Sometimes you can do all the right things and not succeed. And that's a hard lesson of reality. Donna Tartt
To fall suddenly sick when you have never been ill is a hard lesson. If it teaches anything, it teaches you that you must not trust to the thing you know, that it is better to build on shifting sand than the rock which may confound you on the day it shatters. Tanith Lee
Hopefully the new breed of kids won't have to go through that hard lesson - my kids, my grandkids, my fans' kids, hopefully they won't have to go through it. Lawrence Taylor
I've learned the hard lesson that you can't pin your heart on anything until it's a completely done deal. William Kempe
And what we did with this new company in 1985 is we did start focusing on PCs instead of video game machines, because we learned the hard lesson about bringing a product to market in a consumer world where it's very expensive to build a brand and get distribution and so forth. Steve Case
I'll admit, I was disappointed to learn that dragons didn't exist. That's a hard lesson for a boy to learn.” Chronicler smiled. "Honestly, I was a little disappointed myself. I went looking for a legend and found a lizard. A fascinating lizard, but a lizard just the same. Patrick Rothfuss