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“I think I'm the kind of person who would be very difficult to employ - I'm pretty annoying, but driven.”

Thinking Kind Persons Would Be Difficult Driven Annoying

“When the babies were very young, I found it difficult to write. I told myself each time that it would be different, I was used to it now, but with every child, for the first four months, I would accomplish nothing.”

Writing Firsts Children Different Would Be Young Used Found Difficult Four Baby Months Accomplish Accomplish Nothing

Author:Ayelet Waldman

“If a woman gets tough in negotiations, she's difficult, whereas a man would be considered a brilliant businessman.”

Ifs Men Would Be Difficult Tough Brilliant Businessman Negotiation

Author:Tamara Mellon

“I've never seen myself as a manager. As a manager, you have to put all your time into the job, and that would be difficult for me.”

Would Be Jobs Difficult Managers

Author:Dennis Bergkamp

“The whole body reacts to color. If you were to walk into an all-neon-pink room, it would be difficult not to react. I think it is a unified, human thing to feel color with everything. It is like standing next to a bass speaker plugged into your eyeballs.”

Ifs Thinking Feels Humans Whole Body Would Be Next Difficult Walks Rooms Color Standing Speakers Bass Unified Neon Eyeballs

Author:Jim Drain

“I don't have to put on a front. If I had to, it would be difficult and tiring.”

Ifs Would Be Difficult Fronts Tire

Author:Tarsem Singh

“It would be difficult, in this day and age, to fund art that made racial slurs.”

Art Made Would Be Age Difficult Fund This Day Slurs

Author:Jane Alexander

“It would be difficult to determine whether the age is growing better or worse; for I think our plays are growing like sermons, and our sermons like plays.”

Thinking Play Would Be Age Difficult Growing Difficulty Determine Sermons

Book:The Works of Anna Laetitia Barbauld: In Two Volumes

Source: The Works of Anna Laetitia Barbauld: In Two Volumes

“If the Christ we follow sent out his disciples with no extra possessions (Luke 9:1-6 and 10:1-12) and warned would-be devotees that he had nowhere to lay his head (see Luke 9:57-62), then we must recognize that it is extremely difficult to live in a Christian way in a consumer culture.”

Ifs Way Would Be Christian Culture Difficult Christ Lays Possession Consumers Extras Consumerism Disciple Luke Overconsumption Devotee Consumer Culture

Book:A Royal Waste of Time: The Splendor of Worshiping God and Being Church for the World

Source: A Royal Waste of Time: The Splendor of Worshiping God and Being Church for the World

“It has become very difficult for anyone to argue that observed global warming is natural variability. We have good reason for being able to say that the world will be warmer by about a quarter of a degree in the next decade. It's the same reason we had 10 years ago when we said that the 1990s would be warmer than the 1980s: The planet is out of equilibrium.”

World Years Said Reason Would Be Able Next Difficult Natural Planets Degrees Years Ago Decades Arguing Global Warming Quarters Equilibrium Variability

Author:James Hansen

“It is true that every day has its own evil, and its good too. But how difficult must life be, especially farther on when the evil of each day increases as far as worldly things go, if it is not strengthened and comforted by faith. And in Christ all worldly things may become better, and, as it were, sanctified. Theo, woe is me if I do not preach the Gospel; if I did not aim at that and possess faith and hope in Christ, it would be bad for me indeed, but no I have some courage.”

Ifs May Would Be Life Is Evil Difficult Christ Increase Aim Each Day Woe Worldly Hope And Faith Worldly Things Woe Is Me Hope In Christ

Author:Vincent Van Gogh

“The reason people think I look good now is because I was never a beauty as a wee girl. And thank heavens. It's frightening to get old anyway, but if your looks were the cornerstone of your life, well, it would be very difficult.”

People Ifs Thinking Wells Looks Reason Would Be Girl Heaven Difficult Frightening Cornerstones

Author:Lulu

“I like to work with a combination of analog and Pro Tools. I love the sound of analog tape, but there's so many things you can do with Pro Tools that would be incredibly difficult and very time-consuming with analog.”

Would Be Difficult Sound Can Do Tools Combination Tape Consuming Time Consuming Analog

Author:Kate Bush

“The Tories had the legal right to demand extra meetings of the council but I could decide when they would be held and always called them for Friday afternoons, knowing that three or four of the richer Tories went to the country early and were not prepared to stay in the city beyond lunchtime. I realised that nothing in politics is new when I read in Suetonius's The Twelve Caesars that Julius Caesar pulled the same trick when reactionaries in the senate were making his life difficult.”

Country Would Be Three Difficult Cities Knowing Four Demand Meetings Prepared Tricks Extras Afternoon Senate Twelve Friday Council Realised Reactionaries Julius Lunchtime Friday Afternoon

Author:Ken Livingstone

“If you had told me 28 years ago that the largest organization in the world touching the lives of gays and lesbians would be a church, I would not have believed you. So many members of the lesbian and gay community feel they have had violence done to them by religious groups that it is very difficult to evangelize any members of our community. But we do evangelize.”

Ifs World Feels Years Done Would Be Difficult Community Church Religious Violence Groups Gay Members Years Ago Organization Touching Our Community Gay Community

Author:Troy Perry

“In the name of Israel's God, if every man would do right, and when he has done what he knows is right, then stops till he knows what next, there never would be a jar in the camp. And I defy the man to come forward that ever led so large a people in such difficult and trying circumstances, in so much peace, as I have led this people during this campaign, with the help of God and my brethren.”

People Ifs Knows Men Trying Done Helping Would Be Next Names Difficult He Man Circumstances Israel Campaigns Every Man Camps Jars Brethren

Author:Brigham Young

“I would not leave anything to a man of action as he would be tempted to give up work; on the other hand, I would like to help dreamers as they find it difficult to get on in life.”

Men Giving Helping Hands Would Be Action Difficult Giving Up Dreamer Tempted

Author:Alfred Nobel

“To the best of my knowledge, every acute inpatient ward offers some inpatient group therapy experience. Indeed, the evidence supporting the efficacy of group therapy, and the prevailing sentiment of the mental health profession, are sufficiently strong that it would be difficult to defend the adequacy of the inpatient unit that attempted to operate without a small group program.”

Would Be Strong Difficult Groups Offers Evidence Program Mental Health Profession Therapy Sentiments Units Prevailing Small Groups Efficacy Adequacy Group Therapy

Book:Inpatient Group Psychotherapy

Source: Inpatient Group Psychotherapy

“I want them (the North Korean delegation) to understand that it would be difficult to see progress of the normalization talks unless we see their sincerity over the abduction, nuclear and missile issues.”

Want Would Be Difficult Issues Progress Nuclear Sincerity North Korea Missiles Korean North Korean Delegation Abduction

Author:Koichi Haraguchi

“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.”

“God knows His own. It is well that He does, for sometimes it would be difficult for us to determine who are His!”

Knows Wells Doe Sometimes Would Be Difficult Determine God Knows

Book:Day by Day

Source: Day by Day

“The Southern newspapers, with their advertisements of negro sales and personal descriptions of fugitive slaves, supply details of misery that it would be difficult for imagination to exceed. Scorn, derision, insult, menace - the handcuff, the last - the tearing away of children from parents, of husbands from wives - the weary trudging in droves along the common highways, the labor of body, the despair of mind, the sickness of heart - these are the realities which belong to the system, and form the rule, rather that the exception, in the slave's experience.”

Source: Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838-1839

“Given the scope of these programs, it's understandable that many would be concerned about issues related to privacy. But what's difficult to understand is the motivation of somebody who intentionally would seek to warn the nation's enemies of lawful programs created to protect the American people. And I hope that he is prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.”

People Would Be Law Motivation Given Nations Difficult Enemy Issues Protect Concerned Program Related Privacy Scope Nsa

Author:Mitch McConnell

“Louis [Leakey] was anxious to initiate a scientific study of these chimpanzees. It would be difficult, he emphasized, for nothing was known; there were no guidelines for such a field study; and the habitat was remote and rugged. Dangerous wild animals would be living there, and chimpanzees themselves were considered at least four times stronger than humans. I remember wondering what kind of scientist he would find for such a herculean task.”

“The devil never seems so busy as where the saints are, which is another reason why I feel how difficult it would be to be religious.”

Feels Reason Seems Would Be Difficult Religious Devil Busy Saint Reason Why

Book:Chronicles of the Schönberg-Cotta Family

Source: Chronicles of the Schönberg-Cotta Family

“If God isn't giving you money, He is giving you a way to make money All your circumstances are to empower you to increase your sense of wonder in God The more difficult the circumstance, the more brilliant the sense of wonder would be”

Ifs Way Giving Would Be Difficult Wonder Circumstances Increase Brilliant Making Money Empowering Sense Of Wonder

Author:Graham Cooke

“The people in Iraq lived essentially good lives. They had brilliant health and education systems. Saddam actually created an incredible infrastructure in a very difficult country, but they were a Mafia family. If you said anything against that regime or that family you would be killed instantly.”

People Ifs Said Country Would Be Difficult Incredibles Iraq Brilliant Good Life Regimes Saddam Infrastructure Mafia Education System Health And Education

Author:Dominic Cooper

“My childhood was very difficult. I had every childhood disease and then some, but my parents didnt mollycoddle me. They left me to fight those battles on my own. I guess that was very Canadian, very stoic. But its good. I had to become a warrior. I had to give up hope and find a substitute for hope that would be far more stable.”

Giving Would Be Fighting Left Parent Difficult My Own Childhood Battle Disease Giving Up Warrior Substitutes Stable Stoic

Author:Joni Mitchell

“Some people reckoned up all King Harald's (King of Norway) great achievements, and said that nothing would be too difficult for him. But there were others who said that England would be very hard to conquer. It was very populous and the warriors who were known as the king's Housecarls were so valiant, that any one of them was worth two of the best in King Harald's army”

People Said Two Hard Would Be Difficult Known Kings Achievement Army England Warrior Conquer Great Achievement Valiant Norway

Author:Snorri Sturluson

“At Lackland Air Force Base, they make an effort to retrain military dogs that suffer from PTSD. It's a lengthy, long process. The treatment is much the same as it would be for people, but it's a difficult road back.”

People Long Would Be Suffering Force Process Difficult Effort Air Dog Military Treatment Ptsd Air Force Lengthy

Author:Robert Crais

“The biggest surprise was that a country like Angola, that has so much money, that produces so much oil, would be in such a mess and so difficult to travel in. Something is almost cursed in striking oil. It's like the lottery winner who ends up broke.”

Ends Country Would Be Difficult Produce Surprise Oil Mess Broke Winner Cursed Lottery Angola

Author:Paul Theroux

“Russia is the biggest country in the world. It would be very difficult to surround it, and the world is changing so fast that it would basically be impossible, even in theory.”

World Country Would Be Difficult Impossible Theory Russia Surround

Author:Vladimir Putin

“Once you have something so deeply infused in your culture and your brand, it would be very difficult to reverse that inertia if you wanted to.”

Ifs Would Be Wanted Culture Difficult Brands Reverse Inertia

Author:Andrew Mason

“The idea of a hell that involves some kind of eternal punishment at the hands of a just and holy God is so profoundly difficult for us to handle emotionally, that the only person who would have enough authority to convince us of the reality of such a place would be Jesus Himself.”

Kind Persons Ideas Enough Hands Reality Would Be Jesus Difficult Hell Holy Authority Eternal Punishment Handle Convince Convince Us Holy God

Author:John Gerstner

“When I said a few weeks ago that our people would eat cooking oil and olives if necessary, I didn't mean that there really would be only oil and olives. What I meant was that our people have the necessary patience to endure the current difficult situation. Palestinians would rather do without certain food items than their national rights.”

People Ifs Mean Said Would Be Certain Difficult Situation Rights Week Patience Cooking Endure Currents Oil Palestinian Items Olives Difficult Situations

Author:Ismail Haniyeh

“Knowing what [Christ] knew , knowing all about mankind--ah! who would have thought that the crime is not so much to make others die, but to die oneself--confronted day and night with his innocent crime, it became too difficult to go on. It was better to get it over with, to not defend himself, to die, in order not to be the only one to have survived, and to go elsewhere, where, perhaps, he would be supported.”

God Would Be Night Order Dies Difficult Christ Knowing Mankind Crime Goes On Guilt Oneself Innocent Innocence Elsewhere Survived Day And Night

Author:Albert Camus

“Confidence is the most important thing in this sport, and the confidence from winning Wimbledon would make it easier to win the Olympics, too. Either would be very difficult, both even more-but the player who wins Wimbledon will be the favorite for the Olympics. It can happen.”

Important Happens Would Be Winning Sports Difficult Player Easier Important Things Olympics Wimbledon

Author:Rafael Nadal

“Elections officials here in California are concerned that having 247 candidates would require a ballot so long it would be difficult to count. Today in Florida they said, 'What? You count the ballots?'”

Long Said Would Be Today Difficult Concerned Election California Officials Candidates Florida They Said Ballots

Author:Jay Leno

“We have feudal governments in a commercial age. It would be but an easy extension of our commercial system, to pay a private emperor a fee for services, as we pay an architect, an engineer, or a lawyer. If any man has talent for righting wrong, for administering difficult affairs, for counselling poor farmers how to turn their estates to good husbandry, for combining a hundred private enterprises to a general benefit, let him in the county- town, or in Court-street, put up his sign-board, Mr. Smith, Governor, Mr. Johnson, Working king.”

Source: The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations

“When understanding would be too difficult, I become trusting.”

Would Be Difficult Understanding Trust

Author:Mason Cooley

“I think that it would be less difficult to live eternally than to be deprived of sleep throughout life.”

Thinking Would Be Difficult Sleep Eternity Deprived

Author:Anton Chekhov

“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.”

“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

“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

“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

“No other group has internalized its self-hatred as much as blacks have. It would be difficult to find other groups who behave similarly in that their most esteemed members berate its poorest members.”

Self Would Be Difficult Groups Members Hatred Behave Poorest Self Hatred

Author:Michael Eric Dyson

“The only way I'd want to do something in television would be if it was about how I think as a comedian. I'd need to be able to be a creator. That's what I enjoy - I enjoy coming up with comedy, so it'd be very difficult for me to be sitting in a room and have somebody come in and say, "Here's your script! Learn these lines!" That's not fun. At least not for me.”

Ifs Thinking Way Want Needs Would Be Able Fun Enjoy Difficult Lines Rooms Comedy Television Sitting Scripts Creator Comedian

Author:Brian Regan

“I was in fact anxious about whether I would be any good at being a father. And then I met so many people who had been good parents under difficult circumstances, and I felt inspired by them.”

People Facts Would Be Father Felt Parent Difficult Circumstances Mets Inspired Anxious Being A Father Good Parent Difficult Circumstances

Author:Andrew Solomon

“No one would starve in independent India. Its grain would not be exported. Cloth would not be imported by it. Its leaders would not use a foreign language and finding justice in it would be neither costly nor difficult.”

Use Motivational Would Be Language Difficult Justice Leader Findings India Independent Grain Foreign Language

Author:Vallabhbhai Patel

“I would like to do a movie in space, but I think it would be difficult to do it on location.”

Thinking Would Be Difficult Space Location

Author:Wes Anderson

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