“Beauty is composed of an eternal, invariable element whose quantity is extremely difficult to determine, and a relative element which might be, either by turns or all at once, period, fashion, moral, passion.” MightTurnsPassionDifficultBeautyMoralFashionPeriodsElementsEternalEternityDifficultyDetermineRelativeQuantity Author:Jean-Luc Godard
“It is ... marvellous ... to have a period of apparent fanaticism. No obstacle can discourage you. The single vision of your quest obscures defeat and lifts you over mountainous difficulties.” VisionPeriodsDifficultyDefeatObstaclesLiftsQuestsFanaticismDiscouragingMarvellous Author:Margaret Sanger
“Though I am never exactly "blocked" I do have difficult periods. I am led by a fascination with material - the challenge of presenting it in an original and engaging way. I have no problem imagining stories, characters, distinctive settings & themes - but the difficulty is choosing a voice & a language in which to present it.” WayCharacterStoriesProblemLanguageDifficultVoiceChallengesMaterialsPeriodsDifficultyOriginalsSettingSettingsThemeEngagingNo ProblemFascinationPresentingDistinctiveBlocked Author:Joyce Carol Oates
“Just as a human soul that faces great difficulties also faces great opportunities for spiritual growth, so a human society that faces destruction also faces the opportunity to enter a period of renaissance. I think that, barring an accident, the wish to survive will keep us from a nuclear war.” ThinkingHumansWarSoulFacesSpiritualOpportunityWishGrowthPeriodsDestructionDifficultyAccidentsNuclearSpiritual GrowthHuman SoulRenaissanceHuman SocietyNuclear WarGreat Opportunity Book:Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words Source: Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words
“The confusion, the difficulties, the contradictions which, in consequence of a want of accurate distinctions in this particular, have up to even a recent period encumbered mathematics in all those branches involving the consideration of negative and impossible quantities, will at once occur to the reader who is at all versed in this science, and would alone suffice to justify dwelling somewhat on the point, in connexion with any subject so peculiarly fitted to give forcible illustration of it as the Analytical Engine.” WantGivingImpossibleSubjectsParticularReaderPeriodsConsequenceNegativeDifficultyMathematicsConfusionBranchesDistinctionContradictionConsiderationJustifyEnginesQuantityAccurateDwellingInvolvingIllustrationConnexion Author:Ada Lovelace
“There was a long period of time when Sam Fuller had a lot of projects fall through and had a lot of difficulties getting a project off the ground. And I was able to observe him during that period, and see his incredible resiliency and courage as he faced this difficulty and just kept working.” LongAbleFallPeriodsProjectsDifficultyIncrediblesLong Periods Of TimeResiliency Author:Curtis Hanson
“I soon began to sense a fundamental perceptual difficulty among male scholars (and some female ones) for which 'sexism' is too facile a term. It is really an intellectual defect, which might be termed 'patrivincialism' or patrochialism': the assumption that women are a subgroup, that men's culture is the 'real' world, that patriarchy is equivalent to culture and culture to patriarchy, that the 'great' or 'liberalizing' periods of history have been the same for women as for men.” MenWorldHas BeensRealMightCultureTermPeriodsIntellectualFemaleDifficultyFundamentalsMalesAssumptionSexismReal WorldScholarPatriarchyDefects Author:Adrienne Rich
“Life never was intended to be easy. Rather, it is a period of proving and growth. It is interwoven with difficulties, challenges, and burdens. We are immersed in a sea of persistent, worldly pressures that could destroy our happiness. Yet these very forces, if squarely faced, provide opportunity for tremendous personal growth and development. The conquering of adversity produces strength of character, forges self-confidence, engenders self-respect, and assures success in righteous endeavor.” IfsSelfCharacterOpportunityForceEasyGrowthChallengesSeaProduceAdventureDevelopmentPeriodsProveDifficultyPressureAdversityPersonal GrowthBurdenSelf ConfidenceConquerSelf RespectEndeavorRighteousWorldlyPersistentStrength Of CharacterPersonal Growth And Development Author:Richard G. Scott
“There was a golden period that I look back upon with great regret, in which the cheapest of experimental animals were medical students. Graduate students were even better. In the old days, if you offered a graduate student a thiamine-deficient diet, he gladly went on it, for that was the only way he could eat. Science is getting to be more and more difficult.” IfsWayLooksScienceDifficultAnimalStudentsRegretPeriodsDifficultyMedicalExperimentsGoldenDietsGraduatesOld DaysGraduate Students Author:George Wald
“On our planet, all objects are subject to continual and inevitable changes which arise from the essential order of things. These changes take place at a variable rate according to the nature, condition, or situation of the objects involved, but are nevertheless accomplished within a certain period of time. Time is insignificant and never a difficulty for Nature. It is always at her disposal and represents an unlimited power with which she accomplishes her greatest and smallest tasks.” ScienceCertainOrderNatureChangeSituationConditionsSubjectsObjectsPlanetsInvolvedPeriodsEssentialsTasksDifficultyRateAccomplishAriseInevitableAccomplishedSmallestNeverthelessUnlimitedInsignificantOur PlanetVariablesUnlimited PowerInevitable Change Author:Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
“If gun laws in fact worked, the sponsors of this type of legislation should have no difficulty drawing upon long lists of examples of criminal acts reduced by such legislation. That they cannot do so after a century and a half of trying - that they must sweep under the rug the southern attempts at gun control in the 1870-1910 period, the northeastern attempts in the 1920-1939 period, the attempts at both Federal and State levels in 1965-1976 - establishes the repeated, complete and inevitable failure of gun laws to control serious crime.” IfsShouldTryingLongStatesFactsLawLevelsHalfCenturyCrimeExampleSeriousTypePeriodsGunShould HaveDifficultyCriminalsDrawingListsInevitableSouthernAmendmentsLegislationGun ControlSecond AmendmentRight To Bear ArmsBearing ArmsGun RightsSponsorsRights And FreedomsPro GunFounding Fathers Gun2 AmendmentFounding Fathers Second AmendmentAnti GunAmendment 1Gun LawGun Crime Author:Orrin Hatch
“Creation,' in the ordinary sense of the word, is perfectly conceivable. I find no difficulty in conceiving that, at some former period, this universe was not in existence, and that it made its appearance in six days (or instantaneously, if that is preferred), in consequence of the volition of some preexisting Being.” IfsMadeUniverseExistenceCreationEvolutionPeriodsSixOrdinaryConsequenceDifficultyAppearanceFormerVolitionConceiving Author:Thomas Huxley
“An undertaking of great magnitude and importance, the successful accomplishment of which, in so comparatively short a period, notwithstanding the unheard of unestimable difficulties and impediments which had to be encountered and surmounted, in an almost unexplored and uninhabited wilderness . . . evinced on your part a moral courage and an undaunted spirit and combination of science and management equally exciting our admiration and deserving our praise.” SpiritMoralSuccessfulPeriodsImportanceExcitingDifficultyPraiseManagementCombinationAccomplishmentWildernessAdmirationEngineeringDeservingMagnitudeUndertakingsImpedimentsUnheardMoral CourageUnexploredUndaunted Author:John By
“The League of Independent Theater represents a coming together of actual artistic and theatrical forces that may yet undo the difficulty of our times in maintaining the highest artistic standards in a period of economic crisis. Who can save us from the downhill trend of our economy except the vigor of our arts? Theatre, music and education are our only hopes to lift our times beyond their despair and create a viable, prosperous culture.” MayArtTogetherCultureForceEconomyEconomicPeriodsDespairHighestStandardsDifficultyTheaterIndependentCrisisTheatreArtisticLiftsLeagueOur TimeTrendsMaintainingProsperousTheatricalVigorComing TogetherEconomic Crisis Author:Judith Malina
“It was entirely due to my mother [a devout Buddhist] and her kindness and perseverance that the family was saved from utter ruin. For a period of 17 years--from the age of 9 until I was 25 years old--my mother never spent a day free from domestic difficulties.” YearsAgeMotherKindnessPeriodsDifficultyPerseveranceDuesSavedRuinsBuddhist Author:Chiang Kai-shek
“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
“There may be some difficulties during a period of adjustment. Specifically, picking up their life again and making their own truly independent decisions.” MayDecisionPeriodsDifficultyIndependentAdjustmentIndependent Women Author:Rick Ross
“Mortality is a period of testing, a time to prove ourselves worthy to return to the presence of our Heavenly Father. In order for us to be tested, we must face challenges and difficulties. These can break us, and the surface of our souls may crack and crumble-that is, if our foundations of faith, our testimonies of truth are not deeply embedded within us.” IfsMaySoulFacesOrderFatherChallengesBreakReturnPeriodsProveDifficultyFoundationWorthySurfaceHeavenlyCracksMortalityTestimonyTestedTestingHeavenly FatherEmbedded Author:Thomas S. Monson
“It is an experiment worth trying to be alone and to be quiet for a brief period every day. Under city conditions it may be difficult to carry out, but most of us could do it if we tried. At any rate, we should moderate the pace at which we are living. If we remain at high gear, at top pressure, we are bound to suffer from fatigue and strain.” IfsLifeShouldTryingMaySufferingDifficultCitiesConditionsPeriodsQuietDifficultyPressureRateBoundsExperimentsPaceStrainModeratesFatigueGears Author:Robert McCracken