I’ve proved to be as difficult to convert as I am to hypnotize.

Weight, force and casual impulse, together with resistance, are the four external powers in which all the visible actions of mortals have their being and their end.

If it’s hard to remember, it’ll be difficult to forget.

I have trouble reading modern Hebrew. In the 1950s, I could read anything. I don’t know how much experience you’ve had with contemporary Hebrew. It’s quite difficult.

Some things get written more quickly than others, but I can’t really measure degrees of difficulty.

The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.

Conversion is not my intention. Changing religion is not easy. You may develop some kind of confusion or difficulties.

Lettin‘ the cat outta the bag is a whole lot easier ‚n puttin‘ it back in.

Regimes planted by bayonets do not take root.

I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.

The Soviet Union, the socialist camp, the People’s Republic of China, and North Korea helped us resist, with essential supplies and weapons, the implacable blockade of the United States, the most powerful empire ever to exist.

Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only by the man who is as well organized in his individuality as the mass itself.

We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.

Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.

Solidarity is an attitude of resistance, I suppose, or it should be.

My name can’t be that tough to pronounce!

As a tactic, violence is absurd. No one can compete with the Government in violence, and the resort to violence, which will surely fail, will simply frighten and alienate some who can be reached, and will further encourage the ideologists and administrators of forceful repression.

The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.

Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult.

From behind the Iron Curtain, there are signs that tyranny is in trouble and reminders that its structure is as brittle as its surface is hard.

Confidence is always a good thing to have going into the weekend. Especially where it’s quite difficult to put the lap together.

Life is very difficult. One of the most ancient of religious ideas that emerges everywhere, I would say, is that life is essentially suffering.

Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one’s thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

If a projectile were deprived of the force of gravity, it would not be deflected toward the earth but would go off in a straight line into the heavens and do so with uniform motion, provided that the resistance of the air were removed.

A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it.

I had a lot of resistance, and not just to fame. I was always conscious of not changing.

The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world’s definitions.

Men often take their imagination for their heart; and they believe they are converted as soon as they think of being converted.

To attain any assured knowledge about the soul is one of the most difficult things in the world.

People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous.

Being a Christian is more than just an instantaneous conversion – it is a daily process whereby you grow to be more and more like Christ.

I think many people in my community had very different kinds of mothers: they had mothers who acquiesced in the system of male and white-supremacist domination, and my mother never did. She just could not do it. It just wasn’t in her.

Experience acquired in the heroic battle against Batista’s tyranny showed that the enemy, no matter what his strength, could not defeat the Cuban people.

Peoples do not defy repression and death, nor do they remain for nights on end protesting energetically, just because of merely formal matters.

I think it is the height of ignorance to believe that the sexual act is an independent function necessary like sleeping or eating. Seeing, therefore, that I did not desire more children, I began to strive after self-control. There was endless difficulty in the task.

To rule is easy, to govern difficult.

There are two things that are more difficult than making an after-dinner speech: climbing a wall which is leaning toward you and kissing a girl who is leaning away from you.

If I were going to convert to any religion I would probably choose Catholicism because it at least has female saints and the Virgin Mary.

For 18 years I have resisted talking about current events. I am not going to start now.

No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious.

Resistance is usually ascribed to bodies at rest, and impulse to those in motion, but motion and rest, as commonly conceived, are only relatively distinguished; nor are those bodies always truly at rest, which commonly are taken to be so.

Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.

I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people.

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings – words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.

The decision to serve a mission will shape the spiritual destiny of the missionary, his or her spouse, and their posterity for generations to come. A desire to serve is a natural outcome of one’s conversion, worthiness, and preparation.

When we tell the story of our own conversion, I would have it done with great sorrow, remembering what we used to be, and with great joy and gratitude, remembering how little we deserve these things.

But more than anything else, for the British folks Irish people were all terrorists. So when we went to Britain, it was always a lot of resistance to U2. And that’s why we came to America.

All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.

Test a servant while in the discharge of his duty, a relative in difficulty, a friend in adversity, and a wife in misfortune.

Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.

Lyrics are the only thing to do with music that haven’t been made easier technically.

The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it… I can resist everything but temptation.

There will be no prison which can hold our movement down.

I don’t care much for equations myself. This is partly because it is difficult for me to write them down, but mainly because I don’t have an intuitive feeling for equations.

Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.

I barely can go shopping for clothes. I find it difficult to walk into stores. The whole thing bores me so much.

I have already demonstrated, by crucial tests, the practicability of signaling by my system from one to any other point of the globe, no matter how remote, and I shall soon convert the disbelievers.

It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get.

Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.

I didn’t consider myself a fashion designer at all at the time of punk. I was just using fashion as a way to express my resistance and to be rebellious. I came from the country, and by the time I got to London, I considered myself to be very stupid. It was my ambition to understand the world I live in.

I’d always tried to resist playing the supervirility thing. I liked showing the vulnerability of age.