Very Difficult Quotes

#1. The world's changed. It's very difficult to know where to be. Because sometimes life is so fast and so absolute that the only way you can change things is by actually shifting your life utterly and totally to a different hemisphere. You can't partially change. There's no semi-revolution.

Cate Blanchett

#2. I often think it can often be very difficult for comedians to revisit the same gag. I think Russell's a bit more than a comedian.

Colin Firth

#3. It's very difficult to determine whether this is the fault of the world that has abandoned the Church, or the Church that does not know how to relate to the world.

Angelo Scola

#4. It is very difficult to build contemporary architecture in Italy

Fabio Novembre

#5. He was not a runner, my father, but he was quick. I always remember it was very difficult to escape from him when he was angry. If he wanted to beat us he would always catch us. Even me, he could always catch me.

Haile Gebrselassie

#6. Fashion is a dream. It's difficult, and there are many aspects of fashion that are very difficult, but if you love it like I do, because I really have a passion, now, for fashion, it's not easy, but nothing is easy in life.

Carolina Herrera

#7. Having been an oncologist and having cared for scores, if not hundreds, of dying patients, when you don't have a treatment that can shrink the tumor and the patient will die, it's a very difficult conversation. It's emotionally draining.

Ezekiel Emanuel

#8. I think Christian spirituality is like jazz music. I think loving Jesus is something you feel. I think it is something very difficult to get on paper. But it is no less real, no less meaningful, no less beautiful.

Donald Miller

#9. Trying to be a socialist and a libertarian is obviously a very difficult balancing act, which nobody has pulled off too successfully in this century.

David Hare

#10. It's actually very difficult to make something both simple and good.

Paul Simon

#11. It's very difficult for designers today. How can someone produce so many shows? Now the minimum is four a year.

Carine Roitfeld

#12. A compassionate attitude opens our inner door, and as a result it is much easier to communicate with others. If there is too much self-centered attitude, then fear, doubt and suspicion come and as a result our inner door closes. Then it is very difficult to communicate with others.

Dalai Lama

#13. It's very difficult to get any footage of yourself doing what you love unless you have a friend who's a photographer or videographer and wants to document you. That was really the idea and the goal from the beginning: to help people get a good photo, and then it was to help people get a good video.

Nick Woodman

#14. I tried to do that very difficult thing, imagine old people young again and invested with the graces of youth. But

Charles Dickens

#15. Some colors are very difficult to render, and you must compensate to get the color you want on the screen.

Claude Chabrol

#16. I have a very difficult time describing my music.

Les Claypool

#17. The challenges in this place are real and sometimes very difficult, but I've learned to slow down and look for beauty in my days, for the mysteries and blessings woven into everything, into the very words we speak.

Kim Edwards

#18. I just travel all the time. And I was just looking at the schedules now and starting the first week of October I will be every weekend with somebody at tournaments through Christmas. So it gets very difficult to just go away and not do that.

Ivan Lendl

#19. It's very difficult for a black man to get out of South-Central Los Angeles, and get out civilized ... The only men I know who have escaped, all began reading Robert Heinlein at age ten.

Larry Niven

#20. It is very difficult to make one's way in this world without being wicked at one time or another, when the world's way is so wicked to begin with.

Gregory Maguire

#21. It is very difficult for people to come in contact with their own emotions and their own sensibilities.

Peter Davison

#22. At the outbreak of the war it was found very difficult to raise infantry in Texas, as no Texan walks a yard if he can help it. Many mounted regiments were therefore organized, and afterwards dismounted.

Arthur Fremantle

#23. Whatever women do in life, they must do it twice as good as men in order to be considered as half as qualified. Fortunately, that's not very difficult.

Charlotte Whitton

#24. It's easy to be complicated but very difficult to be simple.

Debasish Mridha

#25. It is very difficult sometimes to keep awake, especially at church, but there is no difficulty at all about sleeping.

Oscar Wilde

#26. Energy is a very subtle concept. It is very, very difficult to get right.

Richard P. Feynman

#27. Is it shocking that it's very difficult for a news organization to do news in America now? It's not shocking because we're a culture that doesn't want news. We want entertainment. We want info-tainment. That's why CNN is having problems.

Oprah Winfrey

#28. He's a man, dear," Amelia explained kindly. "Sustained thinking is very difficult for them." "As opposed to women," Leo retorted, "who have the remarkable ability to make decisions without doing any thinking at all.

Lisa Kleypas

#29. Rich and famous and doing good," mused Schlichtmann. "Rich isn't so difficult. Famous isn't so difficult. Rich and famous together aren't so difficult. Rich, famous, and doing good
now, that's very difficult.

Jonathan Harr

#30. My parents instilled in me that life was going to be very difficult and that I'd have to work for everything.

Joan Collins

#31. I still do find it very difficult in the West to connect to this politeness of smiling, not saying how you're thinking or not saying how you really feel.

Waris Dirie

#32. Part of the problem is that we have become so dependent upon this system that is killing and exploiting us, it has become almost impossible for us to imagine living outside of it, and it's very difficult physically for us to live outside of it.

Derrick Jensen

#33. I had come out of retirement into a very difficult situation with the PeopleSoft takeover, got through it, and was having a good time, frankly. We just ran out of runway at PeopleSoft. Had we had another year, maybe two years, I think we would have made it.

David Duffield

#34. Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future.

Niels Bohr

#35. Writing in a nuanced way, getting at all the details in a way that remains interesting for the reader, is very difficult.

Carl Hart

#36. I think I'm in the best place I've ever been in so many ways. I've just come out of five years of very difficult times for numerous reasons and yet at the same time it's lead to such growth. It's very exciting that way.

Erin Gray

#37. The schedule of doing a live TV show every week is very difficult.

Julia Louis-Dreyfus

#38. But science perhaps is very difficult without faith. Also there is no simple way of saying now we have science, we don't need faith anymore.

Robert Sheckley

#39. I believe that the message of Apollo XI was that in the spirit of Apollo, a free and open spirit, you can attack a very difficult goal and achieve it, if you can all agree and work together to achieve that goal.

Neil Armstrong

#40. Hmm, limelight ... No, I'm not Sienna Miller or Angelina Jolie. I'm very lucky and happy, but I still find it very difficult to get good scripts and good roles. It's really a jungle out there.

Eva Green

#41. I got married at a very young age, and of course, for all the wrong reasons, and ended up divorced and lost everything. It was a very difficult time in my life.

Willie Aames

#42. It was just very interesting to me that certain types of women inspire people's imagination, and all of them were very difficult women.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

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

Bill O'Reilly

#44. 'Das Kapital,' I think, is very difficult to read, and for me, it was not very influential.

Thomas Piketty

#45. Ten years ago I also had a very difficult decision to make when we had (Carlo) Cudicini giving fantastic performances in Chelsea's goal for many years. I had in my hands a 22-year-old goalkeeper I thought could be in Chelsea's goals for years and years and years and this situation is quite similar.

Jose Mourinho

#46. Economics is a very difficult subject. I've compared it to trying to learn how to repair a car when the engine is running.

Ben Bernanke

#47. I think it's very difficult in the first go-round for congressional people and political people to understand the linkages that exist between us and the rest of the world. That we're not insular anymore.

Henry Kaufman

#48. I find it very difficult to relax. I find it increasingly difficult to find outlets for my frustration.

Judd Nelson

#49. If you love helping people, and you love trying to bring comfort and peace to their life at a very, very difficult time, you're going to have to look pretty hard to find a profession that gives you more opportunities than the funeral business.

Steve Southerland

#50. To sustain hatred is a very difficult thing to do, year after year. It's exhausting.

Nick Cave

#51. I had a very difficult childhood. I was surrounded by people who had both parents, which made me feel different. Having a bit of a rougher existence early on, it made me appreciate the work ethic that my grandparents instilled in me.

George Lopez

#52. Demonstrating faith and optimism in the child or adolescent's ability to work things out in their own time and in their own way can be very difficult but it is possible to do this while also offering assistance.

Timothy Carey

#53. It's very difficult when you have $1.50 per day to spend on food and drink, but for people who live this reality, that money also has to cover medical expenses and education, fuel and shelter - sometimes for an entire family.

Rachel Brosnahan

#54. I kept being told, 'If you really want to build a start up, you have to be in San Francisco,' so I ended up taking out a suitcase. It did occur to me to do it in London but it's very, very difficult to build a start up in London - so I guess I was being lazy.

Ruzwana Bashir

#55. In other words, our willpower works like a muscle and it weakens throughout the day, since it's used constantly. We all have a limit to our willpower, and once we've reached the limit, it becomes very difficult to focus.

S.J. Scott

#56. 'Wings' was a blessing, but it was also very difficult. Whenever you do situation comedy, no matter how excellent the execution - and we had a great cast and great writers - but the format is somewhat limited.

Tim Daly

#57. It's very difficult to photograph an opera. And they messed up on it. It just wasn't there. And I don't blame the Gershwins for taking it away. Of course, if they had gotten the original company to have done it, it would have been very good.

Cab Calloway

#58. Writing is a marvelous adventure and very labor-intensive: those words run away and try to escape. They are very difficult to capture.

Eduardo Galeano

#59. I think you can have your career and still bring to your family something very, very special. There are some people who are born mothers, who don't want to work and just want to stay at home, and that's fantastic, but for me it was something very difficult.

Sarah Parish

#60. I love Calgary. It's a great city. I enjoyed my time there, quite a bit. Shooting and filming in that cold could be very difficult, at times. When you're shooting nights, and it's 3 in the morning and minus 35 degrees, that's hard to work in.

Colin Hanks

#61. I stayed in Baghdad every summer until I was 14. My dad's sister is still there, but many of my relatives have managed to get out. People forget that there are still people there who are not radicalized in any particular direction, trying to live normal lives in a very difficult situation.

Andy Serkis

#62. Whatever you find to be very difficult for you, believe it that it's never difficult if you do something little about it every day!

Israelmore Ayivor

#63. No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.

George Bernard Shaw

#64. My father was a very difficult man.

Sade Adu

#65. I do a lot of different things, sometimes at the same time, and it's very difficult to figure out where I fit.

Al Yankovic

#66. It is very difficult to appreciate from the outside what a person in severe anxiety is experiencing. Brown rightly remarked about his friends 'imploring a drowning man [me] to swim when they don't know that under the water his hands and feet are tied.

Rollo May

#67. I was a military spouse, and I lived on military pay. It is very difficult to do that. But we do that with honor and with gratitude for the chance to serve this country.

Carol Shea-Porter

#68. The reason why I hate working in theatre is the tedium of memorisation. But once that is done, then you feast on this never-ending meal. If you play it correctly, every night is fraught with very high stakes that are very difficult to find in everyday life.

Christopher Meloni

#69. Of course I'd like to get beyond the concrete. But it's really difficult. Very difficult.

Krzysztof Kieslowski

#70. Anger is very difficult for me to express. I have a tremendous amount of anger but I like to save it ... for my loved ones.

Susan Sullivan

#71. It's very difficult to be different from the rest of the crowd the majority of the time, which by definition is what you're doing if you're a successful trader.

Bill Lipschutz

#72. Homophobia is very, very difficult to root out, to extricate. That's why we have to bear witness. That's why we have to be so public about it, and that's why we can't just play footsie with it.

Cornel West

#73. You know, it's awfully hard to get a Christian scared. It's hard to get him panicked if he really believes in God. If he's just a church member, you can get him panicked. But if he really believes in God it's very difficult to do it.

A.W. Tozer

#74. It's very difficult for my body to recover after workouts now that I'm older, so we have to keep them short, which means they're extremely difficult and intense. It sucks.

Dana Torres

#75. Monaco is quite a specialist track, and it is very difficult to say if a car will be suited to it or not. It's bumpy on the straights, and it's a very low-grip surface. All these things mean that you never know what to expect.

Romain Grosjean

#76. The United States can certainly defeat North Vietnam, but the United States cannot defeat a guerrilla war which is being raged from a sanctuary through a pattern of penetration, intervention, evasion, which is very difficult for a technologically advanced country like the United States to combat.

Zbigniew Brzezinski

#77. It is very difficult to win. It's not in my script.

Louise Gluck

#78. ...it is a fundamental mistake, in my opinion, to try to abolish the mobility of pastoral man which has been the single most important factor in his successful mastery of a very difficult environment.

David Keith Jones

#79. I think there is need for economic stimulus ... and government can help make that up in a very difficult time.

Mitt Romney

#80. During sex, it is very difficult to deceive the other person because that is when each person shows who they really are.

Paulo Coelho

#81. As a director and an actor, it is very difficult to say "this person was better than another person." I judge by chemistry of the actors but it is difficult being a judge. I will never bash any of the actors.

Tommy Wiseau

#82. Poetry always runs away from you - it's very difficult to grasp it, and every time you read it, depending on your conditions, you will have a different grasp of it. Whereas with a novel, once you have read it, you have grasped it.

Abbas Kiarostami

#83. It's very difficult to find good scripts in Hollywood any more.

Ridley Scott

#84. Education can be dangerous. It is very difficult to make it not dangerous. In fact, it is almost impossible.

Robert M. Hutchins

#85. They tried to escape technology, to stay away from that and still have relationships with their fellow humans. Very difficult.

Arthur Miller

#86. However much I dislike the idea of abortion, you should not criminalize a woman who, in very difficult circumstances, makes that choice.

Tony Blair

#87. I was always a little embarrassed when there was an act on television that requires a great deal of skill but is a little goofy, and the host comes over and acts like the person doing this skill is some sort of fool for having learned to do something that's very, very difficult.

Penn Jillette

#88. It was actually very difficult., especially during the first five years of the start-up stage, when all the odds seemed to be against us - this is probably true for most entrepreneurs. To succeed, you really have to put your heart and soul into it. (p. 71)

Injap Sia

#89. It turns out synthesizing DNA is very difficult. There are tens of thousands of machines around the world that make small pieces of DNA - 30 to 50 letters in length - and it's a degenerate process, so the longer you make the piece, the more errors there are.

Craig Venter

#90. Unfortunately, freedom alone is not enough, by far. If there is a shortage of bread, a shortage of butter and fats, a shortage of textiles, and if housing conditions are bad, freedom will not carry you very far. It is very difficult, comrades, to live on freedom alone.

Robert Harris

#91. It is very difficult for a man to allow his heart to walk around outside of his body. He wants to protect it at every moment.

Alyssa Drake

#92. When Southern people tell us they are no more responsible for the origin of slavery than we are, I acknowledge the fact. When it is said that the institution exists, and that it is very difficult to get rid of it in any satisfactory way, I can understand and appreciate the saying.

Abraham Lincoln

#93. It was very difficult for me to be the only lyricist in the band.

Steven Tyler

#94. Traditionally, women have a lot of different roles in society. It is very difficult to balance all these roles and at the same time to compete with men. A leading, successful woman has to put in much bigger efforts to be more competent and faster, more dynamic and organized, than a successful man.

Dalia Grybauskaite

#95. It's very difficult to get any movies done about Black heroes - Haitian or American - in Hollywood. The argument in Hollywood is that there is no market for those movies, and that is not true.

Jimmy Jean-Louis

#96. It's very difficult to stay in one's heart as it keeps beating

Amit Abraham

#97. Thank God for television. I've been able to consistently work in television even when people say, 'Oh my God, I haven't seen you since this film or that project.' At least I'm working. It's very difficult to get that next movie role. I'm grateful to have the television world accept me.

Rochelle Aytes

#98. Making something simple is very difficult.

Jack Dorsey

#99. I think it is very difficult for somebody who campaigned to stay in, who thinks there will be disaster if we leave and so on to suddenly turn it around and start believing that we can make a go of it.

Andrea Leadsom

#100. I don't understand, given the constraints physicians have in doing their job and the paperwork demanded of them, why people want to be physicians. I think we've made it very, very difficult for them to perform their job. I think that's a shame.

Malcolm Gladwell