Best 1372 quotes in «difficult quotes» category

No task is more difficult than systematic hypocrisy.

Not everything that is more difficult is more meritorious.

Nothing is all good or all bad, nothing is black or white, everything is just messy and human and difficult.

Nothing is difficult for the humble.

Nothing is difficult to mortals; we strive to reach heaven itself in our folly. [Lat., Nil mortalibus arduum est; Coelum ipsum petimus stultitia.]

Nothing is impossible. It can be downright difficult, but not impossible.

Nothing is more difficult and nothing requires more character than to find oneself in open opposition to ones time (and those one loves) and to say loudly: No!

Nothing is more difficult than the art of maneuvering for advantageous positions.

Nothing is more difficult than competing with a myth

Nothing is more difficult to accomplish than changing outward actions without changing inward feelings.

Nothing is difficult; it is only we who are indolent.

Nothing is more difficult than to make a profit.

Nothing is so difficult but that man will accomplish it.

Not so much a film as a visual essay, exquisitely directed and photographed (by Sacha Vierny)... Difficult to watch but well worthwhile for those willing to be challenged.

NOUMENON, n. That which exists, as distinguished from that which merely seems to exist, the latter being a phenomenon. The noumenon is a bit difficult to locate; it can be apprehended only by a process of reasoning - which is a phenomenon.

Now chart music is a genre all of its own and it's slipped away from what I understand pop music as. It's pretty difficult to take; it clogs up the airwaves.

Now, I find that very difficult to reconcile with notions about a merciful God.

Of all things we mortals are called upon to do, the most difficult is forgiveness; in order to truly do it, you will probably have to behave as if you already have forgiven for quite a while before you have actually done so.

Of all things difficult to rule, none were more so than my will and affections.

Of all things that can happen to us, triumph is the most difficult to endure when we are alone. Deprived of witnesses, it shrinks at once.

Of course I'd like to get beyond the concrete. But it's really difficult. Very difficult.

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.

Oh, God, I don't know what's more difficult, life or the English language.

Oftentimes things that seem really difficult and traumatic in the short term seem a lot less difficult and traumatic in the long term.

Oftener than not the old are uncontrollable; Their tempers make them difficult to deal with.

One of the difficult things of so much travelling is to say goodbye.

Old man! 'Tis not difficult to die.

On a team, trust is all about vulnerability, which is difficult for most people.

Once a suggestion has entered the general atmosphere of human thought, it is very difficult to neutralise it.

Once the races begin it's more difficult and there is never that much time for testing.

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

One of the most difficult things in life for any individual or business is to accept and adopt change.

One of the more difficult things about being a judge is as you're listening to the evidence, you have to be formulating how you're going to explain your evaluation of that evidence.

One of the most difficult and ironic murder weapons is the life jacket.

Once a federal law or policy is in place it is more difficult to kill than a vampire.

Once killing starts, it is difficult to draw the line.

Once you have something so deeply infused in your culture and your brand, it would be very difficult to reverse that inertia if you wanted to.

One of the difficult things about being an actor is to stick around.

One of the most difficult tasks of visioneering is distinguishing between good ideas and God ideas.

One of the most difficult things is the first paragraph. I have spent many months on a first paragraph, and once I get it, the rest just comes out very easily.

One of the things that makes this show unique, in terms of an experience, is that when you do a show that has a large cast, scheduling is a very difficult thing.

Opportunity is often difficult to recognize; we usually expect it to beckon us with beepers and billboards.

On film sets I can see everyone, and I really still find that so difficult.

Only the first swath cut by the scythe is difficult.

People often find it surprising that actors find photo shoots difficult, because you're very concerned about what's going on externally in those things when you have to be concerned with what's going on internally as an actor.

Our day-to-day lives recording and touring aren't that different from those of Metallica, even though the perceived worldview is totally different. So that can be a difficult thing to reconcile sometimes.

Our Pakistan elites are spoiled by permanent foreign aid and therefore find it difficult to change course. Pakistan needs someone who stands up and says: Fundamentalism is bad, capitalism is good. This region harbors enormous potential. Pakistan could become the hub for the energy that is transported from Central Asia to South Asia. That could change the whole region.

Painting is so difficult that I would give it up if it were not so enjoyable.

Paradoxically, the simpler poetry is, the more difficult it becomes for a critic to discuss intelligently. Trained to explicate, the critic often loses the ability to evaluate literature outside the critical act. A work is good only in proportion to the richness and complexity of interpretations it provokes.

Peace enforcement is a much more difficult kind of operation than peacekeeping.