Ease Quotes - Page 31

• ... indefinite visions of ambition are weak against the ease of doing what is habitual or beguilingly agreeable.

  George Eliot

  Ambition, Vision, Weak

  George Eliot (2006). “Middlemarch: Easyread Edition”, p.402, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I think you can learn to have much more pleasant thoughts moving through your mind that will help ease any situation, and it takes making a conscious choice to do so.

  Louise Hay

  Moving, Thinking, Choices

  Source: www.trulyalive.net

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• In that sweet mood when pleasure loves to pay
  Tribute to ease; and, of its joy secure,
  The heart luxuriates with indifferent things,
  Wasting its kindliness on stocks and stones,
  And on the vacant air.

  William Wordsworth

  Sweet, Nature, Heart

  William Wordsworth (1847). “The Poems of William Wordsworth”, p.143

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• I bear a burden that might well try
  Men that do all by rule,
  And what can I
  That am a wandering-witted fool
  But pray to God that He ease
  My great responsibilities?

  William Butler Yeats

  Faith, Responsibility, Men

  William Butler Yeats (1931). “Later Poems”, p.127, Library of Alexandria

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• The electrical matter consists of particles extremely subtile, since it can permeate common matter, even the densest metals, with such ease and freedom as not to receive any perceptible resistance.
  If anyone should doubt whether the electrical matter passes through the substance of bodies, or only over along their surfaces, a shock from an electrified large glass jar, taken through his own body, will probably convince him.
  Electrical matter differs from common matter in this, that the parts of the latter mutually attract, those of the former mutually repel each other.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Taken, Glasses, Doubt

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• [T]he people seem to have deposited the monarchical and taken up the republican government with as much ease as would have attended their throwing off an old and putting on a new suit of clothes.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Taken, Government, Clothes

  Thomas Jefferson, Lyman Henry Butterfield, Charles T. Cullen, John Catanzariti (1950). “1777-18 June, 1779, including the Revisal of the laws, 1776-1786”

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• There is room enough in human life to crowd almost every art and science in it. If we pass ""no day without a line""-visit no place without the company of a book-we may with ease fill libraries or empty them of their contents. The more we do, the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.

  William Hazlitt

  Art, Book, Library

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• The prosperity of a people is proportionate to the number of hands and minds usefully employed. To the community, sedition is a fever, corruption is a gangrene, and idleness is an atrophy. Whatever body or society wastes more than it acquires, must gradually decay, and every being that continues to be fed, and eases to labor, takes away something from the public stock.

  Samuel Johnson

  Hands, Numbers, People

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• When first the college rolls receive his name,
  The young enthusiast quilts his ease for fame;
  Through all his veins the fever of renown
  Burns from the strong contagion of the gown

  Samuel Johnson

  Education, Strong, Quilts

  Samuel Johnson, “The Vanity Of Human Wishes”

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• If you believe that a nation is really better off which achieves for a comparative few, those who are capable of attaining it, high culture, ease, opportunity, and that these few from their enlightenment should give what they consider best to those less favored, then you naturally belong to the Republican Party. But if you believe that people must struggle slowly to the light for themselves, then it seems to me that you are a Democrat.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Believe, Struggle, Party

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• They wrong man greatly who say he is to be seduced by ease. Difficulty, abnegation, martyrdom, death are the allurements that act on the heart of man.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Heart, Men, Difficulty

  Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.139, Lulu.com

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• They are a very decent generous lot of people out here and they don't expect you to listen.... It's the secret of social ease in this country. They talk entirely for their own pleasure. Nothing they say is designed to be heard.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Country, People, Secret

  Evelyn Waugh (1958). “The world of Evelyn Waugh”

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• Addison writes with the ease of a gentleman. His readers fancy that a wise and accomplished companion is talking to them; so thathe insinuates his sentiments and taste into their minds by an imperceptible influence. Johnson writes like a teacher. He dictates to his readers as if from an academical chair. They attend with awe and admiration; and his precepts are impressed upon them by his commanding eloquence. Addison's style, like a light wine, pleases everybody from the first. Johnson's, like a liquor of more body, seems too strong at first, but, by degrees, is highly relished.

  James Boswell

  Wise, Teacher, Strong

  James Boswell (1827). “The life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: comprehending an account of his studies and numerous works, in chronological order; a series of his epistolary correspondence; and conversations with many eminent persons ...”, p.58

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• There are moments when you feel trapped, ill at ease. A year later the same feeling can turn out to be the theme of a book.

  Francoise Sagan

  Book, Years, Feelings

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• You can go to doctors until the last cow has been placed in its shed. You can journey the earth in search of peace of mind. You can experiment with a dozen theories, hoping for a relief from worries, or the problems which beset you, but unless you learn to relax you will end up disappointed. Tension is a killer! Just relax and note the immediate effect. One of peace and ease of mind. One in which every organ of the body joins. In relaxation there is unity of mind, body and spirit.

  George Matthew Adams

  Journey, Doctors, Worry

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• In any service where a couple hold down jobs as a team, the male generally takes his ease while the wife labors at his job as wellas her own.

  Anita Loos

  Jobs, Couple, Team

  Anita Loos (1974). “Kiss Hollywood good-by”, Viking Adult

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• I was only one woman alone, and had no power to move to action full-fed, sleek- coated, ease-loving, pleasure-seeking, well-paid,and well-placed countrymen in this war- trampled, dead, old land, each one afraid that he should be called upon to do something.

  Clara Barton

  War, Moving, Pleasure Seeking

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• I battered the cordons around me
  And cradled my wings on the breeze,
  Then soared to the uttermost reaches
  With rapture, with power, with ease!

  Georgia Douglas Johnson

  Wings, Breeze, Rapture

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• We're in a world of truncated sentences, soundbites and Twitter... [Language] is being eroded -- it's changing. Our expressiveness and our ease with some words is being diluted so that the sentence with more than one clause is a problem for us, and the word of more than two syllables is a problem for us.

  Ralph Fiennes

  Two, World, Language

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• In England, I was quite struck to see how forward the girls are made--a child of 10 years old, will chat and keep you company, while her parents are busy or out etc.--with the ease of a woman of 26. But then, how does this education go on?--Not at all: it absolutely stops short.

  Fanny Burney

  Girl, Education, Children

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• Your self doesn't represent the truth in you, your being does. Give your ease only to what you know represents the truth in you.

  John de Ruiter

  Self, Giving, Doe

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• Only
  With words and people and love you move at ease.

  John Frederick Nims

  Love, Moving, People

  John Frederick Nims (1944). “Selected Poems”, p.5, University of Chicago Press

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• Former Vermont Governor Howard Dean was all smiles, well smirks, after picking up the endorsement of former Vice President Al Gore at a rally in Harlem ... Gore went on to praise Dean for taking a tough anti-war stance before the invasion of Iraq and he praised Dean supporters in hopes that will ease his concerns over lack of foreign policy experience, and his lack of support among blacks and Latinos, and his hot temperament, and perceived arrogance, and policy flip-flops, and campaign glitches. Well, there's a lot going on here.

  Jon Stewart

  War, Iraq, Support

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• England produces under favorable conditions of ease and culture the finest women in the world. And, as the men are affectionate and true-hearted, the women inspire and refine them.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Women, Inspire, Culture

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2153, Delphi Classics

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• As evacuation eases the body, so occasional ejectment of passion seems to appease the agonies of the soul, and dispose to tranquility the agitations of the heart.

  Norm MacDonald

  Passion, Heart, Agony

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