Hard or Hardness may refer to:
- Hardness, resistance of physical materials to change under force
- Hard water, water with a high mineral content
- NP-hard, a term used in Computational complexity theory
- Hard, Austria, a town in Austria
- Hard (Zurich), a quarter in Zürich
- Hard (tennis), a type of tennis court
- Hard (music festival), concerts and live events
- Hard, or hard-on, a slang term for an erection
- Hard (nautical), a firm or paved beach or slope convenient for hauling vessels out of the water
- Hard (surname)
- Hayward Area Recreation and Park District, abbreviated H.A.R.D.
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Famous quotes containing the word hard:
“And even my sense of identity was wrapped in a namelessness often hard to penetrate, as we have just seen I think. And so on for all the other things which made merry with my senses. Yes, even then, when already all was fading, waves and particles, there could be no things but nameless things, no names but thingless names. I say that now, but after all what do I know now about then, now when the icy words hail down upon me, the icy meanings, and the world dies too, foully named.”
—Samuel Beckett (1906–1989)
“Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood.”
—Gabriel García Márquez (b. 1928)
“Go, grieving rimes of mine, to that hard stone
Whereunder lies my darling, lies my dear,
And cry to her to speak from heaven’s sphere.”
—Petrarch (1304–1374)