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Quotes About Difficulty

You don't realize that you're intelligent until it gets you into trouble.
~ James Baldwin
The purpose of Christianity is not to avoid difficulty, but to produce a character adequate to meet it when it comes. It does not make life easy; rather it tries to make us great enough for life.
~ James Christensen
Wildcats could carry a light bomb load too. Their pilots, however, found to their dismay that the bombs could be difficult to drop: a pilot had not only to pull the bomb release but also to jerk the plane's rudder back and forth, shaking the plane in midflight to dislodge the bombs from their notoriously sticky mountings.
~ James D. Hornfischer
dead might be a lot easier.
~ James Dashner
Well, this is hard because I don't know what you know.
~ James Dashner
I'm stuck!" Dad yelled. "My big fat tubby body is stuck!
~ James Dashner
It was like hauling around a big midget in your pack.
~ James F. Christ
Unfortunately, it is more difficult to get on a city bus than it is to join most Southern Baptist churches. This circumstance makes church discipline all but impossible. History shows us that things have not always been this way.
~ James M. Hamilton Jr.
If you spent two years in bed trying to wiggle your big toe, anything would seem easy!
~ Doris Kearns Goodwin
After all, it isn't really difficult to write books. Especially if you either write a rotten story in good English or a good story in rotten English, which is as far as most people seem to get nowadays.
~ Dorothy L. Sayers
I know when I am well off. You had better come up to me.'     'You know I can't.'     'Of course you can't. You can only go down and down.'     'Are you trying to insult me?'     'Yes, but it's very difficult.
~ Dorothy L. Sayers
I love you.' 'Bravely said – though I had to screw it out of you like a cork out of a bottle. Why should that phrase be so difficult? I – personal pronoun, subjective case; L – O – V – E, love, verb, active, meaning – Well, on Mr Squeers's principle, go to bed and work it out.'  
~ Dorothy L. Sayers
Why?' is always the most difficult question to answer. You know where you are when someone asks you 'What's the time?' or 'When was the battle of 1066?' or 'How do these seatbelts work that go tight when you slam the brakes on, Daddy?' The answers are easy and are, respectively, 'Seven-thirty in the evening,' 'Ten-fifteen in the morning,' and 'Don't ask stupid questions.
~ Douglas Adams
Having not said anything the first time, it was somehow even more difficult to broach the subject the second time around.
~ Douglas Adams
The difficulty with this conversation is that it's very different from most of the ones I've had of late. Which, as I explained, have mostly been with trees.
~ Douglas Adams
I am so amazingly cool you could keep a side of meat in me for a month. I am so hip I have difficulty seeing over my pelvis.
~ Douglas Adams
It had been late one night—of course. It had been a difficult day—of course. There had been soulful music playing on the ship's sound system—of course. And he had, of course, been slightly drunk. In other words, all the usual conditions that bring on a bout of soul-searching had applied, but it had, nevertheless, clearly been an error.
~ Douglas Adams
They have a genius, young ladies, for getting into various kinds of trouble and difficulty.
~ Agatha Christie
It will prove, I fear, too Herculean a task for us.
~ Agatha Christie
there is nothing more cruel than talk, and there is nothing more difficult to combat. When people say things behind your back there is nothing you can refute or deny, and the rumours go on growing and growing, and no one can stop them.
~ Agatha Christie
Now, as I expect you know, there is nothing more cruel than talk, and there is nothing more difficult to combat. When people say things behind your back there is nothing you can refute or deny, and the rumours go on growing and growing, and no one can stop them.
~ Agatha Christie
To a historian that always is a difficulty. At what point in history does one particular portion of history begin
~ Agatha Christie
Oh! Uang! Segala kesulitan di dunia ini pasti disebabkan oleh soal uang, atau kekurangan uang.
~ Agatha Christie
It isn't as easy as I thought. I suppose that's why Heffalumps hardly ever get caught.
~ Alan Alexander Milne