Famous quotes containing the word difficult:
“Material advancement has its share in moral and intellectual progress. Becky Sharps acute remark that it is not difficult to be virtuous on ten thousand a year has its applications to nations; and it is futile to expect a hungry and squalid population to be anything but violent and gross.”
—Thomas Henry Huxley (182595)
“There are few things more difficult than to appraise the work of a man suddenly dead in his youth; to disentangle promise from achievement; to save him from that sentimentalizing which confuses the tragedy of the interruption with the merit of the work actually performed.”
—Ezra Pound (18851972)
“It is so much more difficult to live with ones body than with ones soul. Ones body is so much more exacting: what it wont have it wont have, and nothing can make bitter into sweet.”
—D.H. (David Herbert)