Harder Quotes - Page 36

• I hear you're supposed to be good at manipulating people. Try a little harder to make me like you, all right? I'm the queen. Your life will be nicer if I like you.

  Kristin Cashore

  I Like You, Queens, People

  Kristin Cashore (2012). “Bitterblue”, p.130, Penguin

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• Living without expectations is hard but, when you can do it, good. Living without hope is harder, and that is bad. You have got to have hope, and you must'nt shirk it. Love, after all, hopeth all things. But maybe you must learn, and it is hard learning, not to hope out loud, especially for other people. You must not let your hope turn into expectation.

  Wendell Berry

  People, Expectations, Loud

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• It is harder, usually, to find a person who wants to walk the streets of me, to taste the teas of my country, to... immigrate, you could say.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Country, Tea, Want

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• Things happen or they don't happen, that's all. Nothing is accomplished by sweat and struggle. Nearly everything which we call life is just insomnia, an agony because we've lost the habit of falling asleep. We don't know how to let go. We're like a Jack-in-the-box perched on top of a spring and the more we struggle the harder it is to get back in the box.

  Henry Miller

  Letting Go, Spring, Struggle

  Henry Miller (1964). “Henry Miller on Writing”, New Directions Publishing

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• Let me explain: there are dragons, and then there are drakons. Drakons are several millennia older than dragons, andmuch larger. They look like giant serpents. Most don't have wings. Most don't breathe fire (though some do). All are poisonous. All are immensely strong, with scales harder than titanium. Their eyes can paralyze you; not the turn-you~to-stone Medusa-type paralysis, buttheoh~my~gods-that~big~snake~is~going~to~eat~me type of paralysis, which is just as bad.

  Rick Riordan

  Strong, Eye, Fire

  Rick Riordan (2013). “Percy Jackson: The Complete Series”, p.1135, Penguin UK

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• Believe me, Being gay is not a choice. Noone would choose to make life harder than it has to be.

  Jodi Picoult

  Believe, Gay, Choices

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• You don't have to be 'adults'... but be someone who can take responsibility for their own words and actions. Believe it or not, that's actually harder.

  Natsuki Takaya

  Believe, Responsibility, Adults

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• As we live, our hearts turn colder. Cause pain is what we go through, as we become older. We get insulted by others, lose trust for those others. We get back stabbed by friends. It becomes harder for us to give others a hand. We get our heart broken by people we love, even that we give them all we have. Then we lose family over time. What else could rust the heart more over time? Blackgold.

  Kanye West

  Pain, Heart, Hands

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• I have a name,” I grumped, my stomach pinching me harder. “Yes, but it has no pizzazz. Ra-a-a-a-chel. Rach-e-e-e-eel,” he said, trying it out in different ways. “No one will tremble in terror at that. Oh my God!” he said in a high falsetto. “It’s Rachel! Run! Hide!

  Kim Harrison

  Running, Eels, Names

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• No one knows very much about the life of another. This ignorance becomes vivid, if you love another. Love sets the imagination on fire, and, also, eventually, chars the imagination into a harder element: imagination cannot match love, cannot plunge so deep, or range so wide.

  James A. Baldwin

  Ignorance, Fire, Imagination

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• What is dead may never die, but rises again, stronger and harder.

  George R. R. Martin

  Ice, Stronger, May

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• Sometimes I think you'll be fine by yourself Cause a dream is a wish you make all alone; It's easy to feel like you don't need help, But it's harder to walk on your own.

  Demi Lovato

  Dream, Thinking, Wish

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• You don't need to watch out for me, Clay." But I did, Hannah. And I wanted to. I could have helped you. But when I tried, you pushed me away. I can almost hear Hannah's voice speaking my nest thought for me. "Then why didn't you try harder?

  Jay Asher

  Voice, Trying, Clay

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• We’re all works in progress, honey. And believe me when I tell you that I’ve had to work harder than most.

  Susan Elizabeth Phillips

  Believe, Progress, Honey

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• I don't trust tragedies much. It's easy to make a person sad by showing him something tragic. We all recognize when sad things happen: someone dies, someone loses a loved one, young love is crushed. It's much harder to make a man laugh-what's funny to one person isn't funny to another.

  Ilona Andrews

  Love Is, Men, Laughing

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• Things that are easily done are often much harder to undo. Sometimes, impossible.

  Janette Rallison

  Done, Impossible, Sometimes

  Janette Rallison (2010). “My Fair Godmother”, p.18, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• Do not mistake me. I am not yet weak enough to yield to fearful imaginings, which are almost as absurd as illusions of hope, and are certainly harder to bear. If I must deceive myself, I should prefer to stay on the side of confidence, for I shall lose no more there and shall suffer less.

  Marguerite Yourcenar

  Mistake, Yield, Suffering

  Marguerite Yourcenar (1957). “Hadrian's Memoirs”

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• The preciousness of the moment, which should make it easier to talk, makes it harder.

  John Green

  Moments, Easier, Should

  John Green (2008). “Paper Towns”, p.231, Penguin

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• The harder you tried not to think, the more you thought.

  C. S. Lewis

  Thinking

  C.S.Lewis (2016). “The Chronicles of Narnia Vol V: The Horse and his Boy”, p.96, ENRICH CULTURE GROUP LIMITED

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• She found herself to be quite worried that something would jump out at her, so she began to whistle. She thought it might make it harder for things to jump out at her, if she was whistling.

  Neil Gaiman

  Might, Worried, Found

  Neil Gaiman (2013). “Coraline”, p.128, A&C Black

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• The rain comes down harder as I write. It sheets off the roof in torrents. I wish it would pound against me. Pound the life from my body. The flesh from my bones. The pain from my heart.

  Jennifer Donnelly

  Pain, Rain, Writing

  Jennifer Donnelly (2015). “Revolution”, p.202, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Hatred is so much easier to win than love - and so much harder to get rid of.

  Enid Blyton

  Winning, Hatred, Easier

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• There are few things harder than being born into the wrong body.

  David Levithan

  Body, Born

  David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.154, Egmont UK

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• When you own a piano, it's harder to think about moving.

  Stephen King

  Moving, Thinking, Piano

  Stephen King (2016). “Misery”, p.171, Simon and Schuster

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• You are an... animal? A talking animal?" Without missing a beat, Teela said, "Of course not. She's much, much harder to train.

  Michelle Sagara

  Animal, Talking, Missing

  Michelle Sagara (2016). “Michelle Sagara Chronicles of Elantra Vol 3: Cast in Chaos\Cast in Ruin\Cast in Peril”, p.1317, MIRA

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