Harder Quotes - Page 33

• I tried to tell you that it's not Spade in there." "You could have tried harder. I absolutely never needed to know that Ian was pierced down there.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Spades, Needed, Knows

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• The nobility of the human spirit grows harder for me to believe in. War, zealotry, greed, malls, narcissism. I see a backhanded nobility in excessive, impractical outlays of cash prompted by nothing loftier than a species joining hands and saying “I bet we can do this.” Yes, the money could be better spent on Earth. But would it? Since when has money saved by government red-lining been spent on education and cancer research? It is always squandered. Let’s squander some on Mars. Let’s go out and play.

  Mary Roach

  War, Cancer, Believe

  Mary Roach (2011). “Packing for Mars”, p.174, Oneworld Publications

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• And you still love Marc?" "More than I can even explain. He's my rock—strong and steady, and ready for anything. He knows what I need before I know it, and he pushes me to work harder, and look deeper, and be better. He challenges me, and infuriates me, and he lights me on fire, deep in my soul. And he has never, ever let me down. Sometimes it feels like he's the only thing keeping my heart beating. I love him so much that it feels like I'm dying a little bit every day that he won't smile at me. Or touch me.

  Rachel Vincent

  Strong, Heart, I Love Him

  Rachel Vincent (2010). “Alpha”, p.60, MIRA

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• Everyone can lie, young Roger, given cause enough. Even me. It's only that it's harder for those of us who live in glass faces; we have to think up our lies ahead of time.

  Diana Gabaldon

  Lying, Thinking, Glasses

  Diana Gabaldon (2015). “The Outlander Series 8-Book Bundle: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn, The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone, Written in My Own Heart's Blood”, p.1528, Dell

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• places to hunt places to hide are getting harder to find, and pet canaries and goldfish too, did you notice that?

  Charles Bukowski

  Pet, Goldfish, Canaries

  Charles Bukowski (2012). “The Pleasures of the Damned: Selected Poems 1951-1993”, p.360, Canongate Books

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• I sometimes think the stronger you feel about someone, the harder it is to picture their face when you are away from them.

  Ann Brashares

  Thinking, Stronger, Faces

  Ann Brashares (2005). “Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood”, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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• Is the depressing part that he's only half right - it's not that she doesn't need rescuing but that nobody else will be able to do it? She has always somehow known that she is the one who will have to rescue herself. Or maybe what's depressing is that this knowledge seems like it should make life easier, and instead it makes it harder.

  Curtis Sittenfeld

  Depressing, Needs, Half

  Curtis Sittenfeld (2011). “The Man of My Dreams”, p.114, Random House

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• It's harder that in looks," I told him when I finally got back in the car. "Most things are.

  Sarah Dessen

  Car, Looks

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• I know one thing for certain; it is much harder to tell whether you are lost than whether you were lost, for, on many occasions, where you are going is exactly where you are. On the other hand, if you often find that where you've been is not at all where you should have gone, and, since it's much more difficult to find your way back from someplace you've never left, I suggest you go there immediately and then decide.

  Norton Juster

  Hands, Should Have, Way

  Norton Juster (2011). “The Phantom Tollbooth”, p.101, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• The park grass looked greener, the park benches looked better and the flowers were trying harder.

  Charles Bukowski

  Flower, Trying, Benches

  Charles Bukowski (2012). “Run With The Hunted: A Charles Bukowski Reader”, p.46, Harper Collins

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• The secret weapon is cucumber.' Solange sat all the way up. 'Jasmine, cover your ears.' MaryAnn, Juliette and Jasmine burst out laughing. 'Sheesh, Solange. Get your mind out of the gutter.' 'MY mind is just fine, thank you. It's MaryAnn's I'm concerned about.' 'You put them on your eyes,' MaryAnn said, laughing even harder.

  Christine Feehan

  Eye, Laughing, Secret

  Christine Feehan (2007). “Dark Possession”, p.284, Penguin

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• What is outside is harder to change than what is inside.

  Paulo Coelho

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• I swear to you, sitting a throne is a thousand times harder than winning one.

  George R. R. Martin

  Winning, Thrones, Sitting

  George R. R. Martin (2016). “A Game of Thrones: The Illustrated Edition: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book One”, p.52, Bantam

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• Love is dangerous, if you know it's dangerous, that makes you treasure it, and you'll work harder to keep it.

  Candace Bushnell

  Love Is, Treasure, Work Harder

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• The better a singer's voice, the harder it is to believe what they're saying.

  David Byrne

  Believe, Voice, Singers

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• I know the rules. I've been living here longer than you have." He cracks a smile then. He nudges me back. "Hardly." "Born and raised. You're a transplant." I nudge him again, a little harder, and he laughs and tries to catch hold of my arm. I squirm away, giggling, and he stretches out to tickle my stomach. "Country bumpkin!" I squeal, as he grabs out and wrestles me back onto the blanket, laughing. "City slicker," he says, rolling over on top of me, and then kisses me. Everything dissolves: heat, explosions of color, floating.

  Lauren Oliver

  Country, Kissing, Color

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• Everyone comes here for pleasure. Even if they think they don't. Embracing it is harder for some and they go mad before they truly accept it. Most of the places they cme from are founded on guilt and rules. The Ripers want us to break away from that - some wish to tear it from us while others are more subtle.

  Marianne de Pierres

  Thinking, Mad, Wish

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• But we are here, all of us. And we're here because I love you, more than the life that was mine. Because I believed you loved me the same way...will you tell me that's not true? No, he said after a moment, so softly I could barely hear him. His hand tightened harder on mine. No, I willna tell ye that. Not ever, Claire.

  Diana Gabaldon

  I Love You More, Hands, Way

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• A baseball bat could not have hit me harder than that smile did. I was sixteen years old. In that time, how many thousands of smiles had been aimed at me? so why did this one feel like the first?

  Jerry Spinelli

  Baseball, Years, Bats

  Jerry Spinelli (2012). “The Stargirl Collection”, p.54, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Deciding whether or not to trust a person is like deciding whether or not to climb a tree, because you might get a wonderful view from the highest branch, or you might simply get covered in sap, and for this reason many people choose to spend their time alone and indoors, where it is harder to get a splinter.

  Daniel Handler

  Trust, Truth, Honesty

  "The Penultimate Peril: A Series of Unfortunate Events #12". Book by Daniel Handler (Lemony Snicket), October 18, 2005.

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• Life is an obstacle course. You succeed at one thing and then you move on to the next. When an obstacle is tough, you try harder. When an obstacle is insurmountable, you change course. But you never sit down and refuse to finish.

  Bethenny Frankel

  Moving, Trying, Down And

  Bethenny Frankel, Eve Adamson (2011). “A Place of Yes: 10 Rules for Getting Everything You Want Out of Life”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

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• I felt like I had lost something. But not something silly, like my keys or my gum; more like my arm or my foot, something that really mattered. Like something that I could live without, but would make life much harder if it were missing. And life is hard enough. Life is hard enough with everything we're given.

  James Frey

  Silly, Keys, Feet

  James Frey (2011). “The Final Testament”, p.165, Hachette UK

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• You're very lucky... Friends are precious, powerful things - hard to earn, harder still to keep. You should thank this one for taking a chance on you.

  N.K. Jemisin

  Powerful, Lucky, Chance

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• The Great Man... is colder, harder, less hesitating, and without fear of 'opinion'; he lacks the virtues that accompany respect and 'respectability,' and altogether everything that is the 'virtue of the herd.' If he cannot lead, he goes alone... He knows he is incommunicable: he finds it tasteless to be familiar... When not speaking to himself, he wears a mask. There is a solitude within him that is inaccessible to praise or blame.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Men, Solitude, Opinion

  Friedrich Nietzsche, Jason Kingston (2017). “Friedrich Nietzsche: 100 Quotes on Strength, Power, and Honor”

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• It's harder to heal than it is to kill.

  Tamora Pierce

  Heal

  Tamora Pierce (2009). “Alanna: The First Adventure”, p.12, Simon and Schuster

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