Difficult Quotes

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Education...is a painful, continual and difficult work to be done in kindness, by watching, by warning,... by praise, but above all -- by example. — John Ruskin
I struggled in my mind with all kinds of defenses. Should I be hurt? Surprised? Should I laugh it off? I wanted to say something… — Jeanette Winterson
So long as they (the Proles) continued to work and breed, their other activities were without importance. Left to themselves, like cattle turned loose upon… — George Orwell
At last, the answer why. The lesson that had been so hard to find, so difficult to learn, came quick and clear and simple. The… — Richard Bach
I donâ€™t know why it is that I have always been happier thinking of somewhere I have been or wanted to go, than where I… — Pat Conroy
Sometimes she went so far as to wish that she should find herself in a difficult position, so that she might have the pleasure of… — Henry James
The gate is perfectly simple," Temeraire said. "There is only a bar across the fence, which one can lift very easily, and then it swings… — Naomi Novik
Dr. Adler had instructed me to always say whatever I was thinking, but this was difficult for me, for the act of thinking and the… — Peter Cameron
Life is difficult. This is a great truth, one of the greatest truths. It is a great truth because once we truly see this truth,… — M. Scott Peck
The truest art I would strive for in any work would be to give the page the same qualities as earth: weather would land on… — Gretel Ehrlich
We want one class of persons to have a liberal education, and we want another class of persons, a very much larger class of necessity… — Woodrow Wilson
In some situations I was difficult, in odd moments impossible, in rare moments loathsome, but at my best unapproachably great. — Oscar Levant
Fear isn't so difficult to understand. After all, weren't we all frightened as children? Nothing has changed since Little Red Riding Hood faced the big… — Alfred Hitchcock
Life, like classical music, is full of difficult passages that are conquered as much through endurance and determination as through any particular skill. — Sheri L. Dew
Why?' is always the most difficult question to answer. You know where you are when someone asks you 'What's the time?' or 'When was the… — Douglas Adams
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… — Daniel Handler
If we are serious about our discipleship, Jesus will eventually request each of us to do those very things which are most difficult for us… — Neal A. Maxwell
To speak and act truth with constancy and precision is nearly as difficult, and perhaps as meretorious, as to speak it under intimidation or penalty — John Ruskin
The proper function of a government is to make it easy for the people to do good, and difficult for them to do evil. — Daniel Webster
The one thing I remember about Christmas was that my father used to take me out in a boat about ten miles offshore on Christmas… — John Cleese

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