“Voroshilov was a hard-riding, hard-drinking military crony of civil-war days.”
Kliment Voroshilov (1881–1969) Soviet military commander
Alec Nove
Attributed to Damiens before his execution
“Voroshilov was a hard-riding, hard-drinking military crony of civil-war days.”
Kliment Voroshilov (1881–1969) Soviet military commander
Alec Nove
“Pain is hard to bear," he cried,
"But with patience, day by day,
Even this shall pass away.”
Theodore Tilton (1835–1907) American newspaper editor
All Things shall pass away, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“There is no shortage of good days. It is good lives that are hard to come by.”
Annie Dillard (1945) American writer
Source: The Writing Life
“Come in, Adam, and rest; it has been a hard day for thee.”
George Eliot book Adam Bede
Adam Bede (1859)
“Things are so hard to figure out when you live from day to day in this feverish and silly world.”
Jack Kerouac (1922–1969) American writer
Source: On the Road: The Original Scroll
Charlotte Elliott (1789–1871) English poet, hymn writer, editor
Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 615.
“Give me three days and three nights of hard fighting, and you will be relieved.”
Maxwell D. Taylor (1901–1987) United States general
Statement made by Taylor to the men of Easy Company, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, as he circulated among the men on June 4, 1944, two days before commencement of the amphibious invasion of France, Operation Overlord. Easy Company and the entire 101st Airborne Division fought for 7 days, more than twice the promised number, before its last major fight in Normandy at the Battle of Bloody Gulch on June 13. Two days later on June 15, 9 days after the start of Mission Albany, the 101st Airborne's specific part of Overlord, was considered over. As quoted in Band of Brothers (1992) by Stephen E. Ambrose, p. 65
“And it's hard to say
Who you are these days.
But you run on anyway,
Don't you baby?”
Tom Petty (1950–2017) American musician
Saving Grace
Lyrics, Highway Companion (2006)