Difficult

Famous quotes containing the word difficult:

    Poverty is an anomaly to rich people. It is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell.
    Walter Bagehot (1826–1877)

    The role of the stepmother is the most difficult of all, because you can’t ever just be. You’re constantly being tested—by the children, the neighbors, your husband, the relatives, old friends who knew the children’s parents in their first marriage, and by yourself.
    —Anonymous Stepparent. Making It as a Stepparent, by Claire Berman, introduction (1980, repr. 1986)

    An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.
    Edmund Burke (1729–1797)