The culture of Greece is not the same as the culture of Germany, and to fuse them into a single unit is extremely difficult.

- Alan Greenspan

In films murders are always very clean. I show how difficult it is and what a messy thing it is to kill a man.

- Alfred Hitchcock

There are two things which a democratic people will always find very difficult - to begin a war and to end it.

- Alexis de Tocqueville

In a revolution, as in a novel, the most difficult part to invent is the end.

- Alexis de Tocqueville

I was a happy man, never working. Sometimes I saw days with no money to eat. It was not so difficult.

- Alejandro Jodorowsky

Directing non-actors is difficult. Directing actors in a foreign language is even more difficult. Directing non-actors in a language that you yourself don't understand is the craziest thing you can possibly think of.

- Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

To direct actors is difficult. To direct actors in another language is more difficult, but directing non-actors in another language is one of the craziest things that I have done and one of the most rewarding experiences I have had.

- Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Indubitably, magic is one of the subtlest and most difficult of the sciences and arts. There is more opportunity for errors of comprehension, judgment and practice than in any other branch of physics.

- Aleister Crowley

Let's face it: It's difficult enough to be funny without worrying about what is going to offend whom.

- Alan King

It is very difficult to predict when a bond crisis could happen.

- Alan Greenspan

One of the more difficult tasks for me as president was to decide on the issue of confirming capital punishment awarded by courts... to my surprise... almost all cases which were pending had a social and economic bias.

- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

Good character consists of recognizing the selfishness that inheres in each of us and trying to balance it against the altruism to which we should all aspire. It is a difficult balance to strike, but no definition of goodness can be complete without it.

- Alan Dershowitz

The Israeli military plays more than a critical role in defending the citizens of the Jewish state. It also plays an important social, scientific and psychological role in preparing its young citizens for the challenging task of being Israelis in a difficult world.

- Alan Dershowitz

The signs that the world is spinning out of kilter are increasingly difficult to misinterpret. The question is how to convince enough people to join a critical mass of urgent opinion, in the U.S. and the rest of the world.

- Al Gore

Some of my colleagues seem more interested in using every procedural method possible to keep the Senate from doing anything than they are in creating jobs or helping Americans struggling in a difficult economy.

- Al Franken

I find it quite difficult to think that there's, you know, about 20 million people listening to my album that I wrote very selfishly to get over a breakup. I didn't write it being that it's going to be a hit.

- Adele

From earliest times, humans - explorers and thinkers - have wanted to figure out the shape of their world. Forever, the way we've done that is through storytelling. It is difficult to let the truth get in the way of a good story.

- Adam Savage

With the amount of money I have, it's difficult raising children the way I was raised.

- Adam Sandler

Being a full human being is difficult, frightening, and problematical.

- Abraham Maslow

I'm just very wary that once you start military operations in any country, it's very difficult to predict what the outcome is.

- Abdullah II of Jordan