Difficulty Quotes

The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend, as to find a friend worth dying for.

What parent has it easy? I just never make the difficulty of it an obstacle. I just do it.

The work of many of the greatest men, inspired by duty, has been done amidst suffering and trial and difficulty. They have struggled against the tide, and reached the shore exhausted.

Grace is the absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty, hesitation or incongruity.

Mistakes, after all, are endemic to foreign and military policy given the unpredictability of events and the difficulty of securing reliable information in a place like Iraq.

The difficulty of writing a good theatre play set in new reality was even greater given that the level of similitude to life that is allowed in a film would not work on the stage.

A major difficulty is that the answer to the Riddle of the Sphinx is partly a product of the answers that we already have given to the riddle in its various forms.

The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.

My approach to gymnastics in Beijing was heavily based on the amount of difficulty I could do.

Everyone has talent at twenty-five. The difficulty is to have it at fifty.

The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.

Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory.

The difficulty for the Government is there's this ideological straitjacket of the market will provide, let the market rip and everything will work out... It's back to trickle-down economics, which, it's plain to see, have not delivered.

The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest; success only comes later.

The accidents of my life have given me the ability to make stories in which different parts of the world are brought together, sometimes harmoniously, sometimes in conflict, and sometimes both - usually both. The difficulty in these stories is that if you write about everywhere you can end up writing about nowhere.

The difficulty with any sort of esteem is that more is expected of you.

The apprenticeship of difficulty is one which the greatest of men have had to serve.

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.

Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

I have no difficulty with the recognition of civil unions for non-traditional relationships but I believe in law we should protect the traditional definition of marriage.

To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.

I really worked to try and be creative enough on the guitar parts so those who aren't real educated would know that there was some difficulty in doing it.

The hypothesis of surviving intelligence and personality - not only surviving but anxious and able with difficulty to communicate - is the simplest and most straightforward and the only one that fits all the facts.

When I was in the first grade I was afraid of the teacher and had a miserable time in the reading circle, a difficulty that was overcome by the loving patience of my second grade teacher. Even though I could read, I refused to do so.

The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.

Perpetual pushing and assurance put a difficulty out of countenance and make a seeming difficulty gives way.

The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones.

The fuss that actors began making about the difficulty of shifting to sound struck me as perfectly foolish.

It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking to it that one overcomes it; often it is by working on the one next to it. Some things and some people have to be approached obliquely, at an angle.

The honest truth is that if this government were to propose the massacre of the first-born, it would still have no difficulty in getting it through the Commons.