Difficult

Famous quotes containing the word difficult:

    It will be difficult for me not to make sport for the Philistines by pulling down a house or two, since when I once take pen in hand, I must say what comes uppermost, or fling it away.
    George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)

    It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778)

    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)