Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Rock Band is more like Stairmaster than it is like rock 'n' roll - it's the same steps with different degrees of difficulty.
The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
Nobody, who has not been in the interior of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individual of that family may be.
In trying to count our many blessings the difficulty is not to find things to count, but to find time to enumerate them all.
Canadians know that our difficulties will not be resolved overnight. They are tired of politicians who pretend they will be.
Here's the difficulty about suicide: it is an act of ambition that can be committed only when one has passed beyond ambition.
Serving God doesn’t mean we’ll no longer have difficulties. We’re still on the battlefield, but we don’t have to fight alone.
The saint is hilarious when he is crushed with difficulties because the thing is so ludicrously impossible to anyone but God.
It is our response to our circumstances rather than the degree of difficulty that determines whether or not we are discontent
Perhaps some have created their own difficulties but don't the rest of us do exactly the same things? Are we not all beggars?
Test a servant while in the discharge of his duty, a relative in difficulty, a friend in adversity, and a wife in misfortune.
The difficulty for most of us in the modern world is that the old-fashioned idea of God has become incredible or implausible.
I have had quite a lot of prizes, but I don't think it makes any difference to the ease or difficulty to the writing process.
Mr. Knightley seemed to be trying not to smile; and succeeded without difficulty, upon Mrs. Elton's beginning to talk to him.
I've always had something a wee bit up with me, but I think it's some kind of learning difficulty. It's always been something.
The chief difficulty which prevents men of science from believing in divine as well as in nature Spirits is their materialism.
Millennials, minorities, women - until we can connect with those populations, we're going to have some difficulty electorally.
Whenever I see people in difficulty, I just try to help them. In fact, I believe I have helped over 700,000 people in my life.
Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy, for it means pushing back a boundary-line and adding to one's liberty.
I am struck by how sharing our weakness and difficulties is more nourishing to others than sharing our qualities and successes.
The complaint of bad pay, and difficulty in obtaining it, is almost generally reiterated through every department of education.
For some small number of people, a parental loss appears to be, ultimately, a desirable difficulty - again, not a large number.
Bob Gates understands the difficulty of going to war. This is a man who spent almost his entire life working for the government.
Economists can never be free of from difficulties unless they will distinguish between a theory and the application of a theory.
I like Mourinho because he is intelligent. When his team are in difficulty he's very good at focussing the attention on himself.
difficulties only become problems when we separate ourselves from them instead of dealing with them directly and wholeheartedly.
Technological society has succeeded in multiplying the opportunities for pleasure, but it has great difficulty in generating joy.
There is some lack either of sense or of character in one who becomes involved in difficulties with the worthless or the vicious.
I remember, the first few years here, I didn't like London much: too big, too crowded, the physical difficulty of getting around.
Our difficulties of the moment must always be dealt with somehow, but our permanent difficulties are difficulties of every moment.
My problem isn't death but old age. I fret about my lack of balance, my buckling knee, my difficulty standing up and sitting down.
One needs to live every day according to God's commandments. And then any kind of difficulty or unpleasantness will be manageable.
I lived and breathed football. Now I have difficulty walking because of that: because I gave much more than I actually had to give.
If you concern yourself mainly with others, the broader your thinking becomes, and life’s inevitable difficulties disturb you less.
You cannot expect teams to be up for a final every Saturday, but you have to in the Six Nations, and that is the difficulty we have.
Nor let a god come in, unless the difficulty be worthy of such an intervention. [Lat., Nec deus intersit nisi dignus vindice nodus.]
The difficulty that many foreign authors face in having their works translated into English has effects far beyond the United States.
If you are seeking to obey the Lord, expect opposition. Expect obstacles. Expect difficulties. But also expect God to see you through
Persisting through lesser difficulties builds your capacity to persist through greater difficulties, and achieve even greater things.
You say you experience great difficulty in the mission. Alas! Monsieur, there is no lot in life where there is nothing to be endured.
The best way to avoid a bad action is by doing a good one, for there is no difficulty in the world like that of trying to do nothing.
The illustration which solves one difficulty by raising another, settles nothing. [Lat., Nil agit exemplum, litem quod lite resolvit.]
I mean no offence, but we know that the French league is not the same as the Spanish or English league, where there's more difficulty.
Difficulty is when you go to a place where the people don't like you, they put a burden on you like what happened to me in Olympiakos.
This is football, and one cannot be distracted at any moment because the opposition can put you in difficulty and compromise a result.
Restaurant critics all struggle with the difficulty of writing about eating without resorting to the word 'delicious' and its synonyms.
He who is permitted by law to have no property of his own, can with difficulty conceive that property is founded in anything but force.
God will not permit any troubles to come upon us, unless He has a specific plan by which great blessing can come out of the difficulty.
Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory.
Literature is the human activity that make the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty.