Harder Quotes - Page 34

• The harder you had to work to open a package, the less you ended up caring about what was inside.

  Stephen King

  Caring, Packages

  Stephen King (2008). “Lisey's Story: A Novel”, p.239, Simon and Schuster

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• There's no point in asking why, even though everybody will. I know why. The harder question is "why not?" I can't believe she ran out of answers before I did.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Believe, Asking Why, Why Not

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2009). “Wintergirls”, p.18, Penguin

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• Hit it! You have to hit it harder than that. Electrons are timid little things but notional; you have to let them know who’s boss.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Boss, Littles, Little Things

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• As we have seen there is some kind of continuity in any case since every experience affects for better or worse the attitudes which help decide the quality of further experiences, by setting up certain preference and aversion, and making it easier or harder to act for this or that end.

  John Dewey

  Attitude, Quality, Aversion

  John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston, Steven M. Cahn (2008). “The Later Works, 1925-1953: 1938-1939”, p.20, SIU Press

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• It feels like everything's been decided in advance that I'm following a path somebody else has already mapped out for me. It doesn't matter how much I think things over, how much effort I put into it. In fact, the harder I try, the more I lose my sense of who I am. It's like my identity's an orbit that I've strayed far away from, and that really hurts. But more than that, it scares me. Just thinking about it makes me flinch.

  Haruki Murakami

  Hurt, Thinking, Who I Am

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• Life isn't supposed to be easy. Generally speaking, the harder something is the more rewarding the results will be.

  C.C. Hunter

  Easy, Results, Supposed To Be

  C. C. Hunter (2011). “Awake at Dawn”, p.49, St. Martin's Griffin

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• There is but one Paris and however hard living may be here, and if it became worse and harder even—the French air clears up the brain and does good—a world of good.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Air, Paris, Brain

  Naomi E. Maurer, Vincent van Gogh, Paul Gauguin (1998). “The Pursuit of Spiritual Wisdom: The Thought and Art of Vincent Van Gogh and Paul Gauguin”, p.53, Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

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• It is kind of hard to hold a lot in. But for me… it’s sometimes even harder to let it out.

  Sarah Dessen

  Kind, Sometimes, Hard

  Sarah Dessen (2008). “Just Listen”, p.150, Penguin

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• I know it's practical for career women, but sneakers with suits? Jesus couldn't possibly weep harder than I did.

  MaryJanice Davidson

  Jesus, Sneakers, Careers

  MaryJanice Davidson (2006). “Undead and Unpopular: A Queen Betsy Novel”, p.21, Penguin

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• She responds by kissing me harder and longer and deeper. She loves me too. She's just afraid.

  Julie Anne Peters

  Kissing, Deeper

  Julie Anne Peters (2009). “Rage: A Love Story”, p.140, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• but i've slammed the door to my inner self; if he ever wants to force the lock again, he'll have to use a harder crowbar!

  Anne Frank

  Doors, Self, Locks

  Anne Frank (2011). “The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition”, p.175, Bantam

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• And he writhed inside at what seemed the cruelty and unfairness of the demand. He had not yet learned that if you do one good deed your reward usually is to do another and harder and better one.

  C. S. Lewis

  Demand, Deeds, Rewards

  "The Horse and His Boy" by C.S. Lewis, California Books Inc., (p. 36), August 7, 2014.

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• Having said that, I must now admit that I was still afraid of human beings, and before I could meet even the customers in the bar I had to fortify myself by gulping down a glass of liquor. The desire to see frightening things—that was what drew me every night to the bar where, like the child who squeezes his pet all the harder when he actually fears it a little, I proclaimed to the customers standing at the bar my drunken, bungling theories of art.

  Osamu Dazai

  Art, Children, Night

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• If you want to live your life in a creative way, as an artist, you have to not look back too much. You have to be willing to take whatever you’ve done and whoever you were and throw them away. The more the outside world tries to reinforce an image of you, the harder it is to continue to be an artist, which is why a lot of times, artists have to say, “Bye. I have to go. I’m going crazy and I’m getting out of here.” And they go and hibernate somewhere. Maybe later they re-emerge a little differently. (Steve Jobs)

  Walter Isaacson

  Jobs, Crazy, Artist

  Walter Isaacson (2011). “Steve Jobs”, p.190, Simon and Schuster

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• Things can be seen better in the darkness," he said, as if he had just seen into her mind. "But the longer you spend in the dark, the harder it becomes to return to the world aboveground where the light is

  Haruki Murakami

  Dark, Light, Mind

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Nov 02, 2014

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• Trusting is hard. Knowing who to trust, even harder.

  Maria V. Snyder

  Trust, Knowing, Reliability

  Maria V. Snyder (2008). “The Study Series Bundle: Poison Study\Assassin Study\Magic Study\Fire Study”, p.307, MIRA

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• There is no getting around the fact that the moment you are at your very best is the moment you begin to become worse and worse. Others will come along who can run faster, jump higher, hit harder, and you will be forgotten. Your winning moment is dated to die.

  Charlie Higson

  Running, Winning, Facts

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• My attitude has always been if you get better and you see success, that should motivate you to even work harder, so that's kinda how I approach everything.

  Taylor Swift

  Attitude, Get Better, Should

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• Temptation likes best those who think they have a natural immunity, for it may laugh all the harder when they succumb.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Thinking, Laughing, Temptation

  Catherynne M. Valente (2011). “The Girl Who Ruled Fairyland--For a Little While: A Tor.Com Original”, p.15, Macmillan

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• Do not whine... Do not complain. Work harder. Spend more time alone.

  Joan Didion

  Complaining, More Time, Work Harder

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• I know, I say, after he says, This is hard, for the third time. This is what happens when you have a TRM, I tell him. You make a mess. It's okay. You just have to try harder next time. I am trying hard, Dad says. I know. You get a sticker. Thank you. Okay. You get another sticker for being polite.

  Kathryn Erskine

  Dad, Trying, Next

  Kathryn Erskine (2010). “Mockingbird”, p.84, Penguin

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• I've always resented the smug statements of politicians, media commentators, corporate executives who talked of how, in America, if you worked hard you would become rich. The meaning of that was if you were poor it was because you hadn't worked hard enough. I knew this was a lite, about my father and millions of others, men and women who worked harder than anyone, harder than financiers and politicians, harder than anybody if you accept that when you work at an unpleasant job that makes it very hard work indeed.

  Howard Zinn

  Jobs, Father, Hard Work

  "You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times". Book by Howard Zinn, 1994.

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• It is much harder to lie to someone's face. But. It is also much harder to tell the truth to someone's face.

  David Levithan

  Lying, Faces, Telling The Truth

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2010). “Dash & Lily's Book of Dares”, p.83, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• I began to cry. Barrons looked horrified. "Stop that immediately, Ms. Lane." "I can't." I sniffeled into my cup pf cocoa so he couldn't see my face. "Try harder!" I gave a great sniff and shudder, and turned it off. "I have not been her lover for...some time," he offered, watching me carefully. "Oh, get over yourself!

  Karen Marie Moning

  Trying, Faces, Cups

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• It's so hard to get up again—although of course the harder it is the more satisfaction you have when you do get up, haven't you?

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Satisfaction, Get Up, Courses

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2015). “Anne of Green Gables Collection: Anne of Green Gables, Anne of the Island, and More Anne Shirley Books”, p.123, Xist Publishing

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