Difficult Quotes - Page 11

• It is difficult to separate oneself from one's design moralities.

  David Chipperfield

  Design, Morality, Oneself

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• Nobody can be happy. You could have moments of happiness, moments of joy. But life is very difficult. Unless you're a total idiot. Then you can be happy.

  Irvin Kershner

  Joy, Idiot, Life Is

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• Unity is the only way in which the people of this country can overthrow the fascists, communists, capitalists, and all the other assholes who claim running a representative government is so difficult. The emphasis has been taken from the Bill of Rights and placed on the type of interpretation of the Constitution that best suits the people in power.

  William Powell

  Running, Country, Taken

  "The Anarchist Cookbook". Book by William Powell, Chapter Three: "Natural, Nonlethal, and Lethal Weapons", p. 78, 1971.

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• Deciding to get back together with someone is a complicated and difficult decision. Just remember that the person you are getting back together with is the same person who, not long before, looked you in your beautiful face, took full stock of you and all your qualities, and told you that he was no longer in need of your company.

  Greg Behrendt

  Beautiful, Long, Decision

  Greg Behrendt, Liz Tuccillo (2009). “He's Just Not That Into You: The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys”, p.99, Simon and Schuster

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• We live in an age of miracles so commonplace that it can be difficult to see them as anything other than part of the daily texture of living

  Tom Chatfield

  Miracle, Age, Texture

  Tom Chatfield, The School of Life (2012). “How to Thrive in the Digital Age”, p.3, Pan Macmillan

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• It is difficult to speak of the universal specifically.

  Horace

  Speak, Universal

  "Ars Poetica". Poem by Horace, Line 128, c. 18 BC.

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• Prostitution is said to be the world's oldest profession. It is, indeed, a model of all professional work: the worker relinquishes control over himself... in exchange for money. Because of the passivity it entails, this is a difficult and, for many, a distasteful role.

  Thomas Szasz

  Passivity Is, Roles, World

  "The Second Sin". Book by Thomas Szasz, 1973.

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• It is far more difficult, I assure you, to live for the truth than to die for it.

  Horace Mann

  Dies

  Horace Mann (1861). “Twelve Sermons: Delivered at Antioch College”, p.313

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• Shaw does not merely decorate a proposition, but makes his way from point to point through new and difficult territory. This explains why Shaw must either be taken whole or left alone. He must be disassembled and put together again with nothing left out, under pain of incomprehension; for his politics, his art, and his religion - to say nothing of the shape of his sentences - are unique expressions of this enormously enlarged and yet concentrated consciousness.

  Jacques Barzun

  Art, Pain, Taken

  "Bernard Shaw in Twilight" by Jacques Barzun in "The Kenyon Review", Volume 5, No. 3 (pp. 321-345), Part II, www.jstor.org. Summer 1943.

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• The recognition of human wretchedness is difficult for whoever is rich and powerful because he is almost invincibly led to believe that he is something. It is equally difficult for the man in miserable circumstances because he is almost invincibly led to believe that the rich and powerful man is something.

  Simone Weil

  Powerful, Believe, Men

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.122, Psychology Press

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• Sri Yukteswar used to poke gentle fun at the commonly inadequate conceptions of renunciation."A beggar cannot renounce wealth," Master would say. "If a man laments: 'My business has failed; my wife has left me; I will renounce all and enter a monastery,' to what worldly sacrifice is he referring? He did not renounce wealth and love; they renounced him!"Saints like Gandhi, on the other hand, have made not only tangible material sacrifices, but also the more difficult renunciation of selfish motive and private goal, merging their inmost being in the stream of humanity as a whole.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Fun, Selfish, Sacrifice

  Sri Sri Paramahansa Yogananda (2008). “Autobiography of a Yogi”, p.425, Diamond Pocket Books (P) Ltd.

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• Although I am still in favour of a National Government in these difficult times, and shall probably be found in the great majority of cases in the Government Lobby, there are some issues that have arisen, or are likely to arise, upon which I am unable to give the Government the support which it has, perhaps, the right to expect from those receiving the Government Whip. It occurs to me, therefore, that it would perhaps be more satisfactory if I was no longer regarded as being among the supporters of the present Administration.

  Harold MacMillan

  Government, Issues, Giving

  "Mr H. Macmillan M.P". Harold MacMillan's letter written on June 29, 1936 resigning the Government whip, "The Times" (p. 8), July 8, 1936.

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• After a person dies, there is always something like a feeling of stupefaction, so difficult is it to comprehend this unexpected advent of nothingness and to resign oneself to believing it.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Death, Believe, Feelings

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• It's always difficult for anyone trying to compete against their past achievements.

  Michael Jackson

  Past, Achievement, Trying

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• With a poetry book I can send 100 copies out to reviewers and other people, and even do it in advance and get their response. It's difficult with iPad: how do you send it out for free, and how do you even disseminate it before it goes into their store?

  Felix Dennis

  Book, Ipads, People

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• Boys in bands are more difficult to deal with than one-year-old babies. I've been one of them, and I am one of them, but it is the truth.

  Pete Wentz

  Baby, Boys, Years

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• Instead of respecting things, we want to use them for ourselves and if it is difficult to use them, we want to conquer them.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Use, Want, Conquer

  "Not Always So: Practicing the True Spirit of Zen". Book by Shunryū Suzuki. Chapter: "Respect For Things", p. 81, 2002.

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• I like to work with a combination of analog and Pro Tools. I love the sound of analog tape, but there's so many things you can do with Pro Tools that would be incredibly difficult and very time-consuming with analog.

  Kate Bush

  Sound, Would Be, Tape

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. May 16, 2011.

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• The old knowledge had been difficult but not distressing. It had been all paradox and myth, and it had made sense. The new knowledge was all fact and reason, and it made no sense.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Facts, Paradox, Reason

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2016). “The Found and the Lost: The Collected Novellas of Ursula K. Le Guin”, p.287, Simon and Schuster

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• You know, once you give birth, once you have kids, you realize what's important in life, and you realize it's really not difficult to be a good person. And so when people aren't good around me, I tend to move away from that. There are so many good people in the world, and you want to surround your children with that.

  Pamela Anderson

  Children, Moving, Kids

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• Happiness may be difficult to obtain. The obstacles are not primarily financial.

  Alain de Botton

  May, Obstacles, Financial

  "The Consolations of Philosophy". Book by Alain de Botton, Chapter II, Consolation For Not having Enough Money, 2000.

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• It is difficult to express the reality of Ibo society in classical English.

  Chinua Achebe

  Reality

  Chinua Achebe, Bernth Lindfors (1997). “Conversations with Chinua Achebe”, p.9, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• In the construction of a country, it is not the practical workers but the idealists and planners that are difficult to find.

  Sun Yat-sen

  Country, Construction, Idealist

  "Chung-shan Ch'üan-shu (Zhongshan Quanshu), vol. II". Book by Sun Yat-sen, 1936.

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• You can't have a laugh track that sort of tells the audience when to laugh and, you know, it's difficult to find those moments.

  Chris Pratt

  Track, Laughing, Moments

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• It is obviously quite difficult to be no longer loved when we are still in love, but it is incomparably more painful to be loved when we ourselves no longer love.

  Georges Courteline

  Painful, Still In Love, Stills

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