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Difficult Quotes (page 27)

In human affairs of danger and delicacy successful conclusion is sharply limited by hurry. So often men trip by being in a rush. If one were properly to perform a difficult and subtle act, he should first inspect the end to be achieved and then, once he had accepted the end as desirable, he should forget it completely and concentrate solely on the means. By this method he would not be moved to false action by anxiety or hurry or fear. Very few people learn this. John Steinbeck
J. K. Rowling quote: "The difficult thing, the glorious thing, was to be who you..."
The difficult thing, the glorious thing, was to be who you really were, even if that person was cruel or dangerous. J. K. Rowling
Bugis Street, once famous for its transvestite prostitutes - the sort of place where one could have imagined Noel Coward, ripped on opium, cocaine and the local tailoring, just off his rickshaw for a night of high buggery - had, when it proved difficult to suppress, a subway station dropped on top of it. William Gibson
One of the most difficult things to say to another person is, I hope that you will love me for no good reason. But it is what we all want and rarely dare to say to one another – to our children, to our parents and mates, to our friends, and to strangers. Especially to strangers, who have neither good nor bad reasons to love us. And it’s why we tell each other stories that we pray will be transformed in the telling by that angel on the roof, made believable and about us all, no matter who we... Russell Banks
The sky is so close to the sea that it is difficult to tell which is reflected in the other, which one needs the other, which one is dominating the other. Elie Wiesel
Mother Teresa quote: "But still, everything is for Jesus; so like that everything is..."
But still, everything is for Jesus; so like that everything is beautiful, even though it is difficult. Mother Teresa
They strive to attain their wishes by every available means, instructing and compelling themselves to dishonest and difficult acts. And when their labour is without reward, it is the fruitless disgrace that tortures them - they are not grieved to have desired evil things but to have desired in vain. Then remorse for what they began lays hold of them, and the fear of beginning again, and thence creeps in the agitation of mind which can find no relief - because neither can they rule nor can... Lucius Annaeus Seneca
This is a question too difficult for a mathematician. It should be asked of a philosopher"(when asked about completing his income tax form) Albert Einstein
Most of our platitudes notwithstanding, self-deception remains the most difficult deception. The tricks that work on others count for nothing in that very well-lit back alley where one keeps assignation with oneself: no winning smiles will do here, no prettily drawn lists of good intentions. One shuffles flashily but in vain through one's marked cards- the kindness done for the wrong reason, the apparent triumph which involved no real effort, the seemingly heroic act into which one had been... Joan Didion
It is more difficult by far to be independent of our own inner shackles than it is of the shackles that others might place upon us. R. A. Salvatore
Barbara Taylor Bradford quote: "Harris isn't sulking, gentlemen. He's sleeping. It's only..."
Harris isn't sulking, gentlemen. He's sleeping. It's only natural. A woman of my years can be very difficult to satisfy. Barbara Taylor Bradford
People who cling to their illusions find it difficult, if not impossible, to learn anything worth learning: a people under the necessity of creating themselves must examine everything, and soak up learning the way the roots of a tree soak up water. James Baldwin
It is easy to be beautiful; it is difficult to appear so. I admire you, beloved, for the trap you've set. It's like a final chapter no one reads because the plot is over. Frank O'Hara
My dear, I'm seldom sure of anything. Life at best is a precarious business, and we aren't told that difficult or painful things won't happen, just that it matters. It matters not just to us but to the entire universe. Madeleine L'Engle
The smile of a deceiver is flawed, insufficient. But can we see these muscles resting there inert when there's so much local variation in faces, pads of fat, odd concavities, differences of bone structure? Especially difficult when the first and best unconscious move of a deliberate liar is to persuade himself he's sincere. And once he's sincere, all deception vanishes. Ian Mcewan

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