“I write for somebody who has my own limitations. My reader has a certain difficulty with concentrating, which in my case comes from being a film viewer.” WritingFilmCertainLiteratureMy OwnCasesReaderDifficultyLimitationViewersConcentrating Author:Manuel Puig
“Heavy laden -- that's what I am. Laden with pride, often thinking myself better than others while we have to think the other one better than ourselves. Laden with my own egotism. Laden with all my sins. And when I went to bed last night and thought about everything and wanted to bring all those difficulties to God, I couldn't even find the words!” ThinkingWantedLastsNightMy OwnSinPrideBedDifficultyHeavyLast NightEgotism Author:Diet Eman
“With some exceptions in science fiction and other genres I have small difficulty in avoiding anything that could be called American literature. I feel it is unnatural, not I think entirely because it uses a language that is not mine, however closely akin to my own.” ThinkingFeelsUseLiteratureLanguageMy OwnFictionMinesDifficultyScience FictionGenreExceptionAvoidingUnnaturalAmerican Literature Author:Kingsley Amis
“I am inclined to think from my own experience that the difficulty to eminence lies not in the road, but in the timidity of the traveler.” ThinkingLyingMy OwnDifficultyTravelerTimidityEminence Book:The Correspondence of Washington Allston Source: The Correspondence of Washington Allston
“We should strengthen the faith of our people in their own future, the faith of every Canadian in Canada, and of every province in its sister province. This faith wrongs no one; burdens no one; menaces no one; dishonors no one; and, as it was said of old, faith moves mountains, so I venture reverently to express my own belief that if the difficulties of our future as a dominion were as high as the peaks of the Alps or Andes, yet that the pure patriotic faith of a united people would be all sufficient to overcome and ultimately to triumph over all such difficulties.” PeopleIfsShouldSaidWould BeMovingBeliefMy OwnUnitedPureMountainOvercomingDifficultyBurdenTriumphSufficientCanadaPatrioticOur FutureVentureDominionProvincesMenaceDishonorMove MountainsAlps Author:Thomas D'Arcy McGee
“There are so many beautiful things that are a part of the world, and Ive always looked at life that way; Ive always tried to put on a smile and a brave front, not just for my kids but in my own life and all the difficulties that Ive gone through.” WorldWayKidsBeautifulMy OwnGoneFrontsDifficultyBraveBeautiful ThingsMy Own Life Author:Gloria Estefan
“When in many dissections, carried out as opportunity offered upon living animals, I first addressed my mind to seeing how I could discover the function and offices of the heart's movement in animals through the use of my own eyes instead of through the books and writings of others, I kept finding the matter so truly hard and beset with difficulties that I all but thought, with Fracastoro, that the heart's movement had been understood by God alone.” WritingMindFirstsHeartBookMatterHardUseEyeOpportunityMy OwnAnimalSeeingMovementOfficeFindingsUnderstoodFunctionDifficultyDissection Author:William Harvey
“What dependence can I have on the alleged events of ancient history, when I find such difficulty in ascertaining the truth regarding a matter that has taken place only a few minutes ago, and almost in my own presence!” MatterMy OwnTakenMinutesEventsDifficultyAncientDependenceAncient History Author:Walter Raleigh
“Resolved, that I will do whatsoever I think to be most to God’s glory, and my own good, profit and pleasure, in the whole of my duration, without any consideration of the time, whether now, or never so many myriad’s of ages hence. Resolved to do whatever I think to be my duty and most for the good and advantage of mankind in general. Resolved to do this, whatever difficulties I meet with, how many and how great soever.” ThinkingWholeAgeMy OwnPleasureMankindDutyGloryAdvantageDifficultyProfitConsiderationDurationNow Or Never Book:Selected Writings of Jonathan Edwards: Second Edition Source: Selected Writings of Jonathan Edwards: Second Edition