Difficult Quotes - Page 30

• Waiting is far more difficult than doing.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Waiting

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (Illustrated)”, p.144, Delphi Classics

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• I'm sometimes afraid I'll cross a line and it'll be difficult to come back, say, to dinner.

  Jamaica Kincaid

  Lines, Dinner, Sometimes

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• There is no doubt about it that it is more difficult for a woman to follow a career than for a man. Through the centuries his time has been considered more valuable, and he has consequently been excused from wrestling with many of 'life's minor damnabilities.

  Alice Hegan Rice

  Wrestling, Men, Careers

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• People have the natural capacity to affirm and embrace life in the most difficult of circumstances.

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Courage, People, Natural

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• The reason modern poetry is difficult is so that the poet's wife cannot understand it.

  Wendy Cope

  Wife, Poetry, Reason

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• Among many reasons for being stupid it may be urged, it is being like other people, and living like one's neighbours, and indeed without it, it may be difficult to love some neighbours as oneself: now seeing the necessity of being dull, you won't, I hope, take it amiss that you find me so.

  Elizabeth Montagu

  Stupid, People, Dull

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• Silence can pose a greater threat than the difficult truth.

  Harriet Lerner

  Silence, Threat, Greater

  Harriet Goldhor Lerner (1996). “Life preservers: staying afloat in love and life”

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• During really difficult times in my life when I start questioning why I am struggling with something, I often turn to books to understand myself better.

  Halle Berry

  Struggle, Book, Reading

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• vivisection is not the same thing as scientific progress. There is such a thing as scientific progress. But this wholesale dedication of scientists to vivisection, which is the easy and cheap way, actually prevents them from scientific progress, for true progress is difficult and requires genius and imagination in its devoted workers.

  Brenda Ueland

  Animal, Dedication, Imagination

  Brenda Ueland (1993). “Strength to Your Sword Arm: Selected Writings”, Holy Cow Press

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• Why is it so difficult to love wisely, so easy to love too well?

  Mary Elizabeth Braddon

  Love, Easy, Wells

  Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1872). “Charlotte's Inheritance: A Novel”, p.56

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• it is easy to starve, but it is difficult to stoop.

  Mary Elizabeth Braddon

  Poverty, Easy, Stoops

  Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Lyn Pykett (2012). “Lady Audley's Secret”, p.157, Oxford University Press

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• it is always difficult to impress the ignorant.

  Lionel Shriver

  Ignorance, Ignorant, Impress

  Lionel Shriver (2007). “A Perfectly Good Family: A Novel”, Harper Perennial

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• The finest flowers of genius have grown in an atmosphere where those of Nature are prone to droop, and difficult to bring to maturity.

  Thomas Guthrie

  Flower, Maturity, Atmosphere

  Thomas Guthrie (1857). “The city, its sins and sorrows, sermons”, p.9

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• When you take the high moral road it is difficult for anyone to object without sounding like a complete fool.

  Anita Roddick

  Fool, Morality, Objects

  Anita Roddick (1994). “Body and soul: profits with principles, the amazing success story of Anita Roddick & the Body Shop”, Three Rivers Press

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• Morality will be very difficult for the man who does not pray.

  Hugh Reginald Haweis

  Men, Doe, Morality

  Hugh Reginald Haweis (1875). “Speech in Season”, p.6

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• It is always difficult to escape from youth; its hopefulness, its optimistic belief in the privileges of desire, its despair, and its sense of outrage and injustice at disappointment, all these spring on a man inflicting indelicate agony when he is no longer prepared.

  Margery Allingham

  Disappointment, Spring, Optimistic

  Margery Allingham (1943). “The Galantrys”

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• the difficult art I was attempting had, indeed a powerful fascination, before which the past faded, the future receded, and the whole of experience narrowed down to this stretch of glancing, glimmering water, and the fly I was trying to cast across it.

  Mary Stewart

  Art, Powerful, Past

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• Pain is hard to bear.... But with patience, day by day, Even this shall pass away.

  Theodore Tilton

  Pain, Passing Away, Bears

  THEODORE TILTON (1867). “THE SEXTON'S TALE, AND OTHER POEMS”, p.47

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• the storm thunders at my heart; I find it difficult to believe in the existence of anything except the clouds which limit my horizon.

  Therese of Lisieux

  Believe, Heart, Clouds

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• The work-life balance is a harsh reality for so many women, who are forced every day to make impossible choices. Do they take their kids to the doctor...and risk getting fired? Do they work weekends so they can afford to send their kids to better childcare...even though it means even less time with their families? Do they take another shift at work, so they can pay for piano lessons for their kids...even though it means they have to stop volunteering for the PTA? It just shouldn't be this difficult to raise healthy families.

  Michelle Obama

  Mean, Kids, Weekend

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• I think it's terribly difficult to take sex seriously if you've got a sense of humor.

  Charlotte Bingham

  Sex, Thinking, Sense Of Humor

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• it's difficult in Hollywood to be allowed to try anything. It's all a terrible compromise. There is no time for art. All that matters is what they call box office.

  Greta Garbo

  Movie, Art, Office

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• I am tired to death! tired of every thing! I would give the universe for a disposition less difficult to please. Yet, after all, what is there to give pleasure? When one has seen one thing, one has seen every thing.

  Fanny Burney

  Tired, Boredom, Giving

  Frances Burney, Fanny Burney (2015). “Complete Works of Frances Burney (Delphi Classics)”, p.653, Delphi Classics

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• Can any thing, my good Sir, be more painful to a friendly mind than a necessity of communicating disagreeable intelligence? Indeed, it is sometimes difficult to determine, whether the relater or the receiver of evil tidings is most to be pitied.

  Fanny Burney

  Evil, Mind, Friendly

  Frances Burney, Fanny Burney (2015). “Complete Works of Frances Burney (Delphi Classics)”, p.24, Delphi Classics

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• It has seemed to me that literature, as I meant it, was embattled, that it was increasingly difficult to find writing doing what I thought literature should do - which was simply to push people into changing their ideas about the world, and to go further, to encourage us in the work of changing the world, to making it more just and more truly human.

  Dorothy Allison

  Writing, Ideas, People

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