Quotes of: The-hardest-thing Keyword

A writer must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid.

William Faulkner

I realized that the worst thing that could happen to me was about to happen to me.

William R. Manchester

I believe that when things happen, they happen with a purpose.

William Shatner

Liberty is the only thing you can't have unless you give it to others.

William Allen White

Hate not a man for his tardiness for the only thing that is on time is; time it self.

Xela Ffonrims

The main thing about writing is... writing. Sitting your butt down in the chair and doing the work.

Ben Fountain

I'd watch my parents work and think, 'Yeah, I'm going to do that.' It wasn't even a thing. It's the only thing I know how to do.

Dakota Johnson

Often, I work out of my work. One work takes me to the next thing.

Jim Hodges

That's the way it is with entrepreneurial people. You try one thing, it doesn't work, you try another.

Pete du Pont

I think the first things that are relevant are that things should work well; they should function.

Robin Day

I work very quickly. I only ever take one picture of one thing. Literally. Never two.

William Eggleston

Women in general interest me. I like how women are more liable to talk about real things, personal things.

Chuck Close

For one thing, I don't think that anybody in any war thinks of themselves as a hero.

Steven Spielberg

Make it your habit not to be critical about small things.

Edward Everett Hale

You're free to wear whatever you want, you know that." "Yes, sir. And then I thought about Dee. And I watched the king when he was talking to you, and... well, I wear what I like, sir. That's the point. I don't to wear something just because other pe...

The Fifth Elephant

It was all beginning to run together in the back of Eleanor's mind, and the things that had probably really happened were confused with the things that probably hadn't. And every day everything in her whole past life - the real things and the imagina...

The Fledgling

I leaned against my door, struggling to catch my breath, and thought that maybe hell wasn't a place at all, but a thing. A contagious thing. A thing that could creep up the steps, seep through the crack under my door, grow horns and sprout fire - sme...

Fracture

Most people can motivate themselves to do things simply by knowing that those things need to be done. But not me. For me, motivation is this horrible, scary game where I try to make myself do something while I actively avoid doing it. If I win, I hav...

Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened

Thus the vocation of the baptized person is a simple thing: it is to live from day to day, whatever the day brings, in this extraordinary unity, in this reconciliation with all people and all things, in this knowledge that death has no more power, in...

Instead of Death: New and Expanded Edition

How my eyes see, perspective, is my key to enter into His gates. I can only do so with thanksgiving. If my inner eye has God seeping up through all things, then can't I give thanks for anything? And if I can give thanks for the good things, the hard ...

One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are

Maybe you shake your head, but let me learn a lesson right now: plenty knowledge is in this world. Enough knowledge that you can pick and refuse. And if you want, you can refuse to know plenty things, don't care how true those things be. I know thing...

The Last Warner Woman