#difficult

I wouldn't even know - and I spent three years in the CIA - I wouldn't even know how you'd start a covert action program in a place like Iran. It would be extraordinarily difficult. ↗

— Frank Carlucci

#cia #covert #difficult #even #extraordinarily

It's very difficult to marry into another civilization. ↗

— Leslie Caron

#civilization #difficult #into #marry #very

It is difficult for the common good to prevail against the intense concentration of those who have a special interest, especially if the decisions are made behind locked doors. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

#behind #common #common good #concentration #decisions

To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#difficulties #felicity #highest #human #strive

Mutual fund managers are trapped in this rather deadly vicious circle: the more successful they are, the more money flows into their mutual fund. Then, it is more difficult for them to beat the market averages or even to match their own past performance. ↗

— Ron Chernow

#beat #circle #deadly #difficult #even

Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#christianity #difficult #found #tried #wanting

It is difficult to esteem a man as highly as he would wish. ↗

— Luc de Clapiers

#esteem #highly #man #wish #would

I think everybody had difficulties with that dynamic, turning the family into a band and being constantly together. So everybody, as individuals. had things to sort out. ↗

— Andrea Corr

#being #constantly #difficulties #dynamic #everybody

It's difficult to speak with beautiful people. No matter how hard you try to pretend otherwise, you still want them to like you. ↗

— Doug Coupland

#beautiful people #difficult #hard #how #like

In all seriousness, it really should be difficult for me to be too strange. After all, a great family raised me. ↗

— Tim Duncan

#difficult #family #great #me #raised