Quotes About Difficulty

Oftener than not the old are uncontrollable; Their tempers make them difficult to deal with.

It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it.

Youth is the age of extremes: "if the young commit a fault it is always on the side of excess and exaggeration." The great difficulty of youth (and of many of youth's elders) is to get out of one extreme without falling into its opposite.

Life wasn't made to be easy on folks: they wouldn't ever have any reason to be good and die.

Seems like it aint no end to bad luck when once it starts.

But it seems hard that a man in his need could be so flouted by a road.

Shit," she said, small hand gesturing to encompass their situation. "Lots of it. Now. Hitting many fans. Large ones.

The three things most difficult are to keep a secret, to forget an injury, and to make good use of leisure.

The difficulty is that it's bad form to talk about them brazenly, but once you're inducted it's also a good idea to learn as many rules for as many hands featuring as many cards in as many suits in as many games as you might ever play, just in case.

It is easy to get a thousand prescriptions but hard to get one single remedy.

What looks like a people problem is often a situation problem.

Success would be a fairly boring and uninspiring dish if anybody could create it with a single ingredient, however difficult that ingredient was to find. No, success has several layers to its pallet. This is just the beginning

Trouble came their way like sideways wind in winter.

Sex is not trust. Sleep is trust. And trust is difficult for me.

I said I liked Amundsen and Scott and I liked King Solomon's Mines and I liked everything by Dumas and I liked The Bad Seed and The Hound of the Baskervilles and I liked The Name of the Rose but the Italian was rather difficult.

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.

Sometimes life seems very unfair.

They tried their best with each other, but it just wasn't any good.

There's that difficulty with delirium too: You see it raging in another person's eyes and then it flickers out. That's the most dangerous moment; it's impossible to see something that's so swiftly and suddenly swallowed you whole.

Tertullian argued that the Bible is often difficult to interpret. Obscure passages must be interpreted by those which are plain.

Will a billion dollars solve that sort of trouble? No, a billion dollars will only make the difficulty one billion dollars worse.

The worst thing a kid can say about homework is that it is too hard. The worst thing a kid can say about a game is it's too easy.

Every victory is only the price of admission to a more difficult problem

Life without hope is hopelessly difficult but at the end hope can so easily make fools of us all.