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Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.
by Baruch Spinoza (Philosopher , born in 1632) keywords: desires, difficulty, govern, men, moderate, more, nothing, than, their, tongues , words 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.
by Henry Morton Stanley (Explorer, Welsh , born in 1841) keywords: africa, carriers, command, difficulty, duty, expedition, insuperable, lessen, main, much, object, obstacle, possible, rapid, speed, transit, under , want 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.
by Robert Louis Stevenson (Writer, Scottish , born in 1850) keywords: affect, difficulty, him, literature, mean, precisely, reader, wish, write , your As I noted in my Nobel lecture, an early insight in my work on the economics of information concerned the problem of appropriability - the difficulty that those who pay for information have in getting returns.
by Joseph E. Stiglitz (Economist, American , born in 1943) keywords: concerned, difficulty, early, economics, getting, information, insight, lecture, nobel, noted, pay, problem, returns, those , work We debated long over the situation for it is a very difficult question and all of us recognize its difficulty.
by Henry L. Stimson (Statesman, American , born in 1867) keywords: debated, difficult, difficulty, long, over, question, recognize, situation, us , very Because of the tension and difficulty, I remember trying to do the silliest things when we weren't rolling cameras, anything to lift the spirits. But once on set, it was important to have full concentration.
by Madeleine Stowe (Actor, American , born in 1958) keywords: anything, because, cameras, concentration, difficulty, full, important, lift, once, remember, rolling, set, silliest, spirits, tension, things, trying , weren In regard to education, something has been done by the Provincial Legislature; but to build churches, and to place clergymen is a work of greater difficulty.
by John Strachan (Clergyman, Canadian , born in 1778) keywords: been, build, churches, clergymen, difficulty, done, education, greater, legislature, place, provincial, regard, something , work The fuss that actors began making about the difficulty of shifting to sound struck me as perfectly foolish.
by Gloria Swanson (Actor, American , born in 1970) keywords: actors, began, difficulty, foolish, fuss, making, perfectly, shifting, sound , struck A man's love, till it has been chastened and fastened by the feeling of duty which marriage brings with it, is instigated mainly by the difficulty of pursuit.
by Anthony Trollope (Author, English , born in 1815) keywords: been, brings, difficulty, duty, fastened, feeling, love, mainly, man, marriage, pursuit, till , which The difficulty of writing a good theatre play set in new reality was even greater given that the level of similitude to life that is allowed in a film would not work on the stage.
by Andrzej Wajda (Director, Polish , born in 1926) keywords: allowed, difficulty, even, film, given, good, greater, level, life, new, play, reality, set, similitude, stage, theatre, work, would , writing The difficulty with the present state of affairs is that there is no legislation on the sources of funding for the Polish film industry. There is no legislation concerning filmmaking. And, there is no legislation on television that would be beneficial to filmmaking.
by Andrzej Wajda (Director, Polish , born in 1926) keywords: affairs, beneficial, concerning, difficulty, film, filmmaking, funding, industry, legislation, polish, present, sources, state, television , would The difficulty for most of us in the modern world is that the old-fashioned idea of God has become incredible or implausible.
by Alan Watts (Philosopher, English , born in 1915) keywords: become, difficulty, god, idea, implausible, incredible, modern, most, old-fashioned, us , world Of course, we also have the responsibility to win games and the difficulty in the job is to combine both.
by Arsene Wenger (Coach, French , born in 1949) keywords: also, both, combine, course, difficulty, games, job, responsibility , win I should point out, however, that at first some difficulty was experienced in observing the phenomena predicted by the theory, owing to the extreme smallness of the variations in the period of oscillation.
by Pieter Zeeman (Physicist, Dutch , born in 1865) keywords: difficulty, experienced, extreme, first, however, observing, oscillation, out, owing, period, phenomena, point, predicted, should, smallness, some, theory , variations
