I have absolutely no difficulty myself with the playing of God Save the Queen in the presence of Her Majesty. ~By John Howard ~
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 ~
The difficulty in life is the choice. ~By George A. Moore ~
Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on. ~By Rabindranath Tagore ~
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 ~
I am, really, a great writer; my only difficulty is in finding great readers. ~By Frank Harris ~
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 ~
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 ~
Little Sparta is a garden in the traditional sense. It is perhaps not like other modern gardens, but I think that other times would have had no difficulty with it. ~By Ian Hamilton Finlay ~
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 ~
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 ~
I am continually fascinated at the difficulty intelligent people have in distinguishing what is controversial from what is merely offensive. ~By Nora Ephron ~
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 ~
The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest; success only comes later. ~By Confucius ~
Where there is no choice, we do well to make no difficulty. ~By George MacDonald ~
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 ~
The best way to avoid a bad action is by doing a good one, for there is no difficulty in the world like that of trying to do nothing. ~By John Clare ~
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. ~By Gregory Bateson ~
Sometimes my mother had difficulty communicating with me about certain topics. ~By Gloria Estefan ~
The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time. ~By Arthur Schopenhauer ~
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 ~
The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character. ~By Peter De Vries ~
Now the difficulty with those warnings is that they were not specific. ~By Lee H. Hamilton ~
The very greatest things - great thoughts, discoveries, inventions - have usually been nurtured in hardship, often pondered over in sorrow, and at length established with difficulty. ~By Samuel Smiles ~
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. ~By Henry Morton Stanley ~
What parent has it easy? I just never make the difficulty of it an obstacle. I just do it. ~By Marlee Matlin ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Russia is a part of European culture. Therefore, it is with difficulty that I imagine NATO as an enemy. ~By Vladimir Putin ~
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. ~By William P. Leahy ~
It's often difficult for us to act compassionately, but sacred art eases the difficulty by ennobling us. ~By Huston Smith ~
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 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 ~
A lot of these industries are having difficulty finding reliable workers with the skills they require. ~By Jerry Rubin ~
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 ~
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 ~
I have always believed that I should have had no difficulty in causing my rights to be respected. ~By Eli Whitney ~
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. ~By Hugh Prather ~
We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty. ~By Marcus Fabius Quintilian ~
The difficulty is capturing surprise on film. ~By F. Murray Abraham ~
Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts. ~By Edward R. Murrow ~
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 ~
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. ~By Sergei Eisenstein ~
We debated long over the situation for it is a very difficult question and all of us recognize its difficulty. ~By Henry L. Stimson ~
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 ~
Rocket science has been mythologized all out of proportion to its true difficulty. ~By John Carmack ~
The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas. ~By George Santayana ~
The difficulty is not that great to die for a friend, the hard part is finding a friend worth dying for. ~By Henry Home ~
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 ~
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. ~By Winston Churchill ~
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 ~
Have the courage to face a difficulty lest it kick you harder than you bargain for. ~By Stanislaus I ~
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 ~
The greater the difficulty, the greater the glory. ~By Marcus Tullius Cicero ~
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 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. ~By Manuel Puig ~
The difficulty of IVF or of any fertility issues is the hope and the shattered hope, the dream that it might happen this time and then it doesn't happen. ~By Brooke Shields ~
The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend, as to find a friend worth dying for. ~By Homer ~
Technological society has succeeded in multiplying the opportunities for pleasure, but it has great difficulty in generating joy. ~By Pope Paul VI ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
The chief difficulty which prevents men of science from believing in divine as well as in nature Spirits is their materialism. ~By H. P. Blavatsky ~
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 ~
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 ~
Let there be no illusions about the difficulty of forming this kind of a national community. It's tough, difficult, not easy. But a spirit of harmony will survive in America only if each of us remembers that we share a common destiny. ~By Barbara Jordan ~
I am trying to do two things: dare to be a radical and not a fool, which is a matter of no small difficulty. ~By James A. Garfield ~
The sense organs experience the external light, sound, etc. with difficulty; the different sense organs only have a so-called specific receptivity for particular stimuli. ~By Johannes P. Muller ~
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 ~
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 ~
In that sense, film is superior, but the difficulty is your lack of control as a writer. ~By Terry Southern ~
It seems that the greatest difficulty is to find the end. Don't try to find it, it's there already. ~By Tom Cora ~
Everyone has talent at twenty-five. The difficulty is to have it at fifty. ~By Edgar Degas ~
It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking to it that one overcomes it; often it is by working on the one next to it. Some things and some people have to be approached obliquely, at an angle. ~By Andre Gide ~
I used to find great difficulty in drawing feet. ~By Ida Rentoul Outhwaite ~
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 ~
It is a high patriotic duty that we support and sustain the men who have been placed in position of difficulty, burden, responsibility, and even danger as the result of our suffrages. ~By Bainbridge Colby ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
It's the difficulty we had with Mr. Bean, actually, when it went from TV to film. You certainly discover that you need to explain more about a character. ~By Rowan Atkinson ~
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 ~
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. ~By Timothy Garton Ash ~
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 ~
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 ~
Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness - a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster - children into strength and athletic proportion. ~By William C. Bryant ~
Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself its own solution. It forces us to change our thinking in order to find it. ~By Niels Bohr ~
Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory. ~By Thomas Beecham ~
The difficulty, the ordeal, is to start. ~By Zane Grey ~
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 greatest difficulty with the world is not its ability to produce, but the unwillingness to share. ~By Roy L. Smith ~
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. ~By Friedrich August von Hayek ~
The solution of the difficulty is that the two mental pictures which experiment lead us to form - the one of the particles, the other of the waves - are both incomplete and have only the validity of analogies which are accurate only in limiting cases. ~By Werner Heisenberg ~
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 ~
Coming out involves varying degrees of difficulty that are affected by class, race, religion, and geography. ~By Lance Loud ~
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. ~By Brad Paisley ~
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 ~
The accumulation of skill and science which has been directed to diminish the difficulty of producing manufactured goods, has not been beneficial to that country alone in which it is concentrated; distant kingdoms have participated in its advantages. ~By Charles Babbage ~
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