Hard Words Quotes - Page 2

• Speak what you think today in hard words and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Thinking, Today, Tomorrow

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1279, Delphi Classics

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• Yes, my mind was wandering. I wished I were there with someone who could bring peace to my heart someone with whom I could spend a little time without being afraid that i would lose him the next day. With that reassurance, the time would pass more slowly. We could be silent for a while because we'd know we had the rest of our lives together for conversation. I wouldn't have to worry about serious matters, about difficult decisions and hard words.

  Paulo Coelho

  Heart, Next Day, Worry

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• Consider carefully before you say a hard word to a man, but never let a chance to say a good one go by. Praise judiciously bestowed is money invested.

  George Horace Lorimer

  Men, Chance, Praise

  George Horace Lorimer (2016). “Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to his Son”, p.77, Lulu.com

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• I want to let her know though that all the nights sleeping beside her even the useless arguments were things ever splendid and the hard words I ever feared to say can now be said: I love you.

  Charles Bukowski

  Love You, Sleep, Night

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• Children are game for anything. I throw them hard words, and they backhand them over the net. They love words that give them a hard time, provided they are in a context that absorbs their attention.

  E. B. White

  Children, Hard Times, Games

  "Writers at Work". Interview with George Plimpton and Frank Crowther, Paris Review, 1969.

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