The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.
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.
Have the courage to face a difficulty lest it kick you harder than you bargain for.
Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.
In that sense, film is superior, but the difficulty is your lack of control as a writer.
It's often difficult for us to act compassionately, but sacred art eases the difficulty by ennobling us.
The very greatest things - great thoughts, discoveries, inventions - have usually been nurtured in hardship, often pondered over in sorrow, and at length established with difficulty.
The apprenticeship of difficulty is one which the greatest of men have had to serve.
The work of many of the greatest men, inspired by duty, has been done amidst suffering and trial and difficulty. They have struggled against the tide, and reached the shore exhausted.
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.
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.
The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.
A prince who will not undergo the difficulty of understanding must undergo the danger of trusting.
The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.
A lot of these industries are having difficulty finding reliable workers with the skills they require.