Best 1372 quotes in «difficult quotes» category

At all periods of the [English] language it is difficult to assign a beginning date to most new words and meanings. They tend to slip into the language silently, and are placed in date order only when scholars subsequently get to work.

At the extremes it is difficult to distinguish pseudoscience from rigid, doctrinaire religion.

At the end of a marriage it is difficult to recall the beginning.

A wide range of quotations are necessary for the repertoire of a well-rounded speaker. Quotations are able to illustrate in a few words what is difficult to explain in many.

A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.

Bad deeds, and deeds hurtful to ourselves, are easy to do; what is beneficial and good, that is very difficult to do.

Bayesian statistics is difficult in the sense that thinking is difficult.

Because of Bluetooth headsets, it's getting more and more difficult to tell who's schizophrenic and who's on a conference call.

Because our goals are not lofty but illusory, our problems are not difficult, but nonsensical.

Beef also was difficult to be procured and exceedingly poor; the price nearly sixpence farthing per pound.

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.

Being a champion and staying that way is the most difficult thing to deal with. Everyone sees you as a target. They want to bring you down. I should always train in order to be at a higher level. Other fighters are training hard as well. I have to be a step or more ahead.

Being human is difficult. Some people make it more difficult than others. I was one of those people.

Because we have put ourselves in our own zoo, we find it difficult to break out.

Being human is a lot more difficult than being on tour.

Being in jail is difficult too because it's like being in a graveyard, you can't do much.

Being married is amazing. Being married is incredibly difficult. Being married can seem impossibly hard. Being married is incredibly beautiful. Yes, marriage is a fragile blend of all of this and more.

Being tiny has been difficult for me in a business that regarded physicality as the most important part of your life.

Being Vice President is difficult. Don't make it tougher.

Being your best when your best is needed. The ability to enjoy challenges when things become difficult and to derive exhilaration from them.

Be kind. Every person you meet is fighting a difficult battle.

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.

Be more tolerant of the difficult people. They're the creative ones. They're not happy with the status quo.

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.

Be secret and exult, Because of all things known That is most difficult.

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

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

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

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 theatre is always a difficult experience.

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

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 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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

Change is easy. Improvement is far more difficult

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

Composing was more difficult than writing things down.

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

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.