Difficult Quotes - Page 27

• to be honest and yet popular is almost as difficult in literature as it is in life.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Literature, Honest, Being Honest

  Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (1938). “Works”

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• Who bides his time tastes the sweet Of honey in the saltiest tear; And though he fares with slowest feet Joy runs to meet him drawing near.

  James Whitcomb Riley

  Running, Sweet, Drawing

  James Whitcomb Riley, “Who Bides His Time”

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• Religion is a form of nourishment. It is difficult to appreciate the flavor and food-value of something one has never eaten.

  Simone Weil

  Appreciate, Flavor, Form

  Simone Weil (1973). “Waiting for God: Translated by Emma Craufurd ; With an Introd. by Leslie A. Fiedler”

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• There is an easiness in salvation which is more difficult to us than all our efforts.

  Simone Weil

  Effort, Salvation, Easiness

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• It is a difficult task to talk to the purpose, and to put life and perspicuity into our discourse.

  Jeremy Collier

  Talking, Tasks, Purpose

  Jeremy Collier (1732). “Essays upon several moral subjects”, p.24

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• One can never be too rich or too thin' is an aphorism attributed to the Duchess of Windsor. Being both rich and thin is a difficult enterprise, indeed almost unprecedented as an ideal. Into the paradoxical gap between the capacity to spend money and the need to eat less steps a brilliant solution: 'light' food. In buying 'light' food we can pay more for what costs less to produce in the first place.

  Margaret Visser

  Light, Needs, Cost

  Margaret Visser (2010). “Much Depends on Dinner: The Extraordinary History and Mythology, Allure and Obsessions, Perils and Taboos of an Ordinary Mea”, p.109, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• There is also an evil report; light, indeed, and easy to raise, but difficult to carry, and still more difficult to get rid of.

  Hesiod

  Light, Evil, Nicknames

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• Our home, our special country, is for all of us the place where we find liberation; a very difficult word ... that tries to describe something that can't be described but is the only thing worth having.

  Elizabeth Goudge

  Country, Home, Special

  Elizabeth Goudge (2017). “Green Dolphin Country”, p.128, Hachette UK

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• Everyone bowed to that unwritten law of family life which ordains that, in the long run, everyone submerges his personal preference in the effort to conform to that of the member of the circle who complains most loudly and is most difficult to satisfy.

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher

  Family, Running, Law

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher (1956). “A harvest of stories, from a half century of writing”

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• There is no weapon in the end as difficult to overcome as the tongue of an enemy.

  Andre Norton

  Enemy, Overcoming, Speech

  Andre Norton (2004). “Gods and Androids”, p.336, Baen Publishing Enterprises

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• It's as interesting and as difficult to say a thing well as to paint it. There is the art of lines and colours, but the art of words exists too, and will never be less important.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Art, Interesting, Important

  Vincent Van Gogh (2013). “Van Gogh on Art and Artists: Letters to Emile Bernard”, p.43, Courier Corporation

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• All life worth living is difficult, nobody promised us happiness; it is not a commodity you have earned, or shall ever earn. It is a by-product of brave living, and it never comes in the form we expect, or at the season we hoped for, or as the result of our planning for it.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Brave, Planning, Commodity

  Katherine Anne Porter, Isabel Bayley (1994). “Letters of Katherine Anne Porter”, p.204, Atlantic Monthly Press

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• Friendship is a difficult, dangerous job. It is also (though we rarely admit it) extremely exhausting.

  Elizabeth Bibesco

  Friendship, Jobs, Dangerous

  Elizabeth Bibesco (1951). “Haven: Short Stories, Poems, and Aphorisms”

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• It is difficult to divest one's self of vanity; because impossible to divest one's self of self-love.

  Horace Walpole

  Vanity, Self, Impossible

  Horace Walpole (1861). “The Letters of Horace Walpole: Earl of Orford”, p.2

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• It is difficult to grow old gracefully.

  Madame de Stael

  Age, Grows

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• There are women vain of advantages not connected with their persons, such as birth, rank, and fortune; it is difficult to feel less the dignity of the sex. The origin of all women may be called celestial, for their power is the offspring of the gifts of Nature; by yielding to pride and ambition they soon destroy the magic of their charms.

  Madame de Stael

  Sex, Ambition, Pride

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• the last steps of life are ever slow and difficult.

  Madame de Stael

  Age, Lasts, Steps

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• Difficult is a far cry from impossible. The distance between these two lies hope.  Hope and fear cannot occupy the same space at the same time. Invite one to stay.

  Maya Angelou

  Distance, Lying, Two

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• Marriage is a very difficult relationship for nearly everyone and I'm sure you shouldn't do it if you want a quiet little easy life.

  Fay Weldon

  Want, Littles, Quiet

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• It is always difficult for a woman to be grateful for a form of chivalry that seems to be based on the premise that she is a moron.

  Alice Duer Miller

  Grateful, Chivalry, Form

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• Golf is recognized as one of the more difficult games to play or teach. One reason for this is that each person necessarily plays by feel, and a feel is almost impossible to describe.

  Bobby Jones

  Golf, Games, Play

  Bobby Jones (1966). “Bobby Jones on Golf”, Main Street Books

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• I believe that it is sometimes less difficult to wake up and feel that I am alone when I really am, than to wake up with someone else and be lonely.

  Liv Ullmann

  Lonely, Loneliness, Believe

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• First, there is the person one thinks he is and the appearance one thinks he has. Then there is the thing one actually is, and there is that which the others think, and here a myriad-faced being arose in her thought, but the second came back as being more difficult to know, for what eyes would see it and where would it stay?

  Elizabeth Madox Roberts

  Eye, Thinking, Firsts

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• It's difficult to write a really good short story because it must be a complete and finished reflection of life with only a few words to use as tools. There isn't time for bad writing in a short story.

  Edna Ferber

  Writing, Reflection, Tools

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• I do note that photography, a despised medium to work in, is full of empty phonies and worthless commercial people. That presents quite a challenge to the man who can take delight in being in a very difficult, disdained medium.

  Walker Evans

  Photography, Men, People

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