Difficult Quotes

6176 Difficult quotes by 3909 unique authors

It is almost always wrong that the time isn't ripe to decide something. That is always said of difficult problems. — Chris Patten
I think it is very difficult to legislate for morality. — Ben Elton
It was very difficult when I was trying to figure out how to have a marriage and babies and do this at the same time.… — Pat Benatar
It is science, and not religion, which has taught men that things are complex and difficult to understand. — Emile Durkheim
In high school, I discovered myself. I was interested in race relations and the legal profession. I read about Lincoln and that he believed the… — Constance Baker Motley
To keep a diary is to attempt a difficult literary form. Its effectiveness is likely to derive from a special blend of honesty and appetite… — William Plomer
I've always felt very sympathetic from the first days of writing about women that, whatever the woman, whether she is trying to be a woman… — Susie Orbach
In New York one lives in the moment rather more than Socrates advised, so that at a party or alone in your room it will… — Harold Brodkey
Just in our lifetime our society has become looser and more private, it becomes extremely difficult to hold to any permanent commitment whatever, least of… — Mary Douglas
As intelligent and responsible filmmakers, working in a free society, we have a duty to ensure that our chosen medium is a force for good.… — David Puttnam
In the United States, where we have more land than people, it is not at all difficult for persons in good health to make money. — P T Barnum
So writing is a very, very difficult position to obtain... and retain. — Leon Uris
Part of my job is to try and seduce people. It's what I get paid for, and if people get in the way of me… — Robert Powell
Words can be very powerful. I find them very difficult. — Bryan Ferry
We're full all the time. And people do have good success and I think one of the programs at the center, the Continuing Care, helps… — Betty Ford
There are interesting forms of difficulty, and there are unprofitable forms of difficulty. I mean, I enjoy some difficult poetry, but some of it is… — Billy Collins
If you become great, then you can become happy. If you're happy first, it's much more difficult to be great. — Ivan Lendl
When you are working on a script, the story itself is not difficult. You say this would happen and then this, resulting perhaps in this.… — Louis Malle
It is just because civilization is ever evolving, changing, and becoming more complicated, that experts find it so difficult to define it in explicit terms. — Arthur Keith
It's a long, hard, difficult process to make it to a national championship. — Hale Irwin
I think I could have been quite difficult to fathom as a youngster, this kid who didn't talk about himself very much. — Bob Brown
I think it's always difficult to reconcile the needs of art and business. — Christian Lacroix
You know it's very difficult to be an actor, and to have people depending on you to say the right line, at the right time,… — Leslie Nielsen
It's difficult when you're successful, to admit that you need help. — Chris Martin
My mother is a special story. She went through so much to bring us up, four men at home, especially when our country was going… — Novak Djokovic

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