Difficult Quotes

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From this arises the following question: whether it is better to be loved than feared, or the reverse. The answer is that one would like… — Niccolo Machiavelli
More learning can occur when there are many obstacles then when thear are few or none. A life with difficult relationships, filled with obstacles and… — Brian Weiss
We shortchange ourselves by regarding religious faith as a matter of intellectual assent. This is a modern aberration; the traditional Christian view is far more… — Kathleen Norris
Is is difficult to be angry with a gentleman who pays you compliments, even impertinent compliments. Especially impertinent compliments. — Barbara Mertz
That was the sort of everyday love I had to learn to contend with: if you grow up with it, it's hard to think you'll… — Colum McCann
One of the most difficult tasks men can perform, however much others may despise it, is the invention of good games. — Carl Jung
The news should have terrified her, but it was difficult to be frightened of anything when she was sitting so close to Rom. 'I thought… — Eva Ibbotson
Still, what I want in my life is to be willing to be dazzled---to cast aside the weight of facts and maybe even to float… — Mary Oliver
It is difficult to resist a force of nature, Maman. His seduction is like all my senses struck by bolts of lightning. — Nicole Jordan
Moderation, we find, is an extremely difficult thing to get in this country. — Flann O'Brien
I marveled at them both; how difficult it must be to be a person. To constantly subvert your desires. To worry about doing the right… — Garth Stein
Here, then, is the real problem of our negligence. We fail in our duty to study God's Word not so much because it is difficult… — R C Sproul
There is always so much talk about the sins of the fathers but it is the sins of the mothers that are the most difficult… — Melanie Benjamin
Why are murder mysteries so popular? There's a 3-part "formula" (if you want to call it that) for a genre novel: (1) Someone the reader… — Lois Duncan
Where something becomes extremely difficult and unbearable, there we also stand already quite near its transformation. — Rainer Maria Rilke
in order to make a man or boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain. — Mark Twain
Isn't it also that on some fundamental level we find it difficult to understand that other people are human beings in the same way that… — John Green
Relationships take up energy; letting go of them, psychiatrists theorize, entails mental work. When you lose someone you were close to, you have to reassess… — Meghan O'Rourke
I am surprised how difficult for people is to say "I love you". They only say the three magic words when they are sure they… — Paulo Coelho
Do you think that Hemingway knew he was a writer at twenty years old? No, he did not. Or Fitzgerald, or Wolfe. This is a… — Pat Conroy

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