Difficult Quotes

It's very difficult to design something for someone if you have no empathy.

~ Stewart Butterfield

It would have been difficult to design a path out of communism worse than the one that has been followed.

~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.

~ Samuel Johnson

The trend of opinion among eugenists is that we must make marriage more difficult. Certainly no one who is not a desirable parent should be permitted to produce progeny.

~ Nikola Tesla

I'm not difficult to work with, trust me.

~ Zlatan Ibrahimovic

Every cloud has its silver lining but it is sometimes a little difficult to get it to the mint.

~ Don Marquis

Most of my show is true; like, 90% of everything I say on stage is true. I just have to find the way to make it funny - that's the difficult thing.

~ Trevor Noah

The historical background is one of the easier aspects of writing a novel. Far more difficult is dreaming up the smaller, character-based scenes, scenes that rise entirely from one's own imagination.

~ Ethan Canin

Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.

~ Robert Quillen

Fiscal conservatism is just an easy way to express something that is a bit more difficult, which is that the size and scope of government, and really the size and scope of politics in our lives, has grown uncomfortable, unwieldy, intrusive and inefficient.

~ P. J. O'rourke

Friendship is a difficult, dangerous job. It is also (though we rarely admit it) extremely exhausting.

~ Elizabeth Bibesco

It's quite difficult to write about female friendship without it seeming to be a very niche subject. It's a difficult balance.

~ Samantha Harvey

To rule is easy, to govern difficult.

~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

It is the duty of government to make it difficult for people to do wrong, easy to do right.

~ William E. Gladstone

Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.

~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow firm there, firm as weeds among stones.

~ Charlotte Brontë

Remembering is painful, it's difficult, but it can be inspiring and it can give wisdom.

~ Paul Greengrass

I'm an anorak. I've always been an obsessive collector of things. Richard Briers collects stamps. I collect cars and guns, which are much more expensive, and much more difficult to store.

~ Michael Gambon

Any peace process after so many years of horror and terror will be long and difficult.

~ Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

A peace talk is always difficult, always complicated.

~ Jack Ma

What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?

~ George Eliot

In mainstream romantic comedies, I'm usually tearing my hair out. It's just a devastatingly difficult genre for me.

~ Carter Burwell

The relationship between the public and the artist is complex and difficult to explain. There is a fine line between using this critical energy creatively and pandering to it.

~ Andy Goldsworthy

I had a very difficult relationship with my father, which ended up okay, but there were many difficult years.

~ Salman Rushdie

Every relationship I've been in becomes long-distance because of work. It's never worked out. It puts an intense strain on the relationship, and at a certain point, it becomes too difficult.

~ Anton Yelchin

There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.

~ Niccolò Machiavelli

Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.

~ Henry Kissinger

The charge frequently leveled against poetry - that it is difficult, obscure, hermetic and whatnot - indicates not the state of poetry but, frankly, the rung of the evolutionary ladder on which society is stuck.

~ Joseph Brodsky

Poetry always runs away from you - it's very difficult to grasp it, and every time you read it, depending on your conditions, you will have a different grasp of it. Whereas with a novel, once you have read it, you have grasped it.

~ Abbas Kiarostami

If you feel like it's difficult to change, you will probably have a harder time succeeding.

~ Andrea Jung

When it becomes more difficult to suffer than to change... you will change.

~ Robert Anthony

Being alone is very difficult.

~ Yoko Ono

We are living in a multicultural society. Our role as leaders is to enable grappling with this situation, even when multiculturalism is difficult.

~ Reuven Rivlin

Discerning the legal difference between what WikiLeaks did and what news organizations do is difficult and would set a terrible precedent.

~ George Packer

It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.

~ Voltaire

Prediction is very difficult, especially if it's about the future.

~ Niels Bohr