I Quotes
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“It's harder to end a war than begin one. Indeed, everything that American troops have done in Iraq -- all the fighting and all the dying, the bleeding and the building, and the training and the partnering -- all of it has led to this moment of success. Now, Iraq is not a perfect place. It has many challenges ahead. But we're leaving behind a sovereign, stable and self-reliant Iraq, with a representative government that was elected by its people. We're building a new partnership between our nations.”
“It's harder to gain relevance or traction. But I'm of the opinion that if something's really good - not pretty good, but really, really good - people will hear about it.”
“It's harder to get hold of the world. It's harder to understand the world, to encompass the literature necessary for the information.”
“It's harder to get out of bed when you've failed.”
“It's harder to heal than it is to kill.”
Source: Alanna: The First Adventure
“It's harder to live the way I live. There are certain places I like to shop and eat where I simply don't go. The paparazzi follow you.”
“It's harder to maintain that internet kind of fame. It requires daily work, as opposed to a movie star who can make a movie once every two years and stay in the public eye. I respect it.”
“It's harder to make money when you're not a machine in a massive apparatus designed only to make money, but artists will figure it out.”
“It's harder to make something good when you can't curse all the time.”
“It's harder to make the glass than break the glass.”
Source: The Tao of Wu
“It's harder to pick and choose when you're dead. It's like a photograph, you know. It doesn't matter as much.”
Source: American Gods
“It's harder to play a quiet character because everything happens in their stream of consciousness. They're thinking and feeling the world, but they're saying very little, so then you have to communicate it through your behavior.”
“It's harder to play drums than guitar, physically. I'm always kind of on the edge. I guess that's how I play everything: on the edge of my ability.”
“It's harder to put yourself in a place where you could easily be seen as a fake. But that's more interesting to me.”
“It's harder to read code than to write it.”
Source: Joel on Software
“It's harder to reveal sides of yourself that make you vulnerable but it's another muscle that can be developed and one that I think is worthwhile. That said, everyone finds their style. It's personal.”
“It's harder to say 'no' when you really mean it.”
“It's harder to stay on top than it is to make the climb, Continue to seek new goals.”
“It's harder to stay strong than it is to give up. Giving up doesn't get you anywhere.. Only makes you weak.”
“It's harder to work with people who are not as dedicated to their craft. It also leaves you a better actor when you finish the project, since you always feel like you've learned something.”
“It's harder to write in the third person but the advantage is you move around better.”
“It's harder to write two people happy and in love than two people fighting and driving each other crazy.”
“It's harder when people are playing along, because it's just not as funny. They're trying to be funny, and it sort of cancels out the whole joke.”
“It's hardly ever that I am hurt by something in only one dimension.”
“It's hardly in a body's pow'r,To keep, at times, frae being sour.”
Source: The Works of Robert Burns: With an Account of His Life, and Criticism on His Writing ; to which are Prefixed Some Observations on the Character and Condition of the Scottish Peasantry by James Currie, M. D. ; with Many Additional Poems and Songs and an Enlarged and Corrected Glossary
“It's hardly possible to overstate the value, in the present state of human improvement, of placing human beings in contact with other persons dissimilar to themselves, and with modes of thought and action unlike those with which they are familiar. Such communication has always been... one of the primary sources of progress.”
“It's hardly surprising that the corporate aliens lie when it comes to the relationship between doing something about climate change and the economy.”
“It's hardware that makes a machine fast. It's software that makes a fast machine slow.”
“It's HE-RO," the boy argued. "No," the girl insisted, "it's HER-O.”
“It's headed away by John Clark, using his head.”
“It's healthier to reject certain cautions than fall in line.”
Source: Point Omega
“It's healthy for a band to become slightly less relevant”
“It's healthy for government to be a kind of moral catalyst, using the bully pulpit of high office.”
“It's healthy to admit you're not ok. 'It's ok not to be ok' it's brave. But don't let it win. Be sad. Have your moment, your day or week. Then do something about it and be happy. For yourself.”
“It's healthy to ditch class now and then." To be precise, it was healthier for humans if vampires ditched on days when human blood would be spilt.”
“It's healthy to have older friends. You go, 'Look, I'm younger than them!' That's always the nice thing, if you can be the youngest one in the room at times. Like if you're always the oldest one in the room, you'll start to feel like the oldest person in the world. So get older friends, because they're cool. Get cool older friends.”
“It's healthy to periodically self examine your life, your goals, your relationships, and ask yourself honestly, am I happy? Am I on the right track?”
“It's healthy to say uncle when your bone's about to break.”
“It's heartbreaking but we're trying to get over it. As disappointed as we were, I think that somehow you have to find a way to think that it happened for a reason.”
“It's heartbreaking that so many hundreds of millions of people around the world are desperate for the right to vote, but here in America people stay home on election day.”
“It's heartbreaking to see so many people trapped in a web of enforced idleness, deep debt, and gnawing self-doubt.”
“It's heartening to return to live music, heartening for people like me in a band. It's a very traditional thing to return to. It re-validates the original form that we fell in love with.”
“It's heavy duty to try to do everything and please everybody . . . My job was to go out there and play the game of basketball as best I can, ... People may not agree with that . . . I can't live with what everyone's impression of what I should or what I shouldn't do.”
“It's hell with that big beard and stuff. That's the one bit I don't like. Either you take out at lunch or you don't eat. So I opted not to eat, 'cause having to put it on twice is horrific.”
“It's hell writing and it's hell not writing. The only tolerable state is having just written.”
“It's helped my outlook, how I interact with people. It's made me more conscious. It's helped me be able to focus, make better decisions, think on my feet. I don't know what I'd do without it. It's my sanctuary.”
“It's helpful for me to get ideas - the physical action of painting. Sometimes it frees up your writer brain. It's nice for me now that the writing has become a serious career that painting can become more like a hobby.”
“It's helpful to be prepared to celebrate the tiny things that you can do, where you meet the world and you negotiate an outcome that's quite tiny. But you can still make it feel remarkable.”
“It's here somewhere," I assured him. "Please tell me you haven't lost it already." "We did fall out of the sky, you know," I said indignantly. "It's easy for things to go missing.”
Source: Halo
“It's here, where absolute evil was perpetrated, that the will must resurface for a fraternal world, a world based on respect of man and his dignity.”