Quotes About Hard

Despite his Falstaffian appearance he was a hard and ruthless man. His piggish eyes were filled with greed; his fleshy mouth was lustful; his only natural smile was one of avarice.

For all this, it was essential that one take him seriously, and this was very hard to do, unless one sought the easiest way out of the dilemma between the unspeakable horror of the deeds and the undeniable ludicrousness of the man who perpetrated them, and declared him a clever, calculating liar—which he obviously was not.

The sea is softer than your delicate hands, and yet it can alter the shape of hard stones.

Painful memories didn't just ease back in-they shoved the door open hard, all of them and all at once

Heath Herring is tough as nails, and he fights hard.

The Celts were harder than anyone else, tougher, and rugged. We battered everybody.

The American Dream Dusty Rhodes, rest his soul, he was hard as hell on me. He was tougher on me than anybody.

I feel very grateful for Sybil. 'Fawlty Towers' was very hard to make, but it was very stimulating.

The Beatles were from Liverpool. It's a hard town. The Stones weren't the hard men. They just dressed up. The Beatles were the hard men.

I guess everybody saw it. It's a deal where I'd been racing cars a long time and I knew going around the track the fender was on the tire hard.

The idea that America, whose oil production has been declining for the past 40 years, is now on track to become the world's biggest producer by 2015 is still hard to grasp.

Fabulous place, Dublin is. The trouble is, you work hard and in Dublin you play hard as well.

There is, in the heart, the hard-rendering profit. As if we were plucking the leaves from the trees.

He knew how dignity of work meant that a hard day's labor should provide a decent standard of living.

This is the period when hard decisions are faced by families, having to do with the insertion of feeding tubes and the vigor with which medical measures should be taken to fend off those natural processes that descend like jackals—or perhaps like friends—on debilitated people.

What constitutes rigorous thinking? Is ambiguity dangerous or is it liberating? Why are the sciences regarded as hard and masculine and the arts and the humanities as soft and feminine? And why is hard usually perceived as so much better than soft?

My daddy said, that the first time you fall in love, it changes you forever and no matter how hard you try, that feeling just never goes away.

It is hard for the human soul not to love something, and our mind must of necessity be drawn to some kind of affection.

I love country music, but I find it very hard to take it seriously. I also think a lot of country music is sung with the tongue in cheek, so I do it tongue in cheek.

Let the warriors clamor after gods of blood and thunder; love is hard, harder than steel and thrice as cruel.

It always comes back to the same necessity: go deep enough and there's a bedrock of truth, however hard. It looks as if I were meant to be alone, and that any hope of happiness is not meant.

I love you," she whispered. "I told myself I wouldn't make it hard, that I'd never breathe those words. But 'tis harder for me to go without saying them. I need to give them to you.

Someone, I was beginning to suspect, had a bit of a gangster complex. It wasn't really very hard to figure out who. I mean, I was guessing it wasn't Christopher's aunt Jackie.

I wanted to know how he'd figured out I was at the hotel and not back at the paper helping CeeCee write her story, like I'd said I'd be, and he said it hadn't been hard: he just remembered that CeeCee was a straight-A student who surely wouldn't need my help writing anything, and turned his car around.