Quotes with hard-headed

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  • Lionel Trilling In the American metaphysic, reality is always material reality, hard, resistant, unformed, impenetrable, and unpleasant.
    Lionel Trilling
    American Critic (1905 - 1975)
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  • Bill Kreutzmann In the very beginning we were a real tight family but now it's different. You know, toward the end, we had separate limos, stuff like that. It's hard to get six giant egos in the same place.
    Bill Kreutzmann
    American drummer (1946 - )
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  • Lao-Tzu In the world there is nothing more submissive and weak than water. Yet for attacking that which is hard and strong nothing can surpass it.
    Lao-Tzu
    Chinese philosopher (600 - 550)
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  • Abraham Cowley It is a hard and nice subject for a man to speak of himself: it grates his own heart to say anything of disparagement, and the reader's ear to hear anything of praise from him.
    Abraham Cowley
    English poet (1618 - 1667)
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  • Margot Asquith It is always dangerous to generalize, but the American people, while infinitely generous, are a hard and strong race and, but for the few cemeteries I have seen, I am inclined to think they never die.
    Margot Asquith
    Anglo-Scottish socialite, author, and wit (1864 - 1945)
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  • Francis Bacon It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Jonathan Swift It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • William Hazlitt It is hard for any one to be an honest politician who is not born and bred a Dissenter.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • James Baldwin It is hard for anyone under twenty to realise that death has already assigned them a number, which is going to come up one day.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken It is hard for the ape to believe he descended from man.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Peter Nivio Zarlenga 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
    American businessman, founder of Blockbuster Videos
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  • Henry Louis Mencken 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.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • John W. Gardner It is hard to feel individually responsible with respect to the invisible processes of a huge and distant government.
    John W. Gardner
    American Educator, Social Activist (1912 - 2002)
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  • Sally Kempton It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.
    Sally Kempton
    American yoga teacher and author (1943 - )
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  • C. S. Lewis It is hard to have patience with people who say ''There is no death'' or ''Death doesn't matter.'' There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter.
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Anthony Trollope 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
    British writer (1815 - 1882)
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  • Gerald F. Lieberman It is hard to say why politicians are called servants, unless it is because a good one is hard to find.
    Gerald F. Lieberman
    American writer
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  • John Irving It is hard work and great art to make life not so serious.
    The Hotel New Hampshire (1986)
    John Irving
    American-Canadian novelist and screenwriter (1942 - )
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  • Woodrow Wilson It is just as hard to do your duty when men are sneering at you as when they are shouting at you.
    Woodrow Wilson
    American president (1856 - 1924)
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  • Alan Cumming It is not hard to feel like an outsider. I think we have all felt like that at one time or another.
    Alan Cumming
    Scottish-American actor, comedian, singer, and activist (1965 - )
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