Harder Quotes - Page 39

• Marriage is a wrestling match where you hold on tight while your mate changes into a hundred different things. The trick is that you're changing into a hundred other things, but you can't let go. You can only try to match up and never turn into a wolf while he's a rabbit, or a mouse while he's still busy being an owl, a brawny black bull while he's a little blue crab scuttling for shelter. It's harder than it sounds.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Letting Go, Wrestling, Blue

  Catherynne M. Valente (2013). “The Girl Who Soared Over Fairyland and Cut the Moon in Two”, p.167, Macmillan

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• Once the options increase, settling on one becomes harder.

  Gayle Forman

  Settling, Increase

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• It’s not enough to be able to lie with a straight face; anybody with enough gall to raise on a busted flush can do that. The first way to lie artistically is to tell the truth — but not all of it. The second way involves telling the truth, too, but is harder: Tell the exact truth and maybe all of it…but tell it so unconvincingly that your listener is sure you are lying.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Sarcastic, Lying, Able

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.34, Penguin

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• Smart recessionary marketing means not waiting for business to return to normal. Instead, you should cash in on this invaluable opportunity your more cautious competitors may be creating for you. If they pull back, your media investment works much harder.

  Sarah Carter

  Business, Smart, Mean

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• It's harder to build than destroy. To build is to engage and change. In jazz, we call progressing harmonies changes. Changes are like obstacles on a speed course. They demand your attention and require you to be present. They are coming...they are here..... and then they are gone. It's how life comes. Each moment is a procession from the future into the past and the sweet spot is always the present. Live in that sweet spot. Be present.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Graduation, Sweet, Past

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• Write your own part. It is the only way I've gotten anywhere. It is much harder work, but sometimes you have to take destiny into your own hands.

  Mindy Kaling

  Graduation, Writing, Destiny

  Mindy Kaling (2011). “Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)(Enhanced Edition)”, p.87, Crown/Archetype

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• It gets harder the more you know. Because the more you find out the uglier everything seems.

  Frank Zappa

  Knowledge, Knows, Seems

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• It is not virtue, wisdom, valour, wit,
  Strength, comeliness of shape, or amplest merit,
  That woman's love can win, or long inherit;
  But what it is, hard is to say,
  Harder to hit.

  John Milton

  Life, Winning, Long

  John Milton (1836). “The Poetical Works of John Milton... to which is Prefixed the Life of the Author Together with”, p.309

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• To love life is to love God. Harder and more blessed than all else is to love this life in one's sufferings, in undeserved sufferings.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Life, Blessed, Suffering

  "War and Peace". Novel by Leo Tolstoy. Book 14, Chapter 15, 1867.

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• Love is like fire.
  Wounds of fire are hard to bear; harder still are those of love.

  Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen

  Life, Love Is, Fire

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• Making peace, I have found, is much harder than making war.

  Gerry Adams

  Peace, War, Humanity

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• Pray a little more, work a little harder, save, wait, be patient and, most of all, live within our means. That's the American way. It's not spending ourselves into prosperity or taxing ourselves into prosperity.

  Mike Huckabee

  Mean, Waiting, Way

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• The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.

  Thomas Paine

  Strength, Being Strong, Encouragement

  "The American Crisis: The Crisis No. I". Book by Thomas Paine, en.wikisource.org. December 23, 1776.

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• The harder you try to suppress the truth, the more inevitable it is that it will find a way to come out.

  Arianna Huffington

  Truth, Trying, Way

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• The harder they hit, the more encouraged I get.

  Hillary Clinton

  Broken Heart, Heart, Broken

  "The Unique Voice of Hillary Rodham Clinton". Book by Hillary Clinton, www.huffingtonpost.com. 1997.

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• Playing our parts. Yes, we all have to do that and from childhood on, I have found that my own character has been much harder to play worthily and far harder at times to comprehend than any of the roles I have portrayed.

  Bette Davis

  Character, Play, Childhood

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• Vaughn's vision is older, wiser and harder than Ritchie's.

  Will Self

  Vision, Wiser

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• It is one thing to show your child the way, and a harder thing to then stand out of it

  Robert Breault

  Family, Children, Parenting

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• It takes far less courage to kill yourself than it takes to wake up one more time. It is harder to stay where you are than to get out.

  Judith Perelman Rossner

  Courage, Time, Wake Up

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• Teamwork is neither "good" nor "desirable." It is a fact. Wherever people work together or play together they do so as a team. Which team to use for what purpose is a crucial, difficult and risky decision that is even harder to unmake. Managements have yet to learn how to make it.

  Peter Drucker

  Teamwork, Play, People

  Peter Drucker (2012). “Managing in a Time of Great Change”, p.90, Routledge

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• All right mister, let me tell you that winning means you're willing to go longer, work harder, give more than anyone else.

  Vince Lombardi

  Teamwork, Perseverance, Mean

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• Great teams work harder after a tough loss.

  Ron Brown

  Success, Sports, Teamwork

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• A price has to be paid for success. Almost invariably those who have reached the summits worked harder and longer, studied and planned more assiduously, practiced more self- denial, overcame more difficulties than those of us who have not risen so far.

  B. C. Forbes

  Acceptance, Pay The Price, Self

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• As a man grows older it is harder and harder to frighten him.

  Jean Paul

  Men, Age, Aging

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• Rowing harder doesn't help if the boat is headed in the wrong direction.

  Kenichi Ohmae

  Inspirational, Life, Journey

  "AntiPatterns in Project Management". Book by Hays W. McCormick, W. Scott Thomas, and William J. Brown, 2000.

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