Top 100 More Difficult Than Quotes
#1. Communication with the dead is only a little more difficult than communication with some of the living.
Ashleigh Brilliant
#2. For many, living a Christlike life every day may be even more difficult than laying down one's life.
James E. Faust
#4. Being human is difficult. Some people make it more difficult than others. I was one of those people.
Lana Del Rey
#5. I'm a big lover of fish. Cooking fish is so much more difficult than cooking protein meats, because there are no temperatures in the medium, rare, well done cooking a stunning sea bass or a scallop.
Gordon Ramsay
#6. There are two things that are more difficult than making an after-dinner speech: climbing a wall which is leaning toward you and kissing a girl who is leaning away from you.
Winston Churchill
#7. Piecing together a murder was much more difficult than piecing together a cake.
Ellie Alexander
#9. I was a new person in the same world, which was a lot more difficult than being the same person in a new world.
Lisa Kleypas
#10. Men find it more difficult than women to be alone. They function better with someone in their lives. Being married, they are rooted, so they feel safe to go and do what they want to do.
Pattie Boyd
#11. The only thing more difficult than persuading someone else to start having sex with you is persuading yourself to stop.
Jacob M. Appel
#12. If you have wind it becomes more difficult than you think.
Tiger Woods
#13. Meta-design is much more difficult than design; it's easier to draw something than to explain how to draw it.
Donald Knuth
#14. That is the problem with rumors," said Avin Brone. "It is very hard to prove that things are not true - much more difficult than proving they are.
Tad Williams
#15. Life on earth, filled with uncertainty and change, seemed far more difficult than what lay beyond the grave.
Jane Hamilton
#16. The art of drawing conclusions from experiments and observations consists in evaluating probabilities and in estimating whether they are sufficiently great or numerous enough to constitute proofs. This kind of calculation is more complicated and more difficult than it is commonly thought to be ...
Antoine Lavoisier
#17. We are coming now to dark shoals in rough waters, to straits so narrow that virtue and wickedness voyage close together and may be at times more difficult than usual to differentiate from each other.
Dean Koontz
#18. We all face storms in life. Some are more difficult than others, but we all go through trials and tribulation. That's why we have the gift of faith.
Joyce Meyer
#19. Making people laugh is so much more difficult than making them sad. Too much fiction defaults to the somber, the tragic. This is because sad endings are easy in comparison - happy endings aren't at all simple to earn, especially when writing to an audience jaded by them.
Stephen Graham Jones
#20. Nothing is more difficult than trying to correct history.
Myles Munroe
#21. Ignoring a ghost is a lot more difficult than you'd think.
Jeaniene Frost
#22. No part of walking by faith is more difficult than walking the road of repentance. However, with 'faith unto repentance', we can push the roadblock of pride away and beg God for mercy. One simply surrenders, worrying only about what God thinks, not about what 'they' think.
Neal A. Maxwell
#23. A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
Leonard Bernstein
#24. I found my first novel difficult. I don't want to make it sound like it's any more difficult than driving a cab or going to any other job, but there are so many opportunities for self-doubt, that you just kind of need to soldier on.
Anthony Doerr
#26. Hiring foreigners is more expensive and more difficult than hiring locals, because of the visa fees and long lead times for visa processing. And companies face a backlash by anti-immigrant groups for hiring foreigners. So they do it only because they have to.
Vivek Wadhwa
#27. The one thing more difficult than following a regimen is not imposing it on others.
Marcel Proust
#28. We're always making everything slightly more difficult than it needs to be, aren't we?
Oh, us ...
Sara Bareilles
#29. I know of nothing more difficult than knowing who you are, and having the courage to share the reasons for the catastrophe of your character with the world.
William H Gass
#30. Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#31. You can become a night watchman and live happily. It is what you are inwardly that matters. Your inner peace and joy you have to earn. It is much more difficult than earning money. No university can teach you to be yourself.
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
#33. Walking in heels while wearing a ball gown was, as it turned out, more difficult than finagling an invitation to a state dinner.
Jennifer Lynn Barnes
#34. I'm part of a speech therapy course called the Maguire Programme. It isn't a cure; it's something you need to maintain and work on. I get days where I find things more difficult than others.
Gareth Gates
#35. 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
#36. I don't find intimate scenes more difficult than other scenes.
Joan Chen
#37. I don't know if you've ever tried writing a Doctor Who story, but it's a lot more difficult than it initially appears, especially if you've got more than one assistant.
Sarah Sutton
#38. Stabbing someone from the front is far more difficult than stabbing them in the back.
Jamie Wyman
#39. There's times when I'll see a show, or something cooking on TV, and think, 'That can really be fun when it's working.' But it's a grind. I did that at NBC, it was five days a week. I was doing 'Talk Soup' and 'Later' at the same time. It's a hard job, more difficult than people realize.
Greg Kinnear
#40. The struggle to save the global environment is in one way much more difficult than the struggle to vanquish Hitler, for this time the war is with ourselves. We are the enemy, just as we have only ourselves as allies.
Al Gore
#41. Stepping onto a brand-new path is difficult, but not more difficult than remaining in a situation, which is not nurturing to the whole woman.
Maya Angelou
#42. Comedy is much more difficult than tragedy-and a much better training, I think. It's much easier to make people cry than to make them laugh.
Vivien Leigh
#43. But what you're trying to do is much more difficult than climbing K2
Greg Mortenson
#44. People would ask me how I could stand the long campaigning, how I could stand being charged with the responsibilities of a great nation, one of the most powerful and difficult jobs in the world.
It wasn't any more difficult than picking cotton all day or shaking peanuts.
Jimmy Carter
#45. The most direct way has been to ask people how much effort it took them to produce a deceptive or truthful message. People find lying more difficult than truth telling (Caso, Gnisci, Vrij, & Mann, 2005; Vrij, Semin, & Bull, 1996). As
Anonymous
#46. Ideas are cheap - what counts is the ability to translate an idea into reality, which is much more difficult than recognizing a good idea.
Josh Kaufman
#47. I often think that presentations are more difficult than the work itself.
Saul Bass
#49. I'd often thought being a Christian meant by definition being a bad one, since nothing is more difficult than Christianity, so I was more or less used to that feeling.
Charlaine Harris
#50. Being a father is like directing Alien or Invasion of the Body Snatchers. It's much more difficult than directing an episode of TV. Also, directing a show or movie lasts a few months at most, parenting lasts for decades.
Misha Collins
#51. Sometimes coping with the difficulties success brings is much more difficult than coping with the difficulties failure brings!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#52. I think Wonder Woman is a very difficult character to crack. More difficult than Superman, who is also more difficult than Batman. Also, a lot of people in Hollywood believe that it's hard to do a big action movie with a female lead. I happen to disagree with that.
David S.Goyer
#53. Making films is much more difficult than people imagine, and so the experience of actually directing them is not one I've ever relished.
Sydney Pollack
#54. The most efficient action, the most significant testimony to nonviolence, is living a life in which there is no violence-showing that such a life is possible, and even not more difficult than a life of gain, nor more unpleasant than a life of pleasure, nor less natural than an 'ordinary' life.
Lanza Del Vasto
#55. There is nothing in the world more difficult than candor, and nothing easier than flattery.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#56. The imaginative leap for me of writing for women is no more difficult than the one of writing for men. I've always wanted to have women well represented in the work that I've done because I've always been around them and around the way they look at the world.
Anthony Minghella
#57. Being human was a lot more difficult than it looked. Demon was easy. Demon was simple. Human was ... terrifying. Muse
Pippa DaCosta
#58. The undoing is almost always more difficult than the doing.
Kate DiCamillo
#59. If I solve this one, said Harry's brain, I want a cookie afterward, and if you make the problem any more difficult than this, I mean the slightest bit more difficult, I am climbing out of your skull and heading for Tahiti.
Eliezer Yudkowsky
#60. Disney acting is a little more difficult than many people think it is. People feel like the characters aren't deep, but as an actor, you try to do everything you can do the best of your ability.
Spencer Boldman
#61. There is nothing more difficult than waking someone who is only pretending to be asleep.
Desmond Tutu
#62. Recovering in a Calcutta, India hospital. I think I'm more difficult than critical.
Mother Teresa
#63. There are quite a few actors in the business who are much more difficult than kids or monkeys.
Paul Hogan
#64. Storytelling is easy. All that's needed is a beginning, a middle and an end, and about 53,000 words. Not true. There is nothing more difficult than inventing a story.
Dennis Macaraeg
#65. Far more difficult than implementing change is figuring out what works, understanding why it works, grasping when to change, and knowing when not to.
James C. Collins
#66. The old Lena is dead, I say, and then push past him, back down through the gully toward the camp. Each step is more difficult than the last; the heaviness fills me and turns my limbs to stone. You
Lauren Oliver
#67. The struggle to maintain peace is immeasurably more difficult than any military operation.
Anne O'Hare McCormick
#68. My skin is broken out from subconscious anxiety and tension, self-induced. Nothing is more difficult than lashing a vagrant mind suddenly into long self-imposed stints of concentration.
Sylvia Plath
#69. Nothing is easier than being busy and nothing more difficult than being effective.
R. Alec MacKenzie
#71. To keep something wild is far more difficult than to preserve it.
Agatha Christie
#72. It's cruel to give hope where none should be. It only turns into disappointment, resentment, rage -- all the things that make this life more difficult than it already is.
Victoria Aveyard
#73. I believe the 'Jeopardy!' test is more difficult than being a contestant on the program.
Alex Trebek
#74. [Wayne Rooney] has to be viewed as a great England striker if he breaks Sir Bobby Charlton's record. Scoring goals at international level is much more difficult than it was a few years back because even the lesser teams are well organised and don't concede too many goals these days.
Michael Owen
#75. Love is something difficult and it is more difficult than other things because in other conflicts nature herself enjoins men to collect themselves, to take themselves firmly in the hand with all their strength, while in the heightening of love the impulse is to give oneself wholly away.
Rainer Maria Rilke
#76. Going where no man has gone before is more difficult than it sounds. Our cousins and ancestors were no less curious than we are, and were perhaps bolder. This world is their tomb.
You should look under the bed.
N.D. Wilson
#77. Gaining a victory is more difficult than maintaining it once you have it.
Joyce Meyer
#78. Her eyes widened. "My." She looked at him hesitantly and then bit her lip. "This might be more difficult than I realized. You're a large man, aren't you?" She blushed. "I mean, all over."
He managed to nod. Yes, damn it. And getting excruciatingly larger by the minute.
Monica McCarty
#79. My sister is a public school teacher. She makes far far less money than I do, and gets almost no public attention for her work. Yet I believe what she does is infinitely more important and more difficult than what I do.
Anna Quindlen
#80. Success is a very difficult thing. It's much more difficult than one might think.
George Lucas
#81. Einstein also knew the dangers of taking this step. That he understood the physics of nuclear weapons was beyond question, but he could claim no equivalent understanding of international affairs. As he later famously remarked, "politics is more difficult than physics."1
Michael Keren
#82. It is hard to convince a high-school student that he will encounter a lot of problems more difficult than those of algebra and geometry.
E.W. Howe
#83. I originally wanted to be an opera singer. I studied classical voice at the University of Washington but soon realised I didn't have the instrument or the discipline. The road for opera singers is more difficult than for actors.
Kyle MacLachlan
#84. Men give us most rarely that which we really want, not favor, but - Justice. Nothing is easier than to coax them to pet us like children, nothing more difficult than to persuade them to treat us like responsible human beings.
Frances Power Cobbe
#85. There are few things more difficult than to appraise the work of a man suddenly dead in his youth; to disentangle promise from achievement; to save him from that sentimentalizing which confuses the tragedy of the interruption with the merit of the work actually performed.
Ezra Pound
#86. I cannot think of anything more difficult than to say something which would be worthy of this impressive and, for me, memorable occasion, and of the ideals and purposes which inspired the Nobel Peace Award.
Lester B. Pearson
#87. Killing a man should be more difficult than killing game. It wasn't. He looked at the knife in his trembling hand. Only the aftermath was different.
Veronica Rossi
#88. The only thing more difficult than being a God is being Thom Yorke. Thom Yorke has all these responsibilities, to save the planet. To save the world. To redeem Thom Yorke.
Thom Yorke
#89. Don't worry," he would say, smiling. "Dying is much more difficult than one imagines.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#90. There's nothing more difficult than saying goodbye to a house where you've suffered.
Vasily Grossman
#91. The real truth is one thing, and the literary truth is another; and there is nothing more difficult than to want both truths to coincide.
Mario Vargas-Llosa
#92. If you survive, you've got to live with the guilt, and that's more difficult than looking someone in the eye and pulling the trigger. Trust me. I've done both.
Sara Grant
#93. Goodness is more difficult than evil. Evil men knew that more than good men. That's why they became evil. That's why it stuck with them. Evil was for those who could never reach the truth. It was a mask for stupidity and lack of love.
Colum McCann
#94. Facing another day, with ordinary callings to ordinary people all around us is much more difficult than chasing my own dreams that I have envisioned for the grand story of my life.
Michael S. Horton
#95. With 'Survivor' - I didn't get any sleep, there was no food, we had to boil our water ... plus, it was physically taxing during the day. That's what made it more difficult than three-a-day practices.
Jimmy Johnson
#96. Wasn't it quite difficult being a wicked girl? Even more difficult than being a good one?
Jean Rhys
#97. Anyone who knows me, knows I don't walk away from a commitment, but I had a commitment to myself. Yes, there were times Nickelodeon made it more difficult than it needed to be, but there were also times they made it easier.
Joe Murray
#98. Comedy has to be so much cleaner than drama. You can't layer it in the way you can a dramatic performance. Which is why it's more difficult than drama - you don't have so many tricks.
Grant Bowler
#99. ... Writing is something that you can never do as well as it can be done. It is a perpetual challenge and it is more difficult than anything else that I have ever done - so I do it. And it makes me happy when I do it well.
Ernest Hemingway,
#100. It's very rewarding to see the movie, and it's very rewarding to make the movie, but playing the character [Riddick] is sometimes a lot more difficult than other characters because it takes so much preparation to get into that character.
Vin Diesel
