Famous quotes containing the word difficult:
“Since it is difficult to join them together, it is safer to be feared than to be loved when one of the two must be lacking.”
—Niccolò Machiavelli (1469–1527)
“Love and work are viewed and experienced as totally separate activities motivated by separate needs. Yet, when we think about it, our common sense tells us that our most inspired, creative acts are deeply tied to our need to love and that, when we lack love, we find it difficult to work creatively; that work without love is dead, mechanical, sheer competence without vitality, that love without work grows boring, monotonous, lacks depth and passion.”
—Marta Zahaykevich, Ucranian born-U.S. psychitrist. “Critical Perspectives on Adult Women’s Development,” (1980)
“It is difficult for heroes to get past beautiful women.”
—Chinese proverb.