Difficult Quotes

What ho!" I said. "What ho!" said Motty. "What ho! What ho!" "What ho! What ho! What ho!" After that it seemed rather difficult to go on with the conversation.

Control over the use of one's ideas really constitutes control over other people's lives; and it is usually used to make their lives more difficult.

It is difficult to give children a sense of security unless you have it yourself. If you have it, they catch it from you.

The bitter pinecone may be eaten, The mist on high give nourishment. The whole world takes to go-and-getting; My way alone is difficult.

How easy it is to destroy the past and how difficult to forget it.

It's like an inner struggle for me, between saying I don't give a **** and trying to make it work. You want to do the right thing, but I'm sick of people thinking I'm difficult.

Russia is a difficult country to deal with, but I think that American policy on Russia has been foolish in the extreme.

People just don't know how to write down a simple easy line. It's difficult for them; it's like trying to keep a hard-on while drowning - not many can do it.

It was very difficult but definitely not a snap decision.

Someone would have to keep his wits, and he had assumed automatically that since Fezzik had so few, he would find retaining them not all that difficult.

No sooner is the rage of hunger appeased than it becomes difficult to comprehend the meaning of starvation. It is only when you suffer that you really understand.

Difficult" and "impossible" are cousins often mistaken for one another, with very little in common." (Locke Lamora to Requin)

Money shows [man] new ways to cheat life. Power becomes exterior instead of interior. In these circumstances architecture becomes too difficult, building too easy.

If someone asks me a question it is very difficult not to answer honestly.

The difficult part of good temper consists in forbearance, and accommodation to the ill-humors of others.

I recognize that virtually every company that comes in here has a perspective. It's often not difficult to understand why they have the perspective that they have.

He(C. Ronaldo) makes the most difficult plays look easy.

Even if it is difficult playing with other people - sometimes it's great, sometimes it isn't, but that is kind of the point of it. It loses its point playing solo.

It is difficult, if not impossible, to define the limit of our reasonable desires in respect of possessions.

After an author has been dead for some time, it becomes increasingly difficult for his publishers to get out a new book by him each year.

Accepting your teen's individuality and natural evolution is one of the most difficult challenges you'll face as a parent.

Remedying the deficiencies of seminary curricula is a difficult question because of all kinds of vested political interests long at work in the building of any curriculum.

It's difficult to keep anything fresh for an audience these days. With technology being what it is people seem to know everything there is to know about a film before you've even made it.

I'm sure nobody wants to just work and earn money and all that stuff. I know it's difficult for people to break out of the syndrome, doing a normal job.

Comedy is the most difficult thing to do. Easily the most difficult.

In Spanish it is very difficult to make things flow, because words are over-long. But in English, you have light words.

Its difficult to do something radically new, unless you are at the heart of a company.

I wanted to show how lightness was possible in the 1960s, but how life is more difficult in the 2000s.

Recreational number theory [...] is that part of number theory that is too difficult to study.

It is very difficult to be learned; it seems as if people were worn out on the way to great thoughts, and can never enjoy them because they are too tired.

Furthermore, when citizens are all almost equal, it becomes difficult for them to defend their independence against the aggressions of power.

To me, the word 'decadent' is so difficult to use; it's a very sensitive word, in a way.

I try to run on the hottest days, at the hottest time, because that's the most difficult time. And sometimes I worry about drying out, and dying.

I do find life difficult at times … and I behave childishly too, do foolish things, unworthy … I don't think one can have great imagination and great wisdom. Can one?

Society historically has a difficult time with the concept of something new and foreign that shakes up our comfortable views, especially if it involves the very volatile question of sexual identity.

No fools are so difficult to manage as those with some brains.

I think it's part of Vladimir Putin's nature to define Russian success in foreign policy as thwarting the United States. That's in his nature. And that is very difficult to align with strategically.

I was working with real artists [in the Rum Diary], and that's difficult to do and very rare, in this industry, ironically.

It is easy to learn something about everything, but difficult to learn everything about anything.

Faith is difficult to conquer and requires daily battles if it is to be maintained.

However difficult it may be to accept what happens to us, one must understand that moments such as this give us the possibility for radical change in our behavior.

The most difficult problem in personal knowledge, whether of oneself or of others, is the problem of guessing when to think as a historian and when to think as an anthropologist.

The longer Jose Mourinho goes on, and on, and on, the more difficult it is for me not to despise him and the set of values he's bringing to football.

Silence is difficult and arduous, it is not to be played with.

Isn't it also that on some fundamental level we find it difficult to understand that other people are human beings in the same way that we are? We idealize them as gods or dismiss them as animals.

Most men find it difficult to remain true to a single woman, but relatively easy to be true to three or four at the same time.

Finding a technical cofounder would have been difficult for me. I was an English major and didn't know any computer programmers.

What is truth? A difficult question; but I have solved it for myself by saying that it is what the 'voice within' tells you.

I started skating because I loved it. I started when I was three and I didn't know all the sacrifices and all the hardships and how difficult day-in and day-out it would be.

Anyone can revolt. It is more difficult silently to obey our own inner promptings, and to spend our lives finding sincere and fitting means of expression for our temperament and our gifts.