Great Difficulty Quotes

53 quotes by 47 authors

With great difficulty advancing by millimeters each year, I carve a road out of the rock. For millenniums my teeth have wasted and my nails… — Octavio Paz
Men were only made into 'men' with great difficulty even in primitive society: the male is not naturally 'a man' any more than the woman.… — Wyndham Lewis
Until one acknowledges the genius within oneself, one will have great difficulty recognizing it in others. — David R. Hawkins
I had great difficulty in school interacting with others, and I took refuge in the contrived setting of play acting, which is what I still… — Jesse Eisenberg
Technological society has succeeded in multiplying the opportunities for pleasure, but it has great difficulty in generating joy. — Pope Paul VI
I'm a reader of Chinese literature, I like their films, but also: I've had great difficulty getting my work published in China; very little of… — Salman Rushdie
The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas. — George Santayana
People can't, unhappily, invent their mooring posts, their lovers and their friends, anymore than they can invent their parents. Life gives these and also takes… — James A. Baldwin
If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary.… — James Madison
In my case, I think my exile saved my life, for it inexorably confirmed something which Americans appear to have great difficulty accepting. Which is,… — James A. Baldwin
From space, astronauts can see people making love as a tiny speck of light. Not light, exactly, but a glow that could be confused for… — Jonathan Safran Foer
We are always in a hurry to be happy...; for when we have suffered a long time, we have great difficulty in believing in good… — Alexandre Dumas
It is a thing of no great difficulty to raise objections against another man's oration, it is a very easy matter; but to produce a… — Plutarch
When I first arrived in London, I so quickly tired of being surrounded by so many people that it was only with great difficulty that… — Cassandra Clare
It is surprising that people do not believe that there is imagination in science. It is a very interesting kind of imagination, unlike that of… — Richard P. Feynman
Then said he, â€™I am going to my Fatherâ€™s; and though with great difficulty I am got hither, yet now I do not repent me… — John Bunyan
I great difficulty having any respect for a religion that has so little confidence in the truth of its beliefs that it feels reduced to… — Richard Dawkins
In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government… — Alexander Hamilton
I know my own soul, how feeble and puny it is: I know the magnitude of this ministry, and the great difficulty of the work;… — John Chrysostom
I have great difficulty sitting in the middle of the night and writing. Everything I do comes spontaneous. Sometimes it takes a long time; sometimes… — Ravi Shankar

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