It's going to be difficult to stimulate the real economy in the U.S. at a faster rate than 2 percent and perhaps even less if we have that fiscal cliff in December or January 2013.
It is difficult to write about any form of mental disease, especially your own, without sounding as if you were examining a bug under glass.
It takes a strong person to admit he's got problems. Things are bugging you, you've got to get it out. Life is supposed to be peaches and cream, but it doesn't turn out that way. I sometimes found things confusing and sometimes didn't understand how things can be so difficult.
Sowing is not as difficult as reaping.
In a revolution, as in a novel, the most difficult part to invent is the end.
I think you can have your career and still bring to your family something very, very special. There are some people who are born mothers, who don't want to work and just want to stay at home, and that's fantastic, but for me it was something very difficult.
It's difficult to understand why people don't realize that pets are gifts to mankind.
It is not as difficult as I thought it was, but it is harder than it is.
In films murders are always very clean. I show how difficult it is and what a messy thing it is to kill a man.
Your spoken voice is a part of it - not a big part of it, but it's something. It puts people at ease, and once again kind of reaches out and makes a bridge for what's otherwise difficult music.
Any partying I did, I did at home. I didn't want to be in the spotlight... There's an easy way to get away from the paparazzi; they're not that difficult to hide from and you don't need to go out for coffee every five minutes.
Women are more difficult to caricature than men - partly because beauty is more difficult to caricature.
'Candida' was difficult: stimulating but very wordy.
I think that there is something about the ritual of making things more difficult that people find meaning in.
Television is much more difficult because at every moment the network can force you to change things based on their belief about what would make it popular. You're in a constant debate with a gun at your head, and the gun is cancellation. So it's hard to win the arguments.
Why the Christian life is so difficult to many is because they have a divided heart. They are double-minded, which makes them unstable in all their ways.
Even those of us who have tasted the radical saving grace of God find it intuitively difficult not to put conditions on grace.
To try to raise a son from inside the prison walls is a very difficult thing. But I want to say to the world my son at 16 was the one who tried the most to get me out of prison.
I think that any writer who is commercial, who sells a lot of books, has to face criticism. Because the more hermetic and the more difficult your book is, supposedly it's better.
You all know that I have been sustained throughout my life by three saving graces - my family, my friends, and a faith in the power of resilience and hope. These graces have carried me through difficult times and they have brought more joy to the good times than I ever could have imagined.
The fact is, I view part of what I do is, if necessary, on difficult issues, be the lightning rod.
Success is very ephemeral. You depend entirely on the desire of others, which makes it difficult to relax.
I'm a single parent, and I just found that it was too difficult to manage raising my kids and doing the traveling involved in making movies. So I took a little bit of a break. And the little bit of a break turned into a longer break, and then I found that I really didn't miss it.
I need to be very isolated to write, and unfortunately isolation is often quite difficult to find. My ideal writing environment would be a country house hotel in the middle of nowhere, with full room service.
The formation of character in young people is educationally a different task from and a prior task to, the discussion of the great, difficult ethical controversies of the day.
As authors, we know that it is very difficult to unleash one's creativity.
Songwritng is what I do.
I've frowned at the idea of breaking records, the first one to do something, or do it longer, higher, more difficult.
That's what really seems to be the more difficult aspect - to have the men break through and challenge the best players in the world.
Predators make it much more difficult to find consensus. It's a lot easier to agree about birds and plants than about animals that endanger people and livestock.
Free government is the most difficult of all government. But it is everlastingly true that the plain people will make fewer mistakes than any other group of men, no matter how powerful.
Live interviews are more difficult to distort.
Words can be very powerful. I find them very difficult.
A rich man without charity is a rogue; and perhaps it would be no difficult matter to prove that he is also a fool.
I got nice rejections explaining that historical fiction was a difficult sell. But I kept trying.
The ventures that keep things light and fun, easy to understand, that have a compelling story, a sexy retail product, will have an easier time getting people to rally around them and contribute. A start-up doing something that's difficult to communicate or doesn't offer any kind of retail product will have a tougher go at it.
