Difficulty Quotes
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I should point out, however, that at first some difficulty was experienced in observing the phenomena predicted by the theory, owing to the extreme smallness of the variations in the period of oscillation. (Quote by - Pieter Zeeman)
I used to find great difficulty in drawing feet. (Quote by - Ida Rentoul Outhwaite)
I have no difficulty with the recognition of civil unions for non-traditional relationships but I believe in law we should protect the traditional definition of marriage. (Quote by - Stephen Harper)
I know my own soul, how feeble and puny it is: I know the magnitude of this ministry, and the great difficulty of the work; for more stormy billows vex the soul of the priest than the gales which disturb the sea. (Quote by - John Chrysostom)
Coming out involves varying degrees of difficulty that are affected by class, race, religion, and geography. (Quote by - Lance Loud)
As I noted in my Nobel lecture, an early insight in my work on the economics of information concerned the problem of appropriability - the difficulty that those who pay for information have in getting returns. (Quote by - Joseph E. Stiglitz)
But whatever the POV, and the difficulty of forcing the action into a particular frame, stay within it. (Quote by - Arthur Herzog)
A system of education, which would not gratify this disposition in any party, is requisite, in order to obviate the difficulty, and the reader will find a something said to that purpose in perusing this tract. (Quote by - Joseph Lancaster)
Evil is always possible. Goodness is a difficulty. (Quote by - Anne Rice)
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. (Quote by - Winston Churchill)
I'm sure that you could go back and make a graph showing that all the killings of black males increased in times of economic difficulty. As a matter of fact, a black man was lynched last year. (Quote by - Ishmael Reed)
I have absolutely no difficulty myself with the playing of God Save the Queen in the presence of Her Majesty. (Quote by - John Howard)
Given the difficulty of resisting such temptations over the longer run, a proper concern for the welfare of congressional souls may well be the ultimate argument in favor of term limitations. (Quote by - James L. Buckley)
We have inherited new difficulties because we have inherited more privileges. (Quote by - Abram Sacher)
Everyone has talent at twenty-five. The difficulty is to have it at fifty. (Quote by - Edgar Degas)
After saying yes to Turkey, the EU is having difficulty finding clear and consistent grounds for saying no to other, still more remote candidates - but being in the general vicinity of Europe does seem to be a continuing requirement. (Quote by - Timothy Garton Ash)
Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy, for it means pushing back a boundary-line and adding to one's liberty. (Quote by - Henri Frederic Amiel)
No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
I think one ages and one dates. I tend to have a good deal of difficulty in liking some of the new poets. (Quote by - James Laughlin)
An insuperable obstacle to rapid transit in Africa is the want of carriers, and as speed was the main object of the Expedition under my command, my duty was to lessen this difficulty as much as possible. (Quote by - Henry Morton Stanley)
But that the reasoning from these facts, the drawing from them correct conclusions, is a matter of great difficulty, may be inferred from the imperfect state in which the Science is now found after it has been so long and so intensely studied. (Quote by - Nassau William Senior)
For example, in painting the form arises from abstract elements of line and color, while in cinema the material concreteness of the image within the frame presents - as an element - the greatest difficulty in manipulation. (Quote by - Sergei Eisenstein)
By no means do I anticipate screening those who come on to campus... And I have no difficulty if a bishop across the country or some local pastor may say that's not Catholic teaching - that's fine. (Quote by - William P. Leahy)
Undertake something that is difficult; it will do you good. Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow. (Quote by - Ronald E. Osborn)
I really worked to try and be creative enough on the guitar parts so those who aren't real educated would know that there was some difficulty in doing it. (Quote by - Brad Paisley)
A prince who will not undergo the difficulty of understanding must undergo the danger of trusting. (Quote by - George Savile)
Because of the tension and difficulty, I remember trying to do the silliest things when we weren't rolling cameras, anything to lift the spirits. But once on set, it was important to have full concentration. (Quote by - Madeleine Stowe)
I remember the difficulty we had in the beginning replacing magnetic cores in memories and eventually we had both cost and performance advantages. But it wasn't at all clear in the beginning. (Quote by - Gordon Moore)
Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory. (Quote by - Thomas Beecham)
Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts. (Quote by - Edward R. Murrow)
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body. (Quote by - Seneca)
Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself its own solution. It forces us to change our thinking in order to find it. (Quote by - Niels Bohr)
Grace is the absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty, hesitation or incongruity. (Quote by - William Hazlitt)
Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it. (Quote by - Rene Descartes)
A man's love, till it has been chastened and fastened by the feeling of duty which marriage brings with it, is instigated mainly by the difficulty of pursuit. (Quote by - Anthony Trollope)
As to the war, while it is always thought rash to have any strong military convictions, I have always believed that if they would go straight to Sebastopol early in the season they would take it with little difficulty. (Quote by - Francis W. Newman)
I think the biggest difficulty is that when I'm here in America, there's a necessity of using English, so I really have a great sense of really wanting to learn, but unfortunately when I head back to Japan, the necessity vanishes and so does my enthusiasm about learning. (Quote by - Chiaki Kuriyama)
A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept. (Quote by - St. Jerome)
A lot of these industries are having difficulty finding reliable workers with the skills they require. (Quote by - Jerry Rubin)
But the gravest difficulty, and perhaps the most important, in poetry meant solely for recitation, is the difficulty of achieving verbal beauty, or rather of making verbal beauty tell. (Quote by - Lascelles Abercrombie )
I have a great deal of difficulty with those who live in a hugely prosperous country telling people in the developing world that they should be deprived of a critical source of energy. (Quote by - Lee R. Raymond)
I am trying to do two things: dare to be a radical and not a fool, which is a matter of no small difficulty. (Quote by - James A. Garfield)
I have always believed that I should have had no difficulty in causing my rights to be respected. (Quote by - Eli Whitney)
Bad company is like a nail driven into a post, which, after the first and second blow, may be drawn out with little difficulty; but being once driven up to the head, the pincers cannot take hold to draw it out, but which can only be done by the destruction of the wood. (Quote by - Saint Aurelius Augustine)
Give yourself an even greater challenge than the one you are trying to master and you will develop the powers necessary to overcome the original difficulty. (Quote by - William Bennett)
If most people are not willing to see the difficulty, this is mainly because, consciously or unconsciously, they assume that it will be they who will settle these questions for the others, and because they are convinced of their own capacity to do this. (Quote by - Friedrich August von Hayek)
And I really do think that the difficulty of research makes it more real to you than punching a thing to find out how many men were killed at this particular action. (Quote by - Shelby Foote)
Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly. (Quote by - Jean Baudrillard)
I can't recall any difficulty in making the C language definition completely open - any discussion on the matter tended to mention languages whose inventors tried to keep tight control, and consequent ill fate. (Quote by - Dennis Ritchie)
Have the courage to face a difficulty lest it kick you harder than you bargain for. (Quote by - Stanislaus I)
Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on. (Quote by - Rabindranath Tagore)
And from the first time I picked up a basketball at age eight - I had a lot of difficulty when I first picked up a basketball, because I was a scrub - there were things that I liked about it. (Quote by - Julius Erving)
Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness - a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster - children into strength and athletic proportion. (Quote by - William C. Bryant)
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict. (Quote by - William Ellery Channing)
A major difficulty is that the answer to the Riddle of the Sphinx is partly a product of the answers that we already have given to the riddle in its various forms. (Quote by - Gregory Bateson)
I am continually fascinated at the difficulty intelligent people have in distinguishing what is controversial from what is merely offensive. (Quote by - Nora Ephron )
But the basic difficulty still remains: It is the expansion of Federal power, about which I wish to express my alarm. How easily we embrace such business. (Quote by - Everett Dirksen)
God will not permit any troubles to come upon us, unless He has a specific plan by which great blessing can come out of the difficulty. (Quote by - Peter Marshall)
Almost any difficulty will move in the face of honesty. When I am honest I never feel stupid. And when I am honest I am automatically humble. (Quote by - Hugh Prather)
An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything into an empty head. (Quote by - Eric Hoffer)
I suppose that every time there is difficulty. I remember about Space Mountain: It took us ten years before we found the technology that would allow such a ride. And during these ten years, I had a model that I kept, waiting for the technology we needed. (Quote by - John Hench)
I write for somebody who has my own limitations. My reader has a certain difficulty with concentrating, which in my case comes from being a film viewer. (Quote by - Manuel Puig)
I know it's more five-star now than it was then, but it's still a difficult tour. In the same way as India and Pakistan players find it difficult coming to Australia. People sometimes have difficulty believing that. (Quote by - Richie Benaud)
I am, really, a great writer; my only difficulty is in finding great readers. (Quote by - Frank Harris)
