Difficult Quotes

During the first 10 years of my life, while my parents were married, I enjoyed a privileged upbringing. After their divorce, my life was difficult.

When people don't know who you are, they're seeing your work for the first time. But if they've seen a lot, getting certain things across is a more difficult.

It is very, very difficult for a playwright to write a scene in which a young man has his first deep experience of sex with a girl whom he found immensely attractive, is fully satisfied by this event and gets up and blinds a lot of horses.

It is more difficult to praise rightly than to blame.

I resolved to stop accumulating and begin the infinitely more serious and difficult task of wise distribution.

You all know that I have been sustained throughout my life by three saving graces - my family, my friends, and a faith in the power of resilience and hope. These graces have carried me through difficult times and they have brought more joy to the good times than I ever could have imagined.

I don't have to put on a front. If I had to, it would be difficult and tiring.

I tell my students, it's not difficult to identify with somebody like yourself, somebody next door who looks like you. What's more difficult is to identify with someone you don't see, who's very far away, who's a different color, who eats a different kind of food. When you begin to do that then literature is really performing its wonders.

Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

It's difficult for a young girl like me. Because there's a certain time for young actresses, which is like a really juicy period when all the parts are love interests and young heroines. Of course, there's always work for men whatever age they are.

To find fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.

We always expect tremendous criticism. It is my role to be the lightning rod ... to attract the attacks against the organization for our work, and that is a difficult role. On the other hand, I get undue credit.

The real cure for our environmental problems is to understand that our job is to salvage Mother Nature. We are facing a formidable enemy in this field. It is the hunters... and to convince them to leave their guns on the wall is going to be very difficult.

It's very difficult for me to speak about being an actor.

The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective.

The imaginative leap for me of writing for women is no more difficult than the one of writing for men. I've always wanted to have women well represented in the work that I've done because I've always been around them and around the way they look at the world.

But it's always really difficult to find someone that has the qualities to be a great accompanist.

For, with pure water the inversion of cane sugar scarcely proceeds and subsequently it required very thorough, difficult studies before this effect and its order of magnitude were established.

We cannot put off the difficult decisions for another day, another generation.

In the crowded and difficult conditions of a steep hillside, houses have had to struggle to establish their territory and to survive.

Once you achieve a certain level of success or fame, it becomes really difficult to go against type.

It seems difficult, sometimes, to believe that there was a time when sentiments now become habitual, sentiments that imply not only the original imperative of conduct, but the original metaphysic of living, were by no means altogether habitual.

It's very difficult in France to get access to castings when you don't have any relationships.

All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small.

People were more interested in the phenomena than the art itself. This, combined with the growing interest in collecting art as an investment and the resultant boom in the art market, made it a difficult time for a young artist to remain sincere without becoming cynical.

Mr. Speaker, in the years since we enacted our attack against Iraq, the threat from Iran has only grown more difficult, and our capacity to meet that threat actually has diminished. It is one of the reasons many of us opposed that action against Iraq.

The constant attention is what is so difficult.

It's often difficult for conservatives to separate overall government intervention from a question as simple as the census.

It's the technique, I think, of writing a novel that is difficult for a nonfiction writer.

There are some who want to get married and others who don't. I have never had an impulse to go to the altar. I am a difficult person to lead.