Difficult Quotes

6176 Difficult quotes by 3909 unique authors

Why is this happening to me? Why am I having such a difficult time? One answer is that life is supposed to be difficult! It’s… — Rick Warren
Was there a reason behind it? There would be no point in asking Zaphod, he never appeared to have a reason for anything he did… — Douglas Adams
Loss is the hardest thing, I said. But it's also the teacher that's the most difficult to ignore. — Dean Koontz
Some friends don't understand this. They don't understand how desperate I am to have someone say, I love you and I support you just the… — Elizabeth Wurtzel
The truth isn't easily pinned to a page. In the bathtub of history the truth is harder to hold than the soap and much more… — Terry Pratchett
Keep in mind that part of growing up is dealing with difficult issues, and the benefits can be great if you have the courage to… — Jack Canfield
In any war story, but especially a true one, it's difficult to separate what happened from what seemed to happen. What seems to happen becomes… — Tim O'Brien
You may control a mad elephant; You may shut the mouth of the bear and the tiger; Ride the lion and play with the cobra;… — Paramahansa Yogananda
It’s hard to communicate anything exactly and that’s why perfect relationships between people are difficult to find. — Gustave Flaubert
The finished man, you know, is difficult to please; a growing mind will ever show you gratitude. --Faust 1, lines 182-3 — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
To maintain the P/PC Balance, the balance between the golden egg (production) and the health and welfare of the goose (production capability) is often a… — Stephen Covey
A way of life that keeps saying 'Around the next corner, above the next step,' works against the natural order of things and makes it… — Benjamin Hoff
Most people don't know what they want or feel. And for everyone, myself included, It's very difficult to say what you mean when what you… — John Cassavetes
I am looking for someone to share in an adventure that I am arranging, and it's very difficult to find anyone.' I should think so… — J.R.R. Tolkien
The great motherhood friendships are the ones in which two women can admit [how difficult mothering is] quietly to each other, over cups of tea… — Anna Quindlen
But there was more to it than that. As the Amazing Maurice said, it was just a story about people and rats. And the difficult… — Terry Pratchett
The complexities of adult life get in the way of the truth. The great philosophers have always been able to clear away the complexities and… — Mortimer Adler
The cost of oblivius daydreaming was always this moment of return, the realigment with what had been before and now seemed a little worse. Her… — Ian Mcewan
Good cheer is a state of mind or mood that promotes happiness or joy... With God’s help, good cheer permits us to rise above the… — Marvin J. Ashton
One of the most difficult things in the world is to convince a woman that even a bargain costs money. — E. W. Howe
it is clear that we must trust what is difficult; everything alive trusts in it, everything in Nature grows and defends itself any way it… — Rainer Maria Rilke
Belief isn't simply a thing for fair times and bright days...What is belief - what is faith - if you don't continue in it after… — Brandon Sanderson
He thought: How difficult it is to explain yourself to yourself. Sometimes there only is, and no knowing. — Aidan Chambers
There is nothing in the world more difficult than candor, and nothing easier than flattery. If there is a hundredth of a fraction of a… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Her face was sad and lovely with bright things in it, bright eyes and a bright passionate mouth, but there was an excitement in her… — F. Scott Fitzgerald

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