Difficult Quotes
6176 quotes by 3909 authors
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You have to unhook your seat belt." "That's not true." "I'm afraid it's difficult to walk on the beach if you're strapped to a car…
— Nora Roberts
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Losing you is most difficult for me, but the nature of my love for you is what matters. If it distorts into half-truth, then perhaps…
— Haruki Murakami
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It's difficult to explain, but I just somehow feel that I never really *have* lived; that I never really will live--exist or whatever--in the sense…
— Elaine Dundy
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People are mostly layers of violence and tenderness wrapped like bulbs, and it is difficult to say what makes them onions or hyacinths.
— Eudora Welty
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Don't misunderstand me. I am not scoffing at goodness, which is far more difficult to explain than evil, and far more complicated. But sometimes it's…
— Margaret Atwood
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It isn't normal to know what we want. It is a rare and difficult psychological achievement.
— Abraham Maslow
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Much of her life had been lived like a balancing act on a spearpoint fence, and on a particularly difficult night when she was twelve,…
— Dean Koontz
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I said, "I don't think I can give you that kind of emotion." And he [Hitchcock] sat there and said, "Ingrid, fake it!" Well, that…
— Ingrid Bergman
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It is very difficult also to sacrifice one's suffering. A man will renounce any pleasures you like but he will not give up his suffering.
— G I Gurdjieff
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I know one thing for certain; it is much harder to tell whether you are lost than whether you were lost, for, on many occasions,…
— Norton Juster
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It's hard to get along with people. As much as you try to like them and accept them as individuals, it becomes difficult because they…
— Henry Rollins
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Sometimes, in difficult circumstances, one can confuse compassion with love.
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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If it wasn't painfully difficult, you did it wrong!
— Dan Brown
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This is a question too difficult for a mathematician. It should be asked of a philosopher"(when asked about completing his income tax form)
— Albert Einstein
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I have found it is surprisingly difficult to remain sad when a cat is doing its level best to sandpaper one's cheeks.
— R.L. LaFevers
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The challenges in this place are real and sometimes very difficult, but I've learned to slow down and look for beauty in my days, for…
— Kim Edwards
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Suspense is like a woman. The more left to the imagination, the more the excitement. ... The conventional big-bosomed blonde is not mysterious. And what…
— Alfred Hitchcock
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Green-eyed monsters,†said Magnus, and grinned. He deposited Chairman Meow on the ground, and the cat moved over to Alec, and rubbed against his leg.…
— Cassandra Clare
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Don't you think that's the main reason people find [writing] so difficult? If they can write complete sentences and can use a dictionary, isn't that…
— Kurt Vonnegut
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Your ego-depletion seems problematically difficult to assuage.
— Orson Scott Card
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