Difficult Quotes

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To ward off disease or recover health, people as a rule find it easier to depend on healers than to attempt the more difficult task… — Rene Dubos
It is a mistake to imagine that potentially great men are rare. It is the conditions that permit the promise of greatness to be fulfilled… — Fred Hoyle
The magic of myth and legend has come true in our time. One types the correct incantation on a keyboard, and a display screen comes… — Fred Brooks
The task of the media in a democracy is not to ease the path of those who govern, but to make life difficult for them… — Jimmy Reid
It is easy to make plans but difficult to carry them out — Keiichi Tsuchiya
To build peace is difficult but to live without it is torment. — Pope Francis
That 'change makes us uncomfortable' is now one of the most widely promoted, widely accepted, and under-considered half-truths around. [I]t is not change by itself… — Robert Kegan
Who do you think is more difficult to face: oppressive governments, or oppressive societies? — Manal al-Sharif
It's difficult working with very rich actors, because inevitably they become a little spoilt, and the managers and agents tend to control things more than… — Mike Figgis
Religion isn't best understood primarily as a collection of beliefs held by backward people with fear and trembling for most of human history (religion as… — David Dark
In difficult circumstances always act on first impressions. — Leo Tolstoy
We do not know whether it is good to live or to die. Therefore, we should not take delight in living, nor should we tremble… — Mahatma Gandhi
Architecture approaches nearer than any other art to being irrevocable because it is so difficult to get rid of. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
My liver swells with bile difficult to repress. — Horace
There is nothing more difficult to plan, more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to manage than the creation of a new order of things.....… — Niccolo Machiavelli
True religion is slow in growth, and, when once planted, is difficult of dislodgement; but its intellectual counterfeit has no root in itself: it springs… — John Henry Newman
The most difficult thing in the world is to say thinkingly what everybody says without thinking. — Emile Chartier
Only the first swath cut by the scythe is difficult. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The one and only substitute for experience which we have not ourselves had is art, literature. We have been given a miraculous faculty: Despite the… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The reward for being a good problem solver is to be heaped with more and more difficult problems to solve — R. Buckminster Fuller
If you have a vision, no matter how difficult things are, everything just becomes a process. — Cher Wang
It is difficult to remember all, and ungracious to omit any. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Being brave means to know something is scary, difficult, and dangerous, and doing it anyway, because the possibility of winning the fight is worth the… — Emilie Autumn
I actually have two children now, and sometimes I wonder if that's it. Because they do make writing and directing more complicated and more difficult,… — Diablo Cody
Your emotions are making it difficult for you to accept hard decisions. — John C. Maxwell

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