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Source: Benjamin Robert Haydon: Correspondence and Table-talk

“Nothing is difficult; it is only we who are indolent.”

Book:Correspondence and Table-talk: With a Memoir

Source: Correspondence and Table-talk: With a Memoir

“Falsehood is difficult to be maintained. When the materials of a building are solid blocks of stone, very rude architecture will suffice; but a structure of rotten materials needs the most careful adjustment to make it stand at all.”

Needs Difficult Building Materials Stones Structure Careful Architecture Block Falsehood Rude Rotten Adjustment

Book:Thoughts and Apophthegms: From the Writings of Archbishop Whateley

Source: Thoughts and Apophthegms: From the Writings of Archbishop Whateley

“Decision-making is difficult because, by its nature, it involves uncertainty. If there was no uncertainty, decisions would be easy! The uncertainty exists because we don't know the future, we don't know if the decision we make will lead to the best possible outcome. Cognitive science has taught us that relying on our gut or intuition often leads to bad decisions, particularly in cases where statistical information is available. Our guts and our brains didn't evolve to deal with probabilistic thinking.”

“Do not worry at being worried; but accept worry peacefully. Difficult but not impossible.”

Difficult Accepting Worry Impossible Worried

Author:Johnny Appleseed

“In all nations truth is the most sublime, the most simple, the most difficult, and yet the most natural thing.”

Truth Nations Difficult Natural Simple Truth Is Sublime Natural Things

Author:Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne

“It would not be difficult to be a better ruler than I was: for I admit that I ruled badly; and even if I was fortunate enough to satisfy my subjects, I was not fortunate enough to satisfy myself.”

Ifs Enough Difficult Subjects Fortunate Rulers Royalty

Author:Christina, Queen of Sweden

“As you know, no one over thirty years of age is afraid of tittle-tattle. I myself find it much less difficult to strangle a man than to fear him.”

Knows Men Years Age Difficult Thirty Thirty Years Sweden

Author:Christina, Queen of Sweden

“[On the legend that after being beheaded St. Denis walked six miles with his head in his hands:] It is only the first step that is difficult.”

Firsts Hands Difficult Steps Six Miles Legends First Steps

Author:Marie Anne de Vichy-Chamrond, marquise du Deffand

“I've become convinced that every person should treat himself strictly and even rudely and distrustfully; it's difficult to tame the beast in oneself.”

Should Persons Self Difficult Treats Oneself Convinced Beast Distrust

Book:Essential Turgenev

Source: Essential Turgenev

“It is always easy enough to take up arms, but very difficult to lay them down; the commencement and the termination of war are notnecessarily in the same hands; even a coward may begin, but the end comes only when the victors are willing.”

May War Ends Enough Hands Easy Difficult Willing Arms Lays Coward Commencement Termination

Author:Sallust

“I want to emphasize in the great concentration which we now place upon scientists and engineers how much we still need the men and women educated in the liberal tradition, willing to take the long look, undisturbed by prejudices and slogans of the moment, who attempt to make an honest judgment on difficult events.”

“Intimacy between stepchildren and stepparents is indeed proverbially difficult.”

Difficult Family Intimacy Stepchild Stepchildren

Book:The Tale of Genji

Source: The Tale of Genji

“Use a mirror in difficult times. You will see both cause and resolution.”

Use Causes Difficult Mirrors Resolution Difficult Times

Author:Ming-Dao Deng

“For those parents from lower-class and minority communities[who] have had minimal experience in negotiating dominant, external institutions or have had negative and hostile contact with social service agencies, their initial approaches to the school are often overwhelming and difficult. Not only does the school feel like an alien environment with incomprehensible norms and structures, but the families often do not feel entitled to make demands or force disagreements.”

“Few women have both taste and truth; and indeed, this special bit or moral mosaic is just the most difficult piece of carpentry in the whole of the human workshop.”

Humans Whole Bits Difficult Moral Pieces Special Taste Workshops Mosaics Carpentry

Author:Eliza Lynn Linton

“It is less difficult for a woman to obtain celebrity by her genius than to be forgiven for it.”

Difficult Women Genius Forgiven

Author:Jacques Pierre Brissot

“The world is poisoned with erroneous theories, and needs to be taught sane doctrines, but it is difficult to straighten what has become crooked.”

World Needs Difficult Taught Theory Doctrine Sane Crooked

Author:Frances Xavier Cabrini

“It is very difficult for any couple who are married if both people are ambitious. I don't know if it's just too hard to be married to a woman that wants to be a movie star.”

People Ifs Knows Want Hard Stars Difficult Couple Married Ambitious Movie Star Being Married

Author:Ethan Hawke

“If this analysis of history is approximately sound and if the future like the past is to be crowded with changes and exigencies, then it is difficult to believe that the feminism of the passing generation, already hardened into dogma and tradition, represents the completed form of woman's relations to work, interests and society.”

Ifs Believe Past Form Difficult Sound Interest Generations Feminism Tradition Relation Passing Passings Analysis Dogma Dishes Crowded Hardened

Book:Making Women's History: The Essential Mary Ritter Beard

Source: Making Women's History: The Essential Mary Ritter Beard

“Humans are incapable of securely storing high-quality cryptographic keys, and they have unacceptable speed and accuracy when performing cryptographic operations. (They are also large, expensive to maintain, difficult to manage, and they pollute the environment. It is astonishing that these devices continue to be manufactured and deployed. But they are sufficiently pervasive that we must design our protocols around their limitations.)”

“Children are not being assaulted by images that appear on a computer screen. Any Internet user knows it is quite difficult to stumble across pornography.”

Knows Children Difficult Internet Computer Screens Users Free Speech Pornography Computer Screen Internet Users

Author:Russ Feingold

“History has shown that there are very few mechanisms as effective at maintaining the status quo as a set of institutionalized regulations. Once set in regulatory concrete, reconsideration of the basic underlying assumptions is very difficult. While it will be an uphill fight to re-examine the basic underlying assumptions of any law or administrative rule, it is clearly not impossible. It will just take longer than if not so well institutionalized.”

Ifs Wells Law Fighting Difficult Impossible Internet Assumption Mechanism Concrete Regulation Free Speech Status Quo Maintaining Administrative Reconsideration Maintaining The Status Quo

Author:Paul Baran

“It is not difficult to censor foreign news. What is difficult today is to censor one's own thoughts, To sit by and see the blind man On the sightless horse, riding into the bottomless abyss.”

Men Today Difficult News Horse Blind Riding Abyss Blind Man Horse Riding

Author:Lech Walesa

“Try and keep on trying until that which seems difficult becomes possible and that which seems only possible becomes habit and a real part of you.”

Trying Real Seems Difficult Habit

Author:Dieter F. Uchtdorf

“It is difficult for me to imagine what “personal liberty” is enjoyed by an unemployed hungry person. True freedom can only be where there is no exploitation and oppression of one person by another; where there is not unemployment, and where a person is not living in fear of losing his job, his home and his bread. Only in such a society personal and any other freedom can exist for real and not on paper.”

Persons Real Home Jobs Difficult Liberty Imagine Paper Losing Hungry Bread Oppression Enjoyed Exploitation Unemployment Unemployed True Freedom Personal Liberty Living In Fear

Author:Joseph Stalin

“So much goes into doing a transplant operation. All the way from preparing the patient, to procuring the donor. It's like being an astronaut. The astronaut gets all the credit, he gets the trip to the moon, but he had nothing to do with the creation of the rocket, or navigating the ship. He's the privileged one who gets to drive to the moon. I feel that way in some of these more difficult operations, like the heart transplant.”

Way Feels Heart Difficult Creation Moon Patient Credit Ships Operations Surgery Privileged Preparing Rockets Astronaut Donors Transplants Heart Transplant

Author:Denton Cooley

“The equilibrium you admire in me is an unstable one, difficult to maintain. My inner life was split early between the call of the Ancestors and the call of Europe, between the exigencies of black-African culture and those of modern life.”

Culture Difficult Black Modern Europe Admire Ancestor Splits Modern Life Inner Life Equilibrium Unstable African Culture

Author:Leopold Sedar Senghor

“Examples ... which might be multiplied ad libitum, show how difficult it often is for an experimenter to interpret his results without the aid of mathematics.”

Shows Might Difficult Results Example Mathematics Aids Ads Often Is

Author:John William Strutt

“Intelligent, heartfelt stories that tell a whole new set of truths about growing up American. Julie Orringer writes with virtuosity and depth about the fears, cruelties, and humiliations of childhood, but then does that rarest, and more difficult, thing: writes equally beautifully about the moments of victory and transcendence.”

Writing Doe Whole Moments Stories Difficult Growing Up Growing Childhood Victory Intelligent Depth Cruelty Humiliation Transcendence Difficult Things Heartfelt Virtuosity

Author:George Saunders

“I think the brain is essentially a computer and consciousness is like a computer program. It will cease to run when the computer is turned off. Theoretically, it could be re-created on a neural network, but that would be very difficult, as it would require all one's memories.”

Thinking Would Be Running Difficult Memories Brain Consciousness Computer Program Cease Turned Off Neural Networks

Author:Stephen Hawking

“Those who understand the eternal blessings which come from the temple know that no sacrifice is too great, no price too heavy, no struggle too difficult in order to receive those blessings.”

Knows Order Difficult Struggle Sacrifice Blessing Eternal Heavy Temples

Author:Thomas S. Monson

“One of the most difficult things to say to another person is, 'I hope that you will love me for no good reason.' But it is what we all want and rarely dare to say to one another, to our children, to our parents and mates, to our friends, and to strangers, especially to strangers who have neither good, nor bad reasons to love us.”

Want Children Persons Matter Reason Parent Difficult Our Children Dare Stranger Who We Are Mates Difficult Things

Author:Russell Banks

“If life and its rushed pace and many stresses have made it difficult for you to feel like rejoicing, then perhaps now is a good time to refocus on what matters most.”

Ifs Feels Made Matter Difficult Stress Made It Good Times Pace Rejoice What Matters Things That Matter Refocus

Author:Dieter F. Uchtdorf

“Now let us play hide and seek. Should you hide in my heart it would not be difficult to find you. But should you hide behind your own shell, then it would be useless for anyone to seek you.”

Should Heart Play Would Be Difficult Behinds My Heart Useless Shells Hide And Seek

Book:The New Frontier and Sand and Foam

Source: The New Frontier and Sand and Foam

“I’ve had to make the difficult decision to follow my intuition, and allow myself the space and time to explore my true purpose in life.”

Purpose Difficult Space Decision Intuition Purpose Of Life Time And Space Difficult Decisions True Purpose

Author:Larry Sanders

“If asked to sketch a picture of the typical archer I would be hard put. They seem to come in all shapes, sizes, colors and backgrounds. Inwardly they seem to have in common a love for the outdoors, a reverence for wildlife, and a close tie with history. There is nothing they seem to enjoy more than telling tall tales around a campfire or talking about archery to others. It would be difficult to find a more interesting group of people.”

People Ifs Hard Seems Would Be Enjoy Difficult Interesting Common Talking Groups Color Shapes Size Backgrounds Tales Ties Tall Reverence Typical Wildlife Archer Campfire Archery Tall Tales

Author:Fred Bear

“Writing is a marvelous adventure and very labor-intensive: those words run away and try to escape. They are very difficult to capture.”

Writing Trying Running Difficult Adventure Labor Capture Running Away Marvelous

Author:Eduardo Galeano

“Being president is as difficult as writing the perfect poem. And being president is as effortless as writing the perfect poem. Always a Reckoning, my first collection of poetry, was described by Booklist as 'keenly evocative.'”

Writing Firsts Difficult President Perfect Collections Effortless Reckoning

Author:Jimmy Carter

“To pluck up the courage and open your heart, and embrace someone else's heart is difficult.”

Heart Difficult Embrace Pluck Open Your Heart

Author:Min

“When you start loving, your character becomes like the positive side of a magnet and the one you love becomes negative, that pulls people close to you in union, and becomes very difficult to separate.”

People Character Difficult Sides Love Is Negative Unions Loving You Magnet One You Love

Author:Michael Bassey

“It is difficult for the isolated individual to work himself out of the immaturity which has become almost natural for him.”

Individual Difficult Natural Isolated Immaturity

Author:Immanuel Kant

“Boris Nemtsov, left his mark on the history of Russia, in politics and public life. He worked on important positions in the difficult transition period for our country. He always openly and honestly stated his position, defended his point of view.”

Life Important Country Politics Left Difficult Views Position Periods Mark Point Of View Honestly Russia Our Country Transition Public Life

Author:Vladimir Putin

“These are bad days for all of us who remember always that when real world forces come into conflict, the final result is never as dark as we mortals guess it in very difficult days.”

World Real Remember Force Difficult Dark Results Conflict Finals Mortals Real World Bad Day Difficult Days

Author:Franklin D. Roosevelt

“That life is difficult, I have often bitterly realized.”

Life Is Difficult Life Is Difficult

Book:Gertrude: A Novel

Source: Gertrude: A Novel

“...people are by nature fickle, and it is easy to persuade them of something, but difficult to keep them persuaded.”

People Easy Difficult Nature Fickle

Author:Niccolo Machiavelli

“All the excesses, all the violence, and all the vanity of great men, come from the fact that they know not what they are: it being difficult for those who regard themselves at heart as equal with all men... For this it is necessary for one to forget himself, and to believe that he has some real excellence above them, in which consists this illusion that I am endeavoring to discover to you.”

Knows Men Believe Heart Real Facts Difficult Forget Violence Equal Illusion Regard Excellence Vanity Great Men Excess Forget Him

Book:Thoughts

Source: Thoughts

“Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the face of this earth.”

Men Believe Art Earth Faces Lying Difficult Generations Difficulty Adversity

Author:Albert Einstein

“Returning home is the most difficult part of long-distance hiking; You have grown outside the puzzle and your piece no longer fits.”

Long Home Difficult Pieces Adventure Fit Distance Hiking Puzzles Trails Trekking Long Distance Mountain Climbing Hiking In The Mountains Backpacking Returning Home

Book:Journey On the Crest: Walking 2600 Miles from Mexico to Canada

Source: Journey On the Crest: Walking 2600 Miles from Mexico to Canada

“I shook Obama's hand and I said, 'I want to be your friend.' My hand is still outstretched. I am not Obama's enemy, but it's difficult not see imperialism in Washington. Those who don't see it don't want to see it, like the ostrich.”

Want Said Stills Hands Difficult Enemy Imperialism Ostriches

Author:Hugo Chavez

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