I never give in to the temptation to be difficult just for the sake of being difficult. That would be too ridiculous.
Jacques Derrida

Well, we've faced very difficult decisions and challenges in our country, every one of us have, as we - since September 11th, as we fought the war on terror, all of those decisions that the President had to make to put young men and women in harm's way.
Laura Bush

Certainly the plagiarism, and dealing with the fallout of it, was the most difficult thing I've ever faced since I started writing.
Nora Roberts

Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.
Edgar Degas

That's the most difficult issue for me... to find a subject that holds my interest long enough that I'm prepared to go to work and spend the time and energy to shoot the subject.
Leonard Nimoy

Every time we had a hot war going on in Asia, it was difficult for Asian Americans here.
George Takei

My undertaking is not difficult, essentially. I should only have to be immortal to carry it out.
Jorge Luis Borges

The most difficult thing in life is to know yourself.
Thales

If you write, one of the questions you're always trying to answer is, Where do you get your ideas? And, if you write, you know how pointless a question this is and how difficult it is to answer.
Lynn Abbey

I've been called many names like perfectionist, difficult and obsessive. I think it takes obsession, takes searching for the details for any artist to be good.
Barbra Streisand

Women are more difficult to handle than men. It's their minds.
Peter Sellers

It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.
Honore de Balzac

It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.
Honore de Balzac

Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius.
George Sand

All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
Baruch Spinoza

How would it be possible if salvation were ready to our hand, and could without great labor be found, that it should be by almost all men neglected? But all things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
Baruch Spinoza

The course of the flight up and down was exceedingly erratic, partly due to the irregularity of the air, and partly to lack of experience in handling this machine. The control of the front rudder was difficult on account of its being balanced too near the center.
Orville Wright

All noble things are as difficult as they are rare.
Baruch Spinoza

Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.
Samuel Johnson

No data on air propellers was available, but we had always understood that it was not a difficult matter to secure an efficiency of 50% with marine propellers.
Orville Wright