#difficulty

Perhaps, to the uninformed, it may appear unaccountable that a man should be able to retain in his memory such a variety of learning; but the close alliance with each other, of the different branches of science, will explain the difficulty. ↗

— Marcus V. Pollio

#alliance #appear #branches #close #different

The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character. ↗

— Peter De Vries

#character #difficulty #fall #live #love

We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty. ↗

— Quintilian

#excuse #our #pretext #sloth #under

My approach to gymnastics in Beijing was heavily based on the amount of difficulty I could do. ↗

— Shawn Johnson

#approach #based #beijing #could #difficulty

I try to deal with the complexities of power and social life, but as far as the visual presentation goes I purposely avoid a high degree of difficulty. ↗

— Barbara Kruger

#avoid #complexities #deal #degree #difficulty

The accidents of my life have given me the ability to make stories in which different parts of the world are brought together, sometimes harmoniously, sometimes in conflict, and sometimes both - usually both. The difficulty in these stories is that if you write about everywhere you can end up writing about nowhere. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#about #accidents #both #brought #conflict

There is a widespread difficulty in the Muslim world, which has to do with how the people are taught about examining their own history. A whole range of stuff has been placed off limits. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#been #difficulty #examining #history #how

But that the reasoning from these facts, the drawing from them correct conclusions, is a matter of great difficulty, may be inferred from the imperfect state in which the Science is now found after it has been so long and so intensely studied. ↗

— Nassau William Senior

#been #conclusions #correct #difficulty #drawing

The difficulty of IVF or of any fertility issues is the hope and the shattered hope, the dream that it might happen this time and then it doesn't happen. ↗

— Brooke Shields

#difficulty #dream #fertility #happen #hope

We debated long over the situation for it is a very difficult question and all of us recognize its difficulty. ↗

— Henry L. Stimson

#difficult #difficulty #long #over #question