Harder Quotes - Page 37

• Some mortals--like you--are already half in love with death. It is who you are, and I'll not make it harder on you by telling you things you don't need to know. Ask me again when you die. Then I'll tell you everything, anything, nothing.

  Melissa Marr

  Needs, Half, Like You

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• The angel said, "I like black-and-white films more than color because they're more artificial. You have to work harder to overcome your disbelief. It's sort of like prayer.

  Jonathan Carroll

  Prayer, Angel, Black And White

  Jonathan Carroll (2008). “The Ghost in Love: A Novel”, p.40, Macmillan

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• Librarying is a harder profession than the public realizes, he said. People think it's all rubber stamps, knowing that Dewey 521 is celestial mechanics and saying 'Try looking under fiction' sixty eight times a day.

  Jasper Fforde

  Thinking, Knowing, Eight

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• I used to think that when I got older, the world would make so much more sense. But you know what? The older I get, the more confusing it is to me. The more complicated it is. Harder. You’d think we’d be getting better at it. But there’s just more and more chaos. The pieces—they’re everywhere. And nobody knows what to do about it. I find myself grasping, Nick. You know that feeling? That feeling when you just want the right thing to fall into the right place, not only because it’s right, but because it will mean that such a thing is still possible? I want to believe in that.

  David Levithan

  Fall, Believe, Mean

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• You might be able to thrash your way out of a spiderweb, but thrashing in quicksand doesn’t work. The harder you fight, the more ground you lose. Struggling merely expedites your inevitable defeat.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Struggle, Fighting, Might

  Karen Marie Moning (2012). “Iced: Fever Series”, p.71, Delacorte Press

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• There was a danger whenever I was on home ground. It was the danger of seeing my life through other eyes than my own. Seeing it as an ever-increasing roll of words like barbed wire, intricate, bewildering, uncomforting—set against the rich productions, the food, flowers, and knitted garments, of other women’s domesticity. It became harder to say that it was worth the trouble.

  Alice Munro

  Flower, Home, Eye

  Alice Munro (2002). “Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage: Stories”, Vintage

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• Too late, he recalled Miles's dictum that the reward for a job well done was usually a harder job.

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Jobs, Done, Rewards

  Lois McMaster Bujold (2000). “A Civil Campaign”, p.203, Baen Books

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• What is needed, however, isn't just that people working together be nice to each other. It is discipline. Discipline is hard--harder than trustworthiness and skill and perhaps even than selflessness. We are by nature flawed and inconstant creatures. We can't even keep from snacking between meals. We are not built for discipline. We are built for novelty and excitement, not for careful attention to detail. Discipline is something we have to work at.

  Atul Gawande

  Nice, Skills, Discipline

  Atul Gawande (2010). “The Checklist Manifesto: How To Get Things Right”, p.183, Profile Books

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• They shouldn't call death passing on. They should call it leveling up. Because the game only got harder once I lost. And I was more than a little worried it had only just begun.

  Kami Garcia

  Games, Passing On, Littles

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• Life can be so good if you let it. But you must trade with life. You give something and you get something, then you give something of yourself again and you receive something again. Life goes bad when people try to take from it without giving. Then they came away empty-handed, and they grab harder and more often, growing more disappointed and disillusioned each time.

  Judith McNaught

  People, Giving, Trying

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• As you grow older, it becomes harder to feel 100 percent happy; you learn all the things that can go wrong, you become superstitious about tempting fate, about bringing disaster upon your life by accidentally feeling too good one day.

  Douglas Coupland

  Fate, Feelings, One Day

  Douglas Coupland (1993). “Shampoo Planet”, p.131, Simon and Schuster

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• Pretending to be 'normal' is a lot harder than you think.

  Sue Grafton

  Thinking, Normal, Pretending

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• I loved being in my own head so much, it was getting harder and harder being with other people.

  Marian Keyes

  People, My Own

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• I believe ability can get you to the top,” says coach John Wooden, “but it takes character to keep you there.… It’s so easy to … begin thinking you can just ‘turn it on’ automatically, without proper preparation. It takes real character to keep working as hard or even harder once you’re there. When you read about an athlete or team that wins over and over and over, remind yourself, ‘More than ability, they have character.'

  Carol S. Dweck

  Real, Team, Believe

  Carol S. Dweck (2006). “Mindset: The New Psychology of Success”, p.97, Random House

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• He kissed me hard and I kissed him back harder, like it was the end of an era that had lasted all of my life.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Eras, Ends, Hard

  Cheryl Strayed (2012). “Wild: A Journey from Lost to Found”, p.230, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Do the things that interest you and do them with all your heart. Don't be concerned about whether people are watching you or criticizing you. The chances are that they aren't paying any attention to you. It's your attention to yourself that is so stultifying. But you have to disregard yourself as completely as possible. If you fail the first time then you'll just have to try harder the second time. After all, there's no real reason why you should fail. Just stop thinking about yourself.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Real, Heart, Thinking

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1960). “You Learn by Living”, p.32, Westminster John Knox Press

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• Although human beings are incapable of talking about themselves with total honesty, it is much harder to avoid the truth while pretending to be other people. They often reveal much about themselves in a very straightforward way. I am certain that I did. There is nothing that says more about its creator than the work itself.

  Akira Kurosawa

  Honesty, Talking, People

  Akira Kurosawa, Donald Richie (1987). “Rashomon”, p.122, Rutgers University Press

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• Its hard to die. Harder to live

  Dan Simmons

  Dies, Hard

  Dan Simmons (2011). “The Fall of Hyperion”, p.329, Spectra

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• She had that thing most people don't have - curiosity. She might not have always got the right answers, but she wanted to ask the questions. It's very hard if you are interested in ideas and all that, ideas and the philosophies of the past, it's very hard to find someone around here to really talk to. That's the tragedy of the thing really I mean, when you think about it. Certainly I can't find anyone around here to talk to anymore. And for a woman it's even harder you see. They can feel very trapped - because of the patriarchy. I do feel everyone needs to have these little chats now and then.

  Zadie Smith

  Philosophy, Mean, Past

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• Things have changed, ofcourse. There are counsellors at the ready. Kindness and understanding. Life is harder for some, we're told. Not their fault, even if the blows are purely imgainery. Felt just as keenly by the recipient, or the non recipient, as the case may be. But good use can be made of everything, if you are willing.

  Alice Munro

  Kindness, Blow, Understanding

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• Was it harder to die, or harder to be the one who survived?

  Ruta Sepetys

  Dies, Survived

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• See you tomorrow,” he said, instead. “All right.” Then, impulsively, I asked, “Do you have a place to sleep tonight?” “Sure,” he said with a smile, and started off as if he had somewhere to be. I could have bitten off my tongue because I pushed him into a lie. Once he started lying to me, it would be harder to get him to trust me with the truth. I don’t know why it works that way, but it does—at least in my experience.

  Patricia Briggs

  Lying, Sleep, Doe

  Patricia Briggs (2011). “The Mercy Thompson Collection”, p.32, Penguin

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• There are no people who are whole" he says. "Everyone has issues of their own to deal with. Mine might be a little harder, but the main thing is how on deals with them.

  Anna Funder

  Issues, People, Littles

  Anna Funder (2011). “Stasiland: Stories From Behind The Berlin Wall”, p.238, Granta Books

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• He’d only ever seen a gun once, a smaller one on the hip of that old deputy, a gun he’d always figured was more for show. He stuffed a fistful of deadly rounds in his pocket, thinking how each one could end an individual life, and understanding why such things were forbidden. 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

  Gun, Men, Thinking

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

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• Mercy was more frightening than murder, because it was harder, and Randa didn't deserve it. And even though she wanted what the voice wanted, she didn't think she had the courage for it.

  Kristin Cashore

  Thinking, Voice, Murder

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Graceling”, p.170, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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