Melissa de la Cruz Quotes

Evil was seductive and easy, and virtue was difficult and unappreciated.

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• To make oneself hated is more difficult than to make oneself loved.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Difficult
  • Loved
  • More

• Albania is at risk and we are living in difficult times.

  

  Fatos Nano
  • Risk
  • Difficult
  • Living

• Nobody's going to give you everything on a silver tray. It's going to be difficult.

  

  Saad Hariri
  • Difficult
  • Nobody
  • Silver

• The most difficult part of any crime novel is the plotting. It all begins simply enough, but soon you're dealing with a multitude of linked characters, strands, themes and red herrings - and you need to try to control these unruly elements and weave them into a pattern.

  

  Ian Rankin
  • Control
  • Red
  • Difficult

• The year 2013 has been very difficult, with a lot of headwinds in almost every region and every business.

  

  Baba Kalyani
  • Business
  • Difficult
  • Year

• I like my country, but I don't think like an Italian. It's a complex, complicated difficult country to make things happen in.

  

  Lapo Elkann
  • Country
  • Think
  • Difficult

• I have to tell you, TV is an incredibly difficult medium. The most challenging show to do is the hour long dramedy. It's a very tricky format.

  

  Candace Bushnell
  • Long
  • You
  • Difficult

• You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.

  

  Madeleine L'Engle
  • Children
  • Book
  • Difficult

• Alas! how difficult it is not to betray one's guilt by one's looks.

  

  Ovid
  • Difficult
  • Guilt
  • How

• To write a love song that might be able to make it on the radio, that is something that is terrifying to me. But I can definitely write a song about that chair over there. That I can do, but to sit and write a pop song out of the clear blue sky, that is very difficult and I admire the people that can do it.

  

  Barry Manilow
  • People
  • Song
  • Write

• I appreciate everything that has been done for me. After a difficult start, I've just followed my dreams.

  

  Victor Ortiz
  • Difficult
  • Dreams
  • Start

• I'm not difficult to work with, trust me.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • Work
  • Trust
  • Difficult

• The hottest look for a night out is a deep side part. If that part is not at least three inches in length, then start over. The wider the part, the more open your eyes appear. It is an alluring and seductive look that will keep your date's attention the entire night.

  

  Tabatha Coffey
  • Night
  • Attention
  • Eyes

• Certainly the life of a dancer is very difficult. The training is very hard and relentlessly grueling.

  

  Bebe Neuwirth
  • Life
  • Training
  • Difficult

• I'd love a werebear. But I guess you need that seductive element of danger. And though bears can be dangerous, when you say werebear it just sounds kind of cuddly. Probably has a rainbow on his belly.

  

  Kandyse McClure
  • Kind
  • Danger
  • Rainbow

• It's difficult to do that internally, because you're flying five, six hours.

  

  Vince McMahon
  • You
  • Difficult
  • Flying

• It can be difficult to get cast as something that is off-center from you, and my biggest fear is to be typecast.

  

  Gabriella Wilde
  • Fear
  • You
  • Difficult

• When I talk about that Apple ecosystem, the ability to get one application to run across those five platforms is very difficult. In the future of Microsoft, using HTML5, IE9 and 10, the scalable OS, the ability to do that gets much, much easier.

  

  B. Kevin Turner
  • Future
  • Difficult
  • Apple

• Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Happiness
  • Virtue
  • Reward

• If a man of good natural disposition acquires Intelligence [as a whole], then he excels in conduct, and the disposition which previously only resembled Virtue, will now be Virtue in the true sense. Hence just as with the faculty of forming opinions [the calculative faculty] there are two qualities, Cleverness and Prudence, so also in the moral part of the soul there are two qualities, natural virtue and true Virtue; and true Virtue cannot exist without Prudence.

  

  Aristotle
  • Good
  • Virtue
  • Disposition

• Those who produce should have, but we know that those who produce the most - that is, those who work hardest, and at the most difficult and most menial tasks, have the least.

  

  Eugene V. Debs
  • Difficult
  • Produce
  • Tasks

• I, for one, refuse to box without headgear as an amateur. With the rising awareness of concussions and head injury, it is becoming more evident that we need to protect our brains as much as possible. There hasn't been enough research to conclude that it is safer to box without the use of headgear.

  Mandy Bujold
  • Research
  • Injury
  • Box

• Evil was seductive and easy, and virtue was difficult and unappreciated.

  

  Melissa de la Cruz
  • Difficult
  • Virtue
  • Seductive