Easier Quotes - Page 13

• I've noticed that about your people, Doctor. You find it easier to understand the death of one than the death of a million. You speak about the objective hardness of the Vulcan heart, yet how little room there seems to be in yours.

  Leonard Nimoy

  Sympathy, Heart, Doctors

  "Star Trek: The Immunity Syndrome". TV Series, www.imdb.com. 1968.

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• You really think joy is easier to come by than pain? What have you had more of?

  Laini Taylor

  Pain, Thinking, Joy

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• The world will always choose convenience over reality. It's easier to hate, blame, and fear than it is to understand. No one wants the truth; they want entertainment.

  Chris Colfer

  Hate, Reality, World

  Chris Colfer (2012). “The Land of Stories: The Wishing Spell”, p.204, Hachette UK

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• And in the case of superior things like stars, we discover a kind of unity in separation. The higher we rise on the scale of being, the easier it is to discern a connection even among things separated by vast distances.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Stars, Distance, Unity

  Marcus Aurelius, C. Scot Hicks, David Hicks (2002). “The Emperor's Handbook: A New Translation of The Meditations”, p.105, Simon and Schuster

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• Easier, sometimes, to gulp down giant spoonfuls of uncertainty than it is to swallow throat-clogging capsules of what really is.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Giants, Sometimes, Clogging

  Ellen Hopkins (2012). “Triangles: A Novel”, p.401, Simon and Schuster

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• For most of us, I think it's easier to admit doing wrong than being stupid.

  Stephen King

  Stupid, Thinking, Being Stupid

  Stephen King (2016). “11/22/63: A Novel”, p.501, Simon and Schuster

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• Sometimes--sometimes it just hits me, you know? And, it's not getting any easier." I choke, my eyes flooding all over again. "I'm not sure that it will. I think you just get used to the feeling, the hollowness, the loss, and somehow learn to live around it

  Alyson Noel

  Eye, Loss, Thinking

  Alyson Noel (2013). “The Immortals Bundle 1-3: The Immortals: Evermore, The Immortals: Blue Moon and The Immortals: Shadowland”, p.129, Pan Macmillan

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• I found that things became a lot easier when I no longer expected to win. You abandon your masterpiece and sink into the real masterpiece.

  Leonard Cohen

  Real, Winning, Found

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• Why on earth would you buy a car like this if you can't drive a stick? There are dozens of cars--new cars--that have automatic transmission. It'd be a million times easier." Adrian shrugged. "I like the color. It matches my living room.

  Richelle Mead

  Color, Car, Earth

  Richelle Mead (2012). “The Golden Lily: A Bloodlines Novel”, p.215, Penguin

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• It's easier to miss her at a cemetery, where she's never been anything but dead, than to miss her at all the places where she was alive.

  John Scalzi

  Missing, Alive, Cemetery

  John Scalzi (2014). “Old Man's War Boxed Set I”, p.13, Macmillan

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• Cacus.” I’d had years of practice looking dumb when people threw out Greek names I didn’t know. It’s a skill of mine. Annabeth keeps telling me to read a book of Greek myths, but I don’t see the need. It’s easier just to have folks explain stuff.

  Rick Riordan

  Book, Years, Practice

  Rick Riordan (2012). “The Demigod Diaries (Heroes of Olympus)”, p.58, Penguin UK

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• The preciousness of the moment, which should make it easier to talk, makes it harder.

  John Green

  Moments, Should, Harder

  John Green (2008). “Paper Towns”, p.231, Penguin

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• To the extent that I had come to understand that despair does not necessarily result in annihilation, that one can go on as usual in spite of it, I had become hardened. Was this what it means to be an adult, to live with ugly ambiguities? I didn't like it, but it made it easier to go on.

  Banana Yoshimoto

  Mean, Despair, Adults

  Banana Yoshimoto, Megan Backus (1979). “Three Plays”, p.56, Grove Press

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• The easiest thing in the world is to convince yourself that you're right. As one grows old, it is easier still.

  Robert Ludlum

  World, Grows, Convince

  Robert Ludlum (2013). “The Jason Bourne Series 3-Book Bundle: The Bourne Identity, The Bourne Supremacy, The Bourne Ultimatum”, p.411, Bantam

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• Things will get easier, people's minds will change, and you should be alive to see it.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Bullying, People, Mind

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• You can lose a friend in springtime easier than any other season if you're too curious.

  Frances Hodgson Burnett

  Springtime, Curious, Seasons

  Frances Hodgson Burnett, General Press (2016). “The Secret Garden (Illustrated Edition)”, p.102, GENERAL PRESS

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• If there was one truth Evie had learned in her short life, it was that forgiveness was easier to seek than permission. She didn’t plan to ask for either one.

  Libba Bray

  Short Life, Permission, Plans

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• Life might be easier if you give in a little, but it's better if you hold onto something so hard you can't give it up.

  Craig Silvey

  Giving, Littles, Might

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• Hatred is so much easier to win than love - and so much harder to get rid of.

  Enid Blyton

  Winning, Hatred, Harder

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• Lies were something you told other people to make things easier, somehow - hopefully, for them, but often more selfishly for yourself.

  Michelle Sagara

  Lying, People, Hopefully

  Michelle Sagara (2012). “Silence”, p.37, Penguin

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• I loved Alex so much that it was easier to let him hurt me than to watch him hurt himself.

  Jodi Picoult

  Hurt, Watches, Alex

  Jodi Picoult (2002). “Picture Perfect”, p.224, Penguin

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• They stayed, many of them, because staying was easier and less scary than leaving.

  Richard Russo

  Scary, Leaving, Staying

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• Failure and unhappiness is easier because you can make a joke out of it.

  David Nicholls

  Unhappiness, Jokes

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• I don't start a novel until I have lived with the story for awhile to the point of actually writing an outline and after a number of books I've learned that the more time I spend on the outline the easier the book is to write. And if I cheat on the outline I get in trouble with the book.

  John Grisham

  Book, Writing, Numbers

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• I was so happy to be out of there. “Barabas, if you weren’t batting for the other team, I’d marry you.” He grinned. “If I weren’t batting for the other team, I would accept your proposal. You had me at ‘No comment.’ If all my clients were this smart, my life would be much easier. Much, much easier.

  Ilona Andrews

  Smart, Team, Would Be

  Ilona Andrews (2012). “Gunmetal Magic: A Novel in the World of Kate Daniels”, p.133, Penguin

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