#hard way

Absolute certainty is not something I strive for anymore. I've learned the hard way that destiny usually looks upon our most strident convictions with amusement, or perhaps even pity. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#amusement #anymore #certainty #convictions #destiny

All dope can do for you is kill you... the long hard way. And it can kill the people you love right along with you. ↗

— Billie Holiday

#dope #hard #hard way #kill #long

Dope never helped anybody sing better or play music better or do anything better. All dope can do for you is kill you - and kill you the long, slow, hard way. ↗

— Billie Holiday

#anything #better #dope #hard #hard way

I've never had a career of that kind of box office power. I've always learned the hard way. ↗

— Holly Hunter

#box #box office #career #had #hard

Roller-skating and ice-skating are two different things - I found that out the hard way. ↗

— Todd Bridges

#different things #found #hard #hard way #i

An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way. ↗

— Charles Bukowski

#hard #hard thing #hard way #intellectual #says

I'm blessed that I'm not content. Whenever I work with kids, which I'm passionate about, I want them to know that, yes, two World Cups, two Asian Cups, but I've done it the hard way. ↗

— Timothy F. Cahill

#asian #blessed #content #cups #done

Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from. ↗

— Al Franken

#being #being human #fatal #hard #hard way

I never had little brothers, so I was totally not used to hearing a lot of cussing at a young age! I learned what 'pull my finger' meant the hard way. ↗

— Danica McKellar

#brothers #finger #had #hard #hard way

I had to be intellectually satisfied as well as emotionally because at that time of life one doesn't just fall into it in adolescent emotion, and I was satisfied at every point that it was the one way and the hard way to do things. ↗

— Ruth Pitter

#because #emotion #emotionally #every #fall