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Quotes About Difficulty

Troublesome things tend to remain troublesome no matter how many times you do them, and that you should avoid doing them unless they are absolutely urgent.
~ Lemony Snicket
One of the greatest myths in the world–and the phrase "greatest myths" is just a fancy way of saying "big fat lies"–is that troublesome things get less and less troublesome if you do them more and more. The truth is that troublesome things tend to remain troublesome no matter how many times you do them, and that you should avoid doing them unless they are absolutely urgent.
~ Lemony Snicket
Respecting one's elders is difficult enough, but when they are soaked with water and have proved themselves to be dishonest, it is nearly impossible.
~ Lemony Snicket
One of the greatest myths in the world - and the phrase 'greatest myths' is just a fancy way of saying 'big fat lies' - is that troublesome things get less and less troublesome if you do them more and more.... The truth is that troublesome things tend to remain troublesome no matter how many times you do them, and that you should avoid doing them unless they are absolutely urgent.
~ Lemony Snicket
It's a loathsome situation in which we find ourselves.
~ Lemony Snicket
Várni, az élet egyik nehéz dolga.
~ Lemony Snicket
Los libros sobre leyes son muy largos, muy aburridos y muy difíciles. Es una de las razones por las que muchos abogados ganan tanto dinero. El dinero es un incentivo —la palabra «incentivo» significa aquí «recompensa ofrecida para que hagas algo que no quieres hacer»Ã¢â'¬â€ para leer libros largos, aburridos y difíciles.
~ Lemony Snicket
But one type of book that practically no one likes to read is a book about the law. Books about the law are notorious for being very long, very dull, and very difficult to read. This is one reason many lawyers make heaps of money. The money is an incentive—the word "incentive" here means "an offered reward to persuade you to do something you don't want to do"—to read long, dull, and difficult books.
~ Lemony Snicket
Massachusetts, which is hard to spell, it is hard not to
~ Lenore Look
To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Jivan: You think when you have love that love is easy to find, that everyone has it. It's not true. It's very hard to find. Nedra: I haven't been looking for it. Jivan: It's like a tree...It takes a long time to grow. It has roots very deep, and these roots stretch out a long way, farther than you know. You can't cut it, just like that.
~ James Salter
You think when you have love that love is easy to find, that everyone has it. It's not true. It's very hard to find.
~ James Salter
Today was going to get a whole lot worse before it got better.
~ Jamie Russell
And what am I to do on the occasion? -- It seems an hopeless business.
~ Jane Austen
Elinor had some difficulty here to refrain from observing, that she thought Fanny might have borne with composure, an acquisition of wealth to her brother, by which neither she nor her child could be possibly impoverished.
~ Jane Austen
Idealism expects everything to be fair or easy or good.
~ Jane Goodall
Hope does not deny all the difficulty and all the danger that exists, but it is not stopped by them. There is a lot of darkness, but our actions create the light.
~ Jane Goodall
Yes," Jane said. "Hope does not deny all the difficulty and all the danger that exists, but it is not stopped by them. There is a lot of darkness, but our actions create the light.
~ Jane Goodall
When we are tired, everything seems so very much worse.
~ Jane Green
It's fucking hard to be classy
~ Janet Evanovich
Just a beginner, but he learned so fast. Everything came so damn easy to him. Not true. The hard things cam easy. But the easy things he found impossibly hard.
~ Janet Fitch
It is unnatural to deny effort, adversity, and pain.
~ Guillermo del Toro
Let me put it this way: I would like to direct a successful film. An unsuccessful film I would not like to direct. Films are very difficult.
~ Twyla Tharp
It's the equivalent of putting on the brakes suddenly while driving uphill.
~ John Gunther