Difficult Quotes

When understanding would be too difficult, I become trusting.

If you don't have altruism, inner strength, inner peace, attention, then it's a trauma. It makes a difficult life for you and for others.

One of the reasons that I think I do love to write is because I did have a difficult childhood and not so great teenage years. It always helped me escape from my problems.

It's difficult to love someone you don't respect, which is hard to remember when you're having an argument.

There is always so much talk about the sins of the fathers but it is the sins of the mothers that are the most difficult to avoid repeating.

When it's too difficult to keep swimming, float.

It's difficult sometimes when you have somebody who is of a different culture trying to make light of something that is maybe not quite something that they understand.

I work hard to make the poems as good as they can be, and if they're not good enough I scrap them. I find it difficult after a gap of a few years to tinker - I'm more likely to destroy.

To punish is the most difficult thing there is. A society such as ours needs to question every aspect of punishment as it is practiced everywhere: in the army, the schools, the factories.

I think it's more difficult to live without a religion, definitely.

Being famous is like a dream come true but it's really difficult because you lose your freedom. I don't want to lose being a kid.

It's difficult isn't it, when you're in a Mosque and everyone's praying and you really enjoy leapfrog.

I've been acting since I was 10. At age 14, 15 and 16 it's difficult to find roles and to find yourself even and when everyone's eyes are on you, it's difficult.

When I was a kid it was much more difficult. You're trying to understand what the director wants. It's a learning process. Now, you go in and it's more of a collaboration.

Right answers to difficult questions are better than wrong answers to difficult questions.

The dark side of social media is that, within seconds, anything can be blown out of proportion and taken out of context. And it's very difficult not to get swept up in it all.

It's very difficult once you've been on telly because people know what you do. They give you a little bit of grace but then they're harsher if you're not funny, so you have to be funny.

You have to unhook your seat belt." "That's not true." "I'm afraid it's difficult to walk on the beach if you're strapped to a car seat.

If news is not really news unless it is bad news, it may be difficult to claim we are an informed nation

My mother is a special story. She went through so much to bring us up, four men at home, especially when our country was going through really difficult times.

I can't afford to step away from acting, but the one thing I've learnt after all these years is that I don't fit in. It's very difficult to be at the mercy of other people's whims and visions.

It can be said unequivocally that good teaching is far more complex, difficult, and demanding than mediocre research, which may explain why professors try so hard to avoid it.

All must yield to the weight of years; conquest is not difficult for time.

Getting out from under the shadow of Henry Fonda was difficult.

I don't loathe interviews, I'm just one of those people who makes music because I find it difficult to talk.

I feel anger and I feel understanding. It's a difficult position to be in.

If you really want a life which has no boredom in it, drop all masks, be true. Sometimes it will be difficult, I know, but it is worth it. Be true.

Procrastinating, fighting and avoiding will only make it more difficult. The way out is to get it done.

Stage acting is a very difficult thing - and I've learned a lot and have a long way to go.

Living the 'easy' life today seems to make a 'difficult' life tomorrow.

Its very comforting to know that you are faced with a difficult job. If someone gives you a job which shows every sign of being easy, then you are a prisoner of effortlessness.

The American struggle for the vote was much more difficult than the English for the simple reason that it was much more easy.

I believe in choosing the hardest book imaginable. I believe in reading up on what others have to say about this difficult book, and then making up my own mind.

What you discover in a democracy is that it is difficult to build a house when each nail has an opinion.

Theres nothing more difficult to do than comedy.

People may be surprised at how hard and difficult filmmaking can be, having the creativity and the technical aspects together is very hard to do.

It's easier to crush a dream than realize one, forming a bond is infinitely more difficult than breaking one

For men who had easily endured hardship, danger and difficult uncertainty, leisure and riches, though in some ways desirable, proved burdensome and a source of grief.

Someday, you need to build a business that's difficult to replicate. This is an important part of a good idea.

I don't get jobs in films by auditioning. I'm not blonde. You can't place me in movies the way you can with certain actors. It's very difficult for my agents.

When you don't come from struggle, gaining appreciation is a quality that's difficult to come by.

It's interesting that people bring different things to oppressive and difficult situations, when they're reduced to the barest terms of survival. That's what provides tension in a lot of films.

Well it is sometimes difficult to act in another language

Where love is thick, faults are thin. If you really love someone, then it is difficult to find fault with him. His faults seem negligible, for love means oneness.

It is difficult to be funny and great at the same time. Aristophanes and Moliere and Mark Twain must sit below Aristotle and Bossuet and Emerson.

It [live performance] is just very difficult. Doing an hour, hour and a half of live standup is an endurance test. You almost have to do it every day to stay up on it.

Periods of change are full of paradoxes. They're difficult but exciting, frightening but freeing. Letting go of old patterns that no longer work for us is exhilarating.

I think if I had just slowed down a little bit it could have a little easier. I multiplied how difficult it needed to be instead of just saying, fair enough. You don't have to make it hard.

Communication is something so simple and difficult that we can never put it in simple words.

If you remove tone from music, you have something, but what? I find it difficult to call it music.