Afghanistan's winters in the north are legendarily harsh, and southern Afghanistan, by contrast, is bleak desert. These difficulties are compounded by the fact that Afghanistan is one of the world's most heavily mined countries.
Conversion is not my intention. Changing religion is not easy. You may develop some kind of confusion or difficulties.
The prudent see only the difficulties, the bold only the advantages, of a great enterprise; the hero sees both; diminishes the former and makes the latter preponderate, and so conquers.
Vertical intergration is an organizational response to the contracting difficulties that attend intermediate product markets where trades that are supported by transaction-specific assets are exposed to hazard.
Some men storm imaginary Alps all their lives, and die in the foothills cursing difficulties which do not exist.
Our difficulties of the moment must always be dealt with somehow, but our permanent difficulties are difficulties of every moment.
The cause of our difficulties in southeast Asia is not a deficiency of power but an excess of the wrong kind of power which results in a feeling of impotence when it fails to achieve its desired ends.
A man is a poet if difficulties inherent in his art provide him with ideas; he is not a poet if they deprive him of ideas.
Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.
Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.
If all difficulties were known at the outset of a long journey, most of us would never start out at all.
A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.
Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties.
Man needs his difficulties because they are necessary to enjoy success.
To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity.
Few parents are aware of the difficulties that beset the minds of the little philosophers and theologians who sit upon their knees or play at their feet; and many a parent could not comprehend the disturbance, if he were aware of it.
I cannot explain it; but when difficulties arise, I am not perplexed or doubtful. I know how to meet them.
A lot of the drawbacks, a lot of the difficulties that Uber has had, have been completely predictable, and they handled them poorly, so by their own standards they made a lot of mistakes, and I think that they would admit that.
To portray not only a boxer but a boxer like Roberto Duran, I needed to understand all the difficulties and the pressures of the sport itself.