O Quotes
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“One of the hardest tasks is to extract continually from one's soul an almost inexhaustible ill will.”
“One of the hardest things a person who is new to the way of business thinking has to go through is the countless number of people who will say to you: "You can't do that.”
“One of the hardest things about being alive is being with other people.”
Source: Engleby: A Novel
“One of the hardest things about givers is that they find it hard to receive. Sometimes we ask ourselves why good people are unlucky when it comes to relationships. It is because they give a lot and hardly receive. It is sometimes harder for givers to be compatible with their partners. They often give more, with no capacity to receive much. In the end, a man or woman feels like the giver is in control of the relationship, and nobody wants to be with a controller.”
“One of the hardest things about losing my mom at a young age was that everyone else seemed to still have their moms. That feeling of isolation lasted beyond the initial shock and heartache of losing her, and it became even more difficult after I had my own daughter. It felt so cruel that they would never get to know each other. When I was pregnant, I’d often wonder if my baby would look like her. I secretly hoped that my child’s arrival would, in some way, bring my own mother back. Then my daughter was born—with sparkly blue eyes and strawberry blond hair. She was lovely, but she didn’t look a thing like my mom (or me, for that matter). She didn’t really act like her, either. But that was okay! She is an entirely different person, after all.”
Source: You're Mom: A Little Book for Mothers
“One of the hardest things about my job is that there kind of is no one rulebook that applies to all situations.”
“One of the hardest things about writing lyrics is to make the lyrics sit on the music in such a way that you're not aware there was a writer there.”
“One of the hardest things anyone can do is live in the here and now. Not worry about the future, not rehash the past. Be present, that's the secret to changing your future. To finding true happiness.”
Source: Kingdom of the Feared
“One of the hardest things for a ball player to do is to accept his role”
“One of the hardest things for a person with autism to do is believe in themselves. But autistics have every right to be as proud as anyone.”
“One of the hardest things for a tyrant to find is people who actually make decisions.”
Source: God Emperor of Dune
“One of the hardest things for boys to learn is that a teacher is human. One of the hardest things for a teacher to learn is not to try and tell them.”
Source: The History Boys
“One of the hardest things for me as an exec was always, particularly as you progress further in the system, is that you're pushed further away from the day to day, the mechanics of making a movie.”
“One of the hardest things for me to do is be fully open in a poem. By that I mean, honest and not trying to amplify some mythological version of myself. I was a poor, geeky black kid in Indianapolis. There is nothing mythological about that. So to try to truly render the kind of economic and racial inequity I grew up in, I had to find a way to be more honest about what happened. And it wasn't fun to write, even though the poems aren't 100% autobiographical.”
“One of the hardest things for me, now that I'm famous, is finding people who can read my stuff and give me an honest critique.”
“One of the hardest things I've had to deal with in my career is keeping my material topical even though I only release albums every three or four years.”
“One of the hardest things I've had to learn is to let it go. At the end of the show or the end of the rehearsal day to just take a deep breath and say, "Alright, that was it. That was the day."”
“One of the hardest things in life is having words in your heart that you can't utter.”
Source: James Earl Jones: Voices and Silences
“One of the hardest things in life is the act of saying goodbye. If only it were as simple as saying goodbye for now, and see you again. Would it still be the same you I see, the next time we meet? Or the same me, for that matter? For to part with a person or place often also means having to say goodbye to a particular state of being or phase in you life.”
Source: The Desire for Elsewhere
“One of the hardest things in life to accept is a called third strike.”
“One of the hardest things in life to realize is that the person you love could never love you like you love them.”
“One of the hardest things in politics is to convince people to do things now that will have a good effect 20 or 30 years from now because politicians tend to have a short-term view. They are more attentive to things that people care about today.”
“One of the hardest things in the world is to be right and not hurt other people with it.”
“One of the hardest things in the world is to convey a meaning accurately from one mind to another.”
Source: The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll: Easyread Comfort Edition
“One of the hardest things in the world is to perform on record and get someone to enjoy and feel what you're doing. It's unlike, like TV you can, you can fake it with the face and the crying and the bits. Recording is completely different.”
“One of the hardest things in the world is to stop being the prodigal son without turning into the elder brother.”
Source: The Life You've Always Wanted: Spiritual Disciplines for Ordinary People
“One of the hardest things in the world to say is "President Trump," and not out of disrespect - just because people have known him just as Donald Trump for so long. It would be like if people said, "He's a doctor now, call him Doctor Trump."”
“One of the hardest things in this world is to admit you are wrong. And nothing is more helpful in resolving a situation than its frank admission.”
“One of the hardest things to believe is that anyone will abandon the effort to escape a charge of murder. It is extremely important to suspend disbelief on that. If you don't, the story is spoiled.”
“One of the hardest things to do as a spy, a strategist, or even just as a person, is wait.”
Source: The Wicked King
“One of the hardest things to do is to paint darkness which nonetheless has light in it.”
“One of the hardest things to do when you launch a channel is find a voice.”
“One of the hardest things to live with in any relationship is criticism, real or implied. Criticism is a form of humor for them, and they enjoy feeling superior when they see someone else's discomfort.”
“One of the hardest things to teach a child is that truth is more important than consequences.”
“One of the hardest things was knowing that these other people were risking their lives for you when they didn't have to. But they said they were doing it for religious reasons and I shouldn't take it personally. That helped some. They had silent prayers every evening. I found that hard to get used to at first, because it reminded me too much of that shit at the Center. It made me feel sick to my stomach, to tell you the truth. I had to make an effort, tell myself that this was a whole other thing.”
Source: The Handmaid's Tale
“One of the hardest things was learning that I was worth recovery”
“One of the hardest things we must do sometimes is to be present to another person's pain without trying to "fix" it, to simply stand respectfully at the edge of that person's mystery and misery.”
Source: Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation
“One of the hardest things you'll ever do is give yourself permission to be in pain of any kind. There's a reason we have survival instincts, so that we don't die. That goes for humans, animals (redundant, I know), all the fishes in the sea, everyone. Some researchers even say that even plants feel pain and a cucumber will scream when you cut it. (And some others say that's crap because they have no brain or central nervous system.) The point is, we're all wusses. And emotional pain is the worst.”
Source: Bent: How Yoga Saved My Ass
“One of the hardest things you will ever have to do is make peace between your ears. Once you do that … you’re free.”
“One of the hardest things you will ever have to go through is the death of a child. The second hardest thing you will ever have to go through is having a child die at Christmas time. The third hardest thing you will ever have to go through is telling your child that their friend and family member has passed away. The bittersweet moment that pulls you through it all is when your child says, "Mom don't cry. They're okay because they are with God now and they promise not to leave until they help you get through this.”
“One of the hazards of having friends, especially long time ones, is just how well they know you.”
Source: Instructions for Dancing
“one of the healthy vegetable with different color, it come in by a lot of fun and beautiful fall season. Gardening, seasons, life, and what people doing with pumpkin. Family can have a lot of fun and enjoy their time (and at the same time learn a lot of new things)”
Source: Seed, Sprout, Pumpkin, Pie
“One of the heaviest load so many people are carrying today is neither thoughts about things they lack nor things they wish to have, nor how to manage what they already have, but toxic words that have taken a greater portion of their thoughts and such words not just occupying a great part of their hearts, but also draining their very joy in life!”
“One of the heavy marble busts that lined the higher shelves had slid free and was falling toward her; she ducked out of its way, and it hit the floor inches from where she'd been standing, leaving a sizable dent in the floor. A second later Jace's arms were around her and he was lifting her off her feet. She was too surprized to struggle as he carried her over to the broken window and dumped her unceremoniously out of it.”
Source: Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (4 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels
“One of the helpful lessons I have learnt in leadership is the need to appreciate my strength zone and then lead from there.”
“One of the herbals I brought home from the library had a fascinating chapter on herbs and their connection to desire. For Elizabethans, a bundle of rosemary helped arrange an assignation, and an apple suggested libidinous intent. I picture Adlai's reaction to a sprig of rosemary left on his counter, or a juicy Fuji. Better yet, a "Florida butterfly" orchid from the swamp, since the same herbal had an entire page on the sensual properties of the orchid. It called the flower female----"open and inviting"----the root, male----"tuberous and reaching"----and the entire plant "hot and moist in operation.”
Source: The Marsh Queen
“One of the high points in my career came from a time I had with Tim Conway on a film when I had him fall down with laughter. I had this scene with him where I was this mechanic down fixing his car. I can't remember what my line was as written, but they were okay with me doing a made-up line. So Tim asks me what's wrong with his car, and I look up and say, "Well, looks like you got a squirrel caught up in there."”
“One of the high points of my career was winning the Grammy for 'I Will Survive.'”
“One of the high points of my life was when I suddenly realized that this dream I had in my late adolescence of combining pure mathematics, very pure mathematics with very hard things which had been long a nuisance to scientists and to engineers, that this combination was possible and I put together this new geometry of nature, the fractal geometry of nature.”
“One of the high spots of the decade for me was offering the bill which culminated in the tax act of 1986, which brought rates down. That was the most difficult problem to solve: how to make the tax system of the United States more fair. We tried to make it simpler, but we failed on that one.”