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Quotes About Difficulty

The greater the difficulty, the greater the glory.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
Perhaps, to the uninformed, it may appear unaccountable that a man should be able to retain in his memory such a variety of learning but the close alliance with each other, of the different branches of science, will explain the difficulty.
~ Unknown
Making someone fall out of love, particularly when it is the kind of love that is meant to be, is much harder than murder.
~ Unknown
Nothing like trouble to make a day pass faster.
~ Unknown
Only with (from) bad no good can come.
~ Unknown
Spain is finding it very difficult to finance itself with sovereign debt risk premium so high.
~ Mariano Rajoy
Robert—who knew quite well that he had the empathic sensitivity of a whelk—did not expect to have any such difficulties himself.
~ Marie Brennan
To resist metaphor is very difficult because you have to actually endure the thing itself.
~ Marie Howe
Forgiveness is easy. Trust is much more difficult, and should never be given lightly.
~ Ellen Hopkins
Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
Holy Week is a privileged time when we are called to draw near to Jesus: friendship with him is shown in times of difficulty.
~ Pope Francis
I think relationships are very difficult. It's very easy to get swept away with excitement, glamour, and passion. I think the trick is to look for friendship rather than passion.
~ Jane Green
The central difficulty lies in the fact that all of the sciences have made such great progress during the last century that they have got quite beyond the reach of man
~ Henry Louis Mencken
Sounds like someone's found a turd floating in the punch bowl, and I'm supposed to fish it out." Trouble followed me everywhere.
~ Unknown
Awakening does not mean a change in difficulty, it means a change in how those difficulties are met.
~ Mark Epstein
We have a criminal jury system which is superior to any in the world and its efficiency is only marred by the difficulty of finding twelve men every day who don't know anything and can't read.
~ Mark Twain
Funny how you dig yourself into a hole by the teaspoon.
~ Lionel Shriver
Trying to be funny is one of the hardest things on the planet. I think that's tough for everyone. If you're just naturally funny it's a hell of a lot easier.
~ Doc Brown
I find it very difficult to be funny, it's much easier to do tragedy than it is to do comedy.
~ Eric Drooker
It is not as difficult as I thought it was, but it is harder than it is.
~ Eugene Ormandy
It's difficult to remember when you haven't played it before.
~ Eugene Ormandy
It's much easier to write a solemn book than a funny book. It's harder to make people laugh than it is to make them cry. People are always on the verge of tears.
~ Fran Lebowitz
I actually don't subscribe to the notion that comedy is easier than drama. When you're trying to be funny and you're not funny, that's really terrible. It's a horrible feeling.
~ Tom Hollander
There's this art form in songwriting that's incredibly difficult - to be really funny in a song and also really touching. I can't do that.
~ Neko Case