I Quotes
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“It is hard to have patience with people who say 'There is no death' or 'Death doesn't matter.' There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter.”
“It is hard to have patience with people who say, ‘There is no death’ or ‘Death doesn’t matter.’ There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as wel say that birth doesn’t matter.”
Source: A Grief Observed
“It is hard to hide our genes completely. However devoted someone may be to the privacy of his genotype, others with enough curiosity and knowledge can draw conclusions from the phenotype he presents and from the traits of his relatives.”
Source: The Lives to Come
“It is hard to hold on to friendships when people move away to another state or to another world.”
“It is hard to ignore that is reality. But, at the same time, it still comes down to sound baseball decisions, farm systems and then execution on the field by the players. There are a lot of components to that (other) than just saying it is the highest salary.”
“It is hard to imagine 10 years is not quite long enough to learn a lesson.”
“It is hard to imagine a choice more stark than the choice between Reince Priebus, the chairman of the Republican Party, a clear establishment figure, and Stephen Bannon, a leader of the right-wing, the guy - Breitbart News Network, somebody who spent most of the time beating up on the Republican establishment.”
“It is hard to imagine a civilization without onions.”
Source: Mastering the Art of French Cooking
“It is hard to imagine a more elegant table at which to share a meal. Yet here it sits-never used, never disturbed-accompanied by a single chair.
This table harks back to a different era, a better time in the life of Susan's family, when owning this house in this part of Chicago signaled the achievement of middle-class African American respectability. Before the economic anchors of this far South Side neighborhood closed down-the steel yards in the 1960's, the historic Pullman railway car company in the early 1980's, and the mammoth Sherwin-Williams paint factory in 1995-Roseland was a community with decent-paying, stable jobs. It was a good place to raise your kids.
As the jobs left, the drugs arrived. 'It got worse, it changed.' Susan says, 'There's too much violence...unnecessary violence at that.' Given what her family has been through, this is more than a bit of an understatement. Susan's brother was shot in broad daylight just one block away. Her great-grandmother has fled to a meager retirement out west. Susan's family would like nothing more than to find a better place to live, safer streets and a home that isn't crumbling around them. Yet despite all its ills, this house is the only thing keeping Susan, Devin, and Lauren off the streets. They have spent the past few months surviving on cash income so low that it adds up to less than $2 per person, per day. With hardly a cent to their names, they have nowhere else to go.”
Source: $2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America
“It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.”
“It is hard to imagine a world without forgiveness. Without forgiveness life would be unbearable. Without forgiveness our lives are chained, forced to carry the sufferings of the past and repeat them with no release.”
Source: Bringing Home the Dharma: Awakening Right Where You Are
“It is hard to imagine great work being produced without a great work environment!”
“It is hard to imagine having a government more secretive than the United States. Virtually everything that government does, of any significance, is conducted behind an extreme wall of secrecy. The very few leaks that we’ve had over the last decade are basically the only ways that we’ve had to learn what our government is doing.”
“It is hard to imagine that, having downgraded the US, S & P will not follow suit on at least one of the other members of the dwindling club of sovereign AAAs. If this were to materialise and involve a country like France, for example, it could complicate the already fragile efforts by Europe to rescue countries in its periphery.”
“It is hard to imagine the things you have never seen.”
Source: All the Worlds of Men
“It is hard to imagine Thomas Kinkade as anything less than supremely self-assured.”
“It is hard to judge success if you have never known failure.”
“It is hard to keep a straight face during comedy scenes. It's considered really bad form to laugh at someone else because you can ruin their best take. But sometimes it's very hard not to.”
“It is hard to keep secrets in the digital age.”
“It is hard to keep secrets,' James said. 'Both for those who do not know the truth, but also those who keep them.”
Source: Chain of Iron
“It is hard to keep that which has not been obtained through personal development.”
“It is hard to know how many people do, but given that the people are so docile towards the rulers, nowadays, very few Americans show the passion for freedom that our forefathers had.”
“It is hard to know how to save the world if one has never lived in it.”
Source: Girls of July
“It is hard to know if what you are going to do in life is up to you, or a sum of the contribution of others, plus the circumstances you are born into.”
“It is hard to know what other way men can come to truth, to lay hold of it, if they do not dig and search for it as for gold and hid treasure; but he that does so, must have much earth and rubbish, before he gets the pure metal; sand, and pebbles, and dross usually lie blended with it, but the gold is nevertheless gold, and will enrich the man that employs his pains to seek and separate it.”
Source: The Works of John Locke
“It is hard to know what Sarah Palin means in Republican politics anymore.”
“It is hard to know which is the more remarkable- that it took 600 million years for the Earth to make its oil, or that it took 300 years to use it up.”
“It is hard to laugh at the need for beauty and romance, no matter how tasteless, even horrible, the results of that need are. But it is easy to sigh. Few things are sadder than the truly monstrous.”
Source: Miss Lonelyhearts & The Day of the Locust
“It is hard to learn when we think we know something.”
Source: The Answer to how is Yes: Acting on what Matters
“it is hard to let go , to imagine alternatives, stop thinking about things you are not ready to explore .”
“It is hard to let old beliefs go. They are familiar. We are comfortable with them and have spent years building systems and developing habits that depend on them. Like a man who has worn eyeglasses so long that he forgets he has them on, we forget that the world looks to us the way it does because we have become used to seeing it that way through a particular set of lenses. Today, however, we need new lenses. And we need to throw the old ones away.”
Source: The borderless world: power and strategy in the global marketplace
“It is hard to look at the amount of damage in the two states and say it's equal, but the time to fight that battle is gone. Without Louisiana and Mississippi working together, Louisiana might have gotten a lot less than that. That's just the reality of politics.”
“It is hard to look at the tumor and not come away with the feeling that one has encountered a powerful monster in its infancy”
Source: The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
“It is hard to look back and talk about a set of disjointed experiences as though they were part of one smooth progression.”
“It is hard to look the other way when a dictator is being so cruel and violent with his own people.”
“It is hard to look up to a leader who keeps his ear to the ground.”
Source: Fuzzify!: Borenwords and strategies for bureaucratic success
“It is hard to love yourself if you never spend time with yourself. 'Alone Time' is Necessary.”
Source: 99 Quotes and Affirmations For Self-Love & Personal Development
“It is hard to make government representative when it is also remote.”
“It is hard to make your adversaries real people unless you recognize yourself in them - in which case, if you don't watch out, they cease to be adversaries.”
“It is hard to mesmerize ourselves, to whip our own top; but through sympathy we are capable of energy and endurance. Concert fires people to a certain fury of performance they can rarely reach alone.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)
“It is hard to notice age in those who dream.”
Source: Hand on the Doorknob: A Charles Plymell Reader
“It is hard to open yourself to someone who might really love you. I kept trying to drive Ken away and he kept passing the test by staying.”
Source: Fear of Fifty: A Midlife Memoir
“It is hard to oppose an ideology with a tradition.”
“It is hard to overstate how valuable it is to have all the incredible tools that are used for human disease to study plants.”
“It is hard to overstate the biological significance of obsessions, compulsions and the psychological mechanisms that produce them. On the one hand, compulsions bear striking similarities to various repetitive, ritualized behaviors observed in other animals --including self-grooming, food inspection and washing, and checking for predators. On the other hand, cultural rituals --which also share several features with OCD symptoms-- perform a range of important functions in human societies, from group coordination in social and religious ceremonies to the transmission of knowledge between generations.”
Source: Evolutionary Psychopathology: A Unified Approach
“It is hard to overstate the debt we owe to the men and women of genius.”
“It is hard to partner with someone when you become so radioactive no one wants to stand next to you.”
“It is hard to personate and act a part long; for where Truth is not the bottom, Nature will always be endeavoring to return, and will peep and betray herself one time or other.”
“It is hard to play Blue Suede Shoes. I know everyone has heard it 10 million times, and that makes it even harder to play it, but there's a very laid back tempo on that. I was surprised at how slow it really was.”
“It is hard to predict what I want in a partner. It's more about what the universe brings to me, and what I feel is right.”