All Quotes

It is hard, I submit, to loathe bloodshed, including war, more than I do, but it is still harder to exceed my loathing of the very nature of totalitarian states in which massacre is only an administrative detail.
‐‐ Vladimir Nabokov

It is hard sometimes to see how other actors are working when you are working with them.
‐‐ Miranda Otto

It is hard that people don't just let you do your job for them and entertain, and then carry on your own life.
‐‐ Blake Lively

It is hard, though, 'cos record labels love to boss you around. I won't let them do that anymore.
‐‐ Evan Dando

It is hard to be an actor on a TV show, because you don't know what's coming and you sort of find out very last minute sort of what's happening.
‐‐ Elizabeth Meriwether

It is hard to be an individual in Japan.
‐‐ Haruki Murakami

It is hard to be enthusiastic about the economy's prospects when house prices are falling: Households spend less, small business owners can't use homes as collateral for loans and local governments are forced to cut jobs and programs as property-tax revenue disappears.
‐‐ Mark Zandi

It is hard to be number one, and it is even harder to stay there because everyone is trying to knock you off the top.
‐‐ Allan McNish

It is hard to begin to move when you don't know where you are moving, how to move, or if you are going to get there.
‐‐ Peter Nivio Zarlenga

It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.
‐‐ H. L. Mencken

It is hard to bite the hands that feed you, especially when you are competing for food.
‐‐ Robert Reich

It is hard to cement any relations with any country based on promises that may not be deliverable.
‐‐ Jim Leach

It is hard to check five email inboxes, three voice mail systems, or five blogs that you are tracking.
‐‐ David Rose

It is hard to compete with other sports. Badminton is a sport which, when compared with football and tennis, still needs promotion.
‐‐ Lin Dan

It is hard to conceive of the utter demoralization, of the political blindness and immorality, of the patriotic dishonesty, of the cruelty and degradation of a people who supplemented the incomparable Declaration of Independence with the Fugitive Slave Law.
‐‐ Robert Green Ingersoll

It is hard to contend against one's heart's desire; for whatever it wishes to have it buys at the cost of soul.
‐‐ Heraclitus

It is hard to convince a high-school student that he will encounter a lot of problems more difficult than those of algebra and geometry.
‐‐ E. W. Howe

It is hard to describe the thrill of creative joy which the artist feels when the conviction seizes her that at last she has caught the very soul of the character she wishes to portray, in the music and action which reveal it.
‐‐ Maria Jeritza

It is hard to explain the huge variety of diatoms - a microorganism that has 100,000 species - in terms of natural selection.
‐‐ John Tyler Bonner

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.
‐‐ Theodore Roosevelt

It is hard to feel individually responsible with respect to the invisible processes of a huge and distant government.
‐‐ John W. Gardner

It is hard to find a country friendlier to Israel than Canada these days. No other country in the world has demonstrated such a full understanding of us.
‐‐ Avigdor Lieberman

It is hard to get animals which normally pay little attention to each other to do things together. One can teach dolphins to jump simultaneously out of the water precisely because they show similar behavior spontaneously, but try to make two domestic cats jump together and you will fail.
‐‐ Frans de Waal

It is hard to get good actors who also do television, ads and films. Theatre requires six weeks of rehearsal for a play.
‐‐ Lillete Dubey

It is hard to get in the habit of forcing yourself to find three things on a regular basis that you are grateful for.
‐‐ Deborah Norville

It is hard to go back into a world that has already been explored, so to speak. And the fans are very passionate about it, and you don't want to burst that bubble; you don't want to break that illusion. You want to get it right. You want it to feel familiar, but also surprising.
‐‐ Philippa Boyens

It is hard to imagine 10 years is not quite long enough to learn a lesson.
‐‐ Mike Rogers

It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.
‐‐ Thomas Sowell

It is hard to imagine Andre Le Notre laying out the exquisite landscape designs for Vaux-le-Vicomte, and later the magnificent Chateau de Versailles, with no high hill to stand on, no helicopter to fly in, and no drone to show him the complexities of the terrain. Yet he did, and with extreme precision, accuracy, and high style.
‐‐ Martha Stewart

It is hard to imagine that, having downgraded the US, S & P will not follow suit on at least one of the other members of the dwindling club of sovereign AAAs. If this were to materialise and involve a country like France, for example, it could complicate the already fragile efforts by Europe to rescue countries in its periphery.
‐‐ Mohamed El-Erian

It is hard to imagine the World Series being held in the sweet hazy sunshine of late September rather than the sour night air of late October, but that is precisely what has transpired in baseball over the past 50 years, a deterioration from light to darkness.
‐‐ George Vecsey

It is hard to imagine Thomas Kinkade as anything less than supremely self-assured.
‐‐ Susan Orlean

It is hard to interest those who have everything in those who have nothing.
‐‐ Helen Keller

It is hard to know how many people do, but given that the people are so docile towards the rulers, nowadays, very few Americans show the passion for freedom that our forefathers had.
‐‐ James Bovard

It is hard to know what you are talking about in mathematics, yet no one questions the validity of what you say. There is no other realm of discourse half so queer.
‐‐ James Newman

It is hard to look away from the swirl of media that the untimely and tragic death of Heath Ledger has engendered, and the Internet has jacked the frenzy into overdrive.
‐‐ Kara Swisher

It is hard to look the other way when a dictator is being so cruel and violent with his own people.
‐‐ Tammy Baldwin

It is hard to look up to a leader who keeps his ear to the ground.
‐‐ James H. Boren

It is hard to miss the irony in the fact that the very same week that Republicans were publicly heralding Congressman Paul Ryan's plan to inject market forces into the American health care system, they were crafting a budget deal to strip them from the health reform law.
‐‐ Ron Wyden

It is hard to overstate how valuable it is to have all the incredible tools that are used for human disease to study plants.
‐‐ Bill Gates

It is hard to overstate the economic importance of the U.S.A. to Scotland, and that makes it essential that we engage with companies and potential investors and get the message across that we are open for business.
‐‐ Nicola Sturgeon

It is hard to play Blue Suede Shoes. I know everyone has heard it 10 million times, and that makes it even harder to play it, but there's a very laid back tempo on that. I was surprised at how slow it really was.
‐‐ Brian Setzer

It is hard to put aside partisanship. It is hard to give up the easy wisecracking jeer that divides and destroys. It is hard - very hard - to have worked sincerely and wholeheartedly for a cause and to have lost. Most of all, it is hard to put aside personal prejudices. And yet we must put these things aside.
‐‐ Stephen Vincent Benet

It is hard to rationalise or explain why you love what you love. But I have always been interested in science and maths, and in high school I was struck that you could use maths to understand nature and science.
‐‐ Serge Haroche

It is hard to read a newspaper or watch a television newscast without encountering someone who has come up with a new 'solution' to society's 'problems.'
‐‐ Thomas Sowell

It is hard to rescue a man from the slough of luxury and idleness combined. If anything can do it, it is a cradle filled annually.
‐‐ Anthony Trollope

It is hard to say what the future holds, but this is probable - it won't be just like the past.
‐‐ Tony Campolo

It is hard to say why politicians are called servants, unless it is because a good one is hard to find.
‐‐ Gerald F. Lieberman

It is hard to see Judge Roberts as a judicial activist who would place ideological purity or a particular agenda above or ahead the need for thoughtful legal reasoning.
‐‐ Ron Wyden

It is hard to tell your mother to change her life.
‐‐ Tony Yayo