Hardest Quotes - Page 34

• One of the hardest things for boys to learn is that a teacher is human. One of the hardest things for a teacher to learn is not to try and tell them.

  Alan Bennett

  Teacher, Boys, Trying

  Alan Bennett (2008). “The History Boys”, p.47, Faber & Faber

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• Taking a deep breathe, I made one of the hardest decisions of my life. I walked away.

  Richelle Mead

  Decision, Breathe, Made

  Richelle Mead (2013). “Vampire Academy”, p.127, Penguin UK

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• Letting go of randomness is one of the hardest decisions a person can make.

  Douglas Coupland

  Letting Go, Decision, Randomness

  "Microserfs". Book by Douglas Coupland, June, 1995.

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• I stand in this parking lot, realizing that I’ve never been this far from home, and here is this girl I love and cannot follow. I hope this is the hero’s errand, because not following her is the hardest thing I’ve ever done.

  John Green

  Girl, Hero, Home

  John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.304, A&C Black

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• Sometimes, the hardest thing was doing nothing.

  Scott Westerfeld

  Doing Nothing, Sometimes, Hardest Thing

  Scott Westerfeld (2010). “Extras”, p.111, Simon and Schuster

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• Before you can be anything, you have to be yourself. That's the hardest thing to find.

  E. L. Konigsburg

  Being Yourself, Just Be Yourself, Hardest Thing

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• I believe in whatever gets you throught the night. [...] Night is the hardest time to be alive. For me, anyway. It lasts so long, and four A.M.knows all my secrets.

  Poppy Z. Brite

  Believe, Night, Long

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• Autumn is the hardest season. The leaves are all falling, and they're falling like they're falling in love with the ground.

  Andrea Gibson

  Inspirational, Falling In Love, Autumn

  Andrea Gibson (Poet) (2013). “Pole Dancing to Gospel Hymns”, p.43, SCB Distributors

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• On those days when we're not ready to stop being offended, not ready to forgive, still determined to dish out the silent treatment, what we're actually saying is, "Thanks, but I don't want to become more like the Savior today. Maybe tomorrow, but not today." Perhaps those are the times when we need to pray the hardest, the times it becomes clear that a change in behavior is not enough--that we must have a change in nature.

  Sheri L. Dew

  Maybe Tomorrow, Forgiving, Needs

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• I didn't mean I'd seen everything, John Grady said. I know you didn't. I just meant I'd seen some things I'd as soon not of. I know it. There's hard lessons in this world. What's the hardest? I dont know. Maybe it's just that when things are gone they're gone. They aint comin back. Yessir.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Mean, Gone, World

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• … it was raining on Himmel Street when the world ended for Liesel Meminger. The sky was dripping. Like a tap that a child has tried its hardest to turn off but hasn’t quite managed.

  Markus Zusak

  Children, Rain, Sky

  Markus Zusak (2013). “The Book Thief: Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition”, p.497, RH Childrens Books

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• Not all powers are spectacular." Hestia looked at me. "Sometimes the hardest power to master is the power of yielding.

  Rick Riordan

  Sometimes, Masters, Hestia

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• Does everyone feel this way? When I was young, I was perpetually overconfident or insecure. Either I felt completely useless, unattractive, and worthless, or that I was pretty much a success, and everything I did was bound to succeed. When I was confident, I could overcome the hardest challenges. But all it took was the smallest setback for me to be sure that I was utterly worthless. Regaining my self-confidence had nothing to do with success...whether I experienced it as a failure or triumph was utterly dependent on my mood.

  Bernhard Schlink

  Confidence, Insecure, Self

  Bernhard Schlink (2001). “The Reader”, p.67, Vintage

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• She said that her father's death had been the hardest thing in her life. "We are all children until our fathers die.

  Melissa Bank

  Children, Father, Said

  Melissa Bank (2000). “The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing”, p.134, Penguin

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• I do know I felt as if my heart had been shredded when I found you in our storeroom, unconscious and bleeding. And leaving you with Vinco in the holding cells was the hardest thing I've ever done." - Riley to Trella

  Maria V. Snyder

  Heart, Cells, Found You

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• Let me out of here, Katra. Now. (Sin) I can't. (Kat) Then I hope you can live with the death of humanity on your conscience. I’ll just sit myself over here until it’s over. You got any good DVDs I can watch? It’ll help drown out the screams for mercy. Especially from the kids. Those are always the hardest to ignore. (Sin)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Kids, Dvds, Over You

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• If letting go, if letting people and things work themselves out in the way that they needed to without your help was the most important thing, then it was also the hardest.

  Deb Caletti

  Letting Go, People, Important

  "The Six Rules of Maybe". Book by Deb Caletti, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 16, 2010.

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• If you really love her, Cratus, let her know it every day. And always put her before you and your wants just as you’ve done here today. Take it from someone who knows. Love lost is the hardest burden to shoulder, and it’s one you can never get under. (Artemis)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Lost Love, Done, Want

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2010). “Dream Warrior”, p.262, Macmillan

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• But it’s like Cherise says, the hardest ones to love are always the ones who need it most. (Aimee)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Needs

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2009). “Bad Moon Rising: A Dark-Hunter Novel”, p.227, Macmillan

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• It's important for survival that children have their own experiences, the kind they learn from. The kind their parents arrange for are not as useful. Good parents are the hardest to get rid of.

  Garrison Keillor

  Children, Parent, Survival

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• This inner peace of mind occurs on three levels of understanding. Physical quietness seems the easiest to achieve, although there are levels and levels of this too, as attested by the ability of Hindu mystics to live buried alive for many days. Mental quietness, in which one has no wandering thoughts at all, seems more difficult, but can be achieved. But value quietness, in which one has no wandering desires at all but simply performs the acts of his life without desire, that seems the hardest.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Understanding, Inner Peace, Mind

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• The hardest-learned lesson: that people have only their kind of love to give, not our kind.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Love, Life, Marriage

  "The Complete Neurotic's Notebook". Book by Mignon McLaughlin, 1981.

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• What I think was hardest for me to realize was that he had tried each time to stop himself. He had killed animals, taking lesser lives to keep from killing a child

  Alice Sebold

  Children, Animal, Thinking

  Alice Sebold (2014). “The Lovely Bones: Picador Classic”, p.97, Pan Macmillan

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• Hardest of all, as one becomes older, is to accept that sapient remarks can be drawn from the most unwelcome or seemingly improbable sources, and that the apparently more trustworthy sources can lead one astray.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Henry Kissinger, Trustworthy, Accepting

  Christopher Hitchens (2012). “Long Live Hitch: Three Classic Books in One Volume”, p.1565, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Words got in the way. The things we felt the hardest--like what it was like to have a boy touch you as if you were made of light, or what it meant to be the only person in the room who wasn't noticed--weren't sentences; they were knots in the wood of our bodies, places where our blood flowed backward. If you asked me, not that anyone ever did, the only words worth saying were I'm sorry.

  Jodi Picoult

  Sorry, Boys, Light

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.397, Simon and Schuster

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