“I have a great deal of difficulty with those who live in a hugely prosperous country telling people in the developing world that they should be deprived of a critical source of energy.” PeopleWorldShouldCountryEnergyDealsEconomySourceDifficultyCriticalDevelopingDeprivedProsperousProsperous Country Author:Lee R. Raymond
“For hundreds of years the use of the word 'man' has troubled critical scholars, careful translators, and lawyers. Difficulties occur whenever and wherever it is important for truth-seeking purposes to know what is being talked about and the context gives no intimation whether 'man' means just a human being irrespective of sex or means a masculine being and none other.” KnowsMenGivingYearsHumansMeanImportantUsePurposeSexHuman BeingsDifficultyCarefulSeekingCriticalLawyerScholarMasculineTranslators Author:Mary Ritter Beard
“How dominating is appetite, how enveloping immediate experience! Even the philosophically minded among us capitulate, ultimately, to the narrowest sense of personal need. Political time moves at a snail's pace because it is only with nearly insurmountable difficulty that moral discomfort takes root in the best of people, forcing an imperative out of a complaint; so viscerally repugnant is it for a critical mass to find the prevailing system unbearable, much less prepare to take up arms against it.” PeopleNeedsMovingPoliticalMoralArmsMassRootsDifficultyCriticalPaceAppetiteComplaintsImperativesUnbearableDiscomfortPrevailingDominatingSnailInsurmountableCritical MassPersonal Needs Author:Vivian Gornick
“God is not concerned about our plans; He doesn’t ask, “Do you want to go through this loss of a loved one, this difficulty, or this defeat?” No, He allows these things for His own purpose. The things we are going through are either making us sweeter, better, and nobler men and women, or they are making us more critical and fault-finding, and more insistent on our own way. The things that happen either make us evil, or they make us more saintly, depending entirely on our relationship with God and its level of intimacy.” MenWayWantHappensPurposeEvilAsksLossLevelsPlansFindingsMen And WomenConcernedDifficultyFaultsDefeatCriticalIntimacyLoved OnesOur RelationshipRelationship With GodLoss Of A Loved OneHis LossFault Finding Book:My Utmost for His Highest Source: My Utmost for His Highest
“[Photography] is the non-complacence of the eye. To practice my right to look is also a critical attitude. If I stare at you, I will make you uncomfortable, and culturally we have a difficulty of staring and being stared at.” IfsLooksEyeAttitudePracticePhotographyDifficultyCriticalStaringUncomfortable Author:Pedro Meyer
“People who thought that she was busy going around trying to stir up difficulty where there was none or less than she imagined, were quite critical of her. She was, we must never forget, a public figure. And in democracies, public figures tend to attract criticism as well as praise. The most dangerous thing would be if anybody were regarded as above criticism. And Eleanor Roosevelt is, in recent years, getting there.” PeopleIfsTryingYearsWellsWould BeForgetDemocracyDangerousFiguresCriticismDifficultyPraiseBusyCriticalNever ForgetDangerous ThingsEleanorPublic Figures Author:William A. Rusher
“As for critical writing about modernism, its moments of lucidity are but fulgurations illuminating the dark and incomprehensible landscape of its subject's unabashed difficulty.” WritingMomentsDarkSubjectsDifficultyCriticalLandscapeModernismIlluminatingLucidity Author:Will Self
“Most men are reasonably useful in a crisis. The difficulty lies in convincing them that the situation has reached a critical point” MenLyingSituationDifficultyCrisisCriticalConvincingAmelia Peabody Author:Barbara Mertz
“The real wonder is that so many difficulties should have been surmounted [in the federal convention], and surmounted with a unanimity almost as unprecedented as it must have been unexpected. It is impossible for any man of candor to reflect on this circumstance without partaking of the astonishment. It is impossible for the man of pious reflection not to perceive in it a finger of that Almighty hand which has been so frequently and signally extended to our relief in the critical stages of the revolution.” MenShouldHas BeensRealHandsWonderImpossibleStageHe ManRevolutionCircumstancesReflectionShould HaveDifficultyFingersCriticalPerceiveReliefUnexpectedConventionsAlmightyShould Have BeenUnprecedentedPiousAstonishmentCandorUnanimity Book:The Federalist: With Letters of Brutus Source: The Federalist: With Letters of Brutus
“I have been confronted with many difficulties throughout the course of my life, and my country is going through a critical period. But I laugh often, and my laughter is contagious. When people ask me how I find the strength to laugh now, I reply that I am a professional laugher.” PeopleHas BeensCountryCoursesAsksLaughingPeriodsLaughterDifficultyCriticalAsk MeContagiousLaugh Often Book:My Spiritual Journey Source: My Spiritual Journey