Authors:

Difficult Quotes - Page 25

The difficulty is capturing surprise on film.

Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

Definitions are temporary verbalizations of concepts, and concepts- particularly difficult concepts- are usually revised repeatedly as our knowledge and understanding grows.

Ernst Mayr (1982). “The Growth of Biological Thought: Diversity, Evolution, and Inheritance”, p.45, Harvard University Press

Nothing great comes into being all at once.

Epictetus (2014). “Discourses, Fragments, Handbook”, p.66, OUP Oxford

It is so difficult - at least, I find it difficult - to understand people who speak the truth.

E. M. Forster (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)”, p.356, Delphi Classics

I want to see policies that encourage every American to vote, not make it more difficult to vote.

"Colin Powell Condemns North Carolina’s Voter ID Law" by Mollie Reilly, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 22, 2013.

Here's the difficulty about suicide: it is an act of ambition that can be committed only when one has passed beyond ambition.

Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.73, Transaction Publishers