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Quotes About Difficulty

Do you know, I envy you that,' Sir James said, as they continued walking at the rather brisk pace set by Dorothea. 'I don't quite understand what you mean.' 'Your power of forming an opinion. I can form an opinion of persons. I know when I like people. But about other matters, do you know, I have often a difficulty in deciding. One hears very sensible things said on opposite sides.
~ George Eliot
Caleb was in a difficulty known to any person attempting in dark times and unassisted by miracle to reason with rustics who are in possession of an undeniable truth which they know through a hard process of feeling, and can let it fall like a giant's club on your neatly carved argument for a social benefit which they do not feel.
~ George Eliot
Hetty's mind was oppressed at that moment with a worse difficulty than poor Lisbeth's ways; she could not care about them.
~ George Eliot
Caleb was in a difficulty known to any person attempting in dark times and unassisted by miracle to reason with rustics who are in possession of an undeniable truth which they know through a hard process of feeling, and can let it fall like a giant's club on your neatly-carved argument for a social benefit which they do not feel.
~ George Eliot
Women are more difficult to caricature than men - partly because beauty is more difficult to caricature.
~ Steve Breen
Players very widely disagree with me about what's hard and what's easy. and in a way, 'I won, but it was a fight' is the best compliment a game can receive.
~ Graham Nelson
Whatever the medium, there is the difficulty, challenge, fascination and often productive clumsiness of learning a new method: the wonderful puzzles and problems of translating with new materials.
~ Helen Frankenthaler
Comedy is wonderful when you really nail it and you hear people laughing, but it's not always that easy.
~ Sandra Bullock
It was all completely incomprehensible to me. I was fearful of the language. You had to look up every third word.
~ Kevin Kline
The most advanced minds as well as the least advanced are obliged to use the same words. If we adopt new words, it will be even more difficult - if not impossible - to make ourselves understood. The new man must therefore express himself in conventional language.
~ Piet Mondrian
I have nieces and nephews who I've nurtured, but when it's your own it's hard to put into words how difficult it is.
~ Nadine Coyle
The thing is, if you always catch fish then you lose interest because any achievement is related to facing difficulty; having to work hard for it.
~ Jeremy Wade
I know from personal experience that it is extremely difficult to read while you work out, especially on a Stairmaster.
~ Alexandra Petri
In terms of level of difficulty, it would go comedy, thriller, and then romantic drama.
~ Sydney Pollack
I don't know anyone who has made it through this life with it being super easy. Life is hard.
~ Jessica Long
Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.
~ Henry Kissinger
That's a dilly of a pickle.
~ Sally T.
The greens are harder than a whore's heart
~ Sam Snead
Where there is no difficulty there is no praise
~ Samuel Johnson
Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.
~ Samuel Johnson
Gives me some kind of content to remember how painful it is sometimes to keep money, as well as to get it.
~ Samuel Pepys
The work of many of the greatest men, inspired by duty, has been done amidst suffering and trial and difficulty. They struggled against the tide, and reached the shore exhausted.
~ Samuel Smiles
The work of many of the greatest men, inspired by duty, has been done amidst suffering and trial and difficulty. They have struggled against the tide, and reached the shore exhausted.
~ Samuel Smiles
Writing is a profession that has no real career structure and your best advice when you hit a difficulty is probably going to come from another writer one or two rungs on the career ladder ahead of you.
~ Sara Sheridan