Quotes of: Difficult-thing Keyword

But why do only unimportant things?" asked Milo, who suddenly remembered how much time he spent each day doing them. "Think of all the trouble it saves," the man explained, and his face looked as if he'd be grinning an evil grin--if he could grin at ...

The Phantom Tollbooth

As an introverted person, I struggle even writing about community because I know how difficult it often is for me to walk across the room to converse with people. People often drain the energy out of me, and too often I prefer to protect myself rathe...

Why Holiness Matters: We've Lost our Way--But We Can Find it Again

Radio Announcer: Civil defense officials in Cumberland have told newsmen that murder victims show evidence of having been partially devoured by their murderers. Consistent reports from witnesses to the effect that people who acted as if they were in ...

Night of the Living Dead

As for my brothers," Zeus said, "we are thankful"-he cleared his throat like the words were hard to get out-"erm, thankful for the aid of Hades." The lord of the dead nodded. He had a smug look on his face, but I figure he'd earned the right. He patt...

The Last Olympian

What about his style?" asked Dalgliesh who was beginning to think that his reading had been unnecessarily restricted. "Turgid but grammatical. And, in these days, when every illiterate debutante thinks she is a novelist, who am I to quarrel with that...

Unnatural Causes

Great things can be reduced to small things, and small things can be reduced to nothing.

Chinese

It is very difficult sometimes to keep awake, especially at church, but there is no difficulty at all about sleeping.

The Canterville Ghost

People started down the road with good intentions, but the moment the road became rough or difficult, they'd abandon it.

Dream Chaser

...that to me, was what courage was - moving forward and doing what you needed to do, despite how difficult or terrifying it may seem.

Dance Into the Dark

Awake it was difficult to find anything in that chaotic clutter, but asleep she could...when the contours of reality were as faint as a tracery of pale ink.

Daughter of Fortune

Speaking from the heart is simple. Listening wholeheartedly, however, is much, much more difficult and most rare.

The Extremely Successful Salesman's Club

Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.

Existentialists and Mystics Writings on Philosophy and Literature

The stench of wolf—especially an Alpha—is very difficult to get out. "Then you should keep your distance,” she shot back.

Fated Desire

Sometimes the darkest challenges, the most difficult lessons, hold the greates gems of light.

Family of Light: Pleiadian Tales and Lessons in Living

There are some who want to get married and others who don't. I have never had an impulse to go to the altar. I am a difficult person to lead.

Greta and Cecil

I want the difficult stories, the ones that aren’t easy to believe, the twisted ones, the sorrowful ones, the ones that need telling most of all.

Green Heart

What made marriage so difficult back then was yet again that instigator of so many other sorts of heartbreak: the oversize brain.

Galápagos

It’s very difficult sometimes to put into words one’s feelings, especially when one is not quite certain what those feelings are. (Catherine)

In the Garden of Temptation

We live in an age of miracles so commonplace that it can be difficult to see them as anything other than part of the daily texture of living

How to Thrive in the Digital Age

It's so much more interesting to study a ... damaged world. I find it difficult to learn anything in a place that's too civilized.

House Atreides

They should put their clothes on if they could find them which might be difficult in the darkness. He decided that could wait until dawn.

His Captive Bride