Hard Won Quotes
31 quotes by 30 authors
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My after forty face felt far more comfortable than anything I lived with previously. Self-confidence was a powerful beauty-potion; I looked better because I felt…
— Nancy A. Collins
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Given enough time, you could convince yourself that loneliness was something better, that it was solitude, the ideal condition for reflection, even a kind of…
— Dean Koontz
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To feel our character, our personality, and our personal, hard-won history fade from being is to be exposed to whatever lies beneath these comforting, operational…
— Peter Straub
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In the blood-heat of pursuing the enemy, many people are forgetting what we are fighting for. We are fighting for our hard-won liberty and freedom;…
— Julia Child
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A marriage is a private thing. It has its own wild laws, and secret histories, and savage acts, and what passes between married people is…
— Catherynne M. Valente
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Here, in Alethkar, men often spoke of the legends -- of mankind's hard-won victory over the Voidbringers. But when weapons created to fight nightmares were…
— Brandon Sanderson
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We believe that peace is hard-won, That sometimes it is necessary to fight for peace. But more than that, we believe that Justice is more…
— Veronica Roth
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I’m not interested in blind optimism, but I’m very interested in optimism that is hard-won, that takes on darkness and then says, ‘This is not…
— Colum McCann
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Americans are in serious intellectual trouble - in danger of losing our hard-won cultural capital to a virulent mixture of anti-intellectualism, anti-rationalism and low expectations.
— Susan Jacoby
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The Congress has had an uneasy relationship with banks and bankers since Alexander Hamilton. It took the United States until 1913 to set up a…
— Robert Zoellick
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Population growth and development place additional stress on the Nation's water infrastructure and its ability to sustain hard-won water quality gains.
— Jerry Costello
Who Wrote These Hard Won Quotes
30 authors contributed a total of 31 Hard Won Quotes, led by these top contributors: