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But now that age comes A moment of joy is harder and harder to get.
— 6812 'The Chrysanthemums in the Eastern Garden' (in Chinese Poems, translated byArthurWaley,1946).
My mother always said to me, 'You're going to have to work harder and have to be better, and you can't take no for an answer'.
halle berry— Angela Dawson (February 23, 2002) "Pick of the Crop", The Courier Mail, p. M10.
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.
Aneurin Bevan— In Place of Fear (William Heinemann Ltd, London, 1952), p. 157.
It doesn't matter how you travel it, it's the same road. It doesn't get any easier when you get bigger, it gets harder. And it will kill you if you let it."
james brown— Brown, J. & Tucker, B.B. (1986). James Brown: The Godfather of Soul. Macmillan: New York. ISBN 0-02517-430-4
Yes, it's hard to write. But it's harder not to.
carl van doren— As quoted in ''Writing with Authors Kids Love : Writing Exercises by Authors of Children's Literature (1998) by Kathryn L. Johnson, p. 2
The harder they hit us, the louder we become, kind of like the skin on a drum.
michael franti— Skin On The Drum, Stay Human (2001)
You can tell when a Hollywood historical film was made by looking at the eye makeup of their leading ladies, and you can tell the date of an old science fiction novel by every word on the page. Nothing dates harder and faster and more strangely than the future.
neil gaiman— "Of Time, and Gully Foyle", Foreword to a 1999 edition of The Stars My Destination (1956)
I have tried to suggest that injustice is not necessary economics;that the economics can work, and has often worked, when the constituency for it is animated. The politics of equality - that is a little harder.
robert kuttner— Epilogue: Politics, p. 278 (Last text lines...)
Javon Ringer works harder than anybody, For the younger backs to see how hard he competes and prepares himself every week makes him a great role model."
javon ringer— MSU RB coach Dan Enos, quoted here
Technical problems can be remediated. A dishonest corporate culture is much harder to fix.
bruce schneier— Schneier, Bruce (2005-08-15). Visa and Amex Drop CardSystems. Cryptogram newsletter. Retrieved on 2006-09-08.
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.
alexander mccall smith— Love Over Scotland, chapter 112
"People who make sacrifices are very much loved and admired, aren't they? " she asked, earnestly. "If the sacrifice is a true one. But many of the bravest never are known, and get no praise. That does not lessen their beauty, though perhaps it makes them harder, for we all like sympathy," and Dr. Alec sighed a patient sort of sigh.
— Louisa May Alcott, in Eight Cousins, or, The Aunt-hill (1875), p. 106
I am a great believer in luck. The harder I work, the more of it I seem to have.
— Coleman Cox, in Listen to this (1922).
— Unsourced variant: The harder I work, the luckier I get.
— Sometimes mistakenly attributed to Thomas Jefferson, Stephen Leacock, or Samuel Goldwyn.
The harder I practice, the luckier I get.
— Gary Player, as quoted in "Gary Player: take it from the man in black: rats save lives, caning isn't all bad, and we make our own breaks" by Guy Yocom, in Golf Digest (October 2002).
For although in a certain sense and for light-minded persons non-existent things can be more easily and irresponsibly represented in words than existing things, for the serious and conscientious historian it is just the reverse. Nothing is harder, yet nothing is more necessary, than to speak of certain things whose existence is neither demonstrable nor probable. The very fact that serious and conscientious men treat them as existing things brings them a step closer to existence and to the possibility of being born.
hermann hesse— Motto of the work written by Hesse, and attributed to an "Albertus Secundus"
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.
thomas hobbes— The Introduction, p. 2
The tides are in our veins, we still mirror the stars , life is your child , but there is in me Older and harder than life and more impartial, the eye that watched before there was an ocean.
robinson jeffers— "Continent's End" in Tamar and Other Poems (1924)
It's easy to be cynical; harder is remembering that on any given day the person beside you on the subway or taking to long to pay for a tub of yogurt at the supermarket could be going through something tremendous and sorrowful and arduous.
rob payne— Chapter 33, p. 250
I was recently on a tour of Latin America, and the only regret I have was that I didn't study Latin harder in school so I could converse with those people.
dan quayle— U.S. Representative Claudine Schneider (RI) telling an admitted joke about Quayle"Quayle Quotes", Urban Legends Reference Pages
All the times that I’ve cried, keeping all the things I knew inside, It’s hard, but it’s harder to ignore it
cat stevens— Father and Son
The harder the rain, the lower the flowers in the garden bend: I'd rather never talk again Than to continue to pretend that this never ends.
aaron weiss— C-Minor. (Brother, Sister)
The truth isn't easily pinned to a page. In the bathtub of history the truth is harder to hold than the soap, and much more difficult to find...
terry pratchett— In Sourcery (1988), of the Discworld series.
"People who make sacrifices are very much loved and admired, aren't they? " she asked, earnestly. "If the sacrifice is a true one. But many of the bravest never are known, and get no praise. That does not lessen their beauty , though perhaps it makes them harder, for we all like sympathy," and Dr. Alec sighed a patient sort of sigh.
— Louisa May Alcott, in Eight Cousins, or, The Aunt-hill (1875), p. 106
...if the form is to say something important, rather than just involve itself in the kinetic thrill of drawn characters chasing each other, then we have to think harder.
— Eddie Campbell Interview with Tom Spurgeon 2006
In C++ it's harder to shoot yourself in the foot, but when you do, you blow off your whole leg.
— Bjarne Stroustrup "Stroustrups FAQ" research.att.com; Cited in: Charles R. Hardnett (2011) Programming Like a Pro for Teens. p. 295
One of the most distinctive features of the current regime under which we live is the prominence of heterosexuality and homosexuality as central, organizing categories of thought, behaviour, and erotic subjectivity. The rise to dominance of those categories represents a relatively recent and culturally specific development, yet it has left little trace in our consciousness of its novelty. As a result, not only do we have a hard time understanding the logic at work in other historical cultures' organizations of sex and gender, but we have an even harder time understanding our own experiences of sexuality that are not universal.
— David M. Halperin, How To Do the History of Homosexuality, p.3. The University of Chicago Press. ISBN 0226314472.
Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky, in Crime and Punishment (1866)
Love is like fire. Wounds of fire are hard to bear; harder still are those of love.
— Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen, Gunnar, Chapter IV.
A symbol is always in general and, however precise its translation, an artist can restore to it only its movement: there is no word -for-word rendering. Moreover, nothing is harder to understand than a symbolic work. A symbol always transcends the one who makes use of it and makes him say in reality more than he is aware of expressing.
— Albert Camus, in The Myth of Sisyphus (1942), Appendix: Hope and the Absurd in the work of Franz Kafka
