Difficult

Famous quotes containing the word difficult:

“No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)

“Material advancement has its share in moral and intellectual progress. Becky Sharp’s 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 (1825–95)

“There are two things which will always be very difficult for a democratic nation: to start a war and to end it.”
—Alexis de Tocqueville (1805–1859)