Best 1372 quotes in «difficult quotes» category

The worst, the most difficult thing I think is that the more you become intrigued by science and the information is out there, the more you are aware of the paucity of your own knowledge.

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

They do say that the profession gets increasingly difficult, but my career seems to have been inside out. I'm playing the biggest parts now that I'm older. That's probably right, because I wasn't ready for them before.

They say change gets more difficult as we get older - each year we're more stuck in our ways, more reluctant to learn something new.

They tried to escape technology, to stay away from that and still have relationships with their fellow humans. Very difficult.

Things are difficult enough about Iraq without the Federal Government suppressing the truth about Iraq.

Things are not difficult to make; what is difficult is putting ourselves in the state of mind to make them

Thinking begins when you ask really difficult questions.

This is a very difficult thing to remain independent and persistent.

This is not a museum of tragedy. It is not the museum of difficult moments. It is the museum that says -here is a balanced history of America that allows us to cry and smile.

This life can be incredibly difficult, especially if we're alone.

Those who produce should have, but we know that those who produce the most - that is, those who work hardest, and at the most difficult and most menial tasks, have the least.

Times were so hard it was difficult to feed and lodge humans, much less animals.

To be able to concentrate for a considerable time is essential to difficult achievement.

Tis not the dying for a faith that's so hard... 'Tis the living up to it that's difficult.

To acquire wealth is difficult, to preserve it is more difficult, but to spend it wisely, most difficult of all.

To attain union is so impossibly difficult because it is impossible to become what you already are! Union is nothing other than knowledge of oneself as the Only One.

To be safe at the expense of the liberty of other people is a difficult equation.

To be an artist — actually, to be a human being in these times — it’s all difficult. … What matters is to know what you want and pursue it.

To build peace is difficult but to live without it is torment.

To change, that is the most difficult thing to accomplish.

to be honest and yet popular is almost as difficult in literature as it is in life.

To complicate is easy. To simplify is difficult

Today was a difficult day. Tomorrow will be better

To do easily what is difficult for others is the mark of talent.

To do business with a friend is difficult. The business itself is so stressful, so if you're havin' a bad day you can easily take it out on somebody, and then you takin' it out on somebody can easily turn into a blowup. It's weird, because you might really get to know a person by doin' business with them, then you probably decide you don't even wanna be around them, and that can really launch it off.

To my knowledge, there is no blacklist. But there is a mindset, even among liberal producers, that says 'He may be difficult so let's avoid him.'

To establish what is true is very difficult. Frequently it is easier to establish what is false. And, passing through the false, it's possible to understand something about truth.

To make personal movies that you are the author of, is quite a difficult thing. It takes a lot of stamina.

To me, the word 'decadent' is so difficult to use; it's a very sensitive word, in a way.

To extract beauty from one's own milieu is one of the most difficult tasks of art.

To get away well is so very much! And to get away well is often so very difficult!

To have courage, one must first be afraid. The deeper the fear, the more difficult the climb toward courage.

To talk about paintings is not only difficult but perhaps pointless too. You can only express in words what words are capable of expressing-- what language can communicate. Painting has nothing to do with that.

To rule is easy, to govern difficult.

To sustain hatred is a very difficult thing to do, year after year. It's exhausting.

To write history is so difficult that most historians are forced to make concessions to the technique of legende.

To trust other people to keep you safe, it's very difficult ... But when Tom Cruise is there, you just expect that he'll save you. I was like, "Tom. You're Tom Cruise. It's your job to save the day. And the day is me. You need to save it. If I panic, I expect you to be down there.

To write simply is as difficult as to be good.

Traveling around, it's difficult to follow much TV. Mainly I'm somebody who watches sports.

Trump's tax returns - his tax returns showed he went through a very difficult time, but he used the tax code just the way it's supposed to be used. And he did it brilliantly.

Trust can be a hard lesson; hope still more difficult.

Two conditions render difficult this historic situation of mankind: It is full of tremendously deadly armament, and it has not progressed morally as much as it has scientifically and technically.

TV feels quite constipated, and the thing I find particularly difficult is the branding of the channels where it's not 'Is it a good script?' but 'Is it a BBC2 script?'

Venezuela is another place I'd like very much to go, which is proving very difficult. I have not been there to make a show and I'd like to, very much.

Under every friendship there is a difficult sentence that must be said, in order that the friendship can be survived.

Unless you have a great deal of purity, it's difficult to retain the higher light.

Unless you've ever been a law enforcement officer or a prosecutor handling a difficult homicide case, you cannot know what it's like to launch the type of investigation and come to the right conclusion.

Unless you've been touched personally, it's difficult to see, but there are millions of people who have no voice whatsoever.

Until you make peace with your difficult memories, that pain will continue to bleed into your current and future experiences.