Difficult Quotes - Page 29

• It is not so difficult to win love as to keep it!

  Marie Corelli

  Winning

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• A man is commanding - a woman is demanding. A man is forceful - a woman is pushy. A man is uncompromising - a woman is a ball-breaker. A man is a perfectionist - a woman's a pain in the ass. He's assertive - she's aggressive. He strategizes - she manipulates. He shows leadership - she's controlling. He's committed - she's obsessed. He's persevering - she's relentless. He sticks to his guns - she's stubborn. If a man wants to get it right, he's looked up to and respected. If a woman wants to get it right, she's difficult and impossible.

  Barbra Streisand

  Pain, Gun, Men

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• If a man wants to get it right, he's looked up to and respected. If a woman wants to get it right, she's difficult or impossible. If he acts, produces and directs, he's called multitalented. If she does the same thing, she's called vain and egotistical.

  Barbra Streisand

  Men, Doe, Want

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• Courage has become Raiders of the Lost Ark, or riding in spaceships, killing people, taking enormous physical risks. To me, the kind of courage that's really interesting is someone whose spouse has Alzheimer's and yet manages to wake up every morning and be cheerful with that person and respectful of that person and find things to enjoy even though their day is very, very difficult. That kind of courage is really undervalued in our culture.

  Mary Pipher

  Courage, Morning, Alzheimer's

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• You may have noted the fact that it is a person's virtues as often as his vices that make him difficult to live with.

  Kate Douglas Wiggin

  Vices, May, Facts

  Kate Douglas Wiggin (2016). “KATE DOUGLAS WIGGIN – Ultimate Collection: 21 Novels & 130+ Short Stories, Fairy Tales and Poems for Children (Illustrated): Including Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm & Penelope Hamilton Series: Rose o' the River, A Summer in a Cañon, The Birds' Christmas Carol, Timothy's Quest, The Arabian Nights, Golden Numbers & many more”, p.2342, e-artnow

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• Now, in our opinion no author should be blamed for obscurity, nor should any pains be grudged in the effort to understand him, provided that he has done his best to be intelligible. Difficult thoughts are quite distinct from difficult words. Difficulty of thought is the very heart of poetry.

  Alice Meynell

  Pain, Heart, Effort

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• You can't have genius without patience.

  Margaret Deland

  Genius, Difficult Days

  Margaret Deland (2015). “The Awakening of Helena Richie”, p.11, The Floating Press

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• Clarity and perseverance are difficult in American society because the basis of capitalism is greed and dissatisfaction.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Perseverance, Greed, Clarity

  Natalie Goldberg (1990). “Wild Mind: Living the Writer's Life”, Bantam

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• Good architecture is still the difficult, conscientious, creative, expressive planning for that elusive synthesis that is a near-contradiction in terms: efficiency and beauty.

  Ada Louise Huxtable

  Creative, Synthesis, Planning

  Ada Louise Huxtable (2010). “On Architecture: Collected Reflections on a Century of Change”, p.43, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• Only a Californian would have observed that it is becoming increasingly difficult to tell the real fake from the fake fake.

  Ada Louise Huxtable

  Real, California, Fake

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• At the end of a marriage it is difficult to recall the beginning.

  Shirley Ann Grau

  Marriage, Ends, Recalls

  Shirley Ann Grau (2006). “Selected Stories”, p.53, LSU Press

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• Well, that was life. It was an old tree, and the old passed on. Probably they did not mind. There came a time when all sap ran slowly, and the peace of age with all things behind it merged easily into the peace of death. The difficult thing was to be young.

  Mary Roberts Rinehart

  Tree, Mind, Age

  Mary Roberts Rinehart (1936). “The doctor”

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• It is always difficult to get across to people who are not professional writers that a talent to write does not mean a talent to write anything at all.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Writing, Mean, People

  Flannery O'Connor (1969). “Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose”, p.215, Macmillan

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• The present will not long endure.

  Pindar

  Long, Endure, Difficult Days

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• Perhaps the inevitable tragedy of our complex civilization is that we must be specialists in our fields - and our fields have become increasingly difficult, so that communication is nearly impossible.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Communication, Civilization, Tragedy

  Joyce Carol Oates (2006). “Joyce Carol Oates: Conversations, 1970-2006”

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• No emergency excuses you from exercising tolerance.

  Phyllis Bottome

  Exercise, Excuse You, Tolerance

  Phyllis Bottome (1998). “The Mortal Storm”, p.69, Northwestern University Press

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• True conviction of sin--how difficult it is, when its appearances and modes of life are so fair, when it twines itself so cunningly about, or creeps so insidiously into, our amiable qualities, and sets off its internal disorders by so many outward charms and attractions.

  Horace Bushnell

  Quality, Sin, Appearance

  Horace Bushnell (1866). “The new life”, p.233

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• However dark our lot may be, there is light enough on the other side of the cloud, in that pure empyrean where God dwells, to irradiate every darkness of this world; light enough to clear every difficult question, remove every ground of obscurity, conquer every atheistic suspicion, silence every hard judgment, light enough to satisfy, nay, to ravish the mind forever.

  Horace Bushnell

  God, Dark, Clouds

  Horace Bushnell (1876). “Sermons for the New Life”, p.156

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• Moral prejudices are the stopgaps of virtue; and, as is the case with other stopgaps, it is often more difficult to get either out or in through them than through any other part of the fence.

  Augustus William Hare

  Prejudice, Moral, Virtue

  Julius Charles HARE (Archdeacon of Lewes. and HARE (Augustus William)), Augustus William HARE (1847). “Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers. Third edition. First Series”, p.1

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• it is immoral for powerless people to accept this powerlessness. They may not succeed in getting power but they can fight for it, and if enough fight for it, it makes it very difficult for the people with the big sticks.

  Jane Jacobs

  Fighting, People, Succeed

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• Suffering is the price of being alive, and it is music and singing and art that has helped me live through some of the most difficult things that have happened to me.

  Judy Collins

  Art, Singing, Suffering

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• The actor must know that since he, himself, is the instrument, he must play on it to serve the character with the same effortless dexterity with which the violinist makes music on his. Just because he doesn't look like a violin is no reason to assume his techniques should be thought of as less difficult.

  Uta Hagen

  Character, Play, Looks

  Uta Hagen (1991). “Challenge For The Actor”, p.37, Simon and Schuster

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• Louis [Leakey] was anxious to initiate a scientific study of these chimpanzees. It would be difficult, he emphasized, for nothing was known; there were no guidelines for such a field study; and the habitat was remote and rugged. Dangerous wild animals would be living there, and chimpanzees themselves were considered at least four times stronger than humans. I remember wondering what kind of scientist he would find for such a herculean task.

  Jane Goodall

  Science, Animal, Stronger

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• In the long run it makes little difference how cleverly others are deceived; if we are not doing what we are best equipped to do, or doing well what we have undertaken as our personal contribution to the world's work, at least by way of an earnestly followed avocation, there will be a core of unhappiness in our lives which will be more and more difficult to ignore as the years pass.

  Dorothea Brande

  Running, Years, Differences

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• Lord, teach us to take our hearts and look them in the face, however difficult it may be.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Heart, Looks, May

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2012). “Gaudy Night”, p.397, Open Road Media

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