Best 1372 quotes in «difficult quotes» category

Between the ages of 8 and 12 it was difficult to know what my father was saying, and he moved very slowly, and then he died.

Between takes I find it difficult to switch off and then try and re-emerge myself in the part, so I try to stay in that frame of mine all day. It can be exhausting and you lose a sense of self, but it is the method that works best for me.

... blueprints are like pets and children -- difficult to appreciate or understand unless they're yours.

Breakfast is a notoriously difficult meal to serve with a flourish.

But I found that being an artist and doing accurate work is very difficult.

But I don't fit. Your family hates me. I make your life difficult." That's where she was wrong. "No, You're my family. And as for making my life difficult, you, Blaire Wynn, make my life complete.

But I think it is always difficult to have high expectations of yourself or anyone else.

But I think it's always difficult when a product that you're using and accustomed to changes.

But it never ceases to amaze me how difficult the things that are supposed to be instinctive really are.

But science perhaps is very difficult without faith. Also there is no simple way of saying now we have science, we don't need faith anymore.

But theatre is always a difficult experience.

But those with shattered souls find it very difficult to speak.

But when nothing in your life happens in a positive frame, it is difficult to think positively and hope for the best.

But you make me happy. It's living up to being happy that's the difficult part.

By delivering experience, novels can alter the stance we adopt toward news - not much, I'm sure, but they can make it a little more difficult for us to consign "other people" to our tidy boxes. Widening our imaginative life might - it's not hard to imagine - also develop our ability to contemplate counterfactuals and our capacity to speculate about how things might differ from how they're being represented.

By the way, the point between rationality and what we would call the irrational is a very difficult point to establish. There’s no specific line, as you know.

Can poetry be a form of social change? I don't know the answer to that. I do think art can have a social impact even if it may be difficult to see the effects of that impact, to assess or measure it.

By what you do, you teach your children how to respond to difficult information.

Casebook is my attempt at a love story. I had a vision of a difficult love.

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

Change is easy. Improvement is far more difficult

Carlsen will be ridiculously difficult to play against. (on the 2013 World Championship match)

Certainly the plagiarism, and dealing with the fallout of it, was the most difficult thing I've ever faced since I started writing.

"Choosing to be with you, isn't a difficult decision, Jacqueline"... "It's easy. Incredibly easy.

Das Kapital, I think, is very difficult to read, and for me, it was not very influential.

Choosing a role is very difficult. There's no way to have a strategy.

Chris Lighty was a huge portion of my actual career. It's difficult to adjust to not have someone around that's in your life, in your life.

Clarity and perseverance are difficult in American society because the basis of capitalism is greed and dissatisfaction.

Communication with the dead is only a little more difficult than communication with some of the living.

Common sense is so very simple but very difficult to grasp.

Complex, statistically improbable things are by their nature more difficult to explain than simple, statistically probable things.

Conversation between Adam and Eve must have been difficult at times, because they had nobody to talk about.

Criticizing is easy, art is difficult.

Dealing with Greece's problems will be more difficult if Greece is not a member of the eurozone.

Death is the most sophisticated form of beauty, and the most difficult to accept.

Definitions are temporary verbalizations of concepts, and concepts- particularly difficult concepts- are usually revised repeatedly as our knowledge and understanding grows.

Democracy is premised, in some measure, on majority rule, and democracy is difficult in a situation of concentrated inequalities in which a large, impoverished majority confronts a small, wealthy oligarchy.

Class is the most difficult subject for American writers to deal with as it is the most difficult for the English to avoid.

Composing was more difficult than writing things down.

Criticism is easy, art is difficult.

Dating is really hard because everyone puts on a front. It's really difficult to see who is who, so it is important to be yourself.

Dealing with a government with whom mendacity is a science is an extremely difficult matter.

Dealing with the media is more difficult that bathing a leper

Destruction is difficult. It is as difficult as creation.

Despite how difficult and hopeless it was at times, my experiences have shaped me for the better in many ways. It ultimately taught me empathy and invaluable lessons only learned through adversity.

Difficulties in your life do not come to destroy you, but to help you realise your hidden potential and power, let difficulties know that you too are difficult.

Difficult folk, these women!

Difficult People? I don't really know. I don't have those metrics.

Difficult roads often lead to beautiful destinations. The best is yet to come.

Difficult situations breed astonishing results.