Difficulty Quotes
2104 quotes by 1367 authors
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When conversion takes place, the process of revelation occurs in a very simple way — a person is in need, he suffers, and then somehow…
— Seraphim Rose
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The source of my difficulties has always been the same: an inability to accept what to others seems natural, and an irresistible tendency to voice…
— Isabel Allende
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If you are in difficulties with a book, try the element of surprise: attack it at an hour when it isn't expecting it.
— H.G. Wells
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Out of love for mankind, and out of despair at my embarrassing situation, seeing that I had accomplished nothing and was unable to make anything…
— Soren Kierkegaard
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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
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The mind, placed before any kind of difficulty, can find an ideal outlet in the absurd. Accommodation to the absurd readmits adults to the mysterious…
— Andre Breton
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The time comes when each of us has to give up as illusions the expectations which, in his youth, he pinned upon his fellow-men, and…
— Sigmund Freud
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There is a difficulty with only one person changing. People call that person a great saint or a great mystic or a great leader, and…
— David Bohm
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There is seldom a difficulty with religion where there is friendship.
— Sebastian Barry
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To get the right word in the right place is a rare achievement. To condense the diffused light of a page of thought into the…
— Mark Twain
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Capricious and unfaithful, the king wished to be called Louis the Just and Louis the Chaste. Posterity will find a difficulty in understanding this character,…
— Alexandre Dumas
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Here it is,' Nigel said. Mrs D, Mrs I, Mrs FFI, Mrs C, Mrs U, Mrs LTY. That spells difficulty.' How perfectly ridiculous!' snorted Miss…
— Roald Dahl
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Let us consider that we are all partially insane. It will explain us to each other; it will unriddle many riddles; it will make clear…
— Mark Twain
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It is very difficult for the prosperous to be humble.
— Jane Austen
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How did I escape? With difficulty. How did I plan this moment? With pleasure.
— Alexandre Dumas
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I'm drawn to write about upstate New York in the way in which a dreamer might have recurring dreams. My childhood and girlhood were spent…
— Joyce Carol Oates
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Listen," Mac interrupted, "you still have to knock it out of the park. But it's a degree-of-difficulty thing. You're doing a triple lutz and she's…
— Zoey Dean
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She was having some difficulty piecing together exactly why she deserved to be in this place, but she wasn't stupid enough to deny that in…
— Ted Dekker
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I'm up to here with cool, okay? I am so amazingly cool you could keep a side of meat in me for a month. I…
— Douglas Adams
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Such loyalty is admirable, of course,†said Scrimgeour, who seemed to be restraining his irritation with difficulty, “but Dumbledore is gone, Harry. He’s gone.†“He…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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