Democracy is not a spectator sport. It is a difficult, hard, full-contact, participatory endeavor. – Cory Booker
It’s been very hard for the guitar as a serious synthesizer to compete with keyboards. – Andy Summers
It’s defeatist to harp on what might have been, and yet, it’s hard to resist considering what might have been. – Christopher Reeve
I tried reading Hilbert. Only his papers published in mathematical periodicals were available at the time. Anybody who has tried those knows they are very hard reading. – Alonzo Church
I have tried very hard as a novelist to say, ‘Novels are about individuals and especially larger than life individuals.’ – Bharati Mukherjee