Pastoral Resources

The difficulty, the ordeal, is to start.

Now the difficulty with those warnings is that they were not specific.

In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men the great difficulty lies in this: You must first enable the government to control the governed, and in the next place, oblige it to control itself.

Some people carry their hearts in their heads; very many carry their heads in their hearts. The difficulty is to keep them apart, yet both actively working together.

I have no difficulty with the recognition of civil unions for non-traditional relationships but I believe in law we should protect the traditional definition of marriage.

I am, really, a great writer; my only difficulty is in finding great readers.

If most people are not willing to see the difficulty, this is mainly because, consciously or unconsciously, they assume that it will be they who will settle these questions for the others, and because they are convinced of their own capacity to do this.

Grace is the absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty, hesitation or incongruity.

The Western poet and writer of romance has exactly the same kind of difficulty in comprehending Eastern subjects as you have in comprehending Western subjects.

The solution of the difficulty is that the two mental pictures which experiment lead us to form - the one of the particles, the other of the waves - are both incomplete and have only the validity of analogies which are accurate only in limiting cases.

I suppose that every time there is difficulty. I remember about Space Mountain: It took us ten years before we found the technology that would allow such a ride. And during these ten years, I had a model that I kept, waiting for the technology we needed.

But whatever the POV, and the difficulty of forcing the action into a particular frame, stay within it.

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

The difficulty is not that great to die for a friend, the hard part is finding a friend worth dying for.

The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend, as to find a friend worth dying for.

I have absolutely no difficulty myself with the playing of God Save the Queen in the presence of Her Majesty.

The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?

A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.

Let there be no illusions about the difficulty of forming this kind of a national community. It's tough, difficult, not easy. But a spirit of harmony will survive in America only if each of us remembers that we share a common destiny.

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.