Hardest Quotes - Page 35

• It has been said that the hardest job in the world is raising a child, but the people who says this have probably never worked at a comb factory or captured pirates on the high seas.

  Daniel Handler

  Jobs, Children, Hardest Job

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• The things we felt most are hardest to put into words. Hate is always easier to speak of than love. How shall I make love go through the sieve of words and come out something besides a pulp?

  Josephine Winslow Johnson

  Hate, Making Love, Speak

  Josephine Winslow Johnson (1934). “Now in November”, p.102, Feminist Press at CUNY

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• Is it important to be right or is it important to do what's right? That's one of the hardest lessons to learn.

  James Patterson

  Important, Lessons

  "Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment". Book by James Patterson, April 11, 2005.

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• The hardest thing was to give meaning to what appeared to have none.

  Tatjana Soli

  Giving, Hardest Thing

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• One of the hardest things to teach a child is that truth is more important than consequences.

  Orlando Aloysius Battista

  Wisdom, Children, Important

  "Quotoons: a speaker's dictionary".

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• The hardest lies to detect are the ones surrounded by truth.

  Megan Hart

  Lying

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• The hardest part of writing is not to get the ideas but to remember, why it is important to get them.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Writing, Ideas, Important

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• Sometimes the greatest tests of our strength are situations that don't seem so obviously dangerous. Sometimes surviving is the hardest thing of all.

  Richelle Mead

  Tests, Sometimes, Dangerous

  Richelle Mead (2010). “Last Sacrifice: A Vampire Academy Novel”, p.10, Penguin

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• I bet you never thought the hardest part of finding your ‘saviorʹ would be getting her mom to let her stay out past curfew.

  Richelle Mead

  Mom, Past, Would Be

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• I pretended not to understand. One of life's hardest jobs, to make a quick understanding slow. I think I succeeded, thought Herzog.

  Saul Bellow

  Jobs, Thinking, Hardest Job

  Saul Bellow (1976). “Herzog”, Viking Adult

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• The hardest mysteries to solve are the ones you come to near the end, because there isn't enough evidence, not enough to unravel, unless somehow you can go all the way back to the beginning - rewind and replay everything.

  James Patterson

  Way, Mystery, Enough

  James Patterson (2008). “Cross Country: (Alex Cross 14)”, p.11, Random House

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• I can't save you like that Ty. What you did to me wasn't this brilliant thing, like you think it was. You took me away from everything - my parents, my friends, my life. You took me to the sand and the heat, the dirt and isolation. And you expected me to love you. And that's the hardest bit. Because I did, or at least, I loved something out there. But I hated you too. I can't forget that.

  Lucy Christopher

  Love You, Thinking, Parent

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• Love was the hardest thing. Don't let anyone ever tell you different.

  Kate Atkinson

  Different, Hardest Thing

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• My sister, who never understood most of the things I wanted her to, might have been able to understand what had happened to me in this summer of weddings and beginnings. And she was right. The first boy was always the hardest.

  Sarah Dessen

  Summer, Boys, Might

  Sarah Dessen (2004). “That Summer”, p.198, Penguin

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• The hardest thing in this world, is to live in it.

  Joss Whedon

  Women, Vampire, World

  "Buffy the Vampire Slayer (The Gift)". TV Series, www.imdb.com. 2001.

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• To endure oneself may be the hardest task in the universe.

  Frank Herbert

  Tasks, May, Endure

  Frank Herbert (2008). “Dune Messiah”, p.99, Penguin

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• It was unfair that people who longed for love the most, searched the hardest for it, found it so elusive.

  Lisa Kleypas

  People, Unfair, Found

  Lisa Kleypas (2009). “Tempt Me at Twilight”, p.97, Macmillan

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• More and more, the hardest part of crying is when I can't stop.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Cry, I Can

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Choke”, p.79, Random House

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• It was a stretch to imagine that Barbara Walters might want to give it all up for Ed Couch, but Evelyn tried her hardest. Of course, even though she was not religious, it was a comfort to know that the Bible backed her up in being a doormat.

  Fannie Flagg

  Religious, Giving, Comfort

  Fannie Flagg (2013). “Fried Green Tomatoes, Can't Wait to Get to Heaven, and I Still Dream About You: Three Bestselling Novels”, p.60, Random House

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• The battle had been invisible to the naked eye, but the hardest ones are.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Eye, Battle, Naked

  Karen Marie Moning (2016). “The Fever Series 7-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, Iced, Burned”, p.1387, Dell

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• Besides, it's the first gift that's always the hardest to pay back. I wouldn't even have been here to do it if you hadn't helped me then.

  Suzanne Collins

  Pay, Firsts, Has Beens

  Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.288, Scholastic Inc.

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• Words are pale shadows of forgotten names. As names have power, words have power. Words can light fires in the minds of men. Words can wring tears from the hardest hearts. There are seven words that will make a person love you. There are ten words that will break a strong man's will. But a word is nothing but a painting of a fire. A name is the fire itself.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Strong, Love You, Heart

  "The Name of the Wind (The Kingkiller Chronicle, Book 1)". Book by Patrick Rothfuss, March 27, 2007.

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• Life is everything. Life is God. Everything shifts and moves, and this movement is God. And while there is life, there is delight in the self-awareness of the divinity. To love life is to love God. The hardest and most blissful thing is to love this life in one's suffering, in the guiltlessness of suffering.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Moving, Love Life, Self

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• The hardest thing in the world is believing someone can change. It's always easier to go along with the way things are than to admit that you might have been wrong in the first place.

  Jodi Picoult

  Believe, World, Might

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #4: Change of Heart, Handle with Care, and House Rules”, p.387, Simon and Schuster

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• The hardest thing on earth is choosing what matters.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  What Matters, Earth, Matter

  Sue Monk Kidd (2003). “The Secret Life of Bees”, p.147, Penguin

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