Top 1200 Hard Time Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

It was hard to do 'Vikings.' It was hard to do 'Copper.' Part of that was, like, there's dialect and other things.

He loved, beneath all this summer transiency, to feel the earth's spine beneath him; for such he took the hard root of the oak tree to be; or, for image followed image, it was the back of a great horse that he was riding, or the deck of a tumbling ship -- it was anything indeed, so long as it was hard, for he felt the need of something which he could attach his floating heart to; the heart that tugged at his side; the heart that seemed filled with spiced and amorous gales every evening about this time when he walked out.

And sometimes it happened, for a time. That kind of love comes and goes and is hard to remember afterwards, like pain. You would look at the man one day and you would think, I loved you, and the tense would be past, and you would be filled with a sense of wonder, because it was such an amazing and precarious and dumb thing to have done; and you would know too why your friends have been evasive about it, at the time.

It's never hard to cast kids; it's only ever hard to direct them.

And then God gave me insight: this was winter. It would end, in time, but not by my own doing. My responsibility was simply to know the season, and match my actions and inactions to it. It was to learn the slow hard discipline of waiting. It was my season to believe in spite of-to believe in the absence of evidence or emotion, when there's nothing, no bud, no color, no light, no birdsong, to validate belief. It was my time to walk without sight.

My dad had a very difficult life, a hard struggle all the time at work. I've always felt like I'm seeking his revenge.

You can't test courage cautiously, so I ran hard and waved my arms hard, happy.

Take death for example. A great deal of our effort goes into avoiding it. We make extraordinary efforts to delay it, and often consider its intrusion a tragic event. Yet we'd find it hard to live without it. Death gives meaning to our lives. It gives importance and value to time. Time would become meaningless if there were too much of it.

It's hard to have anything isn't it? Rare to get it, hard to keep it. This is a damn slippery planet.

It's not hard to find a date if you are Jewish in New York and Miami, but its hard in Texas.

Real programmers don't comment their code. If it was hard to write, it should be hard to understand.

U.N. officials said today they desperately need $7 billion to help people cope with disasters, but they're having a hard time getting people to send rescue money. Here's what the UN should do: Invest in bad mortgages, run a bank into the ground, give yourself a bonus, get some spa treatments and, in no time, the government will send you $750 billion.

Sometimes a thing that's hard is hard because you're doing it wrong. (Point Omega)

In the future, I don't want to look back and say that I didn't play hard, as hard as I could.

It's hard to do a variety show. It's hard to do all that small talk and make it sound real.

I think it's harder to go from comedy to drama than from drama to comedy. Seeing you dramatic all the time, they crave to see you being silly or funny. But, seeing you in comedy all the time, it's hard to see that person go be serious, for some reason.

I've always thought that writing isn't really that hard. It's having a good idea that's hard.

It's a hard life sometimes and the biggest temptation is to let how hard it is be an excuse to weaken

It's hard to make a good movie in four weeks. It's hard. I've done it, but it's not easy.

Don't try so hard to fit in, and certainly don't try so hard to be different just try hard to be you.

I am no stranger to healthy competition-wor king hard and playing hard

I just never, ever want to give up. Most battles are won in the 11th hour, and most people give up. If you give up once, it's quite hard. If you give up a second time, it's a little bit easier. Give up a third time, it's starting to become a habit.

Humor is hard, hard, hard. And if you fail with humor, you don't fail halfway. You drop the ball humor-wise and everyone notices.

The upshot of the Nixon tapes case was that any president is going to have an extremely hard time resisting a request from a law enforcement officer.

Growing up in the spotlight was quite possibly the worst for my self-esteem. I had a hard time finding confidence within myself.

A lot of times, when a band finds success with a certain style or sound, they have a really hard time breaking away from that to grow as artists.

When you stood between somebody you loved and death, it was hard to be awake and it was hard to sleep.

And if you look at all this academic work in the conferences and so on there's a constant theme that terrorism is extremely hard to define and we therefore have to have a deep thinking about it. And the reason it's hard to define is quite simple. It's hard to find a definition that includes what they do to us but excludes what we do to them. That's quite difficult. So it takes a global war on terrorism.

Comedy is hard to do, and I don't know why it doesn't have its own category in awards. I don't understand why people think it's harder to do drama than it is to do comedy. It doesn't get respect. It's hard. It's really hard. It would be more gratifying to get something for a comedy, because it doesn't happen much or at all.

People can be chaos but it's hard to fit it into some creative piece that you made. It's hard.

Within my first year of moving abroad living on my own, my sister got ill - she got cancer - and at the same time, my mum got cancer, and she passed away. I think at that time it was a hard challenge for me to deal with it, but in a way, I have always taken strength out of anything that has come at me.

My parents worked very hard for everything that they got. Their parents worked hard. It's just something that is passed down to you, and whatever you want to accomplish, you have to work hard to get it, and that's always been that mentality that my family has, and I think that's something that was passed on to me.

It's hard to get personal films off the ground, and it's hard developing them.

I know that I'm going to have to work hard, keep working hard, and not because of this victory think, 'I'm back.' I don't think like that. I'll definitely work hard. Things are not going to be easy. I might lose first round next week. You never know.

Yeah, that's what kind of, we get the idea a little bit yeah, because other people from different countries also try as hard as they can to get a medal or a gold medal in the Olympic Games. And you know, if they can work hard, we can work hard as well.

I grew up in a fun-loving environment - you work hard and play hard.

To get elected as a Democrat, it's hard to be from the city. It's hard to be a graduate of Duke University.

I work hard, but I also play hard. Everyone needs balance in life.

Mothers always think you are working either too hard or not hard enough.

Boxing is a lonely sport and when you lose it's hard to take and it's hard to get over.

Get your hustle on... Hard work is easy, working out is hard.

Finding a thought for an aphorism is not hard. Putting a kink in its tail is the hard part.

I have never thought of writing as hard work, but I have worked hard to find a voice.

I always learnt that to play well, you have to train hard, so every time I go on the training pitch, I try to give my best and to improve.

People talk to me about celebrities all the time and which ones do I admire, and it's so hard because you can't tell who's doing it for themselves and who hired a stylist.

In any case, Ives encouraged me to go into music even though he himself had such a hard time being a composer.

I worked hard. Anyone who works as hard as I did can achieve the same results.

America's a hard school, I know, but hard schools make excellent graduates.

You want it to be hard. If it's hard, then that means others can't do it easily and you can charge for that value.

It's hard having kids. It's hard having a job. It's hard having a relationship - for anybody.

It's just hard to travel in the shadow of regret. In fact, it's so hard that I actually haven't left yet.

It's not hard to stand behind one's successes. But to accept responsibility for one's failures... that is devishly hard!

Once you learn to make money, it is not that hard... what's hard is to stay excited about it.

"I know that I'm going to have to work hard, keep working hard, and not because of this victory think, "I'm back." I don't think like that. I'll definitely work hard. Things are not going to be easy. I might lose first round next week. You never know."

Stand-up is hard. Or to keep it at a certain level is hard: I have no writers but me.

I really like putting the kids to bed. Everyone is cozy and snuggly. Nobody is giving anyone a hard time, and everybody reads.

I'm really hard on myself as well, nothing is good enough for me in training. I always want more, I always want to give 100%. I use my training like a competition. I imagine these two girls next to me every time single time I'm going over those hurdles in training.

When I was younger, me and my dad worked really hard. We did it the hard way.

The Beatles were from Liverpool. It's a hard town. The Stones weren't the hard men. They just dressed up. The Beatles were the hard men.

Writing is hard. I learned how to work hard from wrestling, not English courses.