Difficult Quotes - Page 40

We all make deals with ourselves when it comes to the difficult people in our lives.

Sometimes, in difficult circumstances, one can confuse compassion with love.

Once a federal law or policy is in place it is more difficult to kill than a vampire.

It's difficult for me to ignore how many conflicts locally and worldwide have religion tagged to them.

I think Iran is the kind of place where it's difficult to predict what's going to trigger structural change. It's hard to also predict the role that civil disobedience or mass protests could play.

It is difficult to distinguish where the feminine ends and nature begins.

When you take the high moral road it is difficult for anyone to object without sounding like a complete fool.

The works have to look like they're confident. But they also have to look sort of troubled. It's this weird thing: "Does that look confident and troubled?" It's a bit like difficult poetry.

It's difficult to get to know a Swede. But once you do, you're in.

When you're comfortable, you're not necessarily inclined to care about things that are contributing to your comfort. It's difficult.

The most difficult thing I have ever had to do is follow the guidance I prayed for.

Between the difficulties, one hides the opportunity

We knew it was going to be difficult to get to the moon. We didn't know how difficult.

Politics is so difficult, it's generally only people who aren't quite up to the task who feel convinced they are.

I definitely have managed to overcome dyslexia now to become a fully functional human being but things were a lot more difficult when I was younger.

To be a gluten-free vegan is, like, the most difficult thing you can possibly be.

I would find it more difficult if somebody else was doing the action.

I'm not sure, however, that what I have amounts to faith in the sense commonly understood. I have difficulty understanding the function of the word "believe" in the realm of faith, a basic term in the grammar of every creed.

By delivering experience, novels can alter the stance we adopt toward news - not much, I'm sure, but they can make it a little more difficult for us to consign "other people" to our tidy boxes. Widening our imaginative life might - it's not hard to imagine - also develop our ability to contemplate counterfactuals and our capacity to speculate about how things might differ from how they're being represented.

Arab nationalism, which tended to be until relatively recent somewhat secular in motivation, has now become increasingly religious and fundamentalist. And that makes it more pervasive, more difficult to deal with.

Life with another person is always difficult.

It's understandable that Europe's Muslims are in a difficult situation, which is partly their own doing and partly not.

The only difficulty is to know what bits to choose and what to leave out. Novel-writing is not creation, it is selection.

I got married at a very young age, and of course, for all the wrong reasons, and ended up divorced and lost everything. It was a very difficult time in my life.

It is indeed difficult to make a living as a writer, and my advice to anyone contemplating a literary career is to have some other trade.