Top 100 Difficult To Quotes
#1. It's very hard to grow, because it's difficult to let go of the models of ourselves in which we've invested so heavily.
Ram Dass
#2. If you've been massive and it's all slid away, you tend to get written off. It's quite difficult to overcome that, which is why I've got this problem with nostalgia.
Gary Numan
#3. It's so difficult to shock America these days.
Judd Apatow
#4. The Olympics are always a special competition, it is very difficult to predict what will happen.
Sergei Bubka
#5. Moreover, even in the absence of accumulating personal experience, it was difficult to believe that soaring murder statistics reflected simply better record keeping, since it had always been hard to ignore a dead body.
Thomas Sowell
#6. As a man passes into middle life, or beyond it, autumn, it has been said, whispers more to his soul than any other season of the natural year. It is not difficult to see why this should be.
Henry Parry Liddon
#7. The dividing line between the superstitions of simple uneducated people who live on high mountains, and the beliefs of sophisticated educated people who live at lesser heights, is so faint that it is difficult to determine where the one ends and the other begins.
Jim Corbett
#8. I taught myself to use a camera - it's not very difficult to use a camera, but I never bothered looking at any textbooks on how to make a picture. I had a much more casual relation to it. For me at the time it was much more about the process rather than the results.
Gillian Wearing
#9. I am fairly classless because it is very difficult to class someone who comes from a mixed marriage.
Sade Adu
#10. Sometimes it is very difficult to keep in mind the fact that the parents, too, have reasons for what they do
have reasons, locked in the depths of their personalities, for their inability to love, to understand, to give of themselves to their children.
Virginia Mae Axline
#11. It's frustrating to do albums that you think are worth listening to, but it's just so difficult to cut through.
Colin Hay
#12. As a white male in America, I have privilege. As a white male who happens to be an artist with a fan base, I have a platform to spread awareness about that privilege. However, songs about race and privilege are very difficult to A) write and B) dissect as a listener. They're heavy.
Macklemore
#13. When everything on the board is clear it can be so difficult to conceal your thoughts from your opponent.
David Bronstein
#14. Oh may He look on us with love and pity and then we shall be able to do anything He wishes us to do, no matter how difficult to accomplish or painful to our feeling.
Catherine McAuley
#15. I believe in one truth is horror, truth puts you in the darkness and it's difficult to find way out, lies are the lightness you hear the stuff which you want to hear.
Deyth Banger
#16. The human voice is the most beautiful instrument of all, but it is the most difficult to play.
Richard Strauss
#17. It is very difficult to break free from the prison of conformity and fixed false beliefs without changing our level of consciousness and awareness.
Debasish Mridha
#18. There is nothing more cruel than talk, and there is nothing more difficult to combat. When people say things behind your back there is nothing you can refute or deny, and the rumours go on growing and growing, and no one can stop them.
Agatha Christie
#19. It is difficult to discriminate the voice of truth from amid the clamor raised by heated partisans.
Friedrich Schiller
#20. Our practice should be based on the ideal of selflessness. Selflessness is very difficult to understand. If you try to be selfless, that is already a selfish idea. Selflessness will be there when you do not try anything.
Shunryu Suzuki
#21. It's difficult to appreciate the value of others when your own self assessment is over valued.
Auliq Ice
#22. When it comes to golf, Scottish people are famously reserved, undemonstrative, difficult to impress. Golf is like church in Scotland, church like golf.
Joe Posnanski
#23. If you take the more general role of going to local stations around the country in Montana or South Carolina or wherever, and start in the local news, it's a lot more difficult to get to the stories that you want to really cover.
Maria Menounos
#24. Measuring progress is often like watching grass grow. While it's difficult to detect movement on a daily basis, it's simple to see growth over time.
Frank Sonnenberg
#25. When suffering from TBI and PTSD, it's difficult to find the motivation to seek help. I want society not to forget those that served this country.
Max Martini
#26. Don't be sorry. The only thing love needs to apologize for is being too difficult to understand and too easy to give in to.
Jay Bell
#27. He looked down at her, finding it difficult to resist the urge to climb over her prone body and kiss her senseless. "Would you mind telling me why you were drinking pear brandy in the middle of the afternoon?"
"Because I couldn' open the sherry."
His lips twitched.
-Marcus & Lillian
Lisa Kleypas
#28. It's just as difficult to overcome success as it is to overcome failure.
William Walton
#29. ZERO and Infinity both are very difficult to understand and explain but at the same time both are key assumption of Mathematics...
Brajesh Kumar
#30. I've no regrets at all, but I still think at times that I would have loved to play in England. You live football over there; it's a great culture. People respect you more; it's more difficult to find respect in Spain. There is more criticism here.
Xavi
#31. It is difficult to understand precisely what the state hopes to achieve by promoting the creation and perpetuation of a subclass of illiterates within our boundaries, surely adding to the problems and costs of unemployment, welfare and crime.
William J. Brennan
#32. Dying is as natural as being born, and all of us have to face it someday. Some sooner than others. It's difficult to understand the meaning of it all. The question isn't, 'Why do we die?' The correct question is, 'Why do we live?
S.M. Reine
#33. An abusive relationship should be easy to identify though often one of the most difficult to end.
Desmond Tutu
#34. I had a woman breakdown and cry when she met me which was difficult to deal with because immediately when someone starts to cry, you want to comfort them, you know, 'Poor thing.' I comforted her. I tried to make her feel better.
Elijah Wood
#35. I think it's terribly difficult to take sex seriously if you've got a sense of humor.
Charlotte Bingham
#36. And Mother, I love her dearly, but she flies into a panic whenever I mention women's rights. As she sees it, it will be so much more difficult to marry me off if I am not only of a weak constitution but of a progressive mind as well.
Gwenn Wright
#37. Multiple characters make it more difficult to showcase each character.
David Finch
#38. You are trying not only to reach your potential but to move beyond it. If you are not in the best shape you can be, these things simply become more difficult to achieve.
Rick Pitino
#39. The trouble with taking away the certainty of evil was that its vacuum was filled by all kinds of more nebulous threats, rivalries, and feuds. It became increasingly difficult to judge where the threat was coming from.
Karen Traviss
#40. When I was doing 'Britain's Got Talent,' I really enjoyed it, but I found it very difficult to be in the audience. I like to be on stage; I feel safer on stage because I'm in control.
David Hasselhoff
#41. It's very difficult to play opposite nothing. I did it for, like, six years - I ran from an invisible smoke monster for most of my twenties.
Evangeline Lilly
#42. The most pleasant weather of all is that most difficult to even notice.
Criss Jami
#43. It is difficult to call myself a writer, even when I stand at a podium to receive a prize, I feel uncomfortable calling myself a writer - I am merely a word criminal.
Murong Xuecun
#44. Some people find it difficult to argue with a woman Prime Minister and shrivel up.
Douglas Hurd
#45. This business of friendship was a curious thing, almost as difficult to learn as the busuness of acting. Sometimes you were expected to tell the truth, to express your thoughts and your feelings, and then other times what was wanted was a lie, a bit of disguise.
Gary L. Blackwood
#46. The biggest surprise was that a country like Angola, that has so much money, that produces so much oil, would be in such a mess and so difficult to travel in. Something is almost cursed in striking oil. It's like the lottery winner who ends up broke.
Paul Theroux
#47. If one looks at the map of the world, it's difficult to find Iraq, and one would think it rather easy to subdue such a small country.
Vladimir Putin
#48. Because we have put ourselves in our own zoo, we find it difficult to break out.
Edward T. Hall
#49. Although it is nonreligious and nontheistic, it's difficult to present Buddhism without sounding theoretical and religious. As
Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse
#50. Action movies live and die by the story that you're trying to tell. It's hard. It's very difficult to do an action movie that stays engaging.
Daniel Craig
#51. The adrenaline of death is difficult to match. A mind knows when lief is really at stake. You can't convince it otherwise, you can't lie to it.
Sarang Gupta
#52. Books and novels in particular that grapple with quite a few things are difficult to explain, so I think that first line can come in a substitute for trying to form a longer sense of what the book is about.
Alice Sebold
#53. It is difficult to think outside the box because the thinking IS the box.
Michael Braun
#54. I think it would be difficult to get drunk in China. I tried to drink some beer with chop sticks and it took me a whole day to finish one can.
Jerry Snider
#55. It is very difficult to be learned; it seems as if people were worn out on the way to great thoughts, and can never enjoy them because they are too tired.
George Eliot
#56. It is easy to be beautiful; it is difficult to appear so.
I admire you, beloved, for the trap you've set. It's like a final chapter no one reads because the plot is over.
Frank O'Hara
#57. It's difficult to be at events with a room full of women who weigh half as much as you do.
Lindsey Vonn
#58. Advertisers don't want to put their ads next to the investigative story; it's extremely difficult to do that. And very few people today actually read those serious news stories on the Web now.
Pierre Omidyar
#59. Now, I find that very difficult to reconcile with notions about a merciful God.
David Attenborough
#60. Scientists generally are really chicken about getting involved in some kind of dispute. As a broadcaster, I find it very difficult to urge them, if it is a controversial subject. They don't want to have science being portrayed badly.
David Suzuki
#61. Blackmail is surprisingly difficult to pull off.
Claire North
#62. But dinner is dinner, a meal at which not so much to eat - it becomes difficult to eat much at it as you grow older - as to drink, to talk, to flirt, to discuss, to rejoice "at the closing of the day". I do not think anything serious should be done after it, as nothing should before breakfast.
George Saintsbury
#63. At times women find it difficult to hear what men have to say when what they tell us does not conform to our fantasies of who they are or who we want them to be.
Bell Hooks
#64. I find it somewhat difficult to write with other people, although it has happened occasionally.
Graham Nash
#65. It is devilish difficult to criticise society & also create human beings.
E. M. Forster
#66. I write as clearly as I am able to. I sometimes tackle ideas and notions that are relatively complex, and it is very difficult to be sure that I am conveying them in the best way. Anyone who goes beyond cliche phrases and cliche ideas will have this trouble.
R.A. Lafferty
#67. But it was very hard for people to separate me out from Hillary Clinton. All their ads were Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, John Edwards, and me. They said I was more liberal than these guys, and that if I went to Washington I'd be supporting their agenda. I found that extremely difficult to overcome.
Brad Carson
#68. What is difficult? To keep a secret, to employ leisure well, to be able to bear an injury.
Chilon Of Sparta
#69. Stupidity was as necessary as intelligence, and as difficult to attain.
George Orwell
#70. Greenfly, it's difficult to see Why God, who made the rose, made thee.
A.P. Herbert
#71. All those involved in the construction of an architectural design, from the architect to the builder, have an attachment to the architecture, although it's difficult to quantify the attachment.
Tadao Ando
#72. I talk about it a lot to my students. Musicality never came up in any of own writing education, and I can see why - we don't have the vocabulary for it. Phrasing is intuitive, and its difficult to articulate when it's on and when it's not.
Paul Lisicky
#73. I'm intrigued by films that have a singular vision behind them. A lot of studio movies have ten writers by the time they're done. You have a movie testing 200 times, making adjustments according to various people's opinions. It's difficult to have an undistilled vision.
Carla Gugino
#74. it is difficult to solve a problem that you are almost entirely ignorant about. You cannot work for peace while ignoring violence any more than a doctor can create treatments while refusing to study disease.
Rory Miller
#75. It's very difficult to talk about religion in Iran because religion has gotten so mixed up with politics.
Asghar Farhadi
#76. It is far more difficult ... to know when to sell a stock than when to buy.
Bernard Baruch
#77. Every fighter has a story that could break your heart. We lose, we get hurt and everything comes apart. That's when it's so difficult to stay on the straight and narrow.
Barry McGuigan
#78. Biographies are, in their nature, far more difficult to make into films than novels, because novels come with plots constructed and dialogue written, whereas I don't invent dialogue for my subjects or plot their lives for them.
Claire Tomalin
#79. Sometimes your world shakes so hard, it's difficult to imagine that everyone else isn't feeling it too.
Nicola Yoon
#80. [It's] difficult to engage people in politics when they believe that what really matters is where they personally stand.
Ivan Krastev
#81. Doxology can help stabilize theology. It is very difficult to sing bad theology.
Douglas Bond
#82. When someone says, 'Shut up, farmer,' it hurts. It's difficult to explain, but it hurts.
Brunello Cucinelli
#83. It's very difficult to do street casting with girls, because a beautiful girl in real life won't necessarily have the silhouette or the presence needed for a show.
Christophe Lemaitre
#84. It's very difficult to make comedy work; I think it's a very underrated genre.
Andrew Scott
#85. It is very difficult to pass from pleasure to work. Accordingly more poems have been swallowed up by sorrow than ever happiness caused to blaze forth in unparalleled radiance.
Honore De Balzac
#86. We grew up very poor, and I hated being poor. I was the oldest of five kids, and I never got a pair of skates until I was nine. It was very difficult to get an education back then and play junior hockey.
Paul Henderson
#87. It was not so difficult to understand the warped view the Azadians had of what they called "human nature" - the phrase they used whenever they had to justify something inhuman and unnatural
Iain M. Banks
#88. There are too many things I find it difficult to say 'no' to.
Tom Stoppard
#89. I'm just very wary that once you start military operations in any country, it's very difficult to predict what the outcome is.
Abdallah II Of Jordan
#90. People in retail banks are not smart. They have a business model that's quite difficult to not make money out of - but still they somehow manage it.
Peter Hargreaves
#91. Having extreme physical beauty presented a problem similar to being rich: it was difficult to know if people loved you for the person you were inside.
Greg Mongrain
#92. It is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated; far more difficult to sacrifice skill and easy execution in the proper place, than to expand both indiscriminately.
John Ruskin
#93. He said that it was very difficult to become an astronaut. I said that I knew. You had to become an officer in the air force and you had to take lots of orders and be prepared to kill other human beings, and I couldn't take orders. Also I didn't have 20/20 vision, which you needed to be a pilot.
Mark Haddon
#94. Technically, a makeup artist's canvas is the face and body. The difference is that my painting of makeup is integrated into the painting of the flesh and not on top of it. I think in some ways it is more difficult to expressively deploy makeup.
Richard Phillips
#95. It has been said that later in life Marx developed a less Utopian view of communism, but it is difficult to find much evidence of this.
Anonymous
#96. It is simply the view, and a view I think shared by most members of the party, that it is very difficult to have a leader that does not command the support of the parliamentary party.
Francis Maude
#97. One can quite understand vegetarianism. One can quite understand meat-eating. But it is difficult to understand why a person who is a flesh-eater should object to one kind of flesh, namely cow's flesh. This is an anomaly which call for explanation.
B.R. Ambedkar
#98. Readers often tell me after they've read the books, they find it difficult to sum up the plot in a simple way. My response is, "It's a story about the love a father shares for his daughter. All the rest is just filler."
- MJ Mancini, on his best-selling trilogy, "Revelation".
M.J. Mancini
#100. Spain is finding it very difficult to finance itself with sovereign debt risk premium so high.
Mariano Rajoy
