Difficult Quotes

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Relationships are like Rome -- difficult to start out, incredible during the prosperity of the 'golden age', and unbearable during the fall. Then, a new… — Helen Keller
My dear, I'm seldom sure of anything. Life at best is a precarious business, and we aren't told that difficult or painful things won't happen,… — Madeleine L'Engle
It is difficult for people of advanced years to start remembering they must die. It is best to form the habit while young. — Muriel Spark
The road to enlightenment is long and difficult, and you should try not to forget snacks and magazines. — Anne Lamott
One is seduced and battered in turn. The result is presumably wisdom. Wisdom! We are clinging to life like lizards. Why is it so difficult… — James Salter
There have been five great kisses since 1642 B.C. when Saul and Delilah Korn's inadvertent discovery swept across Western civilization. (Before then couples hooked thumbs.)… — William Goldman
As we live and as we are, Simplicity - with a capital "S" - is difficult to comprehend nowadays. We are no longer truly simple.… — Frank Lloyd Wright
Maybe he hadn't thought the war through. It had seemed like simple fun when he had first pictured it, with a glorious beginning, a difficult… — Dave Eggers
Many have marked the speed with which Muad'Dib learned the necessities of Arrakis. The Bene Gesserit, of course, know the basis of this speed. For… — Frank Herbert
Supernatural is a dangerous and difficult word in any of its senses, looser or stricter. But to fairies it can hardly be applied, unless super… — J.R.R. Tolkien
There is a theory going around that the U.S.A. was and still is a gigantic Masonic plot under the ultimate control of the group known… — Thomas Pynchon
As a human, I am flawed in that it is difficult for me to consider others before myself. It feels like I have to fight… — Donald Miller
How long will it be necessary to pay City men so entirely out of proportion to what other servants of society commonly receive for performing… — John Maynard Keynes
It is easy to be beautiful; it is difficult to appear so. I admire you, beloved, for the trap you've set. It's like a final… — Frank O'Hara
It is not difficult to deprive the great majority of independent thought. But the minority who will retain an inclination to criticize must also be… — Friedrich August von Hayek
This inner peace of mind occurs on three levels of understanding. Physical quietness seems the easiest to achieve, although there are levels and levels of… — Robert M. Pirsig
We are not philosophers, we are sovereigns. The rules that govern our behavior are not the rules for other men, and our honor, I think,… — Megan Whalen Turner
his mysterious resources had awakened in her a curiosity that was difficult to resist, but she had never imagined that curiosity was one of the… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Kiran says (the shelf) is full of stories. If it is, then I like fairy stories. Fairy stories are fair. In them wishes are granted,… — Hilary McKay
Nut shrugged. "Set had always been Set, for better or worse. But he is still part of our family. It is difficult to lose any… — Rick Riordan

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