Difficult Quotes
6176 quotes by 3909 authors
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To maintain the P/PC Balance, the balance between the golden egg (production) and the health and welfare of the goose (production capability) is often a…
— Stephen Covey
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A way of life that keeps saying 'Around the next corner, above the next step,' works against the natural order of things and makes it…
— Benjamin Hoff
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Most people don't know what they want or feel. And for everyone, myself included, It's very difficult to say what you mean when what you…
— John Cassavetes
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I am looking for someone to share in an adventure that I am arranging, and it's very difficult to find anyone.' I should think so…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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The great motherhood friendships are the ones in which two women can admit [how difficult mothering is] quietly to each other, over cups of tea…
— Anna Quindlen
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But there was more to it than that. As the Amazing Maurice said, it was just a story about people and rats. And the difficult…
— Terry Pratchett
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The complexities of adult life get in the way of the truth. The great philosophers have always been able to clear away the complexities and…
— Mortimer Adler
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The cost of oblivius daydreaming was always this moment of return, the realigment with what had been before and now seemed a little worse. Her…
— Ian Mcewan
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Good cheer is a state of mind or mood that promotes happiness or joy... With God’s help, good cheer permits us to rise above the…
— Marvin J. Ashton
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One of the most difficult things in the world is to convince a woman that even a bargain costs money.
— E. W. Howe
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it is clear that we must trust what is difficult; everything alive trusts in it, everything in Nature grows and defends itself any way it…
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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Belief isn't simply a thing for fair times and bright days...What is belief - what is faith - if you don't continue in it after…
— Brandon Sanderson
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He thought: How difficult it is to explain yourself to yourself. Sometimes there only is, and no knowing.
— Aidan Chambers
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There is nothing in the world more difficult than candor, and nothing easier than flattery. If there is a hundredth of a fraction of a…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Her face was sad and lovely with bright things in it, bright eyes and a bright passionate mouth, but there was an excitement in her…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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There are many, many difficult times, god knows. If a person wants to stand on her own two feet, I recommend undertaking the care and…
— Banana Yoshimoto
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I know how difficult it can be when the image you've had of something doesn't match its reality; when the friend beside you turns into…
— Jodi Picoult
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Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world
— Miguel de Cervantes
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It must be quite difficult, concealing your superior male qualities behind a mask of feigned humility.†Why, Gillian, it’s that very ability that makes us…
— Victoria Alexander
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The damage was permanent; there would always be scars. But even the angriest scars faded over time until it was difficult to see them written…
— Jodi Picoult
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