Difficult Quotes

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While holding the eurozone together will be costly and difficult and painful for the politicians, breaking it up will be even more costly and more… — Barry Eichengreen
The purely random sample is the only kind that can be examined with confidence by means of statistical theory, but there is one things wrong… — Darrell Huff
He who regards many things easy will find many difficulties. Therefore the sage regards things difficult, and consequently never has difficulties. — Laozi
It is not difficult to be unconventional in the eyes of the world when your unconventionality is but the convention of your set. — W. Somerset Maugham
In the futile attempts we all make to tidy up our lives and our surroundings, nothing is more difficult than throwing out a book. — Andy Rooney
Writing is immensely difficult. The short forms especially. — E L Doctorow
The job of the architect becomes more difficult in this secular age. Where once he had a god to extol, he now has humans like… — Nikki Giovanni
There is something better, if possible, that a man can give than his life. That is his living spirit to a service that is not… — Woodrow Wilson
To sense when a teenager needs understanding and when misunderstanding is a difficult and delicate task. The sad truth is that no matter how wise… — Haim Ginott
Silence propagates itself, and the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find anything to say. — Samuel Johnson
There are big men, men of intellect, intellectual men, men of talent and men of action; but the great man is difficult to find, and… — Margot Asquith
Of the woes Of unhappy poverty, none is more difficult to bear Than that it heaps men with ridicule. — Juvenal
Oftener than not the old are uncontrollable; Their tempers make them difficult to deal with. — Euripides
The more featureless and commonplace a crime is, the more difficult it is to bring it home. — Arthur Conan Doyle
It is a difficult matter for man to realize the extreme importance of social discriminations which seem outwardly insignificant but which produce in woman moral… — Simone de Beauvoir
It is difficult to be emphatic when no one is emphatic on the other side. — Charles Dudley Warner
It is always easy to begin a war, but very difficult to stop one. — Sallust
The United States has an active pharmaceutical industry that has brought huge benefits to the U.S. public. Most Americans, who benefit from these advances, have… — Robert Jarvik
What a difficult thing it is to ask someone's advice on a matter without coloring his judgment by the way in which we present our… — Blaise Pascal
It may be difficult to understand why a test comes our way, but we must never forget that the test is accomplishing refining and purification. — Billy Graham
There is no doubt that it is more difficult to read and more difficult to write but I still manage. — Colleen McCullough
The constant attention is what is so difficult. — Natalie Wood
It is obviously quite difficult to be no longer loved when we are still in love, but it is incomparably more painful to be loved… — Georges Courteline
The same suffering is much harder to bear for a high motive than for a base one. The people [during World War II] who stood… — Simone Weil
Those desires that do not bring pain if they are not satisfied are not necessary; and they are easily thrust aside whenever to satisfy them… — Epicurus

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