Difficulty Quotes - page 26

Even if without the Scott's proverbial thrift, the difficulty of solving differential equations is an incentive to using them parsimoniously. (George Pólya)
I realized that night the import and the terrible difficulty in the task ahead of me-in keeping this child safe from the sharp edges of a strange and indifferent universe. I think that is was on this alien and storm-tossed night that I first understood what it might be like to be a parent. View quote
Dan Simmons
If the poor only had profiles there would be no difficulty in solving the problem of poverty. View quote
Oscar Wilde
Of all the things I am not very good at, living in the real world is perhaps the most outstanding. I am constantly filled with wonder at the number of things that other people do without any evident difficulty that are pretty much beyond me. View quote
Bill Bryson
I feel nothing, apart from a certain difficulty in continuing to exist. View quote
Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle
I now, my Lords, frankly declare that I resume office unequivocally and solely for this reason-that I will not abandon my Sovereign in a situation of difficulty and distress, and especially when a demand is made upon her Majesty, with which I think she ought not to comply-a demand, in my opinion, my Lords, inconsistent with her personal honour, and which, if acquiesced in, would make her reign liable to all the changes and variations of political parties, and render her domestic life one constant scene of unhappiness and discomfort. View quote
William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne
The mere fact that a thought or idea can be expressed articulately in words involves that it is still open to question; and the mere fact that a difficulty can be definitely conceived involves that it is open to solution. View quote
Samuel Butler (novelist)
Yet everyone begins in the same place; how is it that most go along without difficulty but a few lose their way? View quote
John Barth
[Television, radio, and magazines] are so designed as to make thinking seem unnecessary (though this is only an appearance). The packaging of intellectual positions and views is one of the most active enterprises of some of the best minds of our day. The viewer of television, the listener to radio, the reader of magazines, is presented with a whole complex of elements-all the way from ingenious rhetoric to carefully selected data and statistics-to make it easy for him to "make up his own mind” with the minimum of difficulty and effort. But the packaging is often done so effectively that the viewer, listener, or reader does not make up his own mind at all. Instead, he inserts a packaged opinion into his mind, somewhat like inserting a cassette into a cassette player. He then pushes a button and "plays back” the opinion whenever it seems appropriate to do so. He has performed acceptably without having had to think. View quote
Mortimer Adler
The hardest theme in science fiction is that of the alien. The simplest solution of all is in fact quite profound-that the real difficulty lies not in understanding what is alien, but in understanding what is self. View quote
Greg Bear
We cannot imagine what a great love the angels have for those who are truly chaste. They take such special care of them that the devils can harm them only with difficulty and from a distance. (John of St. Samson)
They must therefore not spoil Alexander's undertaking, especially when they were almost at the close of their toils, and were, moreover, no longer in any difficulty about provisions on their coasting cruise. View quote
Arrian
A great deal of difficulty has been caused in the administration of the law, and particularly of the common law, by decisions in which technical rules have been formulated which were not true-that is, were not in accordance with the facts of the case. View quote
William Brett, 1st Viscount Esher
Difficulty is what wakes up the genius. View quote
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Hindu dharma reverenced women; therefore, it had no difficulty in conceiving Goddesses. Hindus also learnt to give their women the honour they gave to their deities. Hindu lawgivers taught that women must be honoured by their fathers, brothers, husbands and brothers-in-law, who desire their own welfare; that Gods are pleased where women are honoured, but where they are not honoured sacred rites yield no rewards. View quote
Ram Swarup
The educated classes were apt to speak in a patronizing tone of the "masses of the people", and to talk of political education as if it were only needed by those masses, but the fact was that the middle classes needed education, especially on this Irish question, quite as much as the masses. The whole trouble and difficulty of our dealings with Ireland had arisen from our ignorance. ... He confidently believed that the country would arrive at but one conclusion, and that that would be in favour of Home Rule. The work would not be a long one, because two or three years would undoubtedly see the solution of this question in the sense which they desired to see it concluded-a consummation which was so much to be desired not only in the interests of Ireland but also of England, Scotland, and Wales. View quote
James Bryce, 1st Viscount Bryce
My team and I have reunited two elements that coexist with difficulty: respect and affection, because when they love you they don't respect you and when they respect you they don't love you. View quote
Shakira
I am trying to do two things: dare to be a radical and not a fool, which is a matter of no small difficulty. View quote
James A. Garfield
The present difficulty, in bringing all parts of the United States to a happy unity and love of country grows out of the prejudice to color. The prejudice is a senseless one, but it exists. View quote
Ulysses S. Grant
Parkinson's is a slow but inevitable process. It's hard living with it on a daily basis. The difficulty facing people with it is that they never quite know 'Can I or can't I do this today?' View quote
Helen Mirren
The Difficulty lies, in finding out an exact Measure but eat for Necessity, not Pleasure, for Lust knows not where Necessity ends. (Benjamin Franklin)
Believe me, nurse, the difficulty of beginning will be nothing to the difficulty of knowing how to stop. View quote
Agatha Christie
As nights went on and nothing happened and the phenomenon slowly faded to the accustomed deeper violets again, most had difficulty remembering the earlier rise of heart, the sense of overture and possibility and went back once again to seeking only orgasm, hallucination, stupor, sleep, to fetch them through the night and prepare them against the day. View quote
Thomas Pynchon
Those who are willing to sacrifice and be of service have very little difficulty with people. They know what they are all about. People can't help but want to be near them. They help them; they work with them. That's what love is all about. It starts with your heart and radiates out. View quote
Cesar Chavez
The real difficulty is with the vast wealth and power in the hands of the few and the unscrupulous who represent or control capital. View quote
Rutherford B. Hayes