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.
~By Shelby Foote ~
My team and I have reunited two elements that coexist with difficulty: respect and affection, because when they love you they don't respect you and when they respect you they don't love you.
~By Shakira ~
Everyone has talent at twenty-five. The difficulty is to have it at fifty.
~By Edgar Degas ~
On the basis of the familiar experience that that which is learned with difficulty is better retained, it would have been safe to prophesy such an effect from the greater number of repetitions.
~By Hermann Ebbinghaus ~
If we wait until our lives are free from sorrow or difficulty, then we wait forever. And miss the entire point.
~By Dirk Benedict ~
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.
~By Stephen Harper ~
Owing to the difficulty of obtaining horses, Mr. Henry returns from this place. In descending the Mississippi I will request him to pay his respects to you.
~By Zebulon Pike ~
It's often difficult for us to act compassionately, but sacred art eases the difficulty by ennobling us.
~By Huston Smith ~
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.
~By Lee R. Raymond ~
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.
~By John Chrysostom ~
The fundamental laws necessary for the mathematical treatment of a large part of physics and the whole of chemistry are thus completely known, and the difficulty lies only in the fact that application of these laws leads to equations that are too complex to be solved.
~By Paul Dirac ~
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.
~By Julius Erving ~
A lot of these industries are having difficulty finding reliable workers with the skills they require.
~By Jerry Rubin ~
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.
~By John Hench ~
The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend, as to find a friend worth dying for.
~By Homer ~
This is the problem for which revolutionary theory has yet to find the right solution, if there is one. The difficulty is that the economic interests of the two classes are antagonistic.
~By Garet Garrett ~
The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
~By Lucius Annaeus Seneca ~
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.
~By Saint Aurelius Augustine ~
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.
~By Dennis Ritchie ~
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.
~By Madeleine Stowe ~
One would think that in writing about literary men and matters there would be no difficulty in finding a title for one's essay, or that any embarrassment which might arise would be from excess of material. I find this, however, far from being the case.
~By James Payn ~
Somebody who was born in this country who visited China would later face difficulty getting back in to the USA. We have to keep in mind that the struggles of the Chinese against these exclusion laws really laid down the foundations of civil rights law.
~By Iris Chang ~
But whatever the POV, and the difficulty of forcing the action into a particular frame, stay within it.
~By Arthur Herzog ~
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.
~By Jean Baudrillard ~
Have the courage to face a difficulty lest it kick you harder than you bargain for.
~By Stanislaus I ~
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.
~By Francis W. Newman ~
You have very accurately described the difficulty of presenting my books on film: many of my characters are alone most of the time, and when they do talk, what they say is mostly lies. That can make for a pretty confusing film.
~By Thomas Perry ~
In regard to education, something has been done by the Provincial Legislature; but to build churches, and to place clergymen is a work of greater difficulty.
~By John Strachan ~
Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.
~By Baruch Spinoza ~
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.
~By William Bennett ~
The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?
~By Alice James ~
It seems that the greatest difficulty is to find the end. Don't try to find it, it's there already.
~By Tom Cora ~
Our admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion to its real difficulty and its apparent ease.
~By Charles Caleb Colton ~
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.
~By Joseph E. Stiglitz ~
The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
~By Epictetus ~
The fuss that actors began making about the difficulty of shifting to sound struck me as perfectly foolish.
~By Gloria Swanson ~
In terms of the character itself, I can't really say that I find anything really difficult. I enjoy the character so much I don't perceive difficulty in trying to be him. It's just a matter of how do we get there.
~By Ron Glass ~
Sports is a metaphor for overcoming obstacles and achieving against great odds. Athletes, in times of difficulty, can be important role models.
~By Bill Bradley ~
It is fatal for any body of workers to have forever hanging from the fringes of its skirts other bodies on a level just below its own; for that means continual pressure downward, additional difficulty to be overcome in the struggle to maintain reasonable rates of wages.
~By Florence Kelley ~
The difficulty with this conversation is that it's very different from most of the ones I've had of late. Which, as I explained, have mostly been with trees.
~By Douglas Adams ~
Grace is the absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty, hesitation or incongruity.
~By William Hazlitt ~
The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.
~By Arthur Schopenhauer ~
The difficulty is not that great to die for a friend, the hard part is finding a friend worth dying for.
~By Henry Home ~
The difficulty with becoming a patient is that as soon as you get horizontal, part of your being yearns, not for a doctor, but for a medicine man.
~By Shana Alexander ~
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
~By Winston Churchill ~
The difficulty of writing a good theatre play set in new reality was even greater given that the level of similitude to life that is allowed in a film would not work on the stage.
~By Andrzej Wajda ~
Russia is a part of European culture. Therefore, it is with difficulty that I imagine NATO as an enemy.
~By Vladimir Putin ~
Some people carry their hearts in their heads; very many carry their heads in their hearts. The difficulty is to keep them apart, yet both actively working together.
~By Augustus Hare ~
The difficulty is capturing surprise on film.
~By F. Murray Abraham ~
The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest; success only comes later.
~By Confucius ~
No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific, concrete form is a very essential element in thinking.
~By J. P. Morgan ~
In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men the great difficulty lies in this: You must first enable the government to control the governed, and in the next place, oblige it to control itself.
~By Alexander Hamilton ~
We debated long over the situation for it is a very difficult question and all of us recognize its difficulty.
~By Henry L. Stimson ~
Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy, for it means pushing back a boundary-line and adding to one's liberty.
~By Henri Frederic Amiel ~
Technological society has succeeded in multiplying the opportunities for pleasure, but it has great difficulty in generating joy.
~By Pope Paul VI ~
To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.
~By Lao Tzu ~
Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.
~By Tony Robbins ~
Now the difficulty with those warnings is that they were not specific.
~By Lee H. Hamilton ~
The greater the difficulty, the greater the glory.
~By Marcus Tullius Cicero ~
Many foster children have had difficulty making the transition to independent living. Several are homeless, become single parents, commit crimes, or live in poverty. They are also frequent targets of crime.
~By Charles Foster Bass ~
The difficulty for Mr. Obama will be when the public sees where his decisions lead - higher inflation, higher interest rates, higher taxes, sluggish growth, and a jobless recovery.
~By Karl Rove ~
The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.
~By Robert Louis Stevenson ~
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.
~By Joseph Lancaster ~
I am continually fascinated at the difficulty intelligent people have in distinguishing what is controversial from what is merely offensive.
~By Nora Ephron ~
I used to find great difficulty in drawing feet.
~By Ida Rentoul Outhwaite ~
The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.
~By George Santayana ~
What we're seeing early on is Democrats rallying around Al Gore, Republicans rallying around George Bush and the difficulty of anybody else to get any room in the race.
~By Stuart Rothenberg ~
The difficulty we have in accepting responsibility for our behavior lies in the desire to avoid the pain of the consequences of that behavior.
~By M. Scott Peck ~
I am, really, a great writer; my only difficulty is in finding great readers.
~By Frank Harris ~
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.
~By Ishmael Reed ~
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.
~By Gordon Moore ~
I have absolutely no difficulty myself with the playing of God Save the Queen in the presence of Her Majesty.
~By John Howard ~
Of course, we also have the responsibility to win games and the difficulty in the job is to combine both.
~By Arsene Wenger ~
They must therefore not spoil Alexander's undertaking, especially when they were almost at the close of their toils, and were, moreover, no longer in any difficulty about provisions on their coasting cruise.
~By Arrian ~
The hypothesis of surviving intelligence and personality - not only surviving but anxious and able with difficulty to communicate - is the simplest and most straightforward and the only one that fits all the facts.
~By Oliver Joseph Lodge ~
With European powers no new subjects of difficulty have arisen, and those which were under discussion, although not terminated, do not present a more unfavorable aspect for the future preservation of that good understanding which it has ever been our desire to cultivate.
~By Martin Van Buren ~
The difficulty with the present state of affairs is that there is no legislation on the sources of funding for the Polish film industry. There is no legislation concerning filmmaking. And, there is no legislation on television that would be beneficial to filmmaking.
~By Andrzej Wajda ~
The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones.
~By John Maynard Keynes ~
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.
~By Chiaki Kuriyama ~
Sometimes I write notes that I have difficulty singing.
~By Elvis Costello ~
In that sense, film is superior, but the difficulty is your lack of control as a writer.
~By Terry Southern ~
Many have argued that a vacuum does not exist, others claim it exists only with difficulty in spite of the repugnance of nature; I know of no one who claims it easily exists without any resistance from nature.
~By Evangelista Torricelli ~
A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.
~By St. Jerome ~
The tax on capital gains directly affects investment decisions, the mobility and flow of risk capital... the ease or difficulty experienced by new ventures in obtaining capital, and thereby the strength and potential for growth in the economy.
~By John F. Kennedy ~
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.
~By Lascelles Abercrombie ~
I think one ages and one dates. I tend to have a good deal of difficulty in liking some of the new poets.
~By James Laughlin ~
Coming out involves varying degrees of difficulty that are affected by class, race, religion, and geography.
~By Lance Loud ~
The apprenticeship of difficulty is one which the greatest of men have had to serve.
~By Samuel Smiles ~
We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
~By Marcus Fabius Quintilian ~
Where there is no choice, we do well to make no difficulty.
~By George MacDonald ~
The best way out of a difficulty is through it.
~By Will Rogers ~
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.
~By Pieter Zeeman ~
The Western poet and writer of romance has exactly the same kind of difficulty in comprehending Eastern subjects as you have in comprehending Western subjects.
~By Lafcadio Hearn ~
Rocket science has been mythologized all out of proportion to its true difficulty.
~By John Carmack ~
Owing to the difficulty of dealing with substances of high molecular weight we are still a long way from having determined the chemical characteristics and the constitution of proteins, which are regarded as the principal con-stituents of living organisms.
~By Karl Landsteiner ~
The problem to solve is, whether a single or a double government would be most advantageous; and, in considering that point, I am met by this difficulty - that I cannot see that the present form of government is a double government at all.
~By Richard Cobden ~
The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it.
~By Epicurus ~
What parent has it easy? I just never make the difficulty of it an obstacle. I just do it.
~By Marlee Matlin ~
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.
~By Peter Marshall ~
I try to deal with the complexities of power and social life, but as far as the visual presentation goes I purposely avoid a high degree of difficulty.
~By Barbara Kruger ~
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