#hard

Hardly had I left when we ran into the Korean war, doubled what I had asked for and doubled it again. I had told him I would stay in Government, be honored to, but not with the Air Force. ↗

— Stuart Symington

#air #air force #asked #doubled #force

Take it not amiss, O speech, that I borrow weighty words, and later try hard to make them seem light. ↗

— Wislawa Szymborska

#borrow #hard #i #later #light

South Koreans who have seen and praised the mass games should remember the hardship of tearful children. Teachers drive them hard with curses and orders to repeat and repeat. When the children return home in the evening, they can hardly walk. ↗

— Kim Il-sung

#curses #drive #evening #games #hard

I think men, growing up, you have to go through some form of hardship. You've got to harden the metal. ↗

— Ice T

#go #got #growing #growing up #harden

If we don't fight hard enough for the things we stand for, at some point we have to recognize that we don't really stand for them. ↗

— Paul Wellstone

#fight #hard #point #really #recognize

We are the kind of people who obsess over one word... but we have only one shot to get it right in concert. It was hard the first time I practiced with them. I was so nervous that my vocal chords were paralyzed for about a half-hour. ↗

— Amy Tan

#chords #concert #first #first time #get

It's hard to win a pennant, but it's harder to lose one. ↗

— Chuck Tanner

#harder #lose #pennant #win

But romantic vision can also lead one away from certain very hard, ugly truths about life that are important to know. ↗

— Donna Tartt

#also #away #certain #hard #important

Sometimes you can do all the right things and not succeed. And that's a hard lesson of reality. ↗

— Donna Tartt

#hard lesson #lesson #reality #right #right things

For some reason most critics have a hard time fixing their minds directly under their noses, and before they see the object that is there they use a telescope upon the horizon to see where it came from. ↗

— Allen Tate

#came #critics #directly #fixing #hard