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“Once you get into this great stream of history you can't get out. You can drown. Or you can be pulled ashore by the tide. But it is awfully hard to get out when you are in the middle of the stream -- if it is intended that you stay there.”

Ifs Hard Middle Streams Tides Vocation

Author:Richard M. Nixon

“It's so hard to retain what your purpose is - or to even realize what it is.”

Hard Purpose Realizing

Author:Sinead O'Connor

“Sleep and I do not have a good relationship. We have never been good friends. I am constantly chasing sleep and then pushing it away. A good night's sleep is my white whale. Like Ahab, I am also a total drama queen about it. I love to talk about how little sleep I get. I brag about it, as if it is a true indication of how hard I work.”

Ifs Littles Hard Night Sleep White Drama Queens Pushing Good Friend Chasing Indication Whales Good Night Brag Good Relationship Pushing It Ahab

Author:Amy Poehler

“When your children arrive, the best you can hope for is that they break open everything about you. Your mind floods with oxygen. Your heart becomes a room with wide-open windows. You laugh hard every day.”

Mind Heart Children Hard Rooms Break Laughing Window Our Children Wide Your Children Flood Oxygen

Book:Yes Please

Source: Yes Please

“I was disappointed over my dismissal, given that it was at a crucial stage of the game and I had worked very hard to get to that point,.”

Hard Games Given Stage Disappointed Crucial Dismissal

Author:Ricky Ponting

“Getting enough energy to satisfy the needs of the developing world without bringing on an eco-disaster is not going to be easy. It will require a marriage of science and technology with good international policy, something that is always hard to bring off. We need to get it right this time.”

World Needs Hard Enough Energy Easy Technology Policy International Disaster Developing Science And Technology Eco

Author:Burton Richter

“If I don't know what's coming - that is, if I have no hard-and-fast image, as I have with a photographic original - then arbitrary choice and chance play an important part.”

Ifs Knows Important Hard Play Choices Chance Originals Arbitrary

Book:Gerhard Richter: text : writings, interviews and letters, 1961-2007

Source: Gerhard Richter: text : writings, interviews and letters, 1961-2007

“I was thinking back to all the time in the gym, working hard, and that spurred me on [winning New York marathon just ten months after giving birth”

Thinking Giving Hard Winning New York Months Birth Ten Gym Marathon Giving Birth

Author:Paula Radcliffe

“I am fine, though it is hard to think of what kind of work to make at this point, other than decorative, escapist or abstract. I suppose I'll explore one or all of these things.”

Thinking Kind Hard Fine Abstract Exploration Escapists

Author:Cindy Sherman

“Rumors sound of galleries asking artists for up-sized art and more of it... Everything winds up set to maximum in order to feed the beast. Bigness is not all bad. There's something pleasing about large, well-lit spaces. But the bigness has also led to a narrowing of sensibilities, by making it very hard for any but the glitziest works to get traction.”

Wells Art Hard Artist Order Sound Space Wind Asking Beast Sensibility Lit Maximum Rumor Gallery Traction

Author:Jerry Saltz

“It's hard thinking about Iraq at night when I'm dancing with transvestites in the afternoon.”

Thinking Hard Night Dancing Iraq Afternoon Transvestites

Author:Jerry Springer

“In this age of electronic money, investors are no longer seduced by a financial 'dance of a thousand veils.' Only hard and accurate information on reserves, current accounts, and monetary and fiscal conditions will keep capital from fleeing precipitously at the first sign of trouble.”

Firsts Hard Age Trouble Conditions Information Thousand Accounts Financial Currents Investors Accurate Reserves Veils Monetary Fleeing Accurate Information

Author:Lawrence Summers

“I think that's why I play tennis, because of the challenge, because of the competition, .. That's why we love to play tiebreaker in the third set. It makes it more exciting, and the bigger support in the stand, and more fans involved in it. I really enjoyed the competition and took a lot of hard work to make myself No. 1 at 18 years old.”

Thinking Years Hard Play Challenges Support Fans Hard Work Involved Thirds Bigger Exciting Competition Enjoyed Tennis

Author:Maria Sharapova

“It is hard enough to make a plan for how you are going to spend an evening with somebody else. So to make a plan for how you are going to behave in 25 years seems based on a view of life that is incomprehensible to me.”

Years Hard Enough Seems Views Plans Evening Behave

Author:Wallace Shawn

“Ideals are very often formed in the effort to escape from the hard task of dealing with facts, which is the function of science and art. There is no process by which to reach an ideal. There are no tests by which to verify it. It is therefore impossible to frame a proposition about an ideal which can be proved or disproved. It follows that the use of ideals is to be strictly limited to proper cases, and that the attempt to use ideals in social discussion does not deserve serious consideration.”

Source: Folkways: A Study of Mores, Manners, Customs and Morals

“Most films these days are men's stories. Women are for add-on romance. That's very hard.”

Men Hard Stories Film Romance Add These Days

Author:Uma Thurman

“There is no desire from the new British players. They say their coach doesn't travel with them so it's hard, but I played hundreds of players from Eastern Europe and Russia who had no facilities at all.”

Hard Desire Player Europe British Coaches Russia Eastern Facility Eastern Europe

Author:Tim Henman

“It is a libel to suggest that children need rewards for attending to tasks, apart from intrinsic interest and satisfaction. Children work very hard in their purposeful endeavors in the world, when they have ends they want to accomplish themselves. It is meaningless teaching, not learning, that demands irrelevant incentives.”

World Want Needs Children Ends Hard Interest Teaching Demand Tasks Rewards Satisfaction Accomplish Endeavor Meaningless Irrelevant Incentives Attending Libel

Author:Frank Smith

“All beginnings are hard.”

Hard

Author:Chaim Potok

“It's very hard to find things that rhyme with North American Free Trade Agreement.”

Hard Trade Agreement Rhyme Free Trade Trade Agreements

Author:Chris Martin

“There is no truth to the rumors that we hate each other. I have no ill feeling for [Britney Spears] and vice versa. I am proud of all the achievements she has made in her career, she is a very hard-working person. I have nothing but love for her.”

Persons Made Hard Feelings Hate Careers Hard Work Proud Achievement Ill Vices Rumor Vice Versa Spears Love For Her Ill Feelings

Author:Christina Aguilera

“One of the things that I truly have had to learn, sometimes the hard way, but that I'd like to share with you is to trust your own instincts no matter what people might say about you, no matter what criticism or what negativity might come your way for just being who you are, and just being yourself, it's so important. Tonight is your night.”

People Way Important Sometimes Matter Hard Might Night Share Trust Criticism No Matter What Who You Are Instinct Being Yourself Tonight Negativity Just Being Hard Way

Author:Christina Aguilera

“Everyone goes through a hard time in their life, they just don't have to do it in front of tons of people and with our media the way it is. I did, and I'm lucky that I had the resources and the money to take care of myself. Now I love me, so I'm OK.”

People Way Hard Care Media Fronts Lucky Resources Take Care Hard Times

Author:Kirsten Dunst

“Whether something 'has color' or not is as hard to define verbally as are such questions as, 'What is music?' or 'What is musical?”

Hard Color Musical

Book:Interaction of Color

Source: Interaction of Color

“If you stumble at mere believability, what are you living for? Isn't love hard to believe?”

Ifs Believe Hard Belief Mere Hard To Believe Believability Life Of Pi Book

Book:Life Of Pi, Illustrated

Source: Life Of Pi, Illustrated

“Making my English better is a hard job, a slow job. But it's getting better. Three years ago it would have taken me a half hour to say this sentence.”

Years Hard Jobs Three Hours Half Taken Years Ago Sentences Get Better Three Years Half Hours

Author:Goran Visnjic

“It's real hard to come up with something unique. We've seen just about everything over the last 10 years.”

Years Real Hard Lasts Unique Come Up Uniqueness

Author:Ricky Davis

“It is so hard and long before a student comes to a realization that these [first] few large simple spots in right relations are the most important things in the study of painting. They are the fundamentals of all painting.”

Firsts Long Important Hard Simple Study Students Painting Relation Fundamentals Important Things Spots Realization

Author:Charles Webster Hawthorne

“Spend a lifetime in hard work with a humble mind.”

Mind Hard Work Hard Work Lifetime Humble

Author:Charles Webster Hawthorne

“You have to celebrate the gifts because life is so hard and I think once you realize life's gonna be hard, the good stuff really comes forward.”

Thinking Hard Life Is Stuff Realizing Celebrate Realize Life

Author:Dana Reeve

“When you cross the line, it is such a wonderful feeling it's hard to describe.”

Hard Feelings Lines Wonderful Crosses

Author:Kelly Holmes

“It's about how the players play and compete. I know everybody is going to equate that on winning or losing, like they always do, but if we play hard and compete well in the game .. then I think we are building on something.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Wells Hard Play Games Winning Player Building Losing Win Or Lose Play Hard

Author:Nick Saban

“A friend of mine said, 'Leukemia hasn't met Susan Butcher yet,' and I agree with her. It's going to have to fight awful hard if it wants to take me.”

Ifs Want Said Hard Fighting Mines Mets Agree Awful Take Me Butchers Leukemia

Author:Susan Butcher

“We tried to talk about [the Owls' zone], but it's hard to replicate it. It's nearly impossible to penetrate that zone. What you do get are open outside shots. You're going to have to make some of them.”

Hard Impossible Shots Zone Impossibility Penetrate Owl Replicate

Author:Chris Mooney

“Many of the old masters of watercolour painted from notes, with enthusiasm either unabated or renewed. It is hard to assume the same degree of concentration in the studio, but not impossible.”

Hard Impossible Masters Degrees Assuming Notes Studios Enthusiasm Concentration

Author:Walter J. Phillips

“Every successful painter has worked hard. He cannot rest after having gained a certain degree of facility in drawing, and expect to retain it. He must advance or fall behind. Without practice he will forget; his eye will fail him; and his hand will deny its master.”

Hard Hands Eye Certain Fall Forget Behinds Practice Successful Failing Masters Degrees Deny Drawing Painter His Eyes Facility

Author:Walter J. Phillips

“The impression of wood-grain... must be considered, not only as regards texture and visibility, but for the occasional possibility of the expression of form. A soft wood, with hard annulations, such as fir, prints very dearly.”

Hard Form Possibility Expression Regard Woods Impression Print Grain Occasional Texture Visibility

Author:Walter J. Phillips

“Being a mother is quite tiring. There's not much time to do anything. You just rush around and it's hard work.”

Hard Mother Hard Work Tire Being A Mother

Author:Kirsty Gallacher

“Nowadays young people have great choice of occupations, hobbies, etc, so chess is experiencing difficulties because of the high competition. Now it's hard to make living in chess, so our profession does attract young people.”

People Doe Hard Young Choices Difficulty Competition Profession Chess Etc Occupation Hobbies

Author:Boris Spassky

“I just think that beautiful people don't have it as hard, you know? They just don't know what rejection's like. That's why super models aren't good actresses, because they don't need anything. If someone is beautiful and she's needy, she's probably had a terrible childhood.”

People Ifs Thinking Knows Needs Hard Beautiful Childhood Terrible Models Actresses Rejection Needy Beautiful People

Author:Rob Schneider

“When you're not finding the fairway, it's hard to be consistent. [Right now] I'm comfortable and I'm not so comfortable, if that makes sense.”

Ifs Hard Comfort Right Now Comfortable Findings Make Sense Consistent

Author:Aaron Baddeley

“It's hard for the White House to regain momentum if the Congress is in disarray. It ties up the Republicans in Congress and limits their ability to execute any White House agenda.”

Ifs Hard House Ability White Republican Limits Congress Ties Agendas White House Momentum Disarray

Author:Calvin Jillson

“The Bridge had a lot of long, soft profiles about the administration, .. In contrast, BU Today has shorter, hard pieces - more consistent with online journalism - which people can read every morning when they log on.”

People Long Hard Today Morning Pieces Journalism Administration Bridges Consistent Online Contrast Every Morning Profile

Author:Craig David

“I find it hard to work with other musicians because I know from experience that when they play, they play with their feeling, and that restricts me because I know I want to play in my own particular way.”

Knows Way Want Hard Play Feelings My Own Particular Musician

Author:Enya

“South Koreans who have seen and praised the mass games should remember the hardship of tearful children. Teachers drive them hard with curses and orders to repeat and repeat. When the children return home in the evening, they can hardly walk.”

Should Children Hard Home Remember Order Games Walks Teacher Return Mass South Evening Curse Repeats Hardship Korean

Author:Kim Il-sung

“Many people are deficient in vitamin D. A glass of milk, for example, has only 100 IU. Other foods, such as orange juice, yogurt and cheese, are now beginning to be fortified, but you have to work fairly hard to reach 1,000 IU a day.”

People Hard Example Glasses Milk Cheese Orange Juice Vitamins Yogurt Orange Juice Vitamin D

Author:Frank C. Garland

“The least-bad scenario is a hard landing, global recession worse than the 1930s. The worst-case borrows from the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse: war, famine, pestilence and death.”

War Hard Cases Four Worst Apocalypse Scenarios Famine Recessions Landing 1930s Pestilence Horsemen Four Horsemen Four Horsemen Of The Apocalypse

Author:Kenneth S. Deffeyes

“There's always going to be the cooler-clubbers who are going to harvest a lot of fish, but I think the hard-core bass fishermen release just about everything they catch these days. Years ago, I think people were willing to release smaller fish, but now I think they're willing to release them all, and that's the important part.”

People Thinking Years Important Hard Willing Years Ago Fishes Core Release These Days Harvest Bass Fisherman Hard Core

Author:Philip K. Chapman

“The World Cup was a huge frustration because I had prepared really hard for it. But in the World Cup there is no formula, no recipe for success.”

World Hard Huge Prepared Cups Frustration Formulas Recipes Recipe For Success World Cup

Author:Kaka

“Spirituality does not require that you work hard toward achieving a result in the future as much as it requires you to be fully present, sincere and committed now, with absolute honesty and willingness to uncover and let go of any illusions that come between you and the realization of Reality.”

Doe Hard Reality Spirituality Results Achieve Honesty Hard Work Letting Go Illusion Absolutes Committed Realization Willingness Sincere

Author:Adyashanti

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