Difficult Quotes
To try to raise a son from inside the prison walls is a very difficult thing. But I want to say to the world my son at 16 was the one who tried the most to get me out of prison.
We lose a lot of young athletes because tennis is such a difficult sport. It's not like kicking a soccer ball.
Sometimes you get more creativity when you're in a box than when you can do anything. In really difficult situations, sometimes, you get the most interesting thinking.
It’s always interesting to me to tell stories that come from difficult political climates.
I've seen a lot of women give up after they've had three or four bad gigs in a row. It's very difficult to learn not to take nasty heckles personally.
Does anyone really go into nursing intending to be apathetic, cold and removed from suffering? I find that very difficult to believe.
I think it's difficult, if you're a quite private person like I am, to write about your life very intimately.
My parents instilled in me that life was going to be very difficult and that I'd have to work for everything.
It's hard to find a book that's safe to write. Because one always goes to dark or difficult places.
The so-called positive press has in some ways been more difficult to swallow than the negative.
Anything based on ancient texts is difficult for a modern reader to get their head around.
I have a tendency to pick up my own challenges. The more difficult something it is, the more I want to try it.
Interpreting anyone's marriage - a neighbor's, let alone the president's - is extremely difficult.
A girl who is thirteen-which is hard, and difficult, and beautiful, and painful, and exhilarating.
I know how difficult it can be when the image you've had of something doesn't match its reality; when the friend beside you turns into a monster.
In this new place we've found, sometimes there aren't words, because the truth can be even more difficult than the lies.
For me, every book is a journey - questioning a really difficult topic that most people don't want to talk about, much less write about. And that's what I need; that works for me as a writer.
I have a feeling that any simple problem can be made arbitrarily difficult by imposing a suitably heavy administrative process around the development.
I also acknowledge that prejudice runs very deep in our society. And, in the real world, discrimination rears its ugly head in the shadows, where it's very difficult to root it out.
I think, it's so difficult to create a buzz anywhere, whether it be online, the streets, radio, anywhere, that if you are able to create a buzz somewhere, it definitely means something.
I still love how Phil Spector turned teenage experiences into wonderful symphonies, but I find it a little more difficult to put myself in that place.
It's pretty difficult to promote something the week after Christmas and the week before New Year's.
In difficult times, we're not supposed to quit believing; we're not supposed to quit growing.
There are a lot of times where actors can be a little precious sometimes, and then it's difficult to put them in a situation where there is true hardship.
It's very difficult when there are pictures taken on the red carpet. I find those things so terrifying that another persona just kicks in. I don't recognise myself.
The desire to explain what is simple by what is complex, what is easy by what is difficult, is a calamity.
A careful and sympathetic sense of humour can also be a great asset when there is need to get out of difficult situations gracefully.
It's difficult for a society to have a healthy discourse on its future when people are afraid to gather to express themselves and authorities won't allow it.
I dont know if there is a personal identity. We all imagine that we are absolute individuals. But when we begin to look for where this individuality resides, its very difficult to find.
The resistance to black-and-white is huge, in the way that you have to sell the film. It's difficult to distribute around the world.
Nothing is more difficult to accomplish than changing outward actions without changing inward feelings.
In matters editorial, I am a believer in totalitarian despotism. Most writers are lazy, difficult, selfish, thoughtless, and unreliable.
The conduct of schools, based upon a new order of conception, is so much more difficult than is the management of schools which walk the beaten path.
It is difficult to connect general principles with such thoroughly concrete things as children.
And then I was asleep. That deep, can-still-taste-her-in-my-mouth sleep, that sleep that is not particularly restful but difficult to wake up from all the same.
It is difficult, almost impossible, to find the book from which something either valuable or amusing may not be found, if the proper alembic be applied.
I find it difficult to say, like "which child do you prefer the most", and its a sort of surface choice. I've never known how to quite answer that one adequately.
In the States it's more and more difficult to get an independent film off the ground, and you certainly wont get the opportunity to play something like that in a studio movie.
You cannot drive with your eyes in the rear-view mirror… But dignity is difficult to maintain. Stamina requires constant upkeep. Repetition is boring. And you pay for grace.
There are simply more young people than there ever were. You get this feeling of strength. Also, large numbers can be a drawback, making it difficult to lose one's anonymity.
Music business is hard. It's very difficult. And it's not for everyone. Even if you can sing or even if you can write a song, it takes a lot of determination, it takes some kind of thick skin.
Of course it's difficult to know what the workers are really thinking because the capitalist press always only quotes mouthpieces like Vic Feather anyway.
Valued achievements connect to people at a deeper level—and a deeper level can change behavior that is generally very difficult to change.
A lot of English traditional music is guesswork anyway, so it's very difficult for people to be vehemently opposed to experimenting with it.