#difficulty

Perhaps, to the uninformed, it may appear unaccountable that a man should be able to retain in his memory such a variety of learning; but the close alliance with each other, of the different branches of science, will explain the difficulty. ↗

— Marcus V. Pollio

#alliance #appear #branches #close #different

The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character. ↗

— Peter De Vries

#character #difficulty #fall #live #love

Evil is always possible. Goodness is a difficulty. ↗

— Anne Rice

#difficulty #evil #goodness #possible

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#every #opportunity #optimist #pessimist #sees

It is fatal for any body of workers to have forever hanging from the fringes of its skirts other bodies on a level just below its own; for that means continual pressure downward, additional difficulty to be overcome in the struggle to maintain reasonable rates of wages. ↗

— Florence Kelley

#any #below #bodies #body #continual

I try to deal with the complexities of power and social life, but as far as the visual presentation goes I purposely avoid a high degree of difficulty. ↗

— Barbara Kruger

#avoid #complexities #deal #degree #difficulty

The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas. ↗

— George Santayana

#difficulty #experience #get #great #ideas

The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#difficulty #multitude #same #something #teach

The very greatest things - great thoughts, discoveries, inventions - have usually been nurtured in hardship, often pondered over in sorrow, and at length established with difficulty. ↗

— Samuel Smiles

#difficulty #discoveries #established #great #greatest

The work of many of the greatest men, inspired by duty, has been done amidst suffering and trial and difficulty. They have struggled against the tide, and reached the shore exhausted. ↗

— Samuel Smiles

#amidst #been #difficulty #done #duty