It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs

Comedy is a medicine – a healing process that can help people get through difficult times and understand things better

All things are difficult before they are easy

Do I feel like I’m 65? No. I feel like I’m 15. That’s my problem. I’m trying as hard as I can to act like I’m 65, but it’s very difficult.

It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it.

Depending upon shock tactics is easy, whereas writing a good play is difficult. Pubic hair is no substitute for wit.

Much of writing might be described as mental pregnancy with successive difficult deliveries.

Consider that spiritual safety comes through spiritual unity. Christians united together are difficult to separate, difficult to break, difficult to pick off and destroy. It is when you isolate yourself by disrupting or denying unity that you are most at risk

If we think something is not good, we’ll openly say it. If there’s choreography, for example, and it feels like it’s going to be too taxing on our physical resources – as I said, we’re not getting any younger – we’ll say so, and then we’ll make those changes.

Where something becomes extremely difficult and unbearable, there we also stand already quite near its transformation.

There are no classes in life for beginners: right away you are always asked to deal with what is most difficult.

Arrive at knowledge over small streamlets, and do not plunge immediately into the ocean, since progress must go from the easier to the more difficult

It is significant that it is as difficult to get charity out of piety as to get reasonableness out of rationalism.

Do not wish to jump immediately from the streams to the sea, because one has to go through easier things to the more difficult

Not everything that is more difficult is more meritorious

I feel sorry for beautiful people. Beauty, from the moment you possess it, is already slipping away, ephemeral. That must be difficult.

Since faith rests upon infallible truth, and since the contrary of a truth can never be demonstrated, it is clear that the arguments brought against faith cannot be demonstrations, but are difficulties that can be answered

It is better to be affected with a true penitent sorrow for sin than to be able to resolve the most difficult cases about it

When I got the opportunity to do the new wing [the Schauhaus] for the German Historical Museum, for instance, I didn’t see it as an opportunity for my own ego, to do something so exciting that every architectural publication would want to put it on the cover. I accepted it because I knew it was going to be a very difficult project, and I wasn’t sure I could do something exciting there.

Music is more difficult – try naming a political band. The Dead Kennedys. The Dead Kennedys are political, but they are more funny than they are political

Music is more difficult – try naming a political band. The Dead Kennedys. The Dead Kennedys are political, but they are more funny than they are political

It is difficult to make political art work

The theory that women should only be asked to do work that was safe and relatively mundane was ignored whenever something risky or difficult actually needed to be done.

The only thing more difficult than being a God is being Thom Yorke. Thom Yorke has all these responsibilities, to save the planet. To save the world. To redeem Thom Yorke

It was difficult being a teacher and out of the closet in the ’50s. By the time I retired, the English department was proud of having a gay poet of a certain minor fame. It was a very satisfactory change!

It’s difficult to talk about Pele because I didn’t see him

There’s just something about Highbury that is difficult to describe. When you first arrive, you hardly see the stadium and wonder where it is but then you find it between two blocks of flats

It is difficult to begin with Atletico, because there is pressure from the fans, because they are accustomed to a very good goalkeeper, but I have no fear of that. I play my game.

The Premier League is very difficult

It was a difficult decision to say no twice to Barcelona. It was never a secret that I have admired them since I was a kid and that I always wished I could play for Barcelona. But life is made of hard decisions that sometimes go against what you dream of.

If you don’t have your family behind you, supporting you and giving you advice when you need it, things can get very difficult.

It’s difficult as a player once you have gone back to Brazil to get that second chance in Europe. Sometimes you only get one chance.

It’s very difficult to raise money, especially in the United States, for independent movies.

It’s difficult to act in a language that’s not your own. It takes a long time to put your head around it and feel confident with it.

Bringing a baby into the world is not like grilling enchiladas. It’s a difficult thing.

Every time Spain play England at any level, it is difficult.

I think I happened to work with sort of a bunch of slightly difficult male directors when I was a kid. I’ve since worked with lots of male directors that I love, so I no longer see the distinction gender-wise.

When teams are dropping off, it’s difficult, especially as a striker. You always have two center-halves behind you and maybe a sitting midfielder as well. It’s a bit more difficult creating chances.

Jose Mourinho was a difficult coach for me, and we had a respectful but complicated relationship. When I thought he would give me a chance, I couldn’t prove to him that I was in good shape.

I have overcome many difficult moments in my career.

We campaigned on the fact that we were going to have to take difficult decisions because of the state of the public finances. When we got into government we discovered that actually the public finances were in an even worse state than we thought

Obviously, given the objective that we have, what I would hope is that people would be able to see that actually we had reduced the numbers of people, the net number of people, coming into the country. People would, presumably, see that, but it’s difficult to say how.

It is difficult to obtain the friendship of a cat

It is a difficult matter to gain the affection of a cat. He is a philosophical, methodical animal, tenacious of his own habits, fond of order and neatness, and disinclined to extravagant sentiment. He will be your friend, if he finds you worthy of friendship, but not your slave

To extract beauty from one’s own milieu is one of the most difficult tasks of art

It is a law of competition that people who can do difficult things which others cannot will earn more profit.

Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice

Emotions are my weakness. It is in my blood. It is very difficult to control.

It’s difficult to ever go back to the same places or people. You turn away, even for a moment, and when you turn back around, everything’s changed.

Of all things that can happen to us, triumph is the most difficult to endure when we are alone. Deprived of witnesses, it shrinks at once.

We can be the victim of the world we see, or we can choose to perceive difficult past experiences as a catalyst for change.

I’ve been hounded by a reputation of being difficult when really what I’m being is truthful and honest. And I think that’s been a thorn in my side. I auditioned for a lot of work and got some good feedback, and then was told I wasn’t the choice.

The difficult part was to tell the world that I was finishing.

Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today

Nothing in this world was more difficult than love.

And then, I suppose, there’s also a cinematic reality on top of that. Because it was extremely difficult to keep tabs on, it was quite confusing acting that

You don’t develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.

I only understand difficult things.

In a difficult situation one never-failing guide is to ask yourself: “What would Christ have done?” Then do it-as nearly as you can.

I hit a lot of very good golf shots this week. I’m not going to beat up my short game, but I had some putting difficulty. But I’m not complaining.

Bigger than life is not difficult for me. I am bigger than life.

I think that fragrance is the most difficult thing that a designer has as a challenge.

Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and important, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction.

Energy is a very subtle concept. It is very, very difficult to get right.

There are many difficulties, but what matters is to stay focused and have perseverance

Sometimes one has to say difficult things, but one ought to say them as simply as one knows how.

The three most difficult words to speak are, I was wrong.

Never give up on something you really want. It’s difficult to wait, but more difficult to regret.

Settle one difficulty, and you keep a hundred away.

It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get.

Scheherazade is easy; a little black dress is difficult.

I came up from a difficult background.

I’m a big lover of fish. Cooking fish is so much more difficult than cooking protein meats, because there are no temperatures in the medium, rare, well done cooking a stunning sea bass or a scallop.

I recall when we opened in New York how the designer locks were impossible to slide shut, often leading to a difficult encounter no matter which side of the door you were on.

To find fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.

It often happens that what stares us in the face is the most difficult to perceive.

Humanity is now experiencing history’s most difficult evolutionary transformation.

Teamwork is neither “good” nor “desirable.” It is a fact. Wherever people work together or play together they do so as a team. Which team to use for what purpose is a crucial, difficult and risky decision that is even harder to unmake. Managements have yet to learn how to make it.

It is difficult to realise that it was less than 50 years ago that women in Britain were first given the vote, but parliament was first asked to grant this 100 years ago.

I told you that your dream was a difficult one. It’s the simple things in life that are the most extraordinary; only wise men are able to understand them.

“Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done.

It is Easy to be a Hater. Go for the difficult Task: be a Lover.

Working with people is difficult, but not impossible.

I’ve learned that waiting is the most difficult bit, and I want to get used to the feeling, knowing that you’re with me, even when you’re not by my side.

Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.

We warriors of light must be prepared to have patience in difficult times and to know that the Universe is conspiring in our favor, even though we may not understand how.

Having not said anything the first time, it was somehow even more difficult to broach the subject the second time around.

The difficulty with this conversation is that it’s very different from most of the ones I’ve had of late. Which, as I explained, have mostly been with trees.

He attacked everything in life with a mix of extraordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.