#difficulties

The French don't seek out alliances except when there are difficulties. ↗

— Eric Rohmer

#except #french #out #seek

Thus, by an inevitable necessity, as a magnet attracts steel-fillings, so did our man of business draw to himself the difficulties which everybody met with. ↗

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

#business

We must learn from our struggles. ↗

— Roger Thurow

#inspirational #learn #struggles #change

It's a strange kind of irony. The things that affect us most are the things we can't remember" (from Swimming Upstream). ↗

— Ruth Mancini

#life-experiences #experience

The road to enlightenment is long and difficult, and you should try not to forget snacks and magazines. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#enlightenment #humor #inspirational #road #faith

We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties. ↗

— Oswald Chambers

#difficulties #eyes #god #our #pray

In Shahid's view, the best way through difficult times, as through life in general, was just to go along with things. It was a rare problem that couldn't be solved by being ignored. ↗

— John Lanchester

#difficulties #going-along #ignoring-things #life #problems

Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend to forget the past difficulties, the many false starts, and the painful groping. ↗

— Ethel Barrymore

#difficulties #discouragements #doubts #failures #false

With the club now in administration and concern about where the money for land sale has gone, I know there are huge commercial difficulties to be resolved, but I hope that football will once again become the most important issue. ↗

— Anne Campbell

#administration #again #become #club #commercial

I've always had difficulties with female characters. ↗

— John le Carre

#characters #difficulties #female #female characters #had