death, New York, Prejudice

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• Acting is not glamorous. It's not. Anybody who wants to get into acting for the glamour is in for a hard time.

  Emmanuelle Chriqui

  Acting, Want, Glamour

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

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• As a working actor, all I want to do is work. That's it. It's terrifying when you don't work. It's very hard when you don't work. There have been times when I've been out of work for like six months. I feel theatre to me is like manna.

  Sandra Oh

  Scary, Theatre, Six Months

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• Racism is always there underneath, but usually it is exploited in these times of economic crisis, and it's hard to find out when one slides into another.

  Iris Chang

  Racism, Racist, Slides

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• I wish I could write more make-believe. It's a lot easier to write about hard times and when things are going wrong. But I've never been a private person.

  Gwen Stefani

  Believe, Writing, Wish

  "The All-Star: Gwen Stefani". Interview with Candice Rainey, www.elle.com. May 4, 2011.

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• Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.

  Pat Riley

  Inspirational, Motivational, Basketball

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• For a tree to become tall it must grow tough roots among the rocks.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Frustration, Rocks, Roots

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