Quotes with difficulty

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  • Anne Rice Evil is always possible. Goodness is a difficulty.
    Anne Rice
    American author of gothic fiction (1941 - 2021)
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  • Edmund Burke He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper. This amicable conflict with difficulty helps us to an intimate acquaintance with our object, and compels us to consider it in all its relations. It will not suffer us to be superficial.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Roy L. Smith The greatest difficulty with the world is not its ability to produce, but the unwillingness to share.
    Roy L. Smith
    American clergyman and author
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  • Jerome of Stridon A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.
    Jerome of Stridon
    Church Father and Saint (347 - 420)
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  • Anthony Trollope 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.
    Anthony Trollope
    British writer (1815 - 1882)
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  • Winston Churchill A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Laurence Sterne All womankind, from the highest to the lowest love jokes; the difficulty is to know how they choose to have them cut; and there is no knowing that, but by trying, as we do with our artillery in the field, by raising or letting down their breeches, till we hit the mark.
    Laurence Sterne
    British author (1713 - 1768)
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  • Eric Hoffer An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything into an empty head.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg Be wary of passing the judgment: obscure. To find something obscure poses no difficulty: elephants and poodles find many things obscure.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Samuel Butler Because they did not see merit where they should have seen it, people, to express their regret, will go and leave a lot of money to the very people who will be the first to throw stones at the next person who has anything to say and finds a difficulty in getting a hearing.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Arthur Herzog But whatever the POV, and the difficulty of forcing the action into a particular frame, stay within it.
    Arthur Herzog
    American novelist, non-fiction writer, and journalist (1927 - 2010)
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  • Jean Baudrillard 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.
    Jean Baudrillard
    French sociologist and philosopher. (1929 - 2007)
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  • Epictetus Difficulties show men what they are. In case of any difficulty, God has pitted you against a rough antagonist that you may be a conqueror, and this cannot be without toil.
    Epictetus
    Roman philosopher (50 - 130)
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  • William C. Bryant Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness - a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster-children into strength and athletic proportion.
    William C. Bryant
    American poet, editor (1794 - 1878)
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  • René Descartes Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.
    René Descartes
    French philosopher, scientist (1596 - 1650)
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  • Rainer Maria Rilke Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that remains far beyond yours. Were it otherwise, she would never have been able to find these words.
    Rainer Maria Rilke
    German poet (1875 - 1926)
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  • Caroline Wozniacki Even when my opponent hits a very good shot, I don't just want to get it back. I want to get it back so they have difficulty. And then I can control the point.
    Caroline Wozniacki
    Danish tennis player (1990 - )
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  • Cai Guo-Qiang For an artist, a good place to be is you have some kind of influence and power to get things done, but in your essence you remain a nomad or a soldier facing a difficulty to be overcome.
    Cai Guo-Qiang
    Chinese artist (1957 - )
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  • Peter Marshall 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.
    Peter Marshall
    Scots-American preacher (1902 - 1949)
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  • William Hazlitt Grace is the absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty, hesitation or incongruity.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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