Quotes of: Hard-words Keyword

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We Need to Have a Word: Words of Wisdom, Courage and Patience for Work, Home and Everywhere

There are words bandied about that are being misused - words like 'socialism,' words like 'communism,' words like 'fascism.'

Jim Leach

Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them.

Aldous Huxley

Once you have decided to hit someone, then hit them hard because the retribution will be the same whether you hit hard or not.

Arabian

Falsehood is so easy, truth so difficult....Examine your words well, and you will find that even when you have no motive to be false, it is a very hard thing to say the exact truth, even about your own immediate feelings -- much harder than to say so...

Adam Bede

Even now, it's still hard for him to say it. I don't blame him. It's an icky word. Why couldn't whoever was in charge of naming things call cancer 'sugar' and sugar, 'cancer'? People might not eat so much of the stuff then. And it's so much more plea...

All These Lives

God's Word teaches a very hard, disturbing truth. Those who neglect the poor and the oppressed are really not God's people at all—no matter how frequently they practice their religious rituals nor how orthodox are their creeds and confessions.

Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger: Moving from Affluence to Generosity

But no one ever said yes to make sex consensual. You took hints from body language, from the way two people came together. Why...didn't a shake of the head or a hand pushing hard against a chest speak just as loudly? Why did you have to actually say ...

The Tenth Circle

I could only nod as emotions rolled in like a destructive storm. This was it. It was over. My incredible time with this beautiful talented man was up. I had to clench my teeth and swallow hard to mask the loss that threatened to overcome my calm exte...

A Precise Moment

He's definitely not one for negotiation, no matter how hard I've tried." "You try asking him naked?" Tess choked on her Irish coffee. "I beg your pardon?" "Men can't think straight when a woman's naked. Something about their brain cells getting jumbl...

Veiled Target

English was such a dense, tight language. So many hard letters, like miniature walls. Not open with vowels the way Spanish was. Our throats open, our mouths open, our hearts open. In English, the sounds were closed. They thudded to the floor. And yet...

The Book of Unknown Americans

One kind word can warm three winter months.

Japanese

The spoken word sometimes loses what silence has won.

Spanish

I work hard, I work very hard. All the books at least 30 revisions.

Ha Jin

Just practice hard and stay grounded. Treat people like you want to be treated and work hard.

Bo Bice

Working hard is very important. You're not going to get anywhere without working extremely hard.

George Lucas

I do know that I have to work hard for every single thing that I get, really hard, and that's okay.

Kyra Sedgwick

There is no substitute for hard work. There is a little luck along the way, but there is no substitute for really super-hard work, first in, last out.

Mary Callahan Erdoes

Goal setting will never stop. I will continue to work hard and practice hard and see where things go.

Zach Johnson

The word 'circumnavigate' is quite a beautiful word.

Cate Blanchett

No poet will ever take the written word as a substitute for the spoken word; he knows that it is on the spoken word, and the spoken word only, that his art is founded.

Lascelles Abercrombie