Quotes on Hard

Man (in good earnest) is a marvellous vain, fickle, and unstable subject, and on whom it is very hard to form any certain and uniform judgment.

It's easy to make friends, but hard to get rid of them.

It was hard to reconcile the drumbeats and lifted voices in the night with my memories of flames and the screams of dying men. How could humanity range so effortlessly from the sublime to the savage and back again?

Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically. The cataclysm has happened, we are among the ruins, we start to build up new little habitats, to have new little hopes. It is rather hard work: there is now no smooth road into the future: but we go round, or scramble over the obstacles. We’ve got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.

People always think that happiness is a faraway thing," thought Francie, "something complicated and hard to get. Yet, what little things can make it up; a place of shelter when it rains - a cup of strong hot coffee when you're blue; for a man, a cigarette for contentment; a book to read when you're alone - just to be with someone you love. Those things make happiness.

That feeling of finishedness does not come all at once, and it is not easily won, but I think once you get there it is hard to go back.

It's hard to decide who's truly brilliant; it's easier to see who's driven, which in the long run may be more important.

It was so loud and so deep, it wasn't really sound at all, just something that turned the air hard and then hit you with it.

There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.

Blues is easy to play, but hard to feel.

We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.

If you have doubts about someone, lay on a couple of jokes. If he doesn't find anything funny, your radar should be screaming. Then I would say be patient with people who are negative, because they're really having a hard time.