Difficult

Famous quotes containing the word difficult:

“Sport in the sense of a mass-spectacle, with death to add to the underlying excitement, comes into existence when a population has been drilled and regimented and depressed to such an extent that it needs at least a vicarious participation in difficult feats of strength or skill or heroism in order to sustain its waning life-sense.”
—Lewis Mumford (1895–1990)

“Since it is difficult to join them together, it is safer to be feared than to be loved when one of the two must be lacking.”
—Niccolò Machiavelli (1469–1527)

“I think that it would be less difficult to live eternally than to be deprived of sleep throughout life.”
—Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)