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Difficult Quotes (page 12)

Agatha Christie quote: "To keep something wild is far more difficult than to preserve it."
To keep something wild is far more difficult than to preserve it. Agatha Christie
People are mostly layers of violence and tenderness wrapped like bulbs, and it is difficult to say what makes them onions or hyacinths. Eudora Welty
Victor Hugo quote: "Being good is easy, what is difficult is being just."
Being good is easy, what is difficult is being just. Victor Hugo
Going public was a difficult decision, and I had misgivings. My subjective experience was now an objective fact in the wider world. It didn't belong to just me anymore - though I quickly learned that it hadn't belonged to just me in the first place. More than a million Americans and their families were going through the same thing; some openly, some in secret due to concerns of being misunderstood and marginalized. Michael J. Fox
There have been five great kisses since 1642 B.C. when Saul and Delilah Korn's inadvertent discovery swept across Western civilization. (Before then couples hooked thumbs.) And the precise rating of kisses is a terribly difficult thing, often leading to great controversy, because although everyone agrees with the formula of affection times purity times intensity times duration, no one has ever been completely satisfied with how much weight each element should receive. But on any system, there... William Goldman
Kate DiCamillo quote: "The undoing is almost always more difficult than the doing."
The undoing is almost always more difficult than the doing. Kate DiCamillo
Dave Eggers quote: "It was always difficult to get cattle returned once a marriage..."
It was always difficult to get cattle returned once a marriage was dissolved. Dave Eggers
Jane Austen quote: "It is very difficult for the prosperous to be humble."
It is very difficult for the prosperous to be humble. Jane Austen
I know how difficult it can be when the image you've had of something doesn't match its reality; when the friend beside you turns into a monster. Jodi Picoult
To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can have. Theodore White
I simply state that I'm a product of a versatile mind in a restless generation-with every reason to throw my mind and pen in with the radicals. Even if, deep in my heart, I thought we were all blind atoms in a world as limited as a stroke of a pendulum, I and my sort would struggle against tradition; try, at least, to displace old cants with new ones. I've thought I was right about life at various times, but faith is difficult. One thing I know. If living isn't seeking for the grail it may be... F. Scott Fitzgerald
Douglas Adams quote: "Having not said anything the first time, it was somehow even..."
Having not said anything the first time, it was somehow even more difficult to broach the subject the second time around. Douglas Adams
E. W. Howe quote: "One of the most difficult things in the world is to convince a..."
One of the most difficult things in the world is to convince a woman that even a bargain costs money. E. W. Howe
Stephen Greenblatt quote: "Poems are difficult to silence."
Poems are difficult to silence. Stephen Greenblatt
Edmund Burke once described society as a partnership between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn. It is difficult to see in the evolving system who will speak for the yet unborn, for the future. Fareed Zakaria

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