Difficult Things Quotes - Page 5

• What we can do, we must do: we must use what we are given, and we must use it the best we can, however much or little help we have for the task. What you have been given is a hard thing--a very hard thing... But my darling, what if there were no one who could do the difficult things?

  Robin McKinley

  What If, Tasks, Use

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• Moderation, we find, is an extremely difficult thing to get in this country.

  Flann O'Brien

  Country, Moderation, Difficult

  Flann O’Brien (2016). “Best of Myles (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)”, p.24, HarperCollins UK

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• There have been five great kisses since 1642 B.C. when Saul and Delilah Korn's inadvertent discovery swept across Western civilization. (Before then couples hooked thumbs.) And the precise rating of kisses is a terribly difficult thing, often leading to great controversy, because although everyone agrees with the formula of affection times purity times intensity times duration, no one has ever been completely satisfied with how much weight each element should receive. But on any system, there are five that everyone agrees deserve full marks. Well, this one left them all behind.

  William Goldman

  Couple, Kissing, Discovery

  William Goldman (2013). “The Princess Bride”, p.48, A&C Black

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• One of the most difficult things to think about in life is one’s regrets. Something will happen to you, and you will do the wrong thing, and for years afterward you will wish you had done something different.

  Daniel Handler

  Regret, Thinking, Years

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• There are many difficult things in this world to hide, but a secret is not one of them.

  Daniel Handler

  Secret, World, Difficult

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• The ability to calm your soul and wait before God is one of the most difficult things in the Christian life. Our old nature is restless... the world around us is frantically in a hurry. But a restless heart usually leads to a reckless life.

  Warren W. Wiersbe

  Christian, Heart, Waiting

  Warren W. Wiersbe (1983). “Meet Yourself in the Psalms”, Victor

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• To find happiness, it is not quite difficult thing. It is just enough to distinguish the blue of the sky from the pink of peach flowers which are opening out.

  Che Lan Vien

  Happiness, Flower, Blue

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• I think the most difficult thing had been scaling the infrastructure. Trying to support the response we had received from our users and the number of people that were interested in using the software.

  Shawn Fanning

  Thinking, Numbers, People

  "Q&A: Napster creator Shawn Fanning". Interview with Giancarlo Varanini, www.zdnet.com. March 3, 2000.

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• The difficult thing about practice isn't learning to sit for an hour, or sit for a weekend, or go on a three-month retreat, as hard as those things are. The difficult thing is to pay attention to what is happening right here and now.

  Larry Rosenberg

  Weekend, Practice, Pay

  Larry Rosenberg (2004). “Breath by Breath: The Liberating Practice of Insight Meditation”, p.91, Shambhala Publications

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• There is no easy method of learning difficult things. The method is to close the door, give out that you are not at home, and work.

  Joseph de Maistre

  Home, Learning, Doors

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• Sex is difficult, yes. But they are difficult things with which we have been charged...If you only recognize this and manage out of yourself, out of your own nature and ways, out of your own experience and childhood and strength to achieve a relation to sex wholly your own (not influenced by convention and custom) then you need no longer be afraid of losing yourself and becoming unworthy of your best possession.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Sex, Childhood, Needs

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• You may have been taught that the mind (the spirit, the brain) is a very difficult thing to know about. This is the first principle of Scientology: It is possible to know about the mind, the spirit and life.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Philosophy, Brain, Mind

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• For everything in life there is always a beginning and an end. This is the tough part the most difficult thing when you see that it’s coming: The end.

  Seve Ballesteros

  Tough, Ends, Difficult

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• The least difficult thing a foreign missionary has to learn is the language; the part of her work which she has the most reason to dread is its responsibility.

  Isabella Thoburn

  Responsibility, Missionary, Language

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• Making a comeback is one of the most difficult things to do with dignity.

  Greg Lake

  Dignity, Comeback, Defeat

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• The most difficult thing for people to do is hear their own soul.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Life, People, Soul

  Neale Donald Walsch (1996). “Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue”, p.68, Penguin

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• Its a very wonderful yet difficult thing to be given a lot of really good opportunities and the world is at your fingertips.

  Troian Bellisario

  Opportunity, World, Wonderful

  "Troian's Emotional Struggle". Interview with Emily Laurence, www.seventeen.com. August 13, 2012.

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• The most difficult thing in music is still to write a melody of several bars which can be self-sufficient. That is the secret of music. While the technique should be as perfected as possible, that is a lesser essential Anybody can acquire a brilliant technique Melody alone permits a work to survive.

  Darius Milhaud

  Writing, Self, Secret

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• The portrait of a person is one of the most difficult things to do. It means you must almost bring the presence of that person photographed to other people in such a way that they don't have to know that person personally, but that they are still confronted with a human being that they won't forget. That's a portrait.

  Paul Strand

  Mean, People, Portraits

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• It is rightly said that the most difficult thing in chess is winning a won position

  Vladimir Kramnik

  Success, Winning, Chess

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• Surrender is the most difficult thing in the world while you are doing it and the easiest when it is done.

  Bhai Sahib Singh

  Spiritual, Done, World

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• To be alone in the air at night is to be very much alone indeed. . . cut off from everything and everyone . . . nothing is 'familiar' any longer . . . . I think that unfamiliarity is the most difficult thing to face; one feels rather like Alice in Wonderland after she has nibbled the toadstool that made her grow smaller - and like Alice, one hopes that the process will stop while there is still something left!

  Pauline Gower

  Cutting, Night, Thinking

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• In the antiseptic world we try to purge ourselves of difficult things. Don't dwell on it, switch off the light and go home. But this is home. I have to be a home to myself. I am the place I come back to and I can't keep hiding difficult things in trunks. Soon the house will be full of trunks and I perched on top of them with the phone saying, "Yes, I'm fine, of course, I'm fine, everything's fine." The trunks shudder.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Home, Phones, Light

  Jeanette Winterson (1995). “Art & Lies: A Piece for Three Voices and a Bawd”, Knopf

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• First of all, war is a very, very difficult thing to deal with, even on the good days.

  Saxby Chambliss

  War, Good Day, Firsts

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• You have to tell your children about the world they live in, about the discrepancies, about the things that don't work… So you have to bring it up with a scientific orientation so they learn to ask questions, and learn how to say the most difficult thing in the world: 'I don't know'.

  Jacque Fresco

  Children, World, Difficult

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