Difficult Quotes

To perceive Christmas through its wrappings becomes more difficult with every year.
E. B. White

Christmas, Through, Year

It is seldom very hard to do one's duty when one knows what it is, but it is often exceedingly difficult to find this out.
Samuel Butler

Hard, Find, Often

Men aren't the way they are because they want to drive women crazy; they've been trained to be that way for thousands of years. And that training makes it very difficult for men to be intimate.
Barbara de Angelis

Women, Men, Crazy

Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself.
Ludwig Wittgenstein

Nothing, Deceiving, Oneself

If it's hard to remember, it'll be difficult to forget.
Arnold Schwarzenegger

Forget, Hard, Remember

I'm not used to crying. It's a little difficult. All my life I've had to fight. It's just another fight I'm going to have to learn how to win, that's all. I'm just going to have to keep smiling.
Serena Williams

Life, Fight, Win

I find it very difficult to relax. I find it increasingly difficult to find outlets for my frustration.
Judd Nelson

Find, Relax, Outlets

In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest.
Henry Miller

Age, Greatest, Long

Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.
Samuel Johnson

Design, Easy, Prove

Until 45 I can play a woman in love. After 55 I can play grandmothers. But between those ten years, it is difficult for an actress.
Ingrid Bergman

Love, Woman, Play

The best way to lose weight is to close your mouth - something very difficult for a politician. Or watch your food - just watch it, don't eat it.
Edward Koch

Best, Food, Lose

It's difficult to believe in yourself because the idea of self is an artificial construction. You are, in fact, part of the glorious oneness of the universe. Everything beautiful in the world is within you.
Russell Brand

Beautiful, Yourself, Self

It's a very brave thing to fall in love. You have to be willing to trust somebody else with your whole being, and that's very difficult, really difficult and very brave.
Nicole Kidman

Love, Trust, Brave

Loving a child doesn't mean giving in to all his whims; to love him is to bring out the best in him, to teach him to love what is difficult.
Nadia Boulanger

Love, Best, Mean

The kindness and affection from the public have carried me through some of the most difficult periods, and always your love and affection have eased the journey.
Princess Diana

Love, Kindness, Through

Painting is damned difficult - you always think you've got it, but you haven't.
Paul Cezanne

Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.
Iris Murdoch

Love, Real, Oneself

Yes, it's a man's world, but that's all right because they're making a total mess of it. We're chipping away at their control, taking the parts we want. Some women think it's a difficult task, but it's not.
Cher

Women, Control, Away

Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go so much further than people with vastly superior talent.
Sophia Loren

Faith, Great, Yourself

It is far more difficult to murder a phantom than a reality.
Virginia Woolf

Reality, Far, Phantom

It would be difficult for me not to conclude that the most perfect type of masculine beauty is Satan, as portrayed by Milton.
Charles Baudelaire

Beauty, Perfect, Satan

Apparently, the most difficult feat for a Cambridge male is to accept a woman not merely as feeling, not merely as thinking, but as managing a complex, vital interweaving of both.
Sylvia Plath

Woman, Feeling, Thinking

The idea of redemption is always good news, even if it means sacrifice or some difficult times.
Patti Smith

Good, Sacrifice, Idea

The simplest of women are wonderful liars who can extricate themselves from the most difficult dilemmas with a skill bordering on genius.
Guy de Maupassant

Women, Liars, Wonderful

It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.
Thomas Hardy

Men, Woman, Feelings

You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.
Madeleine L'Engle

Children, Book, Write

I wanted to do another movie that could make us laugh and cry and feel good about the world. I wanted to do something else that could make us smile. This is a time when we need to smile more and Hollywood movies are supposed to do that for people in difficult times.
Steven Spielberg

Time, Good, Smile

It's the technique, I think, of writing a novel that is difficult for a nonfiction writer.
E. O. Wilson

Writing, Writer, Novel

A chair is a very difficult object. A skyscraper is almost easier. That is why Chippendale is famous.
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Famous, Why, Almost

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

Good, Artist, Obsession

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