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Modernism: the books are as hard to understand as life itself. -- Mason Cooley
It is hard to understand addiction unless you have experienced it. -- Ken Hensley
We all work hard to understand the dynamic relationship we have with a parent. -- Alice Sebold
It's hard to understand the films that you're in, because you never truly get to see them. -- Topher Grace
An academic dialect is perfected when its terms are hard to understand and refer only to one another. -- Mason Cooley
I still find it hard to understand that anyone could argue that you can't have machines that exhibit consciousness. -- Iain Banks
It is hard to understand what love is! -- Auliq Ice
I obviously do everything to be "hard to understand" myself -- Friedrich Nietzsche
And the world so hard to understand is the world you can't live without. -- Billy Corgan
This book (the Bible) is not hard to understand. It's just hard to swallow. -- Steve Lawson
The Japanese are hard to understand, but once you do the world is your oyster. -- Paul Smith
It's not at all hard to understand a person; it's only hard to listen without bias. -- Criss Jami
It's not at all hard to understand a person; it's only hard to listen without bias -- Criss Jami
Jargon is making it increasingly hard to understand what a public figure is actually trying to say -- Don Watson
I firmly believe that we're all good people, but sometimes it's hard to understand how to do good. -- Patrick Rothfuss
Real programmers don't comment their code. If it was hard to write, it should be hard to understand. -- Tom Van Vleck
In the case of the Catholic Church, it's hard to understand how they so willfully sacrifice the children. -- Alex Gibney
It's hard to understand how you arrive at a design. It's far too complicated to get any overall picture of. -- Bill Reid
Opera is like a husband with a foreign title: expensive to support, hard to understand, and therefore a supreme social challenge. -- Cleveland Amory
I do not like strangers because I do not like people I have never met before. They are hard to understand. -- Mark Haddon
I think for most people it's hard to understand what it is about swimming - I mean it's such a solo endeavour. -- Stephanie Rice
I find it hard to understand why Scorsese has never called. You know, given the natural menace I bring to the screen. -- Hugh Grant
It's very hard to understand when you're not out there but voting somebody off on Survivor almost feels like you're killing them. -- Aras Baskauskas
Ranting about her being hard to understand? Wait until you lose her. You will clearly understand, what an effortless power a woman has! -- Manasa Rao Saarloos
The opera is like a husband with a foreign title - expensive to support, hard to understand and therefore a supreme social challenge. -- Cleveland Amory
I liked quantum mechanics very much. The subject was hard to understand but easy to apply to a large number of interesting problems. -- Willis Lamb
When a society is stressed, when it comes up against things that are hard to understand, you get a lot of delusional thinking. -- James Howard Kunstler
The ways of fate are indeed hard to understand. If there is not some compensation hereafter, then the world is a cruel jest. -- Arthur Conan Doyle
This is kind of hard to understand, but sometimes you can try so hard at something.Sometimes you can be so prepared, and still fail. -- John Cena
Please don't expect me to always be good and kind and loving. There are times when I will be cold and thoughtless and hard to understand. -- Sylvia Plath
I think it's really hard to understand the depths and the power of the love that someone has for their children unless you really have children. -- Lea Thompson
It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can walk around it it's a sculpture. -- Tom Stoppard
It's very hard to understand what's happening in someone's brain and what goes into their experience and their death, and the music has to say a lot. -- Alexandre Desplat
People find it hard to understand how I can risk ruining my career as a musician by injuring myself on the slopes, but I've always been a tomboy. -- Vanessa Mae
How does St. Joseph exercise his role as protector? Discreetly, humbly and silently, but with an unfailing presence and utter fidelity, even when he finds it hard to understand. -- Pope Francis
True love is actually very hard to understand... Everybody is looking for love, everybody is fighting for love... But because they can't bear to say it outloud, they express it through songs -- Yuu Watase
One cannot always know what children are thinking. Children are hard to understand, especially when careful training has a custom them to obedience and experience has made them cautious in conversation with their teachers. -- Catherine the Great
Antwerp literally was a trash hole, but fashion changed that. The designers there were extreme, and their work was hard to understand. But now, people from all over the world come to Antwerp to shop. -- Raf Simons
Love is very difficult to understand. And do you know why? Because love is the most idiotic thing in the universe, Tommy, but also the most important. That's why it's so hard to understand.-pg 151" -- Albert Sánchez Piñol
US is a very religious country. Separation of church and state is part of our credo, but that it is hard to understand since our money says "In God we trust" and every President says "God bless America". -- Madeleine Albright
People who are rich find it hard to understand the behavior of poor people. Economists are no exception, for they, too, find it difficult to comprehend the preferences and scarcity constraints that determine the choices that poor people make. -- Theodore Schultz
Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die? Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom. -- Alan Paton
In our commitment to raise healthy, conscious children and create a healthy world, it is hard to understand how people can choose to spend money for something that not only does not work, but poisons humans and the environment. -- Gabriel Cousens M.D.
It's truly hard to understand how liberal politicians, activists and journalists so consistently escape accountability for stoking the flames of racial disharmony while purporting to dampen them and for dividing our society along racial, gender, and economic lines while claiming to unite us. -- David Limbaugh
What we realize is number one, people want to know what the Bible says. In their heart, they want to know the Bible but it is just hard to understand the big picture of it. And number two, they want to know where they plug in. -- Max Lucado
When I was a young man, I understood that poetry was two things - it was difficult to understand, but you could understand that the poet was miserable. So for a while there, I wrote poems that were hard to understand, even by me, but gave off whiffs of misery. -- Billy Collins
It's hard for me to understand how working-class people support themselves. -- Barbara Kruger
It's hard for the majority of people to accept what they don't understand. -- J. D. Pardo
Wal-Mart's success strategies and tactics are easy to understand yet hard to duplicate. -- Michael Bergdahl
I'm Ulster Presbyterian. We understand the need to work hard from an early age. -- James Nesbitt
Fighting is easy to understand. You just hit the guy as hard as you can. -- Bas Rutten
I don't understand why people think it's harder to do drama than it is to do comedy. -- Leslie Mann
I have so much appreciation for movies because I understand how hard it is to make one. -- Gia Coppola
I understand how hard it is to talk to people about MS. You don't want pity or random advice. -- Teri Garr
Understand the ways in which your hard work is going to be necessary to achieve the goals that you want. -- Risa Lavizzo-Mourey
Fight as hard as you can, and then understand there's going to have to be some amount of reasonable compromise. -- Andrew Cuomo
I had a hard time convincing students that they were going to North Africa to understand the North Africans, not to understand themselves. -- Clifford Geertz
It's harder to be a success, globally, and be artistic. Harder to have that balance than just to be artistic when nobody understands you. -- Andre Benjamin
It gets harder and harder to make sure your public understands you're a sensitive human being, but I am sensitive. I don't like to be hurt. -- Teddy Pendergrass
When it comes to kids, it's just not hard to get them healthy. I don't find it hard and don't understand why people find it hard. -- Jillian Michaels
Listening to hard rock on the subway doesn't work for me, especially modern hard rock. Driving in L.A. helped me to understand the appeal of that music. -- Paul Dano
Art is hard for a puritan to understand. -- Gunter Grass
Why is Schoenberg's Music so Hard to Understand? -- Alban Berg
To understand is hard. Once one understands, action is easy. -- Sun Yat-sen
And it's hard to hate someone once you understand them. -- Lucy Christopher
Life was hard on mothers; but then, they just didn't understand. -- James T. Farrell
It is hard for a flat thing to understand a round one. -- Arthur Dove
Get a team of like-minded individuals around you. Understand this is hard work. -- Sho Baraka
life is hard to explain, difficult to understand but you still need life. -- Malik Daniyal Sakhawat
Donald [Trump]. I understand rules are very hard for you. They're very confusing. -- Ted Cruz
Oh, how hard it is to part with power! This one has to understand. -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
People who have never had an addiction don't understand how hard it can be. -- Payne Stewart
It's hard for young people to understand when you tell them how great relationships are. -- Robert Englund
As I understand it, sport is hard work for which you do not get paid. -- Irvin S. Cobb
Some people actually do not like animals - hard for me to understand, but true. -- Jane Goodall
Because it is so hard, in any life, to believe in what you can't fully understand. -- Sarah Dessen
I understand how hard rock fans feel inside out, because I was one of those people. -- Charlie Simpson
My architecture is easy to understand. And enjoy. I hope it also is hard to forget. -- Oscar Niemeyer
It is hard for a free fish to understand what is happening to a hooked one. -- Karl A. Menninger
I understand. You work very hard two days a week and you need a five-day weekend. That's normal. -- Neil Simon
Only during hard times do people come to understand how difficult it is to be master of their feelings and thoughts. -- Anton Chekhov
Knowing how hard it is to collect a fact, you understand why most people want to have some fun analyzing it. -- Jesse L. Greenstein
You have to work very hard behind the scenes, to make a message clear enough for a lot of people to understand. -- Stefano Gabbana
Natural villains are hard to come by, what with all the shrinks and social-scientist types threatening to understand everybody into the ground ... -- Shana Alexander
Be persistent. Understand the ways in which your hard work is going to be necessary to achieve the goals that you want. -- Risa J. Lavizzo-Mourey
It's hard for the modern generation to understand Thoreau, who lived beside a pond but didn't own water skis or a snorkel. -- Loudon Wainwright III
The one thing an aspiring writer must understand is that it's hard. If you think it's not hard, you're not doing it right. -- Gene Weingarten
It is increasingly hard for young white people to find jobs, and I can understand why white parents are worried about the future. -- Helen Suzman
I didn't really understand fashion until I started going to Paris and seeing the ateliers and how hard these people work. It's art. -- Reese Witherspoon
Art is so wonderfully irrational, exuberantly pointless, but necessary all the same. Pointless and yet necessary, that's hard for a puritan to understand. -- Gunter Grass
Maybe one of you can enlighten me, but I just don't understand why it is so hard to be kind to one another? -- Patricia Polacco
Black love is Black wealth and they'll probably talk about my hard childhood and never understand that all the while I was quite happy -- Nikki Giovanni
It was hard for an American to understand the contented acceptance by English men and women of permanent places in the lowest social rank. -- Virginia Gildersleeve
I write because it's my way of finding cool ideas, thinking through hard problems and things I don't understand, and getting better at something. -- Atul Gawande
Already Roland feels his limbs starting to go numb. He swallows hard. "I hate this. I hate you. I hate all of you." "I understand. -- Neal Shusterman
No matter how much you've worked so hard to be as successful as you are, there will always be those ignorant haters who don't understand. -- Jinxx
Sesame Street's' genius lies in finding gentle ways to talk about hard things - death, divorce, danger - in terms that children understand and accept. -- Nancy Gibbs
I work consistently hard and smart because I understand that I can only flourish by contributing positively to the universe through my daily decisions and actions. -- Edmond Mbiaka
I understand maybe some people are more impressionable than my hard, cynical self, but maybe they need to figure out how to be less of that. -- Jessa Crispin
I understand that people might be poor if they don't have any work, but I don't accept that someone is poor if they've worked really hard. -- Nicolas Sarkozy
I don't understand referees. It appears like some players can't even be touched, but in my case, everyone can hit me as hard as they can. -- Cristiano Ronaldo
The creative industries tend to dismiss technology as just something to buy and not understand how hard it is and how creative it can be as well. -- Steve Jobs
We were from totally different social backgrounds. This is what is very hard for an American to understand, but we could have been five guys from Mars. -- Bill Bruford
If you don't have some sort of belief system by which to center your life, it's hard sometimes to understand why you would put up with your family. -- Billy Corgan
Radio stations have constructed a narrow door[way], and that's because they don't understand how complex and paradoxical our snap judgments are. It's hard to measure new songs. -- Malcolm Gladwell
Singing beautiful melodies is one thing, but to deliver the text so that the people understand it, even in a foreign language, has to be worked at very hard. -- Maureen Forrester
I think that various styles and methods and approaches are an invention of people who don't understand the process of acting and who try very hard to label things. -- Ben Kingsley
Keep your dreams alive. Understand to achieve anything requires faith and belief in yourself, vision, hard work, determination, and dedication. Remember all things are possible for those who believe. -- Gail Devers

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