#difficulty

An insuperable obstacle to rapid transit in Africa is the want of carriers, and as speed was the main object of the Expedition under my command, my duty was to lessen this difficulty as much as possible. ↗

— Henry Morton Stanley

#carriers #command #difficulty #duty #expedition

I wouldn't say one is easier or more difficult, but when you're inside a costume and a mask, you have to endure heat - and, often, difficulty seeing. The vision is not very good in a mask. And you have to cope with that, as well as trying to think about this character. ↗

— Warwick Davis

#character #cope #costume #difficult #difficulty

Men were only made into "men" with great difficulty even in primitive society: the male is not naturally "a man" any more than the woman. He has to be propped up into that position with some ingenuity, and is always likely to collapse. ↗

— Wyndham Lewis

#any #collapse #difficulty #even #great

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#act #anew #case #difficulty #dogmas

The hypothesis of surviving intelligence and personality - not only surviving but anxious and able with difficulty to communicate - is the simplest and most straightforward and the only one that fits all the facts. ↗

— Oliver Joseph Lodge

#anxious #communicate #difficulty #facts #fits

Coming out involves varying degrees of difficulty that are affected by class, race, religion, and geography. ↗

— Lance Loud

#class #coming #degrees #difficulty #geography

We're under the Arts Council under the Minister for the Arts. The Minister for the Arts and the Minister for Industrial Development have great difficulty in agreeing over who should fund what in terms of film. ↗

— Ann Macbeth

#arts #council #development #difficulty #film

God will not permit any troubles to come upon us, unless He has a specific plan by which great blessing can come out of the difficulty. ↗

— Peter Marshall

#blessing #come #difficulty #god #great

The difficulty we have in accepting responsibility for our behavior lies in the desire to avoid the pain of the consequences of that behavior. ↗

— M. Scott Peck

#avoid #behavior #consequences #desire #difficulty

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