Difficult Quotes

6176 Difficult quotes by 3909 unique authors

Is love an art? Then it requires knowledge and effort. Love is not a spontaneous feeling, a thing that you fall into, but is something… — Erich Fromm
I can only do what's easy. I can only entice and be enticed. I can't, and won't, attempt difficult relations. If I marry it will… — E. M. Forster
Old man! 'Tis not difficult to die. — Lord Byron
I have learned that in every circumstance that comes my way, I can choose to respond in one of two ways: I can whine or… — Nancy Leigh DeMoss
Everything comes down to this: the reason for every word I have written and every word I will write. I am recounting my life for… — Arthur Japin
Only in a world where faith is difficult can faith exist. — Lee Strobel
and there's something about having an especially different name that makes it difficult to imagine what you would be like as a Jennifer. — Sloane Crosley
They tried to escape technology, to stay away from that and still have relationships with their fellow humans. Very difficult. — Arthur Miller
To be natural is such a very difficult pose to keep up. — Oscar Wilde
The situation was extraordinary. How someone like Evangeline Jenner could have wrought such a change in St. Vincent, the most worldly of men, was difficult… — Lisa Kleypas
From this arises the following question: whether it is better to be loved than feared, or the reverse. The answer is that one would like… — Niccolo Machiavelli
More learning can occur when there are many obstacles then when thear are few or none. A life with difficult relationships, filled with obstacles and… — Brian Weiss
We shortchange ourselves by regarding religious faith as a matter of intellectual assent. This is a modern aberration; the traditional Christian view is far more… — Kathleen Norris
Is is difficult to be angry with a gentleman who pays you compliments, even impertinent compliments. Especially impertinent compliments. — Barbara Mertz
That was the sort of everyday love I had to learn to contend with: if you grow up with it, it's hard to think you'll… — Colum McCann
One of the most difficult tasks men can perform, however much others may despise it, is the invention of good games. — Carl Jung
The news should have terrified her, but it was difficult to be frightened of anything when she was sitting so close to Rom. 'I thought… — Eva Ibbotson
Still, what I want in my life is to be willing to be dazzled---to cast aside the weight of facts and maybe even to float… — Mary Oliver
It is difficult to resist a force of nature, Maman. His seduction is like all my senses struck by bolts of lightning. — Nicole Jordan
Moderation, we find, is an extremely difficult thing to get in this country. — Flann O'Brien
I marveled at them both; how difficult it must be to be a person. To constantly subvert your desires. To worry about doing the right… — Garth Stein
Here, then, is the real problem of our negligence. We fail in our duty to study God's Word not so much because it is difficult… — R C Sproul
There is always so much talk about the sins of the fathers but it is the sins of the mothers that are the most difficult… — Melanie Benjamin
Why are murder mysteries so popular? There's a 3-part "formula" (if you want to call it that) for a genre novel: (1) Someone the reader… — Lois Duncan
Where something becomes extremely difficult and unbearable, there we also stand already quite near its transformation. — Rainer Maria Rilke

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