Hard World Quotes

The harder the world, the fiercer the honour.

I received a letter from a lad asking me for an easy berth. To this I replied: You cannot be an editor; do not try the law; do not think of the ministry; let alone all ships and merchandise; abhor politics; don't practice medicine; be not a farmer or a soldier or a sailor; don't study, don't think. None of these are easy. O, my son, you have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave!

In my stories for children, I sometimes show a hard, harsh, dangerous world. I'm going to show you the way it is, but I'm going to also tell you that there's every reason to hope.

The remoteness of my parents from the schools, so unfashionable today, was often painful for me, but I learned early to deal with an outside and sometimes hard world.

If you will just start with the idea that this is a hard world, it will all be much simpler.

I will make a battering-ram of my head and make my way through this rough and tumble world.

The longer one lives in this hard world motherless, the more a mother's loss makes itself felt.

The experimenter dealing with nature faces an outside and often hard world. Natures' curriculum cannot be changed.

You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.

The justification for those actions was that we were living in a very hard, predatory, cloak-and-dagger world and that the only way to deal with a totalitarian enemy was to intimidate him. The trouble with this theory was that while we live in a world of plot and counterplot, we also live in a world of cause and effect. Whatever the cause for the decision to legitimize and regularize deceit abroad, the inevitable effect was the practice of deceit at home.

This is a hard and precarious world, where every mistake and infirmity must be paid for in full.