Harder Quotes - Page 29

• You should not allow yourself the luxuries of discouragement of despair. Bounce back immediately, and welcome the adversity because it produces harder thinking and harder drive to get to the objective.

  Ralph Nader

  Adversity, Thinking, Luxury

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• If relationships were hard, mariage was even harder... it seemed like most couples struggled. It went with the territory. What did Nana always say? Stick two different people with two different sets of expectations under one roof and it ain't always going to be shrimp and grits on Easter.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Easter, Couple, Two

  FaceBook post by Nicholas Sparks from Jul 06, 2011

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• Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure and the memory so possessed him that for the moment there was nothing to do but to pretend.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Pain, Memories, 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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• It’s funny. I met a man once who did a lot of mountain climbing. I asked him which was harder, ascending or descending? He said without a doubt descending, because ascending you were so focused on reaching the top, you avoided mistakes. The backside of a mountain is a fight against human nature,” he said. “You have to care as much about yourself on the way down as you did on the way up.

  Mitch Albom

  Mistake, Fighting, Men

  Mitch Albom (2007). “For One More Day”, p.96, Hachette UK

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• Being a mother is like trying to hold a wolf by the ears,” Gram said. “If you have three or four –or more – chickabiddies, you’re dancing on a hot griddle all the time. You don’t have time to think about anything else. And if you’ve only got one or two, it’s almost harder. You have room left over – empty spaces that you think you’ve got to fill up.

  Sharon Creech

  Mother, Thinking, Two

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• I wanna say thank you cause: Makes me that much stronger, makes me work a little bit harder. makes me that much wiser. so thanks for making me a fighter!

  Christina Aguilera

  Stronger, Littles, Causes

  Song: Fighter

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• A critique does not consist in saying that things aren't good the way they are. It consists in seeing on just what type of assumptions, of familiar notions, of established and unexamined ways of thinking the accepted practices are based... To do criticism is to make harder those acts which are now too easy.

  Michel Foucault

  Thinking, Practice, Criticism

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• Chronicler picked up his pen, but before he could dip it, Kvothe held up a hand. "Let me say one thing before I start. I've told stories in the past, painted pictures with words, told hard lies and harder truths. Once, I sang colors to a blind man. Seven hours I played, but at the end he said he saw them, green and red and gold. That, I think, was easier than this. Trying to make you understand her with nothing more than words. You have never seen her, never heard her voice. You cannot know.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Lying, Past, Men

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• Big lots,' I said, seeing the eighty-year-old oaks and shady lawns. The houses were set way back and had iron fences and stone drives. The harder to hear your neighbors scream, my dear,' was David’s answer, and I sent my head up and down in agreement.

  Kim Harrison

  Agreement, Years, Iron

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• We made mad love shadow love random love and abandoned love. Accidentally like a martyr. The hurt gets worse, and the heart gets harder.

  Warren Zevon

  Hurt, Heart, Mad

  Song: Accidentally Like a Martyr

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• But how to do feelings? All very well to write "She felt sad", or describe what a sad person might do, but what of sadness itself, how was that put across so it could be felt in all its lowering immediacy? Even harder was the threat, or the confusion of feeling contradictory things.

  Ian Mcewan

  Sadness, Writing, Confusion

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• But when it came right down to it, the skin of my wrist looked so white and defensless that I couldn't do it. It was as if what I wanted to kill wasn't in that skin or the thin blue pulse that jumped under my thumb, but somewhere else, deeper, more secret, and a whole lot harder to get." I know what she's talking about. The something deeper and more secret. It's like cracks inside of you. Like there are these fault lines where things don't meet up right.

  John Green

  Blue, Talking, Somewhere Else

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• When someone has been mean to you, why would you want to be good to them?' 'You wouldn't want to. That's what makes it hard. You do it anyway. Being good is hard. Much harder than being bad.

  Jeanne DuPrau

  Peace, Mean, Want

  Jeanne DuPrau (2012). “The Books of Ember Omnibus”, p.268, Random House Books for Young Readers

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• Let the warriors clamor after gods of blood and thunder; love is hard, harder than steel and thrice as cruel.

  Jacqueline Carey

  Warrior, Love Is, Blood

  Jacqueline Carey (2003). “Kushiel's Chosen: A Novel”, p.577, Macmillan

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• He felt his heart pounding fiercely in his chest. How strange that in his dread of death, it pumped all the harder, valiantly keeping him alive. But it would have to stop, and soon. Its beats were numbered. How many would there be time for, as he rose and walked through the castle for the last time, out into the grounds and into the forest?

  J. K. Rowling

  Heart, Rose, Alive

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• Meriwether Lewis's last words were, 'I am not a coward, but I am so strong. So hard to die.' I don't doubt that it is, but it cannot be much harder than being left behind.

  John Green

  Strong, Doubt, Coward

  John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.113, Penguin

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• Everyone carries an atmosphere about him. It may be healthful and invigorating, or it may be unwholesome and depressing. It may make a little spot of the world a sweeter, better, safer place to live in; or it may make it harder for those to live worthily and beautifully who dwell within its circle.

  J.R. Miller

  Depressing, Circles, Atmosphere

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• I feel myself shriveling along with my world, getting smaller and harder. I'm turning into a rock, and in some ways that's good, because rocks last forever. But if this is how I'm going to last forever, then I don't want to.

  Susan Beth Pfeffer

  Rocks, Forever, World

  Susan Beth Pfeffer (2015). “The Life As We Knew It Collection”, p.197, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• And you said we wouldn't make it But look how far we've come For so long my heart was breaking But now we're standing strong The things you say They me fall harder each day You're a trainwreck But I wouldn't love you if you changed

  Demi Lovato

  Strong, Fall, Love You

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• It gets harder all the time, Bev Shaw once said. Harder, yet easier. One gets used to things getting harder; one ceases to be surprised that what used to be hard as hard can be grows harder yet.

  J. M. Coetzee

  Easier, Used, Said

  J. M. Coetzee (1999). “Disgrâce”, Random House (UK)

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• anybody can be a princess. all you have todo is have the right parents. it's no harder than being born Paris Hilton, for God's sake. at least you remember to put on underwear in the morning, i'm assuming

  Meg Cabot

  Morning, Princess, Paris

  Meg Cabot (2016). “Royal Scandal”, p.68, Pan Macmillan

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• This is how we court girls in America. We grab them and kiss them. And if they don't like it, we do it again, harder and longer, until they surrender. It saves us hours of witty repartee.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Girl, Witty, Kissing

  Lisa Kleypas (2008). “A Wallflower Christmas: A Novel”, p.35, Macmillan

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• It's just harder out there in the world of the living, and we cannot protect you out there as easily. I wanted to keep you perfectly safe...But there is only one perfectly safe place for your kind, and you will not reach it until all your adventures are over and none of them matter any longer.

  Neil Gaiman

  Adventure, World, Safe

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• We are not going to die." Butters stared up at me, pale, his eyes terrified. "We're not?" No. And do you know why?" He shook his head. "Because Thomas is too pretty to die. And because I'm too stubborn to die." I hauled on the shirt even harder. "And most of all because tomorrow is Oktoberfest, Butters, and polka will never die.

  Jim Butcher

  Motivational, Eye, Stubborn

  Jim Butcher (2010). “Dead Beat: The Dresden Files, Book Seven”, p.270, Hachette UK

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• the times we worked harder to make the day stand out. our story demanded that we change and so we did.

  Donald Miller

  Stories, Standing Out

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