Harder Quotes - page 4

Writing is the hardest work in the world. I have been a bricklayer and a truck driver, and I tell you – as if you haven't been told a million times ALREADY – that writing is harder. Lonelier. And nobler and more enriching. (Harlan Ellison)
I remember, when I was young, How easily my mood changed from sad to gay. ... But now that age comes, A moment of joy is harder and harder to get. View quote
Bai Juyi
What persuades men and women to mistake each other from time to time for gods or vermin is ideology. One can understand well enough how human beings may struggle and murder for good material reasons-reasons connected, for instance, with their physical survival. It is much harder to grasp how they may come to do so in the name of something as apparently abstract as ideas. Yet ideas are what men and women live by, and will occasionally die for. View quote
Terry Eagleton
He can have heart, he can hit harder and he can be stronger, but there's no fighter smarter than me. View quote
Floyd Mayweather
We could manage to survive without money changers and stockbrokers. We should find it harder to do without miners, steel workers and those who cultivate the land. View quote
Aneurin Bevan
An educated, healthy and confident nation is harder to govern. View quote
Tony Benn
It's harder to say no when you really mean it. View quote
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The tragedy of virtue is that the more obvious, boring, unoriginal, and sermonizing the proverb, the harder it is to implement. View quote
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
After 58 years you'd think writing would get easier. It doesn't. If you're lucky, you become harder to please. That's all right, it's still a pleasure. View quote
Elmore Leonard
The 1980s will seem like a walk in the park when compared to new global challenges, where annual productivity increases of 6% may not be enough. A combination of software, brains, and running harder will be needed to bring that percentage up to 8% or 9%. View quote
Jack Welch
[Footnote] It's easy to see the faults in people, I know; and it's harder to see the good. Especially when the good isn't there. (Will Cuppy)
It's very important to be able to accept things, you know. Gracious acceptance is an art – an art which most of never bother to cultivate. We think that we have to learn how to give, but we forget about accepting things, which can be much harder than giving. View quote
Alexander McCall Smith
It is hard, I submit, to loathe bloodshed, including war, more than I do, but it is still harder to exceed my loathing of the very nature of totalitarian states in which massacre is only an administrative detail. View quote
Vladimir Nabokov
Will the United States pull the rug on New Zealand? The answer is no. They might polish the lino a bit harder and hope that I execute a rather unseemly glide across it. View quote
David Lange
You've just got to have a sense of respect for the person you have children with. Anger doesn't help anybody. Ultimately you have to say forgiveness is important, and honoring what you had together is important. But it's easy to say and harder to do. View quote
Nicole Kidman
We made mad love: Shadow love, Random love, And abandoned love. Accidentally like a martyr. The hurt gets worse and the heart gets harder. View quote
Warren Zevon
He that is to govern a whole Nation, must read in himself, not this, or that particular man; but Mankind; which though it be hard to do, harder than to learn any Language, or Science; yet, when I shall have set down my own reading orderly, and perspicuously, the pains left another, will be only to consider, if he also find not the same in himself. For this kind of Doctrine, admitteth no other Demonstration. View quote
Thomas Hobbes
There's a freedom to being young that is harder to come by as time goes on. View quote
Dave Matthews
As a guitar player, it's harder for me to impress somebody than it is to write a song that they like. View quote
Brad Paisley
The American conception of advertising is to arouse desires and stimulate wants, to make people dissatisfied with the old and out-of-date and by constant iteration to send them out to work harder to get the latest model-whether that model be an icebox or a rug or a new home. View quote
Bruce Fairchild Barton
It is harder to fight against pleasure than against anger. (Heraclitus)
The harder the world, the fiercer the honour. View quote
Steven Erikson
Nothing dies harder than a bad idea. And few ideas are worse than the ones we have about art. View quote
Julia Cameron
It is fashionable to wax apocalyptic about the threat to humanity posed by the AIDS virus, "mad cow" disease, and many others, but I think a case can be made that faith is one of the world's great evils, comparable to the smallpox virus but harder to eradicate. View quote
Richard Dawkins
The harder the struggle, the more glorious the triumph. Self-realization demands very great struggle. View quote
Swami Sivananda