Peter Latham Quotes

Life's full of tricky snakes and ladders.

It's never easy getting an independent film made and distributed - even when it's easy.

Life is extremely complicated.

Nothing's ever easy as long as you go on living.

Life is not mean to be easy.

Young man, it would be as difficult to tell all about it, all that may occur or be needed on such a journey, as for a carpenter to tell every blow he had got to strike on commencing to erect a house.

Reflecting the truth sounds easy, but sometimes it's not.

Adventures are not all pony-rides in May-sunshine.

Everything of worth is found full of difficulties.

No one is really going to help you or give you direction. In fact, the odds are against you.

Stupid truth, always resisting simplicity

Trouble comes not because we have taken any wrong step but because we are in a complex and contradictory world.

I thought I had reached a point in life where everything would be smooth. But it is not. It just gets more jagged and pitted and filled with turns that take you into the dark recesses of your mind. It never seems to get easy.

That's why there are ten gates to pass through before you reach the garden. If life were easy there would be one gate. There would be no gates at all.

Politics is more difficult than physics.

They say behind mountains are more mountains.

Not everything in the world is easy or powerful.

Everything is true and not true about everything. That’s one thing I’ve learned.

The possibilities and probabilities are all we have to work with in medicine, though. What we are drawn to in this imperfect science, what we in fact covet in our way, is the alterable moment-the fragile but crystalline opportunity for one's know-how, ability, or just gut instinct to change the course of another's life for the better.

Any great achievement is preceded by many difficulties and many lessons; great achievements are not possible without them.

We have to stumble through so much dirt and humbug before we reach home. And we have no one to guide us. Our only guide is our homesickness.

Trying every day to tell the truth is hard. There are harder things, of course - arguably, living with lies and meaninglessness, living in despair is harder, but it's hardship disguised as luxury and easier perhaps to grow accustomed to, since truth is usually the enemy of custom. There are harder things than writing, being President Obama, for instance, and having to deal with House Republicans, or trying to fix the leak at the Fukushima reactor, these are harder, but writing is hard.

People struggled on for years with 'troubles,' but they almost always succumbed to 'complications.

The instruments for the quest for Truth are as simple as they are difficult.

Life is not like water. Things in life don't necessarily flow over the shortest possible route.