Harder Quotes - Page 27

• You know, when you've been dumped, the one thing you love to do is just forget about this human being, and then go on with your life - but no, you just love them harder.

  Helen Fisher

  Goes On, Forget, Things You Love

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• I have a tendency toward being a micromanager. Which, the bigger the project you're involved in, the harder that becomes.

  Christine Quinn

  Projects, Tendencies, Bigger

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• Modernism, rebelling against the ornament of the 19th century, limited the vocabulary of the designer. Modernism emphasized straight lines, eliminating the expressive S curve. This made it harder to communicate emotions through design.

  Eva Zeisel

  Vocabulary, Curves, Design

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• Intelligence is a harder gift. For this you must work, you must practice it, challenge it, and maybe toward the end of your life you will master it. Cleverness is the shadow, whereas intelligence is the substance. -Doc

  Bryce Courtenay

  Practice, Challenges, Shadow

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• And so I went through the looking glass, stepped into the netherworld, where up is down and food is greed, where convex mirrors cover the walls, where death is honor and flesh is weak. It is ever so easy to go. Harder to find your way back.

  Marya Hornbacher

  Wall, Glasses, Mirrors

  Marya Hornbacher (2009). “Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia”, p.14, Harper Collins

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• You're really spread out now, you've got stuff all over the WORLD! You've got stuff at home, stuff in storage, stuff in Honolulu, stuff in Maui, stuff in your pockets...supply lines are getting longer and harder to maintain.

  George Carlin

  Home, Pockets, World

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• Always choose your bodyguard from another country, they find it harder to make alliance and betray you.

  Nancy Farmer

  Country, Alliances, Betray

  Nancy Farmer (2002). “The House of the Scorpion”, p.63, Simon and Schuster

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• Canadians are fond of a good disaster, especially if it has ice, water, or snow in it. You thought the national flag was about a leaf, didn't you? Look harder. It's where someone got axed in the snow.

  Margaret Atwood

  Ice Water, Snow, Looks

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• We aren't particularly talented. We try harder!

  Joe Strummer

  Trying

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• It is very hard to say the exact truth, even about your own immediate feelings – much harder than to say something fine about them which is not the exact truth.

  George Eliot

  Communication, Feelings, Language

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.129, Wordsworth Editions

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  Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Truth, Honesty, Punishment

  "Crime and Punishment". Book by Fyodor Dostoevsky (Part VI, Chapter 4, p. 471), 1866.

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• Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Pain, Choices, Sometimes

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2013). “Three Novels: Tender is the Night; The Beautiful and Damned; Thi”, p.171, Simon and Schuster

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• Remember this your lifetime through: Tomorrow there will be more to do. And failure waits for all who stay With some success made yesterday. Tomorrow you must try once more, And even harder than before.

  John Wooden

  Motivational, Yesterday, Waiting

  John Wooden, Jack Tobin, Bill Walton (2004). “They Call Me Coach”, McGraw Hill Professional

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• Her future, she thought, was likely to be worse than her past, for after her years of contented renunciation, she had slipped back into desire and longing; she found joyless days of distasteful occupation harder and harder; she found the image of the intense and varied life she yearned for, and despaired of, becoming more and more importunate.

  George Eliot

  Past, Years, Desire

  George Eliot (2006). “The Mill on the Floss: Easyread Large Edition”, p.195, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Policemen and security guards wear hats with a peak that comes down low over their eyes. Apparently this is for psychological reasons. Eyebrows are very expressive and you appear a lot more authoritative if you keep them covered up. The advantage of this is that it makes a lot harder for cops to see anything more than six foot off the ground. Which is why painting rooftops and bridges is so easy.

  Banksy

  Eye, Covered Up, Security Guards

  Banksy (2005). “Banksy: wall and piece”, Random House UK

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• I like the dark part of the night, after midnight and before four-thirty, when it's hollow, when ceilings are harder and farther away. Then I can breathe, and can think while others are sleeping, in a way can stop time, can have it so – this has always been my dream – so that while everyone else is frozen, I can work busily about them, doing whatever it is that needs to be done, like the elves who make the shoes while children sleep.

  Dave Eggers

  Life, Dream, Children

  Dave Eggers (2014). “A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius: Picador Classic”, p.11, Pan Macmillan

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• I tried the key in all the doors, even though he said he didn't recognize it. It's not that I didn't trust him, becuase I did. It's that at the end of my search I wanted to be able to say: I don't know how I could have tried harder.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Keys, Doors, Able

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.160, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• For some it is harder to write a novel than to row a bathtub across the North Atlantic.

  James N. Frey

  Writing, Novel, Bathtubs

  James N. Frey (2010). “How to Write a Damn Good Novel: A Step-by-Step No Nonsense Guide to Dramatic Storytelling”, p.151, Macmillan

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• You are a slow learner, Winston." "How can I help it? How can I help but see what is in front of my eyes? Two and two are four." "Sometimes, Winston. Sometimes they are five. Sometimes they are three. Sometimes they are all of them at once. You must try harder. It is not easy to become sane.

  George Orwell

  Eye, Two, Trying

  George Orwell (2001). “The Complete Novels of George Orwell: Animal Farm, Burmese Days, A Clergyman's Daughter, Coming Up for Air, Keep the Aspidistra Flying, Nineteen Eighty-Four”, p.1346, Penguin UK

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• If for a while the harder you try, the harder it gets, take heart. So it has been with the best people who ever lived. (The Inconvenient Messiah, BYU Speeches, Feb 15, 1982)

  Jeffrey R. Holland

  Heart, Adversity, Byu

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• I would like to be soft and warm. I would be terrified to be that way. I could be hurt if I were soft and warm. I could be hurt by something other than myself. It is harder to be soft than it is to be hard. I could be hurt by something other than myself.

  James Frey

  Hurt, Would Be, Pieces

  James Frey (2004). “A Million Little Pieces”, p.281, Anchor

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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

  Hard Times, Self, True Evil

  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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• You see, Momo... it's like this. Sometimes, when you've a very long street ahead of you, you think how terribly long it is and feel sure you'll never get it swept... And then you hurry. You work faster and faster, and every time you look up there seems to be just as much to sweep as before, and you try even harder…, and you panic, and in the end you're out of breath and have to stop-and still the street stretches away in from of you.

  Michael Ende

  Thinking, Long, Trying

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• With friends, if you keep making an effort to reach out and you keep getting hurt, you eventually stop trying. But it's much harder to give up on family. Somewhere deep down you want it to work so badly that you keep making the same mistake over and over again.

  Tori Spelling

  Hurt, Giving Up, Mistake

  Tori Spelling, Hilary Liftin (2009). “STORI Telling”, p.216, Simon and Schuster

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• I want a tattoo over my heart that reads TRY HARDER YOU LAZY PARAMEDIC SHITBAG OR I WILL HAUNT YOUR BEDROOM FOREVER

  Warren Ellis

  Tattoo, Heart, Forever

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