Difficult Quotes

For, with pure water the inversion of cane sugar scarcely proceeds and subsequently it required very thorough, difficult studies before this effect and its order of magnitude were established.

We cannot put off the difficult decisions for another day, another generation.

In the crowded and difficult conditions of a steep hillside, houses have had to struggle to establish their territory and to survive.

Once you achieve a certain level of success or fame, it becomes really difficult to go against type.

It seems difficult, sometimes, to believe that there was a time when sentiments now become habitual, sentiments that imply not only the original imperative of conduct, but the original metaphysic of living, were by no means altogether habitual.

It's very difficult in France to get access to castings when you don't have any relationships.

All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small.

People were more interested in the phenomena than the art itself. This, combined with the growing interest in collecting art as an investment and the resultant boom in the art market, made it a difficult time for a young artist to remain sincere without becoming cynical.

Mr. Speaker, in the years since we enacted our attack against Iraq, the threat from Iran has only grown more difficult, and our capacity to meet that threat actually has diminished. It is one of the reasons many of us opposed that action against Iraq.

The constant attention is what is so difficult.

It's often difficult for conservatives to separate overall government intervention from a question as simple as the census.

It's the technique, I think, of writing a novel that is difficult for a nonfiction writer.

There are some who want to get married and others who don't. I have never had an impulse to go to the altar. I am a difficult person to lead.

To disappear your complete self into a character is quite difficult. I've tried it 85 times, and I've succeeded two or three times.

A chair is a very difficult object. A skyscraper is almost easier. That is why Chippendale is famous.

The easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don't let them put you in that position.

It's very easy to learn. And very difficult to master.

No data on air propellers was available, but we had always understood that it was not a difficult matter to secure an efficiency of 50% with marine propellers.

Mutual fund managers are trapped in this rather deadly vicious circle: the more successful they are, the more money flows into their mutual fund. Then, it is more difficult for them to beat the market averages or even to match their own past performance.

Sowing is not as difficult as reaping.

Beauty is composed of an eternal, invariable element whose quantity is extremely difficult to determine, and a relative element which might be, either by turns or all at once, period, fashion, moral, passion.

Before the boat docked, however, he confessed because he was contemplating running for president, he couldn't separate from his wife. I believed him when he told me he faced a difficult choice between pursuing personal happiness and his political destiny.

We were very young in Duran, and to get pushed in a corner can be very difficult to get out of.

Normally, it's difficult for me to watch a movie that I'm in.

I spent my whole life in the private sector, 25 years in the private sector. I understand that when government takes more money out of the hands of people, it makes it more difficult for them to buy things. If they can't buy things, the economy doesn't grow. If the economy doesn't grow, we don't put Americans to work.

I got very cross with the term, kitchen sink. It just meant that you invaded different kinds of houses, where it was very difficult to avoid kitchen sink.

When it comes to social consequences, they've got all different people acting in different ways, very difficult to even have a proper criterion of success. So, it's a difficult task.

Yes, it's a very difficult thing to do, to promote a record, do television shows, and to still want to remain private, it's really quite difficult to explain to people what you're trying to do. I mean I'd actually quite like to be a recluse, but you know, you've got to promote the record as well.

I think it's always difficult to reconcile the needs of art and business.

In every community, whether large or small, there are people who lead in their community in easy and difficult times.