Quote by Richard Stark

“Bringing a strong man to his knees is simple. It’s keeping him there that’s the tricky business…”

— Kresley Cole

“There were actually very few men who could face reality when the going got tough.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“We did everything possible to keep up the spirits of the men, but it was exceedingly difficult because there was nothing for them to…

— Theodore Roosevelt

“But…history was full of the bones of good men who’d followed bad orders in the hope that they could soften the blow. Oh, yes,…

— Terry Pratchett

“Men always imagined they were undemanding and easy-going; but it soon turned out that the going was only easy if it went their way.”

— Marius Gabriel

“It was the same in just about every trade. Sooner or later someone decided it needed organizing, and the one thing you could be…

— Robert Silverberg

“The trouble was, I hated the idea of serving men in any way.”

— Sylvia Plath

“It could give you some tough moments, your word. Could force you into places you didn't want to be, could serve you up puzzles…

— Joe Abercrombie

“Women hoped harder than men, he thought, sometimes hard enough to change the outcome of things.”

— Jo-Ann Mapson

“In the years ahead we would have rough patches, but we were determined to get through them.”

— Hillary Rodham Clinton

“In battle nothing is ever as good or as bad as the first reports of excited men would have it.”

— Anonymous

“...Hard is trying to rebuild yourself, piece by piece, with no instruction book, and no clue as to where all the important bits are…

— Nick Hornby