I Quotes
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“It is hard to transform an act of desperation into a thing of beauty.”
“It is hard to travel in this fallen world if you lose the power of speech every time evil meets you on the path.”
Source: Trickster Makes This World: Mischief, Myth, and Art
“It is hard to truly commune with the recently departed when carrying a plastic bag of dog feces.”
Source: Find What You Love and Let It Kill You
“It is hard to try and find a rhythm when you're only out there for short spurts, but it's fine.”
“It is hard to understand addiction unless you have experienced it.”
“It is hard to understand how a compassionate world order can include so many people afflicted by acute misery, persistent hunger and deprived and desperate lives, and why millions of innocent children have to die each year from lack of food or medical attention or social care.
This issue, of course, is not new, and it has been a subject of some discussion among theologians. The argument that God has reasons to want us to deal with these matters ourselves has had considerable intellectual support. As a nonreligious person, I am not in a position to assess the theological merits of this argument. But I can appreciate the force of the claim that people themselves must have responsibility for the development and change of the world in which they live. One does not have to be either devout or non devout to accept this basic connection. As people who live-in a broad sense-together, we cannot escape the thought that the terrible occurrences that we see around us are quintessentially our problems. They are our responsibility-whether or not they are also anyone else's.
As competent human beings, we cannot shirk the task of judging how things are and what needs to be done. As reflective creatures, we have the ability to contemplate the lives of others. Our sense of behavior may have caused (though that can be very important as well), but can also relate more generally to the miseries that we see around us and that lie within our power to help remedy. That responsibility is not, of course, the only consideration that can claim our attention, but to deny the relevance of that general claim would be to miss something central about our social existence. It is not so much a matter of having the exact rules about how precisely we ought to behave, as of recognizing the relevance of our shared humanity in making the choices we face.”
Source: Development as Freedom
“It is hard to understand what love is!”
“It is hard to utter common notions in an individual way.”
“It is hard to violate somebody's privacy if the person is completely anonymous.”
“It is hard to wait and press and pray, and hear no voice, but stay till God answers.”
Source: Purpose in Prayer
“It is hard to watch the government’s incompetence with COVID-19.”
“It is hard to witness to truth to people who believe truth is relative. It is hard to proclaim the forgiveness of sins to people who believe that, since morality is relative, they have no sins to forgive.”
“It is hard to wive and thrive both in a year.”
“It is hard to work for years with pure motives, and all the time be looked upon by most of those to whom our lives are devoted as having some sinister object in view.”
“It is hard to write a simple definition of something as varied as hacking, but I think what these activities have in common is playfulness, cleverness, and exploration. Thus, hacking means exploring the limits of what is possible, in a spirit of playful cleverness. Activities that display playful cleverness have "hack value".”
“It is hard to write about physically difficult things without causing the reader to disengage.”
“It is hard to write about politicians, see them at such close range, and still think of any of them as heroes.”
“It is hard to write even the smallest piece of code correctly.”
“It is hard to write it in words that I can read, that re-establishes the fact that has been haunting me for the past one year.”
Source: Laiza- Sometimes the end is only a Beginning
“It is hard work and great art to make life not so serious.”
Source: The Hotel New Hampshire
“It is hard work to be good when you are very little and very hungry, and have many sticks to beat you, and no mother's lips to kiss you.”
Source: Signa
“It is hard work to control the workings of inclination and turn the bent of nature; but that it may be done, I know from experience. God has given us, in a measure, the power to make our own fate.”
Source: Jane Eyre
“It is hard work to give life to new characters every single day. It is not as if I am God. I am just a tired, middle-aged woman trying to keep going.”
Source: Broken
“It is hard! But what can not be removed, becomes lighter through patience.”
“It is hard, as you get older finding good scripts, which is why I was thrilled to get Deck the Halls. But I do have a blessed life. I am blessed to have had a rich, wonderful creative success with Sex and the City, most people don't ever have that and I feel fulfilled in that way and so proud, so anything else that comes along is icing on the cake.”
“It is hard, but it is excellent, to find the right knowledge of when correction is necessary and when grace doth most avail.”
Source: Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks
“It is hard, I found, to be called traitor. Strange how hard it is, for it's an easy name to call another man.”
Source: The Left Hand of Darkness
“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.”
“It is hard, if not impossible, to snub a beautiful woman - they remain beautiful and the snub recoils.”
Source: Savrola: a tale of the revolution in Laurania
“It is hard, though, 'cos record labels love to boss you around. I won't let them do that anymore.”
“It is harder for women, perhaps to be 'one-pointed,' much harder for them to clear space around whatever it is they want to do beyond household chores and family life. Their lives are fragmented... the cry not so much for a 'a room of one's own' as time of one's own. Conflict become acute, whatever it may be about, when there is no margin left on any day in which to try at least to resolve it.”
Source: A House of Gathering: Poets on May Sarton's Poetry
“It is harder than it used to be because standards of housekeeping and house-decorating have become pretentious and competitive. I don’t blame children for fleeing those House Beautiful houses, nonshelters, dehumanized, ostentatious, rarely expressing an individual family’s way of life. When I was writing a column for Family Circle I had planned one in praise of shabbiness. A house that does not have one worn, comfy chair in it is soulless. It all comes back to the fact that we're not asked to be perfect, only human. What a relief it is to walk into a human house!”
Source: Journal of a Solitude
“It is harder to avoid censure than to gain applause.”
“It is harder to avoid censure than to gain applause; for this may be done by one great or wise action in an age. But to escape censure a man must pass his whole life without saying or doing one ill or foolish thing”
“It is harder to be a lifter than a bodybuilder...lifting is purely masculine whereas bodybuilding entails feminine traits. Bodybuilding reminds me of a woman getting ready to go somewhere. Can you tell me that greasing your body up and posing in front of a mirror is masculine? A bodybuilder puts strength secondary to his physique, whereas the lifter puts strength foremost because it is more masculine to do so.”
“it is harder to be philosophical when you are young.”
Source: My Days
“It is harder to be unhappy when you are eating.”
“It is harder to crack prejudice than an atom.”
“It is harder to cut our gains than to cut our losses.”
“It is harder to develop your occult or psychic body when you are dead because all planes meet in the physical.”
“It is harder to hide the feelings we have than to feign the ones we do not have.”
“It is harder to kill a whisper than even a shouted calumny.”
“It is harder to lie in an interview. A good interview - and it can be polite - is not a one way street like a candidate controlled ad. An interview is not programmed by the candidate and so the candidate can't be exactly sure what will be asked.”
“It is harder to maintain the balance of freedom than it is to endure the weight of tyranny.”
“It is harder to preserve than to obtain liberty.”
Source: The Works of John C. Calhoun Volume 4
“It is harder to release a nation from servitude than to enslave a free nation.”
Source: Selected Writings: 1810-1822
“It is harder to see than it is to express. The whole value of art rests in the artist's ability to see well into what is before him.”
Source: The Art Spirit
“It is harder to see than it is to express. The whole value of art rests in the artist's ability to see well into what is before him. ... The model will serve equally for a Rembrandt drawing or for anybody's magazine cover. A genius is one who can see. The others can often 'draw' remarkably well. ... Those who get their technique first, expecting sight to come to them later, get a technique of a very ready-made order.”
“It is harder to unite than to divide that is what makes it so precious and at the same time so fragile.”
“It is harder, usually, to find a person who wants to walk the streets of me, to taste the teas of my country, to... immigrate, you could say.”