Difficult Quotes

Evil was seductive and easy, and virtue was difficult and unappreciated.

Being a teenager is as difficult as living with one. And we've all been there. Perhaps that's the reason we're so hard on them.

I read all the time so it's difficult to say who my all-time favourites are. One is George Orwell, because he makes political writing so simple a child could understand it.

My mother was a very difficult woman to please. She was the sort of woman who thought that if I were praised I would get above myself.

In my own experience of male and female directors, people have a much, much harder time taking a direct command from a woman. It's somehow very difficult for people.

It's really difficult to know what is the best way forward when you're not getting a lot of support - and probably most writers aren't getting enough support.

We're America, and we have to stop worrying about what happens overseas, and to be optimistic, even though nobody should think we're not going to have some difficult times.

To disappear your complete self into a character is quite difficult. I've tried it 85 times, and I've succeeded two or three times.

I just try to play more and more difficult roles.

It has been a difficult road this year, but still I look at every day as a new opportunity.

That's what really seems to be the more difficult aspect - to have the men break through and challenge the best players in the world.

I would never put a sculpture in front of a painting, so that it is difficult to see the painting. I always place each thing so you can see it isolated. You can focus on every individual work.

It is especially difficult for modern people to conceive that our modern, scientific age might not be an improvement over the prescientific period.

One of the most difficult things for a writer in this business to accept is the uncertain fate of one's work.

Chemotherapy takes its toll; the more you keep doing it, you lose your energy, and it gets more difficult to swallow.

No other group has internalized its self-hatred as much as blacks have. It would be difficult to find other groups who behave similarly in that their most esteemed members berate its poorest members.

It's a difficult thing as an actor not to repeat one's self.

Snobbery management is as difficult and necessary as anger management.

The personal revolution is far more difficult, and is the first step in any revolution.

I want to be able to control things and that's very difficult to do if you're not 100% in a particular language. It makes you uncertain and it makes you nervous.

I think when war becomes your life, I think its very difficult to have the proper perspective to be able to create a fully balanced policy.

The humanitarian argument is so selective I find it difficult to swallow. It's not even so much about the choice as to where we should get involved and where we shouldn't.

However difficult, however scary, I had to live my truth. I chose to be more brave than I was afraid and am loving my life as a result.

They [Afghans] understand the difficult truth that their best hope of freedom lies in a temporary experience of imperial rule.

Truth is so difficult to hear about. It must be experienced.

It's not really a preparation when you know the character that you're playing. It's not too difficult. It would be more difficult the first time, I guess.

Difficult as it was to hear, slavery has benefited descendants like me - I believe there is a superior athletic gene in us.

It is much more difficult to know what is fair than what is unfair

What makes an interview 'difficult'? Well, there are many reasons, but the end result is usually the same: The guest just doesn't seem comfortable answering the question.

Wherever my story takes me, however dark and difficult the theme, there is always some hope and redemption, not because readers like happy endings, but because I am an optimist at heart.

I worry a little bit about - quote - "regime change." We haven't had a great deal of success with that in years. That's just really difficult.

Research can be a big clunker. It's difficult to know how you can make the historical light.

Clubs don't like their players going off to play international matches and you can see a scenario where they eventually start to make it more difficult for international sides to call up players.

If I'm able to catch the screening, there's a point in the film where, like clockwork, a portion of the audience gets really emotional and begins to cry. And that's very difficult to make happen.

The music stuff has been very difficult. It's got to be right, and even then, it better be on key.

There is nothing so noble and so right as to play our human life well and fitly, nor anything so difficult to learn as how to livethis life well and according to Nature.

Her beauty might fascinate men, but it was difficult to charm them when she stood mute. . . .

There's so much going on in the healthcare system that makes it difficult for women to really have a strong economic hold if insurance is always an issue.

Actually, I think that turning 29 was more difficult, because once I turned 29, I anticipated 30 for the whole year, so by the time 30 came around it really wasn't that bad.

I've worked with very few actors who have been at all difficult.

Maybe I haven't done enough movies, but haven't found that men are more difficult than women.

We know how difficult it is to do something that works and that you feel proud of. When it happens, it's like a miracle.

The pursuit of strength is inherently difficult and entirely worthwhile.

The court's recent decisions have made life more difficult for the democratic institutions that perform the day- to-day work of our nation.

I try to simulate the most difficult conditions the players will encounter during competition.

Sometimes its difficult to accept, to recognise ones own mistakes, but one must do it. I was guilty of overconfidence and arrogance, and I was punished for that.

It is difficult because the school I go to, my friends do not attend.

To pluck up the courage and open your heart, and embrace someone else's heart is difficult.

We write so many songs, it is difficult to narrow them down.

It's difficult to keep in touch with someone when you're moving around all the time. I've decided that you can have it all, but you can't have it all, all of the time.