Harder Quotes - Page 35

• I'll do my bit tonight, but forgive me if it's a little harder to keep going than normal. Forgive me if I'm not superwoman after all." "Not superwoman?" he exclaimed, putting a hand on his chest in mock surprise. "You've lied to me all these years!

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Hands, Years, Forgive Me

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• My mother isn't crazy. She simply has a harder time than most reconciling her reality with everyone else's reality.

  Kim Harrison

  Mother, Crazy, Reality

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• Love is hard, harder than steel and thrice as cruel. It is inexorable as the tides, and life and death alike follow in its wake.

  Jacqueline Carey

  Love Is, Life And Death, Tides

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

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• I consider kissing her right there on the dirty couch, but self-preservation stops me. Once someone hurts you, it’s harder to relax around them, harder to think of them as safe to love. But it doesn’t stop you wanting them. Sometimes I actually think it makes the wanting worse

  Holly Black

  Hurt, Dirty, Kissing

  Holly Black (2010). “White Cat”, p.45, Simon and Schuster

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• Last words are always harder to remember when no one knows that someone's about to die.

  John Green

  Lasts, Remember, Last Words

  John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.138, Penguin

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• Failure is easy to measure. Failure is an event.Harder to measure is insignificance. A nonevent. Insignificance creeps, it dawns, it gives you hope, then delusion, then one day, when you’re not looking, it’s there, at your front door, on your desk, in the mirror, or not, not any of that, it’s the lack of all that. One day, when you are looking, it’s not looking, no one is. You lie in your bed and realize that if you don’t get out of bed and into the world today, it is very likely no one will even notice.

  Charles Yu

  Lying, Mirrors, Doors

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• Killing a man should be harder than waving a length of pipe in their direction. It should take long enough for one's conscience to get in the way.

  Hugh Howey

  Men, Long, Way

  "Wool Omnibus Edition". Book by Hugh Howey, January 25, 2012.

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• I will never quit. My nation expects me to be physically harder and mentally stronger than my enemies. If knocked down i will get back up, every time. I will draw on every remaining ounce of strength to protect my enemies and to accomplish our mission. I am never out of the fight.

  Marcus Luttrell

  Military, Fighting, Enemy

  Marcus Luttrell, Patrick Robinson (2010). “Lone Survivor: The Incredible True Story of Navy SEALs Under Siege”, p.134, Hachette UK

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• It's always been most important for me to figure out "my space" rather than trying to check out what everyone else is up to, minute by minute. Technology is making it easier to connect to other people, but maybe harder to keep connected to yourself-- and that's essential for any artist, I think.

  Jay-Z

  Artist, Technology, Thinking

  Jay-Z (2010). “Decoded (Enhanced Edition)”, p.299, Random House Group

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• Expectations were like fine pottery. The harder you held them, the more likely they were to crack.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Life, Expectations, Cracks

  Brandon Sanderson (2014). “Brandon Sanderson Sampler: The Way of Kings and Mistborn”, p.48, Macmillan

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• There are two kinds of people in this world, son. Those who save lives, and those who take lives." "And what of those who protect and defend? Those who save lives by taking lives?" "That's like trying to stop a storm by blowing harder. Ridiculous. You can't protect by killing.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Son, Two, People

  Brandon Sanderson (2010). “The Way of Kings”, p.155, Macmillan

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• Perhaps this is why lunatics have a harder time dating, not because they are off the wall but because it is hard to find soemone who is willing to date so many people in one person.

  Elif Safak

  Wall, People, Dating

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• You and your scars. Please! You don't kill youself like this!" I gesture, holding a wrist turned up to the ceiling, then pretending to cut across it with my other hand. "That's just a cry for help. That's just attention. Everbody knows that. Cutting across just gets you to the hospital. That's just from movies and TV shows and stuff like that. You didn't really try to kill yourself. you just wanted attention, but you screwed up. Try harder next time.

  Barry Lyga

  Cutting, Hands, Tv Shows

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• Someday was the thing he had, because it was a lot harder to ruin than today.

  Ann Brashares

  Today, Ruins, Someday

  Ann Brashares (2010). “My Name is Memory”, p.70, Penguin

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• She sits in the driveway, freezing, for thirty-six minutes. Arguing with herself. Because she thinks she's in love with him too. And there are two ways she can be a fool in love right now. She chooses the harder one. And knocks on the door.

  Lisa McMann

  Thinking, Doors, Two

  Lisa McMann (2010). “Wake”, p.156, Simon and Schuster

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• I find so many people struggling, often working harder, simply because they cling to old ideas. They want things to be the way they were; they resist change. I know people who are losing their jobs or their houses, and they blame technology or the economy or their boss. Sadly they fail to realize that they might be the problem. Old ideas are their biggest liability. It is a liability simply because they fail to realize that while that idea or way of doing something was an asset yesterday, yesterday is gone.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Jobs, Struggle, Technology

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• I don’t know what to tell you, Perry. Life’s hard. Love’s harder

  C.C. Hunter

  Hard Love, Knows, Hard

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• We thought the hard part was over—but we were wrong. Living is the hardest part. Figuring out how to live your life when you’re all busted up inside and out—there is nothing harder.

  Paullina Simons

  Live Your Life, Busted, Hardest

  Paullina Simons (2011). “The Summer Garden: A Novel”, p.40, Harper Collins

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• Let me get this straight. So you left the Dauntless compound to get ready for war... and took your makeup bag with you?" "Yep. Figured it would be harder for anyone to shoot me if they saw how devastatingly attractive I was.

  Veronica Roth

  War, Makeup, Would Be

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• But an apology too — you think you’re giving something, but you’re not. You’re really asking for something. You’re asking for forgiveness, you’re asking for the other injured person to make it okay for you. Apologies were harder work for the person getting one than the person giving one.

  Deb Caletti

  Apology, Thinking, Giving

  Deb Caletti (2013). “The Story of Us”, p.261, Simon and Schuster

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• ...nothing in the world is harder than convincing someone of an unfamiliar truth.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  World, Convincing, Unfamiliar

  Patrick Rothfuss (2011). “The Wise Man's Fear”, p.615, Penguin

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• There are occasions when a woman, no matter how weak and impotent in character she may be in comparison with a man, will yet suddenly become not only harder than any man, but even harder than anything and everything in the world.

  Nikolai Gogol

  Character, Men, World

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• Every creative person, and I think probably every other person, faces resistance when they are trying to create something good...The harder the resistance, the more important the task must be.

  Donald Miller

  Thinking, Creative, Important

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• The harder the world, the fiercer the honour.

  Steven Erikson

  World, Honour

  "Memories of Ice". Book by Steven Erikson, December 6, 2001.

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• There is nothing harder to estimate than a writer's time, nothing harder to keep track of. There are moments—moments of sustained creation—when his time is fairly valuable; and there are hours and hours when a writer's time isn't worth the paper he is not writing anything on.

  E. B. White

  Writing, Track, Scary

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