Difficult Quotes - Page 24

• It can be difficult to run your own firm, but the trade off is fewer conflicts and more control.

  Dan Gelber

  Running, Conflict, Trade

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• In the end, this is a difficult story to sum up. The making of the atomic bomb is one of history's most amazing examples of teamwork and genius and poise under pressure. But it's also the story of how humans created a weapon capable of wiping our species off the planet. It's a story with no end in sight.
  And, like it or not, you're in it.

  Steve Sheinkin

  Teamwork, Sight, Example

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• It's always great to play at home. I won here last year and it's great to start with a win like this today. The first match was difficult and I thought it was step in the right direction.

  Gustavo Kuerten

  Home, Winning, Years

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• I have a very happy marriage and friends who keep my feet on the ground. But looking for satisfaction in life is difficult. Maybe being happy is as simple as not being unhappy.

  Jasper Carrott

  Simple, Satisfaction In Life, Feet

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• In spite of overwhelming evidence, it is most difficult for a citizen of western Europe to bring thoroughly home to himself the truth that the civilisation which surrounds him is a rare exception in the history of the world.

  Henry James Sumner Maine

  Home, Europe, Citizens

  Henry Sumner Maine, Sir, J. H. Morgan (2000). “Ancient Law”, p.13, Beard Books

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• The next time you encounter a difficult obstacle or problem, you should smile and say, 'Here's my chance to grow.'

  Zig Ziglar

  Encounters, Next, Chance

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• The reality is that while heliocentrism was discussed and often accepted within Catholic circles - it was effectively the only place where it could be - the more traditional view of the solar system still prevailed even among leading scientists. So it's hardly surprising that Galileo's Catholic judges had difficult accepting his views, especially when they saw themselves as defending scientific orthodoxy and were supported in this by the scientific establishment.

  Michael Coren

  Reality, Views, Circles

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• To cure ALS medically is not economical. The realities are that it's difficult to find funding for research for a medical cure. I believe in developing technology as opposed to medical research. Technology can be economical.

  Steve Gleason

  Believe, Technology, Reality

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• The struggle of the mind to keep itself free from every sort of
  bondage -- to remain curious, open, unsatiated in all its
  relations with nature -- is tenfold more difficult than the
  cultivation of a stable, satisfying point of view, but a
  thousandfold more precious.

  Gardner Murphy

  Struggle, Views, Mind

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• It is difficult to preach, this morality of mediocrity! It may never admit what it is and what it wants! It must speak about restraint and worth and duty and love of one's neighbor.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  And Love, Mediocrity, May

  "Beyond Good and Evil". Book by Friedrich Nietzsche, I. Johnston trans., § 262, 1886.

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• Every intellectual effort sets us apart from the commonplace, and leads us by hidden and difficult paths to secluded spots where we find ourselves amid unaccustomed thoughts.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Effort, Intellectual, Path

  "What is Philosophy?". Book by José Ortega y Gasset, p. 15, 1964.

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• It is difficult for a proud man ever to forgive a person who has found him at fault, and who has good grounds for complaining of him; his pride is not assuaged till he has regained the advantages he lost and put the other person in the wrong.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Pride, Men, Forgiving

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• No disease of the imagination is so difficult to cure, as that which is complicated with the dread of guilt : fancy and conscience then act interchangeably upon us, and so often shift their places, that the illusions of one are not distinguished from the dictates of the other.

  E. M. Forster

  Imagination, Guilt, Disease

  E. M. Forster (1987). “Commonplace Book”, p.76, Stanford University Press

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• There is again a living prophet on the earth speaking in the name of the Lord. And how we need such guidance! Our times are turbulent and difficult. We see wars internationally and distress domestically. Neighbors all around us face personal heartaches and family sorrows. Legions know fear and troubles of a hundred kinds.

  Jeffrey R. Holland

  War, Names, Heartache

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• The easiest books are generally the best; for, whatever author is obscure and difficult in his own language, certainly does not think clearly.

  Bill Vaughan

  Book, Thinking, Doe

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• Furthermore, when citizens are all almost equal, it becomes difficult for them to defend their independence against the aggressions of power.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Independence, Citizens, Equal

  "Democracy in America". Book by Alexis de Tocqueville. Chapter III, 1835.

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• It was very difficult to write about my own country, because I have always been the outsider looking in.

  Asne Seierstad

  Country, Writing, Outsiders

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• It's very difficult to pin down the President of the United States without subpoena powers.

  Bill O'Reilly

  President, United States, Subpoenas

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I feel sorry for people in power. I feel sorry for the Queen, in a way, that she hasn't had a normal life. It'd difficult for me to hate anyone. Immediately someone's unpopular, I feel sorry for them.

  Ricky Gervais

  Queens, Sorry, Hate

  Interview with Scott Gordon, www.avclub.com. January 10, 2007.

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• It was probably very difficult to go from Chinese and then suddenly go to kindergarten and start speaking English; it's very hard to transition back and forth when you are in that pivotal age. It's also hard to transition back, but if I was immersed in the country for a given amount of time, you are surrounded by it, everyone is speaking, you are learning new things, you are practicing all the time.

  Lucy Liu

  Country, Chinese, Age

  "Lucy Liu Talks 3 Needles". MovieWeb interview, www.movieweb.com. November 27, 2006.

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• She [Monica Vitti] was a great actress, but a very difficult person. I am not in contact with her at the moment because she is very sick. Not a generous woman, I have to say. I don't see her much.

  Giovanna Cau

  Sick, Actresses, Moments

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When people lose their jobs, they can either get another job or be entrepreneurs. In the music industry, a lot of people have attempted the latter by starting their own labels, but in the age of digital downloads, it's very difficult to succeed.

  Judd Apatow

  Jobs, People, Entrepreneur

  Interview with Larry Fitzmaurice, pitchfork.com. December 11, 2012.

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• I like sets that feel small. Sets that feel really big are difficult. When you're on a big set it feels like there's constant mis-communication.

  Anna Kendrick

  Communication, Bigs, Feels

  "50/50 - Anna Kendrick interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Unfortunately I've been to jail a couple times. Anytime I come in it's difficult to make music, write songs.

  Gucci Mane

  Song, Couple, Writing

  Source: www.billboard.com

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• It has always been difficult for historians to fully grasp the intelligence of painters.

  Dore Ashton

  Intellect, Painter, Historian

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