Best difficult & littles Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I was finding it very difficult to find a label that understood what I wanted to do and really believed that people wanted to hear something honest and a little bit different. So, I did feel a bit like a clown. You're knocking on everyone's door trying to get them to believe what you're doing.”

People Feels Trying Believe Littles Different Wanted Bits Difficult Doors Honest Findings Little Bit Understood Labels Clown Knocking

Author:Emeli Sande

“After 50, the rock 'n' roll road is a little absurd. It's very difficult to play these little places. You're out there on a rickety old bus with no place to shower.”

Littles Play Difficult Rocks Absurd Bus Rock N Roll Showers

Author:Nancy Sinatra

“A lot of fantasy names are too much. They’re too difficult to pronounce. I wanted the flavour of medieval England. I took actual names we still use today, like ‘Robert’, and in some case I tweaked them a little bit. I made ‘Edward’ into ‘Eddard’. If you look back at medieval times, no one knew how to spell their own names. There are a lot of variations that we’ve lost.”

Ifs Looks Littles Made Stills Use Today Wanted Names Lost Bits Difficult Cases Fantasy Too Much Little Bit England Spells Variation Medieval Flavour Medieval Times

Author:George R. R. Martin

“What is a genius? A person who demands little to nothing from others, but is often found extremely difficult to have around.”

Littles Persons Found Difficult Genius Demand Inferiority

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“Kids are starting at such a low base rate in terms of fitness that it's taking them years to catch up to where people like me started from. Every little bit is making it more difficult for kids to succeed on a world stage.”

People World Years Littles Kids Bits Difficult Term Stage Succeed Little Bit Lows Rate Starting Like Me

Author:Daley Thompson

“I always travel with my bike and it has become a little more difficult to do it nowadays, but I stick it in 3,5 by 6-foot case and wheel that thing in.”

Littles Difficult Cases Feet Sticks Wheels Bike

Author:Donny Robinson

“Even though you try very hard, the progress you make is always little by little. It is not like going out in a shower in which you know when you get wet. In a fog, you do not know you are getting wet, but as you keep walking you get wet little by little. If your mind has ideas of progress, you may say, 'Oh, this pace is terrible!' But actually it is not. When you get wet in a fog it is very difficult to dry yourself.”

Ifs Knows Trying Mind May Littles Ideas Hard Difficult Progress Terrible Walking Dry Pace Wet Going Out Showers Fog

Book:Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind

Source: Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind

“Never stop because you are afraid - you are never so likely to be wrong. Never keep a line of retreat: it is a wretched invention. The difficult is what takes a little time; the impossible is what takes a little longer.”

Littles Difficult Lines Impossible Invention Retreat Wretched Little Time

Author:Fridtjof Nansen

“We who are rich are often demanding and difficult. We shut ourselves up in our apartments and may even use a watchdog to defend our property. Poor people, of course, have nothing to defend and often share the little they have. When people have all the material things they need, they seem not to need each other. They are self-sufficient. There is no interdependence. There is no love.”

People Needs May Littles Self Use Seems Courses Difficult Wealth Poor Rich Share Materials Property Sufficient Apartment Poor People No Love Interdependence Material Things Self Sufficient

Author:Jean Vanier

“The accent got lost somewhere along the way. I'm a little embarrassed about it. When I arrived in LA I assumed I'd be able to put on the American accent. It proved difficult so I had six months working with a dialect coach and it's become a habit.”

Way Littles Able Lost Difficult Months Habit Six Coaches Accents Embarrassed Six Months Dialect Dialect Coach

Author:Martin Henderson

“Going from Flip to Kev, obviously you don't want to see someone ever lose their job. For me it's probably a little more difficult, because other than Bill Blair, Flip is all I knew.”

Want Littles Jobs Difficult Loses Basketball Bills Flip Blair

Author:Kevin Garnett

“I'd been to a lot of shows and I was just tired of people being jaded about music in general. Just a lot of pretensions, a lot of the attitude that goes along with it was a little difficult for me to deal with.”

People Littles Shows Difficult Deals Attitude Tired Pretension Jaded

Author:Girl Talk

“The thing about Stephen Schwartz is that, while it may be difficult to learn - it's a little bit like[Stephen] Sondheim; Sondheim is quite difficult to learn - but, once you have it in you: it never leaves you. It becomes some of your favorite music; it really does.”

May Littles Doe Bits Difficult Little Bit Your Favorite Sondheim Favorite Music

Author:Kerry Ellis

“I thought about societies where exceptional fortunes are built up in industries with very little connection to out sincere and significant needs, industries where it is difficult to escape from the disparity between a seriousness of means and a triviality of ends.”

Needs Mean Littles Ends Difficult Industry Built Connections Fortune Significant Sincere Exceptional Seriousness Disparity Triviality

Book:The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work

Source: The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work

“It was actually books that started to make those pockets of freedom, which I hadn't otherwise experienced. I do see them as talismans, as sacred objects. I see them as something that will protect me, I suppose, that will save me from things that I feel are threatening. I still think that; it doesn't change. It doesn't change, having money, being successful. So from the very first, if I was hurt in some way, then I would take a book -- which was very difficult for me to buy when I was little -- and I would go up into the hills, and that is how I would assuage my hurt.”

Ifs Thinking Way Feels Firsts Littles Stills Book Difficult Hurt Successful Objects Protect Sacred Hills Being Successful Pockets Threatening Save Me Talismans I Was Hurt

Author:Jeanette Winterson

“It is, of course, a luxury to create art and, on top of this, to insist on expressing one's own artistic opinion. Nothing is more luxurious than this. It is a game and a good game, at least for me; one of the few games which make life, difficult and depressing as it is sometimes, a little more interesting.”

Littles Art Sometimes Courses Games Difficult Interesting Opinion Luxury Artistic Depressing Luxurious

Book:Self-Portrait in Words: Collected Writings and Statements, 1903-1950

Source: Self-Portrait in Words: Collected Writings and Statements, 1903-1950

“I wish Europe would let Russia annihilate Turkey a little--not much, but enough to make it difficult to find the place again without a divining-rod or a diving-bell.”

Littles Enough Wish Difficult Europe Russia Bells Turkeys Diving

Book:The Innocents Abroad: or, The New Pilgrims' Progress

Source: The Innocents Abroad: or, The New Pilgrims' Progress

“There is a note that comes into the human voice by which you may know real weariness. It comes when one has been trying with all his heart and soul to think his way along some difficult road of thought. Of a sudden he finds himself unable to go on. Something within him stops. A tiny explosion takes place. He bursts into words and talks, perhaps foolishly. Little side currents of his nature he didn't know were there run out and get themselves expressed. It is at such times that a man boasts, uses big words, makes a fool of himself in general.”

Source: Triumph of the Egg and Other Stories

“My first job was with the Burns Detective Agency. They sent me over to the East River to guard coal barges during these god-awful hours like three to six in the morning. It wasn't a very difficult job -- all I had to do was make a round every fifteen minutes -- but it turned out to be a great environment for writing. I was completely alone in a little outhouse with an electric heater and a little desk.”

Writing Firsts Littles Jobs Three Difficult Hours Morning Environment Minutes Six Rivers Rounds East Awful Agency Electric Fifteen Desks Coal Detectives Barges

Author:Sam Shepard

“At first she dreamed of sheep, of going to school, of cats drinking milk. Little by little she dreamed of blue sheep, of going to school in the middle of the woods, of cats drinking milk from golden saucers. And her dreams became increasingly dense and acquired colours that were difficult to dilute into words.”

Firsts Littles Dream School Difficult Middle Cat Blue Drinking Woods Golden Colour Milk Sheep Dense

Author:Clarice Lispector

“If the amount of money going into the war economy were invested in landscape restoration, we would be in a far more positive position. It may get a little dire before we pull together, but I think when the prosperous nations, and in particular the US, realise they're wrecking their own kids' lives, there will be a mass change in value. It will be a difficult century, and ugly, but I don't think that in the end people are so stupid as to kill themselves off.”

“The time has come when we must take an unyielding stand. We must shore up our spiritual underpinnings, listen to the prophets of God, and follow their counsel.Said Paul to Timothy: “For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind. Be not thou therefore ashamed of the testimony of our Lord.” (2 Timothy 1:7-8.)It requires courage to make good choices, even when others around us choose differently. As we make righteous choices day by day in little things, the Lord will strengthen us and help us choose the right during more difficult times.”

“Acting can be a difficult business. When I was younger, if my mates were doing better than me, I might be a little bit envious, but as I have got older, I love to see actors cracking on and succeeding. The same goes for writers.”

Ifs Littles Might Actors Bits Difficult Acting Succeed Little Bit Mates Envious

Author:Max Beesley

“A man is not little when he finds it difficult to cope with circumstances, but when circumstances overmaster him.”

Men Littles Difficult Circumstances

Book:The Wisdom of Goethe

Source: The Wisdom of Goethe

“I find that life, day by day, is composed of at least one joy, one problem and one sorrow. Then there are the smaller ingredients: you always learn something, whether useful or harmful - that is difficult to analyze until later; you always give something; you alwayou always grow a little in one direction or another.”

Giving Littles Problem Joy Grows Difficult Sorrow Ingredients One Direction

Author:Anais Nin

“Here I come to one of the memoir writer's difficulties -- one of the reasons why, though I read so many, so many are failures. They leave out the person to whom things happened. The reason is that it is so difficult to describe any human being. So they say: 'This is what happened'; but they do not say what the person was like to whom it happened. And the events mean very little unless we know first to whom they happened.”

Knows Firsts Humans Mean Littles Persons Reason Difficult Human Beings Happened Events Difficulty Things Happen Memoir Reason Why

Book:Moments of being: unpublished autobiographical writings

Source: Moments of being: unpublished autobiographical writings

“it is necessary that we should all have a little of the will to die, because otherwise we would find the performance of our biological duty of death too difficult.”

Should Littles Dies Difficult Duty Performances

Author:Rebecca West

“Marriage is a very difficult relationship for nearly everyone and I'm sure you shouldn't do it if you want a quiet little easy life.”

Ifs Want Littles Easy Difficult Quiet Easy Life Difficult Relationship

Author:Fay Weldon

“It's only a little difficult to say no. You've got to believe that the work you're doing is ultimately more useful to the world.”

World Believe Littles Difficult

Author:Derek Sivers

“Family time was very difficult when my girls were little, but I never missed a birthday, I was there for every major event.”

Littles Girl Difficult Events Majors My Girl Family Time

Author:Jeff Dunham

“In the long run it makes little difference how cleverly others are deceived; if we are not doing what we are best equipped to do, or doing well what we have undertaken as our personal contribution to the world's work, at least by way of an earnestly followed avocation, there will be a core of unhappiness in our lives which will be more and more difficult to ignore as the years pass.”

Ifs World Way Years Wells Littles Long Running Difficult Differences Our Lives Core Contribution Unhappiness Long Runs Deceived

Author:Dorothea Brande

“[A difficult childhood gave me] a kind of cocky confidence. ... I could never have so little that I hadn't had less. It took away my fear.”

Kind Littles Difficult Childhood Adversity Cocky Difficult Childhood

Author:Jacqueline Cochran

“All people, even one's own children, come with baggage. When they're little, you have to help them carry it. But when they grow up, you have to do that difficult thing of setting their baggage down and taking up your own again.”

People Children Littles Helping Grows Difficult Growing Up Down And Setting Settings Difficult Things Baggage

Author:Lucille Clifton

“There is nothing so difficult to describe as happiness. Whether some feeling of envy enters into the mind upon hearing of it, or whether it is so calm, so unassuming, so little ostentatious in itself, that words give an imperfect idea of it, I know not. It is easier to enjoy it, than define it. ... and is oftener found at home, when home has not been embittered by dissensions, suspicions and guilt, than any where else upon earth. Yes, it is in home and in those who watch there for us.”

Source: The Works of Lady Caroline Lamb: Glenarvon (1816)

“I tried my hand at writing, I tried to write out a little script - and it's not too bad. Mostly, though, it let me understand how incredibly difficult that job is. I can't even imagine doing it on a weekly basis for a series in any way. That's tough. I think I'll try to leave that to smarter people than me.”

People Thinking Way Writing Trying Littles I Can Hands Jobs Difficult Imagine Tough Let Me Bases Series Scripts Smarter

Author:Nathan Fillion

“Our [Republicans'] object is to avoid having stupid candidates who can't win general elections, who are undisciplined, can't raise money, aren't putting together the support necessary to win a general election campaign, because this money is too difficult to raise to be spending it on behalf of candidates who have little chance of winning in a general election.”

Littles Together Winning Difficult Chance Support Stupid Objects Republican Raises Election Spending Campaigns Candidates Behalf Can't Win Undisciplined General Elections

Author:Karl Rove

“By seizing the formerly little-known Height 102.0 - the Mamayev Hill - the Red Army fought its way to the fascists' den - Berlin. We are proud to say that our victory in Stalingrad radically changed the whole situation in the Second World War. And this victory meant that our Motherland had withstood one of the most difficult tests in its history.”

“It's very advantageous to be sensitive with your work - and, yet, being sensitive, in reality, when criticized, it can annihilate you. It can destroy you. And with the internet there sometimes is a lot of harm, which I find must be very difficult for youngsters coming on - it can be very harsh; the criticism. And, sometimes, it can be a little cruel - which makes it hard for young performers coming on.”

Littles Sometimes Hard Reality Young Difficult Internet Criticism Harm Sensitive Performers Harsh Youngsters

Author:Michael Crawford

“Scientists themselves are of surprisingly little help. They find it difficult to talk of what they do because they tend to assume detailed knowledge is required for generalities to be understood. They find it hard to grasp the concept of the meaning of their work, assuming this to be a debate that takes place at a lower level than the specialized discussions with their colleagues. When they do generalize, - or "popularize" as it is usually called with a noticeable degree of contempt - they tend to reveal a startling philosophical naiveté.”

Littles Hard Helping Difficult Levels Degrees Understood Concepts Scientist Philosophical Assuming Debate Discussion Contempt Colleagues Generalities Little Help

Book:Understanding the Present: An Alternative History of Science

Source: Understanding the Present: An Alternative History of Science

“People aren't born strong. people grow stronger little by little, encountering difficult situations learning not to run from them.”

People Littles Running Strong Grows Difficult Born Situation Stronger Difficult Situations Strong People

Author:Christina Grimmie

“Writing on the blog, you want to get attention and make strong claims. In academic work, that often doesn't pay, so sometimes it's a little bit difficult going back and forth to navigate these differences.”

Want Writing Littles Sometimes Strong Bits Difficult Differences Pay Attention Little Bit Claims Academic Blogs Back And Forth Navigate Academic Work

Author:Alex Tabarrok

“'I believe, Mr. Snitchey,' said Alfred, 'there are quiet victories and struggles, great sacrifices of self, and noble acts of heroism, in it - even in many of its apparent lightnesses and contradictions - not the less difficult to achieve, because they have no earthly chronicle or audience - done every day in nooks and corners, and in little households, and in men's and women's hearts - any one of which might reconcile the sternest man to such a world, and fill him with belief and hope in it.”

Source: The Complete Works of Charles Dickens: A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Books

“The Bible is forbidding when you start to read it. The language is odd. The stories start and stop herkily-jerkily. The characters behave in inexplicable ways. It takes a little bit of time to get into the rhythm of the book. I found reading the first 15 chapters of Genesis very very difficult. Once I got past there, I loved reading, and found it very easy. When you get used to the Bible, it becomes thrilling to read (like any great book - I just had exactly the same experience with the Odyssey).”

Way Firsts Littles Book Character Stories Past Used Reading Found Language Easy Bits Difficult Little Bit Rhythm Odd Behave Chapters Thrilling Genesis Great Book Inexplicable Odyssey

Author:David Plotz

“As for what I have done as a poet, I take no pride in whatever. Excellent poets have lived at the same time with me, poets more excellent lived before me, and others will come after me. But that in my country I am the only person who knows the truth in the difficult science of colors-of that, I say, I am not a little proud, and here have a consciousness of superiority to many.”

Knows Littles Persons Country Done Difficult Consciousness Color Poet Pride Proud Excellent Superiority

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“In using the strong hand, as now compelled to do, the government has a difficult duty to perform. At the very best, it will by turns do both too little and too much. It can properly have no motive of revenge, no purpose to punish merely for punishment's sake. While we must, by all available means, prevent the overthrow of the government, we should avoid planting and cultivating too many thorns in the bosom of society.”

Source: Abraham Lincoln; Complete Works, Comprising His Speeches, Letters, State Papers, and Miscellaneous Writings

“We tend not to choose the unknown, which might be a shock or a disappointment or simply a little difficult to cope with. An yet it is the unknown with all its disappointments and surprises that is the most enriching.”

Littles Might Happiness Difficult Surprise Disappointment Shock Enriching

Book:Wisdom from Gift from the Sea

Source: Wisdom from Gift from the Sea

“To the young I should offer two maxims: Don't accept superficial solutions of difficult problems. It is better to do a little good than much harm. I should not offer anything more specific; every young person should decide on his or her own credo.”

Should Littles Persons Two Problem Young Difficult Accepting Youth Offers Solutions Harm Superficial Maxims Difficult Problems Credo

Author:Bertrand Russell

“Nearly all our ills are the result of neglect in some way or other. And this truth may be said to apply to the ills of nations as well. Negligence is at the bottom of all decay. And decay always starts by showing little signs-or warnings. Then is the time to show interest and to be alert. There is nothing quite so easy as to neglect, and nothing quite so difficult as to repair that negligence. Negligence always carries a high price. It costs nothing to avoid it!”

Way Wells May Littles Said Shows Nations Easy Difficult Interest Results Cost Bottom Carrie Neglect Warning Decay Negligence High Prices

Author:George Matthew Adams

“Yes, NFL players deserve to be paid well. Unfortunately, economic realities are forcing everyone to make tough choices and the NFL is no different. These are not easy negotiations, but the outcome can be positive. If both sides give a little, everyone, including fans, will get a lot and the game will improve through innovation. Even in difficult economic times, a new CBA presents us with the opportunity to secure the future of our game.”

“As much as I'd like to think I'm an expert in quarterbacks I'm probably not. But, I think college quarterbacks are put in positions where they have to do a lot of the things that are done at the professional level. The collegiate quarterback probably does on average a little more running than a pro quarterback. But outside of that, I think they're faced with some of the same difficult decisions and choices.”

Thinking Littles Doe Done Running Choices Difficult Decision Levels Position College Average Experts Nfl Quarterback Difficult Decisions

Author:Ted Thompson

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