I Quotes
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“It is difficult to generalize about Islam. To begin with, the word itself is commonly used with two related but distinct meanings, as the equivalents both of Christianity, and Christendom. In the one sense, it denotes a religion, as system of beliefs and worship; in the other, the civilization that grew up and flourished under the aegis of that religion. The word Islam thus denotes more than fourteen centuries of history, a billion and a third people, and a religious and cultural tradition of enormous diversity.”
Source: The Crisis of Islam: Holy War and Unholy Terror
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.”
“It is difficult to get anything from the world that you yourself are not willing to give.”
“It is difficult to get Latina and Asian women to speak out. We must make it clear it's not their problem, it's our problem. We need magazines like this one to keep talking about the issue. And know that we women in Congress are with you 100 percent.”
“It is difficult to get men to pick up a female author. Women will read men, but men won't read women.”
“It is difficult to get organic food at most restaurants, so when possible, eat at home. When not, do your best.”
Source: I'm Too Young for This!: The Natural Hormone Solution to Enjoy Perimenopause
“It is difficult to get played at my age on the radio.”
“It is difficult to get rid of people when you once have given them too much pleasure.”
Source: The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning: 1845-1846
“It is difficult to get the news from poems, yet men die miserably every day for lack of what is found there.”
“It is difficult to get the news from poetry, yet men die miserably every day for lack of what is found there.”
“It is difficult to give children a sense of security unless you have it yourself. If you have it, they catch it from you.”
“It is difficult to go on the next night after you receive a sandbagging.”
“It is difficult to grasp the immensity and significance of the extreme reverence paid to the Goddess over a period of (at least) seven thousand years and over miles of land cutting across national boundaries and vast expanses of sea. Yet it is vital to do just that to fully comprehend the longevity as well as the widespread power and influence this religion once held.”
“It is difficult to grow old gracefully.”
“It is difficult to harbor unforgiveness and pray for the person who wronged you at the same time.”
Source: Overcoming Father Wounds: Exchanging Your Pain for God's Perfect Love
“It is difficult to hate an idea. That requires a certain intellectual discipline and a slightly obsessive, sick mind. There aren’t too many of those. It’s much easier to hate someone with a recognizable face whom we can blame for everything that makes us feel uncomfortable. It doesn’t have to be an individual character. It could be a nation, a race, a group. . .anything.”
“It is difficult to have a highly competitive organization without highly competitive talent.”
Source: Performance Master: Take a Holistic Approach to Unlock Digital Performance
“It is difficult to heal the wound of reproach.”
“It is difficult to imagine a greater imposition than adding genes to future generations that changes the nature of future people.”
“It is difficult to imagine anyone having any real hopes for the human race in the face of the fact that the great majority of men still believe that the universe is run by a gaseous vertebrate of astronomical heft and girth, who is nevertheless interested in the minutest details of the private conduct of even the meanest man.”
“It is difficult to imagine evolution in alien planets operating in any manner other than Darwinian.”
“It is difficult to imagine how any behavior in the presence of another person can avoid being a communication of one's own view of the nature of one's relationship with that person and how it can fail to influence that person.”
Source: Change: Principles of Problem Formation and Problem Resolution
“It is difficult to judge one's contemporaries; perhaps it is impossible to understand them.”
“It is difficult to judge the past by the criteria of the present.”
“It is difficult to judge, when both sides are employing weapons of violence, which side 'deserves' to succeed.”
Source: Collected Works
“It is difficult to keep quiet if you have nothing to do”
Source: Counsels and Maxims
“It is difficult to keep quiet when everything is being done wrong, but the less you lose your temper the greater your advantage. Also then you will not go mad yourself.”
Source: The Collected Works of Lawrence of Arabia (Unabridged): Seven Pillars of Wisdom + The Mint + The Evolution of a Revolt + Complete Letters (Including Translations of The Odyssey and The Forest Giant)
“It is difficult to keep the public interested. The public demands new wonders piled on new wonders. Often we don't know where our next marvel is coming from. The supply of strange ideas is not endless.”
“It is difficult to know a person when he is happy because the real face of a person often appears when he is unhappy!”
“It is difficult to know agnan (all other knowledge other than the knowledge of the Self, Worldly Knowledge), and easy to know Gnan [knowledge of the real self, the soul]. There is no end to agnan.”
Source: Death : Before, During & After...
“It is difficult to know oneself, but it isn't easy to paint oneself either.”
“It is difficult to know what to do with so much happiness”
“It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.”
“It is difficult to learn anything worthwhile if you only listen to those who share your views.”
“It is difficult to like those whom we do not esteem; but it is no less so to like those whom we esteem more than ourselves.”
“It is difficult to live among people because silence is so difficult.”
“It is difficult to live in and enjoy the moment when you are thinking about the past or worrying about the future.”
“It is difficult to live in and enjoy the moment when you are thinking about the past or worrying about the future. You cannot change your past, but you can ruin the present by worrying about your future. Learn from the past, plan for the future. The more you live in and enjoy the present moment, the happier you will be.”
Source: The Light in the Heart
“It is difficult to live in the present, ridiculous to live in the future, and impossible to live in the past. Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.”
“It is difficult to live with the pure. They do not condemn you; they forgive you. This forgiveness is more terrible than a judgment.”
“It is difficult to live without opium after having known it because it is difficult, after knowing opium, to take earth seriously. And unless one is a saint, it is difficult to live without taking earth seriously.”
Source: Opium: The Illustrated Diary of His Cure
“It is difficult to look at any newborn baby and accept that he or she will necessarily encounter pain, challenges, disappointments, and hardships in life. Yet even the Savior needed to "go forth, suffering pains and afflictions . . . of every kind" (Alma 7:11), the only difference being that Jesus, though tempted, did not sin (Hebrews 4:15; see also D&C 45:4). Even harder to comprehend, however, was how that precious Babe of Bethlehem, whose birth we celebrate each Christmas, would one day bear the weight not only of our sins but also all our infirmities.”
“It is difficult to love mankind unless one has a reasonable private income, and when one has a reasonable private income one has better things to do than loving mankind.”
“It is difficult to love someone who loves you, but easy to hate someone who loves you, and love someone who hates you.”
“It is difficult to maintain the illusion that we are interpreting a Constitution, rather than inventing one.”
Source: Scalia's Court: A Legacy of Landmark Opinions and Dissents
“It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him.”
Source: The collected works of Abraham Lincoln
“It is difficult to make a reputation, but is even more difficult seriously to mar a reputation once properly made --- so faithful is the public.”
“It is difficult to make good scalable use of a CPU like you can of a graphics card. You certainly don't want 'better or worse' physics or AI in your game”
“It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin it by bad laws.”
Source: The Roosevelt Doctrine: Beng the Personal Utterances of the President on Various Matters of Vital Interest, Authoritatively Arranged for Reference in Their Logical Sequence; a Brief Summary of the Principles of American Citizenship and Government
“It is difficult to make people understand that the ideal doesn't exist, that personal equilibrium and the harmony they dream of come only after years and years of struggle, and that even then they come only as flashes of grace and peace.”