Difficult Quotes
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I had a lovely experience once in Africa working with the U.N. when a president of a country met me about refugee issues and said ‘What do you do?’ I said ‘I‘m an actor.’ He replied ‘I heard that was a very difficult job and might not be the smartest job to do.’ It was lovely.
Angelina Jolie
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It is always difficult to get across to people who are not professional writers that a talent to write does not mean a talent to write anything at all.
Flannery O'Connor
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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.
Mark Levin
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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.
Neil Diamond
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Kids' lives are just as important and difficult as grown ups'.
Carl Andreas Koefoed
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In order to be truthful We must do more than speak the truth. We must also hear truth. We must also receive truth. We must also act upon truth. We must also search for truth. The difficult truth Within us and around us. We must devote ourselves to truth. Otherwise we are dishonest And our lives are mistaken. God grant us the strength and the courage To be truthful. Amen
Michael Leunig
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Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the face of this earth.
Albert Einstein
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I truly believe that everything happens for a reason. So you asked, ‘When things get really, really difficult in your life, what keeps you going?’ For me, it’s always that the most difficult moments in my life, the moments in which I believe I’ve completely failed or hit bottom, I can actually directly link them to something later that is either a true success or a dream come true. So, I do believe that if you can maintain that everything happens for a reason, you can find the strength and the lesson in those difficult moments and grow stronger.
Troian Bellisario
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There is nothing so difficult or so dangerous as to undertake to change the order of things.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
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The reason that minorities and women dont have a better shot at getting elected to the Senate or to statewide office is because the campaign finance rules are so skewed as to make it very difficult for non-traditional candidates to raise the money necessary to get elected.
Carol Moseley Braun
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The smell of loving is a difficult one to describe, but if you think of the times when someone has held you close and made you safe, you will remember how it smells just as well as I do.
Catherynne M. Valente
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Why did the generals who have been so ready to term me a complaisant and incompetent yes-man fail to secure my removal? Was that all that difficult? No, that wasn't it; the truth was that nobody would have been ready to replace me, because each one knew that he would end up just as much a wreck as I.
Wilhelm Keitel
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In acting process, it's very difficult to explain. It's something very intimate, very private.
Monica Bellucci
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If you avoid difficult things, great things will avoid you.
George H. Brimhall
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Comedy is not my world. It's difficult for me, but sometimes you just have to go with it and have a good time.
Jonathan Banks
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Getting the truth in the New York Post has been as difficult as finding a good hamburger in Albania.
Paul Newman
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Two or three notes of music can instantly make you feel sad or tense or afraid or angry. To do that in words is much more difficult.
Anthony Daniels
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The art of choosing men is not nearly so difficult as the art of enabling those chosen to attain their full worth.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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Luxuries are easy to take up but very difficult to give up.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Pop music is a difficult term to define. I think about good music and bad music. Good music is good music whatever origin it comes from.
Nina Persson A Camp
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Most true happiness comes from one's inner life, from the disposition of the mind and soul.
William L. Shirer
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When forgetting someone becomes difficult. You don't understand what to do.
Sahir Ludhianvi
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It would be difficult to discover the truth about the universe if we refused to consider anything that might be true.
Richard Morris
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The number of strokes to the inch controls the pitch of the note: the more, the higher the pitch; the fewer, the lower the pitch, the size of the stroke controls the loudness... the tone quality is the most difficult element to control, it is made by the shape of the strokes.
Norman McLaren