Difficult Quotes
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Part of what makes for good writing is an ear for what we would call the poetical. Poetry itself is another thing and it seems to me to be the most difficult writing - that those people are the best writers and they lead the way for everyone else and their writing is frighteningly great.
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It's very easy to be different, but very difficult to be better.
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Reps once took chances on art, History's most treasured musicians were believed in and cultivated to reach their potential. Today, it would be difficult for those musicians to get deals.
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History shows that it is not only senseless and cruel, but also difficult to state who is a foreigner.
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It is a difficult matter to keep love imprisoned.
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Well, I Am... I Said was a very difficult song, very difficult because I really had to spend a lot of time thinking about what I was before the song was written.
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There is nothing so difficult or so dangerous as to undertake to change the order of things.
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It is difficult to give children a sense of security unless you have it yourself. If you have it, they catch it from you.
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I'm dead annoyed that I'm finding it so difficult to stop. But I am getting there [on kicking smoking habit]
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It is difficult to know oneself, but it isn't easy to paint oneself either.
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The thing about parenting rules is there aren't any. That's what makes it so difficult.
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To establish what is true is very difficult. Frequently it is easier to establish what is false. And, passing through the false, it's possible to understand something about truth.
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Moreover, it is difficult to reconcile Hobbes’s distrust for the individual with his confidence in the altruistic nature of the individual or individuals who will oversee and control the Leviathan. Are not the latter also of flesh and blood? Hobbes seems to be saying that man’s nature cannot be trusted but the nature of a ruler or a ruling assembly of men can be trusted. How so?
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If you avoid difficult things, great things will avoid you.
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I say half jokingly that photography is the most difficult of the arts. It does require a certain arrogance to see and to choose. I feel myself walking on a tightrope instead of on the ground.
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It is folly to believe that Congress and the president, on their own, will make the necessary and difficult decisions to address the impending financial debacle. After all, they and their predecessors engineered the approaching tsunami. As the situation becomes direr, the federal government's actions will grow more oppressive.
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When forgetting someone becomes difficult. You don't understand what to do.
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In stating as fully as I could how things really were, it was often very difficult and I wrote awkwardly and the awkwardness is what they called my style. All mistakes and awkwardness are easy to see, and they called it style.
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Every worthy act is difficult. Ascent is always difficult. Descent is easy and often slippery.
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Beef also was difficult to be procured and exceedingly poor; the price nearly sixpence farthing per pound.
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The simplest things in music are the ones that count. The simplest thing are, of course, also the most difficult to achieve and take years of work.
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There's always a part of my brain saying: 'Stop getting comfortable. Don't relax.' Because I find it difficult to write when I'm happy. I have to go out there and get battered up and bruised to write anything. I have to feel something.
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Nothing is more difficult, in my opinion, than to avoid something that fundamentally attracts you.
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It's very difficult to think of new ways to blow things up!
