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Quotes About Difficulty

His eyes expressed the difficulty he felt.
~ Theodore Dreiser
Compassion doesn't mean that you have to love that person who's so difficult. But if you stop and look deeper, you'll see that person's difficulties. If you can accept him, then you can love him.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
If my name had not been cleared, it would have been difficult, perhaps impossible, to continue as a journalist.
~ Asne Seierstad
I find it difficult to direct myself in my films and so I avoid taking on any major roles in my films as I feel my judgement might be flawed.
~ Dileesh Pothan
As life goes on, life just gets harder.
~ B. J. Penn
The music stuff has been very difficult. It's got to be right, and even then, it better be on key.
~ Michael Winslow
Stercus Accidit. [barren happens]
~ Karen Chance
He's the ultimate plagiarist, copying what others do if it proves successful and putting his own spin on it, which really pisses me off, because it`s far more difficult to come up with the original idea than steal someone else`s and spruce it up a bit.
~ Karen Marie Moning
Haven't you heard of Newton's First Law of Motion? It's inertia, MacKeltar. An object that's at rest wants to stay at rest. I can't be expected to overcome laws of nature. That's why exercising is so difficult for me.
~ Karen Marie Moning
The great uncertainty of all data in war is a peculiar difficulty, because all action must, to a certain extent, be planned in a mere twilight, which in addition not infrequently—like the effect of a fog or moonshine—gives to things exaggerated dimensions and unnatural appearance.
~ Karl Von Clausewitz
Vera Vladimirovna was, as we have seen, very proud of her daughter's successful upbringing, especially perhaps because it had been accomplished not without difficulty, because it took time and skill to destroy in her soul its innate thirst for delight and enthusiasm.
~ Karolina Pavlova
Economics is hard. Really hard. You just won't believe how vastly hugely mind-boggingly hard it is. I mean you may think doing the Sunday Times crossword is difficult, but that's just peanuts to economics. And because it is so hard, people shouldn't blithely go shooting their mouths off about it, and pretending like it's so easy. In fact, we would all be better off if we just ignored these clowns.
~ Karthik Athreya
Listen, do you think we could not tell…everyone?" Megan said. "I think it would just make everything harder." What with the massive victory party they would throw and all , she thought.
~ Kate Brian
I know it's hard to not do well at something, and I know it's hard to need help.
~ Katherine Hannigan
I love you," Daedalus said. "It is hard for me to say, because sometimes it doesn't seem like it is enough.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
Sam's heart swelled with love for Sadie. Why was it so hard for him to say he loved her even when she said it to him? He knew he loved her. People who felt far less for each other said "love" all the time, and it didn't mean a thing. And maybe that was the point. He more than loved Sadie Green. There needed to be another word for it.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
Fun was far more difficult to get a handle on than zeal.
~ Gail Caldwell
Difficile est longum subito deponere amorem, difficile est, verum hoc qua lubet efficias.
~ Gaius Valerius Catullus
Reading is difficult. People just aren't meant to read anymore. We're in a post-literate age. You know, a visual age. How many years after the fall of Rome did it take for a Dante to appear? Many, many years.
~ Gary Shteyngart
Choice equals change. Making a choice is often difficult because it requires change. And that change can be threatening.
~ Gary Smalley
Comedy is so hard to do, so it was very cool to do dead pan humor.
~ Brittany Daniel
Had not enough gone wrong?
~ Brom
All things are possible to him who believes. They are less difficult to him who hopes. They are easier to him who loves. And they are easiest to him who perseveres in the practice of all three virtues.
~ Brother Lawrence
all things are possible to him who believes—that they are less difficult to him who hopes—that they are more easy to him who loves, and still more easy to him who perseveres in the practice of these three virtues.
~ Brother Lawrence