I Quotes
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“It is difficult to make political art work.”
“It is difficult to make the right choice if you fear choosing wrongly.”
“It is difficult to obtain the friendship of a cat.”
“It is difficult to obtain the friendship of a cat. It is a philosophical animal... one that does not place its affections thoughtlessly.”
“It is difficult to offend a New Yorker.”
Source: The Best Defense
“It is difficult to overstate the importance of the Civil Rights Act.”
“It is difficult to persuade mankind that the love of virtue is the love of themselves.”
“It is difficult to play against Einstein's theory -on his first loss to Fischer”
“It is difficult to practice obedience; but it is even more difficult to practice leadership.”
“It is difficult to preach, this morality of mediocrity! It may never admit what it is and what it wants! It must speak about restraint and worth and duty and love of one's neighbor.”
“It is difficult to predict the outcome of any Presidency, but with Donald Trump the worst-case scenarios seem particularly plausible, because he is so uninterested in the safeguards that might prevent them.”
“It is difficult to predict, especially the future.”
“It is difficult to press forward if we do not know how to obey.”
“It is difficult to process the sacred masculine when your closest example has been a man smacking you around, verbally degrading you, lording over you, or otherwise proving a poor demonstration of the use of strength.”
Source: Pagan Standard Times: Essays on the Craft
“It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits singing about toilet paper.”
“It is difficult to prove yourself reliable when people are required to wait for you.”
“It is difficult to put words to the smell of decomposing human. It is dense and cloying, sweet but not flower-sweet. Halfway between rotting fruit and rotting meat.”
Source: Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
“It is difficult to read the reviews when you start because you see something in your collection and the press sees something else. That is when you have to be very strong about your own style. They can say whatever they want, but I do what I do because I love it.”
“It is difficult to realize how great a part of all that is cheerful and delightful in the recollections of our own life is associated with trees.”
“It is difficult to realize the true Way just through sword-fencing. Know the smallest things and the biggest things, the shallowest things and the deepest things.”
Source: The Book of Five Rings - The Bestselling, Classic Samurai Guide to Strategy
“It is difficult to recapture… the incongruity of a person self-designated as Son of Man, hanging pierced and bleeding on a cross. The incongruity is … even more offensive when this Son of Man has dinner with a prostitute, stops off for lunch with a tax collector, wastes time blessing children when there were Roman legions to be chased from the land, heals unimportant losers and ignores high achieving Pharisees and influential Sadducees. Jesus juxtaposed the most glorious title available to him [the Son of Man] with the most menial of lifestyles in the culture. He talked like a King and acted like a slave…
He was, in fact, Son of Man ‘given dominion and glory and kingdom’, he was, in fact, completely at home in the ordinary, the everyday, the common. He did not give an inch in either direction: he was very God, very man.
(Reversed Thunder)”
“It is difficult to receive and accept oneness because human speculation doesn’t catch it. But if you practice with full devotion, finally you will come to the final goal—silence. When you touch the core of existence and see the fundamental truth, there is nothing to say; you are just present in silence. This silence really makes your life alive. Then, even though you don’t say anything, your silence has lots of words, demonstrating the truth in a physical and mental way, which can be seen by others. This is Buddha’s teaching appearing through the form of a person who sees into the pure and clear depth of human existence.”
Source: Each Moment Is the Universe: Zen and the Way of Being Time
“It is difficult to recognize true love, the one which you feel for the other person, when for years the girls, even more than one per night, after concerts would sneak in our beds and were willing to do everything - group sex also - just to stay with Anthony Kiedis and the Red Hot.”
“It is difficult to remember all, and ungracious to omit any.”
“It is difficult to remove by logic an idea not placed there by logic in the first place.”
Source: Too Soon Old, Too Late Smart: Thirty True Things You Need to Know Now
“It is difficult to remove by logic an idea not placed there by logic in the first place. By nature, we are emotional creatures. Often we live and react based on feelings, not logic. Feelings are wonderful, but when we become tied to a particular thought or belief we tend to ignore the fact that change might be necessary.”
“It is difficult to resist a force of nature, Maman. His seduction is like all my senses struck by bolts of lightning.”
Source: To Tame a Dangerous Lord
“It is difficult to restrain admirers of Shakespeare once they have begun to speak of him.”
“It is difficult to retain what you may have learned unless you should practice it. -Difficile est tenere quae acceperis nisi exerceas”
“It is difficult to retain your standards with the pressure of trying to make money, which always has its rules...It's hard to walk the tightrope of doing what you think is your best and making money at it.”
“It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.”
“It is difficult to say what truth is, but sometimes it is so easy to recognize a falsehood.”
Source: The Ultimate Quotable Einstein
“It is difficult to say which is more menacing. But both of [points of war danger -Japan and Germany] exist and both are smoldering. In comparison with these two principal focal points
of the war danger, the Italo-Ethiopian war represents an episode.”
“It is difficult to say which is the greatest evil--to have too violent passions, or to be wholly devoid of them. Controlled with firmness, guided by discretion, and hallowed by the imagination, the passions are the vivifiers and quickeners of our being. Without passion there can be no energy of character. Indeed, the passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways, and dangerous only in one--through their excess.”
Source: Intuitions and Summaries of Thought
“It is difficult to say who do you the most mischief, enemies with the worst intentions, or friends with the best.”
“It is difficult to say why I decided I wanted to be an artist. Obviously, I had some facility, more than other people, but sometimes facility comes because one is more interested in looking at things, examining them, more interested in the visual world than other people are.”
Source: David Hockney
“It is difficult to see a situation for what it is when you are in the midst of it.”
“It is difficult to see a situation for what it is when you are in the midst of it,” Tsukiko says. “It is too familiar. Too comfortable.”
“It is difficult to see anything but infatuation in the destructive temperament which leads to the action ... that each of us is to rejoice that our several units are to be distinguished at death into countless millions of organisms; for such, it seems, is the latest revelation delivered from the fragile tripod of a modern Delphi.”
“It is difficult to see ourselves as we are. Sometimes we are fortunate enough to have good friends, lovers or others who will do us the good service of telling us the truth about ourselves. When we don't, we can so easily delude ourselves, lose a sense of truth about ourselves, and our conscience loses power and purpose. Mostly, we tell ourselves what we would like to hear. We lose our way.”
“It is difficult to see the great dance effects as they happen, to see them accurately, catch them fast in memory. It is even more difficult to verbalize them for critical discussion. The particular essence of a performance, its human sweep of articulate rhythm in space and in time has no specific terminology to describe it by.”
“It is difficult to see yourself the way others see you.”
Source: Leadership by Numbers for God's People Who Count
“It is difficult to separate oneself from one's design moralities.”
“It is difficult to separate, at times, the myth from the truth.”
“It is difficult to set bounds to the price unless you first set bounds to the wish.”
Source: Select orations
“It is difficult to single out one sport over another, but if I have to name one in my separation suit, it will undoubtedly be football.”
Source: Just Wait Till You Have Children of Your Own!
“It is difficult to speak adequately or justly of London. It is not a pleasant place; it is not agreeable, or cheerful, or easy, or exempt from reproach. It is only magnificent. You can draw up a tremendous list of reasons why it should be insupportable. The fogs, the smoke, the dirt, the darkness, the wet, the distances, the ugliness, the brutal size of the place, the horrible numerosity of society, the manner in which this senseless bigness is fatal to amenity, to convenience, to conversation, to good manners – all this and much more you may expatiate upon. You may call it dreary, heavy, stupid, dull, inhuman, vulgar at heart and tiresome in form. [...] But these are occasional moods; and for one who takes it as I take it, London is on the whole the most possible form of life. [...] It is the biggest aggregation of human life – the most complete compendium of the world.”
Source: The Complete Notebooks of Henry James: The Authoritative and Definitive Edition
“It is difficult to speak of the universal specifically.”
“It is difficult to speak of what is common in a way of your own.”
“IT is difficult to speak or write with becoming moderation or propriety, on topics to which we are biased by prejudice, interest, or even principle.”
Source: Improvements in Education, as it Respects the Industrious Classes of the Community