Difficulty Quotes

And this mess is so big And so deep and so tall, We cannot pick it up. There is no way at all!

It is easier for a cannibal to enter the Kingdom of Heaven through the eye of a rich man's needle that it is for any other foreigner to read the terrible German script.

Writing is supposed to be difficult, agonizing, a dreadful exercise, a terrible occupation.

It is as easy to count atomies as to resolve the propositions of a lover.

To think is easy. To act is difficult. To act as one thinks is the most difficult.

The older you get the stronger the wind gets - and it's always in your face.

There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.

There are two things that are more difficult than making an after-dinner speech: climbing a wall which is leaning toward you and kissing a girl who is leaning away from you.

To act is easy, to think is hard; to act according to our thought is troublesome.

There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly; sometimes it's like drilling rock and then blasting it out with charges.

It is in some ways more troublesome to track and swat an evasive wasp than to shoot, at close range, a wild elephant. But the elephant is more troublesome if you miss.

Un pesimista ve la dificultad en cada oportunidad; un optimista ve una oportunidad en cada dificultad

Criticism is easy; achievement is difficult.

I could as easily bail out the Potomac River with a teaspoon as attend to all the details of the army.

Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great.

Playing golf is like chasing a quinine pill around a cow pasture.

Be grateful for your difficulties and challenges, for they hold blessings. In fact... Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health personal growth, individuation and self-actualisation.

A translation in verse . . . seems to me something absurd, impossible.

Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boisterous, and it pricks like thorn.

Painful as the task is to describe the dark side of our affairs, it sometimes becomes a matter of indispensable necessity.

Every worthy act is difficult. Ascent is always difficult. Descent is easy and often slippery.

I never could do anything with figures, never had any talent for mathematics, never accomplished anything in my efforts at that rugged study, and to-day the only mathematics I know is multiplication, and the minute I get away up in that, as soon as I reach nine times seven- [He lapsed into deep thought, trying to figure nine times seven. Mr. McKelway whispered the answer to him.] I've got it now. It's eighty-four. Well, I can get that far all right with a little hesitation. After that I am uncertain, and I can't manage a statistic.

Taking things lightly must lead to big difficulties.

I can understand German as well as the maniac that invented it, but I talk it best through an interpreter.

A gifted person ought to learn English (barring spelling and pronouncing) in thirty hours, French in thirty days, and German in thirty years.

It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get.

The period of greatest gain in knowledge and experience is the most difficult period in one's life.

To do great things is difficult; but to command great things is more difficult.

Alas! the culture of an Irishman is an enterprise to be undertaken with a sort of moral bog hoe.

The path of those who preach love, and not hatred, is not easy. They often have to wear a crown of thorns.

If relationships were hard, mariage was even harder... it seemed like most couples struggled. It went with the territory. What did Nana always say? Stick two different people with two different sets of expectations under one roof and it ain't always going to be shrimp and grits on Easter.

It is not the path which is the difficulty; rather, it is the difficulty which is the path.

There are very few things impossible in themselves; and we do not want means to conquer difficulties so much as application and resolution in the use of means.

It is far more difficult to murder a phantom than a reality.

My philological studies have satisfied me that a gifted person ought to learn English (barring spelling and pronouncing) in thirty hours, French in thirty days, and German in thirty years. It seems manifest, then, that the latter tongue ought to be trimmed down and repaired. If it is to remain as it is, it ought to be gently and reverently set aside among the dead languages, for only the dead have time to learn it.

Appreciation of nonviolence means patient research and still more patient and difficult practice.

Intimacy is a difficult art.

Touring is hard on the body.

People fall in love, but have to climb out.

It is very hard to be simple enough to be good.

When all combine in every way to make everything easier, people will want difficulty. I conceived it as my task to make difficulties everywhere.

The golf swing is like a suitcase into which we are trying to pack one too many things.

It's actually very difficult to make something both simple and good.

There is a saying in Tibetan, 'Tragedy should be utilized as a source of strength.' No matter what sort of difficulties, how painful experience is, if we lose our hope, that's our real disaster.

O, how full of briers is this working-day world!

It is difficult to remember all, and ungracious to omit any.

We all agree that forgiveness is a beautiful idea until we have to practice it.

The fascination of what's difficult Has dried the sap out of my veins, and rent Spontaneous joy and natural content Out of my heart.

Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time.

Nothing is difficult in the eyes of a lover.

It is much more difficult to live for nonviolence than to die for it.

Honour travels in a strait so narrow Where one but goes abreast.

Is any one able for one day to apply his strength to virtue? I have not seen the case in which his strength would be sufficient.

nothing in this world was more difficult than love.

The greater the difficulty, the greater the glory.

Don't open that door," she said. "The hallway is full of difficult dreams." And I asked her: "How do you know?" And she told me: "Because I was there a moment ago and I had to come back when I discovered I was sleeping on my heart.

Most of my stuff is just a series of false leads. I'll approach a story as a subject and then make a whole bunch of different runs at the lead. They're all good writing but they don't connect. So I end up having to string leads together.

There is nothing so difficult to marry as a large nose.

There are horrible people who, instead of solving a problem, tangle it up and make it harder to solve for anyone who wants to deal with it. Whoever does not know how to hit the nail on the head should be asked not to hit it at all.

There is nothing so difficult or so dangerous as to undertake to change the order of things.