Difficulty Quotations | Page 2

I have had to learn the simplest things last. Which made for difficulties.

one should discuss one's difficulties only when they are over.

Of all nations, those submit to civilization with the most difficulty which habitually live by the chase.

How did I escape? With difficulty. How did I plan this moment? With pleasure.

Many of our families have had difficulty unraveling the red tape involved in accessing assistance. We'll work with these families to make sure they are aware of everything they're entitled to. We are committed to supporting Hale County and displaced families recovering from the devastation of Hurricane Katrina. With the support and technical assistance from HAC, we can make a difference for our rural families.

Many of us have difficulty keeping up with you. ... You always set a fast pace.

Several delegations, including ours, had difficulties with it,

Security and compliance requirements should boost IT spending by financial services firms, while resurgent demand for networking technologies should give the telecoms sector a shot in the arm. Unemployment has hit new lows. Two years ago, 13% of IT contractors went more than 90 days on average between contracts; now only 3% experience this level of uncertainty and difficulty in finding work.

She's having difficulty staying on point. When you want to discuss an important issue with someone, you need their full attention, and right now we don't feel that she's able to give us her full attention.

She's given multiple versions of what happened Sept. 2, 2003. She either has difficulty recording things in her mind and relating them back to law enforcement and friends or she's a pathological liar,

She's given multiple versions of what happened Sept. 2, 2003, ... She either has difficulty recording things in her mind and relating them back to law enforcement and friends or she's a pathological liar.

Simply put, the era of easy access to energy is over. We are experiencing the convergence of geological difficulty with geopolitical instability. . . . The time when we could count on cheap oil and even cheaper natural gas is clearly ending.

She has had and still does have a great deal of difficulty functioning in life, ... Those pictures don't show the absolute amazing trust she placed in him because she loved him.

She has had and has a great deal of difficulty functioning in life in general.

She has a cool personality. She does not easily express her emotions. That may explain why people have difficulty identifying with her.

She just knew everybody, everybody knew her, and she'd line up all the election officials for those areas. That's going to be a big difficulty for us to replace her.

She is universally known without the difficulties of organizing or raising funds,

Much of the science we need to know and turn to for wisdom on environmental issues is precisely the same science that underlies evolution. That's posed a difficulty for some churches.

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.

Of course, there are some problems that need attention. Most importantly, the basis for increasing domestic demand is unstable, the level of difficulty for adjusting the economic structure is increasing and the world economy is slowing.

None of us can honestly grasp the level of tragedy, but on an individual basis, we deal with refugees on a daily basis, ... This is a situation where one refugee camp may have difficulty helping another refugee camp.

No-one contests the need to address the high cost of and the corresponding difficulty of having access to cross-border clearing and settlement in the EU. We have not yet reached any definitive view on the precise measures we would propose to remedy this situation. It is clear, though, that the present system is untenable. Changes are going to have to be made. We believe the industry recognizes this as well and we would encourage them to be a part of the solution and not the problem." ()

Monique handles responsibility well. She can narrow her focus without any difficulty, and her work ethic is always the same. She's a real gamer who has a history of coming through in the clutch.

Obviously it's always very difficult. It has its benefits because we watch guys evolve and they get an opportunity. But where the difficulty comes in is all the things you've implemented you can't do, especially offensively. That's the tough part when you're sitting there and you're wondering what to call and how to call it. That's the challenge.

Right now folks are having difficulty leaving the (flooded) area.

Riding judge is a matter of opinion. It's like gymnastics. In gymnastics, a girl can't get a 6.0 if the difficulty of all your tricks only add up to 3.0.

People who are elderly make up a large part of our population and have enough difficulty as it is.

On the planet, over 90 percent of the population 45 years and older have difficulty reading, but their distance vision is OK. The current bifocal lenses are divided ... so when people are driving they are not using the bifocal lens. Our lens, with the focusing power, allows them to use the whole lens for different vision tasks at the same time.

On the other hand, old people who have lived most of their lives are set in their habits and therefore have far more difficulty adapting themselves to a new marriage than young people.

On Monday and Tuesday, we were having difficulty getting enrollment eligibility information from the government database. But by yesterday (Tuesday) afternoon, our information requests were going through and we were getting the information back that we needed. For those patients, the situation has gotten a lot better.

One of the major difficulties is that, as the head of a major corporation once said to me, Australia is on the way to Antarctica. But if the mines at Cape York were concerned about getting directly to the rest of the world then (Cape York) would be the best place for it. But the difficulty is in start-up costs and energy costs. But let's just see what we can get.

One of the lessons I have learned is that clients understand the need for X-ray inspection, but sometimes have difficulty integrating the function into their operations. With the changeover to lead-free assemblies, the need for X-ray inspection services will become more critical, and so will the need for manufacturers to understand how to integrate these tools.

One of the fundamental characteristics of striated muscle, and the one involving the greatest difficulty in investigation, is the great rapidity with which changes take place in it.

One of the drivers told me about his situation. He stopped the bus with some difficulty and then it slid sideways, kitty-corner across the intersection, and had to be towed away from the curb.

I would expect they're going to have real difficulty putting a jury pool together. If people are back in New Orleans, they're going to be rebuilding their homes or businesses or both.

I have had unusual difficulty getting a better explanation for readers, despite the paper's repeated pledges of greater transparency.

I have had quite a lot of prizes, but I don't think it makes any difference to the ease or difficulty to the writing process.

I have great difficulty sitting in the middle of the night and writing. Everything I do comes spontaneous. Sometimes it takes a long time; sometimes it comes just like that.

I have chosen to withdraw as director of 'Superman.' The difficulty of casting the role of Superman has contributed to my decision. I appreciate the efforts of Warner Bros. and the entire production team during this process.

I have every difficulty that any other entrepreneur has plus one extra. I have to hire extra help on projects that a regular person wouldn't necessarily need.

I have difficulty calling myself a great teacher and I don't think I've really ever altered my teaching style at all. We have a lot more technology available to draw from now, but I have to admit I still do things now like I did when I started teaching at Buford in 1970.

I didn't anticipate having that much difficulty running it. They put more guys in the box (at the line of scrimmage).

I am happy with some of the play. A Couple of the guys had some difficulty (against Sturgis), but they did a good analysis over what caused them problems. They know what to fix and how to get ready for next time.

But the thing that stands eternally in the way of really good writing is always one: the virtual impossibility of lifting to the imagination those things which lie under the direct scrutiny of the senses, close to the nose. It is this difficulty that sets a value upon all works of art and makes them a necessity. The senses witnessing what is immediately before them in detail see a finality which they cling to in despair, not knowing which way to turn. Thus this so-called natural or scientific array becomes fixed, the walking devil of modern life.

Because of the complexity and difficulty of snow plowing at the high school, the arrangement worked out with the town is we hire a private contractor to do the snow plowing at the high school. It frees up public works to concentrate on the roads and the other five schools.

I felt good coming into the round. I was hitting the ball really well. I didn't really get off to the start I had in mind. I had difficulty scoring and then on the back nine, the wind picked up and it got really difficult.

I find that my greatest difficulty and the really most painful and difficult part of my work is draining and ridding my mind of that burden of meanings which I've absorbed through the culture-things that seem to have something to do with art but don't have anything to do with art at all.

Given that the market is having difficulty rallying, we believe the risk is to higher yields upon a stronger-than-expected non-farm payrolls report. The unemployment rate will also be important. If it drops to 4.6 percent, then that would be very bearish.

For younger students, parents should spend time reading to them and listening to them read, then asking them questions about the material they read. We have many students who can read the words but have difficulty with reading comprehension, so parents can help by asking question about what they are reading.

If a passenger demonstrates an unwillingness to comply with our request for them to obey the rules before we even take off, then we know that we are potentially going to have difficulty with that person through the entire flight.

If AOL or another ISP decides that someone's a spammer, then no e-mail from that individual gets through. But there's a fundamental difficulty at the heart of the spam debate: The only one who knows what you want delivered in your inbox is you.

I especially have difficulty reconciling those views with a person serving in the NYC fire department.

From the first minute we faced a lot of difficulties,

For most people it is very silent disease. I have speech problems a lot of time, cognitive speech problems, walking difficulty and fatigue.

If it causes a little bit of difficulty for us, it just does.

He has a lot of intangibles that are conducive to success. He has the personality and makeup to handle tough spots. He didn't shy away from difficulty during a tough rehab.

He is in difficulty now, there is no denying that.

He has some difficulty reading. Over the past couple of months I've learned how complicated the human brain is. Where most people take for granted their ability to put together whole sentences or convey their thoughts into words, Drew is having some difficulty with. He can speak. He just has difficulty at times expressing in words what it is he wants to say.

He may have difficulty remembering something that happened two weeks ago, unless it was something that made a real impression with him. But the doctors tell us that's just a part of the recovery process when a person has been in a coma.

We can expect more from our students both academically and behaviorally if we increase the difficulty level of the curriculum, ... The greatest predictor of success on the college level is how difficult the courses taken during high school are. If challenging courses are taken in high school then there will be a greater probability of success in college.

We expect to have acceptable margins on the iMac, ... We're not down in that sub-$1,000 space where people are having difficulty making money.

There is a difficulty in the peace process in that while all three tracks remain in stalemate, it is hard for any party in the negotiations to feel confident in the possibility of progress, ... And because there is no confidence in the possibility of progress, it is difficult to generate momentum toward progress.

There is no difficulty with that concept, but not all companies have received the same level of profit.

His whole campaign is based on the notion that 'I can keep you safe, therefore, in times of difficulty in America, stick with me,'

He was just playing so hard. He had difficulty with his shot but was out there keeping balls alive.

He was like a hockey goal-tender. We had difficulty getting things over, around or through him.

There are systems to get people into this country without documents but they had difficulty in getting out of the country.

Katrina will be a significant test of how flexible our bankruptcy rules are. Banks have a lot of experience dealing with debtors in difficulty because of natural disasters. The first focus will be on making sure people can meet their immediate financial needs.

I take this occasion to express publicly my apologies to all who have been victims and, in a very special way, to Mr. Stokes who is suffering, has suffered intensely because of the difficulty in which he now finds himself and which we find ourselves, ... I express my sympathy and to his family members, to all who suffered, because of what has been transpiring.

I think it is impossible to overestimate the difficulty in moving a huge federal government with dozens and dozens of agencies from a culture in which information is treasured and kept and hidden, to one of appropriate information sharing.

It certainly adds an element with which the jury is going to have some difficulty.

It became clear to him that he would have difficulty functioning as an FDNY chaplain, ... There has been no prior indication that he held those views.

It became clear to him that he would have difficulty functioning as a Fire Department chaplain, ... And then I understand the head of the Islamic Society of the Fire Department ... told him they were withdrawing their support.

It confirms that this recession in 2001 was not particularly mild or as short as some folks had thought, ... We were expecting at least two negative quarters, and the fact we had three is a little bit of a surprise. That helps explain why we're having so much difficulty generating some positive momentum right now. The economy was weaker than we had thought.

I think that part of the difficulty of being a celebrity is that you may have to hide what you're feeling and you aren't totally allowed to be yourself, because you're in the public eye.

I think the conditions today favored us. Really, it was the conditions that dictated the difficulty of the hole, and today it was perfect, so we could get it out there.

I thought we did a real good job of being patient, and that's something we've had difficulty with. And in the second half we definitely picked up our rebounding. Sonora kind of dominated the boards in the first half.

It happens a lot with English bulldogs, a breed known to have difficulty giving birth. They frequently have to have a Caesarean section.

I think that the difficulty for Al Gore is that he started with the sense that the nomination was coming his way, that major opponents like (House Minority Leader) Dick Gephardt and (Nebraska Sen.) Bob Kerrey dropped out. I don't think he realized how formidable the challenge would be coming from Bill Bradley or just in general.

It is no secret that the MBTA is having financial difficulties, but what I do not want to do is have people that are cheating the system drive up the cost of that program to the point where I won't be able to afford it.

I think they're pretty well in step with other counties. The state just rolled out its voter education program last week. There really isn't anything they could have done. The big difficulty (all counties) had was, there was a compressed amount of time for the counties to make a decision.

I think the Vietnam memorial captured in a brilliant way what needed to be captured about Vietnam, and to this day has stood the test of time, ... It has in a way captured the difficulty of Vietnam, the historical significance of it, the ordeal of it, and the individual sacrifice involved.

It is an important part of our outreach. But the difficulty in reaching out to the Hispanic community is that it is so diverse.

Just because the Teamsters are a universally recognized union doesn't mean they will have any more rights than the FOP had. That may be something they will have difficulty adjusting to.

Over the years, I observed that many talented graphic designers, including those in my own family, had difficulty getting their designs to market. I thought it would be possible to hold open stationery design competitions where all designers could participate.

That ACC is everything it is pretty much cracked up to be, in terms of talent, coaching, venues that you play in, fan enthusiasm and degree of difficulty in terms of winning on the road. And I would say the same thing with the Big Ten.

My husband was adopted, and we had difficulty having both of my children, so we know the gift that life is. We do believe marriage is between a man and a woman. It's how you stand on that kind of thing or how you vote that really makes a difference.

Literature is the human activity that takes the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty

I think she has a realistic view of the difficulty and magnitude of what she has undertaken.

It does not mean they will not have difficulty, it does not mean they will not need help, but the good news is that most children are not likely to develop PTSD.

I think he's in serious difficulty. I think a lot of people are unhappy with him.

I think he has serious difficulty controlling it,

I think the teachers are just as excited as the kids. Many teachers told me they had difficulty sleeping because they had first day jitters.

It is decidedly rude to make mistakes in e-mail, because the recipient will then have difficulty reading and understanding the message.

Management may temper that outlook slightly given the ongoing difficulty in the PC environment.

That was the difficulty of it. Lobbying is a First Amendment right and we would not want to in any way chill the desire to petition the government or lobby the government.

That will be slow going, ... because of the difficulty of working in the crater, how deep it is and the fact that everything is mixed in with the earth.

That's what cost us the game. We were all over them in the first and then we have difficulty keeping going.

I wasn't really watching a lot of other divers I was just trying to zone in on my game. I was hitting every dive. When I hit one of those dives it was one of my really high dives, high degree of difficulty and I knew I had it.

I would imagine that we could overcome some of the difficulties.