Quotes of: Hard-lesson Keyword

He would never admit it, but he did have a heart of gold under all that crud. Solid, hard, impenetrable gold, but still gold, nonetheless.

A Memoir of Love

War had the effect of encouraging people to try to stay alive. Poverty, too. Survival was simply too hard-won to be given up lightly.

The Memory of Love

Choices may be unbelievably hard but they're never impossible. To say you have no choice is to release yourself from responsibility and that's not how a person with integrity acts.

Monsters of Men

Was he, after all, really a bad man doing a brilliant impersonation of an idiot? It was hard to tell. The connections between stupidity and malice were so tangled and so dense.

Mother's Milk

Of all men, Christians should work especially hard, giving more than an honest day's work for a day's wage.

The Masculine Mandate: God's Calling to Men

To be given dominion over another is a hard thing; to wrest dominion over another is a wrong thing; to give dominion of yourself to another is a wicked thing.

A Mercy

A man always finds it hard to realize that he may have finally lost a woman's love, however badly he may have treated her.

The Musgrave Ritual

Had his brain been constructed of silk, he would have been hard put to it to find sufficient material to make a canary a pair of cami-knickers.

Mr. Mulliner Speaking

Judging by the hard lines of his face and the flat look in his eyes, he'd left the Marines, but the Corps hadn't quite left him.

Magic Slays

It is easy to love people in memory; the hard thing is to love them when they are there in front of you.

My Father's Tears and Other Stories

I remembered reading in a hard-boiled detective novel that if you drink in the same place two nights in a row, the bartender and waiters will remember your face.

In the Miso Soup

As difficult an environment as the DA's Office could be, I saw no overarching conspiracy against women. The unequal treatment was usually more a matter of old habits dying hard.

My Beloved World

Vicki M. Taylor's "Not Without Anna," is a gripping, hard-hitting, thought-provoking look at the escalating crisis of teen alcohol and drug abuse. Charlene Austin

Not Without Anna

It is hard to remain iconoclastic when standing waist-deep in the shards of smashed icons.

A Nice Little Place on the North Side: Wrigley Field at One Hundred

My daddy said, that the first time you fall in love, it changes you forever and no matter how hard you try, that feeling just never goes away.

The Notebook

My daddy said that the first time you fall in love, it changes you forever and no matter how hard you try, the feeling just never goes away.

The Notebook

No hard feelings about that time in the Crucible when you mixed my salts and I was nearly blind for a day. No. No, really, drink up!

The Name of the Wind

Call a jack a jack. Call a spade a spade. But always call a whore a lady. Their lives are hard enough, and it never hurts to be polite.

The Name of the Wind

It is hard to talk about a middle ground for something that is a fundamental right.

The Obama Syndrome: Surrender at Home, War Abroad

Why does it seem easier for us to accept reality when it is within the confinement of the animal kingdom yet so hard for us to face it in our?

The Opposite of Indifference: A Collection of Commentaries

What is it about childhood that never lets you go, even when you're so wrecked it's hard to believe you ever were a child?

For One More Day