Difficult decisions Quotes

An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything into an empty head.

Eric Hoffer

Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.

Rene Descartes

Being human is itself difficult, and therefore all kinds of settlements (except dream cities) have problems.

Jane Jacobs

In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity.

Albert Einstein

The difficult part of good temper consists in forbearance, and accommodation to the ill-humors of others.

William Empson

Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.

Edward R. Murrow

Where there is no difficulty there is no praise.

Samuel Johnson

The trouble with doing something right the first time is that nobody appreciates how difficult it was

Walt West

The honest truth is that if this government were to propose the massacre of the first-born, it would still have no difficulty in getting it through the Commons.

Diane Abbott

The reason that minorities and women don't have a better shot at getting elected to the Senate or to statewide office is because the campaign finance rules are so skewed as to make it very difficult for non-traditional candidates to raise the money necessary to get elected.

Carol Moseley Braun

Family life is full of major and minor crises -- the ups and downs of health, success and failure in career, marriage, and divorce -- and all kinds of characters. It is tied to places and events and histories. With all of these felt details, life etches itself into memory and personality. It's difficult to imagine anything more nourishing to the soul.

Thomas Moore

The difficulty, my friends, is not in avoiding death, but in avoiding unrighteousness; for that runs faster than death.

Socrates

Seduction is often difficult to distinguish from rape. In seduction, the rapist often bothers to buy a bottle of wine.

Andrea Dworkin

You can't fly a kite unless you go against the wind and have a weight to keep it from turning a somersault. The same with man. No man will succeed unless he is ready to face and overcome difficulties and is prepared to assume responsibilities.

William J.H. Boetcker

Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.

William Ellery Channing
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