Difficulty Quote by Robert Fanney

“How can I judge?" she said at last. "To me, he is a hero. To the world a monster." She let her head fall…

— Robert Fanney

“He bethought him with pride that he had always been called a scholar, and sneered at for his love of solitude and books. He…

— Virginia Woolf

“Her manifold ills were summed up in the King. Since the Valois, she had had no monarch so worthless. He did not want understanding,…

— Francis Parkman

“After he became the Master, the world believed that he could not lose, and he had to believe it himself. Therein was the tragedy.”

— Yasunari Kawabata

“He saw nothing but misfortune--human error and misfortune. It brought him the most peace to simply believe that people were imperfect, and life was…

— Kaya McLaren

“And from what we know, he truly saw each and every one of these obstacles as an opportunity to practice some virtue: patience, courage,…

— Ryan Holiday

“He had been too successful, you see; his was that solitude of contempt and distrust which success brings to him who gained it because…

— William Faulkner

“Knighthood. Was he even worthy? Just a little while ago, he’d have answered yes without a doubt, but now, facing the cross and his…

— Aleksandr Voinov

“In some ways, he was just like the rest of us: lonely, ambitious, a son, a father, a lover, never truly content. Where he…

— David A. Goodman

“It seemed to him that all his life he had followed the ideals that other people, by their words or their writings, had instilled…

— W. Somerset Maughamset Maugham

“His life, or at least the latter part of it, was of epic significance.  Yet he was far from perfect.  He could tell lies…

— David Pawson

“At Times, even he admitted that he'd been more an observer of the world than a participant in it, and in moments of painful…

— Nicholas Sparks