The blogosphere makes it possible to have a sprawling national conversation about the hard times - often among people who would never find each other offline.
In Indiana, which has been hard hit by manufacturing losses, job declines, and shrinking wages, Governor Pence combined tax cuts with spending restraint to spur the Hoosier economy.
It's hard to act in a corset. Your breath gets cut off. You're squashed.
Do not be too hard, lest you be broken; do not be too soft, lest you be squeezed.
I don't even know what the odds are for one kid or one team to make it here. Obviously, being from Canada this is their Stanley Cup - they made it. It's hard enough to get here and it's hard enough to advance.
People don't realize who this band is always been because we're so young, and it's hard to get over that stigma.
Movies either work or they don't work and they're either funny or they're not and we work very hard. To achieve that kind of work is really kind of delicate stitching.
They will be given as gifts; books that are especially pretty or visual will be bought as hard copies; books that are collectible will continue to be collected; people with lots of bookshelves will keep stocking them; and anyone who likes to make notes in books will keep buying books with margins to fill.
It's hard not to be the straight man when Zach Galifianakis is there. He's such a delightfully bizarre creature. Everything he does is so surprising. He's such a live wire. It's just so exciting to watch.
I was a mother who worked ridiculously hard to keep catastrophe at bay. I didn't allow my kids to eat hamburgers for fear of E. coli. I didn't allow them to play with rope, string, balloons - anything that might strangle them. They had to bite grapes in half, avoid lollipops, eat only when I could watch them.
It's hard not to want to strangle people when you work with them for four years.
I have such a stressful job that the only way I can get it out of my mind is by running hard.
Stripe really did come about because we were really appalled by how hard it was to charge for things online.
Ignorance is stubborn and prejudice is hard.
I love doing my own stunts but it's hard.
I have a hard time arguing with stupid people.
I don't see how English as we use it in Europe can be revivified. It's like Latin must have been in about A.D. 300, tired and used up. All one can do is press very hard stylistically to make it glow.
Maybe subconsciously I feel I was meant to work hard for a living.
Comedy's really subjective, you know; that's why it's so hard.
It is work, work that one delights in, that is the surest guarantor of happiness. But even here it is a work that has to be earned by labor in one's earlier years. One should labor so hard in youth that everything one does subsequently is easy by comparison.
