I Quotes
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“It is very difficult for the prosperous to be humble.”
Source: Jane Austen Collection: Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Emma, Persuasion and More
“It is very difficult for us to know we love somebody because it is an insecure position to be in. But in the end, it is important to be honest about your love because life is not that long.”
“It is very difficult in quarreling to be certain in either one what the other one is remembering. It is very often astonishing to each one quarreling to find out what the other one was remembering for quarreling. Mostly in quarreling not any one is finding out what the other one is remembering for quarreling, what the other one is remembering from quarreling.”
Source: GERTRUDE STEIN Ultimate Collection: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Plays, Memoirs & Essays: Three Lives, Tender Buttons, Geography and Plays, Matisse, Picasso and Gertrude Stein, The Making of Americans, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas…
“It is very difficult now in South Africa to find anyone who ever supported apartheid.”
“It is very difficult sometimes to keep awake, especially at church, but there is no difficulty at all about sleeping.”
Source: The Canterville Ghost
“It is very difficult to accept in others emotions you cannot accept in yourself.”
Source: Nathaniel Brandens Self-Esteem Every Day: Reflections on Self-Esteem and Spirituality
“It is very difficult to apply the old Indian adage 'Do not judge another until you have walked a mile in his moccasins,' unless you get out of your own moccasins first.”
Source: The Magic of Conflict: Turning a Life of Work Into a Work of Art
“It is very difficult to be a hero without an audience, although, in a sense, we are each the hero of a peculiar, half-ruined film called our life.”
Source: The Secret Scripture
“It is very difficult to be a non-religious Jew outside Israel. The synagogue keeps Jews together in the Diaspora. In Israel, you are a Jew from morning to night. We don't even have to think about it, just as a Dutch citizen doesn't spend his whole day thinking about the fact that he is a Dutch citizen. It's a given.”
“It is very difficult to be learned; it seems as if people were worn out on the way to great thoughts, and can never enjoy them because they are too tired.”
Source: Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
“It is very difficult to be like the other guy, to be ordinary. Mediocrity takes a great deal of energy. But to be ourselves is very easy. You don't have to do a thing.”
“It is very difficult to be under the microscope every moment of every day. Everything that leaves your mouth becomes this sensationalized news story, no matter what your intentions were when you first said it, so it becomes overwhelming.”
“It is very difficult to be wholly joyous or wholly sad on this Earth. The comic, when he is human, soon takes upon itself the face of pain.”
“It is very difficult to be wholly joyous or wholly sad on this earth. The comic, when it is human, soon takes upon itself a face of pain; and some of our griefs (some only, not all, for it is the capacity for suffering which makes man August in the eyes of men) have their source in weaknesses which must be recognized with smiling com passion as the common inheritance of us all.”
“It is very difficult to bear the pain of ignorance of the person whom you love and who loves you, more than anything in the world..”
“It is very difficult to build contemporary architecture in Italy”
“It is very difficult to develop a proper sense of self-esteem in a dysfunctional family. Having very little self-worth, looking at one’s own character defects becomes so overwhelming there is no room for inward focus. People so afflicted think: “I need to keep you from knowing me. I have already rejected me, but if you knew how flawed I am, you would also reject me…and since this is all I have, I could not stand any more rejection. I am not worthy of someone understanding me so you will not get the chance...so I must judge, reject, attack, and/or find fault with you. I don’t accept me so how can I accept you?”
“It is very difficult to enter a single currency zone having fairly weak economic parameters and maintain a favourable state of the economy, not to mention positive growth rates. We have witnessed it not only in Europe, but for example in Argentina (nearly 10 years ago or more), when they tied the national currency to the dollar and later they did not know what to do about it.”
“It is very difficult to explain this feeling to anyone who is entirely without it, especially as there is no anthropomorphic conception of God corresponding to it. The individual feels the nothingness of human desires and aims and the sublimity and marvelous order which reveal themselves both in Nature and in the world of though. He looks upon individual existence as a sort of prison and wants to experience the universe as a single significant whole.”
“It is very difficult to follow your own method all the time because you may crash against some directors who want from you something different. Trying to understand the material, who you're working with, and how can you fit in there. That is my approach.”
“It is very difficult to generalise. Everyone's adventure is original.”
“It is very difficult to get legislation passed. But then the danger always is that you have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.”
“It is very difficult to get people to focus on the most important things when you're in boom times.”
“It is very difficult to get up resentment towards persons whom one has never seen.”
“It is very difficult to give a 15 second sound bite on why there is pain and suffering in this world and not have it come off as being flippant or surface level or superficial.”
“It is very difficult to hang onto the relics of history.”
“It is very difficult to have a free, fair and honest press anywhere in the world. In the first place, as a rule, papers are largely supported by advertising, and that immediately gives the advertisers a certain hold over the medium they use.”
Source: If You Ask Me
“It is very difficult to imagine that you can actually get rid of a dictatorship that has been there for 60 years only in 18 days.”
“It is very difficult to keep awake, especially at church.”
“It is very difficult to know exactly what good should come out of a particular situation. To attempt to manipulate circumstances so your idea of good can come about, is to let the ego play God-and that, as you know, can and does backfire.”
“It is very difficult to know what may be in the back of the mind of public figures.”
“It is very difficult to live among people you love and hold back from offering them advice.”
Source: Celestial Navigation
“It is very difficult to make a vigorous, plausible, and job-risking defense of an estimate that is derived by no quantitative method, supported by little data, and certified chiefly by the hunches of the managers”
“It is very difficult to make an accurate prediction, especially about the future.”
“It is very difficult to make one's way in this world without being wicked at one time or another, when the world's way is so wicked to being with.”
“It is very difficult to make really big, important, life-changing decisions because we are all susceptible to a formidable array of decision biases. There are more of them than we realize, and they come to visit us more often than we like to admit.”
“It is very difficult to make the ideas in my head come to life, but what is harder is making them look effortless.”
“It is very difficult to pass from pleasure to work. Accordingly more poems have been swallowed up by sorrow than ever happiness caused to blaze forth in unparalleled radiance.”
“IT IS VERY DIFFICULT TO PICK UP A GUN AGAINST A MAN TALKING REASON”
“It is very difficult to play a single blitz game! You want to play for a long time. So I tend not to do that anymore.”
“It is very difficult to reconcile the American ideal of a sovereign people capable of owning and managing their own government with an inability to own and manage their own business.”
“IT IS VERY DIFFICULT TO REMEMBER THAT I HAVE NO PICTURE OF TRUTH
बहुत मुश्किल है ये याद रखना कि
मेरे पास सच की कोई तस्वीर नहीं है
BAHUT MUSHQIL HAI YEH YAAD RAKHNA KI
MERE PASS SACH KI KOI TASVEER NAHIN HAI”
“It is very difficult to say nowadays where the suburbs of London come to an end and where the country begins. The railways, instead of enabling Londoners to live in the country have turned the countryside into a city.”
“It is very difficult to spend "federal (the taxpayers') dollars" so that the intended result is achieved.”
Source: Public Statements of Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense, 2001
“It is very difficult to stop feeling.”
“It is very difficult to sustain a high-quality relationship that has the kind of mutual intensity, that has a kind of mutual respect, without putting in time.”
“It is very difficult to teach navigation theory to someone who clings to the shore.”
Source: The passionate, accurate story: making your heart's truth into literature
“It is very difficult to tell the truth.”
Source: WAR AND PEACE Complete Edition – All 15 Books in One Volume (World Classics Series): The Magnum Opus of the Greatest Russian Novelists and Author of Anna Karenina & The Death of Ivan Ilyich (Including the Biography & Memoirs of the Author)
“It is very difficult to understand why in this country [India] so much difference is made between men and women, whereas the Vedanta declares that one and the same conscious Self is present in all beings. You always criticize the women, but say what have you done for their uplift? Writing down Smritis etc., and binding them by hard rules, the men have turned the women into manufacturing machines! If you do not raise the women, who are living embodiment of the Divine Mother, don’t think that you have any other way to rise.”
“It is very difficult to win. It's not in my script.”