To tell about a drunken muzhik's beating his wife is…

“I looked at the sky with its patchwork of sun and storm clouds—the devil must be beating his wife indeed. I bet I was…

— Craig Johnson

“When the sun is showing and there is a storm in patches of the sky, the devil is said to beating his wife.”

— Angela Khristin Brown

“That's how I knew, for example, that Private Seamus Fletcher, 45B-76423, was beating his wife and children every night.”

— Tahereh Mafi

There's nothing harder than making a mellow, clean record. It's really scary. I can see why people would never want to do it.

— Ty Segall

Indifference is harder to fight than hostility, and there is nothing that kills an agitation like having everybody admit that it is fundamentally right.

— Crystal Eastman

A hardback's harder at Christmas time because that's a good hardback buying time.

— Terry Pratchett

Harder to get in than out, like so little else.

— Sarah Dessen

It is easy to take a photograph, but it is harder to make a masterpiece in photography than in any other art medium.

— Ansel Adams

Kids, if anything, are harder to write for because they are a more discerning audience. They will not stay with you if you go…

— Rick Riordan

Fossil fuels, including oil, are running out and supplies are getting harder to find. If we do nothing, prices will continue to rise and…

— Lucy Powell

Forgive me for noting that conservatives seem to believe that the rich will work harder if we give them more, and the poor will…

— E. J. Dionne

We've all seen talented young players who get to a certain level but there comes a point where that talent will only take you…

— Warren Gatland

Politics only makes the difficult challenge of marriage even harder, with the demands of the job and the public spotlight it casts on a…

— Mark McKinnon

It's a lot harder to play football when you haven't got the ball.

— Andy Gray

Some people give you that motivation to work harder simply to get the hell away from wherever they are.

— Dane Cook