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A man thinks that by mouthing hard words he understands hard things. -- Herman Melville
Memorizing lines isn't really hard. Only with really hard words and stuff. -- Andrew Lawrence
A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I soothe my conscience now with the thought that it is better for hard words to be on paper than that Mummy should carry them in her heart. -- Anne Frank
Women are like dogs really. They love like dogs, a little insistently. And they like to fetch and carry and come back wistfully after hard words, and learn rather easily to carry a basket. -- Mary Roberts Rinehart
I find words really hard. -- Liam Gallagher
Use soft words in hard arguments. -- Henry George Bohn
Conclusion 1: Boredom= Flared tempers= hard words -- Bisco Hatori
Exact words are hard to live by. -- Mike Brady
Hard words are for fools and cowards. -- Joe Abercrombie
My favorite four-letter words are 'hard work'. -- John Wayne
Words are easy. It's convincing the heart that's hard. -- Maria V. Snyder
It's hard for me to put my feelings into words. -- Joaquin Phoenix
Mathematics is the science which uses easy words for hard ideas. -- Edward Kasner
Use half as many words and they'll hit twice as hard. -- Roy H. Williams
Words are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are hard to find. -- William Shakespeare
Your words surround you like fog and make you hard to see. -- Blackbeard
A strange thing, words. Once they're said, it's hard to imagine they're untrue. -- Lauren DeStefano
A strange thing, words. Once they're said, it's hard to imagine they're untrue. -- Lauren DeStefano
It is very hard to trace the effect of words on a life. -- Anne Enright
Oh, southern rappers... so hard to write a rhyme when you only know 30 words. -- Daniel Tosh
A torn jacket is soon mended, but hard words bruise the heart of a child. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Words are like harpoons. Once they go in, they are very hard to pull out. -- Fred Hoyle
Hard words indeed break no bones, but many a heart has been broken by them. -- Matthew Henry
If you look hard enough, chaos turns into order the way letters turn into words. -- Patricia McCormick
It's hard to put into words. Gorillas are not complainers. We're dreamers, poets, philosophers, nap takers. -- Katherine Applegate
I hear something in her words that's right, but it's hard to believe her right now. -- Veronica Roth
I don't think I'm the best lyricist; it's hard for me to express feelings through words. -- Ty Segall
It's hard to put into words, shaking hands with the most powerful man in the world. -- Buddy Rice
Writing wasn't easy and wasn't fun. It was hard and lonely, and the words seldom just flowed. -- William Zinsser
Hard words are very rarely useful. Real firmness is good for every thing. Strut is good for nothing. -- Alexander Hamilton
Some of the songs are so crazy, the words are so crazy... it's hard to believe I was so crazy. -- Juliana Hatfield
My sense of identity broke down and was replaced by something that is very hard to put into words. Awareness, Consciousness. -- Eckhart Tolle
I'm not really one for fancy, big words and poetry, and the scriptwriters worked very hard on 'Paradise Lost' to translate it. -- Callan McAuliffe
It is very hard to enroll people in anything. And there is a very big difference between the words motivate and inspire. -- Wayne Dyer
Every one that flatters thee Is no friend in misery. Words are easy, like the wind, Faithful friends are hard to find. -- Richard Barnfield
I don't know why I still find it so hard to accept that words are faulty and by their very nature innacurate -- Doris Lessing
All men are created equal. Now matter how hard they try, they can never erase those words. That is what America is about. -- Harvey Milk
I don't know why it's so hard for me to say those three words. Most guys throw it around like breath, like bait. -- Tammara Webber
The ultimate goal of therapy... it's too hard a question. The words come to me like tranquility, like fulfillment, like realizing your potential. -- Irvin D. Yalom
A lot of people want a shortcut. I find the best shortcut is the long way, which is basically two words: work hard. -- Randy Pausch
This is why it is sometimes hard for introverts to find words: we really hate to compromise, and words are always a compromise. -- Laurie Helgoe
Few faults of style, whether real or imaginary, excite the malignity of a more numerous class of readers, than the use of hard words. -- Samuel Johnson
I sat back, allowing Wes's words to sink in. Then I responded, "I guess it's hard sometimes to distinguish between second chances and last chances. -- Wes Moore
What's hard, it seems, is living up to the words spoken by Jesus Christ, who preached naught but love and mercy and justice and humility. -- Steven Weber
Language is filled with words for deprivation images so familiar it is hard to crack language open into that other country the country of being. -- Susan Griffin
All letters, methinks, should be free and easy as one's discourse, not studied, as an oration, nor made up of hard words like a charm ... -- Dorothy Osborne
Words can fall hard like a boulder loosed from a cliff. Words can drift unnoticed like a weed seed on a breeze. Words can sing. -- Shannon Hale
It's so hard to say what you really mean. For any number of reasons: to protect yourself, or if you just can't find the words. -- Paul Beatty
Be not frightened at the hard words "imposition," "imposture;" give and ask no questions. Cast thy bread upon the waters. Some have, unawares, entertained angels. -- Charles Lamb
The British feel of blues has been hard, rather than emotional. Far too much emphasis on 12 bar, too little attention to words, far too little originality. -- Alexis Korner
Speak what you think today in hard words and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I find it difficult to believe that words have no meaning in themselves, hard as I try. Habits of a lifetime are not lightly thrown aside. -- Stuart Chase
To drive though the streets of Manhattan to sign a record deal was like a movie. It was crazy - pretty hard to put into words. -- James Bay
I turned 24 in the middle of my first World Cup and it was quite an unbelievable experience. It's really hard for words to do it justice. -- Cobi Jones
It was really hard explaining the Web before people just got used to it because they didn't even have words like click and jump and page. -- Tim Berners-Lee
You're trying to pin me down. I'm not a verbal person. Look at my work and decide for yourself. It's hard to put it into words. -- Brett Weston
When the truths of love are planted firm, they won't be hard to find. And words of love I speak to you will echo in your mind. -- Stevie Wonder
When I try to speak perfectly then I am not Jackie Chan anymore. Some words sound like I am trying too hard. The whole thing is not me. -- Jackie Chan
Start early and work hard. A writer's apprenticeship usually involves writing a million words (which are then discarded) before he's almost ready to begin. That takes a while. -- David Eddings
My family was always playing with words. It is little wonder that even after I got serious about writing, I've had a hard time getting serious about words. -- James Howe
I have a fear of public speaking. It's very hard work. Words are not my skill, and because they're not my skill, I have to work doubly hard. -- Kerry Stokes
Comic books, graphic novels, involve constant toggling and it's hard work. You get tired reading comic books, but you never get tired looking at pictures or reading words. -- Peter Schjeldahl
Feelings such as loneliness, longing or love are sometimes hard to put into words; maybe that's why we all love music, because it resonates with something we can't share. -- Agnes Obel
When somebody's talking to us, they're not putting pauses - carefully putting pauses between words. It all flows together. The problem with that though, it's very hard to read. -- Nicholas G. Carr
Certain songs just feel a way that's hard to put into words and it's not happy and it's also not really sad but I couldn't say what it is -- Elliott Smith
When you stop to examine the way in which our words are formed and uttered, our sentences are hard-put to it to survive the disaster of their slobbery origins. -- Louis-Ferdinand Celine
That was the hard thing about grief, and the grieving. They spoke another language, and the words we knew always fell short of what we wanted them to say. -- Sarah Dessen
The reader cannot see into your heart. He will know only what you tell him. Make the blind see your words. Make the hard-hearted feel. Make the deaf hear. -- Margaret Atwood
He that reads and grows no wiser seldom suspects his own deficiency, but complains of hard words and obscure sentences, and asks why books are written which cannot be understood. -- Samuel Johnson
The long words are not the hard words, it is the short words that are hard. There is much more metaphysical subtlety in the word "damn" than in the word "degeneration." -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
...a man of true science uses few hard words, and those only when none other will answer his purpose; Where as the smatterer in science...thinks that by mouthing hard words he understands hard things. -- Herman Melville

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