Hard To Believe Quotes - Page 4

• Belief isn't simply a thing for fair times and bright days...What is belief - what is faith - if you don't continue in it after failure?...Anyone can believe in someone, or something that always succeeds...But failure...ah, now, that is hard to believe in, certainly and truly. Difficult enough to have value. Sometimes we just have to wait long enough...then we find out why exactly it was that we kept believing...There's always another secret.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Believe, Long, Waiting

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• So say I’m your mom.' 'What?' I said. 'I’m your mom,' he repeated. 'Now tell me you want to quit modeling.' I could feel myself blushing. 'I can’t do that,' I said. 'Why not?' he asked. 'Is it so hard to believe? You think I’m not a good role-player?' 'No,' I said. 'It’s just–' 'Because I am. Everyone wanted me to be their mother in group.' I just looked at him. 'I just… It’s weird.' 'No, it’s hard. But not impossible. Just try it.' A week earlier, I hadn’t even known what color his eyes were. Now, we were family. At least temporarily.

  Sarah Dessen

  Mom, Mother, Believe

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• It always amazes me to look at the little, wrinkled brown seeds and think of the rainbows in 'em," said Captain Jim. "When I ponder on them seeds I don't find it nowise hard to believe that we've got souls that'll live in other worlds. You couldn't hardly believe there was life in them tiny things, some no bigger than grains of dust, let alone colour and scent, if you hadn't seen the miracle, could you?

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Believe, Thinking, Dust

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2016). “L. M. MONTGOMERY – Premium Collection: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry & Autobiography (Including Anne Shirley Novels, Chronicles of Avonlea & The Story Girl Series): Anne of Green Gables, Anne of Avonlea, Anne of the Island, Anne's House of Dreams, Rainbow Valley, The Golden Road, Kilmeny of the Orchard, The Watchman, Songs of the Sea & many more”, p.757, e-artnow

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• None of you appreciate me. Why is it so hard to believe that I could make a real contribution in these dark rimes?

  Richelle Mead

  Real, Believe, Dark

  Richelle Mead (2008). “Shadow Kiss: A Vampire Academy Novel”, p.91, Penguin

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• I could remember the details as if it had happened yesterday, even though it was hard to believe some of it had happened at all. Funerals were tricky like that. And life, I guess. The important parts you blocked out altogether, but the random, slanted moments haunted you, replaying over and over in your mind.

  Kami Garcia

  Believe, Yesterday, Funeral

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• it is hard to believe when I’m with you that there can be anything as still as solemn as unpleasantly definitive as statuary when right in front of it in the warm New York 4 o’clock light we are drifting back and forth between each other like a tree breathing through its spectacles

  Frank O'Hara

  New York, Believe, Light

  Frank O'Hara (1965). “Love Poems (tentative Title)”

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• I hope you don’t mind my joining you,” said Leanne. I minded. After all, she’d tried to kill me. A girl in a novel would say it was hard to believe, but it wasn’t.

  Franny Billingsley

  Girl, Believe, Mind

  Franny Billingsley (2013). “Chime”, p.277, A&C Black

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• Our obedience is God's pleasure when it proves that God is our treasure. This is good news, because it means very simply that the command to obey is the command to be happy in God. The commandments of God are only as hard to obey as the promises of God are hard to believe. The Word of God is only as hard to obey as the beauty of God is hard to cherish.

  John Piper

  Believe, Mean, Promise

  John Piper (2012). “The Pleasures of God: Meditations on God's Delight in Being God”, p.250, Multnomah

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• I find it hard to believe that a lady like...’ Pertellis hesitated, and coughed. ‘There is something elevated in the female spirit that will always hold a woman back from the coldest and most vicious forms of villainy.’ ‘No, there isn’t,’ Miss Kitely said kindly but firmly, as she set a dish in his hand. ‘Drink your chocolate, Mr Pertellis.

  Frances Hardinge

  Believe, Hands, Missing

  Frances Hardinge (2011). “Fly By Night”, p.348, Pan Macmillan

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• That all opposites—such as mass and energy, subject and object, life and death—are so much each other that they are perfectly inseparable, still strikes most of us as hard to believe. But this is only because we accept as real the boundary line between the opposites. It is, recall, the boundaries themselves which create the seeming existence of separate opposites. To put it plainly, to say that "ultimate reality is a unity of opposites" is actually to say that in ultimate reality there are no boundaries. Anywhere.

  Ken Wilber

  Real, Believe, Opposites

  Ken Wilber (1979). “No Boundary, Eastern and Western Approaches to Personal Growth”, Great Eastern Book Company

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• It is a simple logic truth that, short of mass emigration into space, with rockets taking off at the rate of several million per second, uncontrolled birth-rates are bound to lead to horribly increased death –rates. It is hard to believe that this simple truth is not understood by those leaders who forbid their followers to use effective contraceptive methods. They express a preference for ‘natural’ methods of population limitation, and a natural method is exactly what they are going to get. It is called starvation.

  Richard Dawkins

  Believe, Simple, Birth Rate

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• ... it struck me as so hard to believe I was really getting what I wanted; it was always easier to feel the lack of something than the thing itself.

  Curtis Sittenfeld

  Believe, Easier, Feels

  Curtis Sittenfeld (2005). “Prep: a novel”

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• Looking at her, I thought again how beautiful she was - even in jeans and a T-shirt, no makeup, she was breathtaking. So much so that it was hard to believe she could ever have looked at herself and seen anything else.

  Sarah Dessen

  Beautiful, Believe, Makeup

  Sarah Dessen (2008). “Just Listen”, p.201, Penguin

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• He was overconfident”, she told him. “And I won so the gods must have thought I was right. Otherwise they’d have made me lose. You know how trial by combat works.” “You won because you were good” he corrected her. “I find it hard to believe the gods sit forever about the Divine Realms betting on jousts and trials by combat.

  Tamora Pierce

  Believe, Forever, Trials

  Tamora Pierce (2007). “Squire: Book 3 of the Protector of the Small Quartet”, p.240, Random House Books for Young Readers

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• Today is my grandfather's birthday." "How old is he?" "Sixty-three. It's hard to believe he was once a human being.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Believe, Grandfather, Three

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• You're probably gonna find this hard to believe, but I was sort of weird when I was a kid." Salvatore "Sally" Sweet

  Janet Evanovich

  Sweet, Believe, Kids

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• You're going to find this hard to believe, but cops aren't required to carry emergency condoms." Joe Morelli

  Janet Evanovich

  Believe, Emergencies, Cop

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• People are still crazy about Python after twenty-five years, which I find hard to believe.

  Michael Palin

  Crazy, Believe, Python

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• Even I make mistakes." I put on my brash, overconfident face. "I know it's hard to believe—kind of surprises me myself—but I guess it has to happen. It's probably some kind of karmic way to balance out the universe. Otherwise, it wouldn't be fair to have one person so full of awesomeness.

  Richelle Mead

  Mistake, Believe, Balance

  Richelle Mead (2008). “Shadow Kiss: A Vampire Academy Novel”, p.46, Penguin

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• It's hard to believe. Where does the times go?' Betty sighs. 'I've always hated that phrase. It makes it would like time went on a holiday, and is expected back any day now. Time flies is another one I hate. Apparently, time does quite a bit of traveling, though.

  Gabrielle Zevin

  Hate, Believe, Holiday

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• If we find it hard to believe that winning millions might not be so lucky after all, we just don't have a good enough imagination. If I fantasise about winning the lottery, it doesn't take long before all sorts of worrisome potential consequences occur to me.

  Julian Baggini

  Believe, Winning, Long

  "What good luck to miss out on a £64m lottery win" by Julian Baggini, www.theguardian.com. December 6, 2012.

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• Where are we going?" asked Victor. "If I'm allowed to ask." I squirmed around in my seat so that I could look him in the eye. "That's what you're going to tell us. As hard as it is to believe, we didn't do all that just because we missed your pleasant company." "That is hard to believe.

  Richelle Mead

  Believe, Eye, Looks

  Richelle Mead (2013). “Vampire Academy: The Complete Collection”, p.925, Penguin

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• Phresine showed him where he could sleep, in an interior room with no windows, a narrow bed, and a washstand. There were chests stacked along one wall, and Costis guessed the dismal spot was probably a closet cleaned out to make room for him. Hard to believe the royal apartments, so lavish elsewhere, would otherwise have such a plain corner. Expecting better of royal closets, Costis went to bed disappointed.

  Megan Whalen Turner

  Wall, Believe, Sleep

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• And it seemed hard to believe that these people who were so close to me couldn’t see how desperate I was, or if they could they didn’t care enough to do anything about it, or if they cared enough to do anything about it they didn’t believe there was anything they could do, not knowing—or not wanting to know—that their belief might have been the thing that made the difference.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Believe, Differences, Knowing

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.84, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I am somewhat on the shy side. I know people might find that hard to believe.

  Rod Stewart

  Believe, People, Shy

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