Arduous Quotes

98 quotes by 92 authors

Silence is difficult and arduous, it is not to be played with. It isn't something that you can experience by reading a book, or by… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
I write because I admire the act of rationalization, of seeking clarity in one's understanding of the complexities of life, and I'm bad at it.… — Gregory Maguire
The global village is a place of very arduous interfaces and very abrasive situations. — Marshall McLuhan
Learning is not easy, but hard; culture is severe. The steps to Parnassus are steep and terribly arduous. — John Jay Chapman
One of the least arduous but most productive of gardening jobs, the magic of deadheading never fails to delight me. It was a revelation when… — Tom Hodgkinson
Having made the trip from St. Louis to the Pacific Ocean myself going up up up against twenty-five hundred miles of the Missouri River, I… — William Least Heat-Moon
But as the work proceeded I was continually reminded of the fable about the elephant and the tortoise. Having constructed an elephant upon which the… — Bertrand Russell
I love to write, so it rarely seems like work - even when it gets arduous. — Dennis Lehane
I had a nightmare about being on a cruise ship and the ship going down. It was an arduous process of the ship going down… — Jared Padalecki
You know, episodic TV directing is a very long and arduous job. You have very short schedules, short short shooting days, and you have to… — Katey Sagal
The preparatory education of candidates for knighthood was long and arduous. — Thomas Bulfinch
The road to freedom must be uphill, even if it is arduous and frustrating. — Andrew Goodman
I am a realist as well as an idealist, and I think that it is incumbent upon those of us in opposition to try to… — Todd Gitlin
Writing a first novel was an arduous crash course. I learned so much in the six years it took me to write it, mostly technical… — Rachel Kushner
It is an easy and vulgar thing to please the mob, and not a very arduous task to astonish them; but essentially to benefit and… — Charles Caleb Colton
As to pay, Sir, I beg leave to assure the Congress that as no pecuniary consideration could have tempted me to accept this arduous employment… — George Washington
If there is some profound method that offers a quick way, we would rather follow that than undertake arduous journeys and difficult practices. But some… — Chogyam Trungpa
One inconvenience... may attend bold and arduous attempts: frequent failure may discourage. This evil, however, is not more pernicious than the slow proficiency which is… — Joshua Reynolds
It is easy at any moment to resign the possession of a great fortune; to acquire it is difficult and arduous — Livy
Voting is the least arduous of a citizen's duties. He has the prior and harder duty of making up his mind. — Ralph Barton Perry

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