“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.” LittlesEnoughWishDifficultEuropeRussiaBellsTurkeysDiving Book:The Innocents Abroad: or, The New Pilgrims' Progress Source: The Innocents Abroad: or, The New Pilgrims' Progress
“In the U.S and Europe over the last year we've been focused on the prices of gasoline at the pump. While many worry about filling their gas tanks, many others around the world are struggling to fill their stomachs. And it's getting more and more difficult every day.” WorldYearsLastsAmericaDifficultPovertyWorryStruggleFocusEuropeFocusedAround The WorldGasHardshipLast YearFillingTanksPumpsGasoline Author:Robert Zoellick
“Shevchenko is the best attacker in Europe. He has a great deal of consistency and he just keeps scoring - which in Italian football is very difficult. He is a complete player, someone who can do everything on a football field.” DifficultCan DoDealsPlayerFieldsFootballEuropeItalianConsistencyFootball Field Author:Andriy Shevchenko
“Pianists of extraordinary talent, such as Christina Petrowska,spend a large part of their early lives perfecting technique…Miss Petrowska,a Canadian with a phenomenal ability to play the most difficult music cleanly, gave a demonstration of her achievements at Carnegie Recital Hall. A product of the Juilliard School who studied with Karlheinz Stockhausen and Gyorgy Ligeti in Europe, Miss Petrowska built most of her program around fiercely difficult contemporary works. She has fingers that work like chrome-plated pistons, and her high-seated position let her bring pulverizing power to bear.” PlaySchoolDifficultAbilityTalentMissingPositionProductsBearsAchievementEuropeBuiltProgramFingersExtraordinaryTechniqueContemporaryHallsDemonstrationPhenomenalPianistCarnegieChristinaEarly LifeRecitalsChromeJuilliardStockhausen Author:Donal Henahan
“There is no country in Europe which is so easy to over-run as Spain; there is no country which it is more difficult to conquer.” CountryRunningEasyDifficultEuropeConquerSpain Author:Thomas B. Macaulay
“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.” CultureDifficultBlackModernEuropeAdmireAncestorSplitsModern LifeInner LifeEquilibriumUnstableAfrican Culture Author:Leopold Sedar Senghor
“Getting older is not nice for anyone, not for men, not for women, and even more difficult for people who depend on their physical appearance. But it's not a drama. I know some people who are much more stressed than I am. And also, I live in Europe; I think it would be much more difficult if I lived in America.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsMenWould BeAmericaDifficultNiceDependsDramaEuropeAppearanceGetting OldGetting OlderStressedPhysical Appearance Author:Catherine Deneuve
“I travel to the Middle East, I travel to China, I travel to Europe. It's all very rewarding - the only problem is the travel is getting more and more difficult for me now. Ten years ago I would have enjoyed it a lot more.” YearsProblemDifficultMiddleTenEuropeYears AgoChinaEastEnjoyedMiddle East Author:I. M. Pei
“Vladimir Putin and Russia. 'When a bear wakes up from hibernation, he doesn't eat a few blueberries and then go back to sleep.' They have their eyes on Eastern Europe, and if NATO is not willing to stand up forcefully to this threat today, it will only become more difficult to do so down the road.” IfsEyeTodayDifficultSleepWillingBearsEuropeWake UpThreatRussiaEasternPutinDown The RoadNatoEastern EuropeBlueberriesHibernation Author:Seth Moulton
“The Mongol conquests are difficult to fathom. Although their most important technology was the horse, they conquered much of the known world from China to Europe, a series of wars that killed tens of millions of people, then a substantial chunk of the world's population.” PeopleWorldImportantWarDifficultKnownMillionsTechnologyEuropeHorseSeriesPopulationChinaConquestChunksFathomMongols Author:Max Fisher
“It's understandable that Europe's Muslims are in a difficult situation, which is partly their own doing and partly not.” DifficultSituationEuropeDifficult Situations Author:Wolfgang Schauble
“We find ourselves in a difficult situation in Europe. There's a crisis, weak growth, unemployment... my duty is to ensure that by the end of my mandate France is in a better state than it was at the beginning.” EndsStatesDifficultGrowthSituationDutyEuropeWeakCrisisFranceUnemploymentMandatesDifficult Situations Author:Francois Hollande
“All walls fall. Today, tomorrow or in 100 years, they will fall. It's not a solution. The wall isn't a solution. In this moment, Europe is in difficult, it's true. We have to be intelligent, and whoever comes...that migrant flow. It's not easy to find solutions, but with dialogue between nations they should be found. Walls are never solutions. But bridges are, always, always.” ShouldYearsMomentsTodayFallFoundNationsEasyDifficultWallTomorrowSolutionsEuropeFlowIntelligentDialogueBridgesMigrants Author:Pope Francis
“The Premier League is very difficult football and very different to when you play in Europe, but the player has to have experience to adapt, and this is the key point.” DifferentPlayDifficultPlayerFootballKeysEuropeLeaguePremier League Author:Fernando Torres
“At the moment we are facing a whole collection of difficult to forecast developments from the situation in China and the oil-price crash to the worrying news from some banks in Europe and the US. All of that is linked: Worldwide company debt is high and there is a lot of money in circulation. That is why necessary structural reforms are not being made.” MadeWholeMomentsDifficultCompanySituationWorryDevelopmentNewsEuropeChinaDebtOilReformCollectionsLots Of MoneyCrashLinkedCirculationForecastsOil Price Author:Wolfgang Schauble
“We need economic growth in Europe and we need to find a solution for the excessive interest rates that are making it difficult for many countries to get their own debt under control.” NeedsCountryDifficultGrowthInterestEconomicSolutionsEuropeRateDebtEconomic GrowthInterest Rate Author:Martin Schulz
“It is very difficult to enter a single currency zone having fairly weak economic parameters and maintain a favourable state of the economy, not to mention positive growth rates. We have witnessed it not only in Europe, but for example in Argentina (nearly 10 years ago or more), when they tied the national currency to the dollar and later they did not know what to do about it.” KnowsYearsStatesDifficultGrowthEconomyEconomicExampleEuropeYears AgoWeakDollarsRateZoneTiedCurrencyArgentinaParameters Author:Vladimir Putin
“In the US the problem has been, for instance, that Nazis have rights of free expression, right? But other kinds of racist speech is not protected. And you have to link the speech to conduct or to a certain kind of threat against minority population. I know that in Europe, this kind of framework doesn't exist in the same way so it's very difficult to make the analogy.” KnowsWayKindHas BeensProblemCertainDifficultRightsExpressionSpeechEuropeThreatPopulationInstanceMinoritiesRacistLinksProtectedNaziFrameworkAnalogiesFree Expression Author:Judith Butler
“Just as that little opening in the Iron Curtain that Hungary created caused a flood of people out, and ultimately the beginning of the end of communism in Europe, if you could get refugee flows coming out of North Korea, while there'd be a very difficult humanitarian problem in the short run, both for China and South Korea, in the long run it would lead to reunification.” PeopleIfsLittlesLongEndsProblemRunningDifficultEuropeFlowSouthChinaHumanitarianOpeningCommunismIronComing OutLong RunsFloodRefugeeCurtainsKoreaNorth KoreaHungarySouth KoreaIron CurtainReunification Author:John Bolton
“What the U.S. does is it continues to print money when the economic situation gets difficult. This is what happened in the last depression during the summer of 2008 when they tried to resolve the economic crisis by printing valueless money. This is the business privilege given to them at the famous conference of Bretton Woods in 1944 when the United States emerged as the superpower after Europe and the rest of the world, mainly Europe, that had collapsed because of the war.” WorldDoeWarStatesLastsGivenDifficultUnitedSituationUnited StatesHappenedEconomicSummerEuropeCrisisPrivilegeWoodsResolvePrintConferencesPrintingSuperpowerEconomic CrisisValueless Author:Alejandro Castro Espin
“...I suddenly felt in myself all the weight of Europe: the weight of deliberate purpose in all our actions. I thought to myself, 'How difficult it is for us to attain to reality... We always try to grab it: but it does not like to be grabbed. Only where it overwhelms man does it surrender itself to him.” MenTryingDoeRealityActionPurposeFeltDifficultEuropeWeightSurrenderDeliberateOur Actions Book:The Road To Mecca Source: The Road To Mecca
“There is a theory going around that the U.S.A. was and still is a gigantic Masonic plot under the ultimate control of the group known as the Illuminati. It is difficult to look for long at the strange single eye crowning the pyramid which is found on every dollar bill and not begin to believe the story, a little. Too many anarchists in 19th-century Europe—Bakunin, Proudhon, Salverio Friscia—were Masons for it to be pure chance. Lovers of global conspiracy, not all of them Catholic, can count on the Masons for a few good shivers and voids when all else fails.” BelieveLooksLittlesLongStillsStoriesEyeFoundDifficultChanceKnownFailingGroupsCenturyStrangeTheoryLoversPureEuropeUltimateCatholicBillsDollarsPlotVoidConspiracyAnarchistPyramids19th CenturyShiverMasonsMasonicDollar BillsWhen All Else FailsSingle Eye Author:Thomas Pynchon